More Choices With More Premium Themes
There’s only one thing more exciting than an amazing new WordPress theme available for your site and that’s even more amazing new WordPress themes. With that in mind, I’m excited to announce that today we have three new Premium Themes ready for you! Each one features custom support direct from the theme providers themselves and, of course, stunning designs and cool features. Let’s get right to them and check them out.
First of all, we’re happy to introduce a beautiful and fresh new theme from popular theme provider, StudioPress. It’s called, Pretty Young Thing, and I think you’ll find that it lives up to its name. Underneath the pretty surface is StudioPress’ customizable Genesis framework. It’s available now for the one-time price of $75.
The Pretty Young Thing Theme
From WooThemes, designers of the Headlines theme, comes the appropriately named, Crisp. A handsome and sharp-looking theme designed specifically for Tumblelogging. To do that it takes advantage of eight of our new special Post Formats, giving you special styles for Image, Link, Quote, Video, Audio, Aside, Gallery, and Status posts. It’s available now for the one-time price of $45.
The Crisp Theme
And last, but certainly not least, from The Theme Foundry, who brought you Shelf, comes the Traction theme. Traction is a richly-designed magazine theme with a featured post slider, multiple color schemes, and even more features! It’s available now for the one-time price of $68.
The Traction Theme
While you’re previewing any one of these themes on the theme showcase check out the sidebar. If you love a premium theme you can purchase and activate it right from the showcase page! (In fact, you can activate any theme from the showcase — premium or free — if you’re logged in. Check it out!)
More fantastic and amazing new themes — premium and free — are, as always, on the way. We hope you’re as excited about them as we are. Let us know what you think!
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Wow!! Beautiful themes. Thanks, WordPress.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:10 pm
Love them, especially the Pretty Young Thing theme! Keep ‘em coming!
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:12 pm
I always loved StudioPress themes. I was just wondering lately, why it was not available on WP.com, when others have already made it!
But, I would be the last one to use Pretty Young Thing, because it is most likely to be liked only by female bloggers.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:14 pm
Beautiful themes. But I’d rather buy Black Ops than a theme like this. It’s totally not worth it.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Amazing themes! I am glad to see both free and premium themes coming out regulary. It will be a great challenge to get me to move away from Twenty Ten, though!
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:21 pm
The Traction theme looks so nice! Price is a bit steep though.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Wonderful!!! Especially Traction. Thanks a lot.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:29 pm
What a cute theme! Thanks for sharing ^^! Noting it and using later.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Great theme!
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:40 pm
So can we also edit the theme if we have a CSS upgrade? I’m trying to learn all about that stuff and love the PYT theme but some of the hearts are way too much … just curious.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:43 pm
That’s correct. Every premium theme can be edited with the Custom CSS Upgrade.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:42 pm
I REALLY like the Pretty Young Thing blog. Love the layout and love the color options. It is very “me.” Except for all the hearts. Is there an option to remove the hearts (at least the ones next to each post title)?
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:48 pm
There isn’t an option to remove them in the theme but, if you’re interested in experimenting with CSS, they are something that can be removed with the Custom CSS Upgrade.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:50 pm
@ Sara and Bobbie – like Ian said, the hearts can easily be removed through custom CSS. In fact, you can replace with your own icons as well. Along with the purchase of Pretty Young Thing (or any other premium theme on WP.com) is access to support – where we can help you with the custom CSS changes that would be needed to remove/replace the hearts.
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Nice themes … yet I guess we need more variety of themes. Keep them coming
March 2nd, 2011 at 4:56 pm
I really like the Traction theme. Looks great.
March 2nd, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Thanks so much for the quick response Ian and bmg! And Bobbie, great minds think alike
March 2nd, 2011 at 5:48 pm
I’m using a theme from StudioPress and Genesis is a nice framework. All the themes here look great. Well done!
March 2nd, 2011 at 6:35 pm
I love the Pretty Young Thing theme! Would be great for a girls blog.
March 2nd, 2011 at 6:47 pm
They look great! Hope you offer a dedicated theme for photography and portfolio’s.
March 2nd, 2011 at 7:09 pm
The Traction theme is very beautiful.
March 2nd, 2011 at 7:45 pm
This is nice indeed, but I’m happy with what I have, though I would change it if there was a decent Hellenic theme of some kind. Preferrably NOT premium…
March 2nd, 2011 at 7:55 pm
Great, beautiful themes!
March 2nd, 2011 at 7:56 pm
They are looking good and interesting, but I love my theme too much! I would not change it into another!
Because it has all, what you want or need or even imagine
March 2nd, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Incredible new choices. Pretty Young Thing is far too pretty — and young — and happy for me, but Traction (minus the blue) may be an option — bold and solid.
Thanks as always!
March 2nd, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Super duper.
March 2nd, 2011 at 8:34 pm
When you think things couldn’t get better…there you deliver again. Thank you!
March 2nd, 2011 at 8:48 pm
I like Pretty Young Thing, and Traction, I guess, but I think Crisp is kinda boring.
March 2nd, 2011 at 8:49 pm
I really like the Pretty Young Thing theme!
March 2nd, 2011 at 9:22 pm
I’m liking Traction. To pay or not to pay, that is the question!
March 2nd, 2011 at 9:29 pm
I hope more normal themes comes as I can’t buy any of these.
March 2nd, 2011 at 9:45 pm
More free themes are definitely on the way. Lots more.
March 2nd, 2011 at 10:09 pm
I love the ‘The Pretty Young Thing’ theme, it’s perfect for my Baby blog. Finally …
March 2nd, 2011 at 10:12 pm
OMG! I LOVE Pretty young theme!
