Block Magazine - Flat and Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme

Block Magazine is a simple, fresh WordPress blog theme featuring masonry layouts, responsive design, and a robust back-end framework suitable for blogs and magazines. It combines a rich feature set, flexible layouts, and broad plugin compatibility for diverse content needs.

Main features

• Advanced theme admin panel
• Grid (Masonry) homepage
• Extended custom menu – with popular posts
• Automatic Image desaturation*
• Retina ready
• Flex carousel
• 3 custom menus with dropdowns
• Responsive layout
• Unlimited color schemes – using colorpickers
• Font selector/custom typography – 57 fonts available (web-safe fonts and Google webfonts)
• Multiple jQuery sliders (as blocks and in posts)
• 7 Posts formats: standard, video, audio, gallery, image, link, quote, aside
• Video ready – custom metaboxes
• Build-in rating system
• Dummy demo content
• Logo and favicon upload
• Social networks section
• Author template
• Translation ready
• latest WordPress ready
• Smooth tabless design

Layouts & Templates

• Homepage
• Full-Width template
• Redirect
• Error 404
• Blog template (index.php)
• Archive templates
• Author template
• 3 post layouts (left, right and without sidebar)

Plugin Compatibility

• regenerate-thumbnails
• video-thumbnails
• recent-tweets-widget
• contact-form-7
• simple-share-buttons-adder
• woocommerce
• woocommerce-cart-tab
• and more..

Blocks, Widgets & Shortcodes

• Advanced shordcode generator
• 9 custom widgets:
  • Featured widgets
  • 300px Ads (custom widget)
  • 4×125px Ads (custom widget)
  • Latest comments (custom widget)
  • Flicker Photos (custom widget)
  • About Us Info (custom widget)
  • and more..

Change Log

Version 4.1

• added: dimension settings (theme.json)
• added: dynamic year change
• added: new social networks
• improved: mobile menu, toggle button
• improved: Redux Framework inclusion inside the theme_setup function
• updated: TGM activation - updated: import files (XML)
• updated: language/translation file
• removed: WP Featherlight from recommended
• fixed: admin panel translation

Version 4.0

• improved: new/better masonry loading
• updated: Font Awesome 6
• added: new social networks
• improved: mobile menu

Version 3.3

• updated:demo (XML) file

Version 3.2

• added: admin panel option to disable 'topbar '

Version 3.1

• updated: documentation
• improved: next/prev posts navigation

Version 3.0

• latest WordPress compatible
• support for Gutenberg editor
• new, fresh design
• new back-end framework (Redux Framework)
• better UX/UI (classic pagination)
• better and improved performance and security
• support for Top 10 (popular posts)
• new mobile/responsive layout
• One Click Demo Import

Version 2.0

• new better mobile menu
• improved documentation
• Font Awesome update
• large back-end changes (improved source code)

Version 1.6

• srcset hotfix in functions.php

Version 1.5

• updated: Font Awesome version;

Version 1.4

• (WP 4.4 update) deleted unused php code in index.php file;

Version 1.3

• Updated: prettyPhoto.js script (security update)

Version 1.2

• fixed: dropdown menu in responsive mode,
• added: alternative "desaturation" file.

Version 1.1

• improved: image crop resolution
• fixed: left sidebar in responsive mode
• added: new XML file

Version 1.0

• initial release