I’m excited to announce our Photography theme is now available on the hosted WordPress.com platform! If you’re a WordPress.com user you can buy it straight from the Photography showcase page or directly from your dashboard by navigating to Appearance → Themes → Premium.

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We’ve released a round of updates to all of our themes! Head over to the downloads page to grab the new theme packages. Be sure to read the upgrade instructions before you upgrade.

On most themes we’ve added a bit of styling to fix an issue with image stretching in older versions of Internet Explorer – not exactly groundbreaking, but hopefully your sites will look a little nicer in old browsers! A few of our themes also got some small stylistic updates to tables and definition lists.

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G’day! My name is Scott Rollo; I’m a new designer here at The Theme Foundry. I’m a proud Sydneysider, residing in the east coast city of Sydney, Australia. I’m sure you will catch me around the place; keeping an eagle eye over the support forums, working on exciting projects, and crafting innovative themes. I’ll also be hanging out on Dribbble and Twitter, sharing news, sketches, and screenshots of our latest work.

Away from the computer, you will find me out on photo-walks, enjoying and capturing the beautiful Australian bushland. I have a soft spot for everything vintage. I love old cameras, books and hoarding all sorts of classic goodies. I’m also a sketchbook maniac, gallery-goer, Vegemite addict, and a huge movie buff.

It’s an exciting time for The Theme Foundry, we have oodles of awesome projects underway, and the team and I look forward to many years ahead.

We’re proud to announce our latest production: Anthem, a beautiful responsive tumblog-style theme that features a stunning display of various types of media and a clean, minimal design. Anthem is designed to look great on all devices including phones, tablets, and regular displays.

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I had the pleasure of joining Adam Stacoviak last week for Episode #22 of Founder’s Talk over on the 5by5 internet broadcasting network. We chatted about life, growing a business, selling themes and products around WordPress, why we built Forge, and designing the 5by5 logo.

I am excited to introduce Forge, a free command-line toolkit for bootstrapping and developing WordPress themes in a tidy environment using front-end languages like Sass and CoffeeScript. As part of Forge, we’re also releasing Struts, a simple theme options framework for WordPress.

How does it work?

Forge creates a neatly organized source folder with clean and simple scaffolding (base template files, SCSS files, and theme options). The source folder is automatically compiled to your local WordPress install(s) as you save changes and work on your theme. When you are ready to distribute your theme Forge will build it to a folder of your choice or bundle the theme up into an easy to install zip package.

Why use Forge?

Developing themes with Forge is more fun! Forge accelerates development by giving you access to higher-level languages like Sass and CoffeeScript. These languages are much quicker and cleaner to code, but still compile to normal CSS and JavaScript. Forge also makes it easy to quickly bootstrap into and work from a clean and modular development environment, while still compiling “by the book” WordPress theme code.

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We recently started work on a brand new tumblog style theme with the wonderful and talented Ryan Essmaker. The design is still very much in the rough planning stages, but we know the theme will be responsive (automatically adjusts to the width of your browser or device) and geared towards artists, creatives, and photographers. It will also utilize WordPress Post Formats (of course!).

Ryan was awesome enough to share this early concept sketch with us. We’ll be sure to post links to any additional screenshots or teasers on Twitter and Facebook, so be sure to follow us there.

Watch the video on WordPress.tv

I had the opportunity to chat with Lance Willett, Brian Gardner, and David Cowgill on the business of selling WordPress themes at WordCamp San Francisco. A few of the topics we touched on include the GPL, marketing your business, customer support, and mistakes we’ve made.

Today we’ve released another round of updates to all of our themes! Head over to the downloads page to grab the new theme packages. Be sure to read the upgrade instructions before you upgrade.

We’ve added an attachment template for viewing media items associated with a post.

Another new feature: Linen now has support for excerpts! If you specify an excerpt it will be used as the summary of your post.

We’ve also made modifications to the featured slider for both Linen and Traction – you no longer need to have 2 sticky posts to activate the slider – 1 will work just fine! We’ve also added the option to display sticky posts both in the featured slider and in the standard post list – something we’ve gotten several requests for.

In addition, there are several bug fixes applied to all of our themes. Check the change log for your theme to see the changes in the update.

If you run into any trouble please post in our forums and we’ll help you out!

Say hello to React! React is a simple and elegant WordPress theme for business featuring a fluid and responsive grid that allows for easy viewing from an iPhone, iPad, or other mobile device. The theme is packed with some other great features: custom typography, custom background (hides automatically on small screens), support for projects, and more.

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