Theme Friday
Two themes for all of you gorgeous WordPress.com users to play with this weekend: Fleur and Sweet Blossoms. Fleur is very clean, with straight lines and green tones that are pretty professional looking. Sweet Blossoms is the other side of the spectrum, very pink with great flower and butterfly graphics in the header and a very narrow layout with small text.
Pink is seriously growing on me, I think we’ll have more pink themes in the next few weeks.
Update: Whoops, I actually forgot about one I added in a few days ago. WP-Andreas09 is a very stylish three-column theme with lots of color options for the header. Check it out.
Feb 11th at 10:11 am
Hehe!
Feb 11th at 10:13 am
Couldn’t you have announced WP-Andreas09 too, since it was added a few days ago? It is, after all, my absolute favorite of all themes… But still, thanks for the new ones!
Feb 11th at 10:43 am
They are lovely!
Feb 11th at 2:40 pm
Could it be that pink is the new black?
Feb 11th at 2:50 pm
Thanks, It’s always nice to have more themes and these two are quite well done!
Feb 11th at 2:56 pm
Did you know that the plural of Fleur-de-lis is, in fact, Fleurs de lis? On a similar note the plural of Cul-de-sac is Culs-de-sac.
Feb 11th at 3:02 pm
I love Fleur De Lys. Thanks
Feb 11th at 4:14 pm
It just keeps getting better and better. Thank you for the new themes. One I want to suggest is Quentin 1.0. A demo site for that design is at the following link: http://www.pikemurdy.com/quentin/. It’s red toned, clean looking and it has a calendar which very few of the current themes offer. Thanks again.
Feb 11th at 4:45 pm
Pnk? Are you serious? You already have the bananna one…
Meh.
Feb 12th at 12:40 am
I love the new pink theme! I was just complaining thursday that there was no pink themes and then went back today to check and there it was! ME! I love pink! Thank you!
Feb 12th at 4:14 am
wow. Quentin looks great!
Feb 12th at 6:07 am
Not bad, not bad.
Feb 12th at 11:35 am
Actually I like better WP-Andreas09, it’s very portal-alike. That would be great if you, guys, could provide layouts with customizable email forms too. Thanxxx
Feb 12th at 3:48 pm
The more themes the better. Thanks Matt.
Feb 12th at 7:17 pm
could you add more themes that have calenders in em? like what sweet blossoms has? that would actually be awesome really!!
& ooh, the ‘recent posts’ showing titles of older posts would be cool too. any nice simple ones to add?
Feb 13th at 5:43 am
I saw a website where you can browse some themes:
http://homelinux.wordpress.com/2006/02/13/browsing-wordpress-themes/
Feb 13th at 5:49 am
also: any theme with both ‘recent posts’ and ‘recent comments’!!
Feb 13th at 6:14 am
Very cool changed to WP-Andreas09 when u had put it. thanks
Feb 13th at 6:21 pm
Please don’t put more Pink! The banana is enough!
I hope to see themes with smaller fonts (like Arial 8pt) and well-organized sidebars. Most of the themes have very badly-organized sidebars! I mean the links are either all put in one list, or the pages are scrambled!
More hard work please!
Thanks a lot
Feb 13th at 10:14 pm
I looked at quentin, i really like it, but i will go for a theme that is exactly like contempt except with a search bar + calender.
Feb 14th at 12:44 am
I like the WP-Andreas09, and when I first set it as my theme everything was fine, but then I realized that my “blogroll” was missing. Just a comment, thought it might be a bug in the design maybe. So I have now switched back to the one I was using before.
Feb 14th at 1:03 am
Might be just my PC, but Sweet Blossoms and Banana Smoothie look all askewed on Firefox (I’m using version 1.0.7), especially when blockquotes (and images perhaps?) are involved, but similar to the screenshots in IE.
Anyway, I made a request for a Simplicity theme 2 weeks ago
http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=389&replies=5
Would it be possible to include it for the next Theme Friday? And Quentin, as recced by judyky, looks great too.
Feb 14th at 1:44 am
beatiful. Fleur looks great
Feb 14th at 1:54 am
Thank you … Could you now add the infamous K2 theme? Please! :p
Feb 14th at 9:26 am
I really like the theme Regulus 2 a lot, being one of the few that allows for “recent posts” and nice header backgrounds…
However, I can’t seem to change font size of my posts and the rest of the blog for this entire theme. Even with html codes…
Result my students got to squint their eyes when reading and posting in this blog!!!!
Is this inherent of the theme template or just a problem for chinese input???
Please do something abt it???
Thanks!!!
Feb 14th at 12:04 pm
How about updating the Fauna theme Matt? A beta-3 is now available with significant changes, while the one available here is beta-1.
Feb 14th at 4:59 pm
Yay, more pink
I’ve tried to pinkify my blog, and I like it. I might change themes if we get some nice pink themes though
This new one was a little too pink…
Feb 15th at 12:19 am
ACTUAL PINK! woo!
Feb 15th at 3:14 am
Thanks for the Fleur De Lis, was just what I needed!
Feb 15th at 8:55 am
as long as we are talking about themes, i would like to have squibble. its one of my absolute favourates! tnx
Feb 15th at 8:58 pm
Matt, how about upgrading the Fauna theme? Beta-3 is out & we’ve only Beta-1 available to use!!
Feb 15th at 10:19 pm
Terrific
Feb 16th at 1:24 am
I would love to have another dark background option, the Hemingway is cool, but the photos don’t show on the first page! Thanks, though, I am psyched to be starting my photo blog at last!
Feb 16th at 4:56 pm
hmmn I am not into pink, and I like experimenting with new looks. So could we have some more professional looking templates.. like Heming way, Rubrin or Andreas-09?
And as lafemme suggests (above), calendars and recent posts would be an added treat.
Feb 17th at 1:16 am
Boy, I really appreciate the choices. Keep it up.
Feb 17th at 3:36 am
Forgive me if I’m overlooking something obvious, but is there an easy way to preview themes without having my entire blog transformed? Sort of like the preview for Quentin, above…
Feb 18th at 1:41 pm
Another vote for Quentin.
Feb 18th at 4:05 pm
WordPress.com is blocked in China.
Pity.
Feb 18th at 11:42 pm
Good work! I recently moved to wp.com. I’m impressed! Where can I post my comments or recomendations?
Congratulations!
Feb 20th at 6:49 pm
Thanks for the new themes. I’ll continue hoping for even more three column layouts. And ditto the request for a preview function. I’d like to see how the theme looks on my blog before committing to a new choice…
Mar 7th at 3:42 pm
Good deal…