New Theme: The Morning After
Say hello to The Morning After, a classic and popular magazine-style theme that has withstood the test of time. Based on its great success for self-hosted sites we’re excited to bring it to you for the first time on WordPress.com.
Introduced in 2007 by Arun Kale, The Morning After was a game-changer as the first magazine style theme for WordPress; it is still considered by many to be the top of its class. In June 2010 WooThemes announced it was taking over the theme:
Considering the significance of this theme, we jumped at the opportunity. We felt that [The Morning After] started so many things in the WordPress community… and we wanted to put our weight behind one of the “pillars” of that community.
The Morning After sports a special home page template with featured posts, three available widget areas, and special styles for posts in the “Aside” format. Also included is an optional full-width page template that removes the sidebar and full support for a custom menu, header and background. A robust theme options menu allows for further customization: header links, page headings, full or partial content an archive pages, and more.
Read more about The Morning After on the Theme Showcase.
The Morning After is now available in your WordPress.com dashboard and, for self-hosted sites as a download from WooThemes.
April 8th, 2011 at 8:45 pm
This is a great theme, I just wish I could get it to work properly on a self-hosted site. :/
April 8th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Very nice theme indeed ! But I’m still waiting for a theme with no sidebars, only footers, similar to “Modulaity Lite” but with capability to post huge pictures, full size, above 1200×800.
April 8th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Nice work.
April 8th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
In a word, spectacular!
April 8th, 2011 at 9:09 pm
I like this look though. Very nice and clean. I love what I have now but wish I had a larger header image area and viewing the menu on a laptop sometimes cuts off all the pages in the menu.
April 8th, 2011 at 9:35 pm
I really like this one. Awesome addition!
April 8th, 2011 at 9:45 pm
Wow, what a great theme! One of the best.
April 8th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
Thank you, very nice theme. I really like this theme!
April 8th, 2011 at 9:52 pm
This is a very nifty theme. I will try to use it soon.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Ohhhh, I love it.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Looks nice, will try it later.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:13 pm
Looks like a good one. I like “robust theme options.”
April 8th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Sorry, but this theme makes me think of the morning after pill. Rethink the name?
April 9th, 2011 at 3:43 am
Hi Eric—we used the same name given to the theme by its maker back in 2007.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:20 pm
Clean, but not boring and colorless. Nicely done.
April 8th, 2011 at 10:39 pm
I like it. Very elegant, classy, clear cut. Thank you!
April 8th, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Fantastic! Very well done!
April 8th, 2011 at 11:04 pm
I initially thought the screenshot looked a little too cluttered, but considering it’s a magazine style, it’s actually quite effective. Cool.
April 8th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Very sleek and functional. I didn’t know certain themes were so well known in the WordPress community. Should have figued some were, though. The choice of a theme and how to personalize it are important.
April 8th, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Very attractive one!
April 8th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Thank you so much. I will try this theme.
April 8th, 2011 at 11:33 pm
Thank you for this theme, great job.
April 9th, 2011 at 12:14 am
By far, one of the better themes developed for WordPress this year.
April 9th, 2011 at 3:45 am
Glad you like it. But, do you mean, “one of the better themes developed for WordPress in the last 4 years?” It’s new to WordPress.com but it’s not a new theme.
April 9th, 2011 at 12:21 am
I’ll have to give this one a try. Thanks.
April 9th, 2011 at 1:30 am
I love it.
April 9th, 2011 at 1:48 am
Thank you for introducing the theme to us, thanks.
April 9th, 2011 at 1:53 am
Interesting, not my style but very nice.
April 9th, 2011 at 1:56 am
Of course I’ll try this theme as soon as possible, very nice.
April 9th, 2011 at 2:07 am
I would consider switching from 2010 if the header picture was a little larger. I can’t see all of my Cahaba Lily like I can on 2010.
April 9th, 2011 at 2:08 am
IT’s funny you came out with a new theme today…because last night I got totally bored and fed up with my blog, then thought about deleting it, then decided to completely change it this morning. LO and behold, you have this….so now I need to revamp AGAIN what I started last night.
