Broadsword – Responsive WordPress Theme for Blogging (Blog / Magazine)

Broadsword is a unique, beautiful, simple and responsive WordPress theme that makes sharing stories easy. This premium personal WordPress blog theme offers a minimal design with maximum appeal in a way that’s quick to set up and easy to use. With 4 unique and creative homepage layouts to choose from, Broadsword is professionally crafted to draw visitors in. The modern single-column post pages, with clean typography, keeps the focus on your content, while full width featured images, elegant CSS effects, and optional tiled image galleries help bring blog post entries to life.

Currently: Broadsword v1.5 – New Features + Customization options!
v1.5 launched on April 23 2015. We listen to all our customer’s feedback!

Whether you are a professional or hobby blogger, Broadsword helps you share your stories in a beautiful and simple way. Designed for blogs where images help tell the writer’s tales, this blog theme would work especially well for travel journals, portfolios and photography blogs, or any niche, lifestyle, food, fashion, hipster, or creative blogs.

Keeping it simple means that Broadsword is not bloated down with overwhelming choices, but instead focuses on what’s important to get you blogging sooner. Don’t underestimate Broadsword’s simplicity though – built with HTML5 and CSS3 on the Underscores (_s) and Bootstrap frameworks, it’s reliable, flexible and responsive! Backed by the Warriors of Code’s awesome customer support, Broadsword comes with everything you need to kick start your blog!

See this beautiful blog theme in action!

Theme Features:

Fully Responsive Design (Mobile, Tablet & Desktop Friendly)
Modern, Clean and Minimalist theme
Simple and easy to use
Tailored layout puts focus on content and stories
Unique home page layout options
SEO friendly!
Full-width blog theme layout (no sidebar)
Widgetized footer for customisability
WordPress customizer with live preview
HiDPI and retina ready display
Child theme ready
Beautiful typography
Inbuilt Google web fonts switcher
Translation / localization ready (Fully supported)
Custom contact form
Custom 404 page
Unique custom featured page overlay
Slide-out menu
Optional tiled image galleries
HTML5 with CSS3 effects and transitions
Built on Underscores (_s) and Bootstrap frameworks
Layered .PSD file for easy modifications
Demo data included
Extensive Documentation, clear and concise
Excellent customer support
And backed by The Warriors who are based in the North America and Australia. That means we cover all time zones across the globe!

We understand website speed is so important. So we’ve avoided bloating this WordPress theme with unnecessary plugins. Here are the ones we’ve installed.

Plugins Installed:

WP Retina 2x
WP Tiles
Responsive Lightbox
TGM

Changelog:

Version 1.5 : April 20, 2015
-Footer widget update. 
-Updated Open Graph meta tags.

Version 1.4 : April 13, 2015
-Fixed footer widget bug.

Version 1.3 : April 6, 2015
- [NEW FEATURE] Liquid Homepage Design (If the number of pages/posts is less than the width of the page, the columns widen to fill the page evenly).
- [NEW FEATURE] User can update footer text in Customizer.
- [NEW FEATURE] User can show/hide the copyright date in Customizer.
- [NEW FEATURE] User can select posts or pages for the front page in Customizer.
- [NEW FEATURE] User can show/hide the post date info on the front page columns in Customizer.

Version 1.2 : March 10, 2015
-Fixed directional arrow issue on front page. 
-Fixed php 5.2 background image bug. 
-Fixed Firefox customizer radio button issue.

Version 1.1 : March 3, 2015
- Made archive thumbnail images fullwidth on smaller mobile devices
- Added a broadsword-demo.xml import file containing the content from the online demo site

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