The folks at Site5 have just added a new theme to their growing collection of free WordPress themes. Moments is a new personal blogging theme that allows you to record your life with beautifully designed post formats. It also responds nicely to mobile devices.
Features included in the Moments theme are geared toward making it easy for you to personalize your site. A few of the highlights include:
- Widget ready sidebar
- Support for all Post Formats
- Custom Logo and Favicon support
- Custom fonts via Google Webfont typography options
- Built-in Pagination
- Social icons
- jQuery PrettyPhoto Lightbox
- Built-in thumbnail regeneration
View a live demo to see Moments in action.
SIte5 offers the demo XML for download so that you can try the theme with the demo content in place. Moments, like all Site5 themes, comes with excellent documentation. As a hosting company, they probably understand the value of documentation in mitigating the number of support requests related to common problems. I’m guessing that’s also why they’ve built thumbnail regeneration into the theme, since that tends to be a frequent issue for users when activating new themes. Site5 also offers a support forum, should you have any issues with the theme.
If you decide to use this theme, I would not recommend using the Stat Code option in the theme settings. It’s better to put Google analytics or other tracking codes in a plugin for data portability. When you change themes it’s too easy to forget that your tracking code was in the theme settings.
With all the discussion lately about why more people don’t make use of post formats, it’s refreshing to see themes showcase this feature in a beautiful way. Perhaps WordPress themes with well-designed post formats will inspire more users to learn how to use them in blogging. Moments does a nice job of spotlighting this feature. You can download the theme for free from Site5.
Search “post formats” for 210 themes, on the official WordPress site.
Sarah pointed out:
I was quizzical about that earlier post Sarah mentions, when it first came out. It said:
Several months ago, I decided to lay in a small stack of themes on my test-site, especially selected to educate myself about “post formats”, the difference with custom formats, and related topics. I had no problem ‘swamping’ myself with a widely-diversified inventory of themes promising to showcase different ways to approach & utilize the post format feature. In fact, I had to ‘discipline’ myself, not to go full-on ‘kid in a candy store’.
So I returned just now to the WordPress.org Themes download page, and performed the search linked at the top of this comment. There are 26 pages of search-results, each with 8 themes matching the search-criteria, and 1 additional page with 2 more. Glancing through the pages and making note of the submission-dates for these themes, they are generally quite recent.
I tallied the year-dates for these 210 “post formats” enabled themes:
2008 – 1
2009 – 11
2010 – 11
2011 – 20
2012 – 61
2013 – 90
2014 – 16
Regrettably, I did not keep an eye on the 2014 month-day dates, since if they were all in January, that means we are tracking on 192 new Post Formats themes, for this coming year.
That late-breaking trend-indication could be further-checked, by looking at the month-tallies for the end of 2013.
In round numbers, it looks we’re probably in the midst of an explosion of Post Formats-supporting theme-development.
Now … if I can only figure out what post formats are! ;)