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Make yourself comfortable. Welcome to my personal experiment in combining minimalism with blog design. I offer themes that showcase your content and not my design skills, which are meager enough. Blogging shouldn’t be about filling a template.

That’s how plaintxt.org came to be: a home for minimalism in blog design. The designs here are solutions to problems that I encountered. These are WordPress themes that addressed my needs and tastes. I hope you find them useful too.

Themes

These themes include “premium” features, e.g., theme option menus that allow almost complete personalization as well as total Widgets compatibility, in addition to style sheets (including print styles) that demonstrate the highest attention to detail.

Each theme is free (as in speech) and licensed with the GNU General Public License, compatible with WordPress, a free semantic publishing platform, and include neither sponsored links nor other deceitful code.

  • Barthelme

    Index on Barthelme theme

  • blog.txt

    Index on blog.txt theme

  • plaintxtBlog

    Index on plaintxtBlog theme

  • Sandbox

    Semantic classes placed in the BODY element

  • Simplr

    Index on Simplr theme

  • veryplaintxt

    Blog index on veryplaintxt theme

Blog

Simplify your life by subscribing to the RSS feeds for posts and for comments. Here are the latest three posts, summarized for your reading convenience.

  • An ideal WordPress user

    April 29, 2008 Comments (8)

    A user of one of my themes contacts me for some help securing his blog. I provide a little help, and then he shares this solution with the community in a nice neat package. A short tale of a guy who, in my opinion, is an ideal WordPress user. It’s all about community.

  • Post-release theme fixes

    April 2, 2008 Comments (5)

    New theme releases with working gallery shortcode for WordPress 2.5. This update also includes a new theme file, image.php, which means these themes are really excellent tools for those with photo-rich blogs.

  • Everything updated. Again.

    March 16, 2008 Comments (8)

    Theme updates for WordPress 2.5. Before 2.5 is released. New features include support for get_avatar() and the new options menu design scheme. More importantly, the updated themes now utilize wp_nonce_field() for the highest level of security.