New Theme: Manifest
When we think about the very basic fundamentals of blogging and expressing ideas we find the clear practice of writing. Today we are launching a new theme which tries to reflect precisely on that. Manifest is a wonderful theme for writers.
This is a theme that presents your creations in an elegant and powerfully clean way, offering your readers an intimate and direct experience with your thoughts.
The Manifest Theme
With content being the clear focus in Manifest, you can create different types of posts by choosing appropriate post formats. You can create image posts, link posts, asides, and Manifest will present them in the same neat, clutter free way it shows your regular text posts. You can even add a subtle header image to bring a personal touch to the design.
The Manifest Theme was designed by Jim Barraud. Go and learn more about it on the theme showcase, or activate it right away at Appearance → Themes. And once you are done, just start posting.
Jul 14th at 4:53 pm
Awesome theme
Love it!
Jul 14th at 4:53 pm
LOVE THIS LOVE THIS LOVE THIS!
Jul 14th at 4:55 pm
I like the diffirent opportunities of post styles like image post, link posts etc.
That’s a very helpfull funcition. But for me, it’s too clear!
I love colours ans such things. In spite of that, a very nice theme!
Jul 14th at 4:56 pm
Awesome Fonts. Looks brilliant in theme preview. Can give this a try.
Jul 14th at 4:59 pm
You guys are a on a roll… A theme-a-day mode
Jul 14th at 5:00 pm
i’m waiting for theme like this!
Jul 14th at 5:00 pm
Neat and elegant, nice one!
Jul 14th at 5:01 pm
Good, but too white!
…but I like it!
Jul 14th at 5:08 pm
Kinda like manifest yourself.
Jul 14th at 5:11 pm
Nice theme for my ballerinas
Jul 14th at 5:12 pm
Very minimalistic. Looks a lot like Tumblr.
Jul 14th at 5:19 pm
I’ve been playing with this nice little tumbleblog style theme in my test blog. The custom menu and post formats are great features. I like Manifest very much and think I may use it on a new blog I intend to create for daily featured images and quotes. Thanks for adding it.
Jul 14th at 5:20 pm
Nice Theme….
Jul 14th at 5:26 pm
Very nice. Simple and elegant.
Jul 14th at 5:38 pm
Nice and tidy!
Jul 14th at 5:48 pm
Ooooh, I’m liking the look of this theme. I might switch!
Jul 14th at 5:52 pm
Too many nice themes!
Jul 14th at 6:00 pm
Lov’it, lov’it, lov’it. So clean, so fresh.
Jul 14th at 6:01 pm
Matiaaaassss!!! LIKE LIKE LIKE !!!!
Jul 14th at 6:09 pm
I love this! Very nice!!
Jul 14th at 6:34 pm
It’s simple and beautiful! I might have to try it out…
Jul 14th at 6:34 pm
I like this, it’s simply yet kind of sophisticated. I guess a more artistic person would say ‘minimalist’
Jul 14th at 6:44 pm
Very nice, clean and minimalistic (or “clear”). It might be too minimalistic for me, but overall its another great theme.
Jul 14th at 6:51 pm
I do believe this is my dream theme “made manifest.” I just might now be ready to release my heretofore undying attachment to Chaotic Soul and come into the light. Thanks, WP!
Jul 14th at 7:23 pm
This looks like a good theme. I might use it.
Jul 14th at 7:36 pm
You’re totally rockin’out lately! Love your themes
Jul 14th at 7:40 pm
Mo’ themes – straight over to preview.
Jul 14th at 7:41 pm
Love all the new themes…except that now I’m like a kid in a candy shop.
Jul 14th at 7:48 pm
Very nice!
Jul 14th at 8:20 pm
Beautiful and classic
Jul 14th at 8:55 pm
Wow. Stunningly simple.
Easy on the eye like Fruit Shake, but without all the bananas…
Jul 14th at 9:05 pm
It was as if you went inside my head and made the theme I wanted. Wow. I was just lamenting the lack of themes that use a serif font and here you are giving me one.
Jul 14th at 9:13 pm
Hi Matias!
