20/08/2009

Posterous’ simplicity, WordPress’ flexibility

Since I started using Posterous I’ve been a big fan of their clean, sleek design. However, having used WordPress to power my blog for the last few years, I’m used to being able to customise my online offering by adding widgets and plugs ins.

I rooted around in the WordPress theme directory to see if anyone had made a theme to look like Posterous, but no joy. So to Twitter:

Help, Twitter!

Turns out the answer is my colleague at Fubra, Andy. He got on the case right away, and in a few days had knocked up the theme that you can see now. It looks like Posterous, but I now have the option to add any widget or plug in I like.

You can grab Andy’s theme for yourself, cheekily named Minimous, here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/minimous