Veen is a super modern Blog created by EstudioPatagon focused on high speed and nice effects, the theme fits perfectly any kind of blog specially personal, photography, travel or biography blogs. It is super light, this fast theme was made with multiple techniques to achieve excellent Scores on Google, 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. Veen is compatible with AMP and it is multilanguage, includes: Spanish and English. and you can easily translate it into any language you want.
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Important: This Theme is capable to get high scores on Google Insight (up to 100%) for Desktop Check the factors that could affect the speed here.
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Features
- Super Light and Modern design.
- Highly optimized and lightweight (just 1.5mb size).
- AMP Support (Transitional Mode) Check AMP Home and AMP Single Post.
- Constantly updated.
- Translation ready (English and 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. 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.
- 3 Single post dispositions
- 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
v2.6.0 - 02 October 2023
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Summary: Features and Improvements
- Fixed: PHP warning if migrating from other EP theme.
- Fixed: Unordered and Ordered lists alignment on back-end Gutenberg editor.
- Fixed: EP Dashboard Product counter was not removed when product page is visited.
- Fixed: Tagline always appears when image logo is selected (even if the is option is OFF).
- Improved: Minor adjustments to EstudioPatagon dashboard.
- Improved: Updated Theme Options framework for WordPress 6.3 and higher.
- Added: Compatibility up to PHP 8.2.4
- Added: New order option "random" for all Posts Lists Modules (Grid and Classic).
- Added: New order option "random" for Posts Carousel module.
- Added: New social profile "Discord", to Widget and Header areas.
v2.5.2 - 23 October 2022
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Summary: Features and Improvements
- Fixed: A "code" string appears when using Banners between "x" paragraphs.
- Fixed: Custom Fonts not applied in the Gutenberg editor (WP v6.0 and greater).
- Fixed: Custom Styles (colors) not applied in the Gutenberg editor (WP v6.0 and greater).
- Fixed: Incorrect amount of views on articles that were created before Veen theme installation.
- Improved: Changed Prepros main configuration, this will greatly improve Prepros first run speed. This change just apply for customers who are developing over SCSS and JS files.
- Improved: AMP submenu functionality, now will work with Click event instead of Hover.
- Improved: Removed Footer widgets on AMP articles, this will reduce CSS usage.
- Added: Filter by Post Views in Recent Post widget.
- Added: New option to enable footer widgets on Theme options -> AMP.
v2.5.0 - 17 September 2022
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Summary: Features and Improvements
- Fixed: Subcategory articles counter (archives) do not work properly.
- Fixed: Incorrect height for Google Auto Asense banners on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Some notices on PHP 8.
- Fixed: Lightbox 403 forbidden error on very specific server configurations (Nginx + htaccess combination).
- Fixed: Very specific error with Amazon Lightsail server, theme options panel assets not rendered properly.
- Improved: Now some widgets banners will not appear on AMP pages (to prevent AMP script validation errors).
- Improved: Admin Welcome page.
- Added: New section with related themes on EstudioPatagon -> Our themes.
- Added: New option to increase/reduce Related Articles on Theme options -> Blog -> Single Post Content.
- Added: New option for logo width on Mobile. Theme options -> header -> image type.
- Added: New option to display tagline below logo (only for classic header). Theme options -> header.
- Added: Github Social Profile for header and also as widget option.
- Added: New Advertising option (between X paragraphs). Theme options -> advertising -> single post section.
- Added: New option to disable Preloader/Loading status on Theme options -> header.
v2.3.1 - 22 June 2022
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Summary: Fixes and improvements
- Fixed: Incorrect Lightbox Animation for latest versions of Google Chrome.
- Fixed: Custom Home page fields (module creator) do not appear at the first rendering when selecting "Home" as template.
- Fixed: Lightbox for Images not grouping properly in WP 5.8 - 6.x.
- Fixed: Some custom Google Fonts (with complex names) not rendered properly.
- Fixed: AMP archives pages not working.
- Improved: EP legacy widgets preview is always disabled (this apply for WP 5.8 and greater).
- Improved: Tested Theme compatibility up to WP 6.0
- Improved: Tested Theme compatibility up to PHP 8.1.4
- Added: Compatibility for other image extensions on our theme Lightbox (Gallery).
v2.3.0 - 25 October 2021
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Summary: Fixes and improvements
- Fixed: Incorrect color for search menu icon when Minimalist Header is selected.
