Romero Documentation

Let your content do the talking with this powerful theme suited to visual niches including video game sites, motoring magazines and other topics with vibrant imagery.

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Getting Started

Documentation for WordPress.com is available here.

Homepage Layout

Featured Content The large headline image, and up to 6 smaller posts on a white background are all controlled with Featured Content functionality. The most recent of the featured posts will be the large featured image. To look their best you should make sure all featured posts have a Featured Images.
Sidebar Widgets The left sidebar is controlled with Sidebar widgets. If the sidebar has no widgets then the blog posts will expand to fill the available space.

Sidebars

Romero has 5 optional sidebars. They will only display if they contain widgets.

Sidebar Widgets - this displays on the left hand side of the homepage, and the right hand side of blog posts and pages.
Footer Widgets - this displays in the footer and uses javascript to intelligently position the widgets to make sure they slot together nicely.
Menu Widgets 1, 2, and 3 - these display in columns in a block underneath the menu that appears from the arrow to the right of the navigation.

Custom Templates

Romero 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.
Custom Colours and Fonts - Tweak the fonts and colours on your site without touching any code.
WooCommerce - Sell things on your site with WooCommerce.
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.

Romero has the following translations included:

Albanian, Azerbaijani, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Changelog

1.9.12 - 2nd April 2021

Fix text input width.

1.9.11 - 31st January 2021

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

1.9.10 - 1st January 2021

Fix jQuery error since jquery migrate has been removed.
Fix sub menu link colours on mobile devices.

1.9.9 - 27th October 2020

Add 'navigation-widgets' to supported html5 types.

1.9.8 - 13th October 2020

Fix logo being hidden on mobile devices.
Tweaks to avatar styles in post contributor box.

1.9.7 - 5th October 2020

Add support for wp_body_open.

1.9.6 - 3rd October 2020

Fix problem with mobile menu with dropdowns.

1.9.5 - 29th July 2020

Make logo class generic (for 5.5 update).

1.9.4 - 9th July 2020

Remove use of deprecated Jetpack function is_ipad.

1.9.3 - 29th May 2020

Add support for custom credits.
Add support for new editor styles.

1.9.2 - 6th April 2020

Fix bug with homepage layout.

1.9.1 - 4th April 2020

Improve button styles.
Improve spacing in comment form.

1.9 - 22nd March 2020

Update Gutenberg styles.
Standardize 404 page layout. Now it matches the 'no search results' layout.

1.8.3 - 9th August 2019

Add an additional footer widgets sidebar for the homepage and archives. To prevent existing sites from being changed this is a new sidebar that can be configured independently.
Add a new filter that allows the featured images from attachments to be disabled with a one line plugin add_filter( 'romero_use_image_attachments', '__return_false' );

1.8.2 - 10th July 2019

Increase max width of titles on large featured content box.

1.8.1 - 18th June 2019

Fix button styles in forms. input elements looked good but button elements were not styled. They are now!

1.8 - 12th March 2019

Add the excerpt to the featured post. It's hidden by default, but this allows it to be displayed with custom css.

1.7.2 - 6th October 2018

Make featured header image larger to account for larger screens. The proportions are consistent so existing sites won't change design.

1.7.1 - 12th August 2018

Some minor style tweaks to improve support for WordAds.

1.7 - 25th May 2018

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

1.6 - 31st October 2017

WooCommerce for all (.com and .org).
Disable infinite-scroll on WooCommerce archive pages.

1.5.2 - 13th July 2017

Remove include for inc/wpcom.php, since it's automatically included by WordPress.com sites

1.5.1 - 3rd July 2017

Fix PHP errors due to WooCommerce integration.

1.5 - 18th June 2017

Add support for WooCommerce

1.4.3 - 10th June 2017

Improve compatibility with new media widgets in WP 4.8

1.4.2 - 24th May 2017

Make WordPress custom logo work, replacing Jetpack site logo (self hosted only)
Improve coding standards and text escaping

1.4.1 - 11th April 2017

Fix small issue with display of Jetpack ratings on homepage and archives.

1.4 - 26th March 2017

Setup Jetpack content options to allow showing and hiding of different elements in the theme. The settings can be found in the Customizer. Requires Jetpack to be installed.
Tidy the codes

1.3.6 - 3rd March 2017

Fix issue with drop down menu arrow custom colours on wordpress.com
Improve iframe widget display (such as social widgets) in narrow sidebars
Improve colour contrast in some instances to increase readability

1.3.5 - 18th November 2016

Improve Responsive styles in header

1.3.4 - 24th September 2016

Fix incorrect text domain
Tweak word-wrap so that it's a bit less aggressive
Tidy the codes
Add support for pages and portfolios to featured content

1.3.3 - 14th May 2016

Add some additional class names, and extra divs, to header content so that the divs can be more easily targeted with custom css.

1.3.2

Fix small issue with image attachment page

1.3.1

Add social link icons usable in menus with the addition of the icon class

1.3

Make featured images on pages work in the same way as featured images on blog posts

1.2.5

improve coding standards
Add an .intro class that allows text to be increased in size in blog posts

1.2.4

Correct invalid html in widget toggle
misc css tweaks and improvements

1.2.3

fix site logo so that logo and title & description can be hidden independently
fix image alignments and tweak a few other small css bits

1.2.2

fix issue with the site title not hiding properly when property changed in customizer
update widget styles

1.2.1

fix icon font positions for Internet Explorer

1.2

improve comments html and styles

1.1.4

various css improvements including responsive comments layout, and default widgets styles

1.1.3

make the logo width variable

1.1.2

make bold fonts stand out even more! :)

1.1.1

fix issue with bold styles not displaying on blog posts
fix issue with font loading for Open Sans font weights

1.1

give the menu a little more space if there's no widgets to display in the dropdown menu
fix issue with mobile menu

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.