Parabola WordPress Theme

Parabola is a free WordPress theme that awaits you with a huge assortment of theme settings that enable you to take a fully responsive, clean and elegant design to even newer heights.


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Parabola has a huge assortment of theme settings that enable you to take a fully responsive, clean and elegant design to even newer heights.

A greatly customizable WordPress theme, everything about Parabola is highly editable to suit your every need. You can customize all text and background colors, font families and sizes, site widths and layouts. You can also show or hide various elements of the theme’s design and choose from over 30 social media icons.

Harnessing the power of HTML5 and CSS3 you will enjoy a great design, subtle animations, a great landing page fully equipped with a slider, columns and text sections, all with HTML tags and shortcode support.

The totally free WordPress theme also includes other goodies such as post formats, Google fonts, magazine and blog layouts, 8 widget areas, translation-ready text, WooCommerce support and much more.

Free WordPress Theme

Free WordPress Theme

A WordPress theme that includes all the features and functionality out of the box, for free. We don't hide half the theme behind a paywall.

Highly Customizable

Highly Customizable

With well over one hundred theme customization options it will be a piece of cake* to make it your own.

Up To Date

Up To Date

Constantly updated and upgraded to the latest design trends, web standards and WordPress versions.

Parabola Theme Features

While sharing a large part of the codebase and functionality
each of our WordPress themes has a sprinkle of uniqueness to set it apart.

Highly customizable

Hundreds of theme options for almost infinite personalization.

Totally Free

Includes all the features and functionality from start, for free. Just download and install.

Fully Responsive

Our themes use the latest standards for the perfect browsing experience on all mobile devices.

Landing Page

Personalize your home page with customizable sliders, boxes, text areas and latest posts

Color Schemes

Jumpstart your site with preset schemes with the broadest color ranges.

Socials

Easy link to your favorite social networks and profiles in multiple theme locations.

Google Fonts

Applying any of the 700+ Google Fonts on a theme element is just a copy-paste away.

Translation Ready

Easily translatable theme that fully supports WordPress' language packs.

RTL Language Support

This theme has been thoroughly tested and curated to look perfect with right-to-left languages.

WooCommerce Ready

Our theme has built-in support for the widely used WooCommerce e-commerce plugin.

Free support

Supported by descriptive option hints, collections of theme FAQs, tutorials and an active forum.

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Parabola News

Septera 1.0 is a live theme on WordPress.org

Our latest theme, Septera, is finally LIVE on WordPress.org and ready for you to one-click install it and take it for a spin.

Septera is still free, it’s still awesome and it’s still brimming with personality but during the review process a few things have changed. Find out what.

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Changelog:

v1.0.3

  • Fixed landing page CTA buttons responsiveness
  • Fixed image vertical alignment in main menu
  • Improved icon blocks responsiveness
  • Other minor responsiveness changes to the landing page, mobile menu and back to top button
  • Added IDs to landing page blocks and boxes
  • Fixed post navigation floating issue when no Previous Post exists

v1.0.2.1

  • Fixed loading comments template

v1.0.2

  • Added CTA (Call-To-Action) buttons to the landing page
  • Changed landing page slider and text area text sizes
  • Updated style.css description
  • Added a new default slider/header image
  • Updated screenshot

v1.0.1.1

  • Changed slider/header overlay default opacity value once more
  • Replaced demo featured images with smaller ones
  • Changed left/right widget areas IDs

v1.0.1

  • Changed slider/header overlay default opacity value
  • Removed slider/header image grayscale effect
  • Updated default header image
  • Restored ‘Reset Defaults’ functionality accidentally removed
  • Added demo featured images for when theme is previewed
  • Added support for the theme preview sample sidebar
  • Updated screenshot

v1.0.0

  • Fixed custom colour for the mobile menu dropdown arrows
  • Fixed author description and info link arrow on RTL
  • Hid socials and footer widgets in print styles
  • Fixed article titles size in index.php
  • Changed archive page titles to be bold
  • Removed WooCommerce page-title font-size using old font-root
  • Updated translation files

v0.9.8

  • Temporary removed ‘save/load theme options’ feature until we complete the discussions on the subject with the WPTRT

