Tersus: Splorp

An achingly simple child theme for Tersus.

About

Tersus is an exercise in publishing template minimalism.

By removing the majority of the presentational markup and other cruft from the Tersus parent theme, we’ve opened the door for child themes to pick up the aesthetic slack. There are currently three child themes being developed for Tersus.

• Newted by Grant Hutchinson
• Splorp by Grant Hutchinson
• Super Ginormous by Chris Harrison

Keep track of Tersus development on Twitter.

Features

• HTML5 structure and compliance
• CSS that has been reset and built from the ground up
• Non-semantic, presentational markup has been dispatched
• Built-in theme options for navigation, sidebar, footer, and announcement text
• Two widget-enabled sidebar areas
• Responsive, adaptive layout for small screens
• Clean, valid, and awesome
• WordPress Theme Review Process compliance

Requirements

• WordPress 5.0 or later
• Tersus parent theme

Credits

See the main Tersus project for a current list of credits and attributions.

Licensing

The Tersus theme is absolutely free and conveniently licensed under GPLv3. You may use it for personal or commercial projects, as you see fit. Please refer to the license included with the source for more information.

Copyright © 2012–2024 Grant Hutchinson

See the main Tersus project for related third party licensing information.

Version History

0.1.5

• Bumped Tersus template version to 0.4.2
• Adjusted post and comment page navigation appearance and positioning
• Fixed alignment of “Cancel Reply” link
• Fixed alignment of gallery thumbnails and captions

0.1.4

• Theme now requires WordPress 5.0 or later
• Theme now passes the basic Theme Review Process tests
• Bumped Tersus template version to 0.4.1
• Updated theme name for consistency with the theme text domain and function namespace
• Improved access to wp_get_theme() data
• Added register_nav_menus function to support the theme text domain
• Added register_sidebar() function for better dynamic sidebar support
• Added automatic-feed-links theme support feature
• Added post-thumbnails theme support feature
• Added title-tag theme support feature
• Removed deprecated handheld and max-device-width from media queries
• Embiggened site icon artwork
• Removed legacy icon and artwork files
• Updated license to GPLv3

0.1.3

• Bumped Tersus template version to 0.4.0

0.1.2

• Replaced deprecated get_theme_data() function with wp_get_theme()
• Fixed display of span elements containing vevent summary values
• Removed vendor prefixes from border-radius property
• Removed float alignment declarations now defined by parent theme
• Added basic styles for navigation menu and footer links
• Added basic styles for post and page navigation
• Modified navigation link delimiters
• Styled the “Cancel Reply” link
• Reinstated default comment form selectors
• Updated button styles on form actions
• Updated form field width and color for consistency
• Reduced font size for small screens
• Converted some leftover px to em
• Fixed responsive image scaling
• Moved theme CSS into style subdirectory
• Added Template Version to theme file header
• Embiggened theme screenshot to support HiDPI displays
• Added support for the proliferation of various iOS and Windows 8 iconography
• Replaced the rather free spirited theme tags with official WordPress tags

0.1.1

• Fixed announcement section margin
• Fixed iPad media query breakpoint
• Changed iPad aside layout to a single column
• Collapsed gallery margins
• Simplified article img selector
• Added selectors for standard image alignment classes
• Added function to retrieve child theme information as constants
• Deprecated subcategory list selectors

0.1.0

• Initial release based on the final advanced “flavour” from the Tersus theme