New Theme: Fruit Shake
Over five years ago, when WordPress.com was just getting started, we launched a theme that has become near and dear to many of us. A theme that even then stood out from all the others with its, well, its banana-smoothie-ness. It’s about time to shake up the Banana Smoothie, isn’t it? Maybe even give some other fruit a shake? We think so. Let’s take a look at its delicious successor, Fruit Shake.
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The goal of Fruit Shake was to capture Banana Smoothie’s essence and serve it up to everyone with a refreshed design — and even more fruity flavor. Hence, your choice of three fruit-flavored color schemes: Banana, Blueberry, and my favorite, Dragon Fruit. And just like, Banana Smoothie did, Fruit Shake comes with its own fruit shake recipe widget — courtesy of the incomparable Jane Wells — that lets you share your love of bananas, blueberries, and dragon fruit with your blog readers. Also, there may or may not be a secret, unlockable, fruit in Fruit Shake. Or not. I can’t say much more than that except, well, it might be a secret. If it even exists.
Of course, if you just like the basic colors of Fruit Shake you can also personalize the design with your own custom header and custom background image. You can even remove all the widgets from the sidebar in Appearance → Widgets and create a sleek tumblelog look for your blog. In other words, you don’t have to be obsessed with fruit to enjoy Fruit Shake. It doesn’t hurt though. 
If you want to know more about the cool features in Fruit Shake we’ve made a page that outlines them all on the Theme Showcase. You can read up on Fruit Shake there and check out a live demo or just activate it on your blog and start experimenting! And if you have a self-hosted installation of WordPress you haven’t been left out of the fun. Fruit Shake will be making its way to the official WordPress Theme directory where you can download it and install it on your blog.
July 5th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Clean and basic. Love it!
July 5th, 2011 at 6:08 pm
Fruity flavour and customizable too. Nice work.
July 5th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Just beautiful, every one of them.
July 5th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
Love the concept. Good for foodie blogs.
July 5th, 2011 at 6:13 pm
The blueberry shake is beautiful.
July 5th, 2011 at 6:14 pm
To me it looks like a CSS modification of the Twenty Eleven theme. With some CSS wizardry, couldn’t I make Twenty Eleven look pretty close to this?
July 5th, 2011 at 6:21 pm
You could get pretty close! The markup and features are a little different though. Plus, there’re no secret fruit flavors in Twenty Eleven. Not that there are any in Fruit Shake, of course. Maybe.
July 5th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Awesome. My blogging buddy uses The Banana Smoothie theme. Good job, WordPress!
July 5th, 2011 at 6:23 pm
I didn’t even know Dragon Fruit was a real thing. This theme looks tasty!
July 5th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Good job. So clean and simple.
July 5th, 2011 at 6:48 pm
I like it:)
July 5th, 2011 at 7:09 pm
Love it! But how would one go about unlocking the secret fruit that doesn’t exist?! Any hints?
July 5th, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Well, if I was using a theme with a secret fruit (if such a theme existed) I’d probably just activate it, keep blogging every day like normal, and just generally poke around. Sometimes secrets just come out. Hypothetically, of course.
July 5th, 2011 at 7:10 pm
I like the look of this theme – enough color to be interesting, easily readable fonts, doesn’t squish my photos or chop them off. I might have to switch from Choco!
July 5th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
THANK YOU!!
I’ll definitely have to check this out with my own.
Thank you. Again.
July 5th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Thanks for the hypothetical help!
July 5th, 2011 at 7:23 pm
Brilliant. Makes me want to write blogs again.
July 5th, 2011 at 7:33 pm
Yeah!!! Banana shake!
July 5th, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Once again, I expected something that was more fun, richer and whimsical. Once again, it’s a purist’s summer fantasy. I love WP, I really, deeply do, but why can’t you guys make more baroque and lavish themes for those of us who don’t need all that zen attitude on our blog? Only Koi (which I’m using and loving) is like that and I really, really wish there were more themes in the same vein. Please consider this!
July 5th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
Consider it considered. We’ll see what we can do about getting more themes as whimsical as Koi launched for you and everyone else.
