New Themes: iTheme 2 and Bold News
If you are doing a great job on your blog and posting regularly, sometimes important posts fade away from the home page. Sound familiar? Today, we’re excited about introducing two new themes that come with a featured section for prominently displaying some of these posts.
The first theme is iTheme 2 designed by Themify, is a free theme inspired by the instantly recognizable Apple style design that is perfect for your Mac related tech blog. By activating it, iTheme 2 immediately revamps your blog to a stylish, Apple themed cool blog.
What’s great about iTheme 2 is not only the look but also its features. It offers three color schemes and a cool featured posts carousel on the home page. Go find more about the theme on its showcase page.
The second entry is Bold News, a premium theme from WooThemes. Same as other fantastic themes from them, Bold News is also packed with customizing features as well as a featured posts carousel on the home page. Get the full details on the theme showcase page. You can upgrade your blog to Bold News directly from the showcase, or from your dashboard under Appearance → Themes.
October 18th, 2011 at 4:24 pm
Thank you, WP Team. Both look really good.
October 18th, 2011 at 4:45 pm
Being a huge Apple fangirl, I’m really liking the iTheme 2!! Thanks!
October 18th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
iTheme 2 looks amazing and seeing how I just switched to Skeptical I probably shouldn’t change to another theme again so soon right?
October 18th, 2011 at 5:10 pm
Love love LOVE the idea of the carousel!
Now perhaps I’m being silly here (and just didn’t see the answer above), but are these free themes or fee themes?
October 18th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
WOW !! Great Themes!!
October 18th, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Love both of them! Clean and pleasant to look at.
October 18th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Wow, I really love the look of iTheme 2. Now the only question is whether I should use iTheme 2 or Dusk To Dawn when I redesign the look of my blog.
Thanks for giving us so many awesome themes!
October 18th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
I love iTheme2!!! Think my blog will stay there for awhile.
October 18th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
Great Looking themes!
October 18th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Cool themes. I definitely like Bold News and the carousel part of both themes.
October 18th, 2011 at 11:51 pm
iTheme 2 for fruit businesses
apples and plums 
just kidding. it is a theme for ballet exercises.
October 19th, 2011 at 12:20 am
Two more themes with carousels — you listen to the community — I can tell.
Just kidding around. Thanks for more adding more selections.
October 19th, 2011 at 12:33 am
iTheme2 featured post carousel is pretty cool gadget!!!
October 19th, 2011 at 1:25 am
Guys on WP always make me hard to choose which theme is best for me.
Should try iTheme soon. You rocks!
October 19th, 2011 at 2:22 am
Great themes especially the iTheme2.
October 19th, 2011 at 2:31 am
Thank you, WordPress!!! I just switched to iTheme2 and LOVE it!
October 19th, 2011 at 3:23 am
wowowowow. can’t believe the iTheme 2 is FREE!
October 19th, 2011 at 4:08 am
Lovely themes. Keep it up, really marvelous
October 19th, 2011 at 4:16 am
iThemeeeeeeee! It’s totally great! Yahooooo!
October 19th, 2011 at 5:39 am
Thanks so much for share the themes, I really like it.
October 19th, 2011 at 6:30 am
Yes, please, more themes with FEATURED POSTS! I also love the idea of the featured posts carousel!
PLEASE can you implement those functionalities on more themes? Or even better, could you roll it back to the already existing themes? Like my current theme, Comet, perhaps? Pretty please?
October 19th, 2011 at 6:51 am
RIP Steve Jobs. Great theme to honour him? I think so!
October 19th, 2011 at 7:39 am
OK, now I’m convinced to swap. Love the iTheme2 and have made the switch. Thanks WP!
October 19th, 2011 at 10:04 am
Wow …. love it … thanks for sharing!
October 19th, 2011 at 10:40 am
That is great! iTheme 2 is FREE!!!
October 19th, 2011 at 11:14 am
Really really nice themes! Excellent work!
although I’m not a mac enthusiast I’ll give a try to this theme, it looks really good, and I lke its style, also bold news is an excellent piece of work, keep up the good work,
October 19th, 2011 at 11:47 am
Very impressionable. iTheme2 will surely be very popular among ‘i’ users. Well done developers.
October 19th, 2011 at 12:34 pm
iTheme2 is really awesome! I will switch soon…
October 19th, 2011 at 1:57 pm
What a good themes!
October 19th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Both are awesome!!!
October 19th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Nice one iTheme2! Great job! salute to SJ he really change the world
October 19th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Love the iTheme. Very nice!
October 19th, 2011 at 4:13 pm
Good job!
I am considering to use this theme
Thank you
October 19th, 2011 at 4:22 pm
I really like this theme and they really incorporated Apple into this theme.
October 19th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
wow, is it really free?
October 19th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
very beauty ful theme,thank you
October 19th, 2011 at 6:20 pm
The themes keep getting better and better!
October 19th, 2011 at 9:26 pm
I’m trying out itheme2 because I think the Post Carousel is a very good idea! It will take some time, though, to set a featured image on the posts I want to make sticky. I plan on sizing my featured images for iTheme2 (593X261 pixels), and hope they will look right if I switch to another theme that uses featured images!
October 20th, 2011 at 2:19 am
LOVE the iTheme2. Definitely could be a new look for my music blog. Looks like I’ll have to wait and see
Thank You!
