=== Longhand ===
Contributors: symelo
Requires at least: 7.0
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.0
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

A calm, typographic block theme for writers' blogs: essays, recipes, trips, series and photo stories.

== Description ==

Longhand is ink-blue on cotton paper: Literata for reading, handwritten margin notes in Caveat, and a numbered journal index instead of the usual grid. It is built for people who write about more than one thing.

* **Posts with extras** (with the free Secure Custom Fields plugin; one click installs it): subtitle, header layout per post (standard, cover, split, minimal), series in parts with navigation, sponsored/affiliate/gifted disclosures, key takeaways, photo stories (carousel, stack or masonry), hand-picked related posts, recipe cards (ingredient groups, servings scaler, print, nutrition, Google rich results) and trip itineraries (day by day, places, a map that loads after a click).
* **Author profiles:** tagline, portrait, location and links on author boxes and author pages.
* **Save for later:** bookmark buttons and a reading list kept in the visitor's browser.
* **Filters:** keyword, topic, series, kind of post and sort on the journal, archives and search.
* **Forms:** contact, newsletter and request forms with a Messages inbox in wp-admin, spam protection and privacy tools.
* **Galleries and video:** masonry and carousel galleries with a slideshow lightbox, featured video, click-to-load YouTube and Vimeo.
* **Light and dark:** a "Night ink" scheme with a switch in the header, and five style variations (Sepia, Sage, Berry, Night ink, Modern type).
* **Demo content:** Appearance → Import demo creates a home page, posts with recipes, a walking itinerary, two series, photo stories, About, Contact, Series and Reading list pages and a menu.

No page builder needed. Everything is made of blocks and patterns you can edit in the Site Editor.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Where do contact form messages go? =

To Messages in wp-admin, and by email to the site's admin address. Change the recipient under Messages → Settings, or per form in the form block's settings.

= Do I need Secure Custom Fields? =

The theme works without it. The post extras (subtitle, recipes, trips, series covers, photo stories, author profiles) are edited with Secure Custom Fields; Longhand offers to install and activate it in one click.

= How do I add a recipe or an itinerary to a post? =

Open the post, scroll to Post details below the editor, and switch on "This post has a recipe" (Recipe tab) or "This post has a trip itinerary" (Trip tab). The recipe card and the itinerary appear in the post automatically.

= How does "Save for later" work? =

The bookmark button stores the post in the visitor's browser (nothing is sent to your site). The Saved button in the header lists them. Turn it off under Appearance → Blog settings.

= Can I turn off the animations? =

They follow the visitor's "reduce motion" setting. Remove the motion classes from a block under its Motion panel.

= How do I switch to dark mode? =

Visitors use the moon button in the header; by default the theme follows their system. Choose the Night ink style variation to make the dark palette the only one.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.0 =
* First release.

== Copyright ==

Longhand WordPress Theme, (C) 2026 Symelo LTD. Longhand is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

== Resources ==

* Literata, (C) 2017 The Literata Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1, https://github.com/googlefonts/literata
* Hanken Grotesk, (C) 2021 The Hanken Grotesk Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1, https://github.com/marcologous/hanken-grotesk
* Caveat, (C) 2014 The Caveat Project Authors, SIL Open Font License 1.1, https://github.com/googlefonts/caveat
* Images: Symelo placeholder library (https://dev.symelo.com/tools/placeholder-images), (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, distributed with the theme under the GPLv2 or later: food-2, food-5, food-11, travel-1, travel-5, travel-9, workspace-11, interiors-2, nature-4 (in inc/foundation/demo/images).
* assets/images/hand-writing.webp: "Writing" photo from the WordPress Photo Directory, CC0, https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/4756694517/ (cropped, resized).
* assets/images/notebook-page.webp: notebook photo from the WordPress Photo Directory, CC0, https://wordpress.org/photos/photo/632620a981/ (cropped, resized).
* assets/video/longhand-coast.mp4: a slow push-in made from the Symelo placeholder library image travel-1, (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, distributed with the theme under the GPLv2 or later.
* Symelo Theme Kit and the Symelo blog foundation: (C) 2026 Symelo LTD, GPLv2 or later.