July 5th, 2011 at 8:11 pm
Very nice theme. I haven’t changed themes for a long time. I’m definitely giving this one a try.
July 5th, 2011 at 8:58 pm
Looks interesting.
July 5th, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Congratulations, WP.com!
This is a very good theme addition for bloggers who write about food. Definitely fruity and enticing for readers to have a taste. It would definitely rock if only it had dropdown menus for better navigation.
Cheers!
July 6th, 2011 at 11:59 am
Fruit Shake has built-in dropdown menus that are hidden by default. To enable them just add a menu to the primary navigation area in Appearance → Menus.
July 5th, 2011 at 9:21 pm
This sounds pretty awesome!
July 5th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Thanks for the new theme. Did not quite think it was my up of tea, but after seeing “Aileen” using it on her Blog, i’m starting to like it
But i am happy with my theme at the moment 
July 5th, 2011 at 9:36 pm
Ooo. Very nice, though I think this theme will make a lot of readers quite peckish.
July 5th, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Scrumptious and simple; love the colors!
July 5th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
I was thinking of changing from Mystique (too dark for my taste right now), and this might be just what I need! I’ll probably replace the fruit with a typewriter, though…or fried chicken.
July 5th, 2011 at 10:02 pm
Ohhhh, loving this
!
July 5th, 2011 at 10:16 pm
I like it! it’s bright and eye catching.
July 5th, 2011 at 10:22 pm
Lovely and very colorful. If I had a blog about food, I’d use it for sure. Looks like it would be nice for other things too.
July 5th, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Very cool looking, makes me wish I had a foody blog but cooking is not my strong suit-although eating is.
July 5th, 2011 at 11:18 pm
Great theme, refreshing and clean. Wouldn’t fit the style of my site but you cannot deny the simplistic attraction of the theme
July 5th, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Is there a chance of introducing new themes with small header area for those of us who may not wish to emphasize header images but still want them anyway? Thanks, please consider this aspect as well since lately all the new themes seems to carry large header images.
July 6th, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Yep. You’ll be seeing more themes coming up with reduced headers, no headers on activation, and, of course, more themes with big headers too.
July 5th, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Fresh and Zesty!
July 6th, 2011 at 12:23 am
It`s very nice andI tried with it. This really shakes my blog so much.
Thanks!
July 6th, 2011 at 12:38 am
Yummy!
I’ll consider this one for the future.
July 6th, 2011 at 12:50 am
Awesome theme update. I look forward to see other old themes get a make over.
July 6th, 2011 at 12:54 am
I like it
July 6th, 2011 at 12:56 am
Sexy theme! I love it.
July 6th, 2011 at 1:34 am
Excellent Theme.
July 6th, 2011 at 2:00 am
That dragon fruit is flat-out delectable. Love it. And am now inexplicably craving super white tuna sushi. Thanks a lot!
July 6th, 2011 at 2:10 am
Hmmm, seems a bit girly and colorful….but perhaps that was the intent….
More free magazine themes please!
July 6th, 2011 at 2:18 am
Love the different color options!
July 6th, 2011 at 3:02 am
Nice, especially for fruit, food or kitchen-y blogs
July 6th, 2011 at 3:31 am
“Delicious Magazine”, followed by “Fruit Shake”. You guys are really making me hungry.
That said, it’s nicely understated and easy on the eye. I’m not quite ready to change themes yet, but I’ll definitely consider this one when I do…
July 6th, 2011 at 3:32 am
The theme looks very fresh. And the screen edible, is what i would say
That of course means a real good work. Thumbs up! 
July 6th, 2011 at 3:37 am
Made me crave for a banana
July 6th, 2011 at 5:36 am
Awesome theme! I was going to request you add support for menus in, but low and behold, they’re already in there
I haven’t found the secret fruity goodness yet, but am eagerly awaiting stumbling across whatever that may be.
July 6th, 2011 at 6:05 am
Looks good.
July 6th, 2011 at 7:42 am
For some reason it made me giggle. It looks very fun though. I love the changing colours.
