I’m super-excited to announce to you today that WordPress.com now has an official Theme Team. In a nutshell, we’re a bunch of people who really care about WordPress Themes and want to see them get better and better—on WordPress.com and for every WordPress.org user. And yes, that means we’re getting more themes, more often. 🙂
You’ll be hearing more from us individually in the coming weeks but I thought, to get started, it’d be a good idea to share a few of the Theme Team goals we’ve been discussing. Just some rough thoughts really. But I’m hoping that by sharing them here you can get a better idea of what we’re up to—and get as excited as we are about it all.
- Every WordPress.com user should feel like there’s a theme that fits them perfectly, that is exactly how they want to present themselves to the world, that they’re excited to show to their friends.
- We want everyone to feel a sense of momentum and ever-increasing possibilities, and to do so we will present as many perfect-fit WordPress themes to as many WordPress.com users as we can.
- We will ensure all of our public work represents the best in coding practices, web standards, and technical excellence.
- We will craft all of our themes to have a consistent user experience and meet our users expectations and hopes.
- We will teach WordPress developers to become the best theme developers in the world. If you’re a WordPress theme developer—commercial or 100% free—we want to help you be the best.
- We will ensure all our improvements make it back to the open source community.
I love the idea of meeting the “expectations and hopes” of everyone here by delivering to you the best in WordPress themes. Pretty, painless, perfect-fit ones that just plain work.
Keep watch here for more announcements—and more new themes!
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yes!!!!!!!!! thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is great great great news!
perfect, i need a new theme, i love wordpress!!
Read this earlier today on Twitter already. I think this is great news and looking forward to find some nice new themes!
Ya kewl ..waiting for it !!!
This is fantastic. I look forward to seeing what’s on the horizon!
Excellent. Point 5 got my attention the most. I look forward to seeing this in action 🙂
Sounds good! Do you think some of the older, less flexible or attractive themes might be retired?
There aren’t any plans to retire older themes just yet—only plans to bring more and more attractive and flexible ones to you.
Sounds great! I look forward to seeing more new themes! 🙂
Congratulations on being part of the team! Looking forward to new themes.
Thanks! I love seeing new themes, and experienced that “a-ha” moment, myself, when coming across the theme I am currently using.
thanks for all your hard work!
blessings
jane
This sounds great! I’m excited to see all the new themes 🙂
Wow, that´s great news! I´m looking forward to seeing more variety on the themes, I like my current theme, but I would also love to have the possibility to add graphic on the header. I also look forward to having more flexible-width choices..
Looking forward to the themes! :3
can u make sure u incorporate themese with 3 columns, because I have a lot of widgets
More 3-column themes are on the horizon.
You have delivered some brilliant new themes over the past few weeks. Glad to hear that there are even more coming.
Good. I love WordPress and I think forever I will be doing. 😀 WordPress.com is the best free blogging platform in the world with the features that should not be given for free. 😉 And the idea of open-sourcing the entire script on WordPress.org is just awesome.
WordPress has the greatest contribution for what we have zillions of active blog sites on different niches. Thank you WordPress team.
You guys are so cool, and you make blogging fun. Thanks!
Keep up the stellar work.
What we’ve been waiting for!
Really cool! I hope that with this great team we could possibly see a few upgrades like a integrated Twitter and Facebook share button. Also the ability to place a Facebook Fan Page widget. Thank you for your hard work!
“Every WordPress.com user should feel like there’s a theme that fits them perfectly” sadly there isn’t one that fit me.
We’re trying, Lee! Stay tuned to the news blog for more theme announcements.
This is great!
Really appreciate the energy and sense of mission I get from you guys. Awesome!
Fantastic!!!! That’s great to hear!!!
What would be great news is the news that wordpress.com has installed an editor that allows us to change fonts and background colors by clicking buttons. Just saying … it’s very hard to fathom why these features aren’t available to us here at wordpress.com when they could be. It’s very difficult to explain why there is such a glaring difference between those who have free hosted blogspot (Blogger) blogs and can do these things free of charge by clicking buttons, butt we can’t do them at wordpress.com without paying for a CSS editing upgrade that must be renewed annually.
We’re thinking hard about ways to make theme customization painless. Expect more and more customizable themes in your dashboard.
Great news! please carry on with your awesome work! WordPress rocks!
Great!!!! I would really love to see more themes that give us the ability to add a custom header graphic 😉
Us too! You’ll be seeing more of them.
Love this idea! Had a blog now for 2 weeks & already almost 600 hits–but tired of same old tags….file me under: Hopes & Expectations
….in other words….
THEME ME UP, SCOTTY!!
Pinch me! WordPress Dream Team more like!
Sounds good !!! :-]> WordPress rocks ^_- Thanks
Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! I’m happy!
