Fotomag – A Silky Minimalist Blogging Magazine WordPress Theme For Visual Storytelling

Compatible with WordPress 6.0 and PHP 8

Fotomag is a minimalist WordPress magazine for visual sites about travel, recipes, personal and everything in between.

Fotomag is a silky-smooth and minimalist photography blog magazine for WordPress. Fotomag is anti-bloatware and only follows WordPress and general best coding standards to ensure Fotomag will probably be the easiest blogging WordPress theme you will ever set up and enjoy – all the options are completely controlled via WordPress’ customizer.

Fotomag was designed to focus completely on your beautiful imagery, with no unnecessary gimmicky distractions, so real visitors will feel extra engaged with your imagery and story telling. In essence, Fotomag is ideal for any modern website that wants to focus on story telling with beautiful imagery. From travel journals to recipe sites to company blogs. And everything in between.

New version of Fotomag is out now! Scroll down to see full changelog of new goodies

General Features

• Custom CSS box to easily enter any specific visual customizations
• Custom JavaScript input to easily enter any custom JavaScript code
• Responsive design that looks great on screens of all shapes, orientations and sizes.
• Retina Ready (HD) WordPress photography magazine theme
• Comes with .mo/.po files for quick and easy translation. Some languages have already been translated.
• Integrated lightbox (can be turned on/off in the customizer)
• Touch-friendly slider and user experience
• Author pages can add social network icons that link to author profile links
• Logo options, including Retina logo option
• Set top and bottom padding for header (logo area)
• Almost everything can be turned on/off from the customizer

Pages Features

• Post Format: Gallery. Beautiful full-screen gallery that is super touch friendly and portrait-image friendly too. You can see the demo of it here: Gallery Post Demo
• Post Format: Video (Able to embed YouTube / Vimeo / Kickstarter / Viddler videos). They will appear in a minimalist lightbox at the press of the play button (YouTube starts playing automatically when the play button is pressed, and paused if the X button or background is pressed)
• Post Format: Audio(Able to embed any audio embed). They will appear in a minimalist lightbox at the press of the play button.
• Show Category Above Title (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Down Arrow On Image (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Like System (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Progress Bar (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Author Box (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Publish Date (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Tags (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Sharing Block (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Next + Previous Posts (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Comments (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Related Posts(Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Placeholder Image option to set a default image to show for posts without featured image.

Pages Features

• Progress Bar (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Sharing Block (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)
• Comments (Can be turned on/off in Customizer)

Right Sticky navigation menu

• Set any background image or color for the slide in navigation menu
• Set an opacity value for background image to make it more/less visible
• Set the menu items font color to work with your chosen background image/color
• Add social media icons to bottom of slide in menu

Left Sticky navigation menu

• Add social media icons to appear on the left menu
• Show search icon + search lightbox modal (Can be turned on/off)
• Show subscribe + subscribe lightbox modal (Can be turned on/off) and recommended service is MailChimp
• Set text for subscribe button in left naviation menu
• Set text for subscribe lightbox modal title
• Set text for subscribe lightbox modal sub title
• Set any background image or color for subscribe lightbox modal/li>
• Set an opacity value for background image to make it more/less visible in the subscribe lightbox modal
• Set the subscribe lightbox modal font color to work with your chosen background image/color

Typography

• Set font family for titles (Select any Google font using a select option with all of them in the customizer)
• Set font family for body (Select any Google font using a select option with all of them in the customizer)
• Set font family special character extensions (None/One/Multiple can be ticked in the customizer)
• Set line height for desktops and mobiles (All easily controlled in the customizer)
• Set font size for desktops and mobiles (All easily controlled in the customizer)
• Set desired font color for article text (Easily controlled with colorpicker option in the customizer)
• Set desired font color for headings (Easily controlled with colorpicker option in the customizer)
• Set desired font color for blockquotes (Easily controlled with colorpicker option in the customizer)
• Set desired font color for links and links hover action (Easily controlled with colorpicker option in the customizer)
• Set desired font color for widget links and widget links hover action (Easily controlled with colorpicker option in the customizer)

Footer

• Footer widget area to insert widgets in the footer
• Logo options, including Retina logo option
• Text area to insert text under the Footer logo area
• Text area to insert copyright line text in the footer
• Lots of social icons options for the footer area
• Footer menu available in Appearance -> Menus. It appears above the copyright line

Extra options

• Integrated lightbox (can be turned on/off in the customizer)
• Minified Javascript Option (can be turned on/off in the customizer)
• Load YouTube API option for automatic play of video post formats (can be turned on/off in the customizer)
• Pagination style option: Number pagination or infinite scroll with load more button

A dream: Super clean code and child-theme ready

Fotomag was written following all modern WordPress coding standards, with regards to security, prefix best practises and file structure. The theme uses clean PHP, HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript code. The theme also comes with a ready-to-use child theme file that works instantly.

For all theme customizations (i.e. add or change the theme?s code to make it do something it doesn?t do or add specific functionality) you will need to hire a developer to help you out. It is recommended to look for one on http://studio.envato.com as that site is run by the same people who run Themeforest.

Suggestions for future updates?

If you have a suggestion that you think would improve the theme, please leave a comment with the details and it will be considered.

Credits

• Images used are from Unsplash, Scatter Jar, Hillary Boles under cc2 with some minor alterations (cropped/changed proportions).

