Perishable WordPress Themes
by Jeff Starr on Monday, January 9, 2006 – 13 Responses
The Perishable Press portfolio of themes for the WordPress publishing platform is developed and maintained by Monzilla Media. When complete, our WordPress theme portfolio will consist of 26 alphabetically named themes, a unique theme for every letter of the alphabet. Currently, eight of our thirteen themes have been prepared and are available for public download.
Apathy
"A" is for Apathy
The Apathy theme emulates a virtual newspaper.
- Features:
- Minimalistic, lightweight, liquid layout
- Triple-loop, triple-column triple-threat design
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
Download Apathy [ v2.7 | ~96KB | .zip | 1852 downloads ]
Bananaz
"B" is for Bananaz
The Bananaz theme is extremely gay!
- Features:
- Fresh & fruity design with random image gallery
- Fixed, centered, single-column with full-width header
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
Download Bananaz [ v1.0 | ~58KB | .zip | 1146 downloads ]
Casket
"C" is for Casket
Capture the essence of a proper burial..
- Features:
- Titanium shell with plush interiors
- Fixed-width, centered, single-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
Download Casket [ v1.0 | ~32KB | .zip | 1069 downloads ]
DOS_FX
"D" is for DOS
The DOS_FX theme pays homage to the DOS OS.
- Features:
- Minimalistic, lightweight design
- Fluid, centered, two-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
Download DOS_FX [ v1.0 | ~33KB | .zip | 1149 downloads ]
Entropy
"E" is for Entropy
The Entropy theme inverts the DOS_FX theme.
- Features:
- Minimalistic, lightweight design
- Fluid, centered, two-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
Download Entropy [ v1.0 | ~35KB | .zip | 1078 downloads ]
Finished
"F" is for Finished
The Finished theme is finally done.
- Features:
- Custom graphics, coldest chills
- Fixed-width, centered, two-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
Download Finished [ v1.0 | ~74KB | .zip | 1018 downloads ]
Garbage
"G" is for Garbage
The Garbage theme is a converted B2-Evolution skin.
- Features:
- Custom graphics, total garbage
- Fixed-width, centered, two-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
Download Garbage [ v1.0 | ~135KB | .zip | 1075 downloads ]
Headline
"H" is for Headline
The Headline theme is a streamlined version of Apathy.
- Features:
- Minimalistic, lightweight, uniform design
- Fixed-width, triple-loop, triple-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
Download Headline [ v2.0 | ~135KB | .zip | 1139 downloads ]
Information
"I" is for Information
Information designed exclusively for multimedia chillers.
- Features:
- Pop-open content panels via JavaScript
- Fixed-width, centered, mixed-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
( Coming Soon )
Jupiter!
"J" is for Jupiter!
The Jupiter! theme is for broadband users.
- Features:
- sIFR fonts, collapsing data panels, gravatars
- Fixed-width, centered, two-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
( Coming Soon )
Killer
"K" is for Killer
Totally Killer makeover — now version 2.0!
- Features:
- holistic data presentation
- Fluid-width, three-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
( Coming Soon )
Lithium
"L" is for Lithium
The Lithium theme is a stripped-down version of Jupiter!
- Features:
- Highly customized design
- Fixed-width, two-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
( Coming Soon )
minimalist
"M" is for minimalist
The minimalist theme is as "minimal" as we get around here.
- Features:
- minimalistic, lightweight design
- Fluid-width, two-column layout
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Designed for Fx1+, NN7+, Op8+, and IE6+
- Complete notes and images in .zip download
Screenshot | Demonstration | Forum
Download minimalist [ v1.2 | ~26KB | .zip | 2389 downloads ]
Optimized
"O" is for Optimized
The Optimized theme is an SEO-optimized version of Lithium.
- Features:
- Super-tight, streamlined markup
- Stripped-down, lightweight design
- Integration of key accessibility features
- Optimized for SEO: no duplicate content, etc.
- XHTML Strict with browser-safe colors and fonts
- Completely valid, 100% hack-free CSS
- Designed to work great in all modern browsers
Screenshot | Demonstration | Optimized Forum
( coming soon )
Focused on clean code and quality content, Perishable Press is the online home of Jeff Starr, author, artist, designer, developer, and all-around swell guy. 
13 Responses
octarine – #1
The Minimalist theme looks promising and I’m looking forward to the release date. Hopefully not much longer to wait now ;)
Perishable – #2
I guess now I am out of excuses! I will work on finishing it this Monday (11/6)..
– it should be available either then or by Tuesday (for sure!)..
Perishable – #3
Well, okay, so I miscalculated the release date. However, I now have the minimalist theme installed on the perishablepress.com test site and have been working on "generalizing" it into a distributable WordPress theme. Currently it is far too customized with plugins and whatnot and would surely break on a different site. Anyway, I am working on it so stay tuned..
octarine – #4
Cool beans and thanks for the update on that. No worries, though, Perishable. I know how ‘other stuff’ can creep up on one :) It’ll come when its ready and I’ll peek in to see :)
Ciao
Perishable – #5
Yep, it’s finished! (– and only a week late :)
The minimalist theme is one of my favorites — it would be the default theme for perishablepress.com if I could find the time to trick it out with all the bells and whistles currently featured in the default theme (i.e., Lithium).
Anyway, I hope you enjoy it! ..If you have any questions or concerns please post here.
Cheers!
octarine – #6
Woo hoo! I followed your zip note and it’s running perfectly on XAMPP here - many thanks for your hard work, Perishable :)
I’m currently in the middle of putting together my photoblog (oh, what drama :) but when I have a moment, I’ll replace my other blog theme with this one.
Ciao and cheers backatcha!
Xen Namgyal – #7
I really like your Headline theme. Great Job.
I would like to know how to articleimg images? That is getting the text to wrap around an image.
Your help would be very much appreciated.
Thanx,
Xen
Xen Namgyal – #8
On the static pages the images are wrapping around the text. But in Posts it is not doing it.
Thanx
Xen
Xen Namgyal – #9
I have fixed the problems!
I was wondering how you run “Apathy” but it it not the full width of the screen. It looks as though it is the same width as “Headline”. How can I do this?? The full width is too full and would like to narrow it down a little.
Thanx
Xen
Perishable – #10
Xen,
I am glad to hear that you have resolved the image/text issue. I will address your other concerns via email..
Jeff
Shelly – #11
I love your site and what you have here.
Any estimate on when the theme “Lithium” will be finished? I hope I can try it out soon, it’s a beautiful theme.
Perishable – #12
Shelly,
Thank you for the generous comment. I am very glad you like the site. ;) As for the Lithium theme, I am hoping to find the time to work on it soon. If only I had about two more of me.. Although I won’t make any promises, I will try to spend some time and hopefully finish it within the next few weeks.
Thanks for the push!
Shelly – #13
Wonderful, I already have plans for it. I hope Jupiter will eventually be finished too. It’s hard to decide without trying them out which would be better. Thanks much. : )