(opens full-size screenshot)01 Home
(opens full-size screenshot)02 Journal
(opens full-size screenshot)03 Article
(opens full-size screenshot)04 About
These preview photographs are included in the demo content. Photo source links are provided.
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A personal journal in white and green: a lead story with a panoramic photograph, a band of recent headlines and a Journal archive by date.
- Best for
- Personal writers and independent journals
- Platform
- WordPress
- Status
- On sale
- Price
- $47 USD
- Version
- 1.3.6
- License
- WordPress edition: GPL-compatible theme code
Demo photography is licensed separately from theme code
Page inventory
- Home: lead story, headline band and feed
- Home
- Journal: all stories by date
- Journal
- Article with related stories
- Post
- About: editor photograph and biography
- About
- Contact: letters and pitches
- Contact
- Category, tag and date archive
- Archive
- Search results
- Utility
- 404
- Utility
Design controls
- Site Editor
- Edit the masthead, footer, navigation and templates with core blocks in Appearance → Editor. No page builder.
- Homepage sections
- Lead story, headline band and feed are Query Loops; change counts and offsets in the editor.
- Story photo shape
- Choose 3:2, 4:3, square or 16:9 for feed and related-story photos.
- Layout density
- Compact, comfortable or spacious spacing for lists, the feed and sections.
- Story details in lists
- Show or hide date, category and standfirst in homepage lists, Journal, archives, search and related stories.
- Reading width and article options
- Article text width 520–1040px, spacing, image corners and an optional reading progress line.
- Colours and style variations
- Recolour the green palette, or switch to Clear (sans throughout) or Literary.
- Fonts
- Vollkorn and DM Sans are served from your own site; choose other fonts in Styles → Typography.
Features
- Full-width lead story with the headline above a panoramic photograph
- Horizontal band of recent headlines, then a two-column feed
- Narrow Journal page listing every story by date with small square photos
- Articles in a serif reading column with related stories from the same section
- Comments follow your Discussion settings
- Photo pair and pull-quote band patterns
- Contact links open the visitor's email app; no form service is bundled
- Native block theme edited in the WordPress Site Editor
What the download includes
- WordPress block theme: templates, template parts, patterns, theme.json and two style variations
- Vollkorn and DM Sans font files with SIL Open Font License 1.1 texts
- GETTING-STARTED.md with a page-by-page map of where each layout is edited
- readme.txt, CHANGELOG.md and LICENSE.txt
- ASSETS.json recording font and photograph sources, licences and checksums
Setup
- Upload the theme ZIP at Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme and activate it.
- Optional: import sample content with the demo importer (1.1.1 or newer).
- Under Settings → Reading choose Your latest posts.
- Create a page with the slug journal and assign the Journal: all stories by date template.
- Write stories as posts with a featured image, excerpt, one category and tags.
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