The latest theme on my quest for a fast, widgetized Wordpress theme is the scrawny little blog.txt by Scott at plaintext.org. It’s minimal, all right – for example the CSS weighs in at about 300 lines while one (one!) of the CSS for the really gorgeous widgets theme I first tried topped the scales at nearly 1200 lines. And the rest of the theme is just as minimal. It contains no graphics, and even with the widets, it’s very fast loading, loading nearly a second faster than my hand-coded theme at 4.6 seconds, and at least 30 seconds faster than the other themes I tried. I think I’ll be keeping this one, even though I wanted 3 columns.
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[...] I have been trying to figure out how to change my theme around a bit lately. When Laura a Pursuing Holiness pointed out her latest them I, doing the most Christian thing I could think of, stole it. I now have running a modified version of blog.txt and like it so far. Although things aren’t running completely smoothly, it seems to work. Could anyone offer any suggestions/comments/tips/etc. either by emailing me or leaving a comment here. Did you even notice that there was a change? [...]
I dig it, but I think you should throw in some colors for a more personal touch.
I know.
I was getting to that; at least I need to add the header graphic back in.
Nice
I like how this theme works. I think I might have to steal it from you and play around with it. 