Today our great collection of themes grows from 57 to 58 with the addition of Modest, a truly elegant and simple design that doesn’t sacrifice character or style. With this theme I really wanted to strip down all extraneous detail and give people something lightweight and pure. It was hard to resist my natural instict to add additional design elements, but I think this exercise in restraint has yielded a theme that will serve many people...

With the upcoming release of Modest right around the corner, we have already started working on some great new themes. It has been a while since I have experimented with multi-media design, and I was excited to put my pencil to paper again as I worked on some hand-drawn sketches for this next theme. “Webly” will be a professional theme, but but a professional theme with just enough charm and whimsy to give your website that edge of uniqueness....

InStyle is bold and beautiful, turning your screen into a large, colorful, photo-filled canvas. With the theme’s ability to create custom, rotating background images for each section of your website, you can create designs that really grab your visitor’s attention. At the same time, the theme’s various design elements remain subdued enough to maintain a simple and elegant feel. The photos used in the theme preview are just examples...

Today we have launched a new theme documentation page that will serve as a growing knowledge base for everything Elegant Themes. My main goal is to improve the users experience for new customers by creating a collection of helpful articles, videos, common problems and helpful resources. This documentation page will continue to grow with time, but even in its infancy I think that it will prove quite useful for new users. Let us know what you think....

Our newest theme, Memoir, has been completed. It has been almost a year since we last released a standard blog theme, and considering that personal blogging still represents the core WordPress user base, I thought it was time that we returned to our roots and produced a simple blog design. Memoir is beautifully simple, but still comes packed with character and style. For more info be sure to check our the Live Demo as well as the Features Page. Memoir...