Open Tabs

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.

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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

  1. Upload the theme ZIP at Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme and activate it.
  2. Optional: import sample content with the demo importer (1.1.1 or newer).
  3. Under Settings → Reading choose Your latest posts.
  4. Create a page with the slug journal and assign the Journal: all stories by date template.
  5. Write stories as posts with a featured image, excerpt, one category and tags.

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