New Themes: Circa and Quadra
Today we’re happy to announce two new free themes, Circa and Quadra!
If these two look familiar, there’s good reason. Based on Hexa, they share a similar design, but with unique colors and fonts. Both themes work beautifully with Post Formats and are designed to focus on your content, tucking secondary material behind a row of buttons in the header.
Circa is a blogging theme with sweet, muted colors and a more feminine look. Perfect for a baby or parenting blog, or anyone who wants a softer style for their site.
Quadra is a personal blogging theme with a bold palette and a traditional font. It’s great for users who want a more serious look for their personal site.
As always, both themes are responsive, and thus will look great on all screens, big or small.
Check out Circa and Quadra on the Theme Showcase by clicking on the screenshots, or preview them on your blog in Appearance → Themes.
- February 27, 2014
- Themes
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Hi there Caroline,
Thanks for these two variations on the Hexa theme. I like the circles and subtle colors in Crica as well as the title fonts, but others may prefer the squares in Quadra. Two more great theme additions!
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Very cool.
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Thanks for sharing the new themes. It’s great that there are continually new options to choose from. I think I’m going to have to look for a new theme to freshen up my blog very soon!
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I think all of them could have done with a max-width on the images… It’s a common “failing” I see in lots of the stock themes; where the designer has been very careful with typography, and then let users destroy it by not controlling the images they might post.
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Howdy Jonathan! There are max-width rules on images for all of these themes, but Hexa (and therefore Quadra and Circa) allow the featured image and aligned images to display “outside the box” by design. Hope this clarifies!
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Really loving Circa (: But having a bit of trouble with the Twitter widget?
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Hi Skipp! Hmm, that’s an odd problem. Can you post in the support forums with more details so we can take a look? Thanks!
https://wordpress.com/forums/forum/themes
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These look great. Makes me want to start another blog!
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Wow…these are nice.
Thanks!
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I love this! Thanks 🙂
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These themes are absolutely gorgeous, and I love the emphasis on the “stream” idea. Beautiful work Caroline!
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I will love to see more 2-column themes instead. Currently running the Sorbet theme which uses the same top header widget as the these two themes. However, my readers tend to overlook the top header and seldom click on the links in it.
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Thanks for your feedback! We’ll try to keep a wide variety of new blogging themes coming your way.
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What a brilliant idea to offer free variations of an existing theme! I wish this was a general principle!
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I love the look.
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Looks really nice!
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Nice looking themes 🙂
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Quadra on the iPad thrilled. Thanks!
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Wow, nice view! 😀
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I may try it, I have just one question, do these themes offer post slider feature?
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Hello! Quadra and Circa don’t feature a post slider. To find a list of all the themes that do, you can visit this page on our Theme Showcase.
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Thank you so much.
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Circa and Quadra don’t come with a post slider, but you can find ones that do right here: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/post-slider/
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The quality of the free themes on WordPress are incredibly impressive. Typically you wouldn’t expect sites like this to be so giving unless you pay, which just shows how much they really care here.
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Are any free portfolio’s themes like hatch or fontfolio coming out in the near future?
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I think is time for me to change my theme. thanx WordPress 🙂
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Very cool, I’m for sure going to try Quadra on for size !
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Thank you!! keep them coming want more themes that don’t need such a wide picture..
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I have been looking into changing themes, but I would wish for an optional black print on some of these themes. I set one up recently, then had to wipe it all out because older folks would have a hard time reading the green print that came with that theme. With Circa I suspect the same problem; the type above appears faded.
When you’re seventy you’ll understand where I’m coming from. 🙂
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I recently refreshed my blog to Bushwick. Even though I am happy with my decision, I feel like I sold my shares for a great price, but then they skyrocketed the day after. 😦 Happy, but slightly regretful.
Oh well, with the range and frequency of new themes, I’m sure this will happen again. 🙂 Way to keep us wanting! 😉
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I’m dreaming of two free variations of “Sorbet” with the colors and fonts of “Circa” and “Quadra”…
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Looks good. 🙂
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I like this theme, I think I try it!
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How can I download this? Please tell me.
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Hi! You can download these themes from the Theme Showcase:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/circa/
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/quadra/
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