WordPress.com gets new themes

April 7, 2006 By

The fun crew over at WordPress.com is slowly bringing in new features. We still don't have the ability to customize look and feel, but I can tell they are bringing those features online slowly. Donncha, a developer on WordPress.com, is showing off one of their new themes on his blog today.

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  • Woody

    How did you customize the look of your WordPress site?

  • Woody

    How did you customize the look of your WordPress site?

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Woody: Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress) did it for me. I haven’t been able to change it since.

  • http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/ scobleizer

    Woody: Matt Mullenweg (founder of WordPress) did it for me. I haven’t been able to change it since.

  • http://www.robirwin.com/iliketowatch Rob Irwin

    I’m always quite surprised you never host your own blog, Robert. Any particular reason why?

  • http://www.robirwin.com/iliketowatch Rob Irwin

    I’m always quite surprised you never host your own blog, Robert. Any particular reason why?

  • Christopher Coulter

    Wow, themes…how so very 1996. How people put up with such de-evolutionary blog crap is beyond me sometimes.

  • Christopher Coulter

    Wow, themes…how so very 1996. How people put up with such de-evolutionary blog crap is beyond me sometimes.

  • http://archgfx.net/blog sunburntkamel

    afaik, banana smoothie’s been available for a while. but, it’s ugly as butt, so i don’t use it. what’s significant is that donncha’s wordpress blog is aliased as blog.donncha.net.

  • http://archgfx.net/blog sunburntkamel

    afaik, banana smoothie’s been available for a while. but, it’s ugly as butt, so i don’t use it. what’s significant is that donncha’s wordpress blog is aliased as blog.donncha.net.

  • http://eng.pascalrossini.com/ Pascal Rossini

    In the new WordPress themes, Hemingway transform blog interface and usability. Exemple : http://eng.pascalrossini.com
    What do you think about this?

  • http://eng.pascalrossini.com Pascal Rossini

    In the new WordPress themes, Hemingway transform blog interface and usability. Exemple : http://eng.pascalrossini.com
    What do you think about this?

  • http://www.whistlestopcaboose.blogspot.com/ Ellen Wallace

    Pascal, I can’t log in to WordPress to see new themes, so I’m assuming Hemingway is the name of your theme??? Very spare, spartan, a bit too masculine for my taste but otherwise looks good! and clean and easy to read. And I was going to try to find you and your company but hadn’t gotten around to it, so thanks for posting -will start reading your new blog.

  • http://www.whistlestopcaboose.blogspot.com Ellen Wallace

    Pascal, I can’t log in to WordPress to see new themes, so I’m assuming Hemingway is the name of your theme??? Very spare, spartan, a bit too masculine for my taste but otherwise looks good! and clean and easy to read. And I was going to try to find you and your company but hadn’t gotten around to it, so thanks for posting -will start reading your new blog.

  • Brian

    Robert,

    You can customize your site if you don’t mind dabbling in a little php and plain old html. The files that make up your ui are in the wp-content/themes/default folder (if you are using an amended default WordPress theme).

    It’s not too scary. Give it a shot.

  • Brian

    Robert,

    You can customize your site if you don’t mind dabbling in a little php and plain old html. The files that make up your ui are in the wp-content/themes/default folder (if you are using an amended default WordPress theme).

    It’s not too scary. Give it a shot.

  • http://www.b5media.com/ Jeremy Wright

    Brian: He’s on WordPress.com. No access to the files.

    And, as someone else mentioned this is an oooold theme. There are more than 200 themes available for WP2.0 that would work with WordPress.com.

  • http://www.b5media.com Jeremy Wright

    Brian: He’s on WordPress.com. No access to the files.

    And, as someone else mentioned this is an oooold theme. There are more than 200 themes available for WP2.0 that would work with WordPress.com.

  • http://inphotos.org/ Donncha

    It’s an old theme but I was testing the posting ability of new WP code and it worked! :)
    Now, if I could find out how to get the Flickr user_id from a Flickr username I’d have a very happy widget.. yes, I must “Google it” of course. One of these days I’d stop thinking about WordPress at the weekend but I doubt it’ll happen any time soon.

  • http://inphotos.org/ Donncha

    It’s an old theme but I was testing the posting ability of new WP code and it worked! :)
    Now, if I could find out how to get the Flickr user_id from a Flickr username I’d have a very happy widget.. yes, I must “Google it” of course. One of these days I’d stop thinking about WordPress at the weekend but I doubt it’ll happen any time soon.