Chronicle Documentation

Chronicle is a powerful, flexible magazine WordPress template with huge customization potential. Three widget areas, featured posts and a huge homepage slider are make this the magazine WordPress theme you’ve been waiting for.

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Getting Started

Documentation for WordPress.com is available here.

Homepage Layout

Homepage Slider The slider is controlled via a property set in the Customizer. Blog posts require Featured Images to display here. A maximum of 6 posts at a time will display in the slider.
Featured Content The 4 Featured Posts are controlled with Featured Content functionality.
Featured Categories The categories used in the third column are controlled with the Customizer. Blog posts require Featured Images to display here. Blog posts will only be shown once in the featured categories column. Some categories may not display. This will be because either there are no posts in the category, the posts in the category do not have featured images, or the posts in the category have been displayed in a different category already.

Customizer Settings

Archive Post Layout This sets how blog posts are laid out on the homepage and archive pages.
Homepage Slider Category Here you can select the category used for the Homepage Slider.
Featured Categories Here you can add and rearrange the categories displayed in the third column on the homepage.

Sidebars

Chronicle has 3 optional sidebars. They will only display if they contain widgets.

The footer sidebar is on all pages. The right-hand sidebar is on all pages except the full-width page template. The left-hand sidebar is displayed on the homepage, blog posts, and regular pages.

Custom Templates

Chronicle has 2 Custom Page Templates. These can be used as different layouts for your websites pages, or as a Custom Front Page.

Full Width - this lets you display your page content full width, with no sidebar.
Contributors - this page displays a list of all the people who have published content on your blog.

Standard Features

Site Logo - Add a logo to make your site your own.
Featured Content - Select your best content to appear in a Slider or other special area on the homepage.
Infinite Scroll - Continuously loading content to encourage your readers to stick around.
Social Menu - Display links to your social media channels.
Testimonials - Display comments from your users/ customers showing how much your product/ service benefits them.
SEO - Search Engine Optimization to improve your sites rankings.
Custom Front Page - Change the design of your front page to make it exactly as you want.
Custom Colours and Fonts - Tweak the fonts and colours on your site without touching any code.
Image Resizing (Photon) - Resizes all of your images to fit the thumbnails used.
Custom CSS - Edit the CSS on your website.
Contact Form - Add a simple contact form to your website or blog.
Featured Images - Image thumbnails for your blog posts and pages.
Localization - View your theme in your native language.
Related Content - Display content, related to the current blog post, to give your readers something to look at next.
Social Sharing Buttons - Display social buttons that encourage readers to share your content.
Custom Page Templates - Different page layouts for static WordPress pages.
Customizer - Edit site settings and get a live preview of the changes.
Widget Visibility - Show and hide widgets on different pages according to rules you set
Theme Demo Content - Demo content to help you get started with your theme.
GDPR and Theme Privacy - Keeping your users safe.

Chronicle has the following translations included:

French, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

Changelog

10.9.6 - 18th September 2021

Bug fix for theme build error.

10.9.5 - 26th July 2021

Fix error with possible undefined image in featured content.

10.9.4 - 2nd April 2021

Fix text input width.

10.9.3 - 31st January 2021

Clear html widget to prevent floated content from breaking the layout.

10.9.2 - 1st January 2021

Fix mobile menu colours.

10.9.1 - 5th October 2020

Add support for wp_body_open

10.9 - 11th March 2020

Add support for Gutenberg features.
Update RTL files.

10.8.2 - 12th February 2020

Adjust WooCommerce category header image changes to use the page header image rather than the site header image.
Hide right hand sidebar on WooCommerce pages.

10.8.1 - 6th February 2020

Fix problem with WooCommerce change.

10.8 - 5th February 2020

Add support for WooCommerce category images

10.7.8 - 9th November 2019

Fix sizing overflow issue with small devices related to infinite scroll.

10.7.7 - 4th October 2019

Change figcaption styles to differentiate them from paragraph text.
Fix the order of the homepage content on mobile devices.
Add more consistent margins for image and gallery blocks.

10.7.6 - 13th September 2019

Tweak the homepage layout so that the small left sidebar never gets hidden, even on small screens.

10.7.5 - 25th June 2019

Tweak button styles so they match input[type=submit] styles.

10.7.4 - 15th May 2019

Add font display swap to Google Font loading, to increase font display speed.
Make paragraph, list, and blockquote margins consistent in blog posts.

10.7.3 - 5th January 2019

Fix position of portfolio & page featured image.

10.7.2 - 20th November 2018

Improve typography on small screens to make it more readable (less oversized text).

10.7.1 - 18th November 2018

Improve consistency of page layout and spacings to make website feel more complete.
Fix display of featured image on single posts and pages (so that it doesn't have a right margin).
Reduce the height of the page on mobile by reducing the margin between widgets when they are stacked vertically.
Simplify browser prefixes.

10.7 - 27th June 2018

Increase size of featured image so that it can fill the entire width of the featured content space. Uses the same ratio (and size is fixed with css) so existing layouts will not change.
Add option to enable featured images on single blog posts.

10.6 - 25th May 2018

Add support for privacy policy link in the site footer.
Fix display of the cookie consent checkbox in the comments form.

10.5 - 1st April 2018

Make credits editable in the customizer (.org only).

10.4.2 - 28th January 2018

Improve css browser prefixes.

10.4.1 - 30th November 2017

Improve display of full blog posts on archive pages when using Jetpack content options.

10.4 - 1st November 2017

Add setting to allow featured content to be displayed on the homepage only/ on all pages as happens currently.

10.3.1 - 1st October 2017

Add footer credits filter to allow footer credits to be edited through custom plugin.

10.3 - 20th July 2017

Add support for Jetpack content options to allow altering of some website content.
Includes support for adding the Author Bio on single blog posts.

10.2.6 - 16th July 2017

Minor tweaks to css styles to improve readability

10.2.5 - 5th July 2017

Small css tweaks to improve design consistency

10.2.4 - 18th April 2017

Update content_width to ensure post content is sized correctly.

10.2.3 - 31st October 2016

Make attachment pages display in the loop so that content and excerpts display correctly
Tweak attachment page display to be more attractive (improve whitespace)

10.2.2 - 12th September 2016

tweak word-wrap css
fix attachment page layout
fix size of attachment image so that it better fills the space
remove css box-shadow prefixes

10.2.1 - 1st August 2016

tweak css styles for site logo and featured category column
improve site footer if there's no javascript enabled or a javascript error

10.2 - 16 July 2016

Tidy codes and more sanitization
Improve responsive styles so that column layout works properly on lower resolution devices.

10.1 - 26 May 2016

Tweak responsive styles so that they start earlier, which means they work on an ipad. This improves the menu usage on tablets.

bump version again, to avoid clashes with .org version

2.1

Improve responsive behavior of social menu

2.0.2

Add next and previous arrows to post navigation

2.0.1

Improve the slider so that it scales better on small screens
Remove wp_title() (no longer needed since Broadsheet uses add_theme_support( 'title-tag' ))

2.0

Update version number
various css improvements

1.0

Initial release

Please note: Unfortunately we are unable to offer support or help with theme customizations. For more info on Customization services please go to our Theme Customization page.