WordPress Minimalist Theme – A New Look – Minimalist
Please note that the current theme I am using is no longer the one mentioned in this post.
For anyone who has been to this site before you have by no doubt noticed that the look and feel of the site has changed dramatically. After benchmarking page load times on my site and seeing average load times of 11.6 seconds I decided that the way to go was a minimalist look. This new theme has been modified…and yes I will distribute the modified version.
It took me a while to find this theme, Aielman’s SEO Theme, by Uberdose and it was just what this site needed. While it was almost perfect, I needed to have links for my pages which didn’t come with this theme and I needed to make the blogroll look like the page links I had created. There were also some strange formatting issues, no doubt from some of my other modifications, that have been resolved as well.
Average page load times now are around 1.5 seconds.
For the Categories Cloud you see on my Home page see my No Widget Category Cloud WordPress Plugin.
Change Log
0.2
- Initial Public Release
0.2.1
- Added additional CSS for Internet Explorer to fix formatting issues
0.2.2
- Removed show_description from wp_list_bookmarks function in index.php
I am in love with this theme and would love to put it into production, but the downloaded ZIP file does not open for me. I get errors no matter what program I use to try to open it. Is it just me?
Sorry about that. Looks like I actually had mistyped the url to the download. If you were using wget or something to the sorts it was actually downloading the 404 page but with the name of the zip you were trying to download.
I have fixed the URL above and tested extraction using the *nix unzip command and WinRAR.