Selecting theme and customizing it

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  raj6393 · Member · Jun 18, 2020 at 4:56 pm

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  Hello, I want to start a website with a blog as its home page. On the homepage, whatever article is written the latest should come at first & so on. Like TechCrunch. Which free theme will give me the feature wherein articles are shown in boxes with headings and when we click on the box it opens the full article in a new tab.

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  shuklakartik · Member · Jun 18, 2020 at 5:12 pm

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  Hello Raj,

  Check this link https://wordpress.com/support/themes/#search-for-a-theme

  It will guide you on how you can find the suitable theme. You can check for the most matching theme here and activate it. In case you want to install the customized theme you would need to Upgrade to a Business plan.

  Hope this information helps.

  Thanks.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 18, 2020 at 8:37 pm

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  Hi @raj6393,

  I want to start a website with a blog as its home page.
  The blog page may be set as the homepage on any WordPress.com theme. Whether the homepage displays the blog or a static page by default, that setting may be changed at Customize > Homepage Settings.

  On the homepage, whatever article is written the latest should come at first & so on.
  Regardless of the theme applied, the blog page will display posts in reverse-chronological order.

  Which free theme will give me the feature wherein articles are shown in boxes with headings and when we click on the box it opens the full article in a new tab.

  See the following filtered lists at the Themes Showcase:

  grid layout (all): https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/grid-layout
  grid layout (free): https://wordpress.com/themes/free/filter/grid-layout

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 18, 2020 at 8:40 pm

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  However, note that on some of those grid layout themes the items in the grid link to portfolio projects rather than posts.