Blue21: My first Wordpress theme
Blue21 is a simple and clean theme for Wordpress that I have designed.
It has a pleasing color scheme, nice gradients and a familiar look if you’ve been working with the Wordpress Default Theme, since it’s based on it. It’s also Ad-ready, because the middle column has been reserved for a skyscraper banner, but you can get rid of it if you wish and put more content, or go the other way and put more ads.
While I am neither a designer nor a theme expert, I’ve made some decent works like with my blog and some other Web projects I have, so I finally decided to release this theme.
This theme is based on a three columns modified version of Kubrick by Liew Cheon Fong, and just like the original one, it is licensed under the GPL 2.0 License.
Changelog:
July 30, 2008:
- Removed the fake ad placeholder.
- Added support for Gravatars.
- Fixed some texts for consistency.
- New screenshot showing exactly how the theme looks.
- Now it shows the post tags in the “postmeta” class.
July 25, 2008:
- Corrected link items on sidebar widgets. Now they should show up as intended.
- Extra validation compliance against XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
- Added a screenshot image for the Wordpress Theme Preview panel.
June 7, 2008:
- Widgets support added by Ipung. Linked the site temporarily.
March 8, 2008:
- Initial release

wow! It looks great! :)
Nice theme man! Keep up the good work.
blue21 theme turkish:
http://www.firtina3005.com/worpdress-temalari/blue21-temasi-turkce.html
thanks for theme…
Hi! Great theme, it looks very clean and professional. I think it needs only some more small modifications, like some gradients, as right side looks a little bit empty.
Take care!
This is a great looking theme. Clean, simple and elegant. I think I’ll update a few of my environmental sites with this design to give them a fresh start :)
Thanks!
clean and simple!
unique header too and thanks for sharing..
well done!
Thanks!
Great first effort, wish I had the talent.
If this really is your first WP theme, it’s quite impressive!
Keep up your good work ; )
Thanks everyone for the kind words! I’ll keep the suggestions in mind for a next revision of this theme.
Thanks very much!!!
Hi there… Thank you for dropping by :D
I really like this theme. I’m looking forward for your next release ;)
Yes, you could link to my page for the widgetized version or host it here. You’re the creator of the theme anyway :)
Thank you for the theme :D
Great theme!
Great WP theme! Thanks you for widget version.
FYI - your blue21 header.php does not include the wp_head() call, which causes the XML-RPC feature of Remote Publishing not to work. You may want to investigate this and put it in the header.
@Jason: Thanks for the info. I’ll fix it as soon as I can.