January has been a rocking month in the world of WordPress themes. With everyone kicking off their blogs for 2014, we’ve seen a gaggle of pure blogging themes released this month. If you’ve neglected your blog, it’s not too late to get started. You haven’t missed the boat. Find a new theme that inspires you and go to town. The themes listed here have been hand-selected to be the best of those that were released in January. Check out a few of our favorites and grab some inspiration for blogging in the new year.
Syntax
Syntax is a beautiful, clean blogging theme from Automattic, originally created for WordPress.com. It features a centered content column with a non-obtrusive menu that slides out from the side of the page.
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Fullby
Fullby is a theme that we recently featured on the Tavern. It was inspired by Twenty Fourteen and built with Bootstrap. The theme’s fluid, modular grid style for displaying posts offers a big visual impact.
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typefocus
typefocus is a new theme in the WordPress Theme Directory. This minimalist blogging theme focuses on typography and features your social icons and avatar in the sidebar.
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StanleyWP
StanleyWP is a free theme built on Bootstrap. It doubles as a personal branding and blogging theme. Stanley includes portfolio post types, multiple page templates and all the UI goodies that come with Bootstrap.
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Progeny MMXIV
Progeny MMXIV is a beautiful child theme for Twenty Fourteen with a focus on the music industry, featuring customized page layouts for music, videos, and gigs. It includes built-in support for featured music or videos in the top content grid or slider.
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Opus
Opus is a free theme from wordpress.org that we recently featured on the Tavern. It was built with a mobile first approach and sports a flat design with big visual elements.
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Bushwick
Bushwick is a blogging theme from Automattic that showcases your content alongside big, beautiful imagery. This lightweight theme includes a slide out menu for your widgets.
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Kirumo
Kirumo is a new free theme on WordPress.org. It is a simple, mobile-friendly blogging theme with support for all post formats. Kirumo also comes with a full-width page template that supports a horizontal row of three widgets below.
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Blogly Lite
Blogly Lite is a free theme, courtesy of the folks at WPLift. It includes support for FontAwesome icons and post formats. All of the options for this theme are found in WordPress’ native customizer.
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Flato
Flato is new to WordPress.org this month. This flat, responsive design makes a nice minimalist blogging theme and includes four footer widget areas.
Something for everyone there Sarah and all good quality.
Flat, responsive, large graphics seem to be the trend at the moment – did I miss any with parallax feature?
Any predictions what will be the trend later in the year?