Carmela is a clean, minimalist, responsive blog theme perfect for sharing your world. Use Carmela for a personal blog and keep relevant information for your users front and center.

Responsive Design: Ready for Mobile Devices

Carmela is a fully responsive theme. It looks perfect on mobile devices and big desktop screens, and gives the ultimate in readability to your users.

Colorful Theme

Carmela has a delicate but upbeat color palette with an informal yet lovely look. You can customize the theme with your own colors via the Appearance > Customize panel.

Customizing Carmela

Carmela supports Custom Headers, making it easy to add your own header image instead of using the default site title. You can define your social icons, footer text and own colors.

From the Customizer, you can easily make Carmela your own. Set up your blog title, set the number of posts that display on your front page, or choose a custom menu for your main navigation.

Carmela also comes with four widget areas. Use the first section to customize the left sidebar on your posts page with your favorite widgets, and the other three to display relevant information in your site’s footer.

Finally, Carmela lets you to easily link your blog to social media profiles like Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter. Fifteen social profile icons are available to display in your footer.

Theme Features

• Fully Responsive HTML5 and CSS3 built on WordPress. Looks awesome on all devices
• Super Easy Installation and Setup. Just Install and start blogging
• Theme Options panel with live preview
• Unlimited Colors for links, hover and header text. Choose your own style
• SEO Optimized
• Localization/Translation ready (Sample .po and .mo files included)
• Blog Tag / Category / Author Archive Template
• Step-by-step guide and documentation for theme installation and configuration
• Supported on all major browsers
• Retina Ready
• Custom Menu
• Featured image post support
• Drop down menus
• Social Icons: add and customize your social icons that are linked to your social profiles
• Compatibility with Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed (Instagram Widget)
• 1 or 2 Columns design
• Minimalistic design focused on readability
• Youtube and Vimeo Embedded video support.
• Organized .php, .css and .js files.
• Works fine with JetPack plugin.
• Built in contact form
• 3 Stylish Widgets
• Recent comments
• Tags Cloud
• Recent Post
• Footer editable text
• Font Awesome Icons
• Excellent Customer Support
• And much more...

Images used in the previews

Flickr CC Commercial Use Images from Kopaz and markjsebastian used for the demo site. Not included in the template.