New Theme: Dark Wood
Go against the grain with “Dark Wood,” an eye-catching and playful theme. Bright colors and whimsical icons fuse with dark tones to provide a pleasing and harmonious design. Dark Wood is a three column theme with a rich wood textured background.
Dark Wood
When you’re looking for a theme with some serious character, Dark Wood could definitely be the one. Bright links and header icons give the design some real spice, complemented with a whimsical background.
Dark Wood doesn’t leave out the extras either. There are two sidebars that can be packed with widgets and the search box comes styled nicely to match the design.
Dark Wood's Sidebars
Dark Wood will provide a pleasing and harmonious backdrop for your blog. Give it a spin and see how you like it.
Dark Wood is available for all WordPress.com sites and is available for WordPress.org users over at the Theme Directory.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:29 pm
Too bad it doesn’t have the Twitter button at the top but I do like it.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
a little too much brown??? nah!!! cool!
March 18th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Beautiful theme! Thanks.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Nice colours.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Rich and sumptuous. I’ll give this one a go most certainly. Good work!
March 18th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
Amazing theme! Really really well done.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
i am going to try it
March 18th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
cool~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
March 18th, 2010 at 11:47 pm
can’t find it in the theme list?
March 21st, 2010 at 9:44 pm
It should be there – try giving it a refresh!
March 18th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
Superb! I like it.
March 18th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
I might just like this one. It looks great.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:00 am
good. now people are liking the wooden themes more and more.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:15 am
I love the richness of the blog and the brightness of the links. Thanks!
March 19th, 2010 at 12:27 am
This looks like a very handsome dark theme. Thanks.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:30 am
I really like the new theme, but I wish so much that the fonts were larger. Are there any plans to offer the ability to increase font size? There are many themes that I like, but many of the fonts are just unreadable for me.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:36 am
Awesome! New theme surprises me.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:41 am
looks great, I’ll try later, thx
March 19th, 2010 at 12:41 am
its nice!
March 19th, 2010 at 12:46 am
Wow, I am number 5 ^^. I just want to say thanks to all of you guys and gals at WP.com. New themes are always exciting. But I wonder, why there are no new one-column theme? I hope, someday WP will upload it. Thanks again!
March 19th, 2010 at 11:36 am
Right! I would love a new one-column-theme!
But I also want to thank you at WordPress.com. You are great!
March 19th, 2010 at 12:46 am
Love It!!!!!
March 19th, 2010 at 12:48 am
wOw .. sO cool !! I love it !
March 19th, 2010 at 12:55 am
I really love it. thx
March 19th, 2010 at 1:08 am
I like a lot of it, including the layout, background, colour scheme, and text sizes. However, there are two things I really don’t like and which spoil it for me:
- The flower icon (next to the post’s title).
- The head-and-shoulder icon (next to the post’s author’s name).
So close!
March 19th, 2010 at 1:14 am
I like your cherry tree. Looks great!
March 19th, 2010 at 1:20 am
Good work, but absolutely not for me.
March 19th, 2010 at 1:23 am
Great job on it! Keep the themes coming! I’ve yet to find one that suits me just right. It’s always a matter of give and take with each theme, but I know that you’re bound to come out with the one that suits me perfectly soon enough! Your new ones have been very impressive. Many thanks. =)
March 19th, 2010 at 1:27 am
Great theme! Thanks
March 19th, 2010 at 1:36 am
looks great. I wanted to try this, but I didn’t want my widgets to be resized to suit this theme…
Nice, keep working
March 19th, 2010 at 1:37 am
This is really cool, but the only problem I see is the font. It looks horrible (thin). Is there an option to change the font?
March 19th, 2010 at 1:40 am
Wow, I love this. I just may try it out! Thanks!
March 19th, 2010 at 1:42 am
awesome! It looks sweet.
March 19th, 2010 at 1:56 am
Very nice indeed
March 19th, 2010 at 2:02 am
Interesting. I know lots of people will like this but it’s not my cup of tea.
March 19th, 2010 at 2:12 am
ooh! love this new theme! great job =)
March 19th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Wow, that is so pretty! I’ll definitely be trying that theme whenever I switch from Spring Loaded. GREAT job WordPress!
