New Themes: Sunspot and Triton Lite
Today we’ve got two great new free themes for you: Sunspot and Triton Lite.
Inspiration for Sunspot came from one of our older and beloved classics, Sunburn (and perhaps a bit from the recent solar storms). A sharp theme with subtle grid lines and sun-splashed accents, Sunspot is a great all-purpose canvas for your blog, especially if you prefer a dark color scheme.
Sunspot offers two arrangements for posts on the front page: single-column (default) or double-column (pictured above). Additional features include a small, logo-sized custom header for the top left corner, a custom background, two optional widget areas, and a responsive layout that adapts gracefully to smaller screen sizes. Read more about it on the Theme Showcase, or head over to Appearance → Themes in your Dashboard and take it for a spin.
Next up is Triton Lite, a clean and simple—yet versatile—theme designed with photographers in mind. Its home page and archive pages offer truly dynamic layouts that snap to both the heights and widths of all available content on a page, thus creating tight and tidy post arrangements that beautifully showcase your images.
Designed by Towfiq I., Triton Lite comes bundled with three different widget areas, a featured post slider, custom accent and link color options, and a full-width page template. As usual, read more about Triton Lite and its features on the Theme Showcase, or, if you want to start using it right away, visit Appearance → Themes to activate it on your blog.
Mar 8th at 11:50 pm
Haha…I was wondering if the solar flares had anything to do with the first one. Nice catch…
And pervasive sun storms or not, I’m LOVING Sunspot.
Mar 9th at 12:21 am
Sunspot is it!
Mar 9th at 1:33 am
Really like the looks of Sunspot. Well done.
Mar 9th at 1:50 am
Great idea! I love those themes!
Mar 9th at 2:45 am
Two more themes to test – one dark and one light – both with great features. The Theme team continues to expand the Showcase of beautiful themes we have to select from. I remain on the hunt for that perfect theme knowing it doesn’t exist and enjoying “test driving” them all.
Mar 9th at 2:53 am
Both fit travel or photoblogs.
Triton lite!!! Mmmmm, I’m gonna be trying it out!
Mar 9th at 3:38 am
I’m LOVING Sunspot.
Mar 9th at 3:43 am
These look delicious! I’m not into dark background, but Sunspot looks special/ Triton Lite is compelling in it’s simplicity. I will probably give it a test drive. It’s looks like it has 2 and 3 column options, not just full width. Thank you.
Mar 9th at 3:44 am
The sunspot 2 column layout looks professional and awesome. It gives the feel of a magazine.
Mar 9th at 3:55 am
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Mar 9th at 4:59 am
Sunspot looks awesome!
Mar 9th at 5:08 am
Sunspot looks pretty good.
Mar 9th at 5:15 am
Sunspot has a color scheme I like and an interesting layout. Too bad that the blog title needs to be short in order to look nice.
Mar 9th at 5:54 am
Tested Triton, it really a great theme for photography showcase!!
Too bad, my photo resolution resize to 1024 and it appear a little blur when the theme size it to 960..
Mar 9th at 5:57 am
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Mar 9th at 5:57 am
Nice Themes…!! <3
Mar 9th at 6:07 am
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Mar 9th at 7:01 am
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Mar 9th at 8:17 am
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Mar 9th at 8:18 am
Great themes concept.
Mar 9th at 8:28 am
Like it!
Mar 9th at 8:55 am
Sunspot is great! But isn’t it time to give the sharing buttons a transparent background?
Mar 9th at 9:21 am
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Mar 9th at 9:39 am
I love the design of both of them. You should keep making more like this! Maybe one with a pic of the solar storms as we see it from earth??? idk just a suggestion.
Mar 9th at 1:06 pm
Very very nice, I have a need for lots of room for my photos, so I sure will give these 2 a try. Thank you!
Mar 9th at 2:53 pm
Reblogged this on amjconsulting and commented:
beautiful graphics!
Mar 9th at 4:21 pm
Great themes concept.
Mar 9th at 4:46 pm
Those are really nice. I’ll have to try both of them. Thanks.
Mar 9th at 7:48 pm
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Mar 9th at 9:18 pm
Hi
I like both of them. I love the darkness of sunspot with the ability to put pictures in to make it come up a bit brighter as I always tend to go for light coloured themes, but I might give this one a preview to see how it looks.
Triton Light Demo does look great to showcase photo’s. *If* when I am more into my new photography hobby and decide to use a blog just for pics, I’ll give it a try!
