Sash

Sash was my first WordPress theme, named after someone I cared about. Two columns, grunge aesthetic, no special features—just the bare structure of what a blog needs. If you wanted to build something more, you did it yourself.

I liked working that way. Constraints force honesty. With two columns and white space, you can’t hide behind ornament or clever design tricks. The form either works or it doesn’t.

The theme had its flaws. If the sidebar grew longer than the main column, the decorative line wouldn’t reach the footer. I never fixed it. Part stubbornness, part acceptance that a personal tool doesn’t need to be bulletproof. It required PageBar as a plugin, and the header image came with a PSD file, though you probably had to substitute your own fonts unless you had the specific ones installed.

Looking back, that’s exactly what I wanted to make at that moment—something honest and rough around the edges. Not for beginners. Which was the whole point.