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.

Download

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

About Matt

IF YOU REALLY want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

In any case I am employed as a Senior Linux Systems Engineer at Rackspace in San Antonio, TX.

I spent the majority of my college years as an Astrophysics major specializing in black holes. When I got to my senior year and was studying 40 hours a week to stay on track I decided to bail and pursue an easier career.

I spend the majority of my time now contributing to WordPress, developing WordPress plugins, helping out in the WordPress IRC Channel, playing football (not American!), practicing Krav Maga, and last but not least, spending time with my Wife and Son.

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2 Responses to WordPress Minimalist Theme – A New Look – Minimalist

  1. Sam Dodge says:

    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?

  2. Matt says:

    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.

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