Say hello to The Morning After, a classic and popular magazine-style theme that has withstood the test of time. Based on its great success for self-hosted sites we’re excited to bring it to you for the first time on WordPress.com.
Introduced in 2007 by Arun Kale, The Morning After was a game-changer as the first magazine style theme for WordPress; it is still considered by many to be the top of its class. In June 2010 WooThemes announced it was taking over the theme:
Considering the significance of this theme, we jumped at the opportunity. We felt that [The Morning After] started so many things in the WordPress community… and we wanted to put our weight behind one of the “pillars” of that community.
The Morning After sports a special home page template with featured posts, three available widget areas, and special styles for posts in the “Aside” format. Also included is an optional full-width page template that removes the sidebar and full support for a custom menu, header and background. A robust theme options menu allows for further customization: header links, page headings, full or partial content an archive pages, and more.
Read more about The Morning After on the Theme Showcase.
The Morning After is now available in your WordPress.com dashboard and, for self-hosted sites as a download from WooThemes.
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This is a great theme, I just wish I could get it to work properly on a self-hosted site.
Very nice theme indeed ! But I’m still waiting for a theme with no sidebars, only footers, similar to “Modulaity Lite” but with capability to post huge pictures, full size, above 1200×800.
Nice work. 😀
In a word, spectacular!
I like this look though. Very nice and clean. I love what I have now but wish I had a larger header image area and viewing the menu on a laptop sometimes cuts off all the pages in the menu.
I really like this one. Awesome addition!
Wow, what a great theme! One of the best.
Thank you, very nice theme. I really like this theme! 🙂
This is a very nifty theme. I will try to use it soon.
Ohhhh, I love it. 🙂
Looks nice, will try it later.
Looks like a good one. I like “robust theme options.”
Sorry, but this theme makes me think of the morning after pill. Rethink the name?
Hi Eric—we used the same name given to the theme by its maker back in 2007.
Clean, but not boring and colorless. Nicely done.
I like it. Very elegant, classy, clear cut. Thank you!
Fantastic! Very well done!
I initially thought the screenshot looked a little too cluttered, but considering it’s a magazine style, it’s actually quite effective. Cool.
Very sleek and functional. I didn’t know certain themes were so well known in the WordPress community. Should have figued some were, though. The choice of a theme and how to personalize it are important.
Very attractive one!
Thank you so much. I will try this theme.
Thank you for this theme, great job.
By far, one of the better themes developed for WordPress this year.
Glad you like it. But, do you mean, “one of the better themes developed for WordPress in the last 4 years?” It’s new to WordPress.com but it’s not a new theme.
I’ll have to give this one a try. Thanks.
I love it.
Thank you for introducing the theme to us, thanks.
Interesting, not my style but very nice.
Of course I’ll try this theme as soon as possible, very nice.
I would consider switching from 2010 if the header picture was a little larger. I can’t see all of my Cahaba Lily like I can on 2010.
IT’s funny you came out with a new theme today…because last night I got totally bored and fed up with my blog, then thought about deleting it, then decided to completely change it this morning. LO and behold, you have this….so now I need to revamp AGAIN what I started last night. 🙂
Just try out “The Morning After” theme, it looks good if you like the default 3 column layout. There is no option to allow you to turn off or change it to single/two columns, thus you need to like what it has for you! Anyway, this theme is very suitable for frequent updates, or multiple author blogs, where it will display the profile of the author at end of single posts. By the way, so far still cannot find any perfect theme for photography showcase…
Yeah, it looks great, but not much room for a header picture. And the writing is smaller. I often wonder if shortened posts to “read more” is an attractive feature or a turn-off to people though? Thoughts anyone?!
Very clean. Love it!
Amazing theme, love it! Much better than any of the other themes I have used prior to this point.
You’ve made my day! This is exactly how I imagined my new blog, although if I’m honest, this looks better then I imagined. 🙂
Very intriguing!
This is a great, if not the greatest, adaptation in WordPress Theme gallery. Congratulations guys!
Wow, this is fantastic! Thank you, very nice theme. I really like this theme! 🙂
Interesting! Nice work. 😉
Nice, I like it, but it’s more a new style theme so it wouldn’t go with my blog.
The word “Classic” should be reserved for cases like this one. Thanks for the work guys!
Great theme which works well with my techmum work in progress concept. Would be nice to see a few more magazine style themes as well.