April 9th, 2011 at 2:14 am
Just try out “The Morning After” theme, it looks good if you like the default 3 column layout. There is no option to allow you to turn off or change it to single/two columns, thus you need to like what it has for you! Anyway, this theme is very suitable for frequent updates, or multiple author blogs, where it will display the profile of the author at end of single posts. By the way, so far still cannot find any perfect theme for photography showcase…
April 9th, 2011 at 3:17 am
Yeah, it looks great, but not much room for a header picture. And the writing is smaller. I often wonder if shortened posts to “read more” is an attractive feature or a turn-off to people though? Thoughts anyone?!
April 9th, 2011 at 3:25 am
Very clean. Love it!
April 9th, 2011 at 4:30 am
Amazing theme, love it! Much better than any of the other themes I have used prior to this point.
April 9th, 2011 at 4:31 am
You’ve made my day! This is exactly how I imagined my new blog, although if I’m honest, this looks better then I imagined.
April 9th, 2011 at 6:03 am
Very intriguing!
April 9th, 2011 at 6:03 am
This is a great, if not the greatest, adaptation in WordPress Theme gallery. Congratulations guys!
April 9th, 2011 at 6:05 am
Wow, this is fantastic! Thank you, very nice theme. I really like this theme!
April 9th, 2011 at 6:10 am
Interesting! Nice work.
April 9th, 2011 at 6:39 am
Nice, I like it, but it’s more a new style theme so it wouldn’t go with my blog.
April 9th, 2011 at 7:17 am
The word “Classic” should be reserved for cases like this one. Thanks for the work guys!
April 9th, 2011 at 7:28 am
Great theme which works well with my techmum work in progress concept. Would be nice to see a few more magazine style themes as well.
April 9th, 2011 at 9:58 am
The colour combination, fonts, and the wide body makes it an excellent match for my choice. But I think it does not have footer columns, like theme 2010. I will check it out.
April 9th, 2011 at 9:58 am
I really like this one. Awesome addition! I tried it and I love it. Thank you.
April 9th, 2011 at 10:19 am
Looks sharp. It seems like a good match for the magazine style I’m going for. Thanks.
April 9th, 2011 at 10:28 am
Oh… I like it. Might have to try it on for size.
April 9th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Beautiful and I love it.
April 9th, 2011 at 11:15 am
This is my new favorite theme, thanks.
April 9th, 2011 at 11:45 am
i could just stare at this and fall in love with WP all over again. thx so much for making this a regular theme.
April 9th, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Cool, but I’ll stick to my present theme.
April 9th, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Looks great, will be giving it a try.
April 9th, 2011 at 1:39 pm
A lil’ messy looking…
April 9th, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Great!! I was waiting for a template like this. Nice!!!
April 9th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
I love the photo! Reminds me of autumn in Minnesota, where I grew up. I invite everyone to visit my home page and let me know if you like the header.
April 9th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Cool theme… i like it.
April 9th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Really like the look of this theme.
April 9th, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Clean and elegant theme, activated at first sight. (I think my blog’s been the second one to migrate.)
April 9th, 2011 at 3:45 pm
I like my Greyzed one the best… I’ve tried so many but none is ever feels like it “suits” me! When i do change it those who know tell me to change it back because its not me! I’m getting paranoid now!
April 9th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
Not really my style, but nice theme nonetheless.
April 9th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Really nice! Great work!
April 9th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Keep the designs coming! Love to try out the look of all your new designs, however I also love the one I have presently (Koi) much more. Any other similar artistic designs in the works?
April 11th, 2011 at 4:10 am
We hope to launch many more themes this year, of all types and styles, so stay tuned.
April 9th, 2011 at 6:11 pm
As it has been around since 2007 I think it is well established.
April 9th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Really like this and Basic Maths.
April 9th, 2011 at 7:29 pm
So many features! Love the range of options for home page. Great work!
