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The Columnist

Written by Benji May 8th, 2010

The Columnist is a grid based wordpress theme. It features a newspaper column layout, neat typographic heirarchy, a tidy grid system and some css3 & jQuery greatness.

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The Columnist WordPress theme is inspired by traditional newspaper layouts and the grid structures and typography techniques they employ.

Features & functionality include:

  • WordPress thumbnail support
  • Widget support
  • css3 column structures
  • jQuery functionality and animations
  • Helvetica in all its greatness
  • Custom fields for images
  • Custom meta fields
  • Featured latest post
  • Automatic latest post for each category

This theme can be applied to any content type; whether it be a photography portfolio, travel journal, tutorial service, news provider or a blog for your twelve cats, The Columnist theme will do the trick.

You can find The Columnist theme support and help documentation for topics such as: Adding images, Text styles, Downloading and installing, Video posts, The making of and Version control.

  • Date: 10th May 2010
  • Photo: Gaëtan Rossier

Posted in News

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The Columnist

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The Columnist is a grid based wordpress theme. It features a newspaper column layout, neat typographic heirarchy, a tidy grid system and some css3 & jQuery greatness.

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Images

Adding images

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The Columnist theme is extremely flexible with images and supports the latest Wordpress image functionality. It features custom fields to display various sized images and thumbnails to support each article.

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Videos

A video post

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Keith Loutit’s awesome tilt-shift time-lapse clip of Tamarama Beach, Sydney, on the first warm weekend of the year.

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Design

The making of

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The Columnist is inspired by grid structures, Helvetica, jQuery, Wordpress, photography, minimalism and the interwebs!

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Typography

Text styles

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The Columnist has a strong emphasis on typography. It uses an exponential formula for text hierarchy and the greatness of Helvetica along with column layouts and newspaper theme.

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Installation

The Columnist installation

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This post demonstrates the step-by-step process to installing The Columnist Wordpress theme and applying it to your blog or website.

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Mentions

My ears are burning

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General mentions, mumbles and some examples of people repping The Columnist theme.

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Versions

Version control

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The latest and greatest version of The Columnist Wordpress theme is ready and waiting for you.

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