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Theme Description
Safarica is a smart and creative professional WordPress blog theme, created by experienced WordPress developers. A perfect choice for your personal, niche, corporate or creative blog.
Safarica is flexible and easily extendable and it provides a wide variety of features. Every custom feature is developed to be WordPress friendly, so if you are familiar with using WordPress you’ll love how easy you can set it up – no coding required!
Safarica features list
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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.
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Unique Featured Area – Display your most important content in several different ways with Safarica’s attractive featured area sliders.
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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.
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Flexible Post Display Options – For each blog page you can choose what post data you want to display. Hide tags or categories on some blog pages, while displaying full content on others.
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Video And Gallery Posts – Safarica provides support for featured YouTube and Vimeo videos as well as for image galleries. You can use it as featured media instead of the common featured image.
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Responsive Design – Your content will scale seamlessly on all of today’s modern devices including desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones
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Branding – Safarica provides options for unlimited fonts and color combinations, as well as dedicated sections to upload your logo and icons
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Social Sharing Integrated – Safarica provides full social sharing integration for your blog posts. Simply choose and reorder the social networks you wish to use.
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Custom Widgets – Alongside the standard WordPress widgets, Safarica features several custom widgets that further extend its functionality.
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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.
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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!
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Built-in Theme Translator – Easily modify or translate any text on your website through the theme options panel.
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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 Typology update is released, you can update with a single click, just like you would for any other theme hosted on the official WordPress repository.
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Setup guide – Learn step-by-step, how to setup Typology and all of its options, quickly and easily with our comprehensive documentation.
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One-click demo content import – Demo content is included, so you get a website similar to our demo, ready to start tweaking!
Change log
1.9.2
- Improved: Tested compatibility with WordPress 6.3
- Improved: Tested compatibility with PHP8
- Fixed: Several minor styling issues
1.9.1
- Improved: Tested compatibility with WordPress 6.0 (yes, it’s safe to update your theme)
1.9
- Fixed: Several minor styling issues and compatibility with Gutenberg
1.8
- Improved: WordPress 5.8 compatibility tweaks (yes,you can update your theme)
- Improved: Several onpage SEO tweaks (added noopener tag to several target=”_blank” attributes)
- Fixed: Several minor styling issues
1.7.4
- Fixed: WP 5.7 Gutenberg editor font size
- Fixed: Several minor styling issues
1.7.3
- Added: Official support for WP Forms WordPress plugin
- Fixed: Several minor styling issues
1.7.2
Great news! Safarica theme has been awarded the “WP requirements compliance badge” by Envato/ThemeForest, which is a certificate proving that it now meets the highest quality standards in the WordPress ecosystem.
- Improved: A slight code refactoring to meet the highest standards per Envato requirements
- Fixed: Several minor styling issues
1.7.1
- Fixed: Several minor styling issues
1.7
Mandatory changes to accommodate the latest Envato/ThemeForest requirements:
- Theme Options panel is removed from the theme. To make it appear again, you need to install and activate Redux Framework Plugin via Appearance -> Safarica plugins
- All theme associated widgets cannot be a part of the theme anymore and are now removed. To get your widgets back, please install and activate Safarica Buddy plugin in Appearance -> Safarica plugins
- Custom contact forms are not allowed as a part of the theme anymore. To continue using your contact form template and its options, please install and activate Safarica Buddy plugin in Appearance -> Safarica plugins
- Social sharing functionality cannot be a part of the theme anymore. To enable social sharing, please install and activate Safarica Buddy plugin in Appearance -> Safarica plugins
- Shortcodes are not allowed in themes anymore. As an alternative, please install Meks Flexible Shortcodes in Appearance -> Safarica plugins
- Additional JS and Google Analytics fields are not allowed in Theme options anymore thus they are removed from the theme. As an alternative, you can use Insert Headers and Footers WordPress Plugin
- Additional CSS field is not allowed in Theme options anymore and is now patched into the WordPress native field in Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS
- Favicon option is not allowed in Theme options anymore and is now patched into the WordPress native favicon field in Appearance -> Customize -> Site Identity
Other:
- Added: Styling support for the latest WordPress blocks (introduced in WordPress 5.2)
- Added: Admin panel styling for WP 5.0+ editor and all blocks
- Fixed: Several minor styling issues
1.6.3
- Fixed: Pages in admin edit screen not displaying metaboxes when WP 5.x used Classic Editor plugin
1.6.2
- Added: Styling for Blocks (coming with the new WordPress editor in version 5.0)
- Improved: Fully tested and ready for WordPress 5.0
- Improved: Envato Market plugin is now recommended for theme updates
- Fixed: Several minor styling issues
1.6.1
- Added: Initial support for the upcoming new WordPress content editor (Gutenberg)
- Improved: Styling for GDPR cookie consent checkbox field in comment form
1.6
* Added: Option to enter Google Maps API key for contact form template (Theme Options -> Contact)
* Improved: Redux theme options framework major update
* Fixed: Video support for https websites
* Fixed: Minor CSS fixes
* Fixed: Safarica widgets throwing notices in WordPress 4.3 if WP_DEBUG mode is enabled
1.5
* Added: RTL support (for right to left writing/reading)
* Added: Now blog page templates can be used for home page as well
* Added: Allow shortcodes inside page subtitles
* Added: Support for paginated content on pages using <!--nextpage--> tag
* Added: Option to use home page content editor for welcome box text instead of general option (handy for multilingual websites)
* Improved: Dynamic CSS from theme options now uses different logic to improve page speed
* Improved: Prevented pagination issue on homepage caused by Facebook WordPress plugin
* Fixed: Missing shortcodes button image in WP 3.9
* Fixed: Pagination issue on search page when using more than one word in search query
1.4
* Added: Built-in translation options for easy string translation or replacing
* Added: Theme Updater in theme options - One Click Updates!
* Added: Support for paginated posts using <!--nextpage--> tag
* Added: Option to remove prev/next post links on single post template
* Added: Option to hide post titles in slider
* Added: wp_title hook for better compatibility with SEO plugins
* Added: Possibility to exclude main top navigation
* Added: Soundcloud social icon
* Added: Foursquare social icon
* Improved: Exclude comments icon if post comments are closed
* Improved: Minor CSS improvements
1.3
* Added: Author Widget
* Added: Social Profiles Options for each User
* Added: Couple of SEO improvements across entire theme
* Added: Google Authorship Support
* Added: Option to select "latest + sticky posts" on home page
* Added: Option to select "latest + sticky posts" in slider
* Added: CC and BCC email options for built-in contact
* Added: Autoplay option for Safarica Posts Widget
* Added: Safarica custom widgets support for "Accessibility mode"
* Added: Add comments support on pages
* Added: Child theme included in package
* Fixed: Contact form map scrolling issue
* Fixed: User website URL not showing in comments
* Fixed: Responsive CSS improvements
* Fixed: Minor CSS fixes
* Added: Option to specify header/navigation bar height
* Added: Option to manually position your logo
* Added: Option for custom logo URL
* Added: Option to display video/gallery featured media on home/blog/archive pages
* Fixed: Flexslider Windows 8 / Chrome bug
* Fixed: Fixed header search bug
* Added: Option to pin header to top
* Fixed: Slyder type option bug
* Fixed: Tag archives title style bug
* Fixed: Wpautop filter conflict with some plugins
* Fixed: Minor CSS issues
* Initial release
1.0
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Images used on demo website are purchased from ShutterStock and they are all credited to their respective creator/owner. These images are not included in theme package.
