Status

Early development. The theme is built around native WordPress features first: block templates, template parts, block patterns, Query Loop blocks, and theme.json design tokens.

Goals

• Native Full Site Editing support
• Fast, responsive newspaper layouts
• Flexible homepage patterns that editors can customize in the Site Editor
• Clean article, archive, search, page, 404, author, category, tag, and posts-index templates
• Minimal JavaScript and minimal custom PHP
• Design tokens and style variations managed through theme.json

Theme structure

parts/       Reusable header, footer, and comments template parts
templates/   Native block templates for the site
patterns/    Reusable newspaper layouts and query sections
styles/      Style variations for alternate looks
theme.json   Global styles, typography, spacing, colors, and layout settings
style.css    Theme metadata and small responsive helpers

Local testing

1. Install WordPress locally or on a staging site.
2. Copy this theme into wp-content/themes/linea/.
3. In WordPress Admin, go to Appearance → Themes.
4. Activate Linea.
5. Customize templates in Appearance → Editor.

Demo content

Linea includes demo content helpers so a fresh WordPress install does not show an empty or default blog homepage.

• Pull request previews use a WordPress Playground Blueprint that installs the theme and runs the bundled importer automatically.
• Local developers with WP-CLI can run wp linea import-demo after activating the theme.
• Sites using the One Click Demo Import plugin will see a Linea student newspaper demo import option backed by demo-content/linea-demo-content.xml.

The programmatic importer creates lorem ipsum newspaper stories, section categories, comments, navigation items, and plain color placeholder featured media.

Validation

This repo includes GitHub Actions workflows for theme maintenance:

• Theme checks validates PHP syntax, JSON files, required block-theme files, pattern headers, accessibility anchors, search labels, and placeholder links.
• WordPress theme review runs the official WordPress Theme Check action in CI.
• Build theme ZIP creates a clean installable ZIP artifact on pull requests.
• PR Preview - Build and PR Preview - Publish build a public installable ZIP and add a working WordPress Playground preview button to pull requests.
• Release theme ZIP publishes a packaged ZIP when a v* tag is pushed.

Release workflow

1. Update the version in style.css, functions.php, and readme.txt.
2. Create a tag such as v0.5.0.
3. Push the tag to GitHub.
4. Download linea.zip from the generated GitHub release.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later.