While I don’t write on here as often as I want, I’m almost always on here in the admin controls, fiddling with the backend of my blog. Oh innuendo. ANYWAY, I love all the different widgets and features, but one of my favourite things is my theme. I followed a link tweeted by ProBlogger, and it led me to the Frugal Theme.
What you see on this site is the basic free Frugal Theme, with only minor alterations in the form of the changed logo at the top, and some widgets added to the sidebar. It’s built with the idea of being as clean and simple a WordPress theme as it could. And it works. I love the layout, how neat it is, and how easy tweaking has been made. Through an options page users can enable features such as the customized logo, default fonts, input Google Analytics code without touching the theme programming, and other such features. The man behind the theme, Eric Hamm, has done a lot to ensure that users get the best experience possible.
The best part about this theme is that this is just the free version, and isn’t lacking like you’d expect, to make you buy the premium version. I refuse to spend money where I don’t have to, taking the free alternative where possible. Most of the time this proves a waste of time though because I end up with trials or things lacking so much in features it proves more a burden than a convenience. Most have tags on them screaming to “buy the full version now” and so forth, but this is one of those few things that don’t, and that just makes me love it more, to the point that I’m planning to buy said full version.
Of course, buying it means I have to cough up around $80, so it probably won’t happen for awhile, but it’s definitely a planned purchase; Frugal Theme is worth it.
You can be totally cool like me, and download the theme’s free version from here1, or you could splurge just to one up me, and buy the premium version here.
- free version was removed from the official site. There are probably other places you can get it, but officially it seems this theme is by purchase only now
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