- Fixed: PHP warning from post thumbs widget.
- Fixed: Order by days not working on post thumbs widget.
- Fixed: Incorrect alignment of Gallery Block on Gutenberg editor.
- Fixed: Javascript error when Theme Optimization is "OFF".
- Fixed: Icon shortcode size not applied properly.
- Improved: Breadcrumb HTML.
- Improved: Core Framework.
- Improved: Tested Theme compatibility up to WP 5.8
- Added: Turkish Language.
- Added: Legacy Search box widget (only for customers who are using WP 5.8 and want the old search box style).
- Added: New option "offset" for articles modules (grid, sidebar, classic).
v2.2.0 - 03 May 2021
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Summary: Fixes and improvements
- Fixed: Custom Embed not working for Video Posts.
- Fixed: AMP Validation error.
- Fixed: Mobile Logo Font Size not working on sticky logo (mobile devices).
- Fixed: Incorrect Avatar on About me Widget.
- Fixed: Custom Sidebar not displayed if Article sidebar is empty.
- Fixed: Incorrect alignment of Quotes Block on Gutenberg editor.
- Fixed: Incorrect color for CF7 success message.
- Fixed: Share Post on Linkedin always display homepage instead of Post url.
- Improved: Core Framework
- Improved: Sticky posts will no longer appear on widgets, this will prevent incorrect amount of posts.
- Improved: Now views counter uses ajax, this will improve the counting for heavy cache plugins.
- Improved: CLS warning for Logo image on Google insight reports.
- Added: New field custom script on <body>, on Theme options -> adv settings.
- Added: New filter "last X days" for Recent post widget.
- Added: "Order by" filter to Posts by Category widget.
- Added: Rank Math breadcrumb compatibility.
v2.1.4 - 17 December 2020
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Summary: Important Fix
- Fixed: Pagination not working on Grid Posts style (bug from v2.1.3).
- Improved: Javascript compability for future releases (WP 5.7) of jQuery
v2.1.3 - 14 December 2020
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Summary: Important Fixes
- Fixed: Shortcodes Generator not working on WP 5.6
- Fixed: Pagination not working properly on AMP pages (page nº 2 and greater was not redirected properly if custom home is being used), this issue is only related to AMP plugin v2.0 and greater.
- Fixed: Advertising module (on custom home page) was escaping custom codes (scripts or iframes).
- Fixed: Admin Post image (thumbnail) disappears on latest version of WordPress.
- Fixed: Incorrect image size if Fullcover style is selected on Theme options (as global), this generate some blurriness on the featured image.
- Fixed: Widget Gallery not working properly.
- Fixed: Incorrect image size on Grid Posts for Archives pages (category, tags or author).
- Added: Breadcrumb support for Yoast SEO and NavXT plugins, the new option can be enabled on Theme options -> Blog -> global options.
- Added: Sticky Header option for mobile.
v2.1.2 - 25 October 2020
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Summary: Fixes and improvements
- Fixed: Recent Tweets widget not working.
- Fixed: Shortcodes not working on Footer Copyright section.
- Fixed: Incorrect margin on Safari mobile if Footer has custom background color.
- Fixed: Meta container appears even if all meta data is disabled (views, comments, etc) on Single Post image.
- Removed: Prefetch optimization option, it was generating some issues with Disqus comments and also is not generating enough speed benefits like Preload option.
- Improved: Now shortcodes works inside EP Tabs container.
- Added: HTML 5 validation for email field on comments section.
- Added: New Autoplay option for Post Slider module.
v2.1.1 - 08 September 2020
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Summary: Fixes and improvements
- Fixed: Author avatar (about me widget) do not appear on AMP pages.
- Fixed: Disable single post featured image was disabling featured images on widgets (which was not intended).
- Fixed: Some icons do not appear on customizer.
- Fixed: Warning from Header logo.
- Fixed: Disable default theme google fonts option not working.
- Fixed: Gallery format Incorrect height on mobile devices.
- Fixed: When selecting "Resize for smaller devices" + "aligncenter" to embeds, the element disappears (youtube, vimeo, etc).
- Fixed: Incorrect height for custom embed on mobile devices (it was fully replaced with responsive embeds).
