Posted: Friday, September 12th, 2008 at 4:08 pm. Filed in Themes.
DePo Masthead Theme Launch
DePo Masthead Front Page
I’m excited to announce DePo Masthead, designed by Derek Powazek.
This is one beautiful theme that draws on classic magazine design. The style is minimal, yet bold and detail-oriented. There is more here than meets the eye.
So, what’s different about this theme? It’s got lots of dynamic features. The header font changes size depending on the length of your blog title. And, to keep things neat and tidy, the column heights of your the articles on the front page will always be equal, even if one article has more content than another.
The focus in this theme is on your content. Each article starts out with the comments tucked away, allowing your reader to take in your brilliance fully, then expand the comments to start the discussion:
Comments Before & After Unfolding
Take note of the beautiful navigation elements and clever use of typography. And for the widget lovers out there, we’ve turned the bottom right panel of the footer into a widget area.
We hope you enjoy this one!
September 12th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Pretty goooooooooooooooood!
September 12th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
nice!
September 12th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Nice theme
September 12th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
thanx!
September 12th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Very Very Cool, it’s look like an newspaper. Thanks again to wordpress guys.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Wow thats awesome!!!
September 12th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I like it. I can’t use it, but I like it.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I thought the preview looked great, but wasn’t real impressed when I put it into action. Everything is way too big. You guys must have obscenely high resolution on your computers, because the title font is absolutely HUGE on a 1024×768 screen. Bigger isn’t always better.
Keep the themes coming!!
September 12th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Wow
September 12th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
A very nice looking theme, clean and very minimalistic.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Thanks
September 12th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
DePo? As in who said “so now our holy rites are for outworlders Spock?”
Ya got any dark themes coming up? All these bright ones hurt my minds eye…
September 12th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
This could be great for a newspaper style blog. But I’m holding out for a true magazine theme that allows custom departments based on categories such as BranfordMagazine.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I think the word to describe this newest theme would be: ‘Whoot!’
September 12th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Gonna try this out
September 12th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
cool I like it!
September 13th, 2008 at 12:08 am
It seems very good. I’ll try out.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:17 am
guys, this has so much potential. thanks for thinking of it. i was hoping for such a creative look. such a neat thing to do!
September 13th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Cool! I will be happy when you have Freshy 2.0 up too.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:23 am
a real beaut!
September 13th, 2008 at 12:31 am
dandy looking! way to go WP team will try this baby out soon! thankies! XD
September 13th, 2008 at 12:33 am
What the “DePo” means?
September 13th, 2008 at 12:34 am
So we can’t put anything on the bottom left bar? It looks silly without it.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:10 am
nice, but missing something…since it is theme oriented, shouldn’t it have a button for previous entires like most of the themes?
September 13th, 2008 at 1:12 am
And the ‘before/after’ is nice, but the titles are blurred.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:41 am
So nice yaaaaaaaar.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:42 am
An interesting theme, but it is one that I cannot use right now. Is there any Patriotic Red White and Blue ones coming up?…..Maybe with an American flag watermarked in the background?
-Robert-
September 13th, 2008 at 1:47 am
I think it’s a very carefully thought-out layout. Simple, uncluttered and easy on the eye. For a moment, it looked like Times Magazine.
I’m seriously thinking of changing my current theme. Thank you for he tip.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:48 am
If there are a lot of widgets in the bottom right, the page will look really long and that’ll be awful for the design of the whole page. What do you say wp?
September 13th, 2008 at 1:52 am
I am very, very pleased with this theme. In my opinion, it is the best yet I have seen coming to wordpress.com. It is brilliant, professional, and just nice to look at overall. The only problem I have with it is really minute. I only wish that the sidebar or widgets could be evened out at the bottom (since the posts show on the top) instead of it showing as one straight long line of text, links, and pictures down the one side.
Other than that, it is magnificently flawless, and I would love to see more professional, well organized, themes like this hit wordpress.com.
Thanks so much!
September 13th, 2008 at 1:53 am
Brilliant!! … but i can’t use it. Still.. nice.. bravo!
