Title: Simply Read
Author: Phillip
Published: January 3, 2015
Last modified: February 19, 2015

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# Simply Read

![Phillip Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d332ff83b17ea00cff301268b4451b4ec78a3351f674bccd9c81a9feae9ff3f1?
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[Phillip](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/author/wpsimplyread/)

This theme **hasn’t been updated in over 2 years**. It may no longer be maintained
or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions
of WordPress.

![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/simply-read/2.1/screenshot.png?w=
post-thumbnail&strip=all)

[Preview](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/simply-read/preview/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/simply-read.2.1.zip)

 *  Version 2.1
 *  Last updated February 19, 2015
 *  Active installations 300+
 *  [Theme homepage](http://wpsimplyread.com/about)

Simply Read is a minimalist blog theme with a huge home page slider and a masonry
style layout for latest posts. It also has a full width static page template, separate
widget areas for pages and posts, social media links, optional author bios and simple
color scheme options to make customizing the theme very easy.

## Features

[Custom menu](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-menu/), [Full width template](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/full-width-template/),
[Microformats](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/microformats/), [Post formats](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/post-formats/),
[Sticky post](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/sticky-post/), [Translation ready](https://vec.wordpress.org/themes/tags/translation-ready/)

## Downloads per day

Active Installations: **300+**

## Ratings

 4.1 out of 5 stars.

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

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## Support

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## Translations

This theme is available in the following languages: [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/themes/simply-read/).

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

## Browse the code

[Development log](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/log/simply-read)

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