October 20th, 2011 at 3:40 am
iTheme 2 is free? With all that extras? Sweet!
October 20th, 2011 at 7:12 am
Cool!!!! I’ll have a try now…
October 20th, 2011 at 8:31 am
Thanks, usefully for me….
October 20th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Nice job… both on Apple theme and means of highlighting posts going below radar.
Thanks.
October 20th, 2011 at 3:17 pm
Wow! I LOVE iTheme 2!!!
October 20th, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Oh i’m liking these two. I always look at new themes and might even give one of these a try.
sev
October 21st, 2011 at 8:26 am
I would like the I theme one if it didn’t have the os background. I much prefer something plain.
October 21st, 2011 at 11:43 am
Awesome! I’m using iTheme2 now. Thank you so much! More power to your creative team!
October 21st, 2011 at 11:52 am
iTheme is wonderful! At last a clear, aesthetic alternative to my hitherto iNove. I have long waited for something like this
October 21st, 2011 at 12:06 pm
By the way – is there a possibility to turn off the sidebar on selected pages ?
October 21st, 2011 at 1:51 pm
I really love the clean layout of iTheme2 – does it have a full-width layout though? I definitely don’t need the sidebar on every single page.
October 23rd, 2011 at 1:01 pm
I’m afraid there is no option to disable sidebar nor a full-width page template in iTheme2. The only way to disable / hide the sidebar is customising the theme CSS with Custom Design upgrade.
October 21st, 2011 at 3:58 pm
Oh. My. God.
The iTheme2, really ROCKS for mine!
This is the perfect theme for me so far!!!!
I can’t believe this theme actually comes true!!!
Activated right away!!
October 21st, 2011 at 4:02 pm
PS.
After I tried it, things I really like from iTheme2 are:
1. It gives a lot more headline spaces for page. It put pages in a proper position.
2. It has custom header.
3. It’s sleek and elegant.
4. It’s very.. Mac. XD
Keep themes like this rolling out! Thumbs up!!
October 21st, 2011 at 4:09 pm
PS.
Oh, and the cons is:
1. The content width is smaller than choco theme.
2. The right sidebar is in a small chuck, unlike in choco theme.
But, oh whatever. Despite the cons, I still love this theme far enough.
October 21st, 2011 at 5:09 pm
I really like these themes! Wow!
October 21st, 2011 at 11:42 pm
Switched to iTheme 2.
WordPress.com needs more magazine type of themes (non-premium). This is one of the best ones by far. I like the featured post thing.
October 21st, 2011 at 11:59 pm
LOVE I-Theme 2–did y’all know I love those kinds of colors? It’s already mine!
October 22nd, 2011 at 12:03 am
iTheme 2 looks amazing and seeing how I just switched to Skeptical I probably shouldn’t change to another theme again so soon right?
October 22nd, 2011 at 3:53 am
Wonderful themes. I will save it use in future…
October 22nd, 2011 at 5:36 am
Wow! To say THIS other theme looks good is simply an understatement. Will try it out!
October 22nd, 2011 at 11:41 am
The Bold News Demo looks very great, hope to try it asap.
October 22nd, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Both are cool, especially iTheme 2. But I think I’ll stick to my current theme
October 23rd, 2011 at 4:54 am
I like iTheme2 a lot. the carousel is truely useful, readers can now straight to my favourite posts.
October 24th, 2011 at 9:19 am
I prefer itheme2. Yep! Let’s try..
October 25th, 2011 at 4:56 am
I love the Bold News Demo theme. Very beautiful
October 25th, 2011 at 5:38 am
Looks great! I added it to my blog and modified the background to my liking! Let me know what you think!
October 25th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Bold News looks so good. Thinking about buying.
October 25th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
Nice, especially iTheme 2!!
October 26th, 2011 at 1:20 am
I like Bold News, not sure if it will work with my new background though and doesn’t look like there’s anywhere for my new header!
October 26th, 2011 at 7:57 am
This theme is awesome, but I still love using the classic wp theme.
October 26th, 2011 at 2:42 pm
Yap. I am excited. I just uploaded stuff. Ready to go.
October 27th, 2011 at 5:59 am
Thank you WordPress for the great looking themes. I just switched to the iTheme2. And it makes my blog look great. I l love the way it shows off my photographs. And the carousel is so cool to use. Now I can showcase my older posts. Thank you again for your wonderful service.
October 27th, 2011 at 12:28 pm
I love the iTheme2. I think its really cool
October 28th, 2011 at 2:01 am
Good themes. Thank you WP team… You’re the best.
October 29th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
It’s very beautiful themes,
You’re the best.
October 29th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
I’m about to switch this theme
October 30th, 2011 at 8:21 am
I relly like using iTheme2. It’s amazing~
October 30th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Awesome looking themes – loving the iTheme2
October 31st, 2011 at 5:56 am
Nice Looking Themes..
Thanks For sharing !!!
October 31st, 2011 at 8:19 am
wow… very very nice, love it.
October 31st, 2011 at 9:17 am
Thank you … I don’t believe that it is free …..!!!!!
October 31st, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Love the iTheme, just can’t decide if it is a little too much for by Apple related blog.
November 1st, 2011 at 12:55 am
Wowwwwwwwww amazing theme, the itheme looks great,
thanks