Xsimply Theme (not sure if this is CP-only or WP/CP)
UpFront Fork, which @Dernerd maintains especially for ClassicPress. By the way, I’m always happy about developers who want to contribute to make it better.
[GitHub - tradesouthwest/relation: Relation is a blogging theme made for ClassicPress. ](GitHub - tradesouthwest/relation: Relation is a blogging theme made for ClassicPress.) RUNS on wp but as above, IS intended for CP strickly. (not a child theme of anything) What I did for this theme was built a second theme called relational whereas there is support for WP component requires.
Classic Press Themes designed to be compatible with WordPress
The themes in the WP repo are not allowed to contain blocks. I suppose some might have JS code for the editor, but it is unlikely. And if it did, it is only loaded in that editor or it would fail.
The only difference for themes is CSS, until you get to block themes, which are recent and very different.
Before the block editor came out, there were roughly 55,000 themes active in the WP repo. Trying to list them all here is kinda crazy.
Amicable is a nice clean theme, so definitely give it a try. The other option, if you haven’t tried it, is to use the default themes that ClassicPress comes with. They do rely on the default WordPress themes, but they are fully compatible with ClassicPress. That’s why ClassicPress ships with it.
ClassicPress hasn’t had many theme developers, so there are only a few dedicated themes. Most people, if they’re not building their own theme, use WordPress themes that are compatible with ClassicPress.
Rough Pixels themes do officially support ClassicPress, so if you can buy a theme that would be a good investment. Just because themes are still compatible with WordPress won’t cause any problems for you using it with ClassicPress.
But you’re right, ClassicPress does need more themes.
I did look at Rough Pixels themes. It appears designers know nothing about marketing. Why would you waste your prime real estate on some huge image? That makes zero sense to me and seems to be current fad among developers.
They remind me of the fad of splash screens in the 1990s.
I am the author of Amicable and some of the mentioned themes aboved for WordPress. I’m in the process of making some themes avaiable for ClassicPress soon, just need to get some of my stuff organized.
That’s super, @getkoded007. Once I get my site fully recovered I will be recruiting new Classic Press bloggers to get on board.
So please do add links to them and tag me when you’re ready so I can add them to the main post here (if it will let me by then? Edits may not be allowed after x time)?
Well, I can’t edit the original post anymore. Bummer. It is much more useful when we can keep one place updated instead of forcing people to read through all the comments and try to figure out what is current.
Thank you, @viktor I was able to edit the post to add the fork or the Canuck theme you found.
I’ll have more to add to it going forward. Since I plunged into moving to CP, I’m working on getting developers to create a serious blogger theme.
To do that, I’ll survey other bloggers who have been around since around 2008 who are pretty much all using the Classic Editor plugin to compile a list of what they consider essential.
And then we’ll use a combination of existing CP plugins and either additional plugins or features coded into a serious writers theme.
That way, others can migrate with less challenges than I’m having.
When I have time, I will take a look at Canuck theme and see if we can clean it up and keep it updated so it doesn’t break. It has a lot of features, multi-purpose. Would be good to keep it functional.
I’m using Canuck CP in my second-job site and I’m building (slowly) a client site using it. I’ve also developed a plugin to extend it’s icon set (now it works also as a standalone icon plugin: Icons for CP)
I’m also using Featherlite that is CP specific.
I’ve sites using Avada, Porto and Circle Flip (the last seems abandoned) commercial themes.
