Subtle for WordPress

When I started working on Subtle, I knew that I wanted to build some diverse designs off of it, but until today I only had rough sketches and ideas. One of those ideas was to see how close I could get to one of my favorite sites, A List Apart. Call it a [...]

We just completed a major revision of the Subtle theme and are making it available for testing and use. In addition to numerous bugfixes, we’ve also completely rebuilt all of our graphics and CSS, making the theme leaner, cleaner and quite a bit wider. Here’s the list of changes:

Fixed bug: Comment form doesn’t [...]

So you know all about Chris by now. But did you know there are two more in our little family? In order of ascending good looks, Chris Frazier, Christoph Neumann, and myself (John Koontz) comprise this endeavor we call Glued Ideas. The short story is I’m here as part founder and in [...]

When we created Subtle, we wanted to be able to easily change the look and feel while maintaining the functionalityof the original theme. To allow for this we added Theme Styles - a sort of sub-theme structure to make adding your own content easy while keeping the upgrade process intact. If you haven’t [...]

In addition to Subtle getting it’s very own static page with instructions and acknowledgements, it also has an update which fixes a number of problems people have reported and that we’ve found in-house since the launch of version 0.1. If you’re running 0.1, I strongly suggest that you update your installation to this version. [...]

Since its release yesterday, our brand-new theme called Subtle has been downloaded 228 times. Not bad for one day. Of course, with so many copies of it out there, I’m sure people are finding bugs and problems (or missing features) at a good rate too. After this weekend I’ll be giving Subtle [...]