Briefly About
Welcome, and make yourself comfortable. This is my personal experiment in combining minimalism and blog design. I offer themes that showcase your content, not my design skills.
That’s how plaintxt.org came to be: a place for minimalism in blog design. All the designs here are the solutions to problems I’ve encountered. My name is Scott and I am not a designer nor a coder. I’m just a guy with a point-of-view and a computer.
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WordPress Themes
These themes below work with WordPress 2.0+ and are free to use, modify, destory, etc., with the hopes that my original design credit will remain. If you like my themes, and if they perhaps make your life just a little bit nicer, please consider donating.
Barthelme
My favorite theme: two-column with an interesting approach to the fluid layout. Terrific for a vlog or any other blog that needs to be content-centered. Features a thorough theme options page within the WordPress admin.
blog.txt
An elastic, two-column layout that is minimal: less than 300 lines of CSS. Perfect for customizing, the theme options menu for blog.txt includes a feature for easily using it like a CMS.
plaintxtBlog
A fluid, three-column layout with minimal—though dynamic—sidebar content. Great to adapt for use as a CMS with WordPress. Features built-in recent comments and a “summary” home page.
Sandbox
The Sandbox theme is made powerful with rich semantic markup and its class-generating functions. It is the product of a collaboration between Andy Skelton and myself. And we’re both quite pleased.
Simplr
Simplr is the theme that I always wanted: single-column, content-centered, and with an elastic layout. Features built-in recent comments and breadcrumbs when navigating through archives, pages, and posts.
veryplaintxt
My first theme and then original very plain text theme: two-column, fluid layout with a newspaper-ish feel to it. Its solid layout and thoughtful design elements make this more than “plain.”