New Theme: Skeptical
August 23, 2011
Today we’re pleased to introduce the latest addition to our themes, Skeptical. Originally released by WooThemes for self-hosted WordPress.org blogs, Skeptical has seen great popularity as a blog theme. Now, it is available on WordPress.com.
The Skeptical Theme
The WordPress.com version is designed with Post Formats in mind. Skeptical supports nine post formats – standard, quote, aside, image, gallery, chat, audio, link, and video. Just by looking at the screenshot above, however, you can’t see all of the ingredients that make this theme sizzle. Now would be a good time to read all about Skeptical’s features on the Theme Showcase.
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Beautiful. Couldn’t believe it’s free.
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Nice and clear theme! Light colours make it comfortable to read.
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Easily readable font, block quotes are nicely accented, wide photos are shrunk properly, lots of customization options! The main column width is quite narrow when using the three column format.
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I think this is a stunning theme!!
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it’s very nice! but the tagline is so small it’s virtually unreadable. I would say crank both the page title and tagline up a couple points
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I think it’s the best colour theme.
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A great theme, very pleasantly surprised it’s free.
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Beautiful! just what I was looking for!
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Wow! Really really awesome!
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It’s very nice and clean. I love it!
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More great themes! ^_^
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Cool theme. Love the colour schemes! It’s good to bring out white themes! Hope you make more themes like this and “vigilance”!
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This is beautiful. Just the kind of theme I was looking for.
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Absolutely stunning. May be making the switch. Nice work on this one!
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Nice Theme! Great one!
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I love it!
I couldn’t believe it’s free- thank you!
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Do not be skeptical…. use this theme …..it is clean and well designed. Thanks WordPress and WooThemes!
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Looks fantastic! Something to certainly consider.
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It’s very clean and clear and It’s free.Thank you..
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It’s a great theme , clear and fresh ,we like it!
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So beautiful. Thanks.
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I have this uncanny attraction to black and white themes. 😀
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It’s a very nice theme… I like it.
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Wow, love this! Will consider using this when I want to make a change. Thanks!
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Nice one! Clean and elegant.
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I’ve been looking for a theme to replace my much-loved Vigilance, just for a change. Skeptical has all the elements and options that I want in a new theme. I was surprised to discover that it is free. But, alas, the column width is too narrow. A lot of space is wasted on the first column whose sole purpose is to present the post title, date and number of comments. Also, tags can only be seen in a full page view of a post. But thank you, it’s still a very nice looking and functional theme.
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Oh gosh, that’s really pretty!
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Wow this is a very neat theme! 🙂 It’s cool to the eyes.!!
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This theme is clean and wonderful.
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Good contrasty. Easy on the eye. love it. 🙂
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Looks wonderful, I’ve enabled the theme on my blog.
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Thanks WordPress! I’ve wanted this theme for so long! 🙂
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Nice and clear theme! Light colours make it comfortable to read.
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Too good to be free!
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Great theme – even gets nested lists correct, though it hides the text before the more tag in the actual post. A love/hate thing there. Would be great as a customization option (unless there is already is one).
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There was a glitch on more tag but it’s been resolved now. I hope you now only love the theme 🙂
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WooThemes are generally great. I just started a new second blog last week using their The Morning After theme; frankly I was surprised it was free. Skeptical appears to be following that tradition, and is tempting me to switch, but on balance I think Morning After still suits that particular blog’s needs better. But still, very impressed by the flexibility of all the different post formats.
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I really like this theme and I will try it, that’s for sure 😀
Keep up the good work 😀
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Hey Theme Team!
I just love it when you guys work with WooThemes to come up with amazing blog templates for WordPress.com bloggers. Here’s to hoping you would release more magazine-style themes . . . FREE!! 😀
Thanks very much!
Cheers!
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Awesome when I know that free !! Thankssss…
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I am totally psyched about this theme! I’m already playing around with it to see what it can do. 🙂
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Ooooh, I like this one a lot! If I can figure out how to convert my blog to it, without losing any of my current widgets, I’ll give this one a try.
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Clean, simple and very cool-looking. Nice features, too. Thanks!
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Great theme! i would pay for it…but thanks for keeping it free!
the Bozo.
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Wow… I like it so much…….. I have to use it.
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Really focuses attention on the content. I love it!
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It reminds me of all the other ones…… 😦
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Is there a way to change the fonts used in this theme without spending a dime?
Frankly, I feel the the fonts on it don’t belong there.
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I’m afraid you need Custom Design upgrade to change the fonts on Skeptical.
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I think, I’m a bit skeptical about Skeptical.
But it’s so simplistic I kinda like it.
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I like this…very simple and lovely!
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Is this for free? Wow. 😀 Amazing job! Thank You for the theme so much. 🙂 I think many of bloggers from WordPress.com is glad to use the theme for free. 🙂
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This is a pretty nice one. I am currently using Two Thousand and Eleven.
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Very clean and simple, nice work.
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Very beautiful. Definitely considering this for my blog.
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Gaurav Tiwari, said it best. I agree.
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Great, I am proud of this beauty ………………. ok. Thank you.
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This is good stuff.. Piece of art!
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its nice and clean theme. i hope you’ll be sharing more of your talent in the future.
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This must be love at first sight! I so love it I’m using it now. THANK YOU SOOO MUCH! )
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I like it a lot except it’s not right for my photography blog…
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I dig it. it looks great!
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I find this quite easy on the eye. I know it won’t be to everyone’s taste, but hey, that’s the point of themes.
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I love, love, LOVE this theme. Please update so that the HTML links are clearly visible – the black and grey are nearly indistinguishable at the moment!
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I like it very much. Clean and simple!
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A really lovely, clean, bright theme (the best yet). I agree with the last poster: please update the links, they are hardly visible at all. Thanks!
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