BLOKS WordPress Themes
Simpleton Parent Theme
Simpleton is a lightweight WordPress parent theme designed to provide a clean, modern foundation for blogs, business websites, documentation, portfolios, creative projects, and custom child themes. Fast, flexible, and intentionally minimal, it gives you everything you need—and nothing you don't.
Download the latest version free of charge, explore the live demonstration, and begin building your own custom WordPress websites and child themes.
About Simpleton
A modern WordPress foundation that stays out of your way.
Simpleton was created around a simple idea: a WordPress theme should provide a solid foundation without dictating how your website should look. It focuses on performance, accessibility, clean code, and flexible customization while remaining easy to extend through child themes.
Whether you're building a personal blog, business website, educational resource, creative portfolio, or an entire family of branded themes, Simpleton provides a dependable starting point.
Features
Everything you need. Nothing you don't.
Lightweight
Optimized for speed with clean, maintainable code and no unnecessary bloat.
Responsive
Designed from the ground up for desktops, tablets, and mobile devices.
Customizer Ready
Flexible header layouts, logo controls, colors, typography, and other theme options built in.
Child Theme Framework
Create custom themes while keeping your parent framework clean and easy to maintain.
Part of the BLOKS Ecosystem
Designed to grow with your projects.
Simpleton is the foundation for the growing BLOKS family of child themes, creative tools, and publishing systems. Pair it with BLOKS Code Editor to build structured page layouts, or extend it with future BLOKS plugins as your website evolves.
Because Simpleton is completely free and released under the GPL, it's an ideal starting point for agencies, freelancers, educators, students, and developers building long-term WordPress projects.