New Theme: monochrome
Sleek, and bursting with elegance, I’m happy to bring you monochrome, another addition to the wonderful collection of themes available on WordPress.com. monochrome is a beautiful theme with wonderful details.
monochrome, the theme, in action.
The name comes from the theme’s monochromatic color palette. Beautiful and sleek, it’s the attention to detail that really makes this theme shine.
metadata, sub-menus, and the search Box
The headers and dates are uniquely styled. The menu shows sub pages, with a nice smooth animation as well. And don’t forget the custom search box widget styled up with rounded corners.
Want to check out monochrome? Just login to your WordPress.com blog and click on Appearance -> Themes in the sidebar. Preview the theme and if you like it, activate it.
If you are a WordPress.org user, please check out monochrome on the .org Theme Repository
January 19th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
wow,, wonderful. i will try it.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
awesome!!! love it!!! ill try it out!!!
January 19th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Wow that looks beautiful! I will have to give it a try! Thanks so much for your hard work! Mona
January 19th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Stunning, love it
January 19th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
wow… looks good!
January 19th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Great template, but the translations are not great (Arabic Language)…
I’d like to translate it by my self if possible, GlotPress takes months to approve my translations!!!
January 19th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
GlotPress shouldn’t take that long for translations. Some languages may take longer than others though. Can you please contact support with some specific examples?
January 19th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Looks pretty neat, but here’s a question for those of us who don’t want to re-organize their whole blog, can you choose that the drop-down menu at the top, and the “tabs”, will be for Pages rather than Categories? Having some 20 categories, it just won’t work on my blog, and I’m sure many others’.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:53 pm
@Guy, It is possible to use Pages – You can set the top navigation to use pages from the Appearance > Theme Options page for Monochrome.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Pretty. If I ever change my look I’m going to use this one. (and by “my look” I mean my blog’s, not my own)
January 19th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
God! love it love it love it!
Tanx team
January 19th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Wow! I love this! Now, I need another blog to use it. How many can one person have?
Great work, Noel.
January 20th, 2010 at 12:01 am
Unlimited.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I love it… may give it a try on my new blog.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Is it compatible with iNove theme?
January 19th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
@Akhmad: You can only use one theme at a time, so there’s not really a compatibility issue.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Finally a theme I will actually like. Not just because its black and white.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Nice look. Thanks again, bro!
January 19th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Looks nice… will try it out
January 19th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
WOW… wonderful theme.Thanks Noel, I will try it.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Very nice and nodern looking. May have to give it a spin and see how it does.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
W-o-w!!!!! Cool!
January 19th, 2010 at 6:41 pm
Groooovy! Its so much better than the other Monochromatic one – Unsleepable.
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January 19th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
I find it hard to read knocked-out white fonts on dark backgrounds. I think I’ll pass unless I can switch the background color. I’ll preview my blog for a better look. Thanks.
January 19th, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Very nice. Stuff like this makes me wish I had more to say and could start a new blog! WP just keeps getting better.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Very nice looking. I will try this out.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
wowezo! I might use this.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Very nice, but I prefer the theme “Omagazine”. Hope wp would offer it soon.
January 19th, 2010 at 7:50 pm
@Noel
It looks lovely and the features are nice too. Thanks.
P.S. The link you posted above in this sentence is a 404: “If you are a WordPress.org user, please check out monochrome on the .org Theme Repository”
January 19th, 2010 at 11:56 pm
Thanks. Fixed.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:08 pm
Yes, Looking Nic, I am using a similar theme on my personal blog, will try this for sure.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Stylish!
January 19th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
gorgeous…
January 19th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
BTW, there’re a few changes I’d like to see implemented with this theme:
(1) Make the Blog Title as well as the Post Title font a li’l bigger. They get kinda lost among all the black and white
(2) Size of the “Quote” box reduced a bit. Even a one-liner uote is resulting in a big box that kinda takes up unnecessary space
(3) Remove the grayish border around images. People use different borders (I use rounded, for e.g.) and those tweaks get lost with the forced-on image border
(4) Tooltips have rounded edges, which show up ugly-like on a black background
Also, did you notice that checking the “Use categories for header menu” option under “Theme Options” breaks the homepage? I’ll put in a Support ticket as well.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Yes I love it, has a cool style to it.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
that is veery bootiful! I looked at the photo and thought it said “Van Antwerp Blog” – intentional????
you guys just get better and better.
x
January 19th, 2010 at 8:47 pm
The link in “If you are a WordPress.org user, please check out monochrome on the .org Theme Repository” should be pointing to, http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/monochrome
January 19th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
Thanks. Already fixed.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
ultrasuede coool.
January 19th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Looks like a beautiful theme, a very nice addition.
January 19th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
niceeee, thanks!
January 19th, 2010 at 9:24 pm
The WordPress team strikes gold once again! Thanks for the new theme!
January 19th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
tempting…
January 19th, 2010 at 9:26 pm
Sleek and classy, all right! Congratulations.
G
January 19th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Look nice, and the animation feature is also fun.
January 19th, 2010 at 9:49 pm
I am going try this.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:23 pm
fantastic!!!
January 19th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Really good looking. Too bad it’s not for me.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Very nice. I will try it.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Wonderful, wonderful.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
I love it but I love mine now I may have to test this theme out
January 19th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
The RSS subsrciption link in the sidebar doesn’t show if I don’t turn on the “Information” at the top of the sidebar, otherwise it works and looks great.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
wow
January 19th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Eve catching and Tempting!