The colour combination, fonts, and the wide body makes it an excellent match for my choice. But I think it does not have footer columns, like theme 2010. I will check it out.
I really like this one. Awesome addition! I tried it and I love it. Thank you.
Looks sharp. It seems like a good match for the magazine style I’m going for. Thanks.
Oh… I like it. Might have to try it on for size. 🙂
Beautiful and I love it.
This is my new favorite theme, thanks.
i could just stare at this and fall in love with WP all over again. thx so much for making this a regular theme.
Cool, but I’ll stick to my present theme. 🙂
Looks great, will be giving it a try. 🙂
A lil’ messy looking…
Great!! I was waiting for a template like this. Nice!!!
I love the photo! Reminds me of autumn in Minnesota, where I grew up. I invite everyone to visit my home page and let me know if you like the header.
Cool theme… i like it.
Really like the look of this theme.
Clean and elegant theme, activated at first sight. (I think my blog’s been the second one to migrate.)
I like my Greyzed one the best… I’ve tried so many but none is ever feels like it “suits” me! When i do change it those who know tell me to change it back because its not me! I’m getting paranoid now!
Not really my style, but nice theme nonetheless.
Really nice! Great work!
Keep the designs coming! Love to try out the look of all your new designs, however I also love the one I have presently (Koi) much more. Any other similar artistic designs in the works?
We hope to launch many more themes this year, of all types and styles, so stay tuned.
As it has been around since 2007 I think it is well established.
Really like this and Basic Maths.
So many features! Love the range of options for home page. Great work!
I love the name “The Morning After”! That’s great. Sounds like music. 😀
Very cool and elegant! 🙂
Yeah, I second Eric’s thoughts that the first thing I thought of, was the Morning After Pill, too. I’m sticking with the Modularity Lite theme for now. I will say that I do find myself visiting WordPress.com more often to find out if a new theme has been released.
Hi, I really like this theme.
This looks very good. I’ll have to check out if it can handle the tables I do from time to time nicely.
If so, I think it would be worth changing onto it.
This is a very nice theme.
Alright. I am so changing to this theme now. Thanks for introducing the nice themes. 🙂
“Don’t say a prayer for me now… Save it ’til The Morning After…” (Duran Duran. Sorry, couldn’t resist.) Quite nice theme. Will it ever have a dark version?
We don’t have plans for a dark version, but that’s a great idea. We’ll keep it in mind for a future update.
That’s gorgeous. Heading straight over to preview town!
Nice…clean and simple. Looks like a hybrid of a couple themes already offered on WordPress.
This theme looks quite interesting though.
Amazing! Good job. 🙂
Very nice work! Congratulations!
Oh my. That looks gorgeous.
Oh yeah, I’m using it since yesterday, and baby, it’s good! Probably I’m gonna use it for a very long, long time.
Lovely theme, mate.
Looks cool, elegant, calm… nice template style. 🙂
I like it and I think I might possibly give it a try.
Maybe I spent too much of my growing up time in Reagan’s ’80s, but a Morning After theme makes me think of ABC doomsday-inspired mini-series scenarios. Don’t the Russians love their children, too?
Simply boring.
I really look forward to accessing this theme. I need more variety.
The layout looks pretty cool. I might use it on my blog.
Way to go!
So many great new themes to choose from! Thanks WordPress! Now for the hard work of re-thinking my blogs and trying out some new themes.
Aguona is right. Simply boring. In fact I’m beyond the barrier of boredom and into a complete new phase of boring when I see this. It’s almost as bad as Basic Maths.
Oh! My dear it is complety exciting! I Just like because of the structure and it various features and the simplicity of the colors.
It looks like a clean, elegant theme.
This one is definitely worthy of a try. I love the cool, clean look and the fact that it has the Asides. LOL … so many themes, I’m having a hard time staying with just one look!
Thank you this is the BEST Theme that I have managed to come across. Looks great and loads of options.
Looks like I am gonna switch!
Looks too plain. On my theme there is action but not so much that it takes away from the content? The demo looks fairly busy, but if the “Latest Post” didn’t include a picture, it would be very boring. Thumbs down. 😦
It’s a neat layout, but please count my vote for a dark or customizable background color.
One word: nice. Great to know it’s for free.
I think I’ll put this theme on my blog.
A nice theme, but its not something I would use.
The morning after tomorrow. 🙂
Nice theme. Really like the style.