Path 2.3.0 - WordPress Theme

Key features

• Fully responsive design optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
• Customizable with the WordPress Customizer.
• Live preview: Choose fonts, colors, sidebar position etc.
• Separately adjustable accent colors via colorpickers.
• Custom widgets: Posts with Thumbnails, Flickr, Social Links, Post-it Note.
• Built-in display of related posts.
• Compatible with Contact Form 7.
• Compatible with Yummy Recipes.
• Translation ready.
• Your content is king, and Path presents it elegantly!

Design, customization, and workflow

• Fully responsive design ensures optimal presentation across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
• Customization through the WordPress Customizer enables real-time adjustments to fonts, colors, and layout elements.
• Live preview lets you see changes before publishing, including font and color selections and the sidebar position.
• Accent colors can be adjusted separately via colorpickers for flexible branding.
• Built-in widgets include Posts with Thumbnails, Flickr, Social Links, and Post-it Note for rich sidebar and homepage layouts.
• Related posts are displayed by default to boost engagement and pageviews.
• Translation ready supports multilingual sites and localizable strings.

Compatibility, accessibility, and performance

• Compatible with Contact Form 7 for forms and contact pages.
• Compatible with Yummy Recipes for culinary sites and recipe integration.
• Accessibility improvements and performance-focused enhancements over time.

Support and customization help

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.

Changelog

2.3.0 (September 2nd, 2024)

• Envato Market Plugin was updated to 2.0.12. Please update the plugin.
• Added new words to the translation file.

2.2.0 (August 1st, 2023)

• Path Plugin was updated to 1.2.0. Please update the plugin.
• Fixed a small bug which caused an error on certain PHP versions.
• Accessibility improvements.

2.1.0 (May 18th, 2022)

• Path Plugin was updated to 1.1.0. Please update the plugin.
• Added 'wp_body_open' action after the opening body tag.
• Improved the lazy loading of images.
• Replaced jQuery plugins with vanilla JavaScript for better performance and accessibility.
• Improvements for Core Web Vitals.
• Performance improvements.
• Accessibility improvements.
• Minor code fixes.

2.0.0 (May 24th, 2019)

• Lots of changes to the codebase. Better code formatting, better security, speed optimizations etc.
• Added Path Plugin. You must install and activate the Path 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 option to halve logo dimensions to allow using a high pixel density logo.
• 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.
• Removed the Most Commented widget. You can now use the 'Posts with thumbnails' widget and order the posts with comment count.
• Minor styling changes.
• Updated JavaScript libraries.
• Minor code fixes.

1.0.1 (June 12th, 2014)

• Social links of the author shown in the biography after a post
• Possibility to add a featured image for a page

1.0.0 (April 4th, 2014)

• Initial release