March 19th, 2010 at 2:16 am
Love it! Love it! Love it!
March 19th, 2010 at 2:19 am
All of the nice new blog themes always have a flower or something pinj going on. I wish there was something this sleek with a custom header and no pink flowers! This is nice though!
March 21st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
We’ve got lots of themes available in the Theme Browser. I’m sure there is something similar without the pink flowers!
March 19th, 2010 at 2:23 am
nice Theme….
March 19th, 2010 at 2:25 am
Very appealing
March 19th, 2010 at 2:30 am
I’m not going to lie, this looks great! I love the “old” kind of look this theme has! The color scheme is great and I love the layout. Beautiful!
Keep up the great work, WordPress!
Sara
March 19th, 2010 at 2:31 am
wow, great work. thanksss
March 19th, 2010 at 2:38 am
When i have read dark theme i was expecting black or something …..
but this looks good.
March 19th, 2010 at 2:44 am
3.5 stars out of 5
March 19th, 2010 at 2:46 am
Classic for this one…nice!
March 19th, 2010 at 2:53 am
It is a good format to display art or photos within a blog. It has a homely feel to it and a dark tone to help colors and images POP out! Blogs about nature would also go very well here. Nice.
March 19th, 2010 at 2:54 am
I like it… thanks WordPress
March 19th, 2010 at 2:55 am
Wheww!! I love dark WordPress theme so much!!! Absolutely great one to use.
March 19th, 2010 at 2:55 am
It’s beautiful!
March 19th, 2010 at 2:59 am
nice theme…well organized.^^
March 19th, 2010 at 3:02 am
Love it! Almost makes me want to create a new blog
March 19th, 2010 at 3:11 am
superb work…and looks great. Very neat:)
March 19th, 2010 at 3:11 am
one of a cool theme again from Noel.
i really like your themes such as iNove, monochrome, and this one.
but i want a theme that has features like:
- page hover (it’s a must)
- theme that doesnt have ‘border’ if i insert image & tables (must)
- customize header pict (opt)
- 3 column widget (opt)
i mean, that theme will be like union from monochrome & dark wood, but doesnt have image & table border
i really glad if you can make that one in wordpress.com
thank you very much
March 21st, 2010 at 9:45 pm
What do you mean by “page hover” ?
March 19th, 2010 at 3:19 am
I may actually give this one a go, although I’ll have to finally redo my custom header. Does this one have the RSS feeds? I will miss Vigilance’s “alert” feature, but this may be an improvement on everything else.
March 19th, 2010 at 3:30 am
nice….Like it
March 19th, 2010 at 3:51 am
It reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite’s paneled bedroom. Just need a few posters. Very cool.
March 19th, 2010 at 4:00 am
very nice! does it have a custom header? I might give it a whirl for one of my blogs!
March 21st, 2010 at 9:51 pm
No custom header. Since the background is so important, it takes precedence over a custom header image. Thought in the future we hope to make themes have custom headers wherever possible.
March 19th, 2010 at 4:02 am
I love this theme! Very good job my friend!
March 19th, 2010 at 4:06 am
looks great!! definitely one of your amazing designs
March 19th, 2010 at 4:10 am
great! awesome
March 19th, 2010 at 4:11 am
I love it! But the draw back is when previewing it a lot of my posts can’t be read because of the various color type i used. I’d sure like to use it–its a wonderful change, but would have to go back through 100’s of posts to edit them.
March 19th, 2010 at 4:20 am
Nice work! What a lovely theme, brilliant.
March 19th, 2010 at 4:30 am
Woah! Another theme so soon. You guys are on fire. The colors are great. My brother would love this theme for his rock band blog. Keep em coming.
March 19th, 2010 at 4:42 am
i love this theme,,,,yeah,,i love the colors……:)
March 19th, 2010 at 4:59 am
very nice…
March 19th, 2010 at 5:03 am
I’m glad how there’s a new theme. I’ve recently changed my theme to Titan and I’m heading over to the Dashboard to change my theme to this
March 19th, 2010 at 5:13 am
Its great but if it has a dropdown menu i will be perfect for me.. can it be? such as in my web site.
