Johannes – Personal Blog Theme for WordPress

Johannes is a multi-concept modern personal blog WordPress theme. It is carefully designed to follow the trends of today’s modern web while providing full support for the new WordPress 5 block editor (Gutenberg ready). It is performance-optimized, SEO ready, and highly flexible to match your personal taste, all the way from a modern personal blog for a website author to a news magazine and niche blogging websites.

You will get more than a high-quality personal blog with a simple and clean look – you will get many great features that will easily turn you into a WordPress power user. Excited? Say hi to Johannes – your new personal blog!

Johannes WordPress blog theme – what kind of websites you can create?

It’s a multi-concept blogging magazine theme that may suit the needs of any niche. Here’s a quick overview of what kind of blog and magazine websites you can create and what our customers are using the Johannes for.

• Personal blog




• Author blog




• Technology news blog




• Arts, culture & lifestyle blog




• Gaming blog




• Finance & crypto blog




• Fashion & beauty blog




• Science blog




• Music blog




• Food & nutrition blog




• Health & fitness blog




• Travel & tourism blog




• Diary blog




• Movie news blog




• Automotive blog




• Programmer (coding) tutorial blog




• Review and affiliate marketing blog




• Multi author blog or magazine




• Basically, and kind of creative blog or magazine website!

Change log

1.4.1

• Improved: Tested compatibility with WordPress 6.0 (yes, it’s safe update your theme)


• Fixed: Gallery post format compatibility with WP 5.9+


• Fixed: Gallery popup option not working in WP 5.9+

1.4

• Improved: WordPress 5.8 compatibility tweaks (yes,you can update your theme)


• Improved: Several onpage SEO tweaks (added noopener tag to several target=”_blank” attributes)


• Fixed: Several minor styling issues

1.3.3

• Fixed: Combo layouts on pagination


• Fixed: Cart and Checkout page sidebar global option owerride


• Fixed: WP 5.7 Gutenberg editor font size problem

1.3.2

• Fixed: Instagram Section Styling issues

• Improved: WP 5.5 Compatibility tweaks


• Fixed: RTL sidebar fix and severals CSS styling issues

1.3

• Power Add: Users can pick and add more Custom areas (Theme Options -> Front Page -> General -> Number of custom content sections )


• Power Add: Users can display content from desired page inside Custom area (Theme Options -> Front Page -> Custom content -> Pull custom content from )


• Power Add: Users can display WooCommerce products on Front Page (Theme Options -> Front Page -> WooCommerce Products )


• Added: Two new single post layouts (Theme Options -> Single Post -> Layout 6 & 7)


• Added: New featured posts layout (Theme Options -> Front Page -> Featured Posts -> Layout F )


• Added: Display content from any Custom Post Type


• Added: RankMath breadcrumbs support (Theme Options -> Misc. -> Enable breadcrumbs support -> Rank Math SEO Breadcrumbs )


• Added: Support for Post Views counter plugin (WP-PostViews)


• Added: Sliders now have autoplay option


• Fixed: Sticky header height problem


• Fixed: Numeric pagination problem


• Fixed: Minor styling issues

1.2

• Added: Another Front Page section to display any custom content (Theme Options -> Front Page)


• Added: Official support for Co Authors Plus WordPress plugin (for multiple authors on a single post)


• Added: Official support for WP Forms WordPress plugin


• Added: Options to display last modified date instead of publish date in post meta (Theme Options -> Misc.)


• Added: Options to choose multiple stylings for social sharing in the plugin settings in dashboard (Settings -> Meks Easy Social Share)


• Added: Options to choose category link as posts meta data element in all layouts (Theme Options -> Post Layouts)


• Added: Option to on/off main sticky header on single posts (and have a contextual mini header only)


• Added: WhatsApp and Telegram icons in Social Menu


• Fixed: Minor styling issues

1.1.3

Great news! Johannes Theme has been awarded the “WP requirements compliance badge” by Envato/ThemeForest, which is a certificate proving that in now meets the highest quality standards in the WordPress ecosystem.

• Improved: A slight code refactoring to meet the highest standards per Envato requirements


• Improved: Introduced CSS classes inside HTML of front page sections for an easier CSS customization


• Fixed: Minor styling issues

• Improved: Styling support for Elementor plugin. Now you can use Blank page template and fully customize the page with Elementor as you like.


• Fixed: Minor styling issues

• Added: Gutenberg optimized styling for new blocks which are introduced in WordPress 5.2


• Added: Option to enable/disable Primary category feature from Yoast SEO plugin (Theme Options -> Misc.)


• Modified: Options to choose social networks for sharing are now located in the plugin settings in dashboard (Settings -> Meks Easy Social Share)


• Fixed: Possibility to use script tags inside ad slots (Theme Options -> Ads)


• Fixed: Minor styling issues

• Added: 3 new header layouts which can display an Ad (if provided in ad slots)


• Added: Option to disable contextual sticky header bar on single posts (Theme Options -> Header -> Sticky Header)


• Added: Option to control overlay opacity (darkness) for specific layouts which have text over images (Theme Options -> Content Styling)


• Added: Options to display full content (split with read-more tag) instead of the automatic excerpt for Post Layouts A and B (Theme Options -> Post Layouts A,B)


• Added: Options to content width for Post Layouts A and B (Theme Options -> Post Layouts A,B)


• Improved: Single post Layouts 1 and 2 now display gallery or video blocks instead of the featured image when video or gallery post format is set to specific post


• Fixed: A lot of minor styling issues