The last reason is that WordPress has an unfair reputation of being a slow, resource-hungry blogging platform. The second reason is that I believe that speed is an essential part of user experience. That is how Iconic was born, and this is how Frank came to be. I made the commitment that everything I created on my site would be open source.
The first reason was to make good on a promise.
download the theme for free (.zip, 349 Kb). You can check the live demo of the theme. Recommended reading: What To Consider When Choosing WordPress Themes Demo and Downloads The parent theme ( /frank) is released under the GNU Public License and the child theme ( /somerandomdude) directory is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. The theme is 100% open source and developer-friendly. Add this to the theme’s small footprint and you have a mobile-optimized blog. On Google Page Speed, the demo gets an overall PageSpeed Score of 97 (out of 100).Īlso, Frank uses a subset of Foundation to provide a responsive layout for desktops, tablets and phones. In addition, 33.78% of global page loads completely within 1 second or less (55.75% in the US). By using Frank, my home page weighs in at 43.65KB over 6 requests (Google Analytics accounts for ~15.5KB and 3 requests). It is packaged with the parent theme (in the frank directory) as well as the child theme (in the somerandomdude directory) which I use for my own site. However, at the moment no guarantees are given for any earlier IE versions. Frank works decently on Internet Explorer 8+. With intense use of HTML5 and CSS3 Frank cuts down on complexity and improves performance. Frank keeps it basic: no Javascript dependence, no unnecessary images, just a simple, no-frills, fast blog theme. 
The theme’s default home page makes 9 database queries and consists of 2 requests weighing at roughly 30KB (9.5KB gzipped). Today we are pleased to release Frank, an open-source WordPress theme designed and built to provide a light, responsive and unobtrusive reading experience. This allows for a home page with different content sections in different layouts. The theme comes with various different layouts for your home page (1 column, 2 column, 3 column, 4 column, etc.) that can be mixed and matched. It also offers the unique feature of a modular home page layout system. It uses a modified version of the Foundation]( ) grid system.
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