Awesome! wordpress themes are kickass.
Very cool theme team!
One request in keeping with “Every WordPress.com user should feel like there’s a theme that fits them perfectly,”: could we see more themes with custom headers?
You guys are doing a great job! Keep up the great work!
Absolutely. More themes with custom headers are coming.
I really like that idea, and I look forward to seeing some new themes.
Although I’m *very* fond of the theme I use on my blog (Mistylook), I do sometimes experiment with using other themes.
So far, though, I haven’t found any that make me jump up and down with excitement, shouting “Yes, that’s the one I want to make permanent!”
Regardless, I’m still a HUGE fan of WordPress!
hey new team, I love you for your goals and hope to love you for your amazing works soon
Oh yes, excellent news. I’ve tried out quite a few themes and although some have come pretty close I’ve yet to find one that’s “just right”. More choice is definitely the way to go. Well done.
I am continually astonished at what WordPress offers all for free – fabulous.
June is right.
I love WordPress!
Now I shall just have to create more blogs so I can have all the beautiful themes!
I love this. What I’m using now is soooo close to what I want, but not quite! Thanks for all the work guys!
I agree w DOPE re: the 3rd party widgets or buttons – please!
Sounds fantastic to me. I know that my experience here has been a totally positive one and I look forward to seeing what the team comes up with. You people do a fantastic job with this place and you certainly have my most profound thanks …
AWESOME! Thank You Theme Team!
As a photographer I would love to see more themes for photo bloggers. That
would be great.
Wow, this sounds great! I’ve been looking for a theme that I really like. The one I have now is okay, but I can’t wait to see what you guys come up with! I can’t wait…
I think offering more customization options for existing themes would be a huge help with finding the ‘right’ one.
This is amazing news. You guys really know where to focus your efforts. Look forward to your future developments.
Great! Hope to see more themes localized too.
Well done Theme Team…well done!
Thats really great. Thanks Theme Team.
I like the “theme” of this initiative. You have me enthusiastic and very interested.
Please give thought and consideration to WordPress 3.0 themes that are:
– HTML 5.0 and CSS 3.0 based
– Complement and enhance an iPad blogging experience 😉
I would love a theme that incorporates the above suggestions and is ideally suited to a music journalist like myself. I am also interested in a theme that tells people visting my blog that I am an instructional technologist.
“If you build it they will come – Field of Dreams”
Go T – Team!!!! Make us proud! =)
Wow, this is great! I can’t wait for the new themes!
Such good news!
Please give us more customization options! It will be SO great if we can change the background, the text size, the font, the colors etc. And of course – a custom header is a must! I want my blog to look unique and not just the same as lots of other blogs, so more customization options will be really really great.
Thanks a lot!
Very Cool Ian
can i put forward a theme request
hoping to see a format condusive to longer…and/or more scholarly posts
akin to a professional publication/magazine where the text on a page is split into two (or three) columns
to help the reader’s eye traverse shorter horizontal spans.
another way of expressing it is to achieve the same impact of a word document with a page layout modification from single to multicolumn.
naturally one would still need a column (or two?) for widgets and with the addition of a customizable header would end up making this a perfect complement to the stable
hoping someone takes up the challenge
have seen it rendered by other bloggers using customized CSS
cheers
miro
This is awesome! I am yet to find a theme that fits me best. I am making do the best i can with Vigilance. Which is my fav so far. The most customizable without knowing any css 🙂
BUt few things i would love to suggest:
-i love the thesis theme-any 3 column version of that would be great.
-three column with a customizable header and yes customizable font sizes.
-I love vigilance…but i wish i could make the font size a bit smaller for thr the posts 🙂
-a theme thats SEO ready
But i am so gald you guys are on with a team! Means more fun for us here at wordpress.com!YAY!
Dream team – yeeeeeeaaaaaaaah.
I’d like to have a theme with a costom-header image not too small sized and in some kind of 3:4 or simila aspect ratio … some other details to follow – where can I post this?
Good question! You can either contact support with the request or drop a line in the Themes Forum.
sorta like the A team but themes
Cool. Could you do a vintage/retro toys looking theme? But I do like the one I am using now. Thanks!!
Looking forward to finding my perfect theme! Thanks WP!!
Thank you and your team for continually working to improve WordPress. I appreciate all your efforts, known and unknown and look forward to seeing new and exciting themes choices.
I’d really like a new theme! That’s great!
I love to change my themes from time to time to shake things up a bit; it helps me ‘clean house’ periodically, and is a nice change to viewers! Thank you and keep ’em coming! I love 3 column with color options. God Bless!
Finally more themes! Hope I can find something nice for me 🙂
OMG…excited. I hope we have more themes that have more widgets..so we can do add and do more stuff to our blog(s).
