Another round of theme switching and speed-testing brought me right back to my old theme, which loads at an unconscionable 10 seconds but is actually faster than the other themes I tried. So the quest continues.
WordPress Widgetized Themes
By on June 8, 2006
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[...] The latest theme on my quest for a fast, widgetized WordPress theme is the scrawny little blog.txt by Scott at plaintext.org. It’s minimal, all right – for example the CSS weighs in at about 300 lines while one (one!) of the CSS for the really gorgeous widgets theme I first tried topped the scales at nearly 1200 lines. And the rest of the theme is just as minimal. It contains no graphics, and even with the widets, it’s very fast loading, loading nearly a second faster than my hand-coded theme at 4.6 seconds, and at least 30 seconds faster than the other themes I tried. I think I’ll be keeping this one, even though I wanted 3 columns. [...]
