New Themes: Colinear and Franklin

On this Theme Thursday, we have two new free themes for you: Colinear and Franklin.

Colinear

Colinear — our update to the older Coraline — is a squeaky-clean theme featuring a custom menu, header, background, and layout. Colinear supports featured images and six widget areas — up to three in the sidebar and three in the footer.

Primarily designed for magazine-style sites, Colinear is a flexible theme that also suits any personal blog or content-rich site.

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Check out Colinear on the Theme Showcase, or activate it on your site.

Franklin

Franklin is a lightweight blogging theme, designed by Michael Burrows.

A flexible combination of elegance and readability is evident in Franklin’s design, which can be extended by adding widgets to the sidebar and footer widget areas.

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Check out Franklin on the Theme Showcase, or give it a spin on your site.

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hasmeetwrites Aug 27th at 4:09 pm
Colinear seems interesting
readersandmore Aug 27th at 4:35 pm
I think I might give Franklin a try.
Barbara Aug 27th at 4:51 pm
Nice update to Coraline, which has been popular for a long time.
The Curmudgeon Aug 27th at 5:46 pm
I use Colaline now and I like it. If Colinear is an update to Coraline, does this mean that Coraline will be discontinued? If that’s the plan, when will it happen?

Thomas Guillot Aug 29th at 8:51 am
Coraline has been retired and will not have any more updates.
Coraline will not be available for new users but you can still use it if you are happy with it.

Alex Smithson Aug 27th at 5:59 pm
I see what you did there WordPress, Coraline, Colinear, clever way to use all the same letters to rename a most heard of theme. Hats off to the WordPress team, this is fantastic :-).

Alex Smithson
Zoe Aug 27th at 6:03 pm
Great contributions! I love them both. Will definitely be trying them later. Thanks for the refreshing updates. You guys rock.
Toby Barnett Aug 27th at 6:12 pm
They look pretty similar to other WordPress themes, yet Colinear is great for foodies.
theclosetplebeians Aug 27th at 6:28 pm
These look a great addition! We are looking to modify our website here!
MvdB Aug 27th at 7:07 pm
I’ll eat my hat if Colinear doesn’t prove to be one of the most popular themes this year! 😉
Write This Down Aug 27th at 9:04 pm
Liking the customizability (is that a word?) of Franklin. I played around with it and it looks like it’ll be a good one. I think when I’m ready for a change I’ll give it a whirl.
timethief Aug 27th at 9:21 pm
I love Colinear. There are Multiple Layouts and Color Schemes and many other cool features. Thanks so much for this theme.

Franklin is also a very clean minimalist theme that also appeals to me.
empress5peaks Aug 27th at 9:48 pm
Colinear, it is!
tilulas Aug 27th at 10:56 pm
I prefer Colinear than Franklin 😀
Felbertson Sotto Aug 28th at 6:38 am
Colinear suits my style perfectly, I’ve been waiting for something like this to come up! Big thanks! 🙂
Metro Square Aug 28th at 11:31 am
Nice, I love white, minimal and clean design. Good job.
fierceagent Aug 28th at 11:02 pm
Impressive! Good job.
ridwanris Aug 30th at 4:51 am
Good template, elegant and clean. You are creative 🙂
KokkieH Aug 31st at 5:01 pm
I spent the whole weekend playing with Franklin and I love it. I wish it had a single-column template for posts and pages, but I’ve already figured out a way around that, so no biggie.
baileycarr211 Sep 1st at 11:51 pm
Wow, both themes seem very suitable for my blog. Very well thought out clean design, and it gives my blog a little extra little touch!
Blackwhitedating Sep 2nd at 2:59 am
I always like simple themes, simple is great.
jwuollife Sep 2nd at 7:30 am
I really like the look of Colinear, it could be my next template… Thank you!