I just developed a WordPress theme that I would like to release into the wild. It’s been a while since I’ve released any WordPress code so I thought I’d get back into the swing of things.
I’ve named it Crispp. I wanted something that was simple, clean, & modern. I believe this theme fits the bill. It was inspired in part by the incredibly awesome theoatmeal.com.
Features
- 100% Free
- Consistent styling across all major browsers (even Internet Explorer 6!)
- No images are used for the layout of the site. Everything can be changed by simply modifying the stylesheet.
- Fully widgetized. You can change the sidebar and footer content however you would like.
- Separate administrative section in the WordPress dashboard gives you control over the visual aspects of your site.
- Introduction box on homepage can be customized to your own text.
- Build-in support for threaded comments.
- Optimized for YouTube video embeds. Videos will be resized to fill in the width of the content section automatically.
- WordPress 2.9 compatible
Take a look for yourself!
Screenshots
The Crispp WordPress theme (shown with the light color scheme)
Homepage (shown with dark color scheme)
The intro box is fully customizable for your own content
Blog post dates are offset to add visual appeal to the site.
Threaded commenting is built in to the theme. Much focus was placed on comment styling and layout.
The comment form offers a visually appealing way for visitors to connect with you.
Live Demo
Want to play around with it and see for yourself?
You can access a live demo of the site here: Live Demo
Download
You can download the latest version of Crispp here: Download Crispp
Furthermore
Are you using Crispp on your site? Please let me know in the comments! Also feel free to post questions or comments.
Wow, great theme. I really like simple and minimal themes and I am currently using one simple theme. I will try it soon on my another blog.
Awesome, thanks!
Wow, I really like the theme! Very clean, a stylish layout, and some clean typography. Great job on the theme, and keep up the great work!
Thanks, Keenan!
Do you offer customer support on this theme?
Absolutely, I offer support. I’ll send you a quick email and get in touch about what you would like to do.
Hi, I’ve tried the live demo — it looked cropped, the blog post dates weren’t visible (Firefox 3.5, WinXP, 1024×768).
Robert,
I just checked and you are indeed correct. 1024px is not wide enough to show the whole theme. The dates are being cut off. I optimized the theme for a 1280 monitor but will see what I can do to come up with a workaround for smaller screen resolutions.
wonderful theme, thanks for share.
Great work, keep it up. I’m gonna convert this beauty to Blogger.
Great theme, I use on my site. But the theme does not have the single.php…
Danilo,
With the template hierarchy in WordPress, single.php is actually optional. I opted to have everything in index.php and just use a couple of PHP conditionals where necessary. That way I didn’t have to duplicate a majority of the code in another template file.
This theme is almost perfect for what I had in mind for my freelancing site. What’s your licensing on this theme? What modifications would be needed to do to replace the blog name with a logo image that’s click-to-home? Thanks!
Matt,
The theme is licensed under the GPL v2. You can modify the header.php file to change the title to be an image instead. There might be some additional changes to the stylesheet that are necessary, but it’s going to depend on your logo. Hope that helps!
Hi, Trevor. Crispp is a kickass-looking theme, and over the holidays I decided to give it a try.
However, I think it’s causing a conflict with my WP plugins. When I activate Crispp on my blog, some links on my Plugin administration page disappear. For example, in the active plugins list, the “edit” link disappears. In the inactive plugins list, the “activate” link disappears. The links actually appear for a moment when I shift+refresh but disappear quickly once the Plugins page is fully loaded.
The problem only appears when Crispp is activated, so that leads me to believe it could be something in your code. Of course, I could be wrong—judging from the comments on this post, no one else seems to be having my problems. I did slightly modify the theme files, but only to make the homepage show post excerpts instead of full posts, and also to embed a few AdSense units.
Would you happen to have any idea on how to solve the problem? Thanks in advance and happy new year!
Hi Dean,
I just took a look at the issue. I was able to reproduce and can see what you mean. It was indeed a conflict with some JavaScript code that I was including in the theme. There is now an update to the theme available that takes care of the issue.
You can download the newest theme files here: http://crispp.dev.trevorfitzgerald.com/crispp.zip I have resubmitted the theme to the WordPress theme directory and once approved, the updated version will be there as well.
If you would just like to modify your existing theme files, so you won’t have to redo your modifications, you can just make an update to the functions.php file. In it, there are 2 lines that start with “wp_enqueue_script”. Around those, you need to include a conditional statement like so:
if ( !is_admin() ):wp_enqueue_script(.....);
wp_enqueue_script(.....);
endif;
Thank you very much for the report. It was very helpful in figuring out the solution. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Great minimalist theme mate.
I’ve listed the theme on http://www.cmstheme.net/themes/wordpress/479/crispp
Thanks!
Hey Trevor,
really nice theme, I love the simplicity!
I hope you don’t mind that I added it to WP Theme Lounge (http://wptheme-lounge.com/2010/01/08/crispp/).
- Jenny
Jenny,
That’ll be great, thanks!