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A classic blog, in three columns.

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A blog that keeps growing

3classic gives your writing a familiar home: a reading column, useful sidebars, and WordPress tools you already know.

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  • October 2026

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Diagram of the 3classic masthead with navigation, reading and context columns

A classic home for a living blog

A reading column for your writing. Two sidebars for everything around it. Meet 3classic, a WordPress Classic Theme published by wordpress.im.

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  • October 31, 2026
  • Filed under: Theme Journal

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A theme you can leave

A good theme gives your work a character without making the work dependent on it. Why this project stays with ordinary WordPress content.

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  • October 31, 2026
  • Filed under: Theme Journal

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Get 3classic

A WordPress Classic Theme for personal blogs and small publications.

Download 3classic 1.0.1 →

GPL v2 or later. Published by wordpress.im.

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Recent Posts

  • A classic home for a living blog
  • Give words room
  • Keep the story. Fold the frame.
  • What belongs in a sidebar?
  • Small notes count

Published by wordpress.im

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wordpress.im publishes independent WordPress themes and practical experiments in digital publishing. 3classic is our three-column Classic Theme for a blog that keeps growing.

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Independent themes, each with a different way of organising a publication.

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