Premium Theme
A Nordic journal block theme for blogs, in navy and gold. Version 3.7 is rebuilt around what a blog needs — the newest or pinned post up front, articles beside a sidebar, share buttons and a dark mode — and nothing more.
Features
The home page lists every post, newest first, with the first one set large. Mark a post "Stick to the top of the blog" and it takes that place. No setting to find.
A masthead with a large wordmark and the navigation between rules, or a compact single line. Select the header in the Site Editor and pick one under Design.
Post lists are a card grid with the category, date, excerpt and author. Switch any list to one post per row, image on the left, from the block's styles.
A 750px reading column with a lead, the author, date and time to read, then an author box and previous/next links. Search, categories and recent posts sit beside it.
X, Facebook, Hatena Bookmark and Copy link under every article. Plain links: no script from any of these services is loaded.
A pattern for an ad or affiliate code, with a "PR" label already in place so a disclosure is never forgotten. Put it in a post, or in the sidebar for every article.
A toggle in the header switches the whole site to the midnight palette, and the reader's choice is remembered. It is hidden when the site already uses Nordic Midnight.
A dedicated layer stops faux italics in Japanese headings and adjusts tracking and line spacing for Japanese text. Font families are left untouched.
Text meets WCAG AA contrast in every style variation. Gold is kept for rules and accents, never for text, so the look stays Nordic and the words stay legible.
Design
Design Tokens
Gold on navy — a combination that commands attention without raising its voice. Gold draws the lines; the text stays navy.
Installation
Go to Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme.
Click Upload Theme, choose blanky-nordic.zip and install it.
Click Activate. Your posts appear in the Nordic design straight away. Visit your site and you're done.
List price
One-time purchase · No subscription · GPL v3 · Occasional sales
FAQ
Your posts, pages, and media are completely untouched. Blanky Nordic only changes the visual design — templates, patterns, CSS, and color tokens.
Turn on "Stick to the top of the blog" in the post's settings. On the first page of the blog it moves to the top and is shown large. With no sticky post, the newest post is shown large.
Yes. Insert the Ad slot pattern where you want it — in a post, or in the sidebar to show it on every article — and paste your code into it. It carries a "PR" label so readers can tell it is an advertisement.
3.7 is rebuilt for blogs, and the 3.6 front page sections (lead hero, magazine hero, updates) are gone. If you edited and saved a template in the Site Editor, open it under Appearance → Editor → Templates and choose Reset from its menu to get the 3.7 version.
Yes. The color palette is defined in theme.json and can be overridden from Appearance → Editor → Styles. No code needed.
Updates are delivered directly through your WordPress admin dashboard — the same way you update any theme. You'll see a notification when a new version is available.
System fonts only — no external font requests. The sans-serif stack uses each OS's native system font, and the serif stack uses Georgia as the primary font. Fast and private.
Four, switchable from Appearance → Editor → Styles: the default navy and gold, Nordic Midnight (dark), Nordic Ink (cool monochrome), and Nordic Sand (warm paper). Readers can also switch to dark with the toggle in the header.