Dyad, a new theme crafted by Automattic’s Laurel Fulford, balances text and images in beautiful harmony. Now available in the WordPress.org repository, Dyad is well suited to blogs where words and photographs are equally important.
Dyad is a fork of Receptar, a theme by WebMan Design.
Designed by Automattic’s Caroline Moore with crafters and hobbyists in mind, Button features detailed accents, featured images, gallery slideshows, and a soft color palette. With Jetpack active, you can add a logo for extra flair. Now available in the WordPress.org directory, Button is the perfect theme for a blog showing off your sewing skills, chronicling your latest DIY endeavors, or keeping a running list of your favorite things from around the web.
A minimalist theme crafted by Automattic’s Tammie Lister, Sapor is geared to showcase your passions. Designed with food blogging in mind but well suited to anything from gardening to healthy living, it features a left sidebar for menu and widgets, and offers a Site Logo option with Jetpack active. We’re pleased that Sapor is now available in the WordPress.org directory — visit the demo or take it for a spin.
We’d like to introduce another pair of free themes now available in the WordPress.org directory: Blask and Colinear.
Putting the Jetpack portfolio custom post type to good use, Blask showcases all types of creative work – like photography, graphic design, illustration, or painting – in an elegant, minimalist way. Blask was developed by Automattic’s Ola Laczek, based on a design by Mel Choyce.
Colinear is Thomas Guillot’s revamp of the classic Coraline. With six layout options accessible via the Customizer, Colinear offers tremendous flexibility in displaying large amounts of content, perfect for news or magazine-style sites.
Both Colinear and Blask support a Site Logo with Jetpack active, and are fully responsive, looking spiffy at any screen size. We hope you enjoy this handsome theme duo.
We’re pleased to launch two new themes on WordPress.org.
Afterlight is Takashi Irie‘s variation of his earlier Cyanotype. Opt for a full-screen background image or choose a solid background color to make a bold statement.
Featuring big, bold drop caps and oversized images, Libretto is ideal for showcasing longform writing or stunning imagery. Its classic design and typographic details will give your blog a sophisticated, elegant look. Libretto is a fork of Readly, originally designed by WPShower.
Designed by Automattic’s Caroline Moore, Libre brings a stylish, classic look to your personal blog or longform writing site and is now available for download at WordPress.org. Libre’s main menu stays fixed to the top while visitors read your posts, and three footer widget areas let you tuck extra content away at the bottom of the page. Two custom page templates, including a full-width layout, add visual variety. Make Libre your own by adding a header image or — with Jetpack — a site logo. Libre sports a clean, responsive design that lets your site shine on screens of any size.
When Automattic’s Thomas Guillot was designing Publication, he aimed to incorporate two sidebars in an original way, while putting emphasis on large, full-screen featured images. Now available in the WordPress.org theme directory, Publication is well suited to magazines or blogs about fashion, food, travel, or design — or any topic where visuals are an important focus.
A classic magazine-style theme, Apostrophe is now available for self-hosted sites. An update of Konstantin Kovshenin‘s Semicolon, crafted by Automattic’s Sarah Semark, Apostrophe supports a site logo and featured posts once Jetpack is active. With its traditional horizontal menu and right sidebar, Apostrophe also lets you “star” posts on the front end to set them as featured. Check out the demo or give it a go on your site.
We are proud to bring Confit, an elegant free theme geared to restaurants, cafés, and bars, to WordPress.org.
Confit lets you easily add food and drink menus to show off your best dishes and beverages, through Jetpack’s Custom Content Types module. The plugin’s Contact Info widget – available through the Extra Sidebar Widgets module – also complements Confit nicely, by allowing you to map your venue’s location and display phone numbers and opening hours, so customers can easily find you.
Take Confit for a spin and add some flavor to your site!
We’re proud to present a trio of new free themes, now available for your self-hosted site through the WordPress.org theme directory.
Argent is a modern portfolio theme, perfect for creative professionals like designers, artists, and photographers. Designed by Mel Choyce and developed by Ola Laczek, Argent lets you add portfolio projects through Jetpack’s Custom Content Types module.
A magazine-style theme designed by Mel Choyce, Cerauno was developed by Caroline Moore. On her inspiration, Mel says,
I designed Cerauno with subject bloggers in mind, like food, fashion, or travel bloggers. I wanted to make a theme for someone who’s been blogging for a little while, but wants to boost their traffic and bring their site into the spotlight with a clean and authoritative design. I’m so excited to see it launch!
Canard is flexible theme geared to magazines, news sites, and blogs. Created by Thomas Guillot, Canard lets you feature specific articles on the homepage and balances readability with a powerful use of photography.
A recent creation from Automattic’s Takashi Irie, Resonar is an elegant theme perfect for fashion, food, or design blogs. Its layout showcasing full-screen featured images works especially well for longform posts with large images. Combine strong images with Resonar’s beautiful typography to craft posts that make an immediate visual impact.
Explore the demo site or download Resonar and take it for a spin.
A new theme designed by Automattic’s Tammie Lister is now available in the WordPress.org directory. Coherent‘s elegant slide-out panel tucks away navigation, a social menu, and widgets, keeping visitors’ focus on your posts. Optional full-screen featured images let you showcase strong photos or other graphics.
Check out the Coherent demo or activate it on on your site now!
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