This year, I designed twenty WordPress themes.
Each theme signifies a deliberate system of choices: typography, rhythm, hierarchy, and whitespace. Some materialized quickly, while others required careful iteration. Some themes announce themselves boldly; others embrace restraint. Every single one offered insights—about tooling, user needs, and the amount of personality a template can hold.
Here’s the complete list: Lexionic, WP-DOS, Timestream, Hoat, Observer, Modernist, Slab, Essentialist, MaízyMás, Substrata, ReadyMade, Archivist, Eventure (A spin-off of the A8C Run site), LaunchIt, Nouvelle, Crafted, Stranger, Sankofa, Glenn Zottola and IH2025, this very own site theme.
Twenty themes in one year. More than a numerical achievement, it’s a milestone of dedication to focused observation.
Dedicated to structural integrity. To linguistic precision. To understanding what makes publishing platforms genuinely powerful. To learning how to design better themes for the people.
Some of these themes connected immediately with their audiences. Others are still discovering theirs. But they all exist now, fully functional and ready. This catalog represents a meaningful body of work, and it’s here to stay.
Yet another year is complete, and I am looking forward to the next chapter.
Cover Photo by Matthew Ball on Unsplash
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I love WP-DOS! I think I’ll have to start a new site just to use it 😀