Tersus: Newted

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
• Widget-enabled sidebar area
• 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 © 2013–2024 Grant Hutchinson

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

Version History

0.1.4

• Bumped Tersus template version to 0.4.2
• Adjusted post and comment page navigation appearance and positioning
• Added missing meta class to image.php and single.php templates
• Fixed alignment of gallery thumbnails and captions
• Fixed missing nav wrapper in index.php
• Removed excess margins from non-navigation lists
• Fixed styling of initial post paragraphs
• Fixed the line height of post titles that wrap to a second line

0.1.3

• Added register_sidebar() function for better dynamic sidebar support
• Fixed alignment of “Cancel Reply” button
• Fixed missing bracket in post navigation CSS
• Theme now passes the basic Theme Review Process tests

0.1.2

• Theme now requires WordPress 5.0 or later
• 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 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
• Fixed post navigation formatting
• Embiggened theme screenshot to support HiDPI displays
• Embiggened site icon artwork
• Removed legacy icon and artwork files
• Updated license to GPLv3

0.1.1

• Bumped Tersus template version to 0.4.0

0.1.0

• Initial release based on the existing Newted Community site