0.4.0
Four sample sites now ship inside the theme. Their six pages are patterns in a new group, Full Pages. You can start an author site, a book review blog, a bookshop, or a literary magazine from the inserter instead of from a blank page.
Install
Download osmium-0.4.0.zip below, then go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme. Upgrading from 0.3.x is a straight replace: upload the zip and confirm the replace when WordPress asks.
New in this release
Full Pages, a new pattern group. It has six complete pages, the same ones that run the sample sites on the demo:
- Author site: home. The new book, praise, the backlist, an about section, events, and a newsletter signup.
- Author site: book page. The details in a table, the opening page, praise, and notes for reading groups.
- Book review blog: home. Your latest reviews, a best-of list, genres to browse, and how the ratings work.
- Bookshop: home. Staff picks, a book club on three plans, events, and opening hours.
- Bookshop: staff picks. Recommendations grouped by bookseller.
- Literary magazine: home. The current issue, past issues, a submissions call, the masthead, and subscriptions.
They’re offered when you create a new page. Your site’s header and footer wrap them, the post lists pull in your own posts, and every word is translatable.
Covers that ship with the theme. Ten book covers, three magazine covers, and two bookshop shelf images, 210 KB in all as WebP. The books, people, and publishers on them are made up, ready for you to swap in your own.
The Theme URI points to the theme’s page. It now goes to https://gauravtiwari.org/product/osmium/ instead of the GitHub repository.
The theme now ships
| | | |—|—| | Templates | 22 | | Template parts | 11 | | Patterns | 128, in eleven groups | | Designs | 6, plus 5 palettes and 4 type presets | | Pattern images | 27, all generated for Osmium | | Theme JavaScript | none |
Checked, not assumed
All 637 blocks in the new patterns validate in the WordPress 7.1 block editor, and PHPCS is clean. axe-core reports zero WCAG 2.2 AA violations on each new pattern at desktop and mobile, and every image loads. The zip was installed over 0.3.0 on a clean site, and every pattern registered.
Known limits
- The post lists on the review blog and magazine pages show your latest posts from every category. To narrow one, set a category in its Query Loop settings.
- Links in the new pages point to
#, and the email links use made-up.exampleaddresses. Change both after you insert a page. - Each full page opens with its own main heading. Use the “Page, no title” template for these pages, so the page title isn’t printed twice.