Typology - Minimalist Blog & Text Based Theme for WordPress

What Typology is and who it suits

• Writer blog, book author, novelist or poetry (poem) website (for those who like distraction-free and typographic design with a focus on content and storytelling)
• Any kind of tech blog (from coding blog to programming blog)
• Personal blog for those who personally prefer minimalist design
• Simple – clean – developer blog
• Book author who wants to have their own minimal blog
• Author website

Typology is positioned as one of the best blogging themes for text-heavy blogs, with a primary focus on typography and content. A typographic WordPress theme showcase invites users to see Typology in action. With its simplicity, Typology is a well-known, simple theme for bloggers. With a few clicks, your blog can be online—functional features of this minimalist theme help you create a successful blog. For questions or learning more, a knowledge base provides articles to browse.

Typology features list

• Choose your style – Whether you are a fan of modern material design or prefer the flat style we’ve got you covered
• Customize your home page – The home page features several sections to display different content
• Choose from different textual post layouts – Because one post layout is simply not enough
• Take control of your typography – With its typographic approach to design, Typology provides a wide range of fonts and options to fine-tune font sizes and letter spacing of your texts and headings
• Apply your brand – Typology provides options for unlimited fonts and color combinations, as well as dedicated sections to upload your logo and icons
• Responsive design – Content scales seamlessly on desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile devices
• Advanced theme options panel – Setup your website in 5 minutes with an easy-to-use theme options panel
• Pagination Types – Classic Older Posts/Newer Posts, Numeric Pagination, Load More buttons or Infinite Scroll
• Custom Widgets – Beyond standard WordPress widgets, Typology includes several custom widgets to extend functionality
• Minimalist Color Palete – A well-balanced color palette built on one color, offering a variety of combinations with a minimalist approach
• Shortcodes – 12 flexible shortcodes to add complex elements: columns, separators, highlights, dropcaps, buttons, pull quotes, progress bars, social icons, tabs, toggles and accordions
• WooCommerce support – Add a fully functioning shop with WooCommerce
• RTL support – Full Right-To-Left reading support for global reach
• Built-in translation – Easily modify or translate text via the theme options panel
• One-click demo content import – Demo content included to get a site similar to the demo up quickly
• One-click updates – Update via Envato API with a single click
• Setup guide – Step-by-step documentation to set up Typology and its options
• Get help from WordPress experts – Support for questions, issues or feature ideas with a typical 24-hour response

Additional capabilities and ecosystem

• Typology is compatible with Typology showcase and user actions – See how others use the theme
• Knowledge Base – Large selection of articles to browse for learning and troubleshooting
• Documentation and setup – Comprehensive setup guide and resources

Usage, compatibility and updates

• Thoughtful WordPress compatibility with ongoing updates and improvements
• Support for the latest WordPress versions and PHP versions as part of ongoing maintenance
• Regular updates to ensure compatibility with Gutenberg, Block Editor changes, and new WordPress features

Resources and support

• Knowledge Base – Useful articles for Typology users
• Setup guide – Step-by-step instructions
• WordPress experts – Access to expert help and ideas

Tags and keywords

Tags: artist, writer, education, literature, poetry, journal, wedding, author, simple, minimal, red, minimalist, minimalist blog, minimal blog, programming coding, typography, minimal, text based, typographic, typography wordpress, simple minimal, gutenberg ready, blog developer, book author, just text, minimilist, programming blog, writing theme

