Blog & Portfolio of Leland Fiegel

Simply Minimal WordPress Theme

I’ve been using this SimplyMinimal template ported to WordPress on Leland.info for about a month now. A number of you have asked for this WordPress theme to be released, so here it is.

Download

The theme does require a few things to set up. Here’s a quick set of instructions below:

1. Download the .zip file from the fat download link above.
2. Extract the /simply-minimal/ folder and upload to your /wp-content/themes/ directory.
3. Activate the “Simply Minimal” theme under Appearance → Themes.
4. Once activated, create a page called “Home” and use the Homepage template.
5. Create another blank page called something like “Blog” or “News” for your posts page.
6. Go to Settings → Reading and set your Front page and Posts page.
7. Go to Appearance → Simply Minimal Options and fill in the settings.
8. Use the Optional Excerpt to control the excerpts displayed on the homepage.
9. Add widgets of your choice to the “Sidebar” and “404″ widget areas.

Yeah, I know the download link is on Theme Lab, but that’s only because my hosting account there has a ton of bandwidth. This should be considered an “as-is” theme by me, and thus I can’t offer any free support. This theme has threaded comments and it won’t work in anything below WordPress 2.7.

There aren’t any links in the footer or anything, but it would be appreciated if you left a link back to this page so other people can find the theme, as well as the free XHTML/CSS template and PSD template versions.

Hope you all like the theme. Let me know what you think in the comments here.

PowerTheme

I’ve recently launched a Premium WordPress Themes store at PowerTheme.com. I’m using e-Junkie to automatically process the payments. I’ll have an affiliate program soon through there as well. At the moment there’s only a couple paid themes, but they’re of high quality. There’s also one free theme there at the moment, called Elegance. Feel free to check it out!

More WordPress Themes

I know I haven’t updated in a while, I’ve been busy working on Theme Lab – releasing new themes, writing blog posts, and the like. Since my last update, I’ve released several more themes for free. I’m not going to post the screenshots of all of them, so just visit the site. I’ll also be starting a new “premium only” themes site in the near future, so keep an eye out for that.

Two new free themes at Theme Lab

Since the redesign of Theme Lab, 2 new free WordPress themes have been released. First is Beach Vacation, screenshot below:

…and most recently: Star Shine (the old design I used on Theme Lab).

Click the images for more information. I hope I’ve taken up enough space so there’s not some guy staring at you when you first visit (in the video in the post below).

First theme released at Theme Lab!

I’m proud to announce that the first theme at Theme Lab has been released, Smooth Khaki. It’s an XHTML valid theme with 20 alternative header images for you to choose from. Visit Theme Lab for the live demo and other information on licensing, etc.