- Fixed: moz-document warning on AMP plugin 2.1.
- Improved: Dot size for text logo on mobile devices (now is smaller).
- Improved: Show comments toggle animation.
- Improved: Gutenberg gallery captions layout.
- Improved: Sticky header when resized.
- Added: Unique ID to all home modules and for other stories and related posts (single content), so they can be linked with custom anchors.
v2.1.0 - 20 August 2020
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Summary: Fixes and improvements
- Fixed: Posts ordered by views filter not working properly (this is a progressive fix and every time a post is visited is fixed automatically).
- Fixed: Update core plugin notification do not appear when using Veen child theme.
- Fixed: Incorrect border color for blockquote from Styling options.
- Fixed: Double title if no featured image is assigned but optimized image is added to posts.
- Fixed: Custom Color not applied properly to bold links.
- Fixed: Meta container appears even if all meta data is disabled (views, comments, etc).
- Improved: Gravatar cache policies warning.
- Improved: Now if Lazy load is enabled, it will be applied to Gravatar (comments section).
- Improved: 4 columns grid layout on devices below 1200px
- Improved: How update Core plugin notification appear.
- Improved: Versioning of assets when using Veen Child Theme.
- Improved: How SCSS files are generated (developer friendly).
- Improved: How lightbox is applied to Gutenberg Galleries.
- Improved: Now Gutenberg Galleries and Single Gutenberg image will display caption on Lightbox.
- Improved: Latest tweets widget, now the amount of tweets is more accurated.
- Improved: Tested Theme compatibility up to WP 5.5
- Improved: If no menu is assigned to header, the mobile menu icon will not appear.
- Added: New option to exclude replies on Latest Tweets widget.
- Added: * New option to move the titles below images on Theme options -> blog -> global options.
- Added: TikTok to social profiles.
- Added: Email to social profiles.
v2.0.0 - 14 July 2020
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Summary: Big Update: Core Web Vital (CWB) and features.
TTI: Time to interactive.
LCP: Largest Contentful Paint
- Fixed: Disqus console error if comments are not open.
- Fixed: Sticky logo not displayed when 2 different logos are uploaded.
- Fixed: Archives incorrect alignment when Minimalist header is selected.
- Fixed: Secondary Color not applied to Blockquotes.
- Fixed: Dropcap incorrect Font family (when custom font family is selected).
- Fixed: Font Weight not applied on sidebar and footer titles (when custom font family is selected).
- Fixed: When title max length is assigned, sometimes missing character appears on Japanese language.
- Fixed: Incorrect alignment for page sidebar on mobile devices.
- Fixed: Incorrect title alignment on Fullwidth page template.
- Fixed: Header height overlap when entering in Fullscreen mode events, for example: Youtube.
- Fixed: Incorrect Featured Category for Slider module when demo content is imported.
- Fixed: Incorrect alignment for videos on AMP pages.
- Fixed: False/Positive for videos on Edge browser (not loading due a block of smart screen).
- Fixed: Incorrect color for header social buttons.
- Fixed: Incorrect color on hover for search button.
- Fixed: Align center not applied on images with links.
- Fixed: Featured image not listed on wp-admin -> all posts.
- Fixed: * Some fields listed on Theme Options do not appear on Customizer.
- Improved: * Now licenses can be reactivated on reinstallations.
- Improved: * Updated Theme Options Framework, now search options will work as expected.
- Improved: * Now all options inside customizer has the same order from the Theme Options section.
- Improved: Now fonts icons are loaded in a separated file, to reduce the load of other critical CSS.
- Improved: Removed transparent option from certain colors that shouldn't be transparent on Theme Options.
- Improved: Validation of transparent and rgba colors on Theme Options.
- Improved: Now Firefox will use a simplified effect for titles.
- Improved: Mask image size for main titles effect.
- Improved: Lazy load detect on single post content.
- Improved: Custom Scripts on Footer are fully removed in AMP pages to prevent JS errors (New AMP custom code will replace this functionality).
- Improved: Automatic paragraphs on text editor module.
- Improved: Reduced main container width on Notebooks (1366px and less), this will prevent sticky share incorrect layout and some other floating elements.
- Improved: Sticky logo max width to unlimited instead of 174px.
- Improved: Reading time for Cyrillic languages.
- Improved: If max title length is assigned and the title is less than the limit, the "..." (dots) will not appear if not needed.
