Groovy - Modern & Lightweight Blog for WordPress

Groovy is a unique & super modern Blog created by EstudioPatagon following all the latest trends. Highly focused in Speed and Vivid Colors, the template fits perfectly any kind of blog specially personal, travel, technology, comics/anime or biography blogs. Also offers 2 schemes “Solid Border” or “Soft Shadow” to fit perfectly any kind of images.

It is super light (just 1 required plugin for all features). This fast theme was made with multiple techniques to achieve excellent Scores on Google Insights, also we keep in mind the code quality and SEO. It is easy to use and customize. Includes 11 customs widgets and a powerful Theme Options Panel to make easier the administration.

Groovy is fully compatible with AMP in Transitional Mode (home, archives, author and single post pages) and it is multilanguage, includes: English, Spanish. and you can easily translate the theme into any language you want.

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Important: This Theme is capable to get high scores on Google Insights (up to 100%) for Desktop Check the factors that could affect the speed here.

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We offer direct help via our support system, just submit a ticket if you have any question.

Main Features:

General Features:

• Super Light and Unique design.
• Highly optimized and lightweight (just 1MB size).
• AMP Support (Transitional Mode) Check AMP Home and AMP Single Post.
• Woocommerce 8.0+ Compatible check here.
• Using a shared hosting? Groovy has a very low INODES usage.
• PHP 8 ready (faster rendering time).
• Constantly updated.
• Translation ready (English, Spanish included).
• Minified and Optimized code.
• Open Graph Support.
• Built with SCSS and pre-compiled with Prepos 7 (Windows and Mac compatible).
• Dedicated advertising section (below header, before and after post content, custom advertise to place anywhere).
• Advertising section between grid posts, check demo here
• Sticky sidebar for Posts
• Lazy Load for Lists (home pages, archives, categories, etc).
• Lazy Load for post content.
• Lazy Load for embed (iframes like Youtube/Vimeo/Soundcloud).
• HTML5 & CSS3 ready.
• 4 Single post dispositions (with 2 variations)
  • Fullwidth with Sidebar, see here.
  • Fullwidth no Sidebar, see here.
  • Classic with Sidebar, see here.
  • Classic no Sidebar, see here.
• No Sidebar Style for Post and Pages see here.
• Custom Tag page, see here.
• Custom Author page, see here.
• Custom 404 Page see here.
• About me Widget.
• Custom Tag Cloud Widget.
• Custom Galleries.
• Advertising sections.
• Disqus and Facebook support.
• Fully responsive.
• Video Support (Vimeo, Youtube, etc).
• Retina Display Ready.
• Font Awesome icons.
• Works on Android, Ipad and Iphone.
• Documentation included.
• Clean Design.
• Well Coded.
• Navigation Menu.

Changelog

v2.3.0 - 03 September 2024
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Summary: Features and Fixes.

- Fixed: Accesibility warning from Search button.
- Fixed: Incorrect Widget width on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Duplicated Avatars on Comments section.
- Fixed: WP default expand button (lightbox) not working when Lazy Load is enabled.
- Fixed: Shortcode Lightbox generator 403 forbidden error on Amazon Bitnami servers.
- Fixed: Sanitizing not working as expected on Advertising module (custom home).
- Fixed: Syntax color error on Social Widget.
- Improved: SVG icons load method.
- Improved: Lazy Load method on Articles List.
- Improved: Twitter icon updated to "X".
- Added: Dutch Language.
- Added: Unlimited Social Profiles on Theme Options -> Social Profiles.

v2.0.0 - 26 November 2023 (big update)
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Summary: Multiple Features and Woocommerce Compatibility (big update).

- Fixed: PHP warning if migrating from other EP theme.
- Fixed: AMP pagination issue.
- Fixed: Incorrect date for next/prev articles on Single Post.
- Fixed: Minor translation text for reading time.
- Fixed: Incorrect alignment for TikTok social profile.
- Fixed: Duplicated Page Sidebar on tablet devices.
- Fixed: Home Builder do not appear when changing "Home" template, only appears when the page is already created.
- Fixed: Syntax Highlighter do not work properly on Fluid ADS widget.
- Fixed: Custom Typography for Sidebar titles not applied properly.
- Fixed: Incorrect alignment for mobile sidebar.
- Fixed: Header Shadow issue when using soft-shadow mode for classic/advertising headers.
- Fixed: MutationObserver warning from Google Insights.
- Fixed: CLS warning from Google Insights.
- Improved: Multiple Accesibility and Best practices from Google Insights tests.
- Improved: Now optimized Avatar will be displayed globally (comments, widgets, etc).
- Improved: Header search icon hover.
- Improved: Theme Options Sidebar section, now it is more clear how to use mobile sidebars.
- Improved: Updated Theme Options framework for WP 6.4.
- Improved: Now primary category will be displayed on next/prev articles on Single Post.
- Added: NEW! WooCommerce compatibility up to 8.2.2
- Added: Compatibility up to WP 6.4
- Added: German translation.

v1.1.0 - 12 July 2023
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- Fixed: Related Articles link issue.
- Fixed: Subscribe button on header not pointing properly.
- Fixed: Theme Options not loaded properly on specific server configurations.
- Fixed: Some Warnings from PHP 8.2.x
- Fixed: Incorrect Shadow on Sticky header, when "Soft Shadow" mode is selected.
- Fixed: Incorrect layout for Siblings Articles on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Incorrect Alignment for Related Articles when some titles are longer as expected.
- Improved: Some elements borders when "Soft shadow" mode is selected.
- Improved: Tested up to PHP 8.2.4
- Added: Turkish Translation, special thanks to Mevlüt Yaşar.
- Added: An optional Subscribe URL specifically for Header Button.
- Added: New option to upload custom Body Decorations on Theme Options -> Styling -> Main Style.

Credits

Translations:

Spanish Language By: Estudio Patagon

Images by: Freepik

Fonts:

• Outfit – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Outfit
• Jost – https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Jost

Fonts icons by: Remix Icon and Fonts Awesome