New Theme: Intergalactic

Designed by Automattic’s very own Mel Choyce, Intergalactic is a stunning specimen for your personal blog.

October 2, 2014

Caroline Moore

We have a brand new free theme for your blogging pleasure today!

Intergalactic

Intergalactic Theme

Designed by Automattic’s very own Mel Choyce, Intergalactic is a stunning specimen for your personal blog. Bold featured images act as the backdrop to your text, giving you a high-contrast, readable theme that’s perfect for making your content pop. The one-column layout provides a distraction-free environment for reading, while the slide-out menu keeps your navigation and secondary content readily accessible.

In Mel’s own words…

Intergalactic was inspired by long-form storytelling sites like Exposure and Medium. I wanted to design a theme that focused heavily on showcasing your stories, images, and videos, and could flex its content to many different use-cases. I also wanted everything to be big — as big as the Beastie Boys (who inspired the name). It was great working with Caroline to bring Intergalactic to life.

Learn more about the free Intergalactic theme at the Theme Showcase, or preview it by going to Appearance → Themes.

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  1. tonmoy6122893 Oct 2nd at 5:39 pm

    Nice theme.

    Liked by 2 people

  2. glitterbunnies Oct 2nd at 5:46 pm

    This looks amazing! Seriously thinking of getting this theme, awesome post 🙂

    Liked by 3 people

  3. timethief Oct 2nd at 5:47 pm

    It’s simple and beautiful. I like it.

    Liked by 4 people

  4. John51 Oct 2nd at 5:51 pm

    Awesome!

    Liked by 1 person

  5. Jaime Quiroz Oct 2nd at 6:06 pm

    Thanks, I’m using it.

    Liked by 1 person

  6. Luke Kent Oct 2nd at 6:41 pm

    This looks super cool, good work! Veery tempted to use!

    Liked by 1 person

  7. martha0stout Oct 2nd at 6:50 pm

    Gorgeous…

    Liked by 1 person

  8. 0207andrewa Oct 2nd at 7:18 pm

    It’s an awesome blog theme

    Liked by 1 person

  9. Papajjay Oct 2nd at 7:27 pm

    The theme is quite nice, I like it 🙂

    Liked by 2 people

  10. thesciencegeek Oct 2nd at 7:29 pm

    Great new theme. I like the name as well 🙂
    I write a blog which is focussed mainly on astonomy/space/space travel and I thing it could go very well with this new theme

    Liked by 1 person

  11. eaglescool Oct 2nd at 7:31 pm

    It’s very nice image theme a beautiful!!! COOL 🙂 😉

    Liked by 1 person

  12. Widdershins Oct 2nd at 7:37 pm

    Looks gorgeous. The only quibble I’d have is the white font on black background.

    Liked by 1 person

  13. ricfurman Oct 2nd at 8:29 pm

    WOW! This is really cool!

    Liked by 1 person

  14. iruvienne Oct 2nd at 8:55 pm

    Just a heads up: Leave a reply (non-mobile) and taxonomy description are not being displayed correctly (black transparent stripe over).

    Liked by 1 person

    • Caroline Moore Oct 2nd at 9:39 pm

      Thanks for bringing this to our attention! I’ve fixed the taxonomy descriptions, but I’m not seeing what you mean by the “Leave a Reply” part — can you post a screenshot to the support forum so we can try to reproduce the bug? Cheers!

      Liked by 2 people

      • iruvienne Oct 3rd at 9:41 pm

        Sorry, taking a better look at it the problem is the footer: instead of appearing below the navigation at the end of the page, it’s appearing in the middle of the page. Screenshot

        Liked by 1 person

        • Caroline Moore Oct 6th at 12:50 pm

          Hi! We’re looking into the mobile issue. Let’s take this to the support forum so we can get more details without cluttering the comments. 🙂 Can you post a link to a live example of the bug with the browser(s) you’re using? I still haven’t been able to reproduce this, but want to figure it out.

          Liked by 1 person

  15. dcj786 Oct 2nd at 9:05 pm

    I’m lost, how do you use it?

    Liked by 1 person

  16. thepregnancydiary Oct 2nd at 9:09 pm

    LOVE IT… I am going to try it out now!

    Liked by 1 person

  17. Devangana Oct 2nd at 9:35 pm

    This theme works perfectly, I tried it.

    Liked by 1 person

  18. bunbury740813 Oct 2nd at 9:49 pm

    Lovely thank you

    Liked by 1 person

  19. perelincolors Oct 2nd at 10:00 pm

    It’s a really nice theme, very tempting to change! But I do love the sketch theme too.

    Liked by 1 person

  20. Roopashree Sharma Oct 2nd at 11:26 pm

    Using the theme. Awesome!

