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.
- July 14, 2011
- Themes
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Awesome theme 🙂 Love it!
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LOVE THIS LOVE THIS LOVE THIS!
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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!
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Awesome Fonts. Looks brilliant in theme preview. Can give this a try.
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You guys are a on a roll… A theme-a-day mode 🙂
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i’m waiting for theme like this!
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Neat and elegant, nice one!
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Good, but too white! 🙂
…but I like it!
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Kinda like manifest yourself.
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Nice theme for my ballerinas 😀
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Very minimalistic. Looks a lot like Tumblr.
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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.
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Nice Theme….
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Very nice. Simple and elegant.
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Nice and tidy!
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Ooooh, I’m liking the look of this theme. I might switch!
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Too many nice themes!
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Lov’it, lov’it, lov’it. So clean, so fresh.
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Matiaaaassss!!! LIKE LIKE LIKE !!!!
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I love this! Very nice!!
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It’s simple and beautiful! I might have to try it out…
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I like this, it’s simply yet kind of sophisticated. I guess a more artistic person would say ‘minimalist’ 🙂
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Very nice, clean and minimalistic (or “clear”). It might be too minimalistic for me, but overall its another great theme.
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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!
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This looks like a good theme. I might use it.
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You’re totally rockin’out lately! Love your themes 🙂
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Mo’ themes – straight over to preview.
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Love all the new themes…except that now I’m like a kid in a candy shop. 🙂
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Very nice!
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Beautiful and classic
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Wow. Stunningly simple.
Easy on the eye like Fruit Shake, but without all the bananas…
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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.
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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!
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Very clean and sophisticated.
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Wow.. 4 themes in a row. WordPress, you cannot be stopped.
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Cool!
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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.
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Sweeeet!
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Minimal; but classy. I like it.
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Love it! I’ve been waiting for a theme like this for a long time! Thanks, WordPress! 🙂
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I love the cleanliness, but a little bland for me.
Although, 4 NEW Themes in a row….
That’s amazing in itself. THANK YOU!!
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Very nice theme, awesome. People who love to make the blog with images will definitely use it 🙂
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I love this layout, clean, simple to use and with a few options to accentuate your post…. nice work!
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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.
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I think I am in love! With the theme and the theme team. Gorgeous.
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Hmmm…very nice!! 🙂
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This looks pretty exotic to me 🙂
Love the central layout of it.
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Finally. This is fantastic.
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It’s neat.
I like it.
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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.
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You did it well.
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I think it is too white and it doesn’t have any features I want. And also I feel dizzy with the menu.
😦
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Sweet! It looks a bit like the starting page of a book chapter. Great for writers and readers!
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That’s one cool theme!
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You guys are on a theme-ing spree! This is just in time for my b&w photo blog! Arigato gozaimasu!
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So elegant and clean. I love it!
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Wow, WP. You’re just pumping out the new themes. This new one is elegant…well done and thank you. 🙂
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My all-time favorite! Been using it from the time it was created for WP dot org and couldn’t be any happier! 🙂
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So, so clean. Nice.
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Great theme, I love it.
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Very nice.
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Clean and simple, just what I was looking for. 🙂
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Very nice! Clean and crisp, kudos!
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Love it. Very clean. Thanks for sharing this!
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Stealing from tumbr are we? I still prefer the modified TwentyTen theme: http://bit.ly/arfVWE
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The original Manifest by Jim was developed a long time ago for WordPress.org. See: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/the-new-theme-manifest-was-copied-from-tumblr?replies=3#post-647659
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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!!
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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.
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“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!
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Stay tuned 😉
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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.
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Looks simple but easy to use… love it…
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Thanks for the theme
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Absolutely beautiful and, might I add – finally!
I’ve been waiting for and wishing something just like this.
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Blistering!
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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!!!!
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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!
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Very clean, very nice theme. Great job!
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Love it, but having hard time putting in custom header photo.
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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!
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I am going to try it
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It’s pretty, cool – but a little plain. I still like it, though. 😉
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WOAH! I like that a lot. What a gorgeous picture.
Approved.
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I know I keep saying this, but as I tink around with Manifest it think it’s so elegant. Thanks, Matías.
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Good, completly white!
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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.
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Wow, very nice.
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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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🙂 A bug. Fixed now.
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Wonderful! If I had the words to do it justice, I would so change my theme. Love it.
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i love this 🙂
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Minimalistic. Love it!
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Nice Theme dude! looks great!
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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).
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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.
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A very clean presentation.
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I like the picture- Looks gorgeous
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Oh My! I like this one. Spacial.
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Thats a good one, I love it. 🙂
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Tumblr-esque. Simple. No distractions. Nice.
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Nice theme…
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WOW! GREAT DUDE! KEEP GOING!
I rearly like the clean style 😉
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Excellent ! Stunning beauty!
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