Tersus

An achingly simple Tumblr theme without all the usual cruft.

About

Tersus for Tumblr is an exercise in publishing template minimalism, based on the original Tersus for Wordpress theme.

See this theme in action over on splorp.tumblr.com

Features

HTML5 structure and compliance
CSS that is minimal and tidy
Non-semantic, presentational markup has been beaten into submission
Clean, valid, and awesome

Credits

Tersus for Tumblr is being developed by Grant Hutchinson.

Licensing

The Tersus for Tumblr theme is absolutely free and conveniently licensed under GPL. You may use it for personal or commercial projects, as you see fit. Please refer to the license.txt file included with the source for more information.

Version History

0.1.2 — The “Seven Year Itch” Release

Added missing <!DOCTYPE html> to template
Added some breathing room around the search form elements
Changed {block:Pagination} from p to ul to fix link smushing
Reorganized outbound links into more logical groups
Updated hardcoded links to https

0.1.1 — The “Dorm Room Snowshovel” Release

Completed HTML5 conversion
Moved avatar into header
Moved stylesheet into separate file for use via the {CustomCSS} tag
Tidied the page title formatting
Changed {block:HasPages} from div to ul because semantics
Decrufted Disqus components
Decrufted and reorganized search form
Decrufted and declassed pretty much every div in sight
Removed superfluous tag delimiter class
Removed {block:Twitter} and {block:IfShowPeopleIFollow} crud
Removed unnecessary div wrappers from several content blocks
Removed custom header and background images
Added GPL license

0.1.0 — The “Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time” Release

Initial tinkering inspired by the WordPress version

splorp/tersus-tumblr