Pho is a Masonry, elegant WordPress theme created with WordPress best practices in mind.
[Pho][1] is a blogging WordPress theme easy to setup and customize. If you're looking for a WordPress product that focuses on ease of use and your content, this theme is for you.
Pho is using all the latest WordPress standards to make sure it's:
- Stable
- Future proof
- Secure
Pho is an amazingly flexible and powerful free blogging theme developed by [ThematoSoup][2]. It is responsive and retina ready. It comes with:
- Boxed and full width layout
- 2 page layouts (right sidebar, no sidebar)
- 2 widget areas (primary, footer)
- Featured content
- Custom background feature
Clean code and latest WordPress quality guidelines make it lean, fast and secure.
Every feature you want to enable or disable is in one place - Customizer, so when you change something you get an instant preview. Theme Customizer is a native WordPress feature which makes it very easy to adjust any compatible theme to your needs.
Pho lets you choose between 2 layout types:
- Full width (if you don't use sidebar)
- Right Sidebar
In addition to this you have the option of 2 archives layouts:
- Masonry (with or without sidebar)
- Standard (with or without sidebar)
There are 2 widget areas:
- Sidebar
- Footer
Typography is what makes every website usable, readable and beautiful. Pho lets you choose between 6 Body and Header fonts.
Fonts you'll find are carefully picked and include:
- Helvetica
- Droid Serif
- Droid Sans
- Open Sans
- Cabin
- Raleway
Site title and tagline are your standard WordPress features. They are placed in the header area. Site title is substituted by logo should you upload one.
Pho comes in all white color scheme, but you can tweak:
- Primary Color
- Background Color
You have the option of setting a custom background image or a pattern. Custom background color will be overridden by a background image.
The theme has three menu locations:
- Primary
- Footer
- Social Menu (above header)
Static Front Page is where you choose what to show on your home page, as well as which page is your blogroll.
If you experience any issues, you can read our extensive [online documentation][5]. For any support requests, please use our dedicated [support forums][6].
The theme uses Theme Hook Alliance (GPL licenced) to handle its metaboxes. It is a drop-in code library that aids adding standardized theme hooks. You can find out more about [Theme Hook Alliance][7] at its Github project page.
The theme is under GPLv2. However some parts aren't, for example, jQuery and jQuery Masonry which are licensed under MIT License, but still compatible with GPL. You can see License.txt for more information. All other parts are GPLv2 or later:
- FlexSlider - GPLv2
- jQuery - MIT
- jQuery Masonry - MIT
Theme featured content functionality is based on Twenty Fourteen WordPress theme featured content, copyright Automattic
Pho WordPress Theme, Copyright 2014 ThematoSoup Pho WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL
Pho WordPress Theme is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Pho WordPress Theme is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Pho WordPress Theme. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
Pho WordPress Theme is derived from Underscores WordPress Theme, Copyright 2013 Automattic, Inc. Underscores WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Pho WordPress Theme featured content feature incorporates code based on Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme, Copyright 2013 Automattic, Inc. Twenty Fourteen WordPress Theme is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
Pho WordPress Theme bundles the following third-party resources:
Genericons are licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, Version 2 (or later) Source: http://www.genericons.com
Theme Hooks Alliance is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL 2 (or later) Source: [https://github.com/zamoose/themehookalliance][7]
Pho is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL so yes you can base your Themes on Pho, but they need to use a GPL license, too.
All derivative Themes must be different from the original work, which includes the Theme design as well as all the code from Pho Theme.
You can show us your appreciation by following WordPress.org best practices yourself and connecting with [ThematoSoup][2] on [Facebook][3] or [Twitter][4].
- Fixes main menu highlight color CSS issue
- Initial release
[1] http://demo.thematosoup.com/pho [2] http://thematosoup.com [3] https://www.facebook.com/thematosoup [4] https://twitter.com/thematosoup [5] http://docs.thematosoup.com [6] http://support.thematosoup.com [7] https://github.com/zamoose/themehookalliance