Literary - A WordPress Blog Theme With A Twist
Literary is a WordPress blog theme with built-in post types for books and a portfolio, designed for bloggers, writers, authors, illustrators, and designers. It’s mobile-first and Gutenberg-ready, offering extensive customization, support, and a comprehensive feature set.
What Literary is and who it’s for
- Beautifully crafted blog theme with a twist: dedicated post types for Books and Portfolio.
- Supports bloggers, writers, authors, illustrators, designers, and virtually anyone seeking a versatile content layout.
- Designed to look great from mobile devices to large desktops, prioritizing speed and flexibility.
Compatibility and design philosophy
- Compatible with the latest WordPress versions and updated to work with the Gutenberg editor introduced in WP 5.0.
- Mobile-first construction for speed and responsiveness across devices.
- IE fallback and fully fluid design up to 1440px wide.
Primary post types and content features
- Books post type: Add all of your books and link them to Amazon, iTunes—wherever you sell them.
- Portfolio post type: Talk about other projects with built-in portfolio support, including gallery functionality.
- Announcements post type: Schedule announcements to appear; the most recent shows at the top when enabled via Theme Options, ideal for upcoming book launches.
- All post formats supported: Aside, audio, video, gallery, image, status, chat, link, quote, standard.
Customization and visual options
- Unlimited color options with a user-friendly options panel.
- Extensive typography choices: Google fonts, Typekit fonts, Adobe Edge fonts, standard fonts—easy to set up.
- Change the road color on Google Maps for embedded maps.
- General template text is translatable via Theme Options.
- Minified JavaScript for performance, with uncompressed versions available for tweaking.
Support, updates, and extensibility
- We Love Support: responsive help through the support system at http://www.meanthemes.com/support/.
- Built to stay current with WordPress and Gutenberg-related updates; regular improvements and plugin integrations.
Full feature list (highlights)
- Gutenberg editor support
- New real-time theme options preview in Appearance > Customize
- Twitter oAuth API support
- Fully fluid design, up to 1440px wide
- Built mobile first, with IE fallback
- 11 Page/Single/Custom post type templates
- Unlimited Portfolios
- Unlimited Blogs
- Built on WordPress 3.6 (backwards compatible to 3.5)
- All templates are HTML5 compliant
- Child theme supplied
- Announcements custom post type with full content editor support
- Books custom post type with blog content and meta fields (Publish dates, action buttons, etc.)
- Portfolio custom post type with built-in gallery for video and images
- Optional stacked layout or slider-based layouts per item
- Show/Hide Sidebar on ANY page (with exceptions for Books, Homepage, Portfolio)
- Background color customization per post or page with transparent overlays
- Full control of colors, font sizes, and fonts
- Translatable strings via Theme Options
- Minified JS for performance; uncompressed core files available
- Google Analytics integration
- On/off sidebar for whole site
- Show/hide tagline, header search, author information
- Show/Hide social icons in footer and header
- Share controls on/off across posts, pages, portfolio, and books
- Twitter sharing with username
- Link truncation toggle for long links in comments
- Excerpt and read more support for blog posts
- Archive text block toggle
- Widget areas for Archive, Single, Page, Contact & Blog templates
- Custom Video widget, Custom Books Slider widget
- Custom Twitter oAuth API 1.1 Widget
- Disable featured images on gallery posts or all posts
- Hide read more on blog
- Plain text logo option, logo upload, retina logo
- Apple touch icon and favicon uploads
- Tiled and full-size cover backgrounds
- Blog galleries can slideshow with configurable intervals
- Portfolio details visible on single page
- Pagination controls for portfolio and books templates with set limits
- Google Maps integration with API v3 support and pin upload
- Built-in contact form and localisation support with .mo and .po files
- Custom Menu and dropdown menus
- Shortcodes for social icons and quotes with sources and ratings
- Fully responsive with retina graphics optimization
- Extensive documentation and update history
Version history
Version 1.3.1
- Fix homepage post content default layout for lists and tables.