    Liked by 3 people

  21. ThoughtsbyPC Oct 2nd at 11:37 pm

    Clean otherworldly design.

    Liked by 1 person

  22. Christopher Oct 3rd at 1:49 am

    Great new theme. I’m not sure it works with the feel of my blog, but I love the look of it. I’ll definitely keep it in mind if I ever start another website.

    Liked by 1 person

  23. missberth Oct 3rd at 3:57 am

    Wow! That’s all I can say.

    Liked by 2 people

  24. Belindq Oct 3rd at 4:18 am

    Looks interesting. A great theme that is free. Wonder if anyone uses this theme? Would like to see how it looks on actual blog as I’m lazy to change mine. Hehe!

    Liked by 1 person

  25. paleica Oct 3rd at 5:39 am

    I love this theme and I’m already using it. I only have one question: A part of the footer is overlapping the last comment (I do not use custom CSS at the moment).

    Liked by 1 person

  26. Alex Greenhead Oct 3rd at 5:40 am

    Just started using it a few days ago, very impressed!

    Liked by 1 person

  27. Metal Blade Oct 3rd at 6:31 am

    People that don’t have featured images can’t use it. I won’t change all of my posts. It would be great to use the first image from the post instead only featured.

    Liked by 1 person

  28. SomniVision Oct 3rd at 8:23 am

    Intergalactic planetary
    Planetary INTAGALACTIC!

    Great theme and yes that song did pop into my head. I might actually switch over!

    Liked by 4 people

  29. The Writer Oct 3rd at 10:47 am

    LOVE IT!

    Liked by 1 person

  30. elidonkukajinfo Oct 3rd at 10:53 am

    I’m lost in space :O

    Liked by 1 person

  31. Millie Aveyard Oct 3rd at 2:19 pm

    It looks good BUT not for me!

    Liked by 1 person

  32. byoneclick Oct 3rd at 3:57 pm

    Awesome! Really nice!

    Liked by 1 person

  33. Mel Choyce Oct 3rd at 7:46 pm

    Reblogged this on Stuff I find on the internet and commented:

    A new theme I designed, Intergalactic, is now available for use on WordPress.com! Had an awesome time working with Caroline to get this one up and running. 😀

    Liked by 1 person

  34. Chas Rad Oct 4th at 12:50 am

    Neat. I’m gonna try it out and see if I like it. Would give me a reason to add more images to my posts.

    Liked by 1 person

  35. Swav Oct 4th at 2:32 am

    Looks very spacey 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

  36. Sylvain Oct 4th at 4:18 pm

    Awesome, but I can’t find the Site Logo feature… Isn’t it available with this theme?

    Liked by 1 person

  37. callmepercy Oct 5th at 12:32 am

    wonderful theme! 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

  38. triciaalejandrino Oct 5th at 2:29 am

    Hi! I used your theme. But I don’t know how to put background image on my blog. Please help me how to. Thanks!

    Liked by 1 person

  39. patricia denise Oct 5th at 6:15 am

    It’s cool and I’m using it! 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

  40. fbordbar Oct 6th at 3:22 am

    Looks great, simple and clean!

    Liked by 1 person

  41. shyreneeee Oct 6th at 8:36 am

    Thank you so much for this!

    Liked by 1 person

  42. aryamine Oct 6th at 11:32 am

    Looks like it would give a feeling of being anti-gravity. Beautiful

    Liked by 1 person

  43. jessicarainbowinspiration Oct 6th at 12:11 pm

    I just installed this theme! It’s beautiful!

    Liked by 1 person

  44. fncmb Oct 6th at 12:13 pm

    Hi, why I can’t find the Site Logo feature on this theme please?

    Liked by 1 person

  45. fncmb Oct 6th at 1:36 pm

    Thanks a lot, it will be great with Site Logo, I’m considering using this theme for a new blog

    Liked by 1 person

  46. MidnightBlueLouboutinsInParis Oct 6th at 8:48 pm

    Just set up my new blog with this theme, I love it, favourite feature is the featured images you can have for each post. Looks very professional.

    Liked by 1 person

  47. peytolake Oct 7th at 1:06 am

    I like it.

    Liked by 1 person

  48. atarunya97 Oct 7th at 3:53 pm

    This theme is fab! Immediately caught my eye …. Very appealing and sophisticated 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

  49. imsonot Oct 8th at 7:54 pm

    Nice. I grabbed it and have switched to it from the 2010 theme.

    Liked by 1 person

  50. Versatile Media Group Oct 9th at 3:55 pm

    Is there a way to space out sentences in this theme? So that there are page brakes?

    Liked by 1 person

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