New Theme: DePo Square
Today we’re bringing you yet another theme designed by Derek Powazek: DePo Square.
This theme looks great! Minimal, simple, yet unique. But, it doesn’t stop with great design. This theme comes with a seriously cool feature: post types.
Map your categories to one of five pre-defined post types — Post (default), Status, Quote, Link, or Photo — and your content will be displayed in a format special to those types.
Just select your category mappings by visiting the “Current Theme Options” under “Appearance.” No CSS or other formatting is necessary. However, if you have the CSS Upgrade you can definitely tweak those styles to your heart’s content.
You can set your widgets at the top of your blog, including special widgets just for your statuses and Flickr stream. The DePo Square Flickr Widget is formatted just right for this design.
A "Link" Post Type
Mapping Categories
Email Newsletter
September 30th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Great minimalist design!
Thanks ; )
September 30th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
This new theme offers some great new features, something that WordPress users (such as myself) will certainly make use of. I am currently working on a webserial in Diary-format that will look pretty sweet with those posting options and the blog layout. Thanks again for making these wonderful themes available to the WordPress.com community.
September 30th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
nice. i’m gonna go check it out! thx
September 30th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
This is a really cute one!
October 1st, 2009 at 12:05 am
nice theme!
October 1st, 2009 at 12:12 am
It looks good. We’ll give it a whirl! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!
October 1st, 2009 at 12:21 am
This theme isn’t available in my Control Panel…
October 1st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Try refreshing and clearing your cache. It’s there
October 1st, 2009 at 12:29 am
Is it available for WordPress.org users?
October 1st, 2009 at 12:43 am
All the new themes are bascially sandboxes for CSS.
October 1st, 2009 at 12:56 am
This is great! It’s like a combination of the good features from Facebook and Twitter, only better. I might switch to this one.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:40 am
nice theme, i like it.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:47 am
Nice feature. This is insane. Thanks WP for bringing this cool stuff.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:51 am
Looks good. Going to try it now.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:53 am
great new features THANKS a million
October 1st, 2009 at 2:24 am
I am going to test it soon. I love themes; the more the better!
Please give us a real magazine theme such as Arthemia!
October 1st, 2009 at 2:28 am
I love it. I’m giving it a try! Thanks for the cool new addition!
October 1st, 2009 at 3:11 am
The only flaw is we can’t put widgets on its sidebar.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:23 am
Just to clarify, widgets can be displayed at the top instead
October 1st, 2009 at 3:16 am
splendid… more!
October 1st, 2009 at 3:26 am
This is really cool. Won’t meet my needs right now but I look forward to running into it around town!
October 1st, 2009 at 3:44 am
The layout is very much like tumblr – clean, simple, minimal and slick.
October 1st, 2009 at 3:59 am
When I searched for theme in my theme page, it showed only “DePo Masthead” not “DePo Square”.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:41 am
To me this theme seems to be something interesting and out of box. May be because in this theme you can show interesting looks of your blog to the visitors without going for any upgrades. Pretty interesting from the masses point of view.
October 1st, 2009 at 4:53 am
Strange, I don’t see the new theme in the list….
October 1st, 2009 at 10:22 am
Try clearing your cache and refreshing your browser
October 1st, 2009 at 4:56 am
I love his design, actually I am using his theme currently, i might change for a new blog.
October 1st, 2009 at 5:02 am
I’m tumblified! (sorry, i have to make that joke louder, lol)
You guys don’t mess around in work!
October 1st, 2009 at 5:22 am
Is there talk of enabling bringing in feeds to the content column, like Twitter updates, Delicious (as it appears now) etc, so the posts go up automatically? There’d be a huge demand for that kind of website (although it wouldn’t be a blog, actually).
October 1st, 2009 at 8:16 am
We’re definitely paying attention to those ideas, yes. Keep an eye on the news blog for more updates
October 1st, 2009 at 5:35 am
Wonderful idea. I just wish it had a custom header…
October 1st, 2009 at 5:55 am
Minimalism rules!
October 1st, 2009 at 6:41 am
Very cool!
October 1st, 2009 at 6:48 am
Nice Theme.
I just wish the widget area was flexible. Currently its fixed width/length and most of my widgets do not fit well in the limited space
October 1st, 2009 at 7:45 am
seems it is mac inspired theme.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:16 am
I like the sound of this.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:22 am
Hi there
Great theme ! Once again, you’re releasing a new theme that fit my needs exactly when I need it.
Some problems I’ve met :
The flickr widget for DePo square seems not to work : I can’t display my pictures, only the interesting one…
The page layout display a categorie / date line, wich is not very appropriate…
I also want to bring feeds in ! Think about flickr import too !
Keep on working such a great way !
October 4th, 2009 at 4:23 am
You need to use your Flickr stream’s RSS feed. If you’re still having trouble, submit a support ticket please.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:26 am
i love this theme.
October 1st, 2009 at 8:42 am
Nice.
may be something minimalist at first, but It have many details.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:11 am
this theme is soooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!! xD
i LOVE you, WP! xD <3
October 1st, 2009 at 9:13 am
I’m using Neo-Sapien theme. Is there any update of the design such as allowing us to use the extra spaces adjacent to the header?
October 1st, 2009 at 10:00 am
ooow.. another great theme from wordpress.. thank you..
October 1st, 2009 at 10:25 am
thank you
October 1st, 2009 at 10:57 am
Great, clean theme. Good job.
But I think more space should be devoted to widgets. Maybe the sidebar to the left. As it is now, I only have space for three widgets and I really don’t want to choose between all I like.
October 1st, 2009 at 11:04 am
oh, it has the ‘features’ I loved about TUMBLR with all the WordPress extras (as standard) cooooool x x
October 1st, 2009 at 11:16 am
I tried it.
its nice.
