New Theme: DePo Square
Today we’re bringing you yet another theme designed by Derek Powazek: DePo Square.
This theme looks great! Minimal, simple, yet unique. But, it doesn’t stop with great design. This theme comes with a seriously cool feature: post types.
Map your categories to one of five pre-defined post types — Post (default), Status, Quote, Link, or Photo — and your content will be displayed in a format special to those types.
Just select your category mappings by visiting the “Current Theme Options” under “Appearance.” No CSS or other formatting is necessary. However, if you have the CSS Upgrade you can definitely tweak those styles to your heart’s content.
You can set your widgets at the top of your blog, including special widgets just for your statuses and Flickr stream. The DePo Square Flickr Widget is formatted just right for this design.
A "Link" Post Type
Mapping Categories
WordPress.com News 
This new theme offers some great new features, something that WordPress users (such as myself) will certainly make use of. I am currently working on a webserial in Diary-format that will look pretty sweet with those posting options and the blog layout. Thanks again for making these wonderful themes available to the WordPress.com community.
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Great minimalist design!
Thanks ; )
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nice. i’m gonna go check it out! thx
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This is a really cute one!
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nice theme!
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It looks good. We’ll give it a whirl! THANKS SO MUCH!!!!!
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This theme isn’t available in my Control Panel… 😦
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Try refreshing and clearing your cache. It’s there 🙂
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Is it available for WordPress.org users?
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All the new themes are bascially sandboxes for CSS.
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This is great! It’s like a combination of the good features from Facebook and Twitter, only better. I might switch to this one.
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nice theme, i like it.
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Nice feature. This is insane. Thanks WP for bringing this cool stuff.
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Looks good. Going to try it now.
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great new features THANKS a million
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I am going to test it soon. I love themes; the more the better! 🙂
Please give us a real magazine theme such as Arthemia!
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I love it. I’m giving it a try! Thanks for the cool new addition!
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The only flaw is we can’t put widgets on its sidebar.
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Just to clarify, widgets can be displayed at the top instead 🙂
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splendid… more!
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This is really cool. Won’t meet my needs right now but I look forward to running into it around town!
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The layout is very much like tumblr – clean, simple, minimal and slick.
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When I searched for theme in my theme page, it showed only “DePo Masthead” not “DePo Square”. 😦
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To me this theme seems to be something interesting and out of box. May be because in this theme you can show interesting looks of your blog to the visitors without going for any upgrades. Pretty interesting from the masses point of view.
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Strange, I don’t see the new theme in the list….
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Try clearing your cache and refreshing your browser 🙂
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I love his design, actually I am using his theme currently, i might change for a new blog.
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I’m tumblified! (sorry, i have to make that joke louder, lol)
You guys don’t mess around in work! 😀
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Is there talk of enabling bringing in feeds to the content column, like Twitter updates, Delicious (as it appears now) etc, so the posts go up automatically? There’d be a huge demand for that kind of website (although it wouldn’t be a blog, actually).
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We’re definitely paying attention to those ideas, yes. Keep an eye on the news blog for more updates 🙂
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Wonderful idea. I just wish it had a custom header…
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Minimalism rules!
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Very cool!
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Nice Theme.
I just wish the widget area was flexible. Currently its fixed width/length and most of my widgets do not fit well in the limited space 😦
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seems it is mac inspired theme.
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I like the sound of this.
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Hi there
Great theme ! Once again, you’re releasing a new theme that fit my needs exactly when I need it.
Some problems I’ve met :
The flickr widget for DePo square seems not to work : I can’t display my pictures, only the interesting one…
The page layout display a categorie / date line, wich is not very appropriate…
I also want to bring feeds in ! Think about flickr import too !
Keep on working such a great way !
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You need to use your Flickr stream’s RSS feed. If you’re still having trouble, submit a support ticket please.
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i love this theme.
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Nice.
may be something minimalist at first, but It have many details.
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this theme is soooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!! xD
i LOVE you, WP! xD ❤
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I’m using Neo-Sapien theme. Is there any update of the design such as allowing us to use the extra spaces adjacent to the header?
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ooow.. another great theme from wordpress.. thank you..
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thank you
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Great, clean theme. Good job.
But I think more space should be devoted to widgets. Maybe the sidebar to the left. As it is now, I only have space for three widgets and I really don’t want to choose between all I like.
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oh, it has the ‘features’ I loved about TUMBLR with all the WordPress extras (as standard) cooooool x x
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I tried it.
its nice.