Although this isn’t exactly the theme that I’ve been waiting for, I commend you for acknowledging writing as the core of blogging. We also appreciate this theme which focuses more on articles, the written word, and the very basics. Very clean and minimal, it’s definitely a sexy theme! Perfect for the poetry blog project that I plan to start! Keep them coming, Theme Team!
Cheers!
Jul 14th at 9:30 pm
Very clean and sophisticated.
Jul 14th at 9:42 pm
Wow.. 4 themes in a row. WordPress, you cannot be stopped.
Jul 14th at 10:05 pm
Cool!
Jul 14th at 10:09 pm
IMO, this is one of the great themes. I remember seeing this three years ago, loving it and writing a CSS skin for it. Kudos for offering it for free and for finally giving us a truly beautiful, truly minimalistic theme.
Jul 14th at 10:45 pm
Sweeeet!
Jul 14th at 10:59 pm
Minimal; but classy. I like it.
Jul 14th at 11:41 pm
Love it! I’ve been waiting for a theme like this for a long time! Thanks, WordPress!
Jul 14th at 11:48 pm
I love the cleanliness, but a little bland for me.
Although, 4 NEW Themes in a row….
That’s amazing in itself. THANK YOU!!
Jul 15th at 12:17 am
Very nice theme, awesome. People who love to make the blog with images will definitely use it
Jul 15th at 12:36 am
I love this layout, clean, simple to use and with a few options to accentuate your post…. nice work!
Jul 15th at 12:48 am
IMHO the best/nice themes that came up in the latter days/month are the Premiums. Since we have them, free themes that came up are not good.
Jul 15th at 1:30 am
I think I am in love! With the theme and the theme team. Gorgeous.
Jul 15th at 1:31 am
Hmmm…very nice!!
Jul 15th at 1:54 am
This looks pretty exotic to me
Love the central layout of it.
Jul 15th at 2:21 am
Finally. This is fantastic.
Jul 15th at 2:30 am
It’s neat.
I like it.
Jul 15th at 2:43 am
It is really nice, but I like themes with more color. Still really awesome, but i would like to see some more with come soild colors.
Jul 15th at 2:51 am
You did it well.
Jul 15th at 2:56 am
I think it is too white and it doesn’t have any features I want. And also I feel dizzy with the menu.
Jul 15th at 3:15 am
Sweet! It looks a bit like the starting page of a book chapter. Great for writers and readers!
Jul 15th at 4:00 am
That’s one cool theme!
Jul 15th at 4:12 am
You guys are on a theme-ing spree! This is just in time for my b&w photo blog! Arigato gozaimasu!
Jul 15th at 4:48 am
So elegant and clean. I love it!
Jul 15th at 4:58 am
Wow, WP. You’re just pumping out the new themes. This new one is elegant…well done and thank you.
Jul 15th at 5:09 am
My all-time favorite! Been using it from the time it was created for WP dot org and couldn’t be any happier!
Jul 15th at 6:21 am
So, so clean. Nice.
Jul 15th at 6:42 am
Great theme, I love it.
Jul 15th at 6:49 am
Very nice.
Jul 15th at 7:21 am
Clean and simple, just what I was looking for.
Jul 15th at 8:36 am
Very nice! Clean and crisp, kudos!
Jul 15th at 10:15 am
Love it. Very clean. Thanks for sharing this!
Jul 15th at 11:13 am
Stealing from tumbr are we? I still prefer the modified TwentyTen theme: http://bit.ly/arfVWE
Jul 15th at 5:35 pm
The original Manifest by Jim was developed a long time ago for WordPress.org. See: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/the-new-theme-manifest-was-copied-from-tumblr?replies=3#post-647659
Jul 15th at 11:40 am
More and more themes available to WP.com users!! Keep up the good job, WP.com developers, really no regret to pick WP.com as my blog platform, instead of blogspot, lol!!
Jul 15th at 12:37 pm
This is a clean and fresh theme. It may be too simple for some, or drab without a picture in every post, but it is not-distracting.
Jul 15th at 1:26 pm
“I commend you for acknowledging writing as the core of blogging.” my words exactly, but videologs, photoblogs and podcasting are kinda important too..
