Not Basic At All

Looking for a fine magazine theme which means basically: illustrated excerpts on a homepage with read mores link to a single post page, Magazine Basic is the best magazine theme I could find.

First to mention is the responsive display on all platforms thanks to the 12 column grid layout.

Great plus is the flexibility in the home page display in one or multi columns.

A bit of a problem is that the theme is not basic at all: in spite of its name, it is very elaborated in details.

In my opinion in a basic theme is should better not

– use google fonts in stead of standard fonts;
– shape read more links;
– change standard editor style;
– change standard excerpt length;
– use complex css for pagination style;
– use extra css for link styling;
– use extra css for sticky post;
– change the look of post comments and 404 pages;
and more so that it would be more easy to adapt styles in a child theme.

It would really be nice to have a truly basic version of this magazine theme.