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Consider enabling features like “pre-defined post types” in other themes, please.
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Hm… maybe i will try it. i like my today’s theme but it is always interesting to try something new.
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Blue, white and grey themes with gradients and dinky little icons are so 2005. Or maybe 2004. I don’t know, either way they seem to have been knocking around far too long for me to see anything innovative in them. I suppose the fact that 50% of your themes have a near-identical colour scheme acts as an incentive for people to purchase the CSS upgrade. Cunning.
Also, I’m surprised After The Deadline didn’t catch Apperance; it hit me straight away, though only because it was bolded.
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Thanks for letting us know about that error. It’s been corrected.
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The look is good and the top widgets are really useful , this clears a lot side space. But this is still not for me. I am using The Journalist v1.9 , and that is because it is very simple, and the main main cause is that the main column is wide. Hope wordpress.com comes with some wide column themes for free! Yay!
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Like this a lot and have started using it – but the fact you can’t feed twitter updates to a status post a bit frustrating! Is their a way to do this that I’ve missed?
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Not at the moment, but we’re listening to your requests 🙂
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Could a DePo Square Quotes widget be made like the DePo Square Status widget. Then I could have About, Status, and Quotes right across the top of my blog. It would be great!
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Wow… now we can tumblog on WP too 🙂
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I’ve added my Flickr feed in the feed rss url but nothing changes. It worked for you?
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This bug should be fixed.
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I just wonder why we barely ever get any darker designs, esp. considering that the most popular theme is black.
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Nice and Clean, I like it. Thanks Derek Powazek and DePo Square + WordPress.
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For some reason, the ‘About’ link at the top contains a tick mark in the URL. I can’t even change the About page URL to match that temporarily.
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Should be fixed.
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Thanks for the work!
I would like to see wider themes in WordPress.com, I don’t know why (almost) all of them are so thin…
By the way, Ipernity exists also! 🙂
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looks super sweet
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WOW
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Cute theme
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I’m a great follower/lover of DePo themes. I’m already using DePo Masthead in my blog. Going to try DePo Square in another blog of mine very soon. Kudos to Depo and WP.com team!
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Yeach this theme is great. Unfortunately, we cannot add widgets on the sidebar. 😦
Just imagine if there’s a template that has features like DePo Square (such as its post-types ability), plus an elegant sidebar. That will be great.
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I like its .. so unique … ^_^
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coolness! i figure that it’s got some tumblr aspects.
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Love it!
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nice one! the post types are so tumblr-like.
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looks great
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Nice Theme
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looking good
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Look good, but i can´t use it. I love my widgets
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Great theme. Keep them coming! A theme that would allow you to change the background color of individual posts would be great. I’d love to be able to create a post on a black background one day and white the next. It’s a gray kinda thing.
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It’s new.. Not exceptional though.. Having said that appreciate the fact that WP is always helping out by bringing out stuff like this..
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I actually am not a big fan of this theme, but I suppose if you put a lot of work into it, it can be good.
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wow, that’s so neat! i love neat themes, they really give the blog this professional look 🙂 keep up the GREAT work!
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Is it just me, or does the flickr square not work?
I’m pretty sure my RSS feed is correct as it used to work with the previous flickr badge so what gives hey?
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There was a bug at one point. Can you try again and contact support at https://wordpress.com/support/contact/ if it’s not working for you?
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love the theme. but i wonder if i can remove the flickr depo and status depo widget from the top-bar. i dont need them… 😦
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Yep, you can use those areas for any widget you choose.
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It looks awesome, I’ll change now. Keep up the truly awesome work, WP team!!
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Nice theme, but I hope for more themes with color in the future 😉
A lot of themes are white =(
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Yet another white theme…
May we please have new themes that not only have great technical features, but also look good visually? Look good as in having different rich colors, deep grays with bright contrasting colors, and thoughtful creative designs I mean?
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This one looks good. I like DePo’s way of making themes. Large fonts and clean layout.
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Kind of creepily Facebookish, but that doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s pretty.
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Cool!
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Great great great!! Should I change my theme again 😀 Oohh..
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This looks like a great new minimalistic theme .. on the lines of Posterous but with more bells and whistles. Great job. Well done.
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nice theme, cool!
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looking good
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cool, still waiting for the feature of changing colors to everything without having CSS.
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Would love to use this theme, but the inability to add side widgets is annoying. Would love to see this feature added!
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love it amazing =)
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Nice!
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NICE DESIGN MMINIMALIS
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I like it
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Nice theme.. like it
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Not bad!
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