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No-frills theme for WordPress

This site uses the No-frills theme by Jesse Kim. Refer to a related post for more information on how it all began. On 18 September 2008, No-frills was registered as the 360th theme in the official WordPress Theme Directory, where it can be downloaded.

No-frills 3.2 (2010-08-27) (current release available for download | alternate link)

  • Revised fonts to enhance readability on each platform (PC and Mac)
  • Revised page layout

No-frills 3.1.1 (2010-05-25)

  • Re-engineering of some default fonts; Lucida Sans Unicode is now the default post content font

No-frills 3.1 (2010-05-24)

  • Some significant CSS revisions with a focus on making the overall look-and-feel more consistent across platforms and browsers (Mac and PC).
  • Slightly bigger default fonts for better readability

No-frills 3.0.9 (2010-05-11)

  • CSS adjustments for better readability
  • The side bar has moved back to the left of the page. But it is easy to move it to the right (see instructions in header.php and footer.php).

No-frills 3.0.6 (2010-03-04)

  • Overall CSS improvements and clean-up; easier to customise (changing the hyperlink colour, for example)
  • Minor visual refinements

No-frills 3.0.1 (2010-02-09)

  • Minor visual refinements
  • Tidied up the print view; now properly suppresses unnecessary output when printing

No-frills 3.0 (2009-12-23)

  • Restructuring of page layout including removal of absolute positions
  • Support for posts with multiple pages
  • Re-introduction of colours
  • Numerous readability enhancements

No-frills 2.1.9 (2009-09-26)

  • Fixed a bug where all pages (as opposed to posts) suppressed the comments form; now pages that are set up to allow comments do show the comments form; posts are unaffected
  • A number of CSS refinements; in particular, <h4>, <h5>, and <h6> now seamlessly blend into the post content and can be used as natural subheadings

No-frills 2.1.7 (2009-07-20)

  • Fixed: mark-up validation errors
  • Fixed: all CSS validation errors except proprietary WordPress properties
  • Minor CSS refinements

No-frills 2.1.4 (2009-07-13)

  • New default black-and-white colour scheme with options to switch to red, green, blue, or any other colour for hyperlinks
  • More flexible placement of optional top image/banner
  • CSS refinements for better readability

No-frills 2.1 (2009-07-05)

  • CSS refinements for greater UI consistency
  • Fixed CSS irregularities in printer-friendly view
  • Verified compatibility with Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Opera 9.64, OmniWeb 5.9.2, and Internet Explorer 8 (native)

No-frills 2.0.10 (2009-07-02)

  • Visual refinements to accentuate minimalism
  • Removal of grey background; now just plain white
  • Fixed XHTML validation errors in the header.php script

No-frills 2.0.8 (2009-06-08)

  • Refinements to browse-by-category and browse-in-timeline links
  • Further refinements to CSS

No-frills 2.0.6 (2009-05-16)

  • Further customisation support: The background of the left column can now be either a grey gradient (default) or plain white.
  • Revised customisation tips

No-frills 2.0.5 (2009-05-14)

  • The width of the left column can now be adjusted.
  • Inclusion of readme.txt with customisation tips

No-frills 2.0.3 (2009-04-17)

  • Minor CSS changes for consistent application of fonts
  • Minor visual adjustments

No-frills 2.0.2 (2009-04-14)

  • No-frills now works with Internet Explorer 8 in native mode (as opposed to compatibility mode). The other browsers that have been tested are: Firefox 3.0.6, OmniWeb 5.9.2, Safari 3.2.1 for Mac, Safari 3.2.2 for Windows, and Internet Explorer 7.
  • The grey shade is now a little bit lighter.

No-frills 2.0.1 (2009-04-12)

  • Minor CSS changes for better readability and consistent line spacing
  • Default screen font set to Helvetica 12px
  • Default post content font set to Calibri 14px; it is now centrally managed in CSS

No-frills 2.0 (2009-04-10)

  • Major re-organisation and clean-up of CSS; as a result, CSS load overhead is about 40% lower than before
  • Change from centre-justified content and right sidebar to left-justified content and left sidebar
  • Introduction of a light grey shade on sidebar
  • Simplified colour scheme and re-introduction of orange hyperlinks (#cc3300)
  • Numerous other little changes that amount to more consistency and less clutter

Talkback x 19

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  2. Sistem
    22 July 2009 @ 00:09

    Thank you for good work!