I hope to see more themes upgraded, like pilcrow and coraline was a upgrade of old great themes… waiting for a upgrade on k2, dreaming cost nothing!
Jul 15th at 5:57 pm
Stay tuned
Jul 15th at 3:06 pm
Very clean and good theme. Although this does not soot the genre of my current blog, but is a candidate for a blog which i am thinking to make in future.
Jul 15th at 3:16 pm
Looks simple but easy to use… love it…
Jul 15th at 4:07 pm
Thanks for the theme
Jul 15th at 4:33 pm
Absolutely beautiful and, might I add – finally!
I’ve been waiting for and wishing something just like this.
Jul 15th at 8:26 pm
Blistering!
Jul 15th at 8:30 pm
It is so nice and clean… very powerful presentation…
I just hope people realize that this is not just a copy of Tumblr – I’ve been waiting for a WordPress blog theme this sleek and eye-catching!!!!
Jul 15th at 9:18 pm
Nice and clean theme but to much of white spaces. Should be an option for backgrounds color!
Thanks for many good and crative themes at WP!
Jul 15th at 9:25 pm
Very clean, very nice theme. Great job!
Jul 16th at 12:07 am
Love it, but having hard time putting in custom header photo.
Jul 16th at 12:35 am
Quiet. Simplicity. So simple it’s more powerful. I’ve been waiting for a theme like this and now I’ve found it. Thank you!
Jul 16th at 2:37 am
I am going to try it
Jul 16th at 9:22 am
It’s pretty, cool – but a little plain. I still like it, though.
Jul 16th at 3:28 pm
WOAH! I like that a lot. What a gorgeous picture.
Approved.
Jul 16th at 4:32 pm
I know I keep saying this, but as I tink around with Manifest it think it’s so elegant. Thanks, Matías.
Jul 16th at 6:57 pm
Good, completly white!
Jul 16th at 7:02 pm
I must be in a minority, but am I the only one who thinks WordPress themes (don’t get me wrong, I’m all in with WordPress) are not sufficiently removed from each other? It sometimes seems like very little effort is put in from one theme to the next.
Jul 16th at 9:23 pm
Wow, very nice.
Jul 16th at 9:24 pm
Ok, I’ve decided to use Manifest. Question, in the demo above, “About” and “Archives” are represented on a horizontal line, but on my blog (http://interpolations.wordpress.com), they’re vertically organized. How do I change them? I much prefer the nice horizontal layout. It’s much more balanced that way. Please advise. Thanks! Again, a great theme, and I may very well stay with it and say bye to Contempt. Cheers, Kevin
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Jul 17th at 1:31 am
Wonderful! If I had the words to do it justice, I would so change my theme. Love it.
Jul 17th at 2:50 am
i love this
Jul 17th at 3:47 am
Minimalistic. Love it!
Jul 17th at 8:11 am
Nice Theme dude! looks great!
Jul 17th at 11:42 am
Tumblr by another name, n’est-ce pas? That said, good for you. I have an account with tumblr (used for ‘scrapbook’ like posts) but their servers have been very unreliable over the last year or so (unlike wp.com, which is very reliable in comparison).
Jul 17th at 5:32 pm
Thank you so much for offering this theme; I was actually considering moving away to another host with own domain just so I could install Manifest, and then you posted it. Now that’s timing!
It’s truly beautiful, and I’m so glad you’ve included it on WP.com. I really like typography themes, and would be excited to see more of them.
Jul 17th at 6:11 pm
A very clean presentation.
Jul 17th at 10:46 pm
I like the picture- Looks gorgeous
Jul 17th at 11:29 pm
Oh My! I like this one. Spacial.
Jul 18th at 12:28 am
Thats a good one, I love it.
Jul 18th at 4:40 am
Tumblr-esque. Simple. No distractions. Nice.
Jul 18th at 5:36 am
Nice theme…
Jul 18th at 10:52 am
WOW! GREAT DUDE! KEEP GOING!
I rearly like the clean style
Jul 18th at 4:12 pm
Excellent ! Stunning beauty!