#86 by installs
Oceanly Green
Oceanly Green is a clean, fresh, and thoughtfully designed WordPress theme for blogging, news sites, educational platforms, and eco-focused…
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- No reviews
- Updated
- 4 days ago
Author
Author is designed for publishers who want readers. That's why Author is fast, responsive, accessibility-ready, and optimally designed for reading. All scripts and stylesheets are minified, concatenated, and conditionally loaded to maximize performance. The…
- Active installs
- 3,000+
- #855 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 299.9K
- 299,894
- Downloads, 30 days
- 1.9K
- 1.6K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.9 / 5
- 101 reviews
- Last updated
- 4 days ago
- Oct 27, 2026
- Version
- 1.58
- 67 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 27, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Needs WordPress | Not stated |
| Needs PHP | 5.6.40 or newer |
| First published | March 18, 2015 |
| Paid version | None listed |
| Support | WordPress.org forum |
Reviews
4.9 / 5 from 101 reviews
| 5 stars | 94 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 7 |
| 3 stars | 0 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 0 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Author is designed for publishers who want readers. That's why Author is fast, responsive, accessibility-ready, and optimally designed for reading. All scripts and stylesheets are minified, concatenated, and conditionally loaded to maximize performance. The layout adapts fluidly to all screen sizes to enhance usability. As one of few accessibility-ready themes, it performs well for users with wide ranges of disabilities. Based on the ancient Van de Graaf canon, Author features a layout that promotes readability. Use Author to create a simple blog, magazine, or news website. The simple and minimalist design works great for gaming, business, fashion, music, food, travel, and photography niches. Now with complete WooCommerce support for eCommerce stores and fully compatible with the new Gutenberg post editor. Preview Author now on desktop, tablets, and mobile devices with the interactive live demo: https://www.competethemes.com/demos/?theme=author
The opening of the theme's own description. The rest is on its WordPress.org page.
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