July 6th, 2011 at 8:57 am
Cool theme, but I’ll stick to my current one
July 6th, 2011 at 9:16 am
Good work but i prefer Twenty Eleven.
July 6th, 2011 at 10:27 am
I like it very much. Thanks for your work.
July 6th, 2011 at 11:45 am
Very, very nice!!! But I miss a green-fruit theme!
July 6th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Perfect new theme for my new food blog!
July 6th, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Love it! I love the ones with more color.
July 6th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
if only i had a fruit blog!
July 6th, 2011 at 4:59 pm
Cutel Not for me, but cute.
July 6th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Fantastic theme! My only suggestion would be to put the “Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Fruit Shake by Automattic.” part at the bottom of the page instead of in the widget area.
July 6th, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Ha! That’s FUN!
But nothing for me. I LOVE my recent theme!!
July 6th, 2011 at 7:06 pm
The only problem here is that the bananas are unripe.
July 7th, 2011 at 11:31 am
I ate one of those bananas shortly after taking that header photo. They were ripe enough to eat.
July 6th, 2011 at 10:46 pm
Am trying out the Dragon Fruit version for a bit. It’s really smooth.
July 7th, 2011 at 2:14 am
Mm, I don’t like it at all.
July 7th, 2011 at 6:41 am
I like the banana shake better. :<
July 7th, 2011 at 11:01 am
Interesting… but why not a theme based on ice – cream? ^^ I would love it! However good work!
July 7th, 2011 at 11:46 am
Looks great! I like the colours too.
July 7th, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Damn, I’m hungry now. Thanks.
July 7th, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Yeah, I must get it now.
July 7th, 2011 at 3:24 pm
It okay. It’s not as good as some others you’ve put out. But keep working! We all like it when yet another example of your (WP’s) dedication to blogging is shown. Okay, maybe I better not speak for others.
Just kidding.
July 7th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Nice one!
July 7th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Thank you for making my blog juicy and refreshing.
July 7th, 2011 at 5:58 pm
Very beautiful theme.
July 7th, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Thanks for this nich theme! I love it <3
July 7th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Yummy!
July 7th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
I like it!
July 8th, 2011 at 1:29 am
Such a yummy theme! Mmmmmm…
July 8th, 2011 at 7:27 am
Very, very nice! But I miss a green-fruit theme!
July 8th, 2011 at 7:54 am
Cool !!!!!
July 8th, 2011 at 12:30 pm
I like the yellow…
July 8th, 2011 at 11:34 pm
I like this!!!
July 9th, 2011 at 4:06 am
Great job, cool!!
July 9th, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Looks delicious. Perfect for summer heat!
July 9th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
The banana theme is great!
July 10th, 2011 at 1:02 am
This theme is making me hungry.
July 10th, 2011 at 7:38 am
Very cool. Love the pink!
July 10th, 2011 at 10:29 am
Interesting theme!
July 10th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
I like it !!!
July 11th, 2011 at 7:35 am
Love the vibe.
July 11th, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Clean and user friendly! Great!
July 11th, 2011 at 5:42 pm
Keep up the excellent work!
July 12th, 2011 at 6:22 am
Just activated it with the dragon fruit… my blog looks very girly in pink. Good job WordPress.
July 12th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
A good kind of fruity.
July 13th, 2011 at 1:11 am
I like how the fruit and layout matches. Yum
July 13th, 2011 at 3:29 am
the theme looks ugly I hate to say, might want to improve on your Colour skills buddy.
July 13th, 2011 at 4:21 am
I really like the organization and the fonts, especially for the one-column version of this theme. Too bad, the header is compulsory.
July 13th, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Looks great!
July 13th, 2011 at 11:52 pm
I like this one.
July 15th, 2011 at 9:06 am
I love the theme and would like to use it on WordPress.org. However I didn’t find it in the theme selection there. Will it be available on .org at some point?
July 19th, 2011 at 7:31 pm
We haven’t submitted it to the WordPress.org Themes Directory yet, but we will do so very soon.
July 17th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Really happy with it! love the pastel tones and design.