Title: BlankSlate
Author: Web Guy
Published: April 24, 2011
Last modified: November 12, 2025

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# BlankSlate

![Web Guy Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/7f1b097ccc4bc9907381b407cb93ce245f8e5c93963e5429f0602b859912e994?
s=24&d=mm&r=g)

[Web Guy](https://wordpress.org/themes/author/webguyio/)

![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/blankslate/2026/screenshot.jpg?w=
post-thumbnail&strip=all)

## Community theme

This theme is developed and supported by a community. [Contribute to this theme](https://github.com/webguyio/blankslate)

[Preview](https://wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/preview/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/blankslate.2026.zip)

 *  Version 2026
 *  Last updated November 12, 2025
 *  Active installations 10,000+
 *  WordPress version 5.2
 *  PHP version 7.4
 *  [Theme homepage](https://opencollective.com/blankslate)

Donate: https://opencollective.com/blankslate. Learn: https://blankslate.me/. BlankSlate
is the definitive WordPress boilerplate starter theme. I’ve carefully constructed
the most clean and minimalist theme possible for designers and developers to use
as a base to build websites for clients or to build completely custom themes from
scratch. Clean, simple, unstyled, semi-minified, unformatted, and valid code, SEO-
friendly, jQuery-enabled, no programmer comments, standardized and as white label
as possible, and most importantly, the CSS is reset for cross-browser-compatability,
with no intrusive visual CSS styles added whatsoever. A perfect skeleton theme. 
For support and suggestions, go to: https://github.com/webguyio/blankslate/issues.
Thank you.

## Features

[Accessibility ready](https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready/), [Custom menu](https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-menu/),
[Featured images](https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/featured-images/), [Microformats](https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/microformats/),
[One column](https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/one-column/), [Sticky post](https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/sticky-post/),
[Threaded comments](https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/threaded-comments/), [Translation ready](https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/translation-ready/),
[Two columns](https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/two-columns/)

## Downloads per day

Active Installations: **10,000+**

## Ratings

 4.9 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  55 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/blankslate/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  3 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/blankslate/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  3 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/blankslate/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/blankslate/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/blankslate/reviews/?filter=1)

[Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/blankslate/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/blankslate/reviews/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/blankslate/)

## Report

Does this theme have major issues?

[Report this theme](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/report-theme/?rep-theme=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fthemes%2Fblankslate%2F&rep-subject=Reported+Theme%3A+BlankSlate)

## Translations

This theme is available in the following languages: [Dansk](https://da.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[Deutsch](https://de.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), [English (Canada)](https://en-ca.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[English (UK)](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[English (South Africa)](https://en-za.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), [Español de Chile](https://cl.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[Español de Colombia](https://es-co.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), [Español de Ecuador](https://es-ec.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[Español](https://es.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), [Español de Venezuela](https://ve.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[Français du Canada](https://fr-ca.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), [Galego](https://gl.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[Italiano](https://it.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), [日本語](https://ja.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[Lietuvių kalba](https://lt.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), [Nederlands (België)](https://nl-be.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[Nederlands](https://nl.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), [Русский](https://ru.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/),
[Svenska](https://sv.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/), and [Українська](https://uk.wordpress.org/themes/blankslate/).

[Translate this theme](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/blankslate)

## Browse the code

[Development log](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/log/blankslate)

[Subversion repository](https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/blankslate)

[Browse in Trac](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/blankslate)

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