Update Changelog

Version 2.0.8 – 6th June 2021

• Improved: Styling details

Version 2.0.7 – 5th June 2021

• Improved: Theme Options > Custom Code > Custom JavaScript: Option has been removed. If you have added custom JS, you need to move it to the child theme’s functions.php file
• Fix: Transparent Header in Posts logo wasn’t appearing
• Updated Documentation
• Updated Plugin: Fotomag Engine 1.0.1

Version 2.0.6 – 1st May 2021

• New: WordPress 5.7 compatibility
• New: Vimeo social icon to theme options

Version 2.0.5 – 9th December 2020

• New: WordPress 5.6 compatibility
• New: RSS Social Icon

Version 2.0.4 – 6th April 2020

• Fix: Sharing block on pages still visible even after disabling it
• Fix: Previous/Next block on posts still visible even after disabling it
• Fix: Transparent Header Not Working On Posts

Version 2.0.0 – 5th June 2019

• New: Fully Gutenberg Compatible
• New: Sponsored Post feature
• New: Each post can have a different featured image style “100% height/50% height/don’t show image”
• New: Parallax on/off option for each post featured image
• Improved: Updated all code to latest WordPress coding standards
• Improved: Lightbox design and functionality
• Improved: Improved speed of ajax auto next load post
• Improved: Improved performance Post Formats Audio/Video/Gallery
• Improved: Improved speed of Live Ajax Search
• Improved: Added lots of new social network options (including LinkedIn, Dribbble, VK and more)
• Improved: Retina Images: Performance and loading speed
• Improved: Removed Stumbleupon functionality as network has been officially shut down
• Improved: Removed Google+ functionality as network has been officially shut down
• Improved: Replaced several dependencies (Plugins/Third Party scripts/etc) with better native implementations
• Fixed: Slide-in Menu multilevels fixed
• Fixed: Loads of other general quirks

24 October 2016 – Fotomag v1.4.6

• BUGFIX: Videos weren’t appearing correctly in infinite loaded posts.

13 September 2016 – Fotomag v1.4.4

UPDATED: French translation files, as it was missing some strings

13 September 2016 – Fotomag v1.4.3

UPDATED: Translation files to include new strings (x min read, etc)
BUGFIX: New YouTube icons in left/right navigations was using wrong base url

06 September 2016 – Fotomag v1.4.1

ADDED: Option to turn like system on/off in pages (found in Appearance -> Customize -> Pages options)
BUGFIX: Pages showing double secondary title
BUGFIX: If transparent logo enabled, it wasn't loading on pages as expected
BUGFIX: Pages featured image extra spacing underneath
BUGFIX: Typo in child theme

02 September 2016 – Fotomag v1.4

ADDED: Infinite scroll pagination option
ADDED: New option in Customize -> Posts: Show Reading Time. This option is to show how long an article takes to read on average.
ADDED: Youtube icon option for slide-in menu and left menu
ADDED: Option to make like system appear "on featured image/end of post/both" 
UPDATED: Font icons, including new Instagram logo (+ 30 new icons)
IMPROVED: If using infinite scroll/infinite load more button on your homepage/category/etc the browser URL now updates depending how much you scroll on the page
IMPROVED: Infinite post load animation
IMPROVED: Infinite scroll loaded blog posts animation
IMPROVED: Subtitles now load in infinite loaded posts
IMPROVED: Like system now appears and works on infinite loaded posts
IMPROVED: Theme now only makes Vimeo/Youtube embeds automatically responsive (to avoid incompatibility with special iframe embeds)
IMPROVED: Overall performance
IMPROVED: Subtle typography improvements across screens

13 July 2016 – Fotomag v1.3

ADDED: New option in Customize -> Extras: Use caption as credit line (Featured images inside posts that have captions set can now show these captions output them on image, useful is you need to set a credit line)
ADDED: Google+ icon in all major locations (customizer options)
IMPROVED: Post auto load changes URL in browser accurately (up and down)
IMPROVED: Post auto load icon visual for better user experience
IMPROVED: Footer social icons open in a new window
BUGFIX: Woocommerce product gallery images now only load in WooCommerce lightbox
BUGFIX: When using child-theme, the customizer images weren't loading properly
BUGFIX: Subscribe Close button wasn't working in Safari on Macs

21 March 2016 – Fotomag v1.2.1

IMPROVED: Infinite autoload post feature now changes browser URL
IMPROVED: Infinite autoload post feature now sends Google Analytics a pageview with the loaded post url for accurate tracking of page views
BUGFIX: Fixed side bars where not appearing during infinite post auto load posts

20 March 2016 – Fotomag v1.2

ADDED: Autoload another post when scrolling near the end of a post
ADDED: RTL support
ADDED: Header variation with logo left + menu right (you can insert font awesome icons as menu items for social icons)
ADDED: Set Header transparent option for posts
ADDED: Optional logo light version option for posts to show when transparent header is enabled
ADDED: Option to show/remove "Category:" and "Tag:" words from category/tag pages
BUGFIX: Google Fonts weren't loading subsets properly

06 March 2016 – Fotomag v1.1

IMPROVED: When Search icon clicked, the search input is focused automatically to start writing
ADDED: Post layout options for category/tags/search/author/home
ADDED: Option to show percentage value next to progress bar as you scroll down
ADDED: Demo dummy content file
ADDED: Child-theme files ready to use
BUGFIX: Video/Audio posts embed weren't executing shortcodes