September 13th, 2008 at 2:20 am
OMG…LOVE IT
September 13th, 2008 at 2:28 am
I think it looks a bit confusing with my blog, but I’m glad we have more themes to choose from regardless…
Thanks much!
September 13th, 2008 at 2:28 am
Cool!
September 13th, 2008 at 2:30 am
DePo stands for Derek Powazek, the theme designer.
J. Botter, the bottom left bar is associated with your about page. Derek made it clear when designing the theme that he wanted that there.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:07 am
It’s about time there was a magazine style theme. Keep up the good work!
September 13th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Really nice theme!
September 13th, 2008 at 3:37 am
I really love this theme, but there is one thing annoying.
The bar below the title shows all my published pages, even if the page is under another page (I mean, the page hierarchy). Hope it could show only the top pages.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Finally wordpress release few new theme
it’s good news.
About this time.. IMO it’s little confusing when sidebar move to bottom
September 13th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Looks great! Two questions – is it possible to stop my name appearing in the border at the top? I’d like to use it for http://www.stbartspa.net (one of, er, lots of WP based websites and blogs I run). I also can’t figure out how to get the blog to appear as three columns rather than one. Are there any notes/a user guide available for idiots like me? Cheers.
September 13th, 2008 at 4:13 am
Having done a lot of magazine layout myself, I was thrilled to see this. It may not work for all the features I want on my blog, but it looks like a long-lost friend. Grats.
September 13th, 2008 at 4:15 am
I probably should have pointed out that it wouldn’t be appropriate for my name to appear at the top of http://www.stbartspa.net I guess I could register a whole new WP account which doesn’t use my name, but I’d rather not.
September 13th, 2008 at 4:46 am
A new theme is always appreciated. A theme as good as this is surprising! Thanks guys for bringing a really good theme and for making me finally switch from my current theme!
September 13th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Nice theme! Applied!!
September 13th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Well Done! Thank You.
September 13th, 2008 at 5:09 am
I hope we could claim or use the second column (aside from the third, the first is for about) of the sidebar so that we could even them up instead of a long sidebar on the third column.
The before and after post title are overlapping.
Why are the archives of the second column not complete?
September 13th, 2008 at 5:20 am
it’s nice, but it doesn’t resize youtube videos so the videos spill over into the next column.
September 13th, 2008 at 5:33 am
WORDPRESS IS THE BEST!
THANK YOU GUYS…ALL OF YOU ARE ROCKS!!!
September 13th, 2008 at 5:44 am
is it free…
September 13th, 2008 at 5:44 am
coool
Thanx You
September 13th, 2008 at 5:51 am
thank u, clean and clean theme
September 13th, 2008 at 5:51 am
It’s a good theme! But I wish there were more themes that were colorful AND allowed custom image headers…I just like bright things. XD
September 13th, 2008 at 5:54 am
I think I amgoing to have to try this one out. Looks nice!
September 13th, 2008 at 6:11 am
newspaper edition, great desain.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:27 am
It’s beautiful!
September 13th, 2008 at 6:31 am
it sucks… It would have been better if the most recent post was somehow highlighted from the rest of the pst.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Yeah, the theme is a good idea, but I agree with ricojr that the third column is way too long with a lot of space being wasted in the first and second column.
If you have long post titles, then they overlap in the before and after.
Teething problems?
September 13th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Certainly a very different theme and we need different themes so there is a wide choice for different types of blogs out there. It gets irritating if about 5 themes are almost similar! Therefore I think this theme is a great idea and kudos to the designer.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:02 am
It looks really nice, great job! I might try it out one day.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:09 am
Hi all,
really a lovely theme!!
Do you know if is it possible to download it?
Thank you
September 13th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Wow, that theme is good for news!
September 13th, 2008 at 8:46 am
this is a cool theme, i am already using it , gives you the good old newspaper theme .. i also like the text font on this one.
September 13th, 2008 at 8:47 am
oops ..gives the the newspaper feel
September 13th, 2008 at 9:17 am
I didn’t like it finally.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Awesome theme, activated!
September 13th, 2008 at 9:44 am
Bravo WP!
