MilBits theme
Download MilBits free theme for Wordpress
This theme has been developed exclusively for our blog MilBits. We have received several emails from users asking for it. After discussing this topic with our team, we have deceided to give MilBits theme for free under GPL license.
This theme has a lot of optimizations within the code and defined development estrategies to increase performance both for users and search engines. So we think this is also addressed to anyone who wants to optimize his blog. This is a briefing article about most important features of the theme.
Theme demo
You can see our blog MilBits as a demo
Visual design
You can choose 4 different designs for your blog:
To choose a design you only need to overwrite some images with the new ones; it is very easy. All information is in the included file readme.txt.
Theme features:
- Wordpress 2.6+ is supported (tested on 2.6 and 2.7)
- 2 columns
- Supported browsers: It works on most common browsers under Windows, Linux and Mac: Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Chrome... (only in IE 5.5 and 8.0 the sidebar is broken).
- CSS is valid. HTML is also valid but Wordpress sometimes add codein XHTML, so it doesn't validate. To solve this trouble, you could install this plugin
- Widgets are supported
- If there is no comments on a post it isn't show; so 'No comments' is never shown.
- Images optimized using CSS sprites
- In sidebar, last comments are shown using Simple recent comments plugin
- In sidebar, most commented posts are shown using this plugin
- Editor's comments are hightlighted using this technique
- CSS layout. Every part of the pages (sidebar, articles, icons, pagination) are commented and isolated to make it easier to find and edit.
- Comments and trackbacks are separated thanks to this tips
- Usable 404 pages to make it easier to understand.
- Width of lines is optimized for reading using width in ems (usability tip)
- SEO (Search engine optimization): Archives, tags and categories doesn't show full articles to help article's pages to get higher in SERPs.
- Very article has options to share in 12 social bookmarking sites
- Subscription to feed is highlighted from sidebar and article's page.
Optimizations
This theme has been developed for loading quickly and using few server resources.
Every page is about 66 KB and takes 0.5 seconds to load. How is this optimization possible?
- Performance analysis using:
Download MilBits free theme for Wordpress
You can see our blog MilBits as a demo