New Themes: Sidespied and Chronicle
Today, we have two great themes for you. Chronicle is a premium magazine theme and Sidespied is a portfolio-focused free theme.
We have two great themes for you today: one free and one premium.
Chronicle
Chronicle is a premium magazine theme by Pro Theme Design with three optional widget areas, featured posts, and a large homepage slider. Chronicle offers lots of options for creating interesting, immersive websites — perfect for sites with lots of categories and content.
Sidespied
Sidespied, designed in-house by yours truly, is portfolio-focused and based on the popular Espied theme. This theme focuses on your image content making it stand out no matter what device your audience is using. Not only does it take full advantage of the new portfolio custom post type, it also looks great being used on a blog.
- May 22, 2014
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Sidespied would make a great portfolio theme! I might have to try it.
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Sidespied is very nice, I think I may try it later on, thanks for presenting these themes to us 😀
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Cool theme I may need to check this out!
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I like Chronicle! Can it be customized to include only 2 or 3 columns rather than 4? I don’t see this addressed on the theme page. Thanks!
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It doesn’t look like you can change the number of columns, you can have a full width template but that is just 1 column.
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Got it, thanks Tammie.
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I am curious about Sidespied. My blog does not have many pictures and videos. I was more concerned about how it displays on mobile devices. This seems to fit the bill. I have to try it out. Thanks
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Great! I think you’ll find that Sidespied adapts really nicely to any content.
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Affff, again, free themes go on bad. You want to obligate bloggers to accept potfolios’ themes. Portfolios are fully of bugs, mislaid, horrible. Again, I thought I’d open this link and find a good and free theme, after so much time.
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We do our best to offer a range of different free themes and we’re constantly adding to them. Sidespied also works well for just a blog, having the portfolio is optional.
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Hello, Nice Blog! Can you tell me about the Themes? I need one but I Want it to be free, just to adapt my projects… Some access link to? Thanks
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Following this link will take you to all our free themes. You can then further narrow down your options depending on the features, style, or layout your prefer.
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There is it in open code? To install on my webserver? Thanks
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hope that 😀
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Reblogged this on Donna's Blog and commented:
New Themes for Blog
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Yes these Themes are quite nice being able to choice different Themes would be good. Thank you.
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Reblogged this on brendan joyce.
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Reblogged this on finding donato and commented:
Been looking out for wordpress themes. Take a look at these examples.
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I had asked before: whe don’t you state in your new post announcements wheter they are premium or free.
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Ηello! Great themes both of them. But we need more free themes with slider. 🙂
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As to my earliet reply, I am sorry for my oversight, it is all there, you do mention Premium and protfolio base Free themes.
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No problem.
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I have a short story blog that does not use pics and I find all WordPress themes very biased towards images. At present I use Manifest, which is good for text but not the best. I find both these themes very smart but I would really like something more ‘text-y’ in nature.
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The only issue I have found with sidespied is all the dead space on the right with the free version. I really liked it for my photography page but with the menu button on the upper left and all the space on the right it just didn’t work for me.
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Hi Beth, the space to the right is for a background image. You can upload any image you want to fill that space.
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Okay. Thanks!
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I really really love the SideSpied theme, I’m using it at: artistandtheart.wordpress.com – looks good & works the way I want. BUT! There’s a problem with the portfolio shortcode – it doesn’t appear to be working correctly for a front page with only featured images – I keep getting on the front page a non-necessary error message: “Your Portfolio Archive currently has no entries. You can start creating them on your dashboard.” How can I get rid of this? … thanks for any info you can give me on this …
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Hi karensfotoblog, It’s probably best if you create a new forum post for this here: https://wordpress.com/support/contact/. It’s hard to diagnose in these comments.
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I found the answer by searching the forums – must leave out the portfolio shortcode altogether, then the front page display works right. My new blog artistandtheart.wordpress.com looks great! – and I really like SideSpied, it gives me the functionality I was hoping for.
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I like two themes, very nice
And how can I be a member of this team? That means I can do theme design, How can I work with you? How is this achieved? Please guide me.
Thanks!
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Hi Reza. You can apply for a job with us here http://automattic.com/work-with-us/ – we’re always looking for people that are excited about creating themes.
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