Meet Nocturne, a dark blog theme for ClassicPress, built on Chassis. It brings a quieter, darker look to your writing without sacrificing the features a blog needs.

A comfortable place to read

Nocturne uses a deep blue-black background, muted text, and soft blue links. Posts, widgets, and comments sit in clearly defined panels. Merriweather gives longer paragraphs a comfortable reading rhythm, while Fira Sans keeps headings and navigation crisp.

Choose your layout

The default layout puts the sidebar on the right, but you can switch to a left sidebar or no sidebar in Appearance → Customize → Theme: Content → Layout. The preview updates as you choose. If you select a sidebar layout, add a widget to the Primary widget area to make the sidebar visible.

Nocturne also includes a mobile-friendly Primary menu, a Social menu with icons, Primary and footer widget areas, featured images, threaded comments, post navigation, and translation support.

Designed with Chassis

Nocturne started from the Momentum starter theme and uses Chassis for its shared layout and styles. Its colors, fonts, spacing, and widths live in chassis.json, with reusable palette names. That means you can change the design settings without rebuilding the theme. For changes you want to keep through updates, put your overrides in a child theme.

This design also has a counterpart in the Novaris version of Nocturne.

Get Nocturne

Nocturne requires ClassicPress 2.0 or later and PHP 7.4 or later.

• View Nocturne in the portfolio
• Read the Nocturne documentation
• Download a release on GitHub
• Explore the source code