Upstart Blogger Moleskine Wordpress theme

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Today I am very happy to release Moleskine, a new Upstart Blogger Wordpress theme. As the name suggests, Moleskine is a minimalist Wordpress theme which aims to simulate the feel of simple black ink on creamy off white paper.

Features include a 960 pixel grid base for rock solid alignment and a very subtle background gradient to keep the Web 2.0 crowd happy whilst hopefully providing a pleasing and restful reading environment, just like the a real Moleskine.

If you are are looking for a Wordpress theme to use as an online alternative to your Moleskine journal then this could be exactly what you are looking for.

Click here to download it or here to see a live preview.

Included in the download are a handful of Wordpress plugins that enable extra functionality in the theme, such as related posts and recent comments.

Moleskine has been tested under the latest available version of Wordpress, currently 2.6, and functions correctly in all major browsers, even the usually belligerent IE6.

If you use the theme on your blog please leave a comment below. You’ll get some nice traffic and any potentiall downloaders will be able to see the theme in action.

Ashley Morgan is a UK jazz trumpet player and owner of independent record label 447 Records. Ashley Morgan is the trumpet player with Enormous.

Comments

15 Responses to “Upstart Blogger Moleskine Wordpress theme”
  1. wesley says:

    Now this I like :)

    Except for the fact that there isn’t really a clearly defined header (upper right corner).

    I also wonder how it’s going to look with some long post titles. 3 rows for the title, I don’t think that will look good.

    Oh and in your live preview, there seems to be a problem with the tag cloud (text size).

  2. Andrea_R says:

    Nicely done. It does look very journal-like.

  3. Josh says:

    That’s a nice theme.

    It’s a shame it causes horizontal scrolling on 1024-pixel–wide screens, though. It’s just a tiny bit too wide. Also, have you considered using functions.php so that it’s not necessary to install plugins as well?

  4. Thanks for the fast feedback.

    The 1024 issue is fixed now. I had added some width to the main container to hack it into place for Internet Explorer. I’ve removed the extra width and it should fit nicely on a 1024 screen now. And, remarkably, it still works on Internet Explorer.

  5. Doug says:

    The tag cloud looks weird and oversized on Firefox/mac. Otherwise a very nice theme.

    Thanks,

  6. Allan Cole says:

    Awesomeness.

    1 Comment: I kind of wish the overall font-size was just a little bit smaller. After hitting COMMAND – a few times it looks just right.

    1 Praise: The slight gradient background that you get when you scroll down the page is GENIUS. Subtle yet effective and it really helps to bring out the feel of a Moleskine notebook.

  7. Susan says:

    A very nice looking theme! :)

  8. Jerry Thomas says:

    I like it, generally. But no picture samples?

  9. wangjel says:

    i guess i have something for you
    greatings
    Wangjel

  10. Ade says:

    Nice minimalist theme.

  11. James says:

    I really like this theme. However I’d echo the comments above about font size and the tag cloud (Also on firefox/osx).

    Also, is there anyway to easily add the post author to the theme? I’d like to use something like for a multi-author blog am working on.

  12. mdaw says:

    Really nice theme. A little bit of tweaking to get it to match my portfolio design but it looks spot on now.

    Thanks!

  13. Salvatore says:

    This theme looks like a newspaper, do you think it could pass for magazine blog?

  14. Paul Bowman says:

    I’m considering using this theme, but would like the standard header. How would I add that in so I can upload a pic in the header? Thanks and very nice looking theme!

  15. Tazz says:

    This theme just rocks!

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