Float WordPress Theme

$29 USD
myTheme By myTheme
Created: 13 years ago
(4.55)
498 Sales
Version: 2.5.0

Float is a responsive WordPress blog theme with a live Customizer preview and extensive styling options. This page lists its features, testimonials, and a complete version-by-version changelog starting from 2.5.0.

Theme features

  • Fully responsive design
  • Customizer with live preview — choose colors for links, tags, comment bubbles, etc.
  • Choose between light or dark color scheme, and use any background color or image
  • Custom widgets: Flickr, social links, latest posts with thumbnails, Post-it note
  • Shortcode manager (buttons, alerts, and columns)
  • Compatible with Gutenberg block editor
  • Compatible with Contact Form 7
  • Custom archive page template
  • Multiple font options
  • Translation ready

Customization and design options

  • If you need help with customizing or setting up this theme, I will be glad to help you. Just contact me via my profile page’s contact form.

Accessibility, performance, and compatibility notes

  • Blocks in widgets are now disabled

Help and support

  • For assistance with customization or setup, contact via the profile page’s contact form

Testimonials

  • Recently got this theme and I just love it. Great work!
  • Great theme, think it’s the best straight-up blog one I’ve come across for a long while.
  • Overall, this theme is incredible to work with, and I highly recommend it to anyone who sees this.

Changelog

2.5.0 (November 21st, 2023)

  • Float Plugin was updated to 1.5.0. Please update the plugin.
  • Added Customizer option to show the post excerpt on homepage and archive post listings.
  • Added an icon used for a custom link in social links menu.
  • Added filter to allow editing the footer copyright text.
  • Blocks in widgets are now disabled.

2.4.0 (November 13th, 2023)

  • Float Plugin was updated to 1.4.0. Please update the plugin.
  • Envato Market Plugin was updated to 2.0.10. Please update the plugin.
  • Archive pages now show the term description also on the alternate layout option.
  • Replaced Twitter icon with X icon.
  • Minor code fixes.

2.3.0 (August 8th, 2022)

  • Float Plugin was updated to 1.3.0. Please update the plugin.
  • Fixed a small bug which caused an error on certain PHP versions.
  • Accessibility improvements.

2.2.0 (May 16th, 2022)

  • Float Plugin was updated to 1.2.0. Please update the plugin.
  • Added Customizer option to show related posts on single posts.
  • Added 'wp_body_open' action after the opening body tag.
  • Improved the lazy loading of images.
  • Fixed a small bug in styling for embedded videos.
  • Replaced jQuery plugins with vanilla JavaScript for better performance and accessibility.
  • Improvements for Core Web Vitals.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Accessibility improvements.
  • Minor code fixes.

2.1.1 (February 4th, 2021)

  • Fixed a bug adding too much top margin for embedded videos.
  • Fixed styling for the separator block.
  • Fixed styling for the text contrast on the sidebar.

2.1.0 (August 25th, 2020)

  • Float Plugin was updated to 1.1.0. Please update the plugin.
  • Added support for wide width and full width blocks for Gutenberg editor.
  • Added editor styling for the Gutenberg editor.
  • Added option to use light background colors.
  • Added column for featured images in the dashboard's post listing.
  • Fixed a bug which made the comments disappear on WordPress 5.5.

2.0.0 (May 20th, 2019)

  • Lots of changes to the codebase. Better code formatting, better security, speed optimizations etc.
  • Added Float Plugin. You must install and activate the Float Plugin which comes with the theme.
  • Moved plugin territory functionality from the theme to the plugin.
  • Moved style related options to the Customizer. Please check your settings at Appearance > Customize.
  • Added more options to widgets. Now you can for example sort the posts with comment count, and have content before the social icons.
  • Added lazyloading for images.
  • Added higher pixel density images. You must use the 'Force Regenerate Thumbnails' plugin to regenerate your thumbnails.
  • Added category and tag descriptions on the archive template.
  • Added author template.
  • Added social links options for users.
  • Added option to halve logo dimensions to allow using a high pixel density logo.
  • Added option to choose color for the separator used in the main navigation and post meta.
  • Icons are now served as SVGs.
  • Removed contact page template and added styling for the Contact Form 7 plugin. Use the Contact Form 7 plugin to add forms.
  • Removed the setting to select the background image from predefined options. Use the Background Image setting at the Customizer to set the background.
  • Minor styling changes.
  • Updated JavaScript libraries.
  • Minor code fixes.

1.2.0 (March 15th, 2014)

  • Refreshed design
  • Updated jQuery and JavaScript plugins
  • Updated Theme Options Framework
  • More font options
  • More styling options
  • Numeric pagination
  • New page navigation in articles
  • Latest Posts Widget now displays comments count
  • Option to disable featured image display at the beginning of the posts
  • Added VK icon for Social Widget
  • CSS improvements
  • Page speed optimization
  • New screenshot
  • Updated documentation

1.1.2 (June 4th, 2013)

  • Fixed minor issue in comments.php
  • Loosened validation of textareas in the Theme Options
  • Comments bubble not shown anymore if comments are closed

1.1.1 (April 24th, 2013)

  • Option to choose between serif and sans serif fonts
  • Option to display author name in post meta
  • Link to edit a post added in the frontend
  • New icon: Goodreads

1.1.0 (January 31st, 2013)

  • Updated Theme Options framework
  • Updated Social Media Widget icons
  • Option to display icons in color
  • Option to use custom CSS
  • Option to use Feedburner URL for RSS
  • Option to select secondary background image
  • 2 new background images
  • Updated jQuery plugins
  • Updated jQuery framework
  • Minor fixes and tweaks to the code

1.0.4 (November 12th, 2012)

  • New icons: LinkedIn, Vimeo, Instagram, iTunes, Soundcloud, Last.fm, Bandcamp, Quora
  • Fixed the centering of images

1.0.3 (July 30th, 2012)

  • Translation ready
  • Support for multi-level dropdowns
  • Option to display posts in archives like on homepage
  • Featured image now links to the post
  • Fix for analytics in Theme Options
  • YouTube icon

1.0.2 (July 15th, 2012)

  • Shorter refresh time for Twitter widget (was 12h, now 30min)
  • Option to choose whether to display tags of posts on the homepage

1.0.1 (July 13th, 2012)

  • Contact page validation fixed
  • Tumblr and Pinterest icons

1.0.0 (July 12th, 2012)

  • Initial release

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