North East - Free WordPress Blogging Theme

North East is a minimalist and clean, yet modern theme, for personal blogging websites. Its design is elegant and beautiful, offering a featured slider, author boxes, and social buttons. Besides, the theme provides AdSense optimization, so you can place ads on your site and monetize it.

Apart from blogging, you can use it for magazine websites as well. North East would be a good choice for general topics and even for niches. And, by the way, you can customize it as you like, as it provides lots of settings and options.