Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for April 2024

The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Check out the latest themes in our library, including great options for minimalist bloggers, retailers, and creatives of all stripes.

Alter is a lean theme for bloggers that gets directly to the point, showing text-only posts right above the fold ornamented by a single image. The bold default color scheme plays against the minimalist content design for a fun and surprising aesthetic. And, of course, you can always change those default styles if pink and purple aren’t your thing.

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As you might have gathered from the name of this sharp new theme, Swag is built with product sales in mind from the very start. This theme boasts a minimalist design aesthetic, ensuring your products take center stage. While Swag is perfect for fashion boutiques, its versatility knows no bounds. Whether you’re selling apparel, accessories, or even digital goods, this theme provides the perfect canvas for your unique brand identity.

Built with WooCommerce compatibility at its core, Swag ensures a seamless shopping experience for your customers. From product pages to checkout, every step is optimized for maximum conversion.

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Stage is where artistic expression meets simplicity and is a new go-to WordPress.com theme for artists and creatives. Its simple yet powerful interface allows for easy content organization, while the elegant two-column grid layout beautifully highlights your work. With seamless mobile responsiveness and a focus on readability, Stage lets your creativity take center stage (sorry, we just had to!).

Powered by the Inter Tight font and a subtle duotone color palette, this theme exudes authenticity and raw creativity. Personalize your site effortlessly with included color variations.

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Roam invites bloggers, travelers, and creatives to embark on a seamless journey of storytelling. With its captivating full-page cover photo and sleek one-column layout, Roam offers a canvas for your unique voice and vision. Tailor your blog effortlessly with customizable fonts, colors, and layouts and let your best work shine with Roam’s featured article showcase. Built-in SEO optimization ensures global visibility and searchability.

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Boxed Bio heralding a new era of dynamic expression in the “link in bio” category of themes. Through an artful arrangement of column blocks adorned in vibrant hues and captivating images, Boxed Bio transforms simple links into enduring and inspiring narratives. With its three column groups, each a canvas for visual storytelling, and jazzy typography choices this invites you to unleash your creativity. These aren’t just links, after all, they are doorways to possibility.

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To install any of the above themes, click the name of the theme you like, which brings you right to the installation page. Then click the “Activate this design” button. You can also click “Open live demo,” which brings up a clickable, scrollable version of the theme for you to preview.

Premium themes are available to use at no extra charge for customers on the Explorer plan or above. Partner themes are third-party products that can be purchased for $79/year each.

You can explore all of our themes by navigating to the “Themes” page, which is found under “Appearance” in the left-side menu of your WordPress.com dashboard. Or you can click below: