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Introducing a minimalist, image-free, grid-based theme for WordPress in three tasty flavours.

—Published 24 February, 2009

So if Digitalmash didn’t look the way it does, it may have turned out a little bit like this WordPress template. It’s probably best suited to text-heavy blogs rather than ones with mainly images for content, but I’m sure if you kept all your images 460px wide, it could still look nice.

You can probably tell where the inspiration for this theme has come from. For those who don’t, do yourself a favour.

I bashed this out kind of quickly, so if there are any major flaws or glaring omissions, please let me know and I’ll fix them right up.
Also, keep in mind I haven’t gone all out on making sure this thing looks right with every plugin or sidebar widget. I’ll leave that up to you guys. But hopefully if you’ve got some blog that can survive without the bells and whistles, this may be the theme for you.

View Demo (Orange version)

Details

  • Should be good to go on WordPress 2.6+ (probably fine on earlier versions, but haven’t tested)
  • Uses no images at all
  • I’ve set the word limit for the handcrafted excerpt in the sidebar to 25 words (it can handle more, but will only show 25).
  • The download includes all three flavours: orange, day and night.

NOTE: If you want to be awesome, please keep the Swiss link in the footer so others can find this theme. If not, that’s cool too.

Download Swiss 1.0 ZIP 116KB

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