Thanks for always coming up with new themes for us
Immie 
Mar 9th at 9:20 pm
Would be nice if we can have these themes in the WordPress.org theme directory.
Mar 10th at 5:01 am
Hi there. Triton Lite is available in the WordPress.org theme directory: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/triton-lite. As for Sunspot, we will definitely submit it to the directory. I can’t give a specific date for when it will be available, but keep checking!
Mar 9th at 9:37 pm
I will try it!
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Mar 9th at 10:26 pm
Awesome!
Mar 10th at 4:02 am
Sunspot really looks uh-mazing. Gonna use it !
Mar 10th at 4:03 am
Reblogged this on Cross Worlds and commented:
My New Theme ; got bored of the previous one. This really looks good!
Mar 10th at 7:09 am
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Mar 10th at 8:44 am
These two themes are awesome, thank you for creating them. xoxo
Mar 10th at 12:57 pm
Mar 10th at 1:18 pm
I like it.
Mar 10th at 4:02 pm
These are some really cool themes!
Mar 10th at 5:01 pm
Reblogged this on B&W Bears and commented:
Triton lite – simple and elegant theme
Mar 10th at 6:58 pm
I really, really, really love both! Thank you!
Mar 10th at 10:13 pm
Love Triton! Thanks for the update.
Mar 11th at 1:03 am
Great themes!!!
The layout is awesome!
Mar 11th at 5:11 pm
Going to add another blog, think these themes are great!
Mar 11th at 11:43 pm
Sunspot is truly beautiful. What is really great about is that the eye normally travels to the right side of a page. Sunspot has beauty throughout the entire page which continues to lead the eye back to the left; nearly forceing you to read the writing under each of the pictures. Therefore, you cannot help but read in it’s entirety. Not only beautiful but a great marketing tool. Wunderbar!
Mar 12th at 9:30 am
Yeah! Just what we need!
Mar 12th at 9:56 am
I love them.
Mar 12th at 11:09 am
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Mar 12th at 11:43 am
Probably will use Sunspot for my anticipated blogsite
Mar 12th at 3:46 pm
Very good! Very nice! Thanks!
Mar 12th at 10:56 pm
That’s cool!
Mar 13th at 1:56 am
Sunspot is *really* nice! It would be perfect for my photo blog. How can I download this theme?
Mar 13th at 6:07 pm
Glad you like the Sunspot theme! You can activate the theme on your WordPress.com blog by going to Appearance > Themes in your Dashboard. Currently it is only available on WordPress.com, but it will eventually be available for download from the WordPress.org free themes directory as well.
Mar 13th at 3:49 am
Wonderful themes. Like it!
Mar 13th at 2:15 pm
Reblogged this on elovepoetry.
Mar 13th at 2:32 pm
very nice…:)
Mar 14th at 1:33 am
Wow, your new theme has completely transformed my blog; I actually like it now; I was feeling discouraged. Thank you!!!
Mar 14th at 12:04 pm
We love that theme, Sunspot
But we preferred using it not as dark as this, so we changed its background to red.
Mar 14th at 6:47 pm
it looks very good!
Mar 14th at 6:53 pm
Triton Lite comes very close to your WordPress.com homepage style. I’d hope you release similar themes for everyday blogging and not just for the specialized photography blogs.
Mar 15th at 3:01 am
So there’s already a lot of fit-for-photography-blogs themes going out. How about themes that look good for text/literary type blogs?
Mar 15th at 11:55 am
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Mar 15th at 3:54 pm
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Mar 16th at 4:00 am
This is great!! I don’t think I have enough content to make use of them because of the graphics. But perhaps one day: )
Mar 17th at 12:25 am
I loved Triton Lite! It’s just perfect to me!
Mar 17th at 8:13 am
cool themes….
Mar 17th at 10:09 pm
I changed my theme to Sunspot. One of the better looking themes. Thank you!
Mar 18th at 9:16 pm
In Sunspot, I love how the pictures pop against the smooth dark backdrop. As for Triton Lite, a school project looks like a good fit for this theme. Great work WordPress!
Mar 19th at 4:10 am
hey guys, just wanted to thank you for the heads up on Sunspot, it inspired a total redesign of my blog this morning. Really loving the look and feel of it now. Thanks heaps and huge thanks to the designer!
Cheers.
Greg.
Mar 22nd at 5:05 pm
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