It was a long time coming, but I’ve redesigned my blog. The last time I changed themes I was using an existing theme, modified to be minimalistic. This time I’m still keeping things minimal, but I’ve gotten my hands dirty and dove into the WP code to make this custom theme.
“Griddy” is all about discovery and relevancy. I don’t publish many time-sensitive posts, so I drew the focus away from the reverse cronological view of most blogs and opted for an archive view. The grid design is inspired by the SSENSE site interface, and I’ve added some neat features such as the post thumbnail/title display, and the single category archive view.
I did this over a few evenings to get this idea out quickly. A few issues I have noticed are:
- massive lists/duplication in category grids, due to my careless tagging of posts!
- font can be a bit small, and made worse by font-smoothing (esp. in Safari)
- post thumbnail/title display may not be very informative
I believe this theme has a lot of potential. I’ll be tweaking it often, so if you have any thoughts please leave a comment!