Readable — Blogging WordPress Theme Inspired by Medium.com

Share Your Stories on a Beautiful and Readable Blog

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Last Update: April 15, 2025
Version: 2.5.0
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PROFESSIONAL NICHE DESIGN

Publish Beautiful Articles That Are Easy to Read

To save you time making your articles readable, we’ve designed their layout for you. Your articles will have a clear typeface, a comfortable font size, the right amount of spacing, and clear structure.

SINGLE-COLUMN FORMAT

Post with an Image

The most popular format includes a full-width hero image with text in the middle. It has no distractions on either the left or right, making it easy for readers to focus on your writing.

Post with an image

Post layouts

START WITH TEXT

Post without an Image

If no hero image suggests itself, you can still publish an article that grabs readers with text, not a picture.

LEFT-SIDEBAR FORMAT

Post with Left Sidebar

You can include the blogger’s about-me section which includes an image, description, and social links. You can also add categories, tags, and other sections next to the article. A format like this lets visitors read about the author or switch to a different category. Articles with this format are still very easy to read.

Left blog theme sidebar

Right blog theme sidebar

RIGHT SIDEBAR FORMAT

Post with a Right Sidebar

If you or your client want, the sidebar can be on the right. Customization options are important.

FONTS, LAYOUT, AND STRUCTURE

Write with Style

We carefully picked the best fonts and sizes. We also kept other factors in mind like whitespace, leading, kerning, and tracking. This is why the headlines are easy to scan and the paragraphs are easy to read. Thanks to the pre-defined structure and font selection, the publisher can focus on writing great content instead of designing the page it’s on.

Fonts, layout and structure of the text

Written by author widget

WRITTEN-BY FEATURE

Display the Author

It’s a good idea to let the readers know who wrote the article, especially if more than one author writes for the website. You can include a profile picture, the author’s name, and a description.

Insert Videos and Social Media Posts

You can embed your client’s videos on the website by simply linking to YouTube or Vimeo. If your client has a presence on Facebook or Twitter, you can also highlight their best social media posts. These can be liked or shared right from the website.

Embeded social posts

QUOTES/h4>

Make It Even More Readable

Use two different beautiful styles to insert and highlight quotes using a larger italic font and, optionally, attribution for the author. This makes the rest of your text more readable because it introduces extended pauses between paragraphs.

Feature and highlight quotes

About us widget to feature authors

ABOUT-US PAGE

Introduce the Blog Writers

A great About Us page helps keep people visiting your website, gets them to like you more, and gives them a way to connect with you. It’s a great opportunity to become memorable and establish a sense of trust. This is also crucial if you want to sell anything or present yourself as an authority in the field. You can easily create a beautiful About Us page by simply adding a nice cover, describing what the blog is all about, and adding the writers’ profiles.

COMMENT PLUG-IN

Build a Loyal Audience

You can enable commenting by integrating the Disqus plugin to increase engagement. Comments can be upvoted, replied to, shared, and are easy to moderate. It allows you to capture readers and keep them coming back.

Disqus plug-in for comments

Attention grabbing navigation footer

FOOTER LAYOUT

Add a Well-structured Footer for Easier Navigation

Sometimes website visitors skip over the website’s content and end up at the bottom of the page. To help them find what they are looking for, you can insert a summary of the blog, add navigation links, provide a list of commonly-used tags, tags and add contact information.

CONTACT US FORM WIDGET

Make It Easy to Contact You

Our contact-form widget provides a fast and easy way to let website visitors contact the blog author directly from the website. You can also add more fields to the form to get more information from your visitors, like what topics are they interested in. If there are multiple authors, you can set up a contact form for each of them.

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Impress Your Client by Showing Them a Live Website with Their Branding

Use the Readable theme demo to quickly upload your client’s logo, change the primary colors, and switch the slider image. This will let your client interact with their potential website and help you close the deal.

