Slackware-Es — A Lightweight WordPress Theme for the Slackware Community

Small, focused WordPress theme designed to showcase content for the Spanish-speaking Slackware Linux community. It aims to be minimal, accessible, and easy to maintain — characteristics that mirror Slackware’s philosophy of simplicity and clarity. Click here to access it.

Why Slackware-Es

  • Minimal and predictable markup: the theme favors straightforward HTML and server-side rendering so it’s compatible with the widest range of WordPress installs and hosting environments.
  • Small CSS footprint: no heavy frameworks; the stylesheet focuses on typography, readable layout, and clear visual hierarchy.
  • Accessibility-first basics: semantic elements, readable font sizes, and keyboard-navigable structural links make content easier to reach.
  • Easy theming: a small theme.json and a single canonical stylesheet make it easy to adjust palette, spacing and typography.

What it includes

  • Classic PHP templates: header.php, footer.php, index.php, page.php, sidebar.php — intentionally simple and easy to override.
  • A theme.json (schema v3) with safe defaults for colors, typography and layout.
  • Internationalization: the theme loads a textdomain and includes a languages/ placeholder for .pot/.po files.
  • Packaging files: readme.txt, CHANGELOG.md, LICENSE (GPLv2-or-later) and screenshot.png for easy distribution.

Quick install

  1. Upload the Slackware-Es folder to /wp-content/themes/.
  2. Activate the theme from the WordPress admin > Appearance.
  3. Optional: drop translations into languages/ and adjust colors in theme.json.

Developer notes

  • Versioning: the theme defines SLACKWAREES_THEME_VERSION in functions.php and uses it when enqueuing styles to help with cache-busting.
  • Assets: the canonical stylesheet is assets/css/style.css. The theme intentionally avoids client-side frameworks.
  • Linting: run php -l on PHP files before packaging. Consider adding a CI workflow to validate syntax and run lightweight checks.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Open a PR against feature/theme-metadata for packaging changes and documentation improvements. Small, focused PRs are easiest to review.

PS.

You might also be interested in some WP plugins I created. They are available from these links: [1], [2]