New Theme: Fusion
I’m proud to introduce you to Fusion, our newest theme. The versatility of this theme makes it great for a variety of uses including technical blogs, long-form writing, posting code samples, and displaying large images. You can use Fusion just like any other WordPress.com theme or, if you prefer a wide layout, this theme is ready to accommodate.
Example of Fusion's out-of-the-box layout and design.
Fusion comes with a widget-ready footer, support for custom header image and custom menu, and options for you to customize the layout. Layout options in Appearance→Themes include fixed or flexible layout, choice of left, right, or two right sidebars, or a full-width main column with no sidebars. You can also choose to display full posts or excerpts only on archive pages.
Theme Options screen for Fusion.
It’s easy to personalize this theme by adding a custom header image and custom menu and using the various layout options to change the look. Here is an example of a wide design using the one-column, no sidebar layout option, flexible width main column, and custom header image.
Example of Fusion customized to display a full-width main column with no sidebar.
Designed by digitalnature, Fusion is now available for WordPress.com and, for self-hosted WordPress.org sites, from the WordPress.org Themes Directory.
Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels):
- Fixed width (one sidebar): main column width is
646, sidebar width is245. - Fixed width (two sidebars): main column width is
490, primary sidebar width is206, secondary sidebar width is165. - Fixed width (no sidebar): main column width is
980. - Fluid width (one sidebar): main column minimum width is
514(no maximum width), sidebar width is177. - Fluid width (two sidebars): main column minimum width is
390, primary sidebar minimum width is146, secondary sidebar minimum width is125. - Fluid width (no sidebar): main column minimum width is
780. - Custom header image dimensions are
980by148(width, height).
Sep 21st at 3:54 pm
Wow! Finally a new and awesome theme!
Sep 21st at 3:54 pm
Looks shweeeet. Trying it out now
Sep 21st at 4:04 pm
Quite like this one!
Sep 21st at 4:06 pm
Fabulous flexibility and simplicity. Wish I weren’t so lazy, I would try it.
Sep 21st at 4:09 pm
This is what I’ve been looking for. I love the flexibility of the sidebar locations. Thank you.
Sep 21st at 4:17 pm
The best ever… you just gave the masterpiece… superlike!
Sep 21st at 4:19 pm
Looks very nice, pity it doesn’t support ‘asides’ and ‘gallery’ post types though…
Sep 21st at 4:23 pm
AWESOME! I. Am. Switching!
Thank you
Sep 21st at 4:28 pm
Yes! This is AMAZING! Thank you so much. I’ve been wanting to have a full-screen option just like this, and be able to customize that/change it to whatever. Thanks guys!
Sep 21st at 4:29 pm
Really nice layout. OK, very tempted.
Sep 21st at 4:38 pm
Another theme with beautiful-looking font. That’s the main thing, for me, that catches eye (the font).
Sep 21st at 4:48 pm
Really nice, like the flexibility, is it going to be available in black?
Sep 21st at 6:14 pm
This theme doesn’t have color scheme options, but many of our other themes do have color options.
Sep 21st at 4:49 pm
I’ll try it tonight !
Thanks!
Sep 21st at 4:52 pm
Wow, this is a neat one! I like that you have so many customizable options!
Sep 21st at 4:58 pm
I like the layout choices in the Theme Options!
Sep 21st at 4:59 pm
This looks clean and wonderful! Thanks!
Sep 21st at 5:07 pm
I MUST try it… it’s so customizable!
Sep 21st at 5:07 pm
That’s really pretty. Might use it on one of the blogs.
Sep 21st at 5:08 pm
Clean and elegant!
Sep 21st at 5:09 pm
The flexibility of this theme is amazing. I love Inuit Types (with my CSS changes), but Fusion is a theme I will definitely explore. Love the simply, classy, and flexible theme.
Sep 21st at 5:11 pm
That actually looks fantastic!
Sep 21st at 5:12 pm
Nice but I wished we could change the colour scheme…
Sep 21st at 5:13 pm
I think I’ll stick with my current Twenty Ten. I like the looks of it on my gardening blog, esp. the background.
Sep 21st at 5:22 pm
Nice! I like the options too.
Sep 21st at 5:23 pm
This is the best theme on wordpress.com in my opinion. As soon as I tried it out on my test blog I had to have it!
Nice work, thanks.
Sep 21st at 5:26 pm
At last: a good-looking flexible-width theme with tweakage!
Now, to conjure up a suitable header image…
A heartfelt thank you!