- Improved: Now subscribe form will open a new window, this will reduce bounce rate.
- Improved: Share buttons URL to Permalink
- Improved: Reading time on search results (some pages do not need reading time).
- Improved: Accessibility titles inside single post.
- Improved: Several changes to improve LCP on Articles list.
- Improved: Several changes to improve LCP on Single Post Content.
- Improved: Now Code Prettify (prism) will be loaded only if needed on every page.
- Improved: Pasive listener warning for CWB.
- Improved: Now functions/sidebars.php, post-formats.php and theme-functions.php can be used inside the child theme, to override any function of these files.
- Added: Rel noopener and nofollow to several external links (social) and share buttons.
- Added: New option to select the words per minutes for reading time.
- Added: Custom Code for AMP pages, this will allow add Analytics codes and others.
- Added: New option to disable featured image on all single post (theme options -> blog -> single post content).
- Added: Now title can be disabled on Fullwidth page template.
- Added: New option to select the Author's page layout (grid, classic, with sidebar, etc) on theme options -> blog -> layouts.
- Added: New option to change mobile body font size, and mobile single post font size.
- Added: * Fallback license validation method for those FTP who don't allow edit/create files.
- Added: * AMP Compatibility for all Pages (categories, tags, search results, 404 and author).
- Added: * New optimization section (advanced settings).
- Added: New option to select theme font icons method (standard, javascript or in footer), this will improve TTI and reduce a little the LCP from CWB.
- Added: New option to add a delay to the font icons load (only available for Javascript method).
- Added: New option on Optimization -> adv settings, now low priority CSS can use Prefetch, Preload or Standard methods.
- Added: New optimization option, now Async scripts can be removed automatically from the source code.
v1.2.3 - 5 May 2020
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- Fixed: Critical error when the theme is changed and Veen functions plugin is still active.
- Fixed: Author Position warning.
- Fixed: Author Avatar not displayed consistently if optimized Avatar is uploaded.
- Improved: Image quality for Fullcover posts and some text changes for recommended sizes (for old customers it is highly recommended to install regenerate thumbnails plugin).
v1.2.0 - 27 April 2020
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- Fixed: Warning when main effect is empty from Theme Options panel.
- Fixed: Meta tag title when using a Front Page.
- Fixed: Subscribe custom background color not applied.
- Fixed: Warning when author position is empty.
- Improved: Added description on tag archives page.
- Improved: Sticky header, now menu items will always aligned to the middle (in case of large logos).
- Improved: Slider caption background color (when a different body background color is selected).
- Improved: Posts Carousel Lazy Load, now it will not be showed as a warning on GTMetrix.
- Added: Font size for Text Logo (desktop & mobile) in case of using large texts as logo (Theme Options -> Header).
v1.1.0 - 19 April 2020
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- Fixed: Double title on Video post format on classic posts.
- Fixed: Double title on Audio post format when no soundcloud url is assigned (classic and grid posts).
- Fixed: Some missing translation strings.
- Fixed: Submenu arrows not working on IOS 6+ on Safari browser.
- Fixed: Incorrect Typography assigned to some elements, when custom typo is selected.
- Improved: Input fields font sizes to (16px), this will disable Auto Zoom In on IOS mobile devices.
- Improved: Code organization on Veen Functions plugin.
- Improved: Main translation file config (veen.pot).
- Improved: Title length on Classic Post style (single).
- Improved: Author box width when the description is too short.
- Improved: Border width on main titles.
- Added: New Theme Options section "Main Effect", with some extra options in case custom fonts are selected.
- Added: Missing translation strings to Spanish.
- Added: French Language, special thanks to Tractebel customer.
- Added: Close button to search lightbox just to improve usability (desktop and mobile).
v1.0.1 - 10 April 2020
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- Fixed: Classic with sidebar layout not visible on search page.
- Fixed: Categories carousel module not displayed properly.
- Improved: Image quality for categories carousel.
- Improved: filters for comments fields
v1.0.0 - 09 April 2020
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- Initial release.
Credits
Translations:
Spanish Language By: Estudio Patagon
Turkish Language By: Gökhan Coşkun Website: Dijital Sapiens
Images by: Unsplash and pixabay
Fonts:
Fonts icons by: Remix Icon and Fonts Awesome