March 2nd, 2011 at 10:22 pm
I love Pretty Young Thing but it’s just out of my budget at the moment. If you offered discounts for WP old-timers like me ;3 or bundled it with a CSS upgrade I think I’d be more likely to shell out the 75 bones … but without that, I can’t tweak it, removed ads, or get a custom domain without shelling out ever-increasing piles of cash. Really love it though, it’s very tempting, especially with the grid layout (exactly what I want) and swappable color schemes! Swoon!
March 2nd, 2011 at 10:22 pm
I’m very excited about these and the prospect of more premium themes! The only difficulty is going to be deciding to jump in and buy one when an even better theme may be around the corner.
Love your work guys!
March 2nd, 2011 at 10:23 pm
Wow! You have really been busy. Nice, nice super nice set-ups. Great job.
March 2nd, 2011 at 10:48 pm
The Crisp is great, I bought it and I love it
March 2nd, 2011 at 10:55 pm
I like those themes but I’d rather have a “Free” one. Hehe …
March 3rd, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered (or themed, I suppose). More and more free themes are on the way.
March 2nd, 2011 at 11:16 pm
They all look great!
March 2nd, 2011 at 11:39 pm
Love Traction!
March 3rd, 2011 at 12:37 am
I LOVE that Pretty Young Thing theme … but I live in Finland so I cant pay the prize for it :/
It’s lovely though, just what I’ve been looking for.
March 3rd, 2011 at 12:55 am
Lovely themes. Definitely a plus point in my consideration to go premium!
March 3rd, 2011 at 4:01 am
Absolutely LOVING the new themes! Great Job Guys. Keep up the great work
March 3rd, 2011 at 6:21 am
I like the Traction theme. It’s awesome!
March 3rd, 2011 at 6:43 am
Beautiful themes! Hmmm I wan’t one but I don’t have credits
March 3rd, 2011 at 10:45 am
Really looking good! So far the only thing that is keeping me from seriously considering the premium themes is price. I realize this is a one-time purchase, and one that comes with an extra special support option, but even so it’s pretty much outside my budget. But, keep them coming!
March 3rd, 2011 at 11:51 am
Great work !
I like all of them
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:43 pm
I like the Traction one.
March 3rd, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I would like to see more journalist type theme choices.
March 3rd, 2011 at 3:05 pm
As a teenage girl, I really loveeeeee the ‘Pretty young thing’, and as a teenage girl, I can’t afford 75 bucks for this!!!
March 3rd, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Absolutely stunning themes, I stumbled on WordPress and I am so delighted I did. This is an incredible site with wonderful blogs and what looks lik a great community of writers. Thank you.
March 3rd, 2011 at 8:27 pm
The wonderful about thing about the premium themes is that the fonts are well-chosen and large enough to be readable. For most of the free themes, especially the ones with good graphics, the fonts are annoyingly tiny or just annoyingly gray.
March 4th, 2011 at 1:55 am
None of these premium templates would fit my blog but I’d pay $100 to have someone design a template just for me
(that other WordPress users could use, too, of course).
March 4th, 2011 at 3:03 am
Nah, me going to stay with my current free theme (Oulipo) for a looooong time. Had gotten comfortable and so fond of it. Nonetheless, kudos to you all WordPress staffs for spoiling us for good by coming up with so many creative themes.
March 4th, 2011 at 5:40 am
Neat… very nice themes.
March 4th, 2011 at 7:32 am
Cool! I want more, more, more!
March 5th, 2011 at 3:05 am
I love The Crisp Theme, but I can’t afford it, even I use it sometimes.
March 5th, 2011 at 11:13 am
You are great, guys! Thanks for all you’ve done and will do!
March 5th, 2011 at 1:06 pm
The Traction theme is cool, great design!
March 5th, 2011 at 2:02 pm
I love Traction, very nice!
March 5th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Thanks to the WordPress.com for introducing powerful themes (Premium or Free). The spirit of WordPress.com to help bloggers get more traffic is highly appreciated.
March 5th, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Awesome! Nice design. It would be cool if we could make our own designs!
March 6th, 2011 at 12:00 am
Very sharp! Will certainly consider a Premium theme once I’m further down the road with 36broadway.
March 6th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Nice themes, one for everyone…keep ‘em coming!
March 7th, 2011 at 1:53 am
Love the Pretty Young Thing theme. I like the Traction theme also, but I don’t like the search box and menu bar at the bottom.
March 8th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I like the Crisp theme. Great designs!
March 8th, 2011 at 9:12 pm
Ohhh, what a set of gorgeous themes! I love the Crisp and Traction theme, in fact this might be just the template I need to spruce up my movie blog! THANKS!!
March 9th, 2011 at 3:42 am
Traction is awsome! Clean & fresh-
March 9th, 2011 at 4:11 am
I’ve been looking for a new theme…and I love Crisp and Traction!
March 10th, 2011 at 6:34 am
Nice! Traction gets my vote, very cool.
March 10th, 2011 at 7:07 am
The new themes look great and I might consider using one…. Would it be possible to trial a theme before buying? If your site is complicated the instant theme preview doesn’t always work great because you need to get into the theme and make some changes to get the best out of it.
Id like to be able to create a virtual site and play around with the settings then decide to buy or not.
Obviously self hosted wordpress.org is more flexible…. But I prefer wordpress.com.
Thanks guys
March 14th, 2011 at 8:43 pm
I really do like the Pretty Young Thing theme, but I’m going to stick to the free services.
March 15th, 2011 at 9:48 pm
I love Pretty Young Thing! It’s very fresh and colorful. A lot of the themes you make seem very similar to one another, but this one’s different. I, for one, would love to see more unique, customizable themes.