January 19th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
That’s pretty awesome!!!! I’m sooooooooo trying it.
January 20th, 2010 at 12:18 am
Great theme. Was wondering if there’s a way to make the pictures align center? They all seem to align left, even when I chose for it to align center. Thanks. =)
January 20th, 2010 at 12:23 am
Absolutely wonderful!!
January 20th, 2010 at 12:25 am
Anybody able to say if this theme — or Hell, any others — includes a next/previous post function automatically?
January 20th, 2010 at 12:41 am
It is a great theme, but I found a bug in the botton “return top”, does not work as in the demo
My blog: http://rfblues.wordpress.com/
The demo: http://www.mono-lab.net/monochrome1000/
Pd: sorry for my bad English
January 20th, 2010 at 1:31 am
GREEEEEEEEEEEEEAT job! Love it!
January 20th, 2010 at 1:56 am
man, if it had a custom header, we would be all over it.
January 20th, 2010 at 2:08 am
Wow, Please give more themes from the .org directory!
January 20th, 2010 at 2:32 am
nicely done
January 20th, 2010 at 2:37 am
This is an absolutely exquisite theme. I’ve been waiting for something like this. Great job!
January 20th, 2010 at 2:47 am
wow………… it’s cool…..!!!!
January 20th, 2010 at 3:01 am
wonderful!
January 20th, 2010 at 3:47 am
It look’s really cool m8 i’ll have a go
January 20th, 2010 at 3:56 am
Excellent theme, now i have to see if my only requirement matches: the width.
January 20th, 2010 at 3:58 am
Existing pictures are overflowing the body column. My existing theme is Journalist v1.9 .
January 20th, 2010 at 4:02 am
Gorgeous!!!! Congrats!
January 20th, 2010 at 4:31 am
No header?
January 20th, 2010 at 4:57 am
9s,tks so much
January 20th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Cool …. I will use it…
January 20th, 2010 at 5:01 am
Very nice, but I can’t use it as there is no way to make a contact site.
So I returned to misty look again.
January 20th, 2010 at 6:17 am
I like it! It’s very simple, but modern and elegant. I might try it out with my blog.
January 20th, 2010 at 6:39 am
good looking & easy to use
January 20th, 2010 at 7:29 am
Great theme, love the feature of appearing page no. in the bottom. I have a small question too. I need to put selected categories in the top navigation, in the theme options I found the box where I have to put the category id which I don’t want to display. But how can I find a category id in wordpress.com blog.
Please guide.
January 20th, 2010 at 7:37 am
Don’t stop to impress people
January 20th, 2010 at 9:19 am
cool….
January 20th, 2010 at 9:25 am
I had a preview. Pity no custom-header! Otherwise pretty striking.
January 20th, 2010 at 9:46 am
simply lovely!!! thank you thank you thank you
January 20th, 2010 at 9:53 am
One word: wow!
January 20th, 2010 at 9:58 am
I will use it
January 20th, 2010 at 10:18 am
Cool.. Awesome.
What’s next?
January 20th, 2010 at 10:23 am
Looks sweet, wonder how it tastes…
January 20th, 2010 at 10:27 am
loves it!!! trying….
January 20th, 2010 at 10:52 am
It looks amazing!
January 20th, 2010 at 11:24 am
I like this theme, but there isnt the link to next post and pre post in one post as other theme. This take me a little uncomfortable! Could you modify this?
Many thanks!
January 20th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Very powerfull!
January 20th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Tried it out for 5 minutes before reverting to Mistylook. All my blockquotes using the more eye-friendly caused first two sentences in block on top of each other. Changing to
January 20th, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Nice blockquote … which converted my ul codes and blockquote codes. To restate, I use ul for blocking instead of blockquote due to appearance (negates ugly over sized quote marks).
January 20th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
I would really really like a black theme (without the bright orange), nice and classic, just like the one blogspot has. There are lots of white-background themes, but no black, nice and simple themes at all.
What do you think?
January 20th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
I like this, it has clean, classic lines. Has a good ‘magazine’ type feel. Is it customisable?
January 20th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Could be me just being a bit slow but is there any way to change the date format for the blog posts? I can’t seem to edit at and its showing up as an US standard m/d/y instead of the UK d/m/y.
January 20th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Whoa. It’s very nice. ^_^
January 20th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Love it already
January 20th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Thanks, always is good to have themes as amazing as this one
January 20th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
Let me run over and check it out, right now. Looks very professional.
January 20th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Nice Theme
Unfortunately, my Photos with 640X480 resolution is reduced in a lower resolution, so that I cannot use this Theme for my blog.
January 20th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
kind of sick
January 20th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
It’s funny how I cannot access my dashboard. Please ask someone from WordPress to contact me. Thank you.
January 20th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Looks really wonderful – thanks
January 20th, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I like it. The theme that I really like though is the Duotone. However I cant use it though it does not show all the photos that I have attached to each post and as my my blog is about interior design the photos are most important. It is such a great idea to have colour schemes that change and adapt to each post, please allow for all photos to be attached so that I can use it.
Thank you.
January 20th, 2010 at 5:54 pm
thank you so much … this new theme excellent, I’ve used in my blog and the results are very good