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The Dispatch

The Dispatch is a WordPress block theme for photographic magazines with cover stories, numbered contents and section pages. It suits independent magazines, local publications, cultural organisations, community publishers and editorial teams combining photographs with long articles.

$47 USD

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Independent magazines, local publications, cultural organisations, community publishers, editorial teams
Platform
WordPress
Status
On sale
Price
$47 USD
Version
1.3.3
License
WordPress edition: GPL-compatible theme code
Demo photography is licensed separately from theme code

Page inventory

Home: masthead, cover story and issue contents
Home
Journal: all stories
Journal
Feature story
Post
About: colophon
About
Contact: desks
Contact
Section archive
Archive
Search results
Utility
404
Utility

Design controls

Site Editor
Edit the masthead, compact header, footer, navigation and templates with core blocks in Appearance → Editor. No page builder.
Issue band and sections
The issue number and season are plain text; each homepage section is a Query Loop with its own count, offset and category filter.
Cover photograph shape
Panoramic, wide, classic or tall crop for the cover and story lead photographs.
Section density
Compact, comfortable or spacious spacing between sections.
List details
Show or hide categories and dates in contents lists and article rows.
Reading width and article options
Article width 520–1040px, spacing, image corners and an optional reading progress line.
Colours and style variations
Recolour Petrol, Ice, Coral, Ink and Paper, or switch to Clear or Literary.
Magazine block styles
Kicker paragraph and Captioned plate image styles for feature layouts.
Fonts
Roboto Condensed and Source Serif 4 are served from your own site; choose other fonts in Styles → Typography.

Features

  • Oversized masthead built from the Site Title block
  • Full-width cover story with a separate headline column
  • Numbered issue contents, an unequal photo pair and an editor's note
  • Journal and section pages pair a section index with article rows
  • Features open with a large title, standfirst, credits and a wide photograph
  • Comments follow your Discussion settings
  • Contact page uses email links; no form service is bundled
  • Native block theme edited in the WordPress Site Editor

What the download includes

  • WordPress block theme: templates, two header parts, patterns, theme.json and two style variations
  • Roboto Condensed and Source Serif 4 font files with SIL Open Font License 1.1 texts
  • GETTING-STARTED.md with a page table and story-writing guide
  • 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. Create a Journal page with the Journal: all stories template, or set it as the Posts page.
  4. Publish about eight stories with featured images to fill every homepage section.
  5. Edit the issue band and masthead in Appearance → Editor → Templates → Front Page.

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