We’ve been thrilled with the response, email, and business we’ve gotten through the release of Minimahl. It is very flattering to see it all over the place. We honestly didn’t think it would have this kind of repercussion. Thank you for choosing it.

Yesterday I got an email from a guy named Peter saying that he was using Minimahl to sell his 1971 Westfalia Weekender. When I checked out the website, I was amazed at the work he had done customizing Minimahl to his needs. You can check out Peter’s website here.

Peter’s adaptation of Minimahl is along the top five we’ve seen so far, at least according to our criteria. We hope it helps him sell the bus!

Minimahl 0.9.8 is still under development, but I can’t estimate how long it will take us to finish it since we have other priorities at the moment.

In other news, we’ve been very busy redesigning our own website which should be ready either tomorrow or on Monday, as well as working on our client’s projects and tasks. Look out for that new design soon and make sure to give us some feedback!

Last week we released Minimahl, our free WordPress theme. We thought it was bound to bring interesting stories to our studio, mostly because of the wide variety of themes of blogs. We were curious to see who would adopt it and what modifications people would make.

Without a question, the weirdest story came via email from a guy named Brad.

Here’s an excerpt of the email we got from him:

My wife and I just chose your Minimahl theme for the first version of our new blog — urmovingwhere.com. The blog is about our recent move to Montevideo, Uruguay! We just checked out your profile to find that you’re in Uruguay! Of all the themes that we could have chosen–we chose one by a developer in MVD/BsAs area

This coincidence is really weird, especially considering that the theme had just been released after several delays, they had just arrived at Montevideo, and they had just started the blog. Seriously, what are the odds that they pick out a first theme that shared so much with them?

Anyway, Brad and I have become good e-buddies as we share several interests regarding the Internet. I would have never expected something like this from a free WordPress theme, and certainly not so soon after the initial release.

As I write this, I’m sitting down in front of a developer (we’re working late) and he just commented, without knowing that I was blogging this, about the whole situation and how strange it was.

Anyway, we’re happy to have Brad using Minimahl and very satisfied to see that so many people have adopted it as their theme.

As of right now, Minimahl has been downloaded over 900 times from WordPress’ official site. If you want to take it for a spin, you may download the latest version here: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/minimahl

We’re already working on version 0.9.8, so expect that soon.

We’re happy to present Ahlera’s very own free WordPress theme.  The theme’s name is Minimahl.  As the name suggests, it is a stripped down theme, right down to the bare essentials.

We like the idea of showing the content in a clean and clear way and we think Minimahl is just right for this.

Minimahl has all the bells and whistles, minus the clutter. It supports Gravatars, widgets, etc.

The theme works correctly in standard installations of the following versions of WordPress: 1.5.2, 2.0, 2.3.3, 2.6.5, 2.7, 2.7.1.

There is a single documented issue with the backgrounds on the sidebar in versions 2.1 and 2.2.

Minimahl is also ad-ready. Enabling the ads is very simple. Just follow the instructions in the extensive readme file.

You may download Minimahl from the official WordPress website.  Click here to go straight to the download page.

If you’d like to look through the readme file, click here.

We hope that the WordPress community enjoys Minimahl!

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