  3. Chris
    14 September 2009 @ 13:37

    I’m looking for how to adjust the font size for the post content in the No-Frills theme. I’ve changed the font, and it’s WAY too big, but for some reason I can’t seem to find it in the CSS file. I would have thought that it would be under #content div.post p, but there isn’t a listing for that, and I can’t seem to find my place in the CSS. Any help would be great.

    Thanks for a great theme.

  4. Jess
    14 September 2009 @ 22:33

    You will find the section that defines the font for post content at around line 644 of style.css. There you can change the font family, size, and line height.

  5. MAKAZ
    28 September 2009 @ 07:33

    Hi, I saw you have a 2.19 version but link to download is for 2.7. Where may I get the 2.9 version?

    Thanks. You may also email it to me if you wanted =)

  6. MAKAZ
    28 September 2009 @ 07:35

    Sorry, let me fix my mistake in 1st reply:

    I saw you have a 2.1.9 version but link to download is for 2.1.7. Where may I get the 2.1.9 version?

  7. Jess
    28 September 2009 @ 07:51

    It seems to take a bit of time for the update to go on the directory. I have put up an alternate download link.

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  10. oliver
    4 March 2010 @ 11:23

    Wow Great Theme Jess!
    Can anyone suggest a way to make the search icon and the rss icon sit on the same line as the search box sits on ??????? And equal up the spacing of these three items??????
    I have been customizing Jess’s css file a little to fit the content on my blog and I can’t seem to crack this last little thing….
    Help !
    :-)

  11. JK
    4 March 2010 @ 22:44

    Hi Oliver – I hadn’t paid much attention to that part of the layout. I tried my best to make the elements flush with the baseline but can’t seem to reach perfection… Anyway check out the latest version (3.0.6) and see if it’s much of an improvement. It may take a couple of days for the new version to get approval. If you’re in a hurry, try the alternate download link.

  12. Sabi
    9 March 2010 @ 02:32

    So glad that I’ve discoverd this theme, now I just need to find myself around it as I am a real newbie. The no frills theme is great and very effective butI’d like help with sourcing some no frills images or subtle background images. Can anyone help. The aim of the site will be to highlight my different work interests so I will need to add a couple of ‘frills/colour’, is this possible? Really appreciate your help and well done with the good work Jess. Kind regards, Sabi

  13. oliver
    12 March 2010 @ 14:01

    Thank you Jess! I’ll send you a link once I have finished the site so you can see what I did with your theme…

  14. RMT
    20 March 2010 @ 10:25

    Hi, am just getting started and wonder if there is anything special I need to know to make a bilingual site (english/italian), and also for bringing in images. thanks very much!

  15. Comodo Browser
    24 March 2010 @ 11:14

    Hi,

    Can you please advise how to add a logo using this theme? On many others I have used there has been an option in wp-admin but I have been unable to locate that on the no-frills theme.

    Thanks,
    James

  16. Francesco Virili
    2 May 2010 @ 00:25

    Hi, I like nofrills very much, thank you for your beautiful contributions.
    I would like to upgrade to the latest version of nofrills, but I do not know how to keep my current layout (from nofrills 2.1.7) with a large left side column. http://areadocenti.eco.unicas.it/virili/
    Could you help me?
    Thanks in advance
    –Francesco

  17. Luke
    8 May 2010 @ 17:51

    Hey great theme. I would like to have my side bar on the left hand side rather than the right, is this possible?
    Thanks for your help

  18. JK
    9 May 2010 @ 00:20

    To move the side bar from the right to the left, open footer.php and cut <div id=”nf_pagesidebar”> … </div> (total 7 lines) and paste the div block into header.php immediately after <div id=”nf_page”> and immediately before nf_pagecontentcolumn.

  19. Kristoffer
    17 June 2010 @ 05:42

    I am now using the No-frills Theme on a test for a new site, and am very happy with the coding done by you. It’s rare to see a theme these days that are truely valid HTML.

    Thank you very much for you work

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