Modernist theme

by javier on 10/08/2010

I just found Modernist, a WordPress theme by Rodrigo Galíndez. Although I think the tags for each post and the social media links could more discrete, overall it’s a very good theme and I would recommend it for anyone looking for something clean in two columns:

BTW, We are about to release a white vostok theme and as you may see (if not using a newsreader) we are tesing it around here.

There are 7 comments in this article:

  1. 10/08/2010Rodrigo says:

    Thanks for you review!

    I understand when you say that tags and social links could be more discrete… believe me that if I would be designing for me, I would just ditch them out. But since this is a theme that’s released for a wide audience, unfortunately you need to be more flexible in some elements of the design.

    I’m saying this, because my first free WordPress Theme, Modern Clix, has been downloaded more than 35000 times. And one of the requests I have more often, is to make the comment link/counter in the homepage clickable as found in all the themes. Just minor detail, but imagine if I would be leaving off tags/categories in the homepage.

    In any case, I didn’t display categories, just tags, in each post, in order to make it look more clean.

    There are a lot of design decisions that I need to leave out… mainly, the idea of using Proxima Nova with Typekit. But I wanted this to be released…

    Thanks again for the review!

  2. 13/08/2010Art Rogue Studio says:

    I just found your vostok theme. Love it and I can’t wait for the white version. Will it be like the current theme of this blog?

    Modernist is super nice too. I have several site to launch so I might use both.

  3. 14/08/2010Javier Cañada says:

    @Rodrigo I understand your concerns. Thank YOU for the work!

    @Art Rogue Studio Glad you liked it. The white version will look pretty much the same. I hope we can release it by mid-September. Stay tuned.

  4. 19/08/2010Holger Winter says:

    Hey there! I’m using your dark theme since I relaunched my blog (the theme was one reason to relaunch it, because it seems to me the far most minimalistic theme I’ve ever seen – so thank you for coding this!).

    But hey, I’m so much looking forward to your white theme. I just can’t wait and hope you’re releasing this incredible piece of code as soon as possible.

    Regards from Germany,
    Holger.

    P.S. Keep rocking!

  5. 23/08/2010Konstantin says:

    The white version of Vostok could be my next theme :)

  6. 7/09/2010Julian says:

    Love the current Vostok theme, and looking forward to the white version too, however I’ve had to make a few edits the CSS: I’ve include a clickable image as the blog title, and inserted ‘next/previous article’ links at the bottom of individual posts. Would be great to see these included by default, as my PHP coding isn’t nearly as good as it should be!

    Keep up the good work.

  7. 8/09/2010Javier Cañada says:

    Thanks, Julian. We’ll try to take this into account when we do the final coding for it. Stay tuned for the release.

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