Literatum - Just Write
Literatum is a modern WordPress theme designed for writers and online journals, offering a clean, reader-focused design with extensive features and easy customization. The update history shows frequent enhancements, new templates, and strong plugin compatibility.
Key features and capabilities
- Dynamic Navigation (AJAX): AJAX Navigation can be activated with just one click to accelerate and approach the navigation throughout the website.
- Custom author avatar: Every author can upload an avatar to display on their profile page from the administration site.
- Featured images for every category: You can link an image with every category of the site. This image is displayed on the top of the category site.
- Video covers for posts (version 1.2.2+): You can upload a video file to display it in the place of the featured image of the post. Check it out (In this case its a mp4 video so with Google Chrome better. No mobile).
- Category templates: Literatum includes two different templates expandable for future upgrades. You can easily set up the design you want to display the items in every different category of the site.
- Read time: Literatum can automatically count how many words has every article to give to the reader an idea of its length and time it will take to read.
- Third party comments (version 1.2.5+): You can use third-party comment systems in your articles. Literatum comes with integrated support for Disqus and Facebook Comments.
- Compatible with Aesop Story Engine (version 1.3.5+): Combine Literatum with Aesop Story Engine to convert your articles into interactive stories with features like parallax content, full-width media, podcasts, chapters, timelines, etc.
- Deprecated in version 2: Combined CSS: Literatum combines automatically all the different stylesheets into one. This makes the site loading faster while keeping internal organization of styles.
- Interview support: You can convert every article into an interview by adding questions and answers through interview buttons in the content editor.
- Icons: A custom typeface provides over 400 icons that can be inserted into menus and content to enhance the UI.
- Designed for social networks: Each item includes metadata for sharing on major networks and is fully prepared for Twitter Cards.
- Translatable into any language: Includes English and Spanish support and localization opportunities.
- Custom CSS field: Overwrite styles by entering CSS code from the admin area.
- Author’s contact field: Authors can add Twitter and Facebook usernames, displayed on profiles and used when sharing articles.
- Responsive design: Articles adapt to any device while maintaining legibility.
Design, templates and workflow
- New typography system: Improved typography to maintain a compact, consistent style across the page and simplify user configuration.
- New color system: Internal color system to support color templates in future updates.
- Post titles and subtitles formatting: Supports text format in titles and subtitles.
- Template system flexibility: Templates can be interchanged between WordPress objects (posts, pages, users) and a dedicated template per post for easier template creation.
- Preferences and customization: Templates and options are accessible via Preferences -> Customize for streamlined management.
Compatibility and performance improvements
- Responsive. Designed to adapt to different devices and screen sizes.
- Unified internal framework updates: Regular updates to the internal framework for stability and performance.
- Gutenberg compatibility: Ongoing improvements to compatibility with the Gutenberg editor.
- AJAX navigation enhancements: Various improvements to the AJAX navigation experience and associated bugs.
Version history (highlights)
Version 2.2.5 - 25 August 2022
- Updated custom internal framework version.
- Fixed issues with the post share media headers feature.
- Improved AJAX Navigation and fixed some related bugs.
- Fixed bug with some single pages not displaying the featured image correctly.
Version 2.2.4 - 06 January 2022
- Updated internal custom framework version
- Fixed warning message related to custom category images
- Added new theme.json file
- Fixed some little issues related with compatibility with WordPress 5.8+
Version 2.2.3 - 12 April 2021
- Fix bug of featured images not showing up in single posts.
Version 2.2.2 - 08 April 2021
- Fix bug in Format for Titles feature in WP version 5.7+
Version 2.2.1 - 10 January 2021
- Added option in "Featured Post + Photo Grid" template to set the number of columns displaying posts (1 - 4).
- Added "Featured Image" column to posts table in Admin pages.
- Sidebar is now 100px wider.
- Improved Gutenberg compatibility.
- Improved style for content image captions.
- Improved style for <code> elements.
- Improved helper classes for content elements.
- Included demo data file.
- Experimental: AJAX navigation is now using URL object (https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/Web/API/URL)
- Fixed Bug with integrated textarea's editors in custom options in latests WP versions.
- Fixed bug with custom image field uploads.
- Fixed focus bug in post's credits input field.
- Fixed bug with text editors for custom titles, subtitles, post credits, etc.
Version 2.1.0 - 15 January 2018
- Added support for paginated posts
- Improved sidebar menu
- Improved navigation
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 2.0.9 - 16 November 2017
- Fixed some warning messages
Version 2.0.8 - 15 November 2017
- Added greek translation by Meymigrou (Thanks, Panos!).
- Added subtitles for pages.
- Added new template to display full post covers (http://kohette.com/wpthemes/literatum/category/interviews/).
- Added more customize options for the grid template (vertical align and text align).
- Added "full width" header option in Site Identity section.
