Birds is packaged as a small WordPress stack: a Classic Theme for the experience, an optional companion plugin for front-end operations, and WordPress Core for the content itself.
Choose your Birds
- Birds Theme 0.5.3
- The visual and editorial layer: feed, threads, topics, archives, search, responsive layout, Context Rail widgets, and the Mac OS 9-inspired interface. It works as a conventional WordPress Classic Theme.
- Birds Core 0.2.0
- The interaction layer: front-end publish, profile updates, edit, move to trash, open or close replies, social metadata fallback, and practical reply management for users with the right WordPress capabilities.
For the complete Birds experience shown on this site, install both. The Theme can also run by itself when you only need the feed and thread presentation.
Choose a palette
This showcase can switch palettes so you can compare the atmosphere. The installable Theme packages are intentionally fixed: choose one palette and download that exact ZIP from the Birds 0.5.3 Release.
Install the stack
- Download one fixed-palette ZIP above and install it through Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme, or place its theme folder in
wp-content/themes/. - Download Birds Core 0.2.0 and install it through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, then activate it for the target site.
- Create categories for the topics you want to browse.
- Assign the Primary Menu if you need additional navigation.
- Use the front-end composer as a logged-in user with permission to publish posts.
- Open a post to read its native WordPress thread and reply. Post and reply controls appear according to the user’s normal WordPress capabilities.
Release details
- Theme
- 0.5.3
- Plugin
- Birds Core 0.2.0
- License
- GPLv2 or later
- WordPress
- 6.1 or later
- PHP
- 7.4 or later
Safe by design
Birds Core uses WordPress’ native posts, comments, capabilities, nonces, and admin-post flow. It creates no custom database tables and does not require a custom REST service or a front-end framework. Disable the plugin and the Theme remains a usable feed and thread presentation.