Introducing the Gigantic theme for WordPress
The Gigantic theme for WordPress is a cool, minimal WordPress theme that lets your content breathe.
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.
Thanks for releasing this theme, it’s very nice. I have to questions:
1. It seems to be an error in the theme. It doesn’t display the autor under the post title.
2. How can I make a link to the comments in the posts that are in the principal page (not only in the individual posts).
Regards.
Hi Axioum,
1. You’ll need to complete your profile details when you log in (Users > Your Profile > First Name, Last Name, Nickname)
2. You’d need to change this in line 11 of your
index.phpfile:<?php comments_number('No comments','One comment','% comments'); ?>to
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>#comments"><?php comments_number('No comments','One comment','% comments'); ?></a>Thanks for the fast answer. The “problem” can also be fixed by changing for .
Another thing I’ve noticed, the “Reply” button does no appear in the comments.
Oops, I put some PHP code in the comment. Changing the_author_firstname for the_auhtor.
Yep, depends how formal you want to be, I guess.
Also, I haven’t enabled comments. Again, that’s a back end change (Settings > Discussion > Enable threaded (nested) comments). The theme will allow up to 5 levels of replies (it runs out of space after that).
I’ll change that in the demo and a note to this post.
Looks good, clean, functional and certainly focusses on the content.
I don’t like it as much as my present theme, but if I were looking to change it is the kind of direction in which I’d be heading.
Congratulations on the move . . . I’m doing the same thing this weekend, and feeling more or less optimistic.
Thanks John – and good luck to you. I’d recommend my new host if only for the fact that they do the leg work for you.
“Focusses”? We decided that one ’s’ was the way ahead at work…
Very nice of you, Leon. And a very clean and minimalistic theme. Like it.
Thanks. Mad Poetic’s not too shabby either.
Thanks for this very nice Theme =)
@Chris – thanks, hope it’s of use.
Please post any bugs and comments here.
Leon
I’m wearing your theme now
Hey Daus – very nice indeed: love the colours. I’m kind of honoured. Of course, you change theme even more often than me
I made a minor–ish update today:
- tidied up author naming (uses
the_authorso you can control how your name appears)- made some meta changes (removed redundant favicon ref)
- altered way archives are presented (added a date archive and removed complete list of posts. Authors with several years’ worth of posts therefore won’t have 5 mile high archive pages)
It’s worth updating if you downloaded prior to 4th March 2009.
Thanks,
Leon
It’s becoming an addiction actually
Thank you for the updates. Do I have to reinstall the theme or just modify the codes?
Reinstalling is best as I’ve changed most the template files. I haven’t changed the stylesheet, so you can still use your version of
style.css.Take a look at the demo just to make sure you’re happy with everything (the archives have changed quite a bit).
—Leon
Actually, I have added one line to the
style.cssfile, but it’s important as it ensures IE6 behaves well with the theme. If you want to add it manually so you don’t lose your changes, it is:overflow: hidden;Add this anywhere within the
#headersection of the stylesheet.Dear Leon, what if I want the frontpage to display full post (not excerpt). What line(s) should be altered?
Thanks!
Nevermind. Problem solved
Good man – pretty simple, one line change. Think I preferred the previous colour scheme
Thank you for additional useful information.I can install it now easily.