Clean and Sober is a WordPress theme with a sparse, clean look. It’s intended for text-heavy blogs. It’s based on the design of Limi.net, circa 2011.

The homepage template with the navigation menu.

Features

• Post excerpts are displayed on index pages beneath the post title. If no excerpt is defined, nothing is displayed there.
• You can define one menu, which is displayed beneath the header. If a menu item has children, they will automatically be shown in a dropdown menu.
• On pages with an author (posts, pages, etc.), the author’s bio will be displayed beneath the content if the author has written a bio and saved it in their profile’s Bio field.
• On pages without an author (search results, the homepage, etc.), you can choose a user to be displayed as the default author. This is handy for single-author blogs that are identified solely with one user. This setting can be changed on either the Appearance » Theme Options or from the theme customizer.
• The contact links on the right side of the bio are defined at the bottom of your profile page.
• Clean and Sober supports ‘aside,’ ‘image,’, ‘link,’ ‘quote,’ and ‘status’ post types.

Here’s a gallery of screenshots:

The settings added to the user profile page for defining links to appear in the author bio.

The author’s bio on a single post.

The Clean and Sober homepage with a menu defined and a default author bio.

The dropdown menu.

The single post template with a menu.

The single post template with no menu.

Use the Customizer to change the default author.

The homepage template with the navigation menu.

The homepage template with no menu and no bio.

Installation

Full theme installation instructions can be found at the official WordPress site, but in short, download the .zip file below and upload it on the Appearance » Install Themes » Upload page in your dashboard.

Note: watch the Clean and Sober section of my blog for information on updates to this theme.