Anders Norén Releases Björk, a Free WordPress Block Theme for Blogs and Personal Websites

WordPress theme creator Anders Norén is at it once more with a brand new minimal block theme for blogs and private web sites. Björk is the 129th block theme to hit the listing and Norén’s twenty fifth free WordPress theme. It follows the release of Poe, a portfolio fashion theme, lower than two months in the past.

Though Norén mentioned he’s a fan of the Icelandic singer, his new theme is known as for his favourite tree. Björk is the Swedish identify for birch.

“Birch timber are extremely resilient, which is why you could find them nearer to the tree line on the Swedish fjäll than every other sort of tree,” Norén mentioned. “They’re additionally very fairly to have a look at.”

The default fashion for the theme definitely has a birch-like look with its white background and use of Albert Sans, a Google font designed by Danish sort designer Andreas Rasmussen who was impressed by the type-characteristics of Scandinavian architects and designers within the early twentieth century.

Desktop viewers will see a sticky sidebar menu for fast navigation hyperlinks. This disappears on smaller display screen sizes in favor of a hamburger menu.

“Björk has a really traditional weblog theme construction, with a sidebar navigation to the left and the content material to the proper,” Norén mentioned in a publish introducing the new theme. “You’ve seen a whole lot of those WordPress themes earlier than – I’ve launched like six of them myself – however with the arrival of block themes, all the pieces previous is new once more. There aren’t plenty of block themes with this construction on the theme listing but.”

Björk consists of seven totally different theme types, along with the default, which might immediately change the look of the web site.

Norén has additionally included greater than 15 block patterns, which allow customers to combine and match and rapidly construct their very own layouts for the entrance web page or different pages. Patterns embrace designs for featured gadgets with a picture, heading, paragraph and button, a testimonials part, a number of hero patterns, call-to-action patterns, and extra.

Once you set up and activate the theme for the primary time, you get all the layouts in place, together with the entrance web page. This makes it straightforward for customers to get began by merely changing the content material or rearranging it to go well with their distinctive wants. Check out the demo to see roughly the way it will look as soon as put in.

Björk was constructed utilizing Norén’s Davis Blocks theme as a basis, the identical framework used to construct Poe, his final launch. It’s a small bundle, with simply 500 traces of CSS and no JavaScript.

Björk is offered to download for free on WordPress.org or by way of the “Add New” themes display screen within the admin.

“The Web site Editor has actually come a great distance in a brief period of time,” Norén mentioned. “Essentially the most noticeable distinction is that I’m having much more enjoyable constructing block themes now in comparison with once I launched Tove, my first block theme, a yr in the past. With the options coming in WordPress 6.1 in October, it’s solely up from right here.”