- Download the theme (version 1.4) from the WordPress theme directory
- Visit the live demo
Screenshot of the Scherzo theme
Scherzo has been dragged into the modern world (note: it requires WordPress 3.x):
- one widget ready, contextual sidebar
- custom menu
- custom background
- excerpts
- an archives template that lists every post
- rtl support
- print style sheet
Leon, what’s a ‘contextual sidebar’?
Normally, WordPress theme sidebars appear on every single page of your site. Sometimes this is a good thing (when you put a search form in the sidebar, for example), sometimes it just makes for lots of noise. The Scherzo theme now has three sidebars that are displayed on particular pages:
- universal—for widgets you want to appear everywhere
- front page—for widgets you want to appear just on the front page
- single pages—for widgets you want to appear on post pages
Leon, it looks, erm, boring
You think so? I quite like it. Scherzo is purposefully vanilla, partly because some people like that ‘look’, partly because it supports rather than overpowers content, but mainly because people want a nearly blank canvas when using a theme out of the box.
License
Scherzo is released under a GPL version 3.0 license. Fill yer boots.