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SUMMARY

Everything You Get with the Readable Theme

   One-Click-Demo-Import™

   Responsive design

   Cross-browser compatibility

   SEO optimization

   High-quality code

   Fast loading speed

   Advanced security

   Drag & Drop PageBuilder by SiteOrigin

   Pre-built layouts

   3rd-party widget integration

   Translation into 7 languages

   Professional support team

   30-day Money-back Guarantee

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Present the Theme to Your Client in a Discreet Way

Clients who need a website usually want a preview of how everything will look. Download a free Photoshop file with the complete theme design, then change it to match your client’s brand. This way, it will be easier for you to convince the client without showing the price.

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Free PSD file

What Freelancers and Agencies
Say About Readable Theme

“A++++ on this theme”

This is the best WordPress design I have ever used. I’m not talking just design, I mean, the way the end-user (me) can edit it, its so well put together that I hope you guys have other themes I can use. I’ll keep purchasing from you guys. A++++ on this theme. Very well done!!!

Alex Bartonek Alex Bartonek
“Incredibly thought-out and well-researched niche products.”

ProteusThemes produces incredibly thought-out and well-researched niche products. These products are inherently intuitive and are meant to help you achieve one single goal as compared to the bloatware. Not only do I use their products myself but I have recommended them to my friends as well. Moreover, the team behind ProteusThemes is very friendly and they know the craft pretty well. For these reasons and more, I recommend PT.

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Money back guarantee

Your 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

If either you or your client don’t like the theme, or if the powerful one-click-demo import, website builder, or any other functionality doesn’t work, just get in touch with our friendly support team and we will either help you solve anything you need or we will politely refund all your money back within 30 days after your purchase.

ONE-CLICK DEMO IMPORT™

Set Your Themes Up in Minutes

Use our One-Click Demo Import™ feature to effortlessly clone the theme’s demo appearance directly from your WordPress admin page. This allows you to begin editing and personalizing a fully-designed theme with ease.

“So many hours saved. Thanks!”

Usually, it takes some time to properly setup and configure any theme especially if the theme has lots of options. One-click demo import is a great solution to improve a theme’s configuration process, reducing greatly the time necessary to put a WordPress site in good shape. So many hours saved. Thanks!

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Quick setup

Easy Setup

Have a website up and running in just a few minutes.

Demo duplicate

Get the Exact Demo Look

Unlike for some premium themes, we guarantee that you will get the exact look as our theme demo.

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Start from a Premade Layout

Why design from scratch? Get the exact same look as the demo and start from there.

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DRAG & DROP PAGE BUILDER

Build Faster with Our Easy-to-use Page Builder

The PageBuilder tool doesn’t sacrifice website performance and is easy to use. This makes building your site simple — no programming skills are required.

Visual Composer Editing Plugin in action

Already Using Visual Composer?

Great! You will enjoy Page Builder by SiteOrigin because it’s similar to Visual Composer but much more advanced. It’s cleaner, smoother, and more precise. And best of all, PageBuilder is faster!

Drag and drop widgets

Simply Drag & Drop

Every widget and content block can be easily moved around to create the perfect look.

Resizing

Customize Everything

Any element that you see on the website can be completely changed to fit your needs.

Easy to update

Anyone Can Do It

Train anyone on your team to make small changes and edits to your website. ProteusThemes offers a user-friendly experience.

Try the PageBuilder on a Live Demo for Free

Use the real-time editor to see for yourself how fast and easy it is to build a website using our Page Builder.

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MULTIPURPOSE WIDGETS

Choose From 40+ Beautiful and Functional Premade Widgets

Add and customize any of our ProteusThemes multipurpose widgets for your site with the click of a button. There are over 26 pre-built options to choose from, as well as a wide variety of WordPress and SiteOrigin widgets — all ready to be configured for your business.

“It is so nice to work with it and see the wonderful end result.”

Very flexible, easy to customise and with plenty of widgets. It is so nice to work with editor and see the wonderful end result. Thank you so much for amazing support and quick responses. Cannot recommend highly enough!

