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Cyanotype and Satellite Available on WordPress.org
Cyanotype and Satellite, two fresh new themes geared to personal bloggers, are now available for download at WordPress.org. Designed by Automattic Theme Wrangler Takashi Irie – of Twenty Fourteen and Twenty Fifteen fame – Cyanotype is a bold, original blog theme. Its distinctive high-contrast color scheme pays tribute to the classic photographic printing technique, which…
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Theming with the REST API – Meet Picard
If there’s one thing that has been making waves in the WordPress ecosystem this year, it is the new REST API. Officially known as WP-API, and currently available as a plugin, it is due to be rolled into core at some point this year. A REST API? A REST API may not initially seem like…
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Take Scrawl For a Spin
Scrawl, a new monochromatic theme designed by Automattic’s Caroline Moore, is available at WordPress.org for self-hosted sites. Featured images get bold treatment on single posts, while snazzy image captions and pull-quote styles add pizzazz to your text. A slide-out sidebar provides easy access to secondary content like social links, a custom menu, and widgets. Download Scrawl or…
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Introducing Hew
Hew, a new theme crafted by Automattic’s Ola Laczek, is now available for self-hosted WordPress users. “Ryu was my initial inspiration for Hew. I wanted to create a personal-blogging theme which shows an author’s identity – via Gravatar logo and social media links in the header – while staying focused on their content.” Download Hew…
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South Beach Inspires Sobe Theme
Sobe, a new personal-blogging theme created by Caroline Moore, is now available in the WordPress.org theme directory. “Sobe was inspired by the popularity of one of my other themes, Pachyderm. I wanted to create a theme with a similar look and feel in a more updated style. The color palette was drawn from a trip…
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Building a Strong Foundation with Keyboard Accessibility
Learn how keyboard accessibility can serve as your foundation for an accessibility-ready theme, helping you create a solid base.
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Photobloggers Take Note: Boardwalk and Cubic are Here
Two fresh photoblogging themes crafted by Automattic’s Thomas Guillot are now available to download in the WordPress.org theme directory. Boardwalk features an unconventional horizontal-scrolling blog stream and large portrait-oriented featured images, as seen on the demo site. A child theme of Boardwalk, Cubic showcases square featured images in a large grid layout. Check out the…
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What Developers Need to Know About Theme Design
Making a theme is really exciting. It’s a great way to practice your coding skills. It could be a good way to bring in some extra pocket change. Best yet, seeing someone use something you’ve built is incredibly rewarding. I’ve watched the quality of theme design get better and better in the WordPress.org directory in…
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Sela Puts a Vibrant Spin on the Business Theme
Designed by Automattic’s Ola Laczek, Sela puts a vibrant spin on the business theme and is now available for download at WordPress.org. With plenty of space to accommodate large images, Sela puts the focus on your company with a bold front-page template and a grid-page template perfect for showcasing products or services. With Jetpack, you’ll…
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Up Your Theming Game by Reviewing Themes
You have strong theme sense, you’ve started working on or released a theme into the world, and you want to get better. You can do just that and do it without one design iteration or a single line of code. Join the WordPress Theme Review team. Few communities like the WordPress community exist in the…
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What’s new in WordPress 4.1 for Theme Developers?
WordPress 4.1 has been a long-awaited release for theme developers. Not only does this version ship with the awesome Twenty Fifteen theme, but also with a number of new functions and features that make theme development faster and easier. In this post, we’ll have a look at these new features and show you how to use…
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A Duo of New Themes: Motif and Capoverso
Two new free themes from Automattic are now available at WordPress.org. Long a popular business theme over at WordPress.com, Motif now makes its debut in the WordPress.org directory. A fork of Okay Themes’ Paradigm theme, Motif was completely overhauled by Frank Klein on both the design and code fronts, resulting in a responsive theme well…
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