It’s the first Theme Thursday in December, and we have exciting news to share — Elmastudio has become one of our newest premium theme partners. We’ve been fans of their designs for a long time, and we’re thrilled to announce the launch of their debut theme on WordPress.com, Kiore Moana.
The Kiore Moana Theme
Kiore Moana is simply beautiful. Its airy, single-column design, clean typography, full-width featured images, and carefully crafted post-format icons make reading your blog a fun experience. Perhaps you have travel stories and photos to share, or memorable experiences to recount from your daily life. Or maybe you would like to start a tumblelog, complete with your favorite quotes, links, and short blog entries. Whatever your passion, it’s sure to look amazing with Kiore Moana.
As a single-column theme, Kiore Moana is designed to display posts without the distraction of a sidebar. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use widgets in this theme – Kiore Moana comes with a special page template that arranges widgets in a lovely one-column layout. This is a great place to display the three custom widgets that come with Kiore Moana: About, Social Links, and Featured Video. Of course, you can use any of the standard WordPress widgets on this page as well.
A nifty button in the top right corner of your site lets readers quickly navigate between the widgets page and your posts.
Experience Kiore Moana on its demo site, and learn more about its features in Theme Showcase. Or, go right ahead and activate it on your own site by going to Appearance → Themes in the dashboard.
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This is great. Been waiting for a theme like this. Had been using an Elmastudio theme on my then self-hosted site and am happy to see one here.
It’s great to see after Yoko and Ari with Kiore Moana a new theme from Elmastudio here – Congrats to Ellen and Manuel. Clear and minimal design. Mobile first. Perfect on iphone/ipad with retina display. Like this! Especially this “info page thing” (a little bit tricky with the url
) and the various post formats. But i miss the original theme options colors .. . Well done!
Oh Wow!! That’s what I’ve been waiting for. Love this so much! *-*
A clean and beautiful multipurpose theme. With a large and easy-to-read typography like this, even longform posts must be a pleasure to read on mobile devices.
how could I not love a Kiwi theme? Cannot see how the heading/pages will look in preview.
Hi! You can see how the theme’s pages will look on the demo site. Click on the Info Page link in the top right corner (the little pin icon). From there, you can see an example of a Custom Menu widget across the top, which has links to pages.
That’s intriguing. A widget page? I can see a great demand for more themes with this option.
I really like it! I was always thinking about opening another blog with different content with my current one. If that day comes, this may be the theme for it. ^^
Love the typography + single column layout. Also appreciate that it is quite an affordable theme.
A simple and elegant theme. Great design!