Fauna and Regulus
We just added two new themes, Fauna and Regulus 2.
Fauna is great because it has an incredible attention to detail, a beautiful look, and a pretty distinctive color scheme. This theme is not for the weak of heart.
Regulus on the other hand might be familiar to some of you, but it’s received a major overhaul thanks to the great work of Ben Gillbanks. You can now customize the color scheme, many aspects of the sidebar, and the header graphic to create some very interesting and unique combinations. It even has pink! After you activate the theme there will be a new submenu under “Presentation” titled “Current Theme Options” which will give you the configuration screen for Regulus.
We hope you all have a merry Christmas, happy holidays, and enjoy these themes. 
Dec 24th at 10:08 am
This is indeed a GREAT Christmas gift.
Thank you WordPress.Com!
Dec 24th at 10:48 am
Love the Regulus theme. I like the little bit of extra freedom in customizing it.
Dec 24th at 1:12 pm
Regulus is a BEAUTIFUL theme. I’ve fallen in love with it.
Dec 26th at 4:47 am
Were there any changes required to install Regulus? I tried to install it on my MU installation and could not enable it for a just a single blog. I had to enable it for the entire site. There also seems to be and issue with the footer in Safari. Anyone else noticed this? Thanks.
Dec 26th at 6:20 am
Loving the customization. Any chance of allowing HTML in the “about” thing?
Dec 26th at 8:32 am
Thanks for the Christmas Gift!
Merry Christmas WordPress.com!
Dec 26th at 8:27 pm
great job with Regulus…
Dec 27th at 12:03 am
I created a new blog here with the regulus 2 theme… beautiful!
Dec 27th at 4:48 am
Regulus 2 is fantastic! I love that I can customise it, I now have a theam that I feel comfortable with. BTW: It still breaks down a little bit in safari, but it is still IMHO the best theam available.
Thank You,
Scott
Dec 27th at 8:44 pm
Fauna roxxors. It’s so neon! Will different color scemes be avalable for that soon, as well?
Dec 28th at 11:10 am
Thank you so much for new themes! There’s the possibility that someone will enhance the default theme? It’s still my favourite.
Thank you
Dec 28th at 8:16 pm
Awesome! Thanks for the pink too!
Dec 29th at 9:19 pm
The Regulus theme is great!
Dec 31st at 5:56 pm
These two themes look great!
Jan 2nd at 2:21 pm
i like Regulus 2. it’s great! but i wish that there’s a setting for it to show the category a post was placed under on the home page (like the default Kubrick theme, for example..).
Jan 2nd at 2:24 pm
i tried out Regulus 2 and i like it! i wish there’s a setting to enable it to show what category a post was placed under on the homepage though (like how Kubrick has the “posted in so-and-so category” at the bottom of every post).
Jan 2nd at 2:27 pm
thoughts on regulus 2
i tried out wordpress.com’s new Regulus 2 theme and i like it. i wish there’s a setting to enable it to show what category a post was placed under on the homepage though (like how Kubrick has the “posted in so-and-so category” a…
Jan 3rd at 8:41 pm
Very cool Christmas gift Matt! Thanks.
Beta 2 of Fauna is out soon with a slew of fixes here and there. I’ll let you know when that happens.
Jan 6th at 1:28 am
Agree… It’s a beautiful gift. I like Regulus very much. I can customize the theme anytime. Thanks to Ben Gillbanks for the nice works.
Jan 6th at 10:03 am
Hey Everyone
Thanks for the kind words. There have been enough people comment (complain?) about the categories not being on the homepage that I will be adding them in, but they will most likely be optional since personally I think they serve no purpose. I also have a few other ideas for new features and it will be interesting to see if I can get them to work.
Jan 6th at 4:08 pm
I love Fauna! I think it’s a very mature theme, despite still being classified “beta.” Joen did a wonderful job.
Jan 6th at 6:20 pm
I’m glad I dropped by the forum and then read this post. Simply delighted with Regulus (thank you, Ben) since it offers some customisation. Ok, don’t get me wrong… I like Regulus. But if only Fauna offered customisation too…
Jan 7th at 3:28 am
Regulus is great! I love the calendar. I definately would love to see more templates we can customize.
Jan 10th at 9:25 am
Thank you WordPress.Com!:D
Dr-Hamza
Jan 14th at 7:39 am
Fauna is neat, but — dammit! — why doesn’t it list categories in the sidebar? And why does it only list my “blogroll” links, and not the links that I classified in another category?
In a world where one can’t edit themes (WP.com) I think it’s important that theme authors provide themes with a few basics — categories and categorized links being part of them.