“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” – Steve Jobs
“No-frills” for WordPress is a minimalist theme by Jesse Kim. The goal of No-frills is a clutter-free, distraction-free, content-centric Web site. On 18 September 2008, No-frills became the 360th theme in the official WordPress Theme Directory, where versions up to 3.1.1 have been archived. The current version of No-frills is available from this page. No-frills 5 or higher requires WordPress 3.4.1 or higher and the current version of Origin.
No-frills 6.1 (2012-10-22) – Download the current version of No-frills
- Mobile-optimised: Stylesheet adjustments for optimal readability on mobile devices
- Prevents unnecessary horizontal scrolling on mobile devices for finger-friendly viewing
- Improved display of code snippets: Now wrapping each line of code with <code> … </code> inside a <pre> block gives line numbers for clarity
No-frills 6.0.4 (2012-07-07)
- Minor stylesheet adjustments to tables, code, forms, etc., for better readability
No-frills 6.0 (2012-07-04)
- Major refresh of UI and typography: now optimised for Helvetica font family
- Introduction of custom functions for handling content excerpts
- Printer-friendly, clutter-free output
No-frills 5.0.4 (2012-06-15)
- CSS adjustments for better readability across Mac and Windows
- Entry content text font size is now set to 15px for optimal legibility (works best for Bitter and Georgia)
No-frills 5.0.2 (2012-04-09)
- Minor enhancements that result in a more minimalist look
No-frills 5.0 (2012-04-01)
- Major update: No-frills version 5 is now a child theme of Origin. The theme itself is purely CSS and inherits all the functionality of its parent theme.
No-frills 4.1.9 (2012-01-24)
- Minor user interface tweaks for a more streamlined, clutter-free look and feel
- CSS changes to enhance the readability of text in a menu pulldown
No-frills 4.1.6 (2011-06-05)
- Major update; inherits all the functionality of Twenty Ten, the reference theme of WordPress, yet restores the uncluttered look and legible typography of No-frills.
No-frills 3.2.16 (2011-03-06)
- This is the final 3.x release. Although not fully compliant with all the bells and whistles of the new WordPress specs, it is compatible with WordPress 3.1 and this is the version most remembered and liked by people who miss the old look. It can still be downloaded here.
No-frills 3.1.1 (2010-05-25)
- Re-engineering of some default fonts; Lucida Sans Unicode is now the default post content font
No-frills 3.1 (2010-05-24)
- Some significant CSS revisions with a focus on making the overall look-and-feel more consistent across platforms and browsers (Mac and PC).
- Slightly bigger default fonts for better readability
No-frills 3.0.9 (2010-05-11)
- CSS adjustments for better readability
- The side bar has moved back to the left of the page. But it is easy to move it to the right (see instructions in header.php and footer.php).
No-frills 3.0.6 (2010-03-04)
- Overall CSS improvements and clean-up; easier to customise (changing the hyperlink colour, for example)
- Minor visual refinements
No-frills 3.0.1 (2010-02-09)
- Minor visual refinements
- Tidied up the print view; now properly suppresses unnecessary output when printing
No-frills 3.0 (2009-12-23)
- Restructuring of page layout including removal of absolute positions
- Support for posts with multiple pages
- Re-introduction of colours
- Numerous readability enhancements
No-frills 2.1.9 (2009-09-26)
- Fixed a bug where all pages (as opposed to posts) suppressed the comments form; now pages that are set up to allow comments do show the comments form; posts are unaffected
- A number of CSS refinements; in particular, <h4>, <h5>, and <h6> now seamlessly blend into the post content and can be used as natural subheadings
No-frills 2.1.7 (2009-07-20)
- Fixed: mark-up validation errors
- Fixed: all CSS validation errors except proprietary WordPress properties
- Minor CSS refinements
No-frills 2.1.4 (2009-07-13)
- New default black-and-white colour scheme with options to switch to red, green, blue, or any other colour for hyperlinks
- More flexible placement of optional top image/banner
- CSS refinements for better readability
No-frills 2.1 (2009-07-05)
- CSS refinements for greater UI consistency
- Fixed CSS irregularities in printer-friendly view
- Verified compatibility with Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Opera 9.64, OmniWeb 5.9.2, and Internet Explorer 8 (native)
No-frills 2.0.10 (2009-07-02)
- Visual refinements to accentuate minimalism
- Removal of grey background; now just plain white
- Fixed XHTML validation errors in the header.php script
No-frills 2.0.8 (2009-06-08)
- Refinements to browse-by-category and browse-in-timeline links
- Further refinements to CSS
No-frills 2.0.6 (2009-05-16)
- Further customisation support: The background of the left column can now be either a grey gradient (default) or plain white.
- Revised customisation tips
No-frills 2.0.5 (2009-05-14)
- The width of the left column can now be adjusted.
