{"id":2868,"date":"2009-11-16T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2009-11-16T20:23:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T04:23:54","slug":"an-interesting-wordpress-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/webwork\/an-interesting-wordpress-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"An interesting WordPress theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"basic maths\" href=\"http:\/\/basicmaths.subtraction.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"basic maths\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-09\/basic-maths.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Khoi Vinh and Allan Cole recently released an interesting WordPress theme called <a title=\"basic maths\" href=\"http:\/\/basicmaths.subtraction.com\/\">Basic Maths<\/a>. Like Vinh&#8217;s own blog, <a title=\"subtraction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.subtraction.com\/\">Subtraction<\/a> (which the new theme somewhat resembles), Basic Maths aggressively foregrounds the underlying design grid. In fact, you can even hit a shortcut key combination to superimpose the grid over the blog as you&#8217;re working on it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It&#8217;s great that the authors have done so much to bring a grid design system to the web. In addition, they have enabled single-click color control, a clever approach to category and tag display, and a thoughtful archives page. I like the style sheet that enables a large number of different image sizes and placements, all oriented to the grid.<\/p>\n<p>What isn&#8217;t entirely to my taste at both Subtraction and Basic Maths, however, is the very heavy reliance on rules to emphasize the grid. I guess I prefer my grids latent rather than in your face &#8212; sometimes these pages look like one of those puzzles where you have to move one match stick to make a different shape.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a disciplined and versatile design with careful typographic functions, well implemented. The authors are selling licenses at the &#8220;introductory price&#8221; of $45.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khoi Vinh and Allan Cole recently released an interesting WordPress theme called Basic Maths. Like Vinh&#8217;s own blog, Subtraction (which the new theme somewhat resembles), Basic Maths aggressively&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}