Newsprint is a minimal black-and-white WordPress theme and PmWiki skin, mostly shaped by whitespace; it has no graphics. The WordPress edition has one custom menu (in the header) and one widget area (the sidebar). The PmWiki edition supports (:noheader:), (:nofooter:), (:noleft:) and (:noaction:).

Newsprint template screenshot

As of 2012-02-24, Newsprint is available on WordPress.org! Many thanks to Chip Bennett for clearing up the licensing issue.

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For simplicity, both versions are available under the MIT license:

Copyright (C) 2012 Felix Pleșoianu

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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THE SOFTWARE.

Since Newsprint is so simple (essentially, the simplest WordPress theme that can possibly work), it may be most useful as learning material. In any event, if you download from here, you should browse through the code before installing it!

Last modified: Mon 18 06 2012, 08:55:36 UTC