March 19th, 2010 at 5:51 am
Thanks a lot… I like it!!!
March 19th, 2010 at 5:59 am
The problem I have is with the header, it’s not very big.
March 19th, 2010 at 6:01 am
the wooden color are cool, I like it, nice creation.
March 19th, 2010 at 6:02 am
This is just one of the best I’ve ever seen! I’m going to ask my dad if he allows me to change my theme again. I’ve just ‘fallen in love’ with this one!
You guys are great!
March 19th, 2010 at 6:04 am
very nice. I like it
March 19th, 2010 at 6:19 am
Awesome work!
March 19th, 2010 at 6:34 am
Sorry to be negative, but that is horrible.
March 19th, 2010 at 6:47 am
Looks nice! I’ll stick with Titan though.
March 19th, 2010 at 6:51 am
This is okay for those who like lot’s of Widgets and a dark theme, but its not for me. I would love you to port over something like Antiline or a wider ‘light’ theme but which is lighter and ‘neat’ looking. I like a large font in my header as well. Keep these themes coming, we users need far more to choose from on here, and more Widgets as well.
March 19th, 2010 at 7:19 am
i love it! The wood background was something I was looking before. And now it comes out. Great job WordPress!!!
March 19th, 2010 at 7:28 am
I really love the look of it, but the design is so wide, I had to scroll at the bottom to read everything. And the 1″ border shown in the example above is not there. I extended it as far as it would go, and there’s only about an 1/8″ on either side of the transparent overlay.
March 21st, 2010 at 9:54 pm
Courtney, what browser are you using?
March 19th, 2010 at 8:11 am
Theme are very nice and natural, I like it
March 19th, 2010 at 9:07 am
I think I’ll try this one! Thanks, Noel!
March 19th, 2010 at 9:10 am
Dante Alighieri’s Commedia begins:
Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray
from the straight road and woke to find myself
alone in a dark wood. (John Ciardi’s translation)
In this early 14th Century masterpiece, the “dark wood” is both literal and figurative – standing for sin, the death of inspiration and love and political corruption.
Here, “dark wood” offers “Bright colors and whimsical icons fuse with dark tones to provide a pleasing and harmonious design.”
Sometimes, dark wood is just simply … dark wood.
March 19th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Reminds me of the 1970’s basement we all hung out in. Very nostalgic, good job.
March 19th, 2010 at 9:27 am
dark wood is good theme..i love it
March 19th, 2010 at 10:11 am
Still waiting for a white one, without borders and with some fresh details. Somethging abstract.
I love those where you can put your own header.
March 19th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Thanks a lot! It’s always great to see there is a new theme for us!!
March 19th, 2010 at 10:43 am
Great work best for online website carpenters and I am one of them. Stunning!
March 19th, 2010 at 10:57 am
It´s look like great. Perfect colours.
Anna
March 19th, 2010 at 11:14 am
I agree with one of the commentators. The theme looks fine but the text size is too narrow. Makes it difficult to read and detract from its appearance.
I love the pink flower though
March 19th, 2010 at 11:30 am
It is brilliant….I may change the look…
March 19th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
looks interesting. will check it out
March 19th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
This has such a warmth to it. I’m definitely a fan of extra widget space. Thank you for being so attentive to blog themes lately!
March 19th, 2010 at 12:31 pm
I still believe that someday someone will make a two column theme with flexible width and with dark wood background
March 19th, 2010 at 12:32 pm
What’s different between “Dark Theme” and “Light Theme”?
Some people said me that “dark theme” is heavier to be accessed. Is it true?
March 21st, 2010 at 9:48 pm
No, that is not true. Dark Wood is just a name, nothing indicative of the amount of code.
March 19th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
Looks cheerful and powerful at the same time. Congrats…
March 19th, 2010 at 12:59 pm
looks like a myspace layout
March 19th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
Great theme and super original!
March 19th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
This is going to be a popular one!
March 19th, 2010 at 2:07 pm
It is easy on the eye. I like it!
March 19th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
I like the background a lot, haha, keep it up
Gooooooo WordPress!
March 19th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Love WordPress and how you guys keep innovating and coming out with new themes and features!