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Open Tabs

Open Tabs is a WordPress block theme for journals with panoramic lead stories, recent headlines and dated archives. It suits independent writers, local publications, cultural organisations, research groups and community editors sharing articles and illustrated stories.

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Version 2.0.1

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Independent writers, local publications, cultural organisations, research groups, community editors
Platform
WordPress
Status
Free download
Price
Free
Version
2.0.1
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 a panoramic photograph
  • Recent headlines and a two-column story feed
  • Journal archive by date with square photographs
  • Serif article column with related stories
  • Photo pair and pull-quote band patterns
  • WordPress Site Editor editing
  • Reading width and article spacing controls
  • Locally served Vollkorn and DM Sans fonts

What the download includes

  • WordPress block theme templates, template parts, patterns, and theme.json
  • Clear and Literary style variations
  • Vollkorn and DM Sans font files with SIL Open Font License 1.1 texts
  • Three bundled CC0 photographs
  • readme.txt with resource credits, licenses, and sources
  • GETTING-STARTED.md setup guide and LICENSE.txt
  • screenshot.png

Setup

  1. Upload open-tabs-2.0.1.zip through Appearance > Themes > Add New Theme > Upload Theme, then activate it.
  2. Choose Your latest posts under Settings > Reading.
  3. Write stories as posts with a featured image, an excerpt, one category, and tags.
  4. Create Journal, About, and Contact pages and select their matching page templates.
  5. Insert the About and Contact patterns from Open Tabs pages in the block inserter, then replace the sample text, About photograph, and contact email address before publishing.
  6. Adjust photo shape, layout density, story details, reading width, article spacing, image corners, and the optional reading-progress line under Appearance > Customize > Theme Options.

Open Tabs is a free WordPress block theme with a white and green journal layout for independent writers, local publications, cultural organisations, research groups and community editors. A full-width lead story places its headline above a panoramic photograph, followed by recent headlines and a two-column feed. The Journal page lists stories by date, while articles use a serif reading column with related stories from the same section. The Astro edition is a separate edition sold separately.

The theme code is licensed under GPLv2 or later, the bundled fonts under SIL OFL 1.1, and the bundled photographs under CC0.

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