New Themes: Adaption and Isola
Adaption and Isola are two great new free themes that keep your content looking good, no matter what device your readers use.
This week we’ve got two great free themes designed here at Automattic. How cool is that?
Adaption
Adaption is a brand new free theme, designed by yours truly. This theme is flexible and adjusts itself for every aspect of your site — your content, your design, and the device you’re using. The focus is on your content, with full-width images and simple, supportive design elements, and the layout adapts with an optional third column that appears if you add widgets. Adaption truly adapts to make sure your readers get the best possible experience.
Isola
Isola gives you a fresh, clean slate to showcase your writing, photographs, or videos. Its primary menu and widget area are tucked behind a handy button, giving your content plenty of room to breathe and keeping it beautiful regardless of the device or screen size. Designed by Automattic’s own Joen Asmussen, Isola was inspired by a “less is more” philosophy and was influenced by mobile design patterns.
Both Adaption and Isola are free. Check out each theme’s showcase by clicking on its screenshot above, or preview it on your blog from Appearance → Themes.
- July 10, 2014
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A new theme every week? I’m loving it 🙂
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Reblogged this on Ways of life and commented:
Check out these new themes. I love “Adaptation”.
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I like the Isola style it’s really simple and clear. It wouldn’t fit mine but if I was going to start another blog I would probably use it 🙂
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I prefer Isola as well. But best of all, both themes are free!
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I really like the adaption theme, I quickly changed the the theme of my blog. While I still could
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Do either of these themes allow a header slider with featured photo for sticky /featured blog posts?
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Neither of the themes have a slider. Both do allow featured photos though.
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I like both themes and will be trying them out in my test blogs this weeknd. Right now it’s Isola that appeals to me most of all.
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Thanks for this great themes. I like Isola much more but in preview mode when I change the color scheme the menu button is not active and cannot load the sidebar.
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Thanks for spotting that issue. It’s been reported as a bug and hopefully we should be able to fix that up soon.
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Thanks for the report! We’ve fixed this up. 🙂
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I like both themes and will be trying them out .
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loving adaption, but I’m wondering if you can still just put snippets of posts on the home page instead of the whole one.
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Yep, you can change the posts to be either full or summary posts under the Reading Settings. You can read more about that here: https://wordpress.com/support/settings/reading-settings/
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You can use the More tag to display only a portion of a post on the homepage: https://wordpress.com/support/splitting-content/more-tag/
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The word is ADAPTATION. Please fix that.
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Thank you God and Bless you guys for finally making such awesome free releases I am so happy right now I clapped out a yay and my Mom asked what is the matter going into free themes. SO HAPPY!
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hello,
I want a new website, interior design services, if I buy one of your themes, can I use mail chip, and use affiate links, paypal?
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The Business plan may be a good option for you: http://store.wordpress.com/plans/business/
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Just wanted to chime in on a couple of specifics here:
You can add basic PayPal buttons to any site, no matter what theme you use. No upgrades are required. Here’s our guide: https://wordpress.com/support/paypal/
You can link to a standalone MailChimp form – again, it doesn’t matter what theme you use, and no upgrades are needed. MailChimp forms can’t be embedded directly onto a WordPress.com, and we don’t offer any upgrades for this.
Affiliate links are allowed under limited conditions. You can learn more here: https://wordpress.com/support/affiliate-links/
If you have further questions, do feel free to post in the support forums, where our Happiness Engineers – and the community – will be glad to help: https://wordpress.com/forums/
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Reblogged this on Donna's Blog and commented:
New Themes
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Thank you for the wonderful theme
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Excellent
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Just one thing: Will there be new fonts with serif type themes?
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Love how the themes look. I can see myself using the Adaption theme at some point for a personal lifestyle blog.
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Gr8 theme
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Hello, thank you for this beautiful layout. I have a question though. Is that picture of the guy holding the surfboard the header? I tried previewing the layout and adding a header but it appears at the top left corner above the menu. Is there something I am missing out on? Looking forward to your reply. Thank you! 🙂
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The picture is a featured image for that post. The custom header the left corner area.
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If i do a picture post, is there a way for me to Keep the post at the top so it can be a make shift header? (Sorry new to WordPress layouts.)
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You can mark a post as sticky to force it to be at the top.
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Thank you so much for replying! 🙂
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Loving all the Responsive themes! I like how the tag cloud for adaption is one consistent size, it looks tidy and professional. Congrats on a great design!
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Adaption theme is a great looking theme ! Keep it up
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I love how these themes are both responsive! Responsive layout really makes a difference. The splash of bold colour on adaption really compliments the sleek feel. Enormous thanks 😀
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Adaption is fantastic free WordPress theme but look like premium theme. Thank you so much! You’ve given me such an amazing experience with your theme. I greatly appreciate it.
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HI
Each time I reviewed a ‘new theme’ – I’m not happy with the all schema
In the great ‘Isola’ the best fit for me w’d be the menu display’ Pages by a formatted’ presentation still fixed
Nice it is!
So, c’d it ever be any way to use a specific feature/option got from such ‘a new theme’ ?
In others terms: a way to go through a very personalized theme
[automattic’service w’d be easy in this offer – may be]
That w’d be a definitively end point for to a unique proper creation
(means a totly new advanced by a blog portail -WP-)
JMC
(fed-up too many ‘so called new theme’ which unfitted your own design’ project)
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There are a lot of customization options you can do with Custom Design. These include changing fonts, colors or adding custom CSS. We even have an entire team ready to help you with CSS. Feel free to post in the Theme forums if you need anything specific:
https://wordpress.com/forums/forum/themes
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I like Adaption because it supports ALL available post formats. Why don’t ALL themes support ALL available post formats?
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I think both themes are great. I am going to try them on for size.
Thanks …. free is always nice. : )
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ah, just use the default theme. I don’t know how to change the theme, i’am newly in blog
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I like Isola. It looks really good, I may try using it for my blog
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The new themes every week make me want to change my themes EVERY WEEK! Haha
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I like Isola. It’s clean and minimalist, just how I like my blogs to be. I’ll try it ASAP!
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They are very clean and fresh, perfect for writing novels or story telling… Is anyone knows where to find someone who knows a lot about ryu theme, that I currently use on my blog @ byswav.com. I want to customize it a bit, before Writing 201 kicks in 🙂 Cheers from Ireland, Swav.
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Adaption theme is a great looking theme ! Keep it up
good
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The Adaptation theme looks amazing, I may have to give it a try. I’ve been looking at free themes but it’s easy to get lost in how many there are!
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hello can anyone teach me how to add a slideshow image to the page
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