An achingly simple Tumblr theme without all the usual cruft.
Tersus for Tumblr is an exercise in publishing template minimalism, based on the original Tersus for Wordpress theme.
See this theme in action over on splorp.tumblr.com
- HTML5 structure and compliance
- CSS that is minimal and tidy
- Non-semantic, presentational markup has been beaten into submission
- Clean, valid, and awesome
Tersus for Tumblr is being developed by Grant Hutchinson.
The Tersus for Tumblr theme is absolutely free and conveniently licensed under GPL. You may use it for personal or commercial projects, as you see fit. Please refer to the license.txt file included with the source for more information.
- Added missing
<!DOCTYPE html>
to template - Added some breathing room around the search form elements
- Changed
{block:Pagination}
fromp
toul
to fix link smushing - Reorganized outbound links into more logical groups
- Updated hardcoded links to https
- Completed HTML5 conversion
- Moved avatar into header
- Moved stylesheet into separate file for use via the
{CustomCSS}
tag - Tidied the page title formatting
- Changed
{block:HasPages}
fromdiv
toul
because semantics - Decrufted Disqus components
- Decrufted and reorganized search form
- Decrufted and declassed pretty much every
div
in sight - Removed superfluous tag delimiter class
- Removed
{block:Twitter}
and{block:IfShowPeopleIFollow}
crud - Removed unnecessary
div
wrappers from several content blocks - Removed custom header and background images
- Added GPL license
- Initial tinkering inspired by the WordPress version