Tonal is a free minimalist theme that changes its appearance based on your background color. With strong typography and simple design elements, it ensures your content stands out. This theme responds to whatever device your readers use, so they can enjoy your posts on-the-go. Tonal makes an impact with large featured images, full-width videos, and post formats.
Gridiculous Pro is a beautifully designed theme built for businesses as well as bloggers. Created by Themes by bavotasan.com, Gridiculous Pro features a widgetized area on the homepage, an Image, Icon & Text widget, and post formats support. It also offers an easy-to-use social menu, as well as advanced layout options (you can select one or two sidebars, on the left, right or separated).
Mina Olen is a solid, clean theme with generous whitespace and features for the blogger and the business-minded alike. Designed by Finnish design shop Foxnet, Mina Olen includes an impressive front page template, as well as support for testimonials, portfolio items, and post formats. Add submenus with a unique full-width layout, and your users will find just what they’re looking for.
Tonal is a free theme, while Gridiculous Pro and Mina Olen are premium upgrades. Check out each theme’s showcase by clicking on its screenshot above, or preview it on your blog from Appearance → Themes.
Tonal has so many different combinations depending on the background, hopefully you won’t get that feeling. If you do happen to get the custom colors upgrade you can create even more combinations: https://wordpress.com/support/custom-design/custom-colors/
I’m sorry you’re having issues with themes – that’s no fun.
We do take on board any difficulties people have and try and improve things with each theme. Our goal is to make themes that work from the start for all.
If you are having issues, we do have help available on the forums for themes: http://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/. Each premium theme has its own forum so you can get the right help for what you are using.
Thanks for your suggestion, we do try and create a range so we’ll take it on board and look into getting some more colored themes released.
A lot of our themes allow backgrounds and background color changes, so you can change from the black and white default. Tonal actually changes the entire site depending on what you set for the background color – it can be any color you want.
I tried Tonal a couple of days ago and liked the color palette choices.It’s a very nice clean and minimalist theme but I dislike the Title font and the fact that Titles are all capitalized lettering. Otherwise I quite liked it and would be using it now.
I’m glad you liked the palettes and the style of Tonal. If you did happen to have the custom CSS upgrade you could modify the titles. That said, we’re keen to offer a wide range of themes and I’m sure we’ll have some without capitalised headers coming soon.
Hi again Tammie,
Thanks so much for your response but I don’t want to purchase another upgrade at this time. I set a $50 limit on blogging expenses for each blog per year and both of my blogs each have No-Ads upgrades and domain mapping upgrades. I’ll be keeping watch for more themes though.
Sorry to hear you’re having issues with your site. If you are looking for support for a self hosted WordPress, then you can check out the .org forums here: http://wordpress.org/support/. If you are looking to move to WordPress.com we have a wide range of themes you can look at here: http://theme.wordpress.com/. You can even import your data and get help moving your site through our forums here: https://wordpress.com/support/.
I’ve been married to Chateau ever since it came out, but I still get super excited when I see the words “New Themes” on the WordPress.com blog! This set, in my opinion, is one of the best I’ve seen so far. WordPress themes are always classy and chock-full of good features. 🙂
I like Tonal a lot, it is close to my present theme – Duotone – which also changes background color to the image. However, it’s the last theme left with built-in right-click disable, otherwise I’d have to switch to a hosted site with plug-in for that. I know right-click disable doesn’t prevent image-stealing, but it does make it a bit harder, especially when we should reblog instead.
Changed over to TONAL, like the overall clean appearance. The most apparent drawback so far is the title and tagline font and size– too large and doesn’t really work well. Apart from that so far so good 🙂
Tonal is designed to have a high impact headline title – hence the size. I see you’ve used a custom header, that’s a great way to without having the Custom Design upgrade remove the large headlines if you wish. Alternatively, if you did want to get it the Custom Design or Custom Fonts upgrade would be a way to adjust the size.
We actually plan on having some music themes. In the meantime you may find Singl: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/singl/ a good option. This would work really well for record sleeves.
A great idea! We don’t have that yet, but thanks for the suggestion. We are always looking for ways to improve the experience of finding a theme, so grateful of any feedback like this.
I actually think we could do with some more black and white themes, like Tonal, Singl and Ryu. They’re not exclusively black and white, I know, but I’m looking for a black and white theme, and none of the present ones are a good ‘fit’…
I like the sound if Gridiculous but, upgrades are not on the table currently. It does remind me that I need to ck my theme & see if it supports mobile electronics
I guess that Tonal and Gridiculous Pro will be used for photo- and videoblogs mainly. “Gridiculous” is, by the way, a cool word invention, but don’t you fear it might be misconceived by potential buyers who miss the “G”?
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I like “tonal” but I’m concerned that it would get too monotone.
