Paperio – Responsive and Multipurpose WordPress Blog Theme

Paperio is a visually appealing, clean and uncluttered, SEO and speed optimized multi-purpose WordPress blog theme fully customizable with WordPress customizer.

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Fully Responsive, Modern and Creative Multi-use Blog WordPress Theme for Interior and Home Decor, Food and Recipes, Art and Photography, Travel and Adventure, Fashion and Lifestyle, Corporate and Personal, News and Magazine, Technology and More.

Paperio offers sleek and modern, polished and technologically sophisticated, user friendly and easy to read attractive blog styles, featured post sliders, latest / popular post styles, header and footer styles, different sidebar styles and more to make your blog outstanding with clear content, stylish, highly visible to search engines and extra ordinary fast in page loading.

Paperio contains 7 creative and unique demos with different type of styles for different purpose blogs with selection of predefined color skin and you can use custom color also. You can review below various blog styles and I am sure you will love it. But please take a look of the demo below and decide yourself!

Start your blog with desired blog style in just one click using our very user-friendly import tool. It is designed in a way to make it self-explanatory for user to choose the blog style from the pre-defined list and developed in a way that it will show you the progress and will import selected demo data in no time. We have created separate demo contents as per blog styles instead of data of all demos in one to avoid bulky setup. But still you will be able to achieve layout / option as per other style also without any hassle using our WordPress live customizer settings.

Paperio customization feature is purely built with WordPress default live customizer instead of using any plugin or framework. You can customize the theme using more than 400 options developed, so it is really quick and easy to setup your website in visual way with real-time changes within powerful, simple and consistent interface of customizer panel to customize various aspects of the overall theme and hence your website.

Paperio offers charming, visually stunning and engaging blog list layouts for homepage featured area and for other pages with grid, list and masonry options. All the different post types like standard, image, gallery, video, audio and quote are well integrated and highly flexible to achieve your desired listing style with all the possible ready options to make it more suitable as per your blog type like fashion, photography, adventure, food, business and others.

Paperio includes 6 different and unique header styles to make your header attractive and eye-catching with bigger logo, megamenu navigation, search area and social icons. Footer styles are minimal and clean with ready Twitter and Instagram feed, latest posts, tags, Mailchimp newsletter subscription custom widget with possibilities to assign desired sidebar and other widgets if needed.

There are 5 beautiful and highlighting slider styles are implemented to make your homepage featured area outstanding with your desired category articles featured there. Thereafter latest/popular block also contains 2 different variations to list your posts in grid or slider format and that is really a great addition to your homepage.

Social sharing, social following and social feeds are the must to have feature now a days to have social interaction and make your followers aware about your website and the content. Paperio have considered this fact and implemented sharing for all major social platforms, providing nice social profile icons as well as custom widgets for Twitter and Instagram feed.

Paperio provides freedom to setup blog for any type of content and different domains because of various post types like standard, image, slider, lightbox gallery, quote, video and audio. This will really help bloggers to have every kind of posts with nice and beautiful formatting.

The main purpose of the blog sites is to achieve readers and make them aware about the various things as per the nature of blog. So SEO is the heart to have your content readable by search engines using on-page SEO techniques and Paperio is already built considering this to make it SEO enhanced implemented from the codebase to climb the search engine rankings and increase your traffic to maximize the ad revenue. Once user reach to your website then it will get him engaged with superfast loading pages with beautiful layout and quality content. We have implemented coding standards in every module considering speed optimization and the most useful option implemented is SRCSET, which will help to serve different size of images as per the width and pixel ratio of the device instead of showing original image and still maintain the image quality.

