To celebrate a (fingers very crossed) seamless move to a new host, I’m releasing the Gigantic theme for WordPress:
The Gigantic theme - clean typography and whitespace
Description
It’s a minimal, easy to read theme with some pretty typography. It requires WordPress 2.7+ and is written in valid HTML5 (that’s before any plugins start generating invalid markup). HTML5 is a good thing.
Please note that some minor changes were made on 4th March 2009 (most importantly, the archive no longer lists every post; instead, readers are presented with a list of categories and dates). I recommend updating if you downloaded prior to 4th March 2009.
Installation and usage
Install in the normal way. To set up an archive page, create a new page using the ‘Archive page’ template. Name it whatever you like.
The theme makes use of the blog tagline, excerpts and your first name (as set in the ‘Profile’ section). You can also enable threaded and nested comments (to a maximum of 5 deep).
The front page will show the last 3 posts’ excerpts.
Beware: it’s not set up for widgets (where would they go?)
About
It’s designed to be a very simple, stylish theme that displays your content with a minimum of fuss. Influences include minimalsites and, somewhere in the background, Dan Mall. Several very nice people contributed their ideas.
Credit me
If you use or modify the theme, I’d be very grateful if you’d keep the footer link to this page in tact.
Tell me what you think
I’m not a particularly sensitive soul, so please feel free to leave feedback, bug reports, rants etc. here. Your feedback will help improve the theme.