Change Log

• 1.7.6
  • Improved: Tested compatibility with WordPress 6.3
  • Improved: Tested compatibility with PHP8
  • Fixed: Pagination on Home Page not working properly when “Enable Cover section on first page only” option is set (Theme Options -> Home Page)
  • Fixed: Several minor styling issues
• 1.7.5
  • Fixed: Image popup option not working (Theme Options -> Misc.)
• 1.7.4
  • Improved: Tested compatibility with WordPress 6.0 (yes, it’s safe update your theme)
  • Fixed: Gallery and image popup options not working in WP 5.9+
• 1.7.3
  • Added: Single post option to pull Previous/Next posts from the same category
  • Improved: Theme Options UI and UX changes
  • Fixed: Firefox and Redux (Theme Options) save problem
  • Fixed: Several minor styling issues
• 1.7.2
  • Improved: WordPress 5.8 compatibility tweaks (yes,you can update your theme)
  • Added: noopener attribute to certain links
  • Fixed: Gutenberg editor font size problem
  • Fixed: Gutenberg gallery popup problem
  • Fixed: Several minor styling issues
• 1.7.1
  • Fixed: WP 5.7 Gutenberg editor font size problem
• 1.7
  • Improved: WordPress 5.5 Compatibility tweaks
  • Added: Support for WP-Post Views Plugin
• 1.6.3
  • Added: Blank page template (without the title, header and footer)
  • Added: Official support for WP Forms WordPress plugin
  • Added: Options to choose multiple stylings for social sharing in the plugin settings in dashboard (Settings -> Meks Easy Social Share)
  • Fixed: Changing content width on single post and Layout A not properly applied to its featured image dimensions
  • Fixed: Several minor styling issues
• 1.6.2
  • Great news! Typology theme has been awarded the “WP requirements compliance badge” by Envato/ThemeForest, which is a certificate proving that it now meets the highest quality standards in the WordPress ecosystem.
  • Improved: A slight code refactoring to meet the highest standards per Envato requirements
  • Fixed: Several minor styling issues
• 1.6.1
  • Fixed: Several minor styling issues
• 1.6
  • Mandatory changes to accommodate the latest Envato/ThemeForest requirements:
    • Theme Options panel is removed from the theme. To make it appear again, you need to install and activate Redux Framework Plugin via Appearance -> Typology plugins
    • All theme associated widgets cannot be a part of the theme anymore and are now removed. To get your widgets back, please install and activate Typology Buddy plugin in Appearance -> Typology plugins
    • Social sharing functionality cannot be a part of the theme anymore. To enable social sharing, please install and activate Meks Easy Social Share plugin in Appearance -> Typology plugins
    • Additional JS field is not allowed in Theme options anymore thus it is removed from the theme. As an alternative, you can use Insert Headers and Footers WordPress Plugin
    • Additional CSS field is not allowed in Theme options anymore and is now patched into the WordPress native field in Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS
  • Other:
    • Added: Styling support for the latest WordPress blocks (introduced in WordPress 5.2)
    • Added: Admin panel styling for WP 5.0+ editor and all blocks
    • Added: Support for Yoast SEO “primary category” feature (Theme Options -> Misc.)
    • Modified: Options to choose social networks for sharing are now located in the plugin settings in dashboard (Settings -> Meks Easy Social Share)
    • Improved: Authors page template now list only users which has written articles
  • 1.5.4
    • Added: Authors page template to list all you blog users/authors
    • Fixed: Several JS conflicts with specific plugins
    • Fixed: Several minor styling issues
  • 1.5.3
    • Added: Styling for Blocks (coming with the new WordPress editor in version 5.0)
    • Improved: Fully tested and ready for WordPress 5.0
    • Improved: Envato Market plugin is now recommended for theme updates
    • Improved: Google Fonts library is updated
    • Fixed: Google Adsense not being displayed in some cases when used inside “Between posts” ad slot
    • Fixed: Several minor styling issues
  • 1.5.2
    • Added: Initial support for the upcoming new WordPress content editor (Gutenberg)
    • Added: Support for Co Authors Plus WordPress Plugin
    • Added: Option to disable ads on specific pages, i.e. contact, 404, etc… (Theme Options -> Ads)
    • Improved: Styling for GDPR cookie consent checkbox field in comment form
    • Fixed: Minor styling issues in various browsers
  • 1.5
    • Added: Display/layout options per each post and page. Now you can override the global post/page options for each post or page separately.
    • Added: Category, tag & author template layout options. Now you can have different layouts for different archives instead of the global layout for all archives (Theme Options -> Archive Templates)
    • Added: Ads integration – now you have several ad slots to display your ads across the website (Theme Options -> Ads)
    • Added: Option to display a scroll-down arrow when cover area covers the entire screen (Theme Options -> Misc.)
    • Added: Footer widgetized area layouts/columns. Now you can choose between several predefined layouts for your footer widgets (Theme Options -> Footer)
    • Added: Letter spacing options. Now you can also fine-tune letter spacing for each font you choose (Theme Options -> Typography)
    • Fixed: Font size options rare bug on specific server configurations
    • Fixed: Minor styling issues in various browsers
  • 1.4
    • Added: Option to add second color to create gradient cover background (Theme Options -> Styling & Colors)
    • Added: Instagram Widget (by using Meks Easy Instagram widget WordPress plugin)
    • Added: Option to display post date in “some time ago format (by using “Meks Time Ago WordPress plugin)
    • Added: Option to enable/disable archive (category, tag, etc…) description in both cover and no-cover archive layouts (Theme Options -> Archive Templates)
    • Added: Option to disable cover and intro area on paginated pages of Home Page (Theme Options -> Home Page)
    • Added: Option to specify “number of words per minute” in order to fine-tune calculation of posts “reading time” (Theme Options -> Misc.)
    • Added: Option to prevent the theme’s front-end styling to apply to the admin post editor (Theme Options -> Misc.)
    • Added: If Video Background is used, an option to upload an image as a callback for mobile devices that don’t support video background (Theme Options -> Styling & Colors)
    • Fixed: Minor styling issues in various browsers
  • 1.3
    • Added: Option to auto play (auto-rotate) slider on home page (Theme Options -> Home Page)
    • Added: Options to display search and social menu in header (Theme Options -> Header)
    • Added: Options to change text paragraph width (Theme Options -> Typography)
    • Added: Option to display featured image caption for single posts (Theme Options -> Single Post)
    • Added: Styling for new default WordPress widgets (Audio, Video, Image)
    • Fixed: Minor styling issues in various browsers, responsive and RTL mode
  • 1.2
    • Added: Support for WooCommerce WordPress plugin
    • Added: Option to upload cover background video (Theme Options -> Styling & Colors)
    • Added: Option to display author image/avatar on author archive page (Theme Options -> Archive Templates)
    • Added: Option to specify custom logo URL if you want to point out logo to different location instead of your home page (Theme Options -> Branding)
    • Added: Page/post admin editor styles. Now when writing posts in the back-end you get very similar look as on the website front-end.
    • Improved: Cover behavior when it has a lot of content
    • Fixed: Missing option to translate “To Top” text (Theme Options -> Translation)
    • Fixed: Minor styling issues in various browsers, responsive and RTL mode
  • 1.1
    • Improved: Dropcaps now works for specific languages which use UTF8 characters (ex: Cyrillic fonts)
    • Fixed: Lots of minor styling issues in various browsers, responsive and RTL mode