Core Features

• Minimal, simple but still creative and highly flexible blog WordPress theme.
• 7 ready demo styles for different purpose blogs like interior & home decor, restaurant, food & recipe, art, portfolio and photography, travel & adventure, fashion & lifestyle, business & technology and news & magazine.
• Highly responsive and retina ready theme to make it look beautiful in all devices including desktop, tablet and mobile.
• Multi-lingual ready using WPML plugin.
• Translation ready using the POT language file to localize the theme.
• 990+ free Google fonts integrated to manage main and alternate font family as well as font sizes.
• Unlimited ready color skins as well as all other elements major color change possibilities.
• Pagination styles with prev / next, numbers and indefinite scrolling with AJAX loading.
• 8 custom widgets like Twitter and Instagram feed, follow us, popular posts and many more.
• In-built Megamenu with sub menus and banner images as well as direct posts in the menu.
• Stylish hover effects on images, buttons and links.
• Contact Form 7 ready and compatible.
• Mailchimp newsletter subscription ready and integrated.
• 7 unique and extra-ordinary homepage blog listing styles.
• WordPress in-built customizer with 400+ options to achieve maximum theme customization possibilities.
• Codebase is purely done with WordPress standard practices, well structured, commented and optimized for page speed as well as easier to further customize by a WordPress developer.
• Sticky and non-sticky header options.
• Homepage featured area with 5 neatly structured and modern slider styles to highlight posts.
• Latest/Popular post block with 2 clean and polished grid / slider style.
• Various layouts like no sidebar, right sidebar, left sidebar and both sidebar.
• Masonry, grid and list styles with adjustable columns.
• Stylish breadcrumb navigation.
• Image meta data settings to switch on / off alt and title as well as on / off title and caption in lightbox gallery.
• All post types integrated well like standard, image, gallery, slider, quote, audio and video.
• Promotional block shortcode to showcase promotions.
• Hide / show most elements and further customization options in WordPress customizer.
• Social media icons in header and footer.
• Social media sharing for post pages.
• 5 attractive and user-friendly header styles with logo, social icons, navigation menu and search field.
• 2 well organized footer styles with custom sidebar insertion and social icons, copyright, instagram feed, twitter feed, newsletter box, latest posts, about and tags.
• Child theme included for advanced theme customizations.
• A mostly used and required feature of one click demo import to import your desired demo with only one click.
• Sidebar setting is available for overall website as well as it can be setup at page and post level also.
• Post excerpt length setting.
• Exclude posts which are available in featured slider and popular block in homepage to avoid post duplication.
• All in one SEO and Yoast SEO compatible.
• W3 Total cache plugin ready.
• Visual Composer drag & drop editor compatibility.
• Mailchimp for WordPress compatibility and design ready newsletter blocks.
• Built with Bootstrap, HTML5 and CSS3.
• Text based Font Awesome icons.
• Built in you may also like posts from the same category.
• Coming soon and maintenance mode feature.
• 404 page not found.
• Header background and body background image supported.
• Overall theme is well tested in all devices (desktop, tablet and mobile) as well as various browsers (IE 10+, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera also) to make sure it works and looks better everywhere.
• Detailed documentation and video tutorials to make it easier to explain theme features and options to have your site layout ready in few minutes.
• Quick and responsive 5 star support from highly experienced team of our experts.

Credits / Notes

• Unsplash
• Mazwai
• Images used in the demo are for display purpose only, they are not included in the package.

Changelog

ver. 2.6 (18.07.2024)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    - Added compatibility for WordPress 6.6, the most recent version
    - Updated the Font Awesome library to version v6.5.2
    - Upgraded language POT files.
    - Updated Google fonts JSON file with latest fonts
    - Added some missing fonts files from the theme
    - Fixed some PHP notice errors

ver. 2.5 (20.03.2024)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    - Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 6.4.3
    - Added Font Awesome latest version 6.5.1 library and icons
    - Upgraded language POT files.
    - Added latest google fonts list.

