We’re celebrating the New Year with two free themes: Boardwalk and Sela.
Boardwalk
Designed by yours truly, Boardwalk is a clean, simple, and responsive theme.
Powered with horizontal scrolling and built around large featured images, Boardwalk is the perfect choice for photobloggers and those of you looking for an unconventional — yet elegant and creative — theme.
Learn more about Boardwalk at the Theme Showcase, or preview it by going to Appearance → Themes.
Sela
Sela isn’t your typical business theme. It’s a vibrant, bold, clean theme with lots of space for large images, designed by WordPress.com’s own Ola Laczek.
Sela puts the focus on your business with a bold front page template, a grid page template to showcase your products or services, and integrated testimonials. To make your website truly unique, you can upload a logo, customize the background, and choose a color scheme from default color palettes. Sela is the perfect canvas to tell your company’s story and looks great on all devices, from desktop to mobile.
Take Sela for a spin – visit the Theme Showcase to learn more, or activate it on your site by going to Appearance → Themes.
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What a wonderful start for 2015.
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I am a fashion bllogger on the search for a new theme. Any suggestions? These seem not to work for me. 2015 would do if the sidebar would be on the other side and the fonts were different.
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Both very elegant. Doesn’t happen that often. 😉
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Yay! Two more free themes to explore. Love you guys for producing such beautiful and functional themes with great features. Keep them coming.
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I will try this out of curiosity, though I think it is better suited for business blog than mine.
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For a fashion blog, you might want to look for a theme that puts the emphasis on images, like one of the photo-oriented themes.
Feel free to post in the themes forums if you need more specific suggestions: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/themes
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Well done,
I think both themes will look great for blogs which are largely image based
The Science Geek
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Kathryn,
Is this a new recommendation for users?
I’ve spent a fair amount of time in the forums and community pool during my 18+ months here and it feels like people have usually been directed to the community pool for questions like this. I just went to the forums to find examples to link and found that you were providing answers in recent threads.
Since you’re a WP employee, I trust that you’re doing things as they are expected to be done. However, I think it may be unclear to a lot of people where they should go for what kind of assistance. Looking at the list of recent threads in the themes forum, most people probably wouldn’t guess that such a question would be appropriate.
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wishing you a wonderful new year too :)
and thanks for being so kind , gifting us your creations…
great job :)
best wishes…
regards
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The Sela is very good and comfortable to use and I really like it so far. It will be a good theme I think for long reads. Boardwalk is as it name fits a good theme for photographers or people who travel a lot and can talk about said travels and post pictures. I hope WP gives more themes that accommodate long reads because it is important to aspiring bloggers and writers :)
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Can’t wait to have a look and try then out
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Boardwalk looks like a terrific choice for a theme (probably because I’m swept away by your cool demo pictures, ha). I’m going to bookmark this one for when I get to “change theme” on my project list!
Thanks a bunch.
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Folks are welcome to ask for theme recommendations in the forums. The community pool is also an awesome place. It’s up to you, there aren’t any rules about it. ;-)
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