Journalistic – A Storytelling WordPress Blog Theme w/ Full Support of Aesop Story Engine

The folks over at UpThemes created a beautiful WordPress theme which is a perfect fit for long-form posts and stories – for travel blogs for instance. Welcome Journalistic, formerly known as Largo.

Purchase Journalistic for just $125 »

Journalistic

Journalistic is a Medium.com-inspired WordPress theme loved by journalists, bloggers and writers alike. It features a beautiful responsive design, wide format and full support of the Aesop Story Engine.

Features

• Responsive, mobile first design
• Aesop Story Engine integration
• Typekit Fonts included with active theme license
• Side comments: Unique inline commenting on specific paragraphs or traditional comments at the end of posts
• Infinity scroll
• Full-width article image
• Multi-author support
• Custom slide navigation & fullscreen headers
• Integration with Beaver Builder, a drag & drop page builder plugin
• Fast loading: PageSpeed Score A (97%)
• Retina-ready
• Lightweight, fast & commented code
• Styles created with Sass & Compass
• Easy customization incl. colour, images & widget area
• Support of Jetpack
• Developer-friendly
• (Multi-)Language & RTL support
• Automatic updates
• Add social media links to theme
• 1-Click demo install

Aesop Story Engine

Aesop Story Engine WordPress allows you to create rich interactive long-form stories, posts or articles. Also, your audience will enjoy parallax effects, content overlays and chapter-based storytelling as well as timeline-style page navigation.

The free WordPress plugin can be extended via seven paid add-ons such as Aesop Events, Aesop Gallery Pop and Aesop Story Highlights.

Pricing, Support & Updates

Upon purchase you are allowed to use Journalistic on one domain. It comes with a Typekit font license for 1 WordPress site, 1 year of free updates and email support. Also you will get access to theme documentation and 20+ WordPress training videos.

By signing up for UpThemes Hosting from just $20 per month, you will get this theme along with all 40+ WordPress themes installed for free on your site.

At first glance it seems a bit pricey, especially compared to competing blog themes. From the looks of it, however, it’s actually good value for money in terms of design, layout and features. We’ll soon relaunch one of our older projects based on the Journalistic theme. Stay tuned!

Purchase Journalistic for just $125 »