Title: Gist Author: candidthemes Published: March 13, 2018 Last modified: February 26, 2026 --- # Gist ![candidthemes Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/96f505d41fa42f7ff40c636cbcc6c39460663834d889ac2f3fad6c798ccb7aff? s=24&d=mm&r=g) [candidthemes](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/author/candidthemes/) ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/gist/1.1.9/screenshot.jpg?w=post- thumbnail&strip=all) [Preview](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/gist/preview/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/gist.1.1.9.zip) * Version 1.1.9 * Last updated February 26, 2026 * Active installations 800+ * WordPress version 5.5 * PHP version 7.0 * [Theme homepage](https://www.candidthemes.com/themes/gist-clean-minimal-wordpress-blog-theme/) Gist is best ever crafted free WordPress theme for Blog, news and Magazine. Gist is a simple, easy to use, modern and creative, user friendly WordPress theme with typography, fonts and color options. In addition Gist is responsive, cross browser compatible and child theme ready. Gist comes with added custom widgets for social, recent post and author, sticky sidebar options, footer widget, sidebar options, meta option, copyright option, social options etc. https://demo.candidthemes.com/ gist/ ## Features [Blog](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/blog/), [Custom background](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-background/), [Custom colors](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-colors/), [Custom menu](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-menu/), [Featured images](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/featured-images/), [News](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/news/), [Right sidebar](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/right-sidebar/), [Theme options](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/theme-options/), [Threaded comments](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/threaded-comments/), [Translation ready](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/translation-ready/), [Two columns](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/two-columns/) ## Downloads per day Active Installations: **800+** ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 2 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/gist/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/gist/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/gist/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/gist/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/gist/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/gist/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/gist/reviews/) ## Support Got something to say? Need help? [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/gist/) ## 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%2Fgist%2F&rep-subject=Reported+Theme%3A+Gist) ## Translations This theme is available in the following languages: [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/themes/gist/), [Español de Chile](https://cl.wordpress.org/themes/gist/), [Español de Colombia](https://es-co.wordpress.org/themes/gist/), [Español](https://es.wordpress.org/themes/gist/), [Español de México](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/themes/gist/), [Español de Venezuela](https://ve.wordpress.org/themes/gist/), [Русский](https://ru.wordpress.org/themes/gist/), and [Svenska](https://sv.wordpress.org/themes/gist/). [Translate this theme](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/gist) ## Browse the code [Development log](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/log/gist) [Subversion repository](https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/gist) [Browse in Trac](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gist) [Trac tickets](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/query?keywords=~theme-gist) [Previous Impressive Business](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/impressive-business/) [Next Insurance Hub](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/insurance-hub/)