The new default theme for WordPress 3.6, titled Twenty Thirteen, is making progress. This year’s default theme is overseen by Matt Mullenweg, and built by Joen Asmussen, Konstantin Obenland, and Lance Willett. The goal for Twenty Thirteen is to offer “a focus on blogging, and great support for post formats (which are getting attention on the backend in 3.6 as well).” If you’d like to see the theme in action, a demo site is available. One thing you’ll notice immediately is that the strong emphasis on whitespace, which has become commonplace in the default themes, is long-gone. Twenty Thirteen is making very bold use of its colors, offering a different color for each post format. The theme also lacks a sidebar by default. It’s designed to focus on blogging after all, so the designers prefer that you leave your widgets to the footer area, but it still does support a […]
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Annotum Sans is a child theme of Annotum with a modern sans-serif style. Chunk is a straightforward theme with bold typography. Landscape is a simple responsive theme. Techy is a simple 2-column, bold, high contrast theme.
[Continue Reading...]Automattic wants you to have the best possible experience on WordPress.com, and to ensure that, all of the available themes go through a rigorous series of tests. Each theme is carefully scrutinized by at least two, if not four, of Automattic’s Theme Team focussing on code quality, usability, and potential theme-specific anomalies. The result is a theme that “just works” out of the box, with no annoying bugs or usability quirks. Traditionally, things like this have been closely guarded secrets, but Automattic has publicly released their theme guidelines so anyone can benefit from them. These guidelines, are not a requirement if you want to just develop a theme for WordPress in general, but they are still some great coding practices worth following if you want your theme to “just work” too.
[Continue Reading...]BT Extended is a newspaper style with a responsive four column fluid layout. Cocoa is a basic, simple, minimalist theme of browns and black with just a touch of cinnamon red thrown in for flavor. Columbus is a real estate theme with a two-column layout and top-level page navigation. Photogram is designed to integrate your WordPress site with Instagram and Pinterest in a few simple clicks. Simplify is a responsive theme designed for small businesses.
[Continue Reading...]Bubbly is an attractive theme with green and touches of white on a subtle background of light bubbles. Forever makes it easy to wrap your wedding up in a neat little blog. Quintus has an old-style appeal with semi-academic graciousness and elegant typography. Reddle features a minimal design which elegantly adapts to how you want to use your blog and what you want to use it for. Vertigo is a stylish and fun theme with one column, a custom header, and a custom accent color.
[Continue Reading...]Paradise is an all-purpose clean and minimalistic theme. Placard is a bold, bright, and colorful professional or business theme that is somewhat inspired by the Windows 8 desktop. Sukelius Magazine is a magazine theme with theme options and a content slider.
[Continue Reading...]Appliance is a clean and minimalist theme. Childishly Simple is a multiple-layout theme with a variety of theme options. Lush is a bright, cheerful, and definitely colorful responsive theme using Google fonts.
[Continue Reading...]Classic ChalkBoard is a whimsical theme emulating a classic school chalkboard, complete with a bottom-resting eraser and chalk. IceChimp is a free “coming soon” theme. Sleek is an attractive, clean, and professional theme.
[Continue Reading...]Color Palette is a simple colourful theme. Stand Tall is a strikingly simple, minimal, high contrast theme with a bold accent of brilliant red fonts in the headings and other strategic places. Whispy is a sharp, lime-ish theme.
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James began using WordPress in 2004. Being new to WordPress (and blogging in general), he quickly found the WordPress Support Forums and basically never left. James currently resides in sunny Southern California, where he enjoys bringing happiness to millions of WordPress.com users.
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