New Themes: Cubic and Wilson
Announcing Cubic and Wilson, two brand-new free themes available for WordPress.com sites!
It’s Theme Thursday and today I’m happy to present two new free themes: Cubic and Wilson.
Cubic
Designed by WordPress.com’s own Thomas Guillot, Cubic is a clean, simple, and responsive theme.
With its single-column, grid-based design crafted around large featured images, Cubic is the perfect fit for photobloggers.
Read more about Cubic in the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your blog by going to Appearance → Themes.
Wilson
Designed by Anders Norén, Wilson is minimal yet bold. It’s a clean and simple theme for personal sites and blogs — make it your own with a site logo. Use post formats to highlight your content, add a custom menu, or take advantage of three widget areas.
Read more about Wilson in the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your blog by going to Appearance → Themes.
- January 15, 2015
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I love Cubic! Very stylish!
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I also love Cubic! Might be one i use in the future…
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Wow, that was quick! I literally only just settled in Sela. These are both lovely, such great quality themes lately. Well done!
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I liked Wilson theme looks like a good theme to post long posts/ large amounts of posts. The only thing is, is that it has no other colour schemes than the default one which can be problematic to free users. Other than that it feels good enough.
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Cubic looks perfect! Think I might use it in the future as well.
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Both the themes are attractive which just tempts me to try one of them when I have just switched to Boardwalk this year. Hurrah Thomas & team !
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I like the layout and the nice font in Cubic. Thinking of changing to this new theme. Many thanks to WordPress for launching 4 new themes at the start of 2015.
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Cubic seems to be for photographers and bloggers who are more photograph oriented.
Nice theme 🙂
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Cubic is just what I’ve been looking for – perfect for my new ‘venture’ for 2015. Now all I need to do is improve my photographic skills….
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Cubic looks great, but it’s yet another theme that hides the navigation menu away behind a hard-to-find “hamburger” icon. That just simply isn’t obvious enough for many people. Am I missing an option to make menus permanently visible or is this a worrying trend of building bad UX just to maintain an overly minimalist UI? I’m losing track of the number of themes that would be otherwise okay if it weren’t for the fact that they’d be unnavigable.
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Hiding the navigation menu behind a toggle by default is definitely a design decision, and one not everyone will like. We don’t have an option to change that in themes, but the good news is that we have plenty of themes that do not hide the menu behind a toggle by default. Check out these recent themes that do not:
Most themes employ a toggle to make the menu more manageable on smaller screen sizes like an smart phone or tablet.
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Cubic indeed! 🙂
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are they of free themes, or paid themes, instead?
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Both are free. When we release premium themes, we mention in the post that they are premium.
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I love Cubic! Im using it right now. (I am new beginner)
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Why cant I use this theme on http://www.wiggersrobert.nl?
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Cubic has been submitted to the WordPress.org theme directory and will be available soon.
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Cubic looks nice 🙂
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very stylish cubic!might try it!is the menu button and the widget area like in sketch?
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Unfortunately, I’m not a photoblogger
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You don’t have to be a photoblogger to use these themes. They’ll look great with or without. 🙂
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HI
Still looking for a theme which offer number of posts displayed in a slideshow
(much saving space at the front page than a vertical viewing)
Bye
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These themes have post sliders, and you might find one that fits your needs:
https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/post-slider/
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You have so many nice ones, it’s hard to choose
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Just made the switch to Wilson just right now.
What I like about the theme:
I don’t have to put a header picture, which takes out a major thing I have to decide on. The decision on what picture to put the header was, for me, as significant as naming a baby. I’m not kidding.
The menus for the topics are on the left side of the screen, which I feel will entice the readers to click more on them, yay!
I like the black, gray and white colors, they’re very me. I am not a fan of the red though, but I’m ok with it.
The font is large, which suits my text heavy blog. The look of the theme registers well on the mobile version.
I like that the tagline is less conspicuous since I think my tagline is quite cheesy and lame. I haven’t really thought about a great tagline yet, so bear with me y’all
I like that I can customize it with a site logo, which is probably the next step after changing to a .com domain just recently. Since I’m not good with designing (the terms finance and MD in my user name are clues to that 🙂 ), that logo might take a while.
Thank you Anders Noren
Thank you WordPress
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I also love Cubic! But I’m not a photoblogger
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You don’t have to be a photoblogger to use Cubic. It’ll look great with or without. 🙂
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I will check them out on my blog 🙂
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i use the cubic theme for my blog
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Thank you WordPress team for the Cubic Theme! I’m using it now. It’s perfect!
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