Say hello to our newest theme, Choco. If I had to sum this theme up in just one word, it’d be stylish.
With dark colors and stitched borders Choco will give your site a classy, contemporary feel. It is well-suited for any site but works especially well for journal-style blogs: the traditional two-column layout with a right sidebar frames your stories in familiar—yet beautiful—style.
Choose from three color schemes and further customize the look with your own background, menu, and sidebar widgets. Learn more about Choco on the Theme Showcase.
Designed by CSSMayo, Choco is now available for WordPress.com, and for self-hosted WordPress.org sites, from the WordPress.org Themes Directory.
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i would love to try it, but the text size in the side par is a bit too big for me. 😦
Very nice theme. I might try it out.
Really cool but I prefer what i’m using actually.
Wonderful theme, I like it!
I do like the many additions to your family of themes. This one shows more imagination is being used to develop more diverse ways of expressing oneself. It is a pleasure to receive these as well as read the many positive responses. It would be interesting to know how new themes are used by bloggers… is there a way to search by theme to see how one is utilized?
Yes, see our Theme Showcase: http://theme.wordpress.com/. For new themes like this one we don’t have links to sites where the theme is in use, but you can see it for most of our more recent themes.
Oh I love this one. Excellent work, as always.
I like this…It’s very down to earth. Can you guys maybe make a new theme that has a lot of pink in it? I would use it for sure. Thanks for the great themes! =)
Yes. It look stylish. Only pity is it only in Chocolate colors.
Neato, like the layout!
Looks good. Testing it right now.
Great theme!
Looks like a moleskine, I love it. time to change!
I’m using it now, quite happily.
Choco looks and works great! Just keep it away from your dog, for heaven’s sake.
Very classy, very masculine.
Is it weird that I kinda want to like the screen now?
It looks really nice. I especially love the orange tabs.
Sorry if I’m repeating anyone, but the first thing I noticed is that there’s no year in the dateline for each post. Big problem in blogs spanning several years. Otherwise, I think the theme is beautiful.
Will test it, as my corporate color palette is choko. Maybe it will be an exact fit for me?
Nice theme! I like all the theme with brown tones.
Wow—looks good. Keep up the good work.
Complete winner—perfect for my embroidery blog!
I’ll use this theme for my “new family’s” (wanna be) life story… really nice theme.
At last something beautiful, used it already, thanks. 🙂
It would be nice to have more themes where you can see more than one post.
It’s beautiful… and does remind me of chocolate (a girl’s best friend).
I really love this theme! Is it possible to have an editable header for this theme as well? Then it will be perfect!
It is as sweet as Toblerone and Kisses. Thank you and more power to WordPress.
Nice theme, I like it and I will try it on my blog.
Simple and stylish, a great combination with the chocolate colour.
Looks nice. I like it!
Awesome theme!
This is frickin’ delicious!
This is definitely one of the better free themes available. I do feel though, that more could’ve been done with the typography. I’m primarily thinking custom fonts and mutiple text columns here, but most people will be able to implement that with a little help from Google. 🙂
Something seems off about the tags though. Like they’ve been stretched or something, but maybe that’s just me.
All in all, it’s really a nice theme 🙂
Finally, one good theme! Ever since I’ve joined WordPress.com (December 2010), I’ve been “dying” to see something such as this. Bluntly put, I was FED UP of your “minimalist” themes. Thanks a ton for sending in this one.
Love it, so unique!
@Jeroen Not orangey enough.
My new favorite theme! Thank you!
It’s just exactly what I’ve been looking for! Good job!
Great work. I switched. One of the main reasons I did so without thinking is that all my photos were automatically resized for this style, and not just “cut off” …great work on that one. It’s a major plus for those with a lot of posts that would need to go back and re-edit. I likey!!!
One word: Awesome!
Nice style, I’ll try it.
Love it, but still figuring out whether to switch from Twenty Ten to this. Thanks WP.
Very striking and chocolate.
Amazing theme! And love the cool name.
Very cool! I like how it is so intriguing… and catches your eye!
I really like the color, it is warm and touching. This theme may be good for a coffee blog.
This is neat! Since I am maintaining a personal journal type blog, I guess I should give it a try. Good job team! 🙂
It’s nice. Really chocolatey. 🙂
Pretty cool! Yum, now I’m craving chocolate!
Ooh, good looking. 🙂
I really like it! I keep looking at all the new themes but finally decided to make the switch with this one.
Hmm… looks too much like the default blogger.com website.
Perfect, just perfect for my blog.
Amazing! Really strong art!
I do like chocolate. It’s sweet.
Great theme, I really like the fun side of it. Love the color combination too! *applause*
Lovely. It inspired me to a new blog.
It is stylish as Sarah said. 🙂 It’s cool thanks for showing us all!
I put myself on a diet. 😦
Thanks AGAIN so much – I finally changed themes after 5 years. LOVE it!!!
Oh, it looks good. I want to try it! As soon as I have time to change themes of course. 🙂
Looks customizable. Nice. I might look into using it if I can’t afford the CSS upgrade any time soon to fix my current P2 theme.
Well done.
Hey, I like it so much. But I don’t want to change my theme. 🙂
That’s a really awesome theme! I used it for my gaming blog! 😀
Excellent. It is very hip!
Fabulous theme!
Love it!
I will try it. Hope my customers will also like it.
Extremely good one. I loved it at first sight and changed to it. It is a flawless, well designed theme. I am happy to use it. Thanks.
Good job, I really like this and I want to try this Choco.
Awesome and stylish theme, I wanna try this.
It’s OK. But BTW, may you please make a theme that is good for pet websites? Thanks!
Marvellous. Excellent design! It suits my new blog. Thanks.
Love this theme. The warm colors and stitching details totally remind me of some of my favorite suede-covered journals. Keep ’em coming WordPress!
Nice, might switch themes!
Great. Finally I have a perfect match for my travel blog. Thanks!
I love this theme, really nice. I switched my old one for this in seconds. 😀
I will try this out. I need a new theme for my blog.
I love this new theme and I’m using it now.
Beautiful, so simply and classy!
I have changed my blog theme from Mistylook to Choco, fits like a glove and looking good on my food and travel blog. Though it has no custom header but still I am loving it.
Thanks WordPress.
Nice new theme, I like it.
Wow! I absolutely, absolutely love this theme and am presently using it for my blog. The plus is, it has an Archive page readily available and I’m using that too. I love everything about it, especially the choco-licious colours! I only wish that the Comment section can be similar to Fusion Theme because currently the comments display is too plain, without gravatars and not topic-compartmentalised, if I may say. Nevertheless, thank you, WordPress!
Choco looks really interesting!
Awesome! I might try this theme… Good job !
This one is really nice! I agree the colour scheme isn’t my fav- but this one is a keeper!
I love this theme! I switched to it shortly after I first saw it, and it’s great! Thanks WordPress!
Great theme, and so cool!
This theme is my favorite, thank you.
I like the dashed border detail.
Wow, I use this for all my blogging projects, it’s just what I’ve been looking for! I really want to thank the developers and designers of this wonderful WP THEME!
I love it. It’s just my style.
Very nicely done.
It’s interesting that this theme’s elements look EXACTLY like Tumblr’s locoRoto theme (http://www.tumblr.com/theme/12364), which I’ve been using for months.
The Tumblr version is probably based on the original WP theme: http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/chocotheme.