Today we’re happy to debut a new, free portfolio theme, Sketch!
Sketch
Designed by yours truly, Sketch is a clean, modern theme for showcasing your best visual works. Whether you’re a professional illustrator, an aspiring photographer, or a painter, Sketch will ensure your portfolio looks stunning no matter the device or screen size.
Further customize your site with a logo, showcase your favorites with a Featured Content slider, or spruce it up with a Custom Background or Header.
Take Sketch for a spin — visit the Theme Showcase to learn more, or activate it on your site by going to Appearance → Themes.
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Beautiful, masterpiece of Art 🙂
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This is absolutely clean.
Beautiful clean theme, well done Caroline!
Lovely clean crisp format. I would definitely use i for a blog containing lots of pictures
The Science Geek
Adorable!
Really well done that’s a beautiful theme. I’m heading straight over to change mine now, thank you 🙂
It’s beautiful portfolio theme with such great features for graphic or photo display. It even has a site logo and social links menu. If I ever do an art blog I’ll choose this theme.
This looks great! Very clean and tidy.
How Amazing & Lovely she is 🙂
This is an absolutely adorable theme.
Thank you yours truly (carolinesthemes.com) for sharing this theme & for making it available ❤
Huggs
Thats gorgeous!
Very sweet
Thank you for the info. I’m trying to take all valuable info, since I’m new to it.
I’m having trouble finding this theme … is there a way to download and then install manually?
Thank you!
Hi, you can either go here: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sketch/ and activate the theme assuming you are logged into your blog. Or, you can search under Appearance > Themes for Sketch.
On this page: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/sketch/ there is also a download link to the side for non WordPress.com installs.
I don’t know how to activate the post slider.
Very innocent and clean.
I don’t know… Today, simple design is the best design. User friendly
Will give it a shot! Nice work
Fab
ice theme, its maybe match for girls 😀
Adorable. I’m in love.
I love Sketch! Clean and neat. Thanks.
Neat! Excited to do more with this!
Woah, absolutely nice and clean. Too bad i don’t do art.
This is so cute ❤
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This is so cute!! 🙂 I love it! 😀
the sketchs are very good and neat
My wife does illustrations and I showed her this theme the moment I saw it. She loves it and will be making the switch soon.
Wow! This is the one I was waiting for! Already activated for my blog OrangeSlate
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Once again, a beautiful and clean design by Caroline. Keep up the good work!
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication”, and this portfolio theme is just that; simple yet inherently intriguing.
so very pretty..well done, I’m off to check it out
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Now I simply have no excuses any more as to get back to my sketching talents from years past! A challenge for me as five year old grandson collect everything on sharks and dinosaurs……..
Beautiful theme with clean design and cool typography.
Lovely, really lovely!
Good, I liked the picture.
Nice and fresh. Liked it.
Can we put a different theme on each page?
Hi Katheryn! You can have one Theme per blog or site. 🙂
Absolutely gorgeous theme! And the fact that you are able to set your own logo makes it feel like it’s really yours.
However (mmm… sorry for that), there’s a small bug. When you resize the browser’s window, at some point you can see the menu overlapping the logo.
I made a screenshot to give you a better idea. I hope this illustrates it.
Thanks! I just love it. 🙂
Thanks, really glad you like it!
This bug has been squashed. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. 🙂
That’s so cool. Thank you!
Hi again Caroline,
I’m sorry to be such a pain in the back. There’s another bug on the carousel when it displays a featured image from a blog post. Here’s another screeshot to show you.
Thanks again!
It’s no problem! That should be fixed now, too. Thanks again. 🙂
Thank you. I’m sorry for the bug report here. I didn’t realize before this is not the place for that. :s
You are very kind. Have a nice weekend!
What a lovely and clean theme, with just enough quirkiness to give it some extra zing! Well done, it really filled a need for those blogs who need something special that they haven’t found in other themes. Well done. 🙂
It looks amazing.
Clean, nice and very expressive.
Is this theme compatible with the WordAds program?
Good question! It supports the single WordAds between posts, but only the themes here will display header and sidebar ads as well:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/wordads/
I’ve been looking for a new theme for months and absolutely love Sketch! It’s active on my blog now and I can’t wait to start working with it more tonight to set up a portfolio page and my social media icons. Thanks Caroline!
Hi Caroline,
I love your theme, but I have a number of questions about it:
1) How do you get your menu to be fully visible like in your example and not under a button that just says “Menu?”
2) How do you get your sidebar to dissappear, like in your example?
3) How do you get a large featured image with smaller images beneath it, like in your example?
Thanks!
Josh
Howdy Josh!
1) The Menu button will automatically appear for screen sizes less than 1280px wide
2) Go to Appearance → Widgets in your Dashboard to remove any widgets from the sidebar area, and it will automatically display your content full width
3) You can find out how to set up the Portfolio page template and the slider on the Theme Showcase page.
I hope this helps, and that you’ll enjoy the theme!
This is gorgeous. Great work.
Well suited! Good day. *^^*
I want to know how to have social links. Help me! Could you explain a way to do this?
Hi Sunny! Sure thing. You can find instructions for adding social links to Sketch in the Theme Showcase.
Does the theme support a tagline under the blog name? I’ve been using it on a second blog since it literally appeared on the WordPress theme page and I love it! Nice design!
Re Caroline’s comment earlier: 1) The Menu button will automatically appear for screen sizes less than 1280px wide
So for anything bigger than 1280 the menu items would just appear in a straight line one after the other with no menu button, and the menu button would just disappear? I’ve been trying to get them in a straight line without the menu button but I really couldn’t.
Just want to make sure.
Correct. 🙂
Thanks for confirming that.
Just one more question, so the only way to remove the menu button and get the items to appear in a straight line in anything smaller than 1280 would be with the Custom Design package?
I really appreciate your help.
Hi Clara! Yes, using Custom Design, you could re-write the CSS media queries to allow the menu to display at a different size.
Thanks for your prompt response Caroline, I really appreciate it.
Already switched! Really lovely theme. I’m wondering how you set your demo to partial or paged feeds though as it isn’t working for me via Dashboard>Settings>Reading. Oh. And can visitors comment or like projects in the portfolio?
You can adjust your Portfolio archive posts per page under Settings → Writing. And you can enable Likes/Sharing, but not comments on Projects. You can read more about portfolios here: https://wordpress.com/support/portfolios/ I hope this helps!
Thank you very much! I will try that.
Hi Caroline, great work! Could you point me in the right direction – I cannot figure out how to enable the Post Slider feature. Thanks for your great work!
Howdy! You can find out how to enable the slider on the Theme Showcase page.
Does the theme support a tag line under the blog name?
Hi! Sketch does not support a theme tagline. You could add and style one with Custom CSS.
It is a wonderful piece of art and it is the best theme that I have ever seen.
It’s beautiful and very clean.
Love this!! modern yet quirky! definitely my kind of format!