Lens Documentation

A photo-oriented theme, great for people who like to tell stories with pictures, equally suitable for bloggers, scrapbookers, and writers.

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Getting Started

Documentation for WordPress.com is available here.

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.
Featured Images - Image thumbnails for your blog posts and pages.
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.

Lens has the following translations included:

Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

Changelog

10.7.7 - 2nd April 2021

Fix text input width.

10.7.6 - 16th March 2021

Ensure menu is readable on mobile devices.

10.7.5 - 31st January 2021

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

10.7.4 - 21st January 2021

Fix issue with full width content on mobile devices.

10.7.3 - 2nd January 2021

Fix sub menu link colours on mobile devices.

10.7.2 - 5th October 2020

Add support for wp_body_open.

10.7.1 - 11th July 2020

Fix infinite scroll button styles.

10.7 - 18th March 2020

Add support for Gutenberg.
Improve coding standards.

10.6.1 - 24th May 2019

Improve archive display on touch devices.

10.6 - 21st May 2019

Improve behaviour of dropdown menus on touch devices.
Improve menu design on small screens.
Tweak whitespace on small screens to make the layout more consistent.

10.5 - 18th March 2019

Improve mobile layout.
Reduce browser prefixes.

10.4 - 3rd September 2018

Tweak styles to improve readability.

10.3 - 25th May 2018

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

10.2.4 - Star Wars Day 2018

Fix bug with image overlays in mobile Safari.
Improve responsive design.
Switch profile url to https.

10.2.3 - 28th January 2018

Improve css browser prefixes.

10.2.2 - 13th July 2017

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

10.2.1 - 14th March 2017

Tidy all the codes to improve coding standards and sanitize more strings for extra security.

10.2 - 7th October 2016

Lots of code tidying, standards improvements, and security enhancements.
Tweak word wrap settings in widgets
tweak spacings and padding to improve readability and layout.

10.1.5

Reduce the width of the dropdown menus slightly

10.1.4

Stop loading responsive-nav.js to remove 404 error
tidy html
set min-heights for socialmedia widgets so that they work better in masonry footer

10.1.3

Fix issue with image attachment template

10.1.2

make the post archive boxes a proportional size rather than an absolute pixel value. Means the boxes remain square

10.1.1

remove title filter that is no longer needed now we're using add_theme_support(title-tag)

10.1

add post categories to projects
tidy up some of the sidebar code
make the next and previous post links easier to click on single post pages

major version bump. This is purely so that the theme version does not clash with the free theme of the same name available on wordpress.org

1.1

change responsive menu to use a more modern style and rely less on javascript - removes responsive-navigation.js
tweaks to responsive sizes so that things look nicer on a wider variety of screen sizes

1.0.2

improve responsive styles for homepage and archive pages
improve css support for more of the default widgets found in Jetpack & on wordpress.com

1.0.1

make comments show the short_ping format again - it was changed in core so that a different layout is used by default
switch to using add_theme_support(title-tag)
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.