- Better Integration with Gutenberg plugin
- Added TGM plugin activation integration
- Localization strings revised
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 2.0.7 - 6 November 2017
- Fixed "blank page" bug in Windows based servers
Version 2.0.6 - 26 October 2017
- Color templates are named now color schemes
- Added "Blue night" color scheme
- Fixed post text format issues
- Added "pagestree" shortcode to display child pages
- Updated Google Fonts
Version 2.0.5
- Fix scroll "touch" in iOS devices.
- Fixed internal footnotes.
- Added style for superscript elements.
Version 2.0.4 - 20 September 2017
- Added format for ordered and unordered lists
- Added format for blockquotes
- Added post date option in "photo grid" template display options
- Fixed bug with large integers and rand function in PHP7
Version 2.0.3 - 7 September 2017
- Added a custom color templates system.
- Fixed bug related with image links and AJAX navigation.
- Fixed style related bugs in posts content elements.
Version 2.0.2 - 28 August 2017
- Fixed little bug with header when website slogan it's not filled
- Fixed bug with template selector in category objects
Version 2.0.1 - 25 August 2017
- Added .mo and .po files for spanish traduction
- Added option to adjust content width in post template
- Added new template "Masonry columns" available for categories, tags, archive, users, search and front page.
Version 2.0.0 - 21 August 2017
- The whole source code has been re-coded from scratch.
- Design has been re-stylized
- New Ajax navigation system
- Various page transitions effects for AJAX navigation
- Co-authors! now you can indicate multiple authors for any post
- AngularJS integrated
- Template selector for posts individually
- Custom user avatars improved
- Support for material icons (https://material.io/icons/)
- All the main custom options are now placed in appearance -> customize
- New template system allow interchangeable templates between WordPress objects (posts, authors, pages, categories, etc)
- Support for Youtube videos as post covers
- Titles and subtitles allow now text format
- Inteview controls improved
- The typography/typefaces/fonts options are now located in the customize menu and organized in a way that maintains a consistent design throughout the theme
- Removed CSS/JS Combine feature (hello HTTP/2!)
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 1.4.3 - 13 September 2016
- Improved KTT framework (engine thats runs under the theme)
- Improved CSS combine function (added cache, better performance and other options).
- Added "Load your custom css styles urls" option
- Added "Load your own js files" option.
- Added the option to execute js code in the footer
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 1.4.2 - 24 March 2016
- Fixed strange characters in share popups
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 1.4.1 - 21 March 2016
- Fixed minor bugs and some warning messages.
Version 1.4.0 - 10 March 2016
- Fixed strange characters on share buttons
- Fixed the featured images for categories bug
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 1.3.9 - 06 July 2015
- Added fix by 25thfloor (http://themeforest.net/item/literatum-just-write/8523411/comments?page=19&filter=all#comment_10431905)
- Added fix by dennytang (http://themeforest.net/item/literatum-just-write/8523411/comments?page=18&filter=all#comment_10396415)
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 1.3.8 - 07 April 2015
- Added display post categories option for big covers.
- AJAX improvements
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 1.3.7 - 12 February 2015
- Better performance
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 1.3.6 - 22 December 2014
- Fully tested with the latest version of WordPress
- Customize options for the sidebar
- Search widget redesigned
- Improved code.
Version 1.3.5 - 05 November 2014
- Literatum is now compatible with Aesop Story Engine plugin!
- Added filter by category for posts in frontpage.
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.3.4 - 14 October 2014
- Added support for Jetpack's carrousel and galleries.
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.3.3 - 09 October 2014
- Added content share tooltip for articles
- Fixed minor bugs
Version 1.3.2 - 24 September 2014
- Added options to change the style of the frontpage and customize it.
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.3.1 - 19 September 2014
- Added widget area for posts content.
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.3.0 - 7 September 2014
- Added support to Google+ comments
- Combine CSS feature improved
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.2.9 - 5 September 2014
- Added option to set the post content width.
- Added options to customize the font style of the main menu and site slogan.
- Fixed archive page for posts.
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.2.8 - 1 September 2014
- Added subtitles for posts.
- Added quit button in the push menu for mobile devices.
- The theme it's now compatible with PHP 5.2.x.
- Added Font Manager with hundreds of Google fonts.
- A lot of new customize options.
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.2.7 - 29 August 2014
- Fixed CSS combine bug and other minor bugs.
Version 1.2.6 - 18 August 2014
Version 1.2.5 - 18 August 2014
- Added Facebook Comments support.
- Added Disqus comments support.
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.2.4 - 15 August 2014
- Added "back to top" button.
- Added read time for posts.
- fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.2.3 - 14 August 2014
- Added support for Google Analytics
- Fixed bug in iOS (Thanks to Jonas! @jfanc)
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.2.2 - 13 August 2014
- Added video covers for posts.
- Moved the basic options to the menu "theme options".
- Fixed minor bugs.
Version 1.2.1 - 11 August 2014
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