NMD – A Theme for the WordPress Blogger Overview
NMD is a blogging theme from MeanThemes for travel, food and photography writers, built on the Underscores starter framework. Its organising idea is a full-height hero at the top of the home page, below which articles run in a single column.
The hero is configurable in detail: a background colour, a logo or image, a cover photograph, or an HTML5 video in two formats, with a still image on small screens, an optional mute control and an adjustable height.
Beyond that the theme is unusually permissive about what appears. Menus, logo, site title, date, excerpt, read-more link, category, tag and author meta, pagination, comments, author biography and footer widgets can each be switched off, and colours, fonts and spacing are adjustable.
Key Features of NMD – A Theme for the WordPress Blogger
- Full-height hero at the top of the home page
- HTML5 video hero with still-image fallback
- Hero colour, logo and cover image settings
- Single-column reading layout
- Switches for date, excerpt, category and author meta
- Contributor pages for author profiles
- Control over colours, fonts and letter spacing
- Featured image opacity setting
- Built on the Underscores starter framework
- Contact Form 7 support included
Who NMD – A Theme for the WordPress Blogger Is Suitable For
This fits one writer with strong pictures: a travel journal, a food blog, a photographer’s diary. The single column and the video hero suit a site where each entry is read rather than scanned, and the switch list strips the furniture back to almost nothing. It is not a magazine or newsroom package, and a site with many contributors will find the structure too plain.
Important Notes About NMD – A Theme for the WordPress Blogger
The theme’s headline alternative to WordPress comments is a share area on a third-party social platform, with hashtag and account set per article. That platform has since closed the public access the feature depends on, the vendor’s last release hid the social sharer by default, and no later work is recorded. Treat it as needing a current plugin and the business’s own platform access, confirmed on the demo.
This is a maintenance caveat and the signals are consistent. The newest published entry is 1.1.0 while the packaged stylesheet reports 1.1.1, so one patch is undocumented; the marketplace last records a file change in April 2019 and the declared WordPress range stops well before the current series, so nothing claims compatibility with present-day WordPress and that has to be tested first. The body claims block-editor support, and the log adds wide and full alignment, while the record declares the theme is not block-editor optimised. The secondary demo the body tells buyers to visit sits on a different host from the declared demo and returned a not-found page when checked, documentation is declared with no link published, and the listing directs questions to its comment thread. The contact-form plugin named in the body is absent from the record. Affiliate and sponsored travel or food content needs clear disclosure, commenter data is personal information, and AppiAppi offers no legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
AppiAppi installs the licensed theme, prepares the hero with the customer’s own cover image or video in both required formats, and checks the still-image fallback on phones. The single-column article template, reading typography, excerpt handling, related entries and pagination are configured, and the meta switches are set so each article shows only what is wanted. Contributor pages are built for the writers who exist, widget areas are filled, comment moderation is set up, and image and video weight is managed so the hero does not slow the first view. Feeds, structured data and sharing are checked, and AppiAppi’s AI-assisted SEO service can support publishing.
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