Designing your WordPress blog with a Tailwind CSS theme

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Tawind is a WordPress theme that uses Tailwind CSS. It only loads the required CSS on each page, making it extremely fast.

If you run the mobile speed test, you will see that it’s slower only because of our web analytics.

We built the Tawind theme for ourselves, but now we’ve open-sourced it so you can use it for free. We love Tailwind and use it for most of our websites. The only way to get the exact same styling on the blog is to install a theme that uses it. Unfortunately, none of the ones we tried worked well enough for what we needed, so we built our own.

You can see the theme in action on this blog. Tailwind CSS is used for the main website, so we mainly copied the header and footer from the landing page and then, with the block editor, designed the Index, Archive, sidebars, and so on.

This helped us iterate quickly and easily by copying the design from our homepage. As a bonus, we also got the speed of a single-page app, as the only styles required for a particular page are generated on the fly without requiring any additional plugins installed on the server or the blog.

Adding elements to the page can be done with the block editor, and then, for styling, classes can be added under the Advanced section for almost any element on the page. The theme also supports global styles that accommodate Tailwind components. You can enter those under Additional CSS and get a live preview of changes. This is one of the things that other Tailwind themes lack.

Download the theme for free on our repository

Head to our GitHub repository and download the ZIP. From there, it’s standard install and activate. The theme comes preinstalled with a few patterns, so you can quickly modify it for your blog design.

And if you’re a PressProxy user, don’t hesitate to let us know if you get stuck!