Marlow - Distinctive, Typography-First WordPress Blog Theme

Stand out from the crowd and boost your page performance with Marlow Personal Blog WordPress theme. This bit unusual theme with vintage feeling is optimized, coded with site performance in mind and brings full support for all native WordPress functionalities. Very good Google Insights, GTmetrix, Pingdom performance rankings are possible thanks to complex theme optimization. You can still extend functionality easily; lean and valid source code guarantees great plugin support and compatibility.

Marlow is a premium easy-to-use WordPress theme developed specifically for personal, streamlined blog websites. The theme is classic-like and brings minimalist feeling to your WordPress blog. Our theme comes with three main layouts (left sidebar, right sidebar and without sidebar) and with a fully responsive design. You will receive a detailed documentation along with additional features like unlimited color schemes, countless Google webfonts, custom widgets etc. Functions are based on solid back-end Redux framework.

Main theme features:

• Advanced theme admin panel,
• 3 main layouts (left sidebar, right sidebar and without sidebar)
• 3 post layouts (left sidebar, right sidebar and without sidebar) independent from the main layout
• Responsive layout,
• Unlimited color schemes – using colorpickers,
• Countess Google fonts (font selector/custom typography),
• 5 Posts formats: standard, video, audio, gallery, link,
• Main menu (custom menu),
• Footer menu (custom menu),
• Archive templates,
• Translation ready,
• latest WordPress ready,
• Hide / show most post elements,
• Custom background images,
• Related posts,
• Footer logo input,
• HTML5 & CSS3 & latest WP standards,
• SEO Optimized markup,
• Structured Data markup,
• Clean source code,
• Very good site performance,
• Smooth tabless design.

Layouts & Templates:

• Blog template with 3 layouts (left sidebar, right sidebar and without sidebar),
• Full-Width template,
• Error 404,
• Archive templates,
• 3 post layouts (left, right and without sidebar),
• Search template

Plugin Compatibility:

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/social-pug/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-to-any/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-review/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/
• and more..

Widgets & Shortcodes:

• Advanced shortcode generator (plugin),
• 4 custom widgets:
  • Featured widget,
  • Facebook (custom widget),
  • About Info (custom widget),
  • Social Networks (custom widget),
• and more..

// 23 September 2025 //
Version 2.3 
- improved: better demo import 
- improved: overall readability 
- improved: Redux Framework inclusion inside the theme_setup function 
- updated: TGM activation 
- updated: language/translation file 
- updated: import files (XML) 
- fixed: admin panel translation

Version 2.2
- added: block dimensions 
- added: category post counts 
- updated: Font Awesome 6 
- improved: typography 
- improved: post pagination
- improved: select input

Version 2.1
- updated: demo import files (XML)

Version 2.0
- added: One Click Demo Import
- added: support for AddToAny share buttons
- fixed: galleries padding
- updated: demo import files (XML)

Version 1.3 
- updated: minor styling changes for better UI/UX

Version 1.2
- added: wp_body_open() 
- fixed: typo in admin panel

Version 1.1
- improved: Google Fonts loading (better performance)
- improved: numerous code changes in term of latest standards

Version 1.0
- initial release