Groovy - Modern & Lightweight Blog for WordPress
Groovy is a unique, super modern blog theme by EstudioPatagon designed for speed, vivid colors, and versatility across personal, travel, technology, comics/anime, or biography blogs. It offers two visual schemes, AMP support, multilingual readiness, and a lightweight footprint with a powerful Theme Options Panel and 11 custom widgets.
Main Features
- General Features: Super Light and Unique design.
- Performance & Size: Highly optimized and lightweight (just 1MB size).
- AMP Support: AMP Support (Transitional Mode) Check AMP Home and AMP Single Post.
- eCommerce: WooCommerce 8.0+ Compatible.
- Hosting Efficiency: Using a shared hosting? Groovy has a very low INODES usage.
- PHP & Security: PHP 8 ready (faster rendering time) and Constantly updated.
- Localization: Translation ready (English, Spanish included) and Open Graph Support.
- Code Quality: Minified and Optimized code; Built with SCSS and pre-compiled with Prepos 7 (Windows and Mac compatible).
- Advertising & Widgets: Dedicated advertising section (below header, before and after post content, custom advertise to place anywhere) and Advertising sections between grid posts.
- Layout & Widgets: Sticky sidebar for Posts; 11 customs widgets; Lazy Load for Lists, post content, and embeds.
- Accessibility & Semantics: HTML5 & CSS3 ready; Fully responsive; Retina Display Ready; Font Awesome icons.
- Post & Page Variants: 4 Single post dispositions (with 2 variations); Fullwidth with/without Sidebar; Classic with/without Sidebar; No Sidebar Style for Post and Pages.
- Additional Pages & Widgets: Custom Tag page, Custom Author page, Custom 404 Page, About me Widget, Custom Tag Cloud Widget, Custom Galleries.
- Social & Community: Disqus and Facebook support; Video Support (Vimeo, YouTube, etc).
- Device Support: Works on Android, iPad and iPhone; Documentation included; Clean Design; Well Coded; Navigation Menu.
Amp, Performance, and Language
- AMP in Transitional Mode (home, archives, author and single post pages).
- Multilanguage: English, Spanish included; easy to translate to any language.
- Lightweight and fast with a focus on Google Insights performance.
Layout Variants and Widgets
- 4 Single post dispositions (with 2 variations).
- Fullwidth with Sidebar; Fullwidth no Sidebar; Classic with Sidebar; Classic no Sidebar.
- No Sidebar Style for Post and Pages; Custom Tag page; Custom Author page; Custom 404 Page.
- About me Widget; Custom Tag Cloud Widget; Custom Galleries.
- Advertising sections; Disqus and Facebook support.
Theme Engineering & Accessibility
- Open Graph Support; Translation ready; Minified and Optimized code.
- SCSS-based development; pre-compiled with Prepos 7; Windows and Mac compatible.
- Dedicated advertising sections and add placement flexibility.
Billing, Support, and Documentation
- Documentation included; Support: direct help via our support system; submit a ticket with questions.
- Changelog and ongoing updates for compatibility and improvements.
Translations, Credits & Language Details
- Translations: Spanish Language By Estudio Patagon; English and Spanish included; multilanguage support.
- Images by Freepik.
- Fonts: Outfit – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Outfit; Jost – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Jost.
- Fonts icons by Remix Icon and Fonts Awesome.
Changelog
v2.3.0 - 03 September 2024
Summary: Features and Fixes.
- Fixed: Accessibility warning from Search button.
- Fixed: Incorrect Widget width on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Duplicated Avatars on Comments section.
- Fixed: WP default expand button (lightbox) not working when Lazy Load is enabled.
- Fixed: Shortcode Lightbox generator 403 forbidden error on Amazon Bitnami servers.
- Fixed: Sanitizing not working as expected on Advertising module (custom home).
- Fixed: Syntax color error on Social Widget.
- Improved: SVG icons load method.
- Improved: Lazy Load method on Articles List.
- Improved: Twitter icon updated to "X".
- Added: Dutch Language.
- Added: Unlimited Social Profiles on Theme Options -> Social Profiles.
v2.0.0 - 26 November 2023 (big update)
Summary: Multiple Features and WooCommerce Compatibility (big update).
- Fixed: PHP warning if migrating from other EP theme.
- Fixed: AMP pagination issue.
- Fixed: Incorrect date for next/prev articles on Single Post.
- Fixed: Minor translation text for reading time.
- Fixed: Incorrect alignment for TikTok social profile.
- Fixed: Duplicated Page Sidebar on tablet devices.
- Fixed: Home Builder do not appear when changing "Home" template, only appears when the page is already created.
- Fixed: Syntax Highlighter do not work properly on Fluid ADS widget.
- Fixed: Custom Typography for Sidebar titles not applied properly.
- Fixed: Incorrect alignment for mobile sidebar.
- Fixed: Header Shadow issue when using soft-shadow mode for classic/advertising headers.
- Fixed: MutationObserver warning from Google Insights.
- Fixed: CLS warning from Google Insights.
- Improved: Multiple Accessibility and Best practices from Google Insights tests.
- Improved: Now optimized Avatar will be displayed globally (comments, widgets, etc).
- Improved: Header search icon hover.
- Improved: Theme Options Sidebar section, now it is more clear how to use mobile sidebars.
- Improved: Updated Theme Options framework for WP 6.4.
- Improved: Now primary category will be displayed on next/prev articles on Single Post.
- Added: NEW! WooCommerce compatibility up to 8.2.2
- Added: Compatibility up to WP 6.4
- Added: German translation.
v1.1.0 - 12 July 2023
Summary: Various fixes and improvements.
- Fixed: Related Articles link issue.
- Fixed: Subscribe button on header not pointing properly.
- Fixed: Theme Options not loaded properly on specific server configurations.
- Fixed: Some Warnings from PHP 8.2.x
- Fixed: Incorrect Shadow on Sticky header, when "Soft Shadow" mode is selected.
- Fixed: Incorrect layout for Siblings Articles on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Incorrect Alignment for Related Articles when some titles are longer as expected.
- Improved: Some elements borders when "Soft shadow" mode is selected.
- Improved: Tested up to PHP 8.2.4
- Added: Turkish Translation, special thanks to Mevlüt Yaşar.
- Added: An optional Subscribe URL specifically for Header Button.
- Added: New option to upload custom Body Decorations on Theme Options - Styling - Main Style.
Credits
- Translations: Spanish Language By: Estudio Patagon
- Images by: Freepik
- Fonts: Outfit – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Outfit; Jost – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Jost
- Fonts icons by: Remix Icon and Fonts Awesome
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