ver. 2.4 (09.11.2023)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    - Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 6.4.1
    - Upgraded language POT files
    - Added latest google fonts list
    - Fixed some minor JS and CSS issues

ver. 2.3 (19.08.2023)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    - Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 6.3
    - Added Font Awesome latest version 6.4.2 library and icons
    - Upgraded language POT files
    - Added latest Google fonts list
    - Fixed some minor JS and CSS issues

ver. 2.2 (28.06.2023)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    - Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 6.2.2
    - Added Font Awesome latest version 6.4.0 library and icons
    - Fixed Post metabox options are not showing according post format.
    - Upgraded language POT files
    - Added latest Google fonts list
    - Fixed some minor JS and CSS issues

ver. 2.1 (04.01.2023)
    - Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 6.1.1
    - Added Font Awesome latest version 6.2.1 library and icons
    - Added theme compatibility for PHP 8.1
    - Upgraded language POT files
    - Added latest Google fonts list
    - Fixed soft deprecated WordPress PHP function
    - Fixed some minor JS and CSS issues

ver. 2.0 (10.08.2022)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    - Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 6.0.1
    - Added Font Awesome latest version 6.1.2 library and icons
    - Upgraded language POT files
    - Added Telegram, Ok, Viber, WhatsApp and Skype social service into Appearance > Customize > Post Social Share Settings
    - Removed google plus, delicious and tumblr social service from Appearance > Customize > Post Social Share Settings
    - Fixed the newsletter was missed from the sidebar and footer
    - Fixed soft deprecated WordPress PHP function
    - Fixed PHP notice was thrown by theme and addons
    - Fixed some minor JS and CSS issues

ver. 1.12 (21.07.2021)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    - Added: compatibility for latest WordPress version of 5.8

ver. 1.11 (07.06.2021)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    - Added: compatibility for latest WordPress version of 5.7.2
    - Added: Added Font Awesome latest version 5.15.3 library and icons

ver. 1.10.2 (26.12.2020)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    - Added: compatibility for latest WordPress version of 5.6.0
    - Added: Added none option for customize Text Transform
    - Changed: Changed latest Google fonts list
    - Fixed some minor css and jQuery issues

ver. 1.10.1 (18.09.2020)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    Changed: Changed number pagination length
    Fixed some minor css and jQuery issues

ver. 1.10 (16.09.2020)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    Added: compatibility for latest WordPress version of 5.5.1 except Gutenberg
    Changed: Changed under construction logic
    Changed: Changed latest Google fonts list
    Fixed: Fixed some minor CSS issues

ver. 1.9 (10.08.2020)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    Added: Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 5.5 except Gutenberg
    Added: Added Font Awesome latest version 5.14.0 library and icons
    Changed Instagram graph api as Instagram legacy API was shutdown. Read this article: https://paperio.themezaa.com/documentation/how-to-find-your-instagram-access-token/ to generate your Instagram access token as per their new API requirements.
    Changed: Changed preview site url and added https

ver. 1.8 (13.06.2020)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
    Added: Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 5.4.2
    Added: Added Font Awesome latest version 5.13.0 library and icons
    Added: Added option to hide breadcrumb post Title
    Added: Added option to disable feature image for standard post format
    Fixed: Fixed long sub-menu overlap issue
    Fixed: Fixed some other minor css issues

ver. 1.7 (07.08.2019)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
  - Added: Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 5.2.2
  - Added: Added Font Awesome latest version 5.10.1 library and icons
  - Added: Added option to hide Sticky Post in Blog page
  - Added: Added aria-label and screen reader text for button as suggested by WAVE Web Accessibility Tool.
  - Fixed: Fixed panel navigation issue in Customize panel
  - Fixed: Fixed some other minor css issues

ver. 1.6 (20.03.2019)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove that plugin and then install it again to have latest plugin version.
  - Added: Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 5.1.1
  - Added: Added first stage of Gutenberg compatibility
  - Added: Added Font Awesome latest version 5.7.2 library and icons
  - Added: Added default Customize panel elements
  - Added: Added option in add/edit page/post to hide page title
  - Added: Added option in add/edit page/post to add title wrapper image
  - Added: Added option to hide blog list in Blog page
  - Added: Added option to hide post title from breadcrumb
  - Added: Added option to set follow/no follow in button shortcode
  - Fixed: Fixed Featured Area Style 3 arrow link issue
  - Fixed: Fixed default ul li style in sidebar widget
  - Fixed: Fixed about us widget link issue
  - Fixed: Fixed some other minor css issues

