I love winter and I bet you do too but if you’re like me you probably don’t like the cold very much. You might be wishing you could take a trip to a beach somewhere right about now. Well, if you can’t make it to the beach yourself how about taking your blog there? Today’s new theme, Beach, will let you do just that.
Originally developed by Gibbo for Drupal Thailand, the Beach theme can bring the warmth of Thailand’s shores to your blog all year round. But the Beach theme isn’t only just sand, sun, and sea. It has 4 different post formats built-in for short Status and Aside posts, and special styles for Quote and Gallery posts. Beach even has a bonus vertical menu area in the header.
You can read more about the Beach theme’s great new features in the Theme Showcase or activate it on your WordPress.com blog right now. Beach will be available soon in the WordPress.org theme directory for self-hosted WordPress users.
Bonus: If it’s too hot where you are right now and you’d like to take your blog someplace cold, give the Iceburgg theme a shot! Pine trees, snowy hills, and cool colors might just be what your blog needs right now. 🙂
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I love the page that comes up when what the reader’s looking for isn’t in the blog.
This is okay but I wanna see more dark and black. 🙂
Refreshing theme. 😀
Beautiful theme. Probably the best seen here so far. Very neat, perfectly organised. Too bad I can’t change the background picture. I’d love to have a more “formal” background. Can’t you just give us this little possibility please? That would really make it perfect!
Custom backgrounds might not work well with a theme like Beach we have lots of other great themes that do have Custom Backgrounds. You can check them out on our theme showcase.
As I’ve said I love this theme. The only thing I don’t really like about it is each person’s comment takes so much space. Even though sometimes their comments are just one-liners.
I love this theme!
Cute! I’ll try it out closer to summer.
LUV IT. I actually seriously like this more than the others.
I like it! Would like to try it out, but I like the way my blog looks for now and there’s no special urge to change it.
Just wanted to say that I love the bottom of the page – the sharks and corals and schools of fish! 😀 Very cute!
I like this a lot! It is cartoony but also refreshing.
Awesome theme!! Nice one. 🙂
This might be just what I need to update a seldom-used blog I have about Greece. I might just give it a try! Kudos to WordPress!
Looooooove the beach!!! I might use it for my blog! Thank you!!!
Refreshing. I like it. 🙂
I don’t know that I would use this, but after walking into work this morning with a face numb from the biting wind, it certainly is a refreshing change of pace!
Great colors. And I really like the way it visually separates each post.
The deal-breaker for me with this and others I might have used is that the tagine is too large in proportion to the title. My tagline is fairy long, and it just crawls all over the page at this size.
I’ll stay with my present theme for now, but keep ’em coming…
For ‘THE BEACH! I think of a big, huge breaking wave, with water covering a area, not just a little bit across the top of a page.
Very relaxing. Nice and fresh.
This theme is a very nice fit for my blog.
This is great!
Looks so cool! 🙂 😀
This theme is so cool, I really like it, but I’m still going to use it when it’s summertime! 😀
It’s such an awesome theme, now I really want summer even more 😀 .
Ha, this just reminds me of all the snow and slush we have here in NYC 😦 Someone send me to Hawaii!
I don’t think I like this one. 😦
Cute, but too cartoony for me. Maybe something a bit more realistic, or sketched would be nice. 🙂
It looks great, so fresh, haha~ Thank you! 🙂
Oh, I like that theme. Might have to use it. Very nice palm trees & all! 🙂
Amazing – and you even fit in a word I couldn’t spell with Scrabble: pulchritudinous. What a guy. Thanks for giving me a great word for the day!
I like it! However, it would be neat to see another beach theme based on photography, for those who like their blogs to have a serious look. 🙂 Just a thought! Nevertheless, lovely!
Looks cute.
Wow, my new favourite theme. ❤
Very warm and relaxed looking.
Nice one. I like it.
It’s pretty nice, not really what I expected but it’s still awesome. 🙂
I think it would be much more cool, if it had some fish, sharkfins, dolphin fins, or orcas in the water. Possibly optionally.
Wow, it’s fresh, I wish I was at the beach instead of being in the snow. LOL.
Looks good. May be too individualized for customization for some people though. Ok for personal blogs but not commercial ones.
Breezy…love it!
Activated! Thanks for adding a new color theme after what seemed like a lot of B&W or greys.
Nice theme there. 🙂 Keep up the good work. 🙂
Love its simplicity… nice one!
Very nice looking theme 🙂
Cool! I am not sure if i would choose this, but it is creative!
Like this one a lot!
I LOVE THIS BEACH theme!! am using one now. Thanks!
Nice. I may try this out.
Thanks. Cool theme. I’ve had the same theme since I started, and I’ve been meaning to change it.
Please apply more “post format” feature in other themes.
More themes with the Post Format feature are on the way. 🙂
Extraordinally beautiful! Great job!
Makes me want to go to the seaside or someplace very warm, away from this cold winter… 🙂 nice colors!!
More ocean than beach.
It looks very juvenile. I don’t like it.
Beach theme is cool breeze. Refreshing for a change. 🙂