SeaShell – Modern Responsive WordPress Blog Theme

SeaShell is a professional WordPress blog theme, with a modern responsive design, awesome typography and focus on readability. It’s highly customizable so it can match your personal taste.

Seashell features list

• Custom Colors For Posts and Pages – Add a specific color to each post or page with the easy-to-use color pickers. Make your most important stories stand out.
• Smart Categories – Assign a custom color, background image and sidebar to each category. It’s a great addition to organizing your website content with WordPress categories.
• Flexible Blog Layouts – You can choose from several different blog page templates. Each blog page can display posts from one or more specific categories, so you can have a different layout and style for each category.
• Quick Post Navigation – A sticky post navigation follows you while you read, allowing you to jump to any post quickly and easily.
• Post Formats Support – Seashell supports video, audio, image, quote, gallery and link post formats. Common WordPress embedding features like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are supported as well.
• Flexible Post Meta Data – Choose whether you want to use icons for date, author, comments, categories/tags and sharing and order them the way you want to.
• Responsive Design – Your content will scale seamlessly on all of today’s modern devices including desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones
• Branding – Seashell provides options for unlimited fonts and color combinations, as well as dedicated sections to upload your logo and icons
• Social Sharing Integrated – Seashell provides full social sharing integration for your blog posts. Simply choose and reorder the social networks you wish to use.
• Custom Widgets – Alongside the standard WordPress widgets, Seashell features several custom widgets that further extend its functionality.
• Shortcodes – Add complex elements to your content easily with 12 flexible shortcodes – columns, highlights, dropcaps, buttons, pull quotes, progress bars and social icons, to name just a few.
• Unlimited Sidebars – You can create as many sidebars as you need and connect them to specific posts or pages. The footer area is also widgetized!
• Built-in Theme Translator – Easily modify or translate any text on your website through the theme options panel.
• One Click Updates – You can connect your website with the Envato official API to be notified about upcoming updates through your Admin Dashboard. Every time a Seashell update is released, you can update with a single click, just like you would for any other theme hosted on the official WordPress repository.
• Setup guide – Learn step-by-step, how to setup Seashell and all of its options, quickly and easily with our comprehensive documentation.
• One-click demo content import – Demo content is included, so you get a website similar to our demo, ready to start tweaking!

Change log

1.6

• Added: Options to filter/order authors (Authors List Template)
• Added: Option to display caption on featured images (Theme Options -> Blog -> Single Post)
• Added: Option to exclude specific languages from RTL mode (Theme Options -> General)
• Added: Option to enter Google Maps API key for contact form template (Theme Options -> Contact)
• Improved: Redux theme options framework major update
• Fixed: Translation strings on comment form fields not working properly (Theme Options -> Translation)
• Fixed: Minor styling issues

1.5.3

* Fixed: Problem with editing categories in WP 4.5

1.5.2

* Fixed: SeaShell widgets throwing notices in WordPress 4.3 if WP_DEBUG mode is enabled
* Fixed: Scrolling issue on some mobile devices

1.5.1

* Fixed: Issue with share buttons on mobiles

1.5

* Added: Support for Google structured data (updated and hcard fields)
* Added: Share buttons will now display on mobile phones as well
* Added: Option to remove all posts from home page and use static content only (Theme Options -> Home Page)
* Improved: Video widget now works on SSL websites too
* Improved: Minor CSS improvements and tweaks for reported glitches
* Fixed: Home page pagination issue on specific website configurations

1.4

* Added: Home page options - you can filter posts on home page by specific categoires and tags
* Added: Options to set explicit height of subheader area as well as top position of content inside of it
* Added: Logo option for devices with retina displays
* Added: Comments support for pages
* Added: Option to change color for meta icon hovers and button hovers
* Added: Option to remove featured image on single posts
* Added: Allowed usage of shortcodes in page subtitles
* Added: Allowed usage of shortcodes in category descriptions
* Added: Allowed usage of shortcodes in tag descriptions
* Added: Support for paginated content on pages using <!--nextpage--> tag
* Added: Option to exclude specific users from author page template
* Added: Translation strings for comments form
* Improved: Page speed - using better technique for loading CSS to improve website performance
* Improved: All widgets fully supports new customizer in WP 3.9+
* Improved: Prevented pagination issue on homepage caused by Facebook WordPress plugin
* Improved: Display comments if discussion is closed for particular post but it contains some comments already
* Changed: Removed automatic detection of post description/excerpt for social media sharing (in favor of using SEO by Yoast or similar plugin)
* Fixed: Pagination issue on search page when using more than one word in search query
* Fixed: Missing image for Pinterest share
* Fixed: Minor CSS improvements and tweaks for reported glitches

1.3

* Added: Option to change sidebar color
* Added: Support for YARPP related post plugin
* Added: Option to enable captions on galleries
* Added: Page template to list all authors
* Added: Option to enable excerpt instead of full content
* Added: Support for custom color and subheader if page is set as "posts page" 
* Added: Option to enable "#" anchor position for "read more" button
* Improved: Description field for Facebook share
* Fixed: Post titles on single post template changed to H1
* Minor CSS improvements and tweaks

1.2

* Added: Full width page template with no sidebar
* Added: Meta icons list style
* Improved: Translation options
* Improved: Main CSS file added to default style.css so it can be modified via theme editor
* Minor CSS improvements and tweaks

1.1

* NEW FEATURE: RTL support
* Page load optimization, fewer http requests
* CSS improvements
* Responsive CSS improvements
* Fixed small navigation issue on iPhone 5
* Fixed custom colors in navigation menu

1.0

* Initial release

Sources & Credits

JS

• Flexslider – http://flexslider.woothemes.com
• FitVids – http://fitvidsjs.com/
• Magnific Popup – http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/
• Skrollr – https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
• Waypoints – http://imakewebthings.com/jquery-waypoints/
• ScrollToFixed – https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed
• MatchMedia – https://github.com/paulirish/matchMedia.js/

PHP

• Redux Options Framework – http://reduxframework.com/
• Simple PHP Captcha – http://www.abeautifulsite.net/blog/2011/01/a-simple-php-captcha-script/
• TGM Plugin Activation – http://tgmpluginactivation.com/
• Pixelentity Theme Update Class – http://pixelentity.com/

ICONS

• Font Awesome – http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/

IMAGES

Images used on demo website are purchased from ShutterStock and downloaded from Unsplash and they are all credited to their respective creator/owner. These images are not included in theme package.