Is it possible to get involved in some way? I love the post and the thoughts but feel it would be good to contribute in whatever way possible.
Theme suggestions! We love hearing them. Contact support with a request or drop a line in the Themes Forum.
Awesome news! Kudos.
This is Gr8 news! I am excited to see what the theme team has to offer x 3 🙂
Thank you!! Can’t wait to see them!!
oh yea, forgot to mention….FONTS! we nned more fonts!!!!!!!!!!
🙂
Great! We need to see more themes based in media and news lay out!
excellent, i hope more themes also have the custom banner option as well.
Flexibility rules. Lots of options, epsecially for lesser-minded folks who don’t know how to edit their css scripts (sigh… ): ). – E from EB
More themes to choose from sounds great. I’d like to suggest that it become a firm standard that all themes should allow flexible-width content and custom headers.
Great news indeed!
Is there a spot for an official cheerleader
(jumping up in the air)
GooOOOOOO! Theme TEAM!!! YEAH!!!
Yay WordPress!! You guys are the best! I can’t wait to see what you come up with!! 😀
It always makes my day when a new theme is released.
Good deal. I had been hoping more would come along.
fantastic!!! look forward to more beautiful themes!
Great news for all of us!!! Thanks!
I can’t wait for the new themes. I’ve been switching between Digg 3 Column and Tarski becuase those themes are awesome. Is there some way you can make a theme like Tarski, but with 3 columns?
More 3-column themes (and 2-column, and 1-column) are on the way.
Aaaaahh, weeping with joy over this…FINALLY!
Big, big, thanks and much gratitude for finally nailing this side of blogging for all of us who enjoy decorating, and re-decorating, our spaces often. For a long time now I’ve wanted to be able to change themes at least each season to reflect the changing colors, energies, moods and attitudes etc.
Under the hood can totally rock but if the car body is painted a dull grey primer, it just doesn’t catch the eye or heart. Seriously, thank you for this. XOXOXO
You’ve made me a very happy camper with this announcement! And three columns? With custom headers? And more customization? I may swoon! Or maybe just smile really really big. 😀
sounds amazing! great idea. 🙂
THANK YOU! I am so excited about this. I always check out the new themes but still haven’t found “the one” yet. I agree with some of the above comments which mention more easily customizable fonts for free. Thanks for everything yall do!
Hooray! Thank you, WordPress! Now… Please create more themes with customizable headers that users can replace with their own image; Been waiting and waiting, praying each time when a theme is released that it has that option. Much love, and thanks again.
Thanks!! Fantastic news 🙂
I wish all the people of the team good luck with the job 🙂
Thanks, guys 🙂
OMG this is why i love wordpress 😀
please think about more themes where bloggers can be creative and free to express their own designs. im using vigilance right now and i love having the ability to change colors, adjust columns, etc. THANKS~!
Oh, yeah! I always settle with my theme and then a prettier one catches my eye and I get tempted to stray. I need theme counselling.
Does the theme team get a uniform?
brilliant. can you put together a mozart theme? and how bout a ‘dead sea scrolls’ theme for the biblical scholars among us?
I think you guys do an outstanding job of keeping new technologies and options coming! I am always excited to read about new gizmos you guys come up with…especially themes!
AWESOME.
I *LOVE* WordPress.
Thank you. ❤
More photo themes please, and thanks, ian, for confirming: “More 3-column themes are on the horizon.”
singing, dancing happy, happy HAPPY
Love you people
I left below comment at your other site.. Here it is and it was meant for the wordpress.com blogs.
I think it is also important to update/upgrade the themes that’s been in use for long time. It is fine to introduce new themes, but the old ones shouldn’t be left alone and should be updated to reflect the changing trends and new features. If an old theme cannot be updated, than it should be dropped with ample notification. Just a personal suggestion.
Fantastic! I’m still looking for my perfect theme. I’m using regulus because I love the theme options and the custom header, but I wish there were more themes like it!
I hope you guys will create my perfect theme one day!
~Sara
Very exciting! Thanks for your hard work.
Wonderful news.
How do you guys provide all this for free?
You guys need more Three Column themes 🙂
That’s more like it. I’ve been barking on my Twitter lamenting the poor collection of themes WP now has. Good job Theme Team for listening to our grouses. 😉
Thank you, I love WordPress…..This is an awesome place. May God bless you all. You do a lot for us writers.
Where else can we find such great and talented, technical people, who give of themselves like you folks do?
I am telling you, I haven’t found any one, or anything like WordPress. And so I just say thank you….
It would be great if WP developer bring more great themes to us. I suggest more personalized themes. Like music, art, sport, culture or nationality. We wait your creativity in themes making art… VOILA!