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Tonal has so many different combinations depending on the background, hopefully you won’t get that feeling. If you do happen to get the custom colors upgrade you can create even more combinations:
https://wordpress.com/support/custom-design/custom-colors/
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They all look good but none of them look like that on my computer. setup was hard for a non computer guy and help was iffy at best.
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I’m sorry you’re having issues with themes – that’s no fun.
We do take on board any difficulties people have and try and improve things with each theme. Our goal is to make themes that work from the start for all.
If you are having issues, we do have help available on the forums for themes: http://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/. Each premium theme has its own forum so you can get the right help for what you are using.
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Please avoid black and white themes for now. We already have many in the Dashboard.
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Thanks for your suggestion, we do try and create a range so we’ll take it on board and look into getting some more colored themes released.
A lot of our themes allow backgrounds and background color changes, so you can change from the black and white default. Tonal actually changes the entire site depending on what you set for the background color – it can be any color you want.
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Thanks for hearing and sorry for the typo. 🙂
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Gridiculous Pro seems really really beautiful and easy to use, Well done!!!!
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I tried Tonal a couple of days ago and liked the color palette choices.It’s a very nice clean and minimalist theme but I dislike the Title font and the fact that Titles are all capitalized lettering. Otherwise I quite liked it and would be using it now.
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I’m glad you liked the palettes and the style of Tonal. If you did happen to have the custom CSS upgrade you could modify the titles. That said, we’re keen to offer a wide range of themes and I’m sure we’ll have some without capitalised headers coming soon.
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Hi again Tammie,
Thanks so much for your response but I don’t want to purchase another upgrade at this time. I set a $50 limit on blogging expenses for each blog per year and both of my blogs each have No-Ads upgrades and domain mapping upgrades. I’ll be keeping watch for more themes though.
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Dear Tammie:
Thanks for your post.
I have a site developed in WordPress some years ago that I discovered has stopped working – the slider doesn’t work and the graphics don’t show.
Please see http://www.abkey.com
The problem is only with the homepage as all the other pages seem to work properly.
I understand that it is because WP has discontinued supporting the theme that we had used.
Can you suggest a theme (paid or free) that works closely with ours so that we can migrate to it asap?
It is urgent,
Thanks
Bob
Bob Teo
abKey
Singapore
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Sorry to hear you’re having issues with your site. If you are looking for support for a self hosted WordPress, then you can check out the .org forums here: http://wordpress.org/support/. If you are looking to move to WordPress.com we have a wide range of themes you can look at here: http://theme.wordpress.com/. You can even import your data and get help moving your site through our forums here: https://wordpress.com/support/.
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I’ve been married to Chateau ever since it came out, but I still get super excited when I see the words “New Themes” on the WordPress.com blog! This set, in my opinion, is one of the best I’ve seen so far. WordPress themes are always classy and chock-full of good features. 🙂
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Glad you like our new themes – it’s great to hear people getting excited about what we release!
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The Gridiculous Pro looks great.
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I like Tonal a lot, it is close to my present theme – Duotone – which also changes background color to the image. However, it’s the last theme left with built-in right-click disable, otherwise I’d have to switch to a hosted site with plug-in for that. I know right-click disable doesn’t prevent image-stealing, but it does make it a bit harder, especially when we should reblog instead.
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Tonal looks cool. Might have to check it out
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Changed over to TONAL, like the overall clean appearance. The most apparent drawback so far is the title and tagline font and size– too large and doesn’t really work well. Apart from that so far so good 🙂
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Tonal is designed to have a high impact headline title – hence the size. I see you’ve used a custom header, that’s a great way to without having the Custom Design upgrade remove the large headlines if you wish. Alternatively, if you did want to get it the Custom Design or Custom Fonts upgrade would be a way to adjust the size.
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Congrats on having so many amazing themes! You are all doing a wonderful job! I am amazed by WordPress.com it is so cool!
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Any chance of creating a theme with Record Collecting in mind, or one for Music?
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We actually plan on having some music themes. In the meantime you may find Singl: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/singl/ a good option. This would work really well for record sleeves.
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is there a way i could “SAVE” themes i like in a particular way for referral in the future- maybe i should use Pinterest for this one
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A great idea! We don’t have that yet, but thanks for the suggestion. We are always looking for ways to improve the experience of finding a theme, so grateful of any feedback like this.
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Please avoid black and white themes for now. We already have many in the Dashboard!!!
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I actually think we could do with some more black and white themes, like Tonal, Singl and Ryu. They’re not exclusively black and white, I know, but I’m looking for a black and white theme, and none of the present ones are a good ‘fit’…
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I like the sound if Gridiculous but, upgrades are not on the table currently. It does remind me that I need to ck my theme & see if it supports mobile electronics
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I guess that Tonal and Gridiculous Pro will be used for photo- and videoblogs mainly. “Gridiculous” is, by the way, a cool word invention, but don’t you fear it might be misconceived by potential buyers who miss the “G”?
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