WordPress.com themes – from most to least popular (July 2011)

19 Responses to “WordPress.com themes – from most to least popular (July 2011)”

1. 

   Poor Kubrick…

   We’re doing maintenance on our theme stats for Kubrick, so the numbers will be off for the next 2-3 weeks.

   What you call “foolish games” we call making sure our stats are accurate across all WP.com sites. :)

   This one is taking a really long time because of how many sites have it installed.

   Posted by Lance Willett | July 6, 2011, 19:20
2. 

   Thanks for dropping by, Lance!

   I will gladly apologize, and say so in the post, if I’m wrong (and I would really like to be wrong in this case). But the fact that you once hid Kubrick from the Theme Showcase and the trick with the non-existent “2nd” theme don’t help. Some older forum replies (such as: we removed Cutline because it was four years old etc.) don’t help either. So for the moment my harsh remark stays, your response is most welcome, and the very few people who will be interested in this can decide for themselves.

   By the way, I also find it very strange that you’re hiding Duster, Prologue, Journalist 1.3 and the older Sandbox themes. They are active themes, so if I were you I would naturally include them in the Theme Showcase – I would simply add a note saying that the theme is no longer available to newly created blogs.

   Posted by Panos | July 7, 2011, 00:21
3. 

   No apology needed, Panos. I think it’s really cool that you pay attention to these details.

   the trick with the non-existent “2nd” theme don’t help

   There’s no trick. What happened is we had two Kubricks: the old one named “default” based on the fact it used to be the WP default theme and one called “kubrick”. What we’re doing right now is combining the theme stats and merging the themes so that #2 and #3 will become just “kubrick”. That process is happening behind the scenes right now, so you’ll see the stats for Kubrick keep rising until all the blogs are processed.

   As for the other themes you mentioned, we retired them because they’ve been replaced with a newer version.

   They aren’t on the Theme Showcase because we’d like WP.com bloggers to use the latest version of our themes. The Showcase isn’t intended to be an accurate historical archive, its intention is, in fact, to showcase the best of the themes available on WP.com.

   Posted by Lance Willett | July 7, 2011, 02:03
4. 

   Thanks again – I added a second update at the end of the post to draw attention to your replies.

   Posted by Panos | July 7, 2011, 02:24
5. 

   You’re kind of like a WordPress watchdog. Like that idea. Glad WordPress engages in conversation with you, and you with them. Very civil, and very helpful for non-Geeks like me who can always use some help, and can’t always figure my way around WordPress support. And they definitely aren’t available to hand-hold the millions of WordPress bloggers that there are. So thank you, Panos, for being our Don Quixote…champion of the underdogs.

   hugs…hugmamma. :) (English Thoughts sent me your way. Glad she did.)

   Posted by hugmamma | July 11, 2011, 21:49
6. 

   Yes of course we engage in conversation with WP staff (occasionally also conversation you don’t see): WP is generally very friendly, I’m one of the experienced forum volunteers, and I know that Lance and the rest of the WP theme team appreciate my theme surveys too.

   Posted by Panos | July 13, 2011, 11:34
7. 

   Anyone experiencing problems with Koi theme with WordPress post/page edits? I seem to have lost my ability to insert images/links/post tags after the most recent WordPress update.

   Posted by gardenfrisk | July 16, 2011, 04:26
8. 

   Such problems cannot be theme-dependent. Try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies. What browser and version are you using?

   Posted by Panos | July 17, 2011, 01:05
9. 

   Good to see Kubrick isn’t getting shafted. :)

   Posted by Jay Andrew Allen | July 23, 2011, 19:47
10. 

    I’m not sure what’s going on with Kubrick, but if by shafting you mean deleting, that’s highly unlikely: they’ve only removed two themes, for very peculiar reasons (I don’t know if you’re familiar with the story).

    Posted by Panos | July 24, 2011, 01:50
11. 

    Hi Panos,

    Since the widgets of my blog Putignanonelmirino
    had become a lot Yesterday I went from theme MistyLook to theme Coraline.
    I tried Pilcrow, but I dismissed because the menu and the header may not contain the subtitle.
    With Misty Look theme I inserted a background image by entering this code (you wrote you in this blog or forum WordPress.com) in a text widget.

    http://textsnip.com/aab557

    This system works well with Pilcrow.
    Coraline will not work: you see the picture but the pages of the blog are transparent.
    Can anything be done?
    Best wishes.
    Franco.

    Posted by putignanonelmirino | August 9, 2011, 20:46
12. 

    a) You don’t need such code workarounds in Coraline: you go to Appearance>Background and upload the image.

    b) But no, you can’t change the transparency.

    c) You have seriously overdone it with your widgets: your blog takes too long to load – for people with a slow connection it may be impossible to load. At least limit the number of posts per page to only a few.

    Posted by Panos | August 10, 2011, 04:36
13. 

    I tried to go on the dashboard. The image is loaded, but the pages remain transparent even if you set the color white.
    Give up the background image.
    Regarding the number of widgets … in the coming days I’ll do a little cleaning.
    Sincerely.
    Franco.

    Posted by putignanonelmirino | August 10, 2011, 11:09
14. 

    “The image is loaded, but the pages remain transparent even if you set the color white.”
    Yes, because the bg color isn’t an additional function: bg color and bg image are just alternatives, loaded the same way.

    Posted by Panos | August 10, 2011, 12:45
15. 

    OK Panos.

    I confirm that this applies only to the theme Coraline?

    Posted by putignanonelmirino | August 10, 2011, 13:08
16. 

    If you mean the transparency, several themes are like that. If you mean the fact that bg image and bg color are the same function, it’s the same in all themes.

    Posted by Panos | August 10, 2011, 13:13
17. 

    Yes,
    In fact, with mistylook and pilcrow you could have blank pages (not transparent) and the background image.
    Patience.
    greetings.

    Posted by putignanonelmirino | August 10, 2011, 13:20
18. 

    Didn’t say something different! I said several themes have a transparent main column: in many others (including MistyLook and Pilcrow) the main column is white.

    Posted by Panos | August 10, 2011, 13:42

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