New Themes: Able and Sight
It’s Thursday, and you know what that means — new themes!
First, we are happy to introduce Able, a multipurpose traditional blog theme that is a refresh of our two older classics, Andreas 04 and Andreas 09.
Designed by our very own Philip Arthur Moore, Able retains the spirit of its predecessors — up to a three-column layout and a gray scale color scheme — while offering an updated look that is clean, responsive, and highly readable. We’re sure you’ll be Able to come up with many creative uses for this theme. Read all of the details on the Theme Showcase, or take the demo for a spin.
Our next new addition is Sight, another great theme from WPShower that blends simplicity with sophistication.
Elegant and versatile, Sight is a great choice for many different types of sites, including blogs and online magazines. It features a right sidebar for widgets, two custom menu locations, a slider for sticky posts, and a responsive layout that adapts to smaller screen sizes. Learn more about Sight on the Theme Showcase. You can also take a look at the demo, if you wish.
Enjoy!
Aug 30th at 7:36 pm
Sweet. Still loving your theme Oxygen you released months ago, WP has the best themes!
Aug 30th at 8:20 pm
“Sight” is a really beautiful new theme! I’ve been with Vigilance for several years; I might try out Sight. Incidentally, I really love “Splendio” for my wine predator blog. Thanks WordPress!
Aug 30th at 8:48 pm
I’ve tried the Able theme on my mirror blog, the menu is good and clear..:)
Aug 30th at 9:01 pm
I was very excited for Twenty Twelve, but because the words get cut off at the end of a line (even in the widget area) I couldn’t deal with that–looked so bad! I was happy to see “Sight” come out today and have already made the switch. I need to make a custom header because my blog title is too long and take up a long of room, but the overall look is very nice and clean. I wish I could change the color of the sticky post yellow shaded area (i.e. pick a nice color that compliments the picture in the sticky post). I think that would be nice!
Thanks for all the work you guys do here at WP.com, great stuff!
Aug 30th at 11:52 pm
Hi there, glad you like Sight! You can change the color of the sticky post yellow area either with CSS or with our Colors tool, both of which are available through our Custom Design upgrade.
Aug 30th at 9:18 pm
Sight looks really clean and nice!
Aug 30th at 9:26 pm
Wow, “Sight” is stunning. Good job with the new themes!
Aug 30th at 9:34 pm
Sight looks beautiful.
Aug 30th at 9:38 pm
In looking at ‘Sight’ the only issue I have is that my blogs have longer titles, which means three lines of the main name. Customizing that would be amazing.
Aug 30th at 11:48 pm
Are you referring to the site title? If so, you can always adjust its size with CSS, if you have the Custom Design upgrade.
Aug 30th at 10:42 pm
Sight looks fantastic; a great job once again!
Aug 30th at 11:46 pm
The Sight theme looks very clean.
Aug 31st at 12:43 am
Oh, REALLY liking Sight. I will play around with that one…
Aug 31st at 12:49 am
Love the look of sight! So clean! Hmm, tempted to change themes…
Aug 31st at 1:11 am
Very cool and amazing colors.
Aug 31st at 1:37 am
Good
Aug 31st at 2:20 am
I love the big font for the header title on Sight!
Aug 31st at 3:07 am
It took me half a day tinkering and sprucing up my blog when I switched to Twenty Twelve the day it was released (which was like what, 2 days ago?) Now you come out with Sight? I can’t stand it. Stop making pretty themes already!
Aug 31st at 4:20 am
Really nice and cheerful. I love it.
Aug 31st at 4:57 am
I love a lot of your new themes, but would you please make a few more with a RSS in it?
Aug 31st at 1:40 pm
I’m not sure I understand your question. Do you mean the RSS button (like an image) or RSS functionality? RSS functionality is available on every single site on WordPress.com, no matter the theme. Check it out.
Aug 31st at 7:02 am
Sight is spectacular. Can’t believe a slider accommodating 30 sticky posts. Amazing. Superb typography for the blog header and post headlines. Body type is a little bit tiny for my taste, but that’s my only criticism. As a former newspaper copy editor and page designer, I’m especially happy to see the one-word kicker for the category above each headline. Perfect! Eye-catching! I want to use this one soon. Hope it supports WordAds.
