Happy Theme Thursday, ladies and gentlemen! Let’s take a look at our two newest free themes, Saga and Satellite:
Saga
Saga, designed by the talented Justin Tadlock, is a theme tailor-made for writers, by a writer. The theme’s impeccable typography and attention to detail make for an enjoyable reading experience, and with support for large featured images and multiple post formats, Saga is flexible enough to be used as a photoblog, a personal journal, or a tumblelog.
Read more about Saga on the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your site from Appearance → Themes!
Satellite
Satellite, designed by me, is a snappy personal-blogging theme with beautiful typography, prominent featured images, and a fresh, modern look. Customize it further by adding links to your favorite social networks, a site logo, custom header, or custom background.
Get to know Satellite better on the Theme Showcase, or give it a spin by activating it from Appearance → Themes!
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I took Satellite, thank you, I love it very much ! 😎
A couple of great new themes. I just have a general question, will any of the older themes ever be withdrawn, or is the intention to adding new ones?
The Science Geek
Great question! We retire a theme when it’s older, its design ages and/or not many users are using it. When a theme is retired, that means that only new WordPress.com users who signup after the theme is retired cannot use it. Other users still can though.
Thanks very much for the clarification
The Science Geek
I think I prefer Saga better. I know I am asking much but can the fonts be a bit more medium sized in subsequent themes? It’s helpful for longreads and Saga seems longreads compatible anyday.
I keep watching for one designed for authors. There ought to be a slider that allows for book covers.
that’s a cool idea. until they design a theme with that, could you use a text widget with an image of the cover that links to the book info page?
That’s about what I’m doing. It was fine for a couple of titles. There is a free theme with a slider, but it won’t allow linked images.
Both are very beautiful themes! What I like best in Saga is that the menu icon is accompanied by the word “Menu”.
Thank you for introducing alternative themes. I think I get settled onto a theme and don’t always look around to see if there’s one to fit me better.
I really like Saga. Very hipster-ish.
Thanks!
Very nice theme…
Nice themes & I second the previous comment that the best thing about it is that, the Menu button has ‘Menu’ written on it which I would have liked on the theme I am using. It just makes it visibly more user friendly to the lay person.
Clean and minimal Looks nice if you have some really good images
Thanks for the great themes, both are very nice. I personally prefer Satellite – almost perfect WordPress theme until now. There is a small issue with it – thumbnails of the related artices overlaps one another.
I swear I change my blog theme every two weeks… sooooo many options…
Dig like a garden!
Wow! Saga is awesome!
Satellite is so tidy and compact for short items as shown on the sample. Excellent design and it’s well appreciated. Thank you!
I just switched to the Saga theme and am pretty happy with it for the most part. One issue I am having is that many of my photo galleries are not showing up in my posts. They are there when I edit the post, but they are non-existent in the live post. Is there anything that would account for that?
Hi! I think this is a bug that has been fixed. 🙂 If you’re still having trouble, please don’t hesitate to post additional information in the support forum: https://wordpress.com/forums/forum/themes
Hi Caroline…thank you for sharing the post New Themes: Saga and Satellite. I’ve activated the Satellite theme and I love it! I’m new to blogging and looking to sell my prints of my adventures to Spain and Australia on the blog, once I figure out how to do widgets, ping backs, menus and links….Cheers! Have a nice weekend…
Nice clean design themes, I am gonna use them on my blog. Thank you for sharing.
Nice. It’s amazing theme design.
How do I use it?
Hi! Check out this guide to using themes.
Great job Caroline! Satellite looks awesome for my needs – technical blog with some lines of code. I wanted to keep the one column look as my previous twentytwelve and felt I need something better. I specially like the social media (with GitHub included) and slide in sidebar leaving a clean look when reading the text.
That’s great to hear! Really glad you’re finding Satellite useful. 🙂
The only drawback is that it doesn’t run wide enough on a computer screen and tablet held horizontally. I wish that blank area would be used too.
Simple, like this 🙂
Simplicity astounds. 🙂