ver. 1.5 (06.06.2018)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove this plugin and then again install Paperio Addons plugin to have latest plugin version.
  - Added: Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 4.9.6
  - Added: Added Font Awesome latest version 5.0.13 library and icons
  - Added: Added css styles for all form elements for contact form 7 forms
  - Added: Added an option in customize panel to disable Google fonts completely
  - Added: Added an option to change button color, BG color, border color, hover color, hover BG color, hover border color in all listing blocks
  - Added: Added an option to show post full title in listing
  - Added: Added an option to hide/show title wrapper in page, post, category and archive pages
  - Added: Added an option to replace search form and social icon in header with new sidebar elements
  - Added: Added an option to hide/show arrow in button
  - Added: Added an option to make header and menu fluid / full width
  - Added: Added an option to change scroll to top button position and colours in customize panel
  - Added: Added an option to add new custom sidebar area in customize panel
  - Added: GDPR related changes in comment form
  - Added: Added Privacy Policy page link in footer
  - Fixed: Fixed Under Construction mode conflict with contact form 7 latest version
  - Fixed: Fixed Under Construction error when theme is inactive

ver. 1.4 (12.04.2018)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove this plugin and then again install Paperio Addons plugin to have latest plugin version.
  - Added: Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 4.9.5
  - Added: Added Full title display option in related posts block
  - Added: Added line height and letter spacing options in typography
  - Added: Added easy admin navigation for customizer settings from top admin bar
  - Added: Added Envato hosted environment check
  - Changed: Updated OWL to OWL 2.0 and added animation and loop options
  - Fixed: Fixed content color option for page link color and hover color
  - Fixed: Fixed demo data for Mailchimp form

ver. 1.3 (22.12.2017)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove this plugin and then again install Paperio Addons plugin to have latest plugin version.
  - Added: Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 4.9.1
  - Added: Added a new option to upload logo for scrolled header version
  - Added: Added compatibility for NextGEN gallery plugin
  - Added: Added H1 in page, post and category title by default
  - Added: Added option to switch on / off H1 in logo of front page
  - Added: Added option of number of columns to setup in Adelta - Blog Layout 4
  - Added: Made the category and tag page descriptions visible in front website
  - Added: Added options to set sub menu font size, line height and letter spacing
  - Changed: Changed popular posts images to height - auto instead of fixed height
  - Fixed: Fixed issue of menu text and hover color in header style 2 and 4
  - Fixed: Fixed issue of posts not visible in search which where excluded from home page standard list
  - Fixed: Fixed issue of not having default header image dimensions
  - Fixed: Fixed issue of contact form not working when under maintenance mode is switched ON

ver. 1.2 (10.06.2017)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove this plugin and then again install Paperio Addons plugin to have latest plugin version.
  - Added: Added compatibility for latest WordPress version of 4.8
  - Added: Added option of number of columns to adjust in grid type of post listing in home page
  - Added: Added option of number of columns to adjust in gallery post type
  - Added: Added required css for WP default gallery columns
  - Added: Added options for mobile menu toggle icon and menu background color
  - Fixed: Fixed issue of submenu color change
  - Fixed: Fixed issue of styling layout of blog style 1 in home page when there is no sidebar

ver. 1.1 (15.02.2017)
NOTE: We have updated Paperio Addons plugin in this theme upgrade. So please deactivate and remove this plugin and then again install Paperio Addons plugin to have latest plugin version.
  - Fixed: Google font issue
  - Fixed: Old PHP version notice

ver. 1.0 (09.02.2017)
  - initial release

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