Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for August 2024
Four of our favorite new themes.
The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Check out the latest themes in our library, including great options for dog lovers, engaged couples, and interior design aficionados.
Bark
Bark is a pawsitively perfect theme for pet care pros, striking the perfect balance between professional and playful. With sections tailored to showcase your services, testimonials, and even a map of your service areas, Bark helps make your business the leader of the pack. The typography adds a touch of modern charm, while the warm color palette and rounded corners brings comfort to every page. And with four color schemes available, Bark has all the tricks to make your site fetch some serious attention.
Click here to view a demo of this theme.
Vows
Vows is the perfect theme for engaged couples who want to tie everything together in style. Inspired by the timeless elegance of wedding stationery and photography, Vows acts as a sleek, all-in-one link hub, making it easy to coordinate your big day. From centralizing information to sharing event details and visual themes, this theme does it all with grace. With sophisticated font pairings and style variations, Vows sets the perfect tone for your celebration.
Click here to view a demo of this theme.
Cottage
Cottage is the perfect theme for anyone who wants to share the warmth and charm of their home or interior design sensibilities with the world. Inspired by the cottagecore aesthetic, this theme wraps your content in an earthy, cozy color palette that feels like a warm cup of tea on a rainy day. With a stunning gallery page to showcase your space and a delightful background pattern that adds a touch of whimsy, this will be your go-to design for all things homey and beautiful. Whether you’re blogging about decor or sharing your latest design inspiration, Cottage makes your site feel like home.
Click here to view a demo of this theme.
Hola
Hola was built for bloggers and newsletter creators who want their words to shine. A sleek variation of the Hey theme, Hola keeps it simple with a text-forward design that highlights your latest posts in a clean, straightforward layout. The striking header is created by adding a black-and-white image to a Cover Block with a preset duotone—an effect also applied to featured images, avatars, and the site logo.
The theme’s expanded color palette and four unique style variations bring a bit of personality to the mix, whether you’re vibing with cool blues, the vibrant magenta, or earthy tones. No matter your aesthetic, Hola offers a minimalist canvas with just the right pop of flair.
Click here to view a demo of this theme.
To install any of the above themes, click the name of the theme you like, which brings you right to the installation page. Then click the “Activate this design” button. You can also click “Open live demo,” which brings up a clickable, scrollable version of the theme for you to preview.
Premium themes are available to use at no extra charge for customers on the Personal plan or above. Partner themes are third-party products that can be purchased for $99/year each on the Business plan and above.
You can explore all of our themes by navigating to the “Themes” page, which is found under “Appearance” in the left-side menu of your WordPress.com dashboard. Or you can click below:
- August 27, 2024
- Themes
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Hello, This is cool news, but can you tell me anything about their accessibility.
As a blind user depending on a screen reader I have not been impressed by the full site editors most themes have.
Even when I install the classic mode plug in I still have a lot of trouble and waste a lot of time finding the function I need and updating it.
Thanks, Maxwell
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How come WP keeps rolling out themes but requires two carefully placed clicks in Reader to see a post as the author intended, with the post’s theme?
An easy quick click on a post as displayed in Reader will display the post in a weird theme that ignores much of the post’s carefully crafted formatting in the author’s chosen theme.
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I enjoy using the themes. My favorite theme by far is the “infield” one.
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The Hola theme is nice for a simple blog, but someone really went to town when they designed the Bark theme. That one is really nice, and could be used for other niches as well.
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