April 9th, 2011 at 9:40 pm
I love the name “The Morning After”! That’s great. Sounds like music.
April 10th, 2011 at 12:04 am
Very cool and elegant!
April 10th, 2011 at 5:41 am
Yeah, I second Eric’s thoughts that the first thing I thought of, was the Morning After Pill, too. I’m sticking with the Modularity Lite theme for now. I will say that I do find myself visiting WordPress.com more often to find out if a new theme has been released.
April 10th, 2011 at 7:15 am
Hi, I really like this theme.
April 10th, 2011 at 11:29 am
This looks very good. I’ll have to check out if it can handle the tables I do from time to time nicely.
If so, I think it would be worth changing onto it.
April 10th, 2011 at 1:04 pm
This is a very nice theme.
April 10th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Alright. I am so changing to this theme now. Thanks for introducing the nice themes.
April 10th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
“Don’t say a prayer for me now… Save it ’til The Morning After…” (Duran Duran. Sorry, couldn’t resist.) Quite nice theme. Will it ever have a dark version?
April 11th, 2011 at 4:09 am
We don’t have plans for a dark version, but that’s a great idea. We’ll keep it in mind for a future update.
April 10th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
That’s gorgeous. Heading straight over to preview town!
April 10th, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Nice…clean and simple. Looks like a hybrid of a couple themes already offered on WordPress.
April 10th, 2011 at 11:55 pm
This theme looks quite interesting though.
April 11th, 2011 at 8:19 am
Amazing! Good job.
April 11th, 2011 at 9:29 am
Very nice work! Congratulations!
April 11th, 2011 at 10:01 am
Oh my. That looks gorgeous.
April 11th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Oh yeah, I’m using it since yesterday, and baby, it’s good! Probably I’m gonna use it for a very long, long time.
April 11th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Lovely theme, mate.
April 11th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Looks cool, elegant, calm… nice template style.
April 11th, 2011 at 3:04 pm
I like it and I think I might possibly give it a try.
April 11th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Maybe I spent too much of my growing up time in Reagan’s ’80s, but a Morning After theme makes me think of ABC doomsday-inspired mini-series scenarios. Don’t the Russians love their children, too?
April 11th, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Simply boring.
April 11th, 2011 at 6:35 pm
I really look forward to accessing this theme. I need more variety.
April 11th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
The layout looks pretty cool. I might use it on my blog.
April 11th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Way to go!
April 11th, 2011 at 9:01 pm
So many great new themes to choose from! Thanks WordPress! Now for the hard work of re-thinking my blogs and trying out some new themes.
April 11th, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Aguona is right. Simply boring. In fact I’m beyond the barrier of boredom and into a complete new phase of boring when I see this. It’s almost as bad as Basic Maths.
April 11th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Oh! My dear it is complety exciting! I Just like because of the structure and it various features and the simplicity of the colors.
April 11th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
It looks like a clean, elegant theme.
April 11th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
This one is definitely worthy of a try. I love the cool, clean look and the fact that it has the Asides. LOL … so many themes, I’m having a hard time staying with just one look!
April 11th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Thank you this is the BEST Theme that I have managed to come across. Looks great and loads of options.
April 12th, 2011 at 3:34 am
Looks like I am gonna switch!
April 12th, 2011 at 5:04 am
Looks too plain. On my theme there is action but not so much that it takes away from the content? The demo looks fairly busy, but if the “Latest Post” didn’t include a picture, it would be very boring. Thumbs down.
April 12th, 2011 at 5:07 am
It’s a neat layout, but please count my vote for a dark or customizable background color.
April 12th, 2011 at 7:56 am
One word: nice. Great to know it’s for free.
April 12th, 2011 at 9:14 am
I think I’ll put this theme on my blog.
April 12th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
A nice theme, but its not something I would use.
April 12th, 2011 at 1:44 pm
The morning after tomorrow.
April 12th, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Nice theme. Really like the style.