[WIP] WordPress theme inspired by Medium style

Posted on by Paul

When I decided that it was time to start writing again, I looked for a free WordPress theme with Medium‘s style, but I couldn’t find one that met all of my needs, so I decided to create one from scratch. Well… Not really from scratch, but rather on top of the great starter theme _s.

That’s how Medium Rare was born, a simple and responsive WordPress theme inspired by Medium but with a soul of its own.

You can see the theme currently powering this blog, but of course it’s still a WIP, as you’ve probably guessed based on the title. I will keep improving it and trying to add new features whenever I have the time for it, since I’m really enjoying working on this project.

The current features of Medium Rare are:

  • All of the features provided by _s.
  • Theme settings for hiding comments links (in the posts list) and the footer (site-wide).
  • Style inspired by Medium but oriented to single user blog and “About me” page.
  • Comments section and form similar to Medium’s.
  • Support for featured images, small in the posts list and as wide as the page while viewing a single post.
  • One level of sub-menus on desktop and mobile.

Some of the planned features:

  • Suggestions on each post, related to it (“You might also like” section).
  • Lightbox-like image modal, possibly with a styled third party plugin.
  • Portfolio integration matching the theme’s style, possibly with a custom or third party plugin.
  • Sharing integration matching the theme’s style, possibly with a custom or third party plugin.
  • Better 404 page.
  • Improved search results.
  • Text wrapping around post images.
  • Header similar to Medium’s, hiding when scrolling down and showing when scrolling up.
  • Support for one-column posts list and post thumbnails similar to the ones on Medium.

The theme is open-source, licensed under the GPL, and of course you’re more than welcome to help me make it better either by reporting issues/improvements or sending a pull request with your own code.

I hope that Medium Rare will be a really useful theme for more people than just myself 🙂

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