Cody Ripley Cody Ripley

Custom Theme Widgets

Business info

Present the Entire Business

Beautifully showcase your company’s products and services, your team, and more.

Contact info

Highlight Important Information

Make contact information, opening times and other key info stand out and be instantly visible.

Niche widgets

Increase Conversions

Use specific widgets designed to convert more leads and sales for your business.

Live Theme Editor

LIVE EDITOR

Edit in Real-Time

Use the Live Editor feature to see every change in a live preview when adding, editing, moving, and resizing content. This makes building your website even easier.

RESPONSIVE PREVIEW & EDITING

See How it Looks on All Your Devices

All ProteusThemes are fully responsive so you can preview on desktop, mobile, and tablet.

Preview and Edit for Mobile, Desktop and tablet

Restore and change Editing History

CHANGE HISTORY

Reverse Any Mistake

In case you accidentally delete or change a certain element, you can jump forward and back through change history to undo it. Choose an event to see what the page looked like before at the live preview on the right, then just click on “Restore Version” to get it back.

Save Page Layouts

If you’ve designed a page you really like, you can save it and reuse it on another page. In addition, you can use our pre-made designs. To save your page, click on Layouts → Import/Export → Download Layout.

Importing and Exporting Page Layouts

Copy and Paste Page Builder Rows and Widgets

Copy Widgets Across Pages

You can copy any widget or row that already looks great on a specific page and paste it to another page. You can do so by right clicking on a widget or row and click Copy Widget/Row.

WORDPRESS CUSTOMIZER

Customize with a Live Preview

We’ve added a wide range of extra options to the original WordPress Customizer. This allows you to edit in greater detail and make changes to almost any element from one convenient dashboard.

“Excellent customizability and so easy to edit & understand.”

Excellent customizability and so easy to edit & understand. Can honestly recommend ProteusThemes crew and their products!

Denis Stupar Denis Stupar

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Upload logo

Upload both your normal-resolution logo and retina-quality logo for high-DPI screens.

Color picker

Change the color of any element you see on the page.

Hide contact info

Hide the contact-info bar or keep it visible only on mobile.

Boxed wide

Switch the site layout to boxed or wide.

Match brand colors

Match the website to your brand in minutes.

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MADE FOR SPEED

Websites That Load in Seconds

We’ve stripped away all the non-essential features present in slow, multi-purpose themes. ProteusThemes delivers speed and efficiency, using clean, high-quality code that benefits viewers and is preferred by Google’s ranking algorithms.

“I love that you don’t add anything extra that could slow down the site.”

I’ve been doing this 20 years. These templates make my job a lot easier. Especially when they are well done and well supported. I love that you stay within wp standards without adding a lot of what we don’t need or what will slow the site down. Was very easy to modify and included all that was promised. Off to look at what you have to offer for another client. Keep up the good work!

Paul Gilbert Paul Gilbert

Average desktop speed results: 96 out of 100. Average mobile speed results: 97 out of 100.

Tested with award-winning benchmarks:

 

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LOCAL-SEO OPTIMIZED

Rank Higher on Google

All ProteusThemes WordPress and WooCommerce products are approved by Google’s mobile-friendly test and are explicitly optimized for local SEO. This helps your website get more targeted traffic and reach people who are close to where you are.

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Responsive Theme Layouts

RESPONSIVE AND RETINA-READY DESIGN

Looks Perfect on Every Device and Screen Size

Mobile visitors are more than half of all internet traffic. All ProteusThemes are responsive, mobile-friendly and designed to dynamically adjust to all devices and resolutions.

HIGHEST CODE STANDARDS

Built with Clean, High-quality Code

ProteusThemes are built on HTML 5, CSS 3, and follow the latest web standards. The code is clean, well-tested, and optimized for performance. This allows you to have a faster, safer, and more future-friendly website.

“I definitely recommend them!”

Incredibly fast themes, clean coded, wrapped with a sweet design. I definitely recommend them!!!

