kucrut / wp-theme-polos

A minimalist black on white WordPress theme

Polos WordPress Theme

About

Polos is a minimalist theme I needed for my blog. Download it, (ab?)use it, or do whatever you want with it ( as long as it's permitted by the GPL v2 :D ).

This theme is made for modern browsers ONLY. So if you have many visitors using IE < 9, either create a child theme and add the css fixes for IE, or simply don't use it :)

Credits

• The whole WordPress and web dev community
• [Libertine Open Fonts Projekt] (http://www.linuxlibertine.org/)
• DevPress' [Dotos] (http://devpress.com/themes/dotos/) theme for the background image

Notes

If you decided to create a child theme, you need to enqueue your child theme's stylesheet:

function child_styles() {
	wp_enqueue_style( 'child-theme', get_bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ) );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'child_styles', 11 );

If you don't want the default stylesheet to be used, you need to dequeue it:

function child_styles() {
	wp_dequeue_style( 'polos' );
	wp_enqueue_style( 'child-theme', get_bloginfo( 'stylesheet_url' ) );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'child_styles', 11 );

To remove default actions, you need to call remove_action() from init or after_setup_theme hooks:

function child_setup() {
	remove_action( 'kct_after_branding', 'get_search_form' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'child_setup', 100 );

This theme doesn't support long site name and description by default. Also, the menu location (main) on the header should only be used for menu with 3 or 4 parent menu items (sub-menus are not limited). However, you can always create a child theme to support these:

1. If you need more parent menu items, override the main menu styles (mainly the absolute positioning)
2. If you have long site name and/or description, remove the search form on the header (see example above)