- Inclusion of readme.txt with customisation tips
No-frills 2.0.3 (2009-04-17)
- Minor CSS changes for consistent application of fonts
- Minor visual adjustments
No-frills 2.0.2 (2009-04-14)
- No-frills now works with Internet Explorer 8 in native mode (as opposed to compatibility mode). The other browsers that have been tested are: Firefox 3.0.6, OmniWeb 5.9.2, Safari 3.2.1 for Mac, Safari 3.2.2 for Windows, and Internet Explorer 7.
- The grey shade is now a little bit lighter.
No-frills 2.0.1 (2009-04-12)
- Minor CSS changes for better readability and consistent line spacing
- Default screen font set to Helvetica 12px
- Default post content font set to Calibri 14px; it is now centrally managed in CSS
No-frills 2.0 (2009-04-10)
- Major re-organisation and clean-up of CSS; as a result, CSS load overhead is about 40% lower than before
- Change from centre-justified content and right sidebar to left-justified content and left sidebar
- Introduction of a light grey shade on sidebar
- Simplified colour scheme and re-introduction of orange hyperlinks (#cc3300)
- Numerous other little changes that amount to more consistency and less clutter
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Thank you for good work!
I’m looking for how to adjust the font size for the post content in the No-Frills theme. I’ve changed the font, and it’s WAY too big, but for some reason I can’t seem to find it in the CSS file. I would have thought that it would be under #content div.post p, but there isn’t a listing for that, and I can’t seem to find my place in the CSS. Any help would be great.
Thanks for a great theme.
Hi, I saw you have a 2.19 version but link to download is for 2.7. Where may I get the 2.9 version?
Thanks. You may also email it to me if you wanted =)
Sorry, let me fix my mistake in 1st reply:
I saw you have a 2.1.9 version but link to download is for 2.1.7. Where may I get the 2.1.9 version?
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Wow Great Theme Jess!
Can anyone suggest a way to make the search icon and the rss icon sit on the same line as the search box sits on ??????? And equal up the spacing of these three items??????
I have been customizing Jess’s css file a little to fit the content on my blog and I can’t seem to crack this last little thing….
Help !
:-)
Hi Oliver – I hadn’t paid much attention to that part of the layout. I tried my best to make the elements flush with the baseline but can’t seem to reach perfection… Anyway check out the latest version (3.0.6) and see if it’s much of an improvement. It may take a couple of days for the new version to get approval. If you’re in a hurry, try the alternate download link.
So glad that I’ve discoverd this theme, now I just need to find myself around it as I am a real newbie. The no frills theme is great and very effective butI’d like help with sourcing some no frills images or subtle background images. Can anyone help. The aim of the site will be to highlight my different work interests so I will need to add a couple of ‘frills/colour’, is this possible? Really appreciate your help and well done with the good work Jess. Kind regards, Sabi
Thank you Jess! I’ll send you a link once I have finished the site so you can see what I did with your theme…
Hi, am just getting started and wonder if there is anything special I need to know to make a bilingual site (english/italian), and also for bringing in images. thanks very much!
Hi,
Can you please advise how to add a logo using this theme? On many others I have used there has been an option in wp-admin but I have been unable to locate that on the no-frills theme.
Thanks,
James
Hi, I like nofrills very much, thank you for your beautiful contributions.
I would like to upgrade to the latest version of nofrills, but I do not know how to keep my current layout (from nofrills 2.1.7) with a large left side column. http://areadocenti.eco.unicas.it/virili/
Could you help me?
Thanks in advance
–Francesco
Hey great theme. I would like to have my side bar on the left hand side rather than the right, is this possible?
Thanks for your help
To move the side bar from the right to the left, open footer.php and cut <div id=”nf_pagesidebar”> … </div> (total 7 lines) and paste the div block into header.php immediately after <div id=”nf_page”> and immediately before nf_pagecontentcolumn.
I am now using the No-frills Theme on a test for a new site, and am very happy with the coding done by you. It’s rare to see a theme these days that are truely valid HTML.
Thank you very much for you work
Hi J,
I used your theme (no frills) as a base layout and there is no archive.php. Would you be able to send me one? I am trying to figure out why my archive links don’t work right on the left column.
http://www.jeffromeo.com/blog
Thanks in advance for any help.
Jeff Romeo, Seattle, WA
Just wanted to say thank you for the awesome free theme!! I’m using a modded version on my site.
I use this theme, and love it. However, the comments don’t seem to be working on my site. I try to submit a comment myself, but nothing ever shows up as “Pending” in the Comments section of my Dashboard. I press submit and the page seems to reload–then nothing. Any suggestions?
Hi Billy, thanks for the comment. I checked your blog and I am not sure why comments won’t submit. Does it work fine with other themes? I noticed, however, that you’re running a version of No-frills written for WordPress 2.x, which may have issues with the latest (3.4.1). Both the theme and WordPress have come a long way since then. May I suggest that you try out the latest version of No-frills and see how that fares? It’s available from this page. Note you also need to have another theme called “Origin” installed as the current version of No-frills sits on top of the base theme.
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