v0.9.7.1

  • Escaped variables in custom-styles.php, loop.php, meta.php and main.php

Parabola 2.2(.1) gets a bit lighter

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v2.2.1

  • Fixed notice in comments.php since 2.2.0
  • Fixed colour schemes cannot be imported since 2.2.0
  • Fixed read more button missing on presentation page columns (due to global variables cleanup)
  • Fixed columns from posts listed by IDs limited by WordPress’ global post count limit
  • Removed social scripts in the theme’s admin page and replaced with simple social profile links

v2.2.0

  • Added Github and TripAdvisor social icons
  • Added styling to disable Chrome’s built-in blue border on focused form elements
  • Added explicit support for WooCommerce 3.0 new product gallery
  • Adjusted social styling to reduce interference with plugins
  • Improved options save sanitization procedure
  • Fixed some colour options not being protected to plugin interference
  • Fixed responsive styling to account for submenu arrow indicator changes in 2.1.3
  • Fixed menu items displayed in wrong order on RTL
  • Fixed using HTML excerpt option disabling continue reading button
  • Deprecated HTML excerpt option and disabled it on new theme installs
  • Replaced @import usage with enqueue for font-faces style; relocated mobile styling from inline to enqueue
  • Moved presentation page code to own function
  • Made ‘sidebar empty’ messages visible only to users with permissions to manage widgets
  • Removed the use of individual global options variables and adjusted all functions to use the global options array instead
  • Renamed global $fonts and $socialNetworks variables to use ‘parabola_’ prefix
  • Cleaned up theme-loop.php; renamed several functions for consistency:
        parabola_custom_excerpt_more     ->    parabola_excerpt_morelink
        parabola_continue_reading_link   ->    parabola_excerpt_continuereading_link
        parabola_auto_excerpt_more       ->    parabola_excerpt_dots
        parabola_trim_excerpt            ->    parabola_excerpt_html
        parabola_posted_on               ->    parabola_meta_before
        parabola_posted_after            ->    parabola_meta_after

If you have customized any files that call these functions in your child theme, you will need to rename them in your code as well.

Parabola 2.1.3 slides in

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Changelog:

  • Added support for external sliders in the Presentation Page using shortcodes
  • Fixed social icons URL double sanitization (breaking special cases)
  • Improved menu styling to fix double arrow and extra padding when menu-related plugins are used
  • Fixed frontend.js being non-minifiable due to single line comments
  • Improved headings and meta lines responsiveness by switching them to relative font sizes
  • Renamed .mobile body class to avoid styling overlap with plugins
  • Added ‘parabola_pp_nosticky’ filter for sticky posts inclusion in Presentation Page posts list

Parabola 2.1(.1/.2) is also around

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Changelog:

v2.1.2

  • Fixed failsafe styling that overrode configured font size since 2.1.1 responsiveness improvement

v2.1.1

  • Added filters for hardcoded values: slider post-based excerpt length and read more button label
  • Fixed multi-line breadcrumbs overlapping content
  • Fixed breadcrumbs being visible on the homepage
  • Improved font sizes responsiveness
  • Added plugin interference failsafe for color codes in the theme settings
  • Fixed enforced slider height creating blank space under the slider on certain screen sizes
  • Fixed automatically generated menu dropdowns inaccessible on mobile devices with WordPress 4.7+

Parabola 2.1.0 speaks in tongues

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Changelog:

  • Fixed submenu arrow indicator slightly out of alignment on mobile devices
  • Added main navigation submenu existence indicators
  • Added more specific declaration to comment reply buttons (for increased compatibility with bbPress)
  • Re-bundled es_ES, de_DE, it_IT, fr_FR translations due to WordPress’ 90% completeness requirement
  • Fixed content search padding on 404 pages
  • Fixed breadcrumbs line height with non-default font sizes
  • Fixed incorrect escaping on $image_attributes[0] in theme-loop.php
  • Replaced the_title() with the_title_attribute() in attachment.php

Parabola 2.0.4/.5 quickly recovers

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Changelog:

v2.0.5

  • Added Masonry/Magazine Layout checks for different usage combinations to fix JS/slider issue introduced in 2.0.4
  • Moved rtl.css file to /styles folder to prevent it from being loaded twice by parent themes
  • Improved comments display function to take languages with multiple plural forms into account

v2.0.4

  • Added Masonry on/off option for compatibility
  • Added Fitvids on/off option for compatibility
  • Fixed font names with space on Safari limitation
  • Fixed long search text underlapping search icon
  • Fixed tags line height
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