Sep 21st at 5:44 pm
I love this one! I am going to use it right now!
Sep 21st at 6:17 pm
How do you get that green bar under the heading? Mine is just grey…
Sep 21st at 6:19 pm
The green bar is for Sticky Posts only.
Sep 21st at 6:22 pm
Ooh I see. Loving the theme!
Sep 21st at 6:39 pm
Really dope!
Sep 21st at 6:53 pm
Seriously tempted to change the look of my blog to this…
Sep 21st at 6:54 pm
This is amazing and I just might switch to it! I’m too attached to my widgets to go sidebar-less, but the design is fantastic! Awesome job, WordPress!
Sep 21st at 6:55 pm
Looks great, need to try it out!
Sep 21st at 7:03 pm
This theme looks really nice but I still prefer Motion, my favorite theme.
Sep 21st at 7:03 pm
Looks good, might try it out.
Sep 21st at 7:11 pm
Nice theme! But, is a pity that in the option of the extracts can not set a featured image.
Sep 21st at 7:12 pm
Nice, crisp theme. Love the additional header.
Sep 21st at 7:26 pm
Oh, I am digging this very nice and clean theme, I must switch!
Sep 21st at 8:00 pm
These are all starting to look alike.
Sep 21st at 8:10 pm
Lee, we try our best to launch themes that allow customization—that way you can make it yours, which helps avoid all sites looking the same.
Sep 21st at 8:02 pm
Nice… I’m really loving all this themes with “options”… easy to modify and change the look of the blog.
Sep 21st at 8:57 pm
Great theme! Very stylish! The only downer: no left sidebar and right sidebar combination, which is my favorite. So I remain with the Coraline theme.
Sep 21st at 9:10 pm
I like it! Thanks do much for adding all the specs to this post too. I appreciate it.
Sep 21st at 9:20 pm
Hmmmm this one might finally have me convinced to switch
Sep 21st at 9:33 pm
Excellent looking theme!
Sep 21st at 9:49 pm
Hey Lance! You guys at the Theme Team really capture WP.com users’ hearts! This theme will definite attract more bloggers with the many desired customization settings. Good job, guys! Cheers!
Sep 21st at 9:58 pm
Ohh… I’ve been looking for a good theme… I might have just found it.
Sep 21st at 10:14 pm
Yes this is great. The flexible widths / columns are wonderful. Space! I will use this soon.
Sep 21st at 10:25 pm
It looks nice and simple… Love it. Good job!
Sep 21st at 10:37 pm
Great, an excellent addition to an already excellent lineup of themes.
Sep 21st at 10:54 pm
Cool theme! I love the tabs on top.
Sep 21st at 10:57 pm
VERY nice! I like it a lot! I’ll try it out for a few days… see how it turns out!
Sep 21st at 11:50 pm
The three most recent themes look alike.
Sep 22nd at 12:14 am
Finally a new theme! Will you guys be planning on posting new ones more regularly?
Sep 22nd at 7:08 am
Yes, we hope to continue launching themes regularly.
Sep 22nd at 12:15 am
I like idea of the really wide theme (:
Sep 22nd at 12:16 am
Buy me some rum, cuz that’s about the only way I might understand all of the techno options. It sounds great though!
Sep 22nd at 12:32 am
I’ve been looking to change themes and I thought I had decided on one because I like a wide writing palette but maybe I will use this one instead. Just in time for my one year blogiversary. Thanks WP.
Sep 22nd at 12:43 am
Yay! No columns! Woo Hoo! Full-width images! Okay, maybe too many exclamation marks, but this is GREAT!
Sep 22nd at 6:54 am
There are never too many exclamations points when talking WordPress themes.
Sep 22nd at 12:46 am
Cool, maybe one day we will get a full customize theme (I still dig Chaotic Soul as my favorite).
Sep 22nd at 1:07 am
This looks to be one of the best themes on WordPress.com.
Sep 22nd at 1:46 am
I like it, but it’s a little too simple for me. Greyzed is still my fave, and I will forever be indebted for it.
Sep 22nd at 2:08 am
Very cool, another minimalist approach.
Sep 22nd at 2:08 am
Thank you Lance! As soon as I know there’s a new theme—everything else waits so I can preview it. Another thank you to WordPress for making the previews available right away. It’s like shopping for new decor, all with one click.
Sep 22nd at 2:37 am
Finally… a theme from digitalnature available on WordPress.com. I’ve always love digitalnature themes.
