PoliticalPress

Political Press is a purpose oriented WordPress theme for the politics related websites and blogs. Political Press theme’s usage is not limited to creating a political candidate campaign website and it can be used for other websites or blogs related to politics. Even it can be used for other general purpose websites.

Easy & Extensive Customizer Settings  —   Political Press theme has very easy and comprehensive set of settings that will help you configure and modify the things around your site more easily.

Responsive Layout  —   Political Press Theme has a responsive layout and it is built using twitter bootstrap 3.0. So, it looks awesome on big screens as well as on tablets and smart phones.

Search Engine Optimized   —   Political Press theme is fully hand coded and its HTML is written keeping in mind your sites good ranking on search engines. The theme has good use of h1,h2,h3 tags. The primary contents are above the secondary contents in markup. Various widgets in sidebar provide very good internal site linking.

WPML Compatible — Political Press Theme supports WPML plugin. So, You can launch your website in multiple languages

Key Features

• Purpose Oriented & Modern Design
• Fully Responsive Layout – Built in Twitter Bootstrap 3.0
• Full Localization Support – contains .po and .mo files
• WPML Plugin Support
• Easy and Extensive Customizer Settings
• Easy to Use Meta Boxes
• 4 Attractive Color Skins
• Landing Page Template
  1. jQuery Countdown timer
  2. Subscription form (Based on ‘Simple Subscribe’ Plugin)
• Home Page Features – Fully Manageable from Customizer Settings.
  1. Quote in Header
  2. 3 Types of Slider
  3. Featured Posts Below Slider
  4. Wide Post Layout
  5. Grid Post Layout
  6. Campaign Trail Event Slider
• Gallery Templates
  1. 2 Columns Gallery Template
  2. 3 Columns Gallery Template
  3. 4 Columns Gallery Template
• Calendar and Events Support – Using The Events Calendar Plugin.
• WP Email Capture Plugin Support – To add subscribe widget with default slider.
• Simple Subscribe Plugin Support – To add subscribe widget on landing page.
• Display Tweets Plugin Support – To display twitter feed in footer.
• Contact Template – with Ajax based contact form and related Customizer Settings
• Contact Form 7 Plugin Support – to create more forms if needed
• Biography Template
• Testimonials Template
• Full Width Template
• Tabs Custom Widget
• Gallery Custom Widget
• Video Custom Widget
• Testimonial Custom Widget
• Various Short Codes
• Background Customization Support
• Child Theme Included
• Sample Content XML File Included
• Extensive Documentation Included

Change Log

    = Version 1.7.5 - 18 Oct  2025 =
    * Fixed image height stretching issue
    * Made compatible with latest PHP version
    * Improved compatibility with the latest WordPress

    = Version 1.7.4 - 4 May 2023 =
    * Fixed various issues
    * Made compatible up to PHP 8.0
    * Improved compatibility with the latest WordPress

    = Version 1.7.3 - 21 June 2021 =
    * Improved one-click demo functionality
    * Fixed some minor styling issues

    = Version 1.7.2 - 11 December 2020 =
    * Fixed swipebox js lightbox issues
    * Improved WordPress compatibilities

    = Version 1.7.1 - 27 August 2020 =
    * Fixed jQuery issues
    * Fixed gallery and campaign trail post-update issues
    * Moved page templates in the directory ( Need to update all pages with templates )
    * Improved some styles

    = Version 1.7.0 - 27 March 2020 =
    * Added full wide slider variation
    * Added shortcode slider support for shortcode-based sliders
    * Added quote show/hide control in the customizer
    * Improved some styling

    = Version 1.6.1 - 03 September 2019 =
    * Changed Text Domain to meet the latest requirements
    * Moved landing page scripts to the plugin
    * Moved Campaign trail scripts to the plugin
    * Moved API options to the plugin (no change for users)
    * Improved theme styles
    * Improved gallery scripts
    * Improved escaping and validation
    * Improved block styles
    * Removed unused files

    = Version 1.6.0 - 23 March 2019 =
    * Styling improvements
    * Removed old pro panel files
    * Added Gutenberg required improvements

    = Version 1.5.0 - 22 December 2018 =
    * Added block editor support
    * Fixed the options panel notice
    * Fixed admin dashboard show/hide meta boxes issue
    * Improved translations

    = Version 1.4 - 2 June 2018 =
    * Added One Click Demo
    * Shifted all the settings to the customizer settings from the theme options panel
    * Improved Events Plugin Compatibility
    * Fixed and Improved lots of styles
    * Improved WPML Compatibility
    * Moved Slider to a post type from theme options

        = Version 1.3.3 - 22 July 2017 =
    * Improved functions.php file according to latest standards
    * Improved and fixed security and validation issues
    * Improved fonts inclusion by enqueue functionality
    * Removed Respond jQuery functionality and related files

        = Version 1.3.2 - 9 July 2016 =
    * Added google maps new API compatibility
    * Improved campaign trail home section
    * Theme Options Broken Structure Fixed
    * Updated TGM Class and Improved its code
    * Improved Data Validation and Escaping
    * Event Plugin Styled, Campaign Trail Issue fixed
    * Events Sidebar Widget Fixed
    * Improved Campaign Trail on the Home page

        = Version 1.3.1 - 20 April 2016 =
    * Added wp-email-capture plugin compatibility for landing page.
    * Fixed campaign trail issues
    * Improved events sidebar widget styles
    * Improved event detail page styles

        = Version 1.3 - 15 January 2016 =
    * Improved data escaping and sanitization
    * Updated and improved TGM plugin code
    * Removed Metabox plugin embedded code so now needed to be installed.
    * Improved Event Calendar Plugin Support
    * All custom widgets are improved according to new WP Widget API
    * Admin Theme option styles are improved
    * Added Scbscribed2 Plugin Support for Landing Page
    * Improved some general styles

        = Version 1.2.3 - 24 December 2014 =
    * Fixer Event Calendar plugin issues.
    * Improved Event Calendar plugin styles.
    * Some minor styling improvements.

        = Version 1.2.2 - 13 May 2014 =
    * Left flow dropdown menu class added.
    * Fixed issues with JS based strings.
    * Improved Contact From 7 Styles

    = Version 1.2.1 - 8 March 2014 =
    * Improved The Events Calendar plugin styles.
    * Improved Testimonials listing template styles.
    * Improved Landing page responsive styles.
    * Fixed child theme installation issue.

    = Version 1.2 - 22 February 2014 =
    * Added Landing page template with Count down timer and subscription form.
    * Added Testimonials post type and template.
    * Added WPML plugin support.    
    * Added compatibility to 'The Events Calendar' Plugin.
    * Added contents support for 'Homepage Template'.
    * Added Bio widget.
    * Provided theme options to display tag or category based posts on Homepage.
    * Provided option to skip featured posts from other listings on Homepage.
    * Improved 'Contact Form 7' Plugin support.
    * Improved galleries isotope filter for lightbox.

    = Version 1.0 - 05 Oct 2013 =
    * Major improvements in Documentation
    * Minor improvements in CSS Styles
    * Minor improvements in JavaScript

    = Version 1.1 - 15 December 2013 =
    * WordPress 3.8 Theme Options Styling Fix

    = Version 1.0 - 03 Oct 2013 =
    * Initial Release