Political Press - Responsive WordPress Theme

Key features

• Purpose Oriented & Modern Design
• Fully Responsive Layout
• Built in Twitter Bootstrap 3.0
• Full Localization Support – contains .po and .mo files
• WPML Plugin Support
• Easy and Extensive Customizer Settings
• Easy to Use Meta Boxes
• 4 Attractive Color Skins
• Landing Page Template
• jQuery Countdown timer
• Subscription form (Based on ‘Simple Subscribe’ Plugin)

Home page features

• Fully Manageable from Customizer Settings
• Quote in Header
• 3 Types of Slider
• Featured Posts Below Slider
• Wide Post Layout
• Grid Post Layout
• Campaign Trail Event Slider
• Gallery Templates
  • 2 Columns Gallery Template
  • 3 Columns Gallery Template
  • 4 Columns Gallery Template
• Calendar and Events Support – Using The Events Calendar Plugin
• WP Email Capture Plugin Support – To add subscribe widget with default slider
• Simple Subscribe Plugin Support – To add subscribe widget on landing page
• Display Tweets Plugin Support – To display twitter feed in footer
• Contact Template – with Ajax based contact form and related Customizer Settings
• Contact Form 7 Plugin Support – to create more forms if needed

Templates, widgets & extensions

• Biography Template
• Testimonials Template
• Full Width Template
• Tabs Custom Widget
• Gallery Custom Widget
• Video Custom Widget
• Testimonial Custom Widget
• Various Short Codes
• Background Customization Support
• Child Theme Included
• Sample Content XML File Included
• Extensive Documentation Included
• Theme Support

Localization, compatibility & plugins

• Full Localization Support with translation files (.po/.mo)
• WPML Plugin Support for multilingual sites
• Events Calendar plugin compatibility for calendar and events
• jQuery Countdown, Swipebox lightbox, Isotope layouts, FlexSlider, and other integrated plugins
• Display Tweets, WP Email Capture, Simple Subscribe, and The Events Calendar integrations
• Responsive Nav and Bootstrap-based responsive framework

Documentation, samples & support

Extensive documentation is included to guide setup, customization, and theming. A sample content XML file is provided for quick onboarding, along with child theme support for safe customization and easy theme upgrades. Support is provided through the official support site.

Changelog

Version 1.7.5 - 18 Oct 2025

• Fixed image height stretching issue
• Made compatible with latest PHP version
• Improved compatibility with the latest WordPress

Version 1.7.4 - 4 May 2023

• Fixed various issues
• Made compatible up to PHP 8.0
• Improved compatibility with the latest WordPress

Version 1.7.3 - 21 June 2021

• Improved one-click demo functionality
• Fixed some minor styling issues

Version 1.7.2 - 11 December 2020

• Fixed swipebox js lightbox issues
• Improved WordPress compatibilities

Version 1.7.1 - 27 August 2020

• Fixed jQuery issues
• Fixed gallery and campaign trail post-update issues
• Moved page templates in the directory (Need to update all pages with templates)
• Improved some styles

Version 1.7.0 - 27 March 2020

• Added full wide slider variation
• Added shortcode slider support for shortcode-based sliders
• Added quote show/hide control in the customizer
• Improved some styling

Version 1.6.1 - 03 September 2019

• Changed Text Domain to meet the latest requirements
• Moved landing page scripts to the plugin
• Moved Campaign trail scripts to the plugin
• Moved API options to the plugin (no change for users)
• Improved theme styles
• Improved gallery scripts
• Improved escaping and validation
• Improved block styles
• Removed unused files

Version 1.6.0 - 23 March 2019

• Styling improvements
• Removed old pro panel files
• Added Gutenberg required improvements

Version 1.5.0 - 22 December 2018

• Added block editor support
• Fixed the options panel notice
• Fixed admin dashboard show/hide meta boxes issue
• Improved translations

Version 1.4 - 2 June 2018

• Added One Click Demo
• Shifted all the settings to the customizer settings from the theme options panel
• Improved Events Plugin Compatibility
• Fixed and Improved lots of styles
• Improved WPML Compatibility
• Moved Slider to a post type from theme options

Version 1.3.3 - 22 July 2017

• Improved functions.php file according to latest standards
• Improved and fixed security and validation issues
• Improved fonts inclusion by enqueue functionality
• Removed Respond jQuery functionality and related files

Version 1.3.2 - 9 July 2016

• Added google maps new API compatibility
• Improved campaign trail home section
• Theme Options Broken Structure Fixed
• Updated TGM Class and Improved its code
• Improved Data Validation and Escaping
• Event Plugin Styled, Campaign Trail Issue fixed
• Events Sidebar Widget Fixed
• Improved Campaign Trail on the Home page

Version 1.3.1 - 20 April 2016

• Added wp-email-capture plugin compatibility for landing page
• Fixed campaign trail issues
• Improved events sidebar widget styles
• Improved event detail page styles

Version 1.3 - 15 January 2016

• Improved data escaping and sanitization
• Updated and improved TGM plugin code
• Removed Metabox plugin embedded code so now needed to be installed
• Improved Event Calendar Plugin Support
• All custom widgets are improved according to new WP Widget API
• Admin Theme option styles are improved
• Added Scbscribed2 Plugin Support for Landing Page
• Improved some general styles

Version 1.2.3 - 24 December 2014

• Fixer Event Calendar plugin issues
• Improved Event Calendar plugin styles
• Some minor styling improvements

Version 1.2.2 - 13 May 2014

• Left flow dropdown menu class added
• Fixed issues with JS based strings
• Improved Contact Form 7 Styles

Version 1.2.1 - 8 March 2014

• Improved The Events Calendar plugin styles
• Improved Testimonials listing template styles
• Improved Landing page responsive styles
• Fixed child theme installation issue

Version 1.2 - 22 February 2014

• Added Landing page template with Count down timer and subscription form
• Added Testimonials post type and template
• Added WPML plugin support
• Added compatibility to The Events Calendar Plugin
• Added contents support for Homepage Template
• Added Bio widget
• Provided theme options to display tag or category based posts on Homepage
• Provided option to skip featured posts from other listings on Homepage
• Improved Contact Form 7 Plugin support
• Improved galleries isotope filter for lightbox

Version 1.0 - 05 Oct 2013

• Major improvements in Documentation
• Minor improvements in CSS Styles
• Minor improvements in JavaScript

Version 1.1 - 15 December 2013

• WordPress 3.8 Theme Options Styling Fix

Version 1.0 - 03 Oct 2013

• Initial Release

Credits & dependencies

• Bootstrap
• FlexSlider
• jQuery Countdown Plugin
• jQuery Form Plugin
• jQuery Validation Plugin
• jCarousel
• Swipebox
• Isotope – Commercial licensing
• Responsive Nav
• WP Email Capture
• Display Tweets
• The Events Calendar
• Photodune
• Shutterstock