Sep 22nd at 3:20 am
Thanks WordPress… your themes are the best!
Sep 22nd at 3:39 am
Sep 22nd at 3:44 am
Holy Batman. This is why I spend more time screwing with my site than actually posting.
Sep 22nd at 5:00 am
That’s a sexy Theme. Thanks a lot for bringing such sexiness to WordPress.
Sep 22nd at 5:01 am
Finally. A no-sidebar option. At least if not with Coraline…. I will try Fusion.
Sep 22nd at 6:11 am
I love the colorful “mouse-overs”. They look like candy. I could eat those up. It’s just a thingy with me.
Sep 22nd at 7:17 am
Very nice. I’ll have a go with this one. Great work.
Sep 22nd at 7:25 am
At last a theme with an optional side bar. I would certainly try this and it is looking good.
Sep 22nd at 7:37 am
Really neat theme. One quick preview and I knew I was hooked!
Congratulations to the design team. It’s a wonderfully flexible theme.
Sep 22nd at 8:18 am
This is the MOST FLEXIBLE THEME so far. Great job on this one, hope to see a few similar ones like this.
Sep 22nd at 8:30 am
Still waiting for full CSS customization.
Sep 22nd at 2:37 pm
If you’re experienced with CSS you might like our Custom CSS upgrade.
Sep 22nd at 8:31 am
Fantastic theme!! How do I get it?
Sep 22nd at 2:39 pm
Fusion can be found in Appearance → Themes under the Recently Added tab. It should be the first one there on the left.
Sep 22nd at 8:47 am
Themes on WordPress getting better and better…
Sep 22nd at 9:28 am
Change or not change…This is the question
Sep 22nd at 9:32 am
Great new themes. I think I’ll keep the one I have but I love the choices.
Sep 22nd at 9:33 am
It’s a fantastic theme. I love it so much.
Sep 22nd at 11:55 am
Nice. Any chance of getting a theme like Atahualpa?
Sep 22nd at 2:43 pm
We’ll take Atahualpa under consideration. Thanks for the suggestion!
Sep 22nd at 11:59 am
Oh, no!!! Please stop tempting me with new themes! I change mine every time WordPress introduces a new theme.
I need therapy.
Sep 22nd at 12:49 pm
It’s truly awesome!! I must use it.
Sep 22nd at 12:53 pm
I love the this theme. Well done, keep them coming!
Sep 22nd at 1:11 pm
I like the wide layout look. Not sure I’ll try it but it’s a great option.
Sep 22nd at 2:25 pm
Cool! I love this one.
I wonder when my dad is going to allow me to switch to a new theme. But then again, I would be so frustrated if I had just changed into a ‘better’ theme just hours before an ‘even better’ theme pops out. My dad would certainly not let me switch again.
Sep 22nd at 3:19 pm
I like the column setting… but there is no color scheme. So I still use Enterprise theme for my blog. I like the optional color schemes.
Sep 22nd at 4:33 pm
Love the theme. There’s only one factor preventing me from using it; inability to remove the header text over the image.
If you could allow this I’d be satisfied.
Sep 22nd at 7:14 pm
We’ve enabled that option now—the header text can be hidden from Appearance→Header. Though only the title will hidden; the description above the header won’t be affected.
Sep 22nd at 4:57 pm
I like the theme, but I still prefer my current one! Thank you.
Sep 22nd at 5:55 pm
Very interesting layout! I like it!
Sep 22nd at 6:05 pm
Yay! Been a while since we’ve had a new theme. I love love love that is has layout options. I had a website that ran WordPress and I really miss all the neat personal touches you could add to a lot of the themes even without editing the CSS — like layout options. Thanks for another great one!
Sep 22nd at 6:17 pm
Lovely… I’m using it now!
Sep 22nd at 7:32 pm
Very interesting layout! I like it!
Sep 22nd at 9:54 pm
Hmm, this’ll be most effective for some of my other blogs.
Bon travail WordPress!
Sep 22nd at 10:53 pm
Looks good. I especially like that it’s wider.
Sep 22nd at 11:45 pm
I really like the options for this theme, and I might try it out quite soon once I decide on which blog to use it for. That, and I need to create a nifty banner to go with.
Sep 23rd at 2:41 am
Such a great theme.
Sep 23rd at 4:47 am
Oh my, that is handsome! I’m off to try it on my test blog.
Sep 23rd at 9:16 am
Not half bad, although I’m unsure if I’ll trade.
Sep 23rd at 9:16 am
Nice themes. And I like this one.