Mocha Theme is the perfect personal blogging theme for anyone who wants to make their content first and foremost. It’s bold, yet warm, with more than enough features to keep you excited about writing. By Ryan Imel.

For a live demo of Mocha Theme, see Ryan Imel’s personal blog.

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Mocha Theme features

• Theme options panel for easy theme customization (includes a preview)
• 5 color schemes, with many more to come
• Optimized for search engines and readability (including a visitor optimized 404 page for your visitors)
• Twitter integration built into the header
• Post thumbnails for a quick preview of the post content
• jQuery page transitions and a live comment preview to engage your blog visitors
• Completely widget-ized sidebar
• Fully updated for WordPress 2.7 threaded comments
• Built in Gravatar support for comments

For the designers/developers

I haven’t forgotten you guys. Check it out:

• Fully editable PSD included (actually, grab it here)
• Clean, well commented HTML and CSS that is forward looking/compatable
• Compatible in all major browsers (Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer)
• Completely table-less HTML markup

How to change your color scheme

First, you’ll want to be logged into your WordPress Dashboard. Then, just follow the steps below.

1. Aim for the Appearace tab and pull open the items underneath it.
   You should see a new admin panel, called Theme Options, now located under Appearance. This is where you want to go.
2. Under Theme Options you will have a few options, but the one we’re interested in is the dropdown next to Select Color Scheme. Use this select box to choose which theme you’d like to run your blog on.

It just so happens that this is the same place you’ll want to go later to customize your Twitter settings for the header.