October 1st, 2009 at 11:33 am
Consider enabling features like “pre-defined post types” in other themes, please.
October 1st, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Hm… maybe i will try it. i like my today’s theme but it is always interesting to try something new.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Blue, white and grey themes with gradients and dinky little icons are so 2005. Or maybe 2004. I don’t know, either way they seem to have been knocking around far too long for me to see anything innovative in them. I suppose the fact that 50% of your themes have a near-identical colour scheme acts as an incentive for people to purchase the CSS upgrade. Cunning.
Also, I’m surprised After The Deadline didn’t catch Apperance; it hit me straight away, though only because it was bolded.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Thanks for letting us know about that error. It’s been corrected.
October 1st, 2009 at 1:47 pm
The look is good and the top widgets are really useful , this clears a lot side space. But this is still not for me. I am using The Journalist v1.9 , and that is because it is very simple, and the main main cause is that the main column is wide. Hope wordpress.com comes with some wide column themes for free! Yay!
October 1st, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Like this a lot and have started using it – but the fact you can’t feed twitter updates to a status post a bit frustrating! Is their a way to do this that I’ve missed?
October 1st, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Not at the moment, but we’re listening to your requests
October 1st, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Could a DePo Square Quotes widget be made like the DePo Square Status widget. Then I could have About, Status, and Quotes right across the top of my blog. It would be great!
October 1st, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Wow… now we can tumblog on WP too
October 1st, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I’ve added my Flickr feed in the feed rss url but nothing changes. It worked for you?
October 19th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
This bug should be fixed.
October 1st, 2009 at 6:38 pm
I just wonder why we barely ever get any darker designs, esp. considering that the most popular theme is black.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Nice and Clean, I like it. Thanks Derek Powazek and DePo Square + WordPress.
October 1st, 2009 at 9:57 pm
For some reason, the ‘About’ link at the top contains a tick mark in the URL. I can’t even change the About page URL to match that temporarily.
October 19th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Should be fixed.
October 1st, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Thanks for the work!
I would like to see wider themes in WordPress.com, I don’t know why (almost) all of them are so thin…
By the way, Ipernity exists also!
October 1st, 2009 at 11:19 pm
looks super sweet
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:31 am
WOW
October 2nd, 2009 at 12:43 am
Cute theme
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:48 am
I’m a great follower/lover of DePo themes. I’m already using DePo Masthead in my blog. Going to try DePo Square in another blog of mine very soon. Kudos to Depo and WP.com team!
October 2nd, 2009 at 1:54 am
Yeach this theme is great. Unfortunately, we cannot add widgets on the sidebar.
Just imagine if there’s a template that has features like DePo Square (such as its post-types ability), plus an elegant sidebar. That will be great.
October 2nd, 2009 at 2:50 am
I like its .. so unique … ^_^
October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 am
coolness! i figure that it’s got some tumblr aspects.
October 2nd, 2009 at 6:50 am
Love it!
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:42 am
nice one! the post types are so tumblr-like.
October 2nd, 2009 at 8:40 am
looks great
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:38 am
Nice Theme
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:58 am
looking good
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Look good, but i can´t use it. I love my widgets
October 2nd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Great theme. Keep them coming! A theme that would allow you to change the background color of individual posts would be great. I’d love to be able to create a post on a black background one day and white the next. It’s a gray kinda thing.
October 2nd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
It’s new.. Not exceptional though.. Having said that appreciate the fact that WP is always helping out by bringing out stuff like this..
October 3rd, 2009 at 1:31 am
I actually am not a big fan of this theme, but I suppose if you put a lot of work into it, it can be good.
October 3rd, 2009 at 5:43 am
wow, that’s so neat! i love neat themes, they really give the blog this professional look
keep up the GREAT work!
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:39 am
Is it just me, or does the flickr square not work?
I’m pretty sure my RSS feed is correct as it used to work with the previous flickr badge so what gives hey?
October 19th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
There was a bug at one point. Can you try again and contact support at http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ if it’s not working for you?
October 3rd, 2009 at 3:07 pm
love the theme. but i wonder if i can remove the flickr depo and status depo widget from the top-bar. i dont need them…
October 4th, 2009 at 4:22 am
Yep, you can use those areas for any widget you choose.
October 3rd, 2009 at 4:58 pm
It looks awesome, I’ll change now. Keep up the truly awesome work, WP team!!
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Nice theme, but I hope for more themes with color in the future
A lot of themes are white =(
October 3rd, 2009 at 10:54 pm
Yet another white theme…
May we please have new themes that not only have great technical features, but also look good visually? Look good as in having different rich colors, deep grays with bright contrasting colors, and thoughtful creative designs I mean?
October 4th, 2009 at 2:06 am
This one looks good. I like DePo’s way of making themes. Large fonts and clean layout.
October 4th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Kind of creepily Facebookish, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s pretty.
October 4th, 2009 at 3:03 am
Cool!
October 4th, 2009 at 8:11 am
Great great great!! Should I change my theme again
Oohh..
October 4th, 2009 at 11:00 am
This looks like a great new minimalistic theme .. on the lines of Posterous but with more bells and whistles. Great job. Well done.
October 4th, 2009 at 12:23 pm
nice theme, cool!
October 4th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
looking good
October 4th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
cool, still waiting for the feature of changing colors to everything without having CSS.
October 4th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Would love to use this theme, but the inability to add side widgets is annoying. Would love to see this feature added!
October 4th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
love it amazing =)
October 4th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Nice!
October 4th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
NICE DESIGN MMINIMALIS
October 5th, 2009 at 2:15 am
I like it
October 5th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Nice theme.. like it
October 5th, 2009 at 2:49 am
Not bad!