ChapterOne - Bookstore and Publisher Theme

Start the first chapter of your successful online career with ChapterOne, a theme we built for all modern bookstore, eBook selling and book publisher websites. ChapterOne provides you with all a bookstore or a book publisher can ever need, and puts all the creative power right in your hands. Pen and publish your masterpiece today!

Here’s a link if you wish to view the ChapterOne documentation.

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ChapterOne Features

• Highly Customizable
• Extensive Admin Interface
• Simple One-Click Import of Demo Content
• No coding knowledge required
• Big custom shortcode collection
• Responsive & Retina Ready
• 6 homepage examples
• Large collection of useful inner pages
• Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin ($26 value)
• WPBakery Page Builder for WordPress Plugin ($64 value)
• Events List shortcode
• Product List shortcode
• Product List – Carousel shortcode
• Product Info shortcode
• Distinct Product Variations layouts
• Top Reviews Carousel shortcode
• Pricing table shortcode
• Instagram List shortcode
• Twitter List shortcode
• Team Carousel shortcode
• Team shortcode
• Testimonials shortcode
• Social Share shortcode
• Image Marquee shortcode
• Parallax sections
• Mega Menu
• Customizable Google Maps
• Smooth Page Transitions
• Side Area
• Twitter and Instagram social widgets
• Dropdown Shop Cart widget
• Social Icons Group widget
• Blog List widget
• Animation Holder shortcode
• Clients Carousel shortcode
• Clients Grid shortcode
• Video Button shortcode
• Anchor link functionality for one page sites
• Video Background Sections
• Background images in sections
• Minimal Header Type
• Vertical Header Type
• Standard Header Type
• Divided Header Type
• Centered Header Type
• Multiple header behaviors
• Separate logo variants for dark and light header skin
• Separate logo for mobile header
• Header Top area
• Highly customizable title area
• Style mobile header separately
• Mikado Search functionality
• Custom Sidebars
• Customizable Footer Layout – up to 4 columns
• Separate Footer Bottom area
• Choose your grid size
• Powerful typography options
• 800+ Google Fonts
• Multiple Blog List Layouts
• Blog Standard Layout
• Blog Masonry Layout
• Blog List shortcode
• Blog Slider shortcode
• Custom Post Formats for Standard, Gallery, Link, Quote, Video, and Audio blog posts
• Optional social share functionality
• Smooth Scroll
• Boxed layout option
• Back to Top button functionality
• Child Theme Included
• Translation ready
• WooCommerce compatible
• WPML Plugin compatible

We do not own the copyright for the images featured in this theme. The images in question are only used for presentational purposes on our demos. These images cannot be used on your website, unless you purchase the license from a stock image website yourself.

Change Log

Version 1.8 – March 24th, 2026

- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.51
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 8.7.2
- Updated ChapterOne Core to 1.3
- Updated Google Fonts list
- Updated Countdown shortcode year options (2026-2032)
- Updated Social Share links
- Improved theme security
- Improved social icon widget performance
- Improved social icon vcMap performance
- Improved framework UI/dashboard scripts calls
- Improved Google Map API compatibility
- Fixed Welcome Page permissions and $title deprecated notice
- Removed twitter-connect script and enqueue
- Removed unnecessary user image delete endpoint and user custom fields
- Minor fixes

Version 1.7 – September 18th, 2025

- Added WPML config file
- Added WooCommerce 10.x compatibility
- Updated ChapterOne Core to 1.2
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 8.6.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.37
- Improved PHP 8.3 compatibility
- Improved theme's security
- Prevent WooCommerce DropDown Cart widget from loading on cart page
- Removed ChapterOne Instagram Feed plugin due Instagram API deprecation
- Minor fixes

Version 1.6 – May 14th, 2024

- Added WordPress 6.5.3 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 8.8.3 compatibility
- Added Disable Google Fonts option and functionality
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.10
- Updated ChapterOne Core plugin to 1.1
- Improved PHP 8.2 compatibility
- improved WooCommerce functionalities and styles
- Improved WooCommerce block widgets styles
- Improved Social Share functionalities
- Improved single product social share holder display
- Improved import functionalities
- Fixed various security vulnerabilities
- Fixed TGM plugin activation issues
- Fixed CF7 spinner
- Removed Twitter Plugin due to Twitter API changes

Version 1.5 – November 20th, 2021

- Added WordPress 5.8.2 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 5.9 compatibility
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.5.11
- Updated ChapterOne Core plugin to 1.0.4
- Fixed potential security issue
- Fixed cart widgets in WordPress 5.8
- Fixed creation of the Custom Sidebars in new Widgets layout
- Fixed 'Bulk Select' functionality with Menus
- Improved import in PHP8
- Improved chapterone_mikado_get_attachment_id_from_url function

Version 1.4 – August 20th, 2021

- Added WordPress 5.8 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 5.5 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Visual Composer plugin to 6.7.0
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.5.6
- Updated ChapterOne Child Theme to 1.0.1
- Updated ChapterOne Core plugin to 1.0.3
- Updated ChapterOne Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0.2
- Updated ChapterOne Twitter Feed plugin to 1.0.1
- Fixed Reviewers Stars Always Full
- Fixed Parallax With Zoom Out Title
- Fixed Countdown Calculation
- Improved PHP8 compatibility
- Removed unused Dropcaps shortcode from Classic editor
- Removed unused file instagram-redirect.php
- Removed unused file twitter-redirect.php

Version 1.3 – October 13th, 2020

- Updated ChapterOne Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0.1
- Updated WPBakery Visual Composer plugin to 6.4.1
- Fixed Instagram feed for business accounts

Version 1.2 – September 25th, 2020

- Updated ChapterOne Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.4.0
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.2.23

Version 1.1 – September 2nd, 2020

- Added WordPress 5.5 compatibility
- Updated ChapterOne Core plugin to 1.0.2
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.2.22
- Updated WPBakery Visual Composer plugin to 6.3.0
- Fixed Team element link issue