We have a brand new free theme for your blogging pleasure today!
Intergalactic
Designed by Automattic’s very own Mel Choyce, Intergalactic is a stunning specimen for your personal blog. Bold featured images act as the backdrop to your text, giving you a high-contrast, readable theme that’s perfect for making your content pop. The one-column layout provides a distraction-free environment for reading, while the slide-out menu keeps your navigation and secondary content readily accessible.
In Mel’s own words…
Intergalactic was inspired by long-form storytelling sites like Exposure and Medium. I wanted to design a theme that focused heavily on showcasing your stories, images, and videos, and could flex its content to many different use-cases. I also wanted everything to be big — as big as the Beastie Boys (who inspired the name). It was great working with Caroline to bring Intergalactic to life.
Learn more about the free Intergalactic theme at the Theme Showcase, or preview it by going to Appearance → Themes.
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Nice theme.
This looks amazing! Seriously thinking of getting this theme, awesome post 🙂
It’s simple and beautiful. I like it.
Awesome!
Thanks, I’m using it.
This looks super cool, good work! Veery tempted to use!
Gorgeous…
It’s an awesome blog theme
The theme is quite nice, I like it 🙂
Great new theme. I like the name as well 🙂
I write a blog which is focussed mainly on astonomy/space/space travel and I thing it could go very well with this new theme
It’s very nice image theme a beautiful!!! COOL 🙂 😉
Looks gorgeous. The only quibble I’d have is the white font on black background.
WOW! This is really cool!
Just a heads up: Leave a reply (non-mobile) and taxonomy description are not being displayed correctly (black transparent stripe over).
Thanks for bringing this to our attention! I’ve fixed the taxonomy descriptions, but I’m not seeing what you mean by the “Leave a Reply” part — can you post a screenshot to the support forum so we can try to reproduce the bug? Cheers!
Sorry, taking a better look at it the problem is the footer: instead of appearing below the navigation at the end of the page, it’s appearing in the middle of the page. Screenshot
Hi! We’re looking into the mobile issue. Let’s take this to the support forum so we can get more details without cluttering the comments. 🙂 Can you post a link to a live example of the bug with the browser(s) you’re using? I still haven’t been able to reproduce this, but want to figure it out.
I’m lost, how do you use it?
Howdy! Check out the support docs for Intergalactic here to get an idea of what features it supports and how to use them: http://wordpress.com/themes/intergalactic/
LOVE IT… I am going to try it out now!
This theme works perfectly, I tried it.
Lovely thank you
It’s a really nice theme, very tempting to change! But I do love the sketch theme too.
Using the theme. Awesome!
Clean otherworldly design.
Great new theme. I’m not sure it works with the feel of my blog, but I love the look of it. I’ll definitely keep it in mind if I ever start another website.
Wow! That’s all I can say.
Looks interesting. A great theme that is free. Wonder if anyone uses this theme? Would like to see how it looks on actual blog as I’m lazy to change mine. Hehe!
I love this theme and I’m already using it. I only have one question: A part of the footer is overlapping the last comment (I do not use custom CSS at the moment).
Just started using it a few days ago, very impressed!
People that don’t have featured images can’t use it. I won’t change all of my posts. It would be great to use the first image from the post instead only featured.
Thanks for the feedback! We highly recommend setting Featured Images for your posts, but we’ll take using the first image into consideration. Cheers!
Cheers! You’re great!
Intergalactic planetary
Planetary INTAGALACTIC!
Great theme and yes that song did pop into my head. I might actually switch over!
LOVE IT!
I’m lost in space :O
It looks good BUT not for me!
Awesome! Really nice!
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A new theme I designed, Intergalactic, is now available for use on WordPress.com! Had an awesome time working with Caroline to get this one up and running. 😀
Neat. I’m gonna try it out and see if I like it. Would give me a reason to add more images to my posts.
Looks very spacey 🙂
Awesome, but I can’t find the Site Logo feature… Isn’t it available with this theme?
wonderful theme! 🙂
Hi! I used your theme. But I don’t know how to put background image on my blog. Please help me how to. Thanks!
It’s cool and I’m using it! 🙂
Looks great, simple and clean!
Thank you so much for this!
Looks like it would give a feeling of being anti-gravity. Beautiful
I just installed this theme! It’s beautiful!
Hi, why I can’t find the Site Logo feature on this theme please?
Howdy! Intergalactic doesn’t currently support Site Logos, but we’ll consider adding it as an enhancement!
Thanks a lot, it will be great with Site Logo, I’m considering using this theme for a new blog
Just set up my new blog with this theme, I love it, favourite feature is the featured images you can have for each post. Looks very professional.
I like it.
This theme is fab! Immediately caught my eye …. Very appealing and sophisticated 🙂
Nice. I grabbed it and have switched to it from the 2010 theme.
Is there a way to space out sentences in this theme? So that there are page brakes?
Sure! You can read about methods for splitting content here: https://wordpress.com/support/splitting-content/