Themes Released In 2012

As the title suggests, we only apply this tag to themes released in 2012. A theme's age is a great way to gauge the risk that the theme contains outdated features or could become a retired theme. On the other hand, if a theme was first released a long time ago but has been regularly updated since then, that's a good sign that it's popular.

Pretty Pictures by StudioPress

// Updated On: May 9, 2016 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Featured, Themes Premium // Tags: 1 column, 2012 release, Backstretch, blog style home page, Google web fonts, mobile responsive design, post formats, Pretty Pictures

The Pretty Pictures theme from StudioPress features a blog style home page designed to keep attention focused on your blog posts. There is a single layout option where all sidebars have been removed, and there's just 1 widget area, which is used for the text over the image at the top of the home page on our Pretty Pictures demo. The image itself is controlled by a custom header and re-sized … [Read more...]

Quik by Themedy

// Updated On: May 9, 2016 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Featured, Themes Premium // Tags: 2012 release, 3 column, HTML5, mobile responsive design, mobile specific menu, multiple color styles, page templates, Quik, Themedy, widgetized home page

The Quik theme from Themedy is a mobile responsive news/magazine theme with a widgetized home page. It includes 3 custom widgets: a tabbed widget for popular and recent posts, comments, and tags; a Flickr widget; and a video widget for YouTube or Vimeo videos. Quik also includes a landing page template, 6 color styles (blue, green, red, purple, dark, and orange - the default), a tool to include … [Read more...]

Stretch by StudioPress

// Updated On: May 9, 2016 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Featured, Themes Premium // Tags: 1 column, 2012 release, blog style home page, Google web fonts, mobile responsive design, multiple color styles, page templates, Stretch, StudioPress

The Stretch theme from StudioPress is an ultra-minimalist, mobile responsive theme with a blog style home page. It can display either a default image or the post's featured image as the background for that post, with next and previous arrows at your browser's edge to move from one post to another. Stretch also includes a landing page template and 6 color styles (blue, green, orange, pink, … [Read more...]

Executive 2 by StudioPress

// Updated On: January 5, 2014 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Premium // Tags: 2 column, 2012 release, Executive, Google web fonts, mobile responsive design, multiple color styles, page templates, retired theme, widgetized home page

The Executive 2 theme from StudioPress has been refreshed with a mobile responsive design and the addition of portfolio and landing page templates. We've kept the original Executive theme available and added the updated design under the name of Executive 2. But the updates keep coming, so before activating this theme on a new site, be sure to checkout the Executive Pro theme, featuring HTML5 … [Read more...]

Apparition by StudioPress

// Updated On: May 9, 2016 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Featured, Themes Premium // Tags: 1 column, 2012 release, Apparition, blog style home page, Google web fonts, mobile responsive design, multiple color styles, page templates

The Apparition theme from StudioPress is a mobile responsive theme with a blog style home page. It uses the border-radius property in its stylesheet to turn featured images into a distinctive circular format. All sidebars have been removed from the theme to focus a reader's attention on the main content area. To further that goal, the traditional WordPress "post info" block (post date, post … [Read more...]

Grind by Themedy

// Updated On: May 9, 2016 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Featured, Themes Premium // Tags: 2 column, 2012 release, 3 column, custom post types, Google web fonts, Grind, mobile responsive design, page templates, Themedy, widgetized home page

The Grind theme from Themedy is a clean mobile responsive theme with an eye-catching shuffling animation courtesy of the jQuery Quicksand script. Grind's clean look is a product of strong design elements - a big home page slider - with subtle touches, such as removing categories and tags from the traditional post display (the post meta). It adds 2 custom post types (Slides and Portfolio) … [Read more...]

Twenty Twelve

// Updated On: June 22, 2014 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Free // Tags: 2 column, 2012 release, blog style home page, default WordPress theme, mobile responsive design, page templates, post formats

The Twenty Twelve theme is a mobile responsive theme that will arrive with WordPress 3.5. Activating a default WordPress theme such as Twenty Twelve can be a great way to determine if a problem that you're observing is caused by something in your current theme. If you activate Twenty Twelve and the problem goes away, that's a strong hint to look at your current theme more closely to isolate … [Read more...]

Minimum 2 by StudioPress

// Updated On: January 5, 2014 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Premium // Tags: 2 column, 2012 release, custom post types, Google web fonts, grid loop, Minimum, Minimum Pro, mobile responsive design, page templates, retired theme, StudioPress, widgetized home page

The Minimum 2 theme from StudioPress is an updated version of the original Minimum theme, adding mobile responsive design and a portfolio custom post type that's a great showcase for images. In August of 2013, StudioPress introduced an HTML5-compliant update to Minimum 2 named Minimum Pro. For new sites or those looking for a theme refresh, be sure to check out Minimum Pro before spending much … [Read more...]

Outreach 2 by StudioPress

// Updated On: January 5, 2014 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Premium // Tags: 2 column, 2012 release, fixed width, Google web fonts, mobile responsive design, Outreach, page templates, retired theme, StudioPress, widgetized home page

The Outreach 2 theme from StudioPress is an updated version of the original Outreach theme, adding mobile responsive design and a landing page template. Until you put content in at least 1 widget area, the theme displays a blog style home page. Once you start building your site by putting content in widgets, Outreach comes to life with full width horizontal sections that fill out its widgetized … [Read more...]

Going Green 2 by StudioPress

// Updated On: January 5, 2014 Your comments? // Cats: Themes Premium // Tags: 2 column, 2012 release, blog style home page, Going Green, Going Green Pro, grid loop, mobile responsive design, page templates, retired theme, StudioPress

The Going Green 2 theme is an updated version of the original Going Green theme, adding mobile responsive design and a landing page template. It combines vibrant colors around plenty of white space in the content area to let your site content stand out. The Going Green 2 home page makes use of the Genesis grid loop to display 2 posts with a featured image, followed by 4 posts in a grid. All of … [Read more...]