New Theme: Coraline
I’m really excited about today’s new theme, Coraline. It’s a familiar-looking theme packed with upgrades that will make your blog more customizable and more fun.
The Coraline Theme
As you might have guessed, this will be a replacement for the Cutline theme, which we’re phasing out. Since Coraline replaces Cutline this means we get to add some exciting new features that I think you’ll love.
Multiple Layouts
One of my favorite new features in the Coraline theme is the multiple layout options. Visit Appearance → Theme Options and you can select from 1 of 5 layouts. Choose from up to two sidebars—on the right or left—and 3-column layouts—including one with sidebars on both sides.
A 3-column layout with sidebars on either side
Up To 7 Widget Areas
If you need a lot of widgets for your site you’ll really like Coraline. We’ve added four widget areas to the footer and—if you’ve selected a layout with two sidebars next to each other on the right or left—a bonus “Feature” widget area that spans two sidebar columns.
The feature widget area
Alternate Color Schemes
Does your blog need a darker look? Coraline also has an alternate dark color scheme selectable from Appearance → Theme Options.
The alternate dark color scheme
Even More Features
Coraline was based on our latest default theme, Twenty Ten. That means you get even more features built-in; A custom background, custom headers that you can change on any post or page with a Featured Image, special styles for Gallery posts and shorter Aside posts, a Visual Editor that mimics the look of the theme, and customizable drop-down menus.
The Coraline theme is available today in Appearance → Themes and will soon be available in the WordPress Themes Directory, for self-hosted WordPress.org users.
- August 9, 2010
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I still love Cutline. Can I continue using it? Seems like the change was done automatically without any notice 😦
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Hi, Suresh. Cutline will no longer be available on WordPress.com.
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Love the new themes. I just noticed Koi and Greyzed and plan on trying them out as well.
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Three words: simple, unique, awesome.
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It certainly does seem to have new features… perhaps the darker background is what I like about it.
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I hope it’s a good theme, after trying it on my new blog I’ll post my back about it.
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