{"id":34435,"date":"2013-07-05T18:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?page_id=34435"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:54:10","slug":"quickchic-wordpress-theme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/quickchic-wordpress-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickChic WordPress Theme: Free, Fast and Clean Blog Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>QuickChic is a free, fast and clean WordPress theme for writers and bloggers who want their words to come first.<\/strong> There is no page builder to learn and nothing to set up: activate it and start writing. Your readers get a calm, clutter-free page that loads in a blink, on any phone or computer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-68541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/quickchic-theme-2026.png\" alt=\"QuickChic WordPress theme: a clean two-column blog with posts on the left and the site title, menu and widgets on the right\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/quickchic-theme-2026.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/quickchic-theme-2026-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/quickchic-theme-2026-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/quickchic-theme-2026-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/quickchic-theme-2026-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/themes\/quickchic\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Download QuickChic free<\/strong><\/a> from the official WordPress Theme Directory, or install it straight from your dashboard (see below).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source code:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/quickonlinetips\/quickonlinetips\/tree\/main\/themes\/quickchic\" rel=\"noopener\">QuickChic on GitHub<\/a>, every change open to read.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Want to customise the code?<\/strong> Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/quickchic-child.zip\">QuickChic child theme<\/a> (.zip), so your changes survive updates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Who is QuickChic for?<\/h2>\n<p>QuickChic is made for personal blogs, writers, journals, small business news pages and anyone who wants a site that simply works. If you would rather spend your time writing than tweaking settings, and you want visitors to read your posts instead of waiting for a heavy page to load, QuickChic is for you.<\/p>\n<h2>Why you will like it<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Ultra light and fast.<\/strong> The whole design is one small stylesheet of about 6 KB once compressed. No JavaScript, no web fonts, no frameworks, so your pages load almost instantly and your readers on slow mobile connections are never kept waiting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Plug and play.<\/strong> Activate it and your site already looks finished. The sidebar fills itself with search, recent posts and categories until you add your own widgets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Easy on the eyes.<\/strong> A clean two-column layout: posts on the left; site title, menu and widgets on the right. On phones it becomes one tidy column, with the title and menu first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dark mode, automatically.<\/strong> When a reader&#8217;s phone or computer is set to dark, your site turns dark too. You can switch this off in one click.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your colour.<\/strong> Pink is the signature, but you can pick any accent colour for links, buttons and borders in Appearance &gt; Customize &gt; Colours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Familiar and simple.<\/strong> Set up widgets and menus in the usual Appearance &gt; Widgets and Menus screens. Posts written in the block editor look just right, and the editor shows them the way readers will see them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Room to grow.<\/strong> Five widget areas (sidebar, below each post, and three footer columns), a full width template for pages without a sidebar, featured images, a main menu and a footer menu, a custom logo and numbered pages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social icons, no plugin.<\/strong> Add links to X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, GitHub and more to the Footer Menu, and they show as neat icons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughtful details.<\/strong> An &#8220;Updated&#8221; date on edited posts, clean printouts of any article, comfortable spacing for comments, and accessible markup with a Skip to content link and clear keyboard focus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free forever.<\/strong> Released under the GPL, like WordPress itself, with free help when you need it.<\/p>\n<h2>How to install QuickChic<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>In your WordPress dashboard, go to <strong>Appearance &gt; Themes &gt; Add New Theme<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Search for <strong>QuickChic<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Install<\/strong>, then <strong>Activate<\/strong>. That&#8217;s it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To make it yours, open <strong>Appearance &gt; Customize<\/strong>: choose your accent colour under Colours, and choose short excerpts or full posts (and the excerpt length) under Post Lists.<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s new in QuickChic 1.7<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A fresh 2026 design: a bolder site title, cleaner buttons, search box and page numbers<\/li>\n<li>Automatic dark mode and an accent colour picker<\/li>\n<li>Footer widgets in three columns and a Below Posts widget area<\/li>\n<li>Social icons in the Footer Menu<\/li>\n<li>Full width template for posts and pages<\/li>\n<li>Works with the block widget editor out of the box<\/li>\n<li>One small stylesheet, still with no JavaScript<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More free WordPress themes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/quickpic-wordpress-theme\/\">QuickPic WordPress Theme<\/a>: a bold one-column theme for photo blogs, fast loading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/quickpress-wordpress-theme\/\">QuickPress WordPress Theme<\/a>: a three-column blog theme with plenty of widget space.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/quickstrap-wordpress-theme\/\">QuickStrap WordPress Theme<\/a>: a free Bootstrap 5 WordPress starter theme with no JavaScript and no build step.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QuickChic is a free, fast and clean WordPress theme for writers and bloggers who want their words to come first. 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