Sep 1st at 1:00 am
Hi there! Glad to hear that you like the Sight theme. Right now, it does not support WordAds, but it’s possible that we’ll consider adding support in the future. If you find the type sizes a little too small, you can always adjust it with CSS, if you have the Custom Design upgrade.
Sep 1st at 5:23 am
I have the Custom Typefaces upgrade on one of my blogs, and it’s great. You can not only choose among typefaces, but also adjust the size somewhat. That’s what I’d do if I used Sight. I’m planning to upgrade my blog to carry much more Maryland news and photos, and Sight might be perfect. But I already have WordAds on the blog, and wouldn’t want to lose it. Thanks for your great design work!
Aug 31st at 10:43 am
Simple and awesome…
Aug 31st at 12:12 pm
OH, there is nothing I love more than a good story,
Awesome again, WordPress!
but,
a good theme …
Aug 31st at 12:37 pm
Able is so cool.
Aug 31st at 1:22 pm
Able doesn’t look anything like the Andreas themes. Not that this is a bad thing, I just don’t understand why you would bother to reference them. Also, why does its showcase page start going on about Mixfolio’s responsive design at the bottom? Confusing.
Aug 31st at 1:28 pm
We have a term for an in-house theme like Able. It’s called a refresh, where we take an older theme, use its basic characteristics (traditional blog theme, three-column layout, blueish links, flexible width, largely greyscale, etc.) and then make anew theme. For this project I used Andreas04/Andreas09, hence the mention.
Copy/paste fail on my part. Thanks for catching it.
Aug 31st at 2:12 pm
LOVE the Sight theme!
Aug 31st at 4:34 pm
I like both themes. They are clean and have great features too. Thanks for making sure we have a lovely selection of themes to choose from. I appreciate that very much.
Aug 31st at 5:53 pm
Oooo. I like this one. Very crisp.
Aug 31st at 6:11 pm
good (:
Aug 31st at 11:22 pm
Love the Sight theme!
Sep 1st at 2:02 am
It is beautiful!
Sep 1st at 7:32 am
Beautiful the sight theme-can you put a banner?
Sep 3rd at 6:54 pm
Yes, the Sight theme supports a Custom Header Image.
Sep 1st at 7:53 am
Theme: Able is awesome!
Sep 1st at 11:41 am
Just the “Sight” of a new theme takes my breath away.
Sep 3rd at 9:06 am
I 100% agree with you.
Sep 1st at 11:51 am
I loved the older andreas themes, but this new one is nicer – loving all the new themes coming out at the moment, thanks WP
Sep 1st at 1:57 pm
You guys are awesome! Thanks for always adding new things for us to try.
Sep 1st at 3:38 pm
Sight is really simple, yet awesome. I think “Sight” might look AWESOMELY GREAT on my cohosted website. It’s been needing a new theme for while now and I think this one is perfect! Thanks you so much WordPress!
Sep 2nd at 3:25 am
I really like Sight!
Sep 2nd at 3:43 am
awesome themes
i love this
Sep 2nd at 6:14 pm
Thanks…I liked them!
Sep 3rd at 9:18 am
I love the new theme ‘Sight’. It is simple and catchy!
Sep 3rd at 7:39 pm
I love the new theme. It catches the eye fast.
Sep 4th at 10:13 am
Really sweet and cheerful. I love it.
Sep 4th at 10:42 am
Great Post!
Sep 4th at 9:21 pm
Keep up the good work!
Sep 6th at 12:59 am
Sight is awesome!
Sep 7th at 9:21 am
sight is pretty cool <3
Sep 7th at 9:42 am
@hcfbutton – to get around the font size in the header of the Sight theme, I loaded a header image overlaid with a watermark (I used Adobe Lightroom, but I am sure there are other ways). I’m pretty happy with the result. Otherwise, Sight is very clean and professional looking. Very happy.