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More or Less WordPress Theme
I recently migrated my website away from Ghost and decided to go back to WordPress. Mainly so I didn’t have to maintain a dedicated server for the website. Problem was, I loved the theme I had on my Ghost site, so I wanted to emulate the look at closely as possible.
The Hunt
I didn’t really want to create a new theme from scratch, as that’s a lot of work. So I decided to start hunting for a theme that I could adapt to my needs – it’s much less work and I still get the look I want.
After a lot of hunting, I managed to find a theme called Less, by Jared Erickson. The theme is distributed under the GPL license, when someone asks if they can adapt the theme in the comments, Jared says:
Go for it, as long as you leave credit for the original theme.
Jared Erickson
The Less theme is a great starting point. It’s designed to be minimal and slick. So I got to work making Less look and feel how I needed it to. Here are some of the features and changes I have made to the base theme:
- Improved typography using Google Fonts.
- Fixed colour/font issues with ul/li tags.
- Improved header formatting.
- Changed theme colours.
- Better formatting of blockquotes.
- Added published date to posts.
- Added current year to footer.
- Added FontAwesome support.
- Added support for sub-menus.
- Increased width of main container to 790px.
- Added a 404 page.
- Various small UI updates.
All of those changes have resulted in the site you see before you. A theme I have dubbed More or Less. I have, of course, decided to release More or Less under an open license. I went with Creative Commons Attribution – ShareAlike 4.0.
If you want to use More or Less on your WordPress site, you can download the theme from Github.
Want more?
So you've read this post and you're still not satisfied? Ok then, here's some other stuff for you to do: