The Leo

The Leo…

  • is a minimal (& I mean minimal) WordPress Theme.
  • is heavily inspired by Leo Babauta‘s personal homepage. Leo is the man behind ZenHabits.net.
  • is free & in the public domain. (Leo might call it uncopyrighted)
  • has no commenting built in. This is on purpose (see the first point). If you do want some kind of feedback included, read the section titled “Installation”.
  • requires WordPress 3.0+ (uses the menus function)

Screenshot

Installation

You are, of course, free to use this however you’d like. However, if you want to more closely mimic how Leo has his personal website set up, just follow the directions below.

  1. Download the theme and install it like you would any other.
  2. Make a page titled “About”. When displaying the About page, the theme will not show the page title (just like the front page on Leo’s site).
  3. Make a page titled “The Latest” or “News” or “Recent Stuff” or “Blog” or something like that – this is where your posts will go.
  4. Go to your Settings->Reading Settings page and change the “Front page displays” so that you’ve selected “A static page” and then select your “About page” as your “Front page”. Then select the other page you just made to be your “Posts page”. Then click the “save changes” button.
  5. To make a search page, go to the page “Add New” screen. Give your new page the title “Search” or something clever, leaving the body blank, and then over in the sidebar, in the Page Attributes block, select the “Search Page” in the template dropdown. Publish the page.
  6. You can also customize the navigation menu at the bottom of each post and page by using WordPress’s built-in menu function. Just make a new menu and assign it in the one Theme Location available.
  7. If you want some kind of feedback structure, I’d suggest using one that automatically embeds into your posts, like Twitter @Anywhere Plus. It is what I have installed at the demo site. Or install a plugin that can be inserted via a shortcode.
  8. Give yourself a high five, then pump your fist and yell “Yes!” You are done.

 

Demo

I set a demo site (about me) up at BryceABeattie.com.

[edit] I have tweaked the theme a bit on there…

Download

The Leo (version 1)

Licence

Public Domain. Do whatever you want with it. There’s no warranty of any kind. Of course, a credit somewhere would be cool of you, but nobody’s going to force you to be cool.

Version History

There is no history. This is the initial release. Why should you care so much about this theme’s past, anyway?