The Hoffman WordPress theme uses minimalist elements, and large responsive photos to create a striking personal blog theme. Swedish designer Anders Norén (who’s themes have a combined almost 900k downloads on WordPress.com), bundles two page templates, three widgets, social icons, Swedish language pack, and support for all native WordPress post types. Pros Three bundled widgets – one that does recent posts […]
The Readit WordPress theme is a personal blog theme that bundles animations, transitions, and full screen images to give readers an immersive experience. Theme developer Modern Themes provides solid documentation, and few cleaver features like a Google Fonts selector, and demo content to get you started quickly. Pros Bold, attention grabbing typography utilizes a modern looking slab […]
The Seasonal WordPress theme was created for personal bloggers, giving prominent placement to your social networks – inviting readers to connect with you. It reminds us of Twenty Fifteen (large fixed sidebar and all), but a little more colorful, and a little more feature robust. It is a freemium theme however, so not getting the update frequency of the […]
The Garfunkel WordPress Theme is Pinterest-style theme by Anders Norén – the same Stockholm designer that made the extremely popular Baskerville theme. The card-based layout is clean, and well thought-out. Posts and pages have great typographic hierarchy and spacing, making it easy to read on every screen size. Pros Masonry cards are nice, clean way to lay out […]
The Baskerville WordPress theme is a popular masonry based theme from Stockholm-based designer Anders Norén. It cleverly bills itself as “the WordPress for hoarders”, providing custom styling for all nine post types and tightly packing them into a clean, distinct layout. Pros Masonry layout gives you the “Pinterest style” layout, cramming in tons of content into a […]
There’s a lot of free themes out there with tons of bells and whistles, but sometimes you’re just looking for a simple theme that doesn’t have any frills. No CSS animations, or slow loading image galleries – just a quick and easy way to show off your content. So lucky you, we decided to scour the theme repos […]
The Yuuta WordPress theme bills itself as a visual diary – a place where you can write about whatever you want. To do that, Berlin-based designer Felix Dorner provided customized styling of all WordPress post formats, gently reminding you that WordPress supports every type of digital rant you can spit at it. Pros Custom styling for each post type. […]
The Museum WordPress theme was created so photographers, illustrators, and other image heavy creatives could showcase their work.
The Tonal WordPress theme is a minimal theme by Automattic, that attempts to strip away everything but the content. Large header images, and bold typography combine to developer a content first approach, with the widgets and sidebar hidden in a navigation drawer. The coolest feature however is the adaptive background color that changes as you change […]
The Independent Publisher WordPress theme is more than a little inspired by Medium‘s original layout – in a good way. Taking a content first approach, there’s few other bells and whistles to distract you from the well planned typography. Pros Large header image, with a perfectly responsive layout. Excellent attention to typography and spacing. Open source! Fork […]