Georgios Chreiazomenos Georgios Chreiazomenos

Coded, Protected and Secured Themes

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CROSS-BROWSER COMPATIBILITY

Works on All Browsers

The code structure is cross-browser compatible. This ensures your website will look and feel the same, regardless of which browser your visitors are using.

PROTECTION AND SAFETY

Protected with Advanced Security

Your website’s security is a top priority. ProteusThemes WordPress and WooCommerce themes are reviewed and approved by third-party security experts at ThemeForest and ThemeReview. In addition, they’re compatible with Cloudflare, which opens up more options to you for security and speed. Rest easy knowing your website is well protected.

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3RD-PARTY WIDGETS COMPATIBILITY

Integrates with Popular 3rd-party Plugins

We regularly test and evaluate plugins made by third-party developers to ensure compatibility with all of our themes. This lets you enhance your WordPress experience and maximize the potential of your website.

WooCommerce

Create an Online Store

Set up a fully functional and pre-designed store with WooCommerce.

Homepage slider

Make Beautiful Sliders

Use the Slider Revolution or LayerSlider plugins to insert a video on your homepage.

Appointments

Let Customers Book Your Services

Let clients book time with you for appointments and/or events.

TRANSLATION AND LOCALIZATION

Translated into 14 Popular Languages

Once you pick your language, all the default content will be automatically translated. If your language is not listed, all ProteusThemes are also localized and ready to be translated into any other language.

English, Swedish, Spanish, German, Turkish, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Polish, French, Danish, Slovenian, Dutch, and Italian

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Support By Expert WordPress and WooCommerce Developers & Designers

Support You Can Count On

Every day we are monitoring and answering your questions. And even though we’re a small team, our average response time is below 5 hours. And that’s assuming you need help beyond what our AI-powered chat can provide from the lower right corner of your browser window.

“Received excellent and lightning fast customer support!”

I purchased many WordPress themes from ProteusThemes and “Adrenaline” was one of the best purchases – its very clean and smooth working template. Nice to work with it. I made new web design for my travel/climbing club and this WordPress theme perfect fits to advertise this kind of business. After start working with WP theme got few questions and received excellent and lightning fast customer support!

Dainius Pilypas Dainius Pilypas

Best Theme Help and Support

WordPress Theme Support

Talk to Expert Developers

If you get stuck while building your website, we have extensive support documentation available or you can reach out to our developer team. In addition to decades of experience solving code problems, they’re super friendly. Found a bug? Let us know, and we’ll get right on it. Have a feature request? We like implementing great ideas!

“Support that has one goal: to help YOU!”

Excellent WordPress themes and support that has one goal: to help YOU!

Emmanuel Françoise Emmanuel Françoise

Receive Regular Updates

When WordPress, WooCommerce, PageBuilder, and other plugins test new beta features, we always prepare our WordPress themes in advance. This allows us to roll out an update quickly so your WordPress theme is always compatible and works perfectly.

“Very quick to setup and so easy to update.”

Really great result. Very quick to setup and so easy to update. Very happy customer

Josh Strawczynski Josh Strawczynski

WordPress Theme Lifetime Updates

Theme Support Articles

Access the How-to Articles

We have how-to articles for all of our WordPress themes, covering a wide range of questions and issues that have come up over the years. This saves you from having to search the Web for answers. You can also ask our chatbot — simply click on the red “chat with us” button in the lower-right corner of this browser window.

Follow a Step-by-Step Guide

Are you setting up a WordPress website for the first time? Fear not! All Proteus WordPress and WooCommerce themes have their own specific, in-depth theme documentation that will guide you through in a well-explained and interactive way — supplemented with videos and annotated screenshots.

“All I had to do was ask Proteus for help.”

I have sent requests to the support team for some pretty outlandish stuff, and they were always helpful. I had server issues causing the theme to not work properly, and all I had to do was ask Proteus for help. Awesome!!

Cody Ripley Cody Ripley

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