Contributors:
- Friso van Dijk ( @frisovandijk / frisovandijk.com )
Version: 1.0
Created on: WordPress 4.1, Genesis 2.1
License: MIT
This theme is out of date and has seen no updates in years. It no longer works correctly.
I have been working on a weblog recently, trying to hit that sweet spot between a functional theme and a minimal lay-out. I tried to remove all clutter, whilst still being able to use it with any preferred lay-out style. The main content area is moved up a bit, to give the whole a more dynamic feel. Right now I use it on Twenty of Time
Download the zip file and upload it as a theme on your WordPress installation. The menu is featured in the right-header sidebar, so create a menu widget (in appearance > widgets) and add your main menu there. That's all there is to it, enjoy!
I tried to keep as much user freedom in the theme, whilst trying to keep it as clean as possible for personal use. As with all designs I make it's easy to pick different colours and match them as you wish. More on that below.
The theme also allows featured images, which I find very attractive on a weblog. The images are much wider than they are tall in the example, but everything is possible (optimised width: 800px, screenshot height: 200px). They show up on singular posts/pages the same way they do as you see in the screenshots, with a little space between the featured image and the post.
As with most themes I publish, they are made for personal use and can be modified freely. It comes with the MIT-License, so please credit me for the work done.
This is an easy part to remove. When you have the theme installed, go to Appearance > Editor. On the right sidebar, select functions.php. Scroll to the bottom and look for this line: <p>© 2015 <?php echo get_bloginfo('name'); ?> · Design by <a href="http://www.frisovandijk.com" target="_blank">Friso van Dijk</a></p>.
You can safely remove anything from Design by up to </a>. The first time shows the copyright notice on 2015 with your blog name. Easily customise this with some html.
For this, you will need to use SASS. This is a css preprocessor. The project uses several sass files, so you will need to do this locally with a compiler. I use koala. Inside the theme folder, open `partials/_variables.scss' and edit the colors at will. It already has a list of colors that go well with the theme.
Here I assume that you already have some experience with this kind of thing. If not, feel free to contact me and I will see if I can do anything to help.
My thanks to Greg Rickaby for supplying the Genesis Sample theme in a ready SASS structure.