September 13th, 2008 at 9:52 am
It looks pretty good. But it’s a problem that shorter posts leave a lot of blank space after them if the post next to it is longer. If it is possible it would be nice if just the top part of the posts appeared and that you had to click on a link to get to the full story. That would also make it possible to have more posts on the front page (3*3?).
September 13th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Agree with ricojr,
Lovely theme with two minor flaws!
1) The Before and After is a great idea but long post names flow together and are illegible.
2) Archives are not complete in column two, seems a bit odd!
Otherwise like it!
Eoin
September 13th, 2008 at 11:01 am
N i c e . . .
September 13th, 2008 at 11:02 am
Great, it’s awesome!
September 13th, 2008 at 11:13 am
No me mola mucho
September 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
You’re the best. Keep in that way!
September 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am
nice, I like it, thankyou
September 13th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Thank you for the theme, it seems so black and white
September 13th, 2008 at 11:57 am
the theme really looks good. but i dont like, that i cant choose myself which site i want to see at the bottom of the blog
i also like to choose the columns and which widget has to be in which column.
September 13th, 2008 at 11:59 am
At first i was impressed, but I don’t like all the widgets in the right column – if I could choose which widget I use in which column, this theme would be excellent.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Kewl Idea! I like it
September 13th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
ooh, I quite like it.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Lovely !
September 13th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I’m not to keen on it to be honest, it’s rather bland, I think the colours could have been better. Anyhow, I’m displaying albeo now on my blog and it’s looking fantastic and my readers think so too! so, thankyou! xx
September 13th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Very nice font – easy to read. As has been said, though, the title font is way too big. Like other posters, I’m not convinced by having the archives and the rest of a normal sidebar’s contents at the bottom, I’m afraid – too easily overlooked, I think.
September 13th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Very nice. not my type though but good
thanks WordPress guys
September 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Fantastic !
September 13th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
Good job – the more themes the better. Thanks.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
This is slick. I might change to it.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
initially loved it. applied it. then removed it.
[1]a few widgets too many, and the friggin thing’s got an unwanted tail down bottom-right…will await for an upgrade that allows me to use the bottom columns more effectively.
[2]any post that has an “insert more tag” in it…well, the extra info seems inaccessible, çoz the “read more” links don’t turn up
It’s beautiful, overall…and i may still choose to apply it…dunno, flipping a coin seems an option…
However, if the above arrears can be corrected, i’ll have found a theme i truly love!
September 13th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Thank very much…
September 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
beautiful!
September 13th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Great!!
September 13th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
It’s my new theme now, thanks to the creator! It’s very professional looking, and I love the newspaper layout. The only thing I’m concerned about is the extra widgets. I have a lot and it seems like they’re all placed in the last column. I wonder if I need some css skills.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
I tried this theme for http://www.harmonystreetstudio.com and my header text, “HarmonyStreetStudio.Com” was very large and moved off to the right. The “Com” part did not fit the width of the theme format.
Did anyone else experience this? It’s a beautiful, innovative theme. I would like to use it.
September 13th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
if it had a header that could be customized, it would be the best!
September 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
It is a really nice theme!! I am waiting for new themes…now for me my theme is the best.
September 13th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
@masterclasslady – Looks good to me? No?
September 13th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Very COOL, I am impressed with this theme. I checked it out and changed to it in a millisecond. You folks, as always, continue to do an outstanding job. Thanks again.
September 13th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Sweet Theme! I might try it!
September 13th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
hmmm.. not too bad
September 13th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
It’s very good theme and interesting. I decided to use it on one of my blogs, but there are some flaws mentioned in some posts earlier. The most important are that I can’t choose which widget put in which column and that archives are not complete in second column.
I’ve found yet another bug. In the archives are only ten posts on page and there is no possibility to look at rest of the posts (np more pages “1, 2, 3 …”). When I make it possible to publish 30 posts on a page, than main page became a one colum page.
It would be also great for me to have possibility to translate some words into Polish (before, after, archives, feed, Edit this entry, read more and comment, and so on) because many words in this theme are in English, but I write blog in Polish and have Polish readers. I could help in this.
Best regards
September 13th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
goooooodddddd