- Fix article/footer tags display in posts.
- Fix gallery block caption overflow.
Version 1.3.0
- Moved theme options to Customizer. Please go to Appearance > Customize. All previous settings should be automatically imported.
- Updates for WP 5.1 and Gutenberg support.
- Updated TGM Plugin Activation class and footer copyright year.
- Fixes for WP Widgets overflow in sidebar.
- Added MeanThemes Tools plugin (install prompted after theme update).
- Removal of custom post types as they are now in the MeanThemes Tools plugin.
- Removal of post format custom metaboxes as they are now in MeanThemes Tools plugin.
- Removal of Google Analytics settings as they are now in the MeanThemes Tools plugin.
- Improved content escaping and Google font loading; various tweaks and updated documentation.
Version 1.2.0
- Fix for WP caption width.
- Updated documentation and security fixes (XSS vulnerability in Multiposts thumbnail plugin include).
- Removed WP updates plugin due to third-party support concerns.
Version 1.1.9
- Fix for pagination when using a static page with "Page - Books" or "Page - Portfolio".
- Instructions to Settings > Permalinks with cache clearing guidance.
Version 1.1.8
- Massive update with NEW Book Categories and Book Tags.
- NEW Good Reads & Amazon social icons added to Theme Options > Social Settings.
- Updated plugin and core JS files; oEmbed bug fixes and broader WP 4.1 compatibility.
- Demo XML and Child Theme updated.
Version 1.1.7
- Additional content editor for Book post type (WP 3.9 compatibility).
- HTML5 shim loaded only in IE conditional.
Version 1.1.6
- Fixed flexslider load on index/archive pages.
- Updated screenshot for WordPress 3.8.
Version 1.1.5
- Blog layout pagination fixes and improved content loading for filtered categories.
- Conditional loading for comments reply JS when comments are enabled.
Version 1.1.3
- Teeny fix for single-portfolio.php when featured image is disabled.
Version 1.1.2
- Book order option added to theme options.
- Hover bug fixes on Archive titles and content loading improvements.
- Read more option for standard WordPress links and other compatibility fixes.
Version 1.1.1
- Open link format post links in a new tab/window option.
- IE9 layout bug fixes for Twitter widget and updated documentation.
Version 1.1.0
- Updates for MeanMenu jQuery plugin and WordPress 3.6 custom meta nonce field checks.
Version 1.0.9
- WordPress 3.6 updates: removed beta code for post formats as WP core removed them.
Version 1.0.8
- Added Homepage Widget Area for use with the homepage sidebar option.
- Fixed draft posts showing on the Archive template.
Version 1.0.7
- Updated Multi-post thumbnails to fix Portfolio sizing issues.
- Fixed Book Widget button title and related queries.
- Fixed blog layout pagination for static homepage.
Version 1.0.6
- Portfolio template category selection fixes; improved searchform.
- Layout adjustments to keep 1, 2, and 3 formats consistent across responsive layers.
- Options to show/hide categories and tags in meta.
Version 1.0.5
- CSS updates for audio player and minor sidebar tweaks.
- IE-specific CSS updates for social header.
Version 1.0.4
- Updated comments system to remove class inheritance on status post type.
- Documentation and required fields for comments updates.
- Fixed video post type error pulling 3.6 post format instead of 3.5.
Version 1.0.3
- Option to toggle old 3.5 Post format metabox while using 3.6.
- Blog template updates to fix display issues with static pages.
Version 1.0.2
- Functions file tweak to remove home class for a static page.
Version 1.0.1
- Minor CSS tweaks for mobile layout.
Photo credits
All photography in the theme demo has been kindly provided by Benjamin Reid just for this theme. The photos are not in the Theme Files as part of the ThemeForest download.
The information on this website is sourced from the
ThemeForest product page
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