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Minimum Textpattern theme

The “Minimum” Textpattern theme was written in 2012 by user stefan (link); however, the demo site’s domain has gone offline. Github user jools-r forked the theme and made some necessary improvements (Github link). Starting from 2024.11.14, this site uses a customised version of the revised Minimum theme.

Theme README

Minimum theme for Textpattern CMS by Stephan Hochhaus.

A huge thank you goes to Amit Varia, who inspired this theme as well as Phil Wareham, who added a great deal of magic touch.

Minimum is a minimal theme that focuses on enabling you to publish your writings. The following are not supported out of the box but feel free to add them as required:

  • use comments
  • use categories, sections or tags
  • use article images (technically you can use images inside articles, just no article image)
  • include a contact form
  • hook up to social networks or have sharing buttons
  • show off a massive link collection

Minimum is a theme that lets you write. It embraces the golden ratio. What else would you need?

Installation

Getting up and running is a breeze. Minimum 1.4 upwards works on Textpattern 4.7.×.

  1. Place the entire minimum folder in the themes folder of your textpattern directory.
  2. Visit Presentation › Themes and import the minimum theme from the drop-down.
  3. Visit Presentation › Sections and switch the theme used to “minimum”.

Populating the slide-out drawer

In order to make the most of your shiny new slide-out drawer (introduced in version 1.2) you should do the following:

  1. Create a new section called about (the actual title may vary, just make sure name is about)
  2. Create a new article with an excerpt about yourself, and publish it in the about section
  3. You can also assign an optional article image to the about article – dimensions are 64×64 pixels (if you wish to have a HiDPI image then load it into Textpattern at 128×128 pixels, it will be scaled down accordingly). It will only be displayed in the slide-out drawer!
  4. Create a new link category called social-media
  5. Create as many links as you like and assign them to the category social-media
  6. If you wish, you can also directly edit the content of the form minimum_drawer to suit your own needs

More Information

Have a look at minimum.yauh.de (currently unavailable) for some more information about the theme.

PS: Since Minimum is so limited in what it does, changing most preference settings does not have much of an effect. It is, however, suggested that you have nice URLs (/article should be just fine) and disable the comments.

Changelog

  • v1.4.1 – Minor additions
    • Search results
    • Removal of some deprecated tags
    • Updated links and credits
  • v1.4 – Update for Textpattern v4.7.
    • Files reorganised and renamed
    • Included javascript from CDNs updated
    • Google Plus removed (as closed down by Google)
    • Minor modifications
    • Plugins no longer needed