New Themes: Nucleare and Afterlight
Meet Nucleare and Afterlight, two unique free themes to make your blog stand out.
Nucleare
Nucleare, by Cresta Project, is a classic blog theme with a crisp, elegant design and plenty of handy features. A built-in search box, links to your favorite social networks, four widget areas, and beautifully styled post formats make this an ideal theme for your personal blog.
Check out Nucleare on the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your site from Appearance → Themes.
Afterlight
Afterlight, designed by Takashi Irie, is a different take on his Cyanotype, featuring an option for a full-screen background image. Add your favorite background image or color to lend your personal flair.
Read more about Afterlight on the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your site from Appearance → Themes.
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I am liking the Nucleare theme so far, it is good to have more free classic/general purpose/balanced/traditional/et cetera themes, it is one of the best free theme’s of 2015 so far in my opinion (the default body font could be a bit bigger though (maybe one or two sizes larger), but at least the default font is a readable font which helps); thank you for adding this theme.
Long image captions glitch across the theme so it would be nice to have that fixed, and it would be nice to have post timestamps when hovering the cursor over the post date; other than that things seem pretty good so far, but I will try to report more things to the support staff as I find them.
Keep up the good work,
-John Jr
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Takashi Irie must be capable of reading my mind – I would immediately switch to Afterlight if I had a text-only blog. Nice theme!
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Afterlight is absolutely amazing! The one thing that would make it perfect is if I could see the post’s image in the category. I used it anyway.
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You forgot to mention that Nucleare has nice fonts.
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Nucleare seems a bit…you know, same old, same old. It’s still very pretty though! 😀
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I absolutely love the Nucleare theme! It’s perfect for my blog & what I wanted. It has the set up I’d been imagining for my blog.
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Just switched to Afterlight. I like a minimalist theme and it works wonderfully. Very nice on mobile as well!
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Very Nice work.
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Looks really cool 😉
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Nucleare is simply brilliant by the fact you can make so much more of it. Switched to it right away.
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I really liked the theme Nucleare! It is perfect for my blog and what I want. It has set up I had envisioned for my blog.
Thank you.
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I’ve been playing around a bit with Nucleare, and I notice if I apply the featured colour palette with the dark background, the text of the tag cloud widget becomes completely illegible. I’m not crazy about the custom header and title appearing underneath the menu, but I suppose I’m just a traditionalist as far as that’s concerned. I like that it uses a bit more screen space with a larger maximum image display size, while still maintaining the more traditional blog layout. I’m not convinced to leave my beloved Twenty-Eleven yet, but it’s close this time.
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The Afterlight is really a cool one
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Lovely theme, just switched to it!
I do wish, however, that the “Read More” link would show up directly after the post text instead of at the very bottom. For example, if you choose to display Sharing buttons, they all show up above “Read More”, which can make it seem like there is no more text to read.
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Sorry, I was referring to the Nucleare theme in my comment above.
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Nucleare looks pretty cool. I always enjoy seeing what new themes come out and all the various ways you can change them up. Always never ending options to make your blog your own.
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Mostly love Nucleare and have already activated it…BUT:
1. When I changed the Palette to the one with the reddish color in it, everything changed correctly EXCEPT the color of the tags in my Tag Cloud widget.
2. Setting up the Social Links menu above the Header is confusing, and then, after doing all the work, it bumped the Search down below it, widening the white field above the header in a very unpleasant way. I already have a text widget for social media links at the top of my sidebar, so I simply removed the Social Links menu from above the header, but I assume that some folks would prefer to use the Social Links menu that Nucleare offers.
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Afterlight looks classy. Well done!
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I really liked Nucleare. I just noticed that there’s too much white space above if you have many social buttons (since they wrap in new lines and the search button on another) and there’s a sizable gap between the header image and the first post. The full screen search screen in a bit overwhelming in my opinion and tables I think would’ve been better if the border wasn’t shown by default. Nevertheless, this is the first recent theme that I’m actually considering to switch to. I hope to see more themes similar to this! Good job! 🙂
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