Block Magazine - Flat and Minimalist Blog WordPress Theme Latest Version

Block Magazine is simple and fresh WordPress blog theme with masonry and fully responsive layout. Theme is suited for all blog or magazine websites. Theme functions and features are based on solid back-end framework.

Main theme features:

• Advanced theme admin panel,
• Grid (Masonry) homepage,
• Extended custom menu – with popular posts,
• Automatic Image desaturation*,
• Retina ready,
• Flex carousel,
• 3 custom menus with dropdowns,
• Responsive layout,
• Unlimited color schemes – using colorpickers,
• Font selector/custom typography – 57 fonts available (web-safe fonts and Google webfonts),
• Multiple jQuery sliders (as blocks and in posts),
• 7 Posts formats: standard, video, audio, gallery, image, link, quote, aside
• Video ready – custom metaboxes,
• Build-in rating system,
• Dummy demo content,
• Logo and favicon upload,
• Social networks section,
• Author template,
• Translation ready,
• latest WordPress ready,
• Smooth tabless design.

Layouts & Templates:

• Homepage,
• Full-Width template,
• Redirect,
• Error 404,
• Blog template (index.php),
• Archive templates,
• Author template,
• 3 post layouts (left, right and without sidebar),

Plugin Compatibility:

• http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/video-thumbnails/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-tweets-widget/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-share-buttons-adder/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce-cart-tab/
• and more..

Blocks, Widgets & Shortcodes:

• Advanced shordcode generator,
• 9 custom widgets:
• Featured widgets,
• 300px Ads (custom widget),
• 4×125px Ads (custom widget),
• Latest comments (custom widget),
• Flicker Photos (custom widget),
• About Us Info (custom widget),
• and more..

Change Log

// 22 July 2025 //
Version 4.1 
- added: dimension settings (theme.json) 
- added: dynamic year change 
- added: new social networks 
- improved: mobile menu, toggle button 
- improved: Redux Framework inclusion inside the theme_setup function 
- updated: TGM activation - updated: import files (XML) 
- updated: language/translation file 
- removed: WP Featherlight from recommended 
- fixed: admin panel translation

Version 4.0
- improved: new/better masonry loading 
- updated: Font Awesome 6 
- added: new social networks
- improved: mobile menu

Version 3.3
- updated:demo (XML) file

Version 3.2
- added: admin panel option to disable 'topbar '

Version 3.1
- updated: documentation
- improved: next/prev posts navigation

Version 3.0
- latest WordPress compatible
- support for Gutenberg editor
- new, fresh design
- new back-end framework (Redux Framework)
- better UX/UI (classic pagination )
- better and improved performance and security
- support for Top 10 (popular posts)
- new mobile/responsive layout
- One Click Demo Import

Version 2.0
- new better mobile menu
- improved documentation
- Font Awesome update
- large back-end changes (improved source code)

Version 1.6
- srcset hotfix in functions.php

Version 1.5
- updated: Font Awesome version; 

Version 1.4
- (WP 4.4 update) deleted unused php code in index.php file;

Version 1.3
- Updated: prettyPhoto.js script (security update)

Version 1.2
- fixed: dropdown menu in responsive mode,
- added: alternative "desaturation" file.

Version 1.1
- improved: image crop resolution
- fixed: left sidebar in responsive mode 
- added: new XML file

Version 1.0
- initial release