Sancta Simplicitas: minimalistic WordPress theme using YUI CSS
Sancta Simplicitas is a WordPress theme that uses YUI CSS utilities: reset, base, fonts, grids. It's very minimalistic in a sense that it's pretty much all white and simple. Hence the name. The theme is probably not usable by itself, but it's a base on top of which you can create your own themes.
When creating a new WordPress theme, people usually take the default Kubrick theme but I personally find Kubrick too much. So Sancta Simplicitas has a very minimal stylesheet and is based on the WordPress classic theme.
The fact that it uses YUI grids makes it trivial to tweak: fixed size vs full width, width of the sidebar, position of the sidebar. Basically right after the <body> there's this:
<div id="doc3" class="yui-t5">
Changing the id doc3 to doc, doc2, doc4 or doc5 will give you different widths of the content. The default doc3 is full width. Then changing the class name yui-t5 will give you different position and width of the sidebar. yui-t1, yui-t2 and yui-t3 put the sidebar on the left hand side, yui-t4, yui-t5 and yui-t6 place it to the right. You can go even crazier from here, nesting grids to get a two-column sidebar and so on, it's really easy with YUI grids and the docs are here.
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April 26th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Awesome, we should make you the team designer
Actually, we should really talk about this next week.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
By far, the most useful wordpress theme there is. Thank you for making it!
June 18th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I love YUI and have tried to integrated it into a WordPress theme though never really succeeded. Thanks. Here’s a site (http://rsc-web.rsci.com/) with your Sancta Simplicitas implemented and in the last stages of being launched as rsci.com. Thanks again!!