Easy story sharing with our simple responsive blogging theme!

Broadsword is a unique, beautiful, simple and responsive WordPress theme that makes sharing stories easy. This premium personal WordPress blog theme offers a minimal design with maximum appeal in a way that’s quick to set up and easy to use. With 4 unique and creative homepage layouts to choose from, Broadsword is professionally crafted to draw visitors in. The modern single-column post pages, with clean typography, keeps the focus on your content, while full width featured images, elegant CSS effects, and optional tiled image galleries help bring blog post entries to life.

Currently: Broadsword v1.5 – New Features + Customization options!
v1.5 launched on April 23 2015. We listen to all our customer’s feedback!

Whether you are a professional or hobby blogger, Broadsword helps you share your stories in a beautiful and simple way. Designed for blogs where images help tell the writer’s tales, this blog theme would work especially well for travel journals, portfolios and photography blogs, or any niche, lifestyle, food, fashion, hipster, or creative blogs.

Keeping it simple means that Broadsword is not bloated down with overwhelming choices, but instead focuses on what’s important to get you blogging sooner. Don’t underestimate Broadsword’s simplicity though – built with HTML5 and CSS3 on the Underscores (_s) and Bootstrap frameworks, it’s reliable, flexible and responsive! Backed by the Warriors of Code’s awesome customer support, Broadsword comes with everything you need to kick start your blog!

See this beautiful blog theme in action!

• Vertical Full-Screen Background Homepage Layout
• Vertical Column Background Homepage Layout
• Horizontal FullScreen Background Homepage Layout
• Horizontal Column Background Homepage Layout
• Full Width Blog Post Page (no side bar)
• Custom Contact Page
• Custom 404 Page
• Category Page
• Sample Text Page

Theme Features:

• Fully Responsive Design (Mobile, Tablet & Desktop Friendly)
• Modern, Clean and Minimalist theme
• Simple and easy to use
• Tailored layout puts focus on content and stories
• Unique home page layout options
• SEO friendly!
• Full-width blog theme layout (no sidebar)
• Widgetized footer for customisability
• WordPress customizer with live preview
• HiDPI and retina ready display
• Child theme ready
• Beautiful typography
• Inbuilt Google web fonts switcher
• Translation / localization ready (Fully supported)
• Custom contact form
• Custom 404 page
• Unique custom featured page overlay
• Slide-out menu
• Optional tiled image galleries
• HTML5 with CSS3 effects and transitions
• Built on Underscores (_s) and Bootstrap frameworks
• Layered .PSD file for easy modifications
• Demo data included
• Extensive Documentation, clear and concise
• Excellent customer support
• And backed by The Warriors who are based in the North America and Australia. That means we cover all time zones across the globe!

We understand website speed is so important. So we’ve avoided bloating this WordPress theme with unnecessary plugins. Here are the ones we’ve installed.

Plugins Installed:

• WP Retina 2x
• WP Tiles
• Responsive Lightbox
• TGM

Changelog:

Version 1.5 : April 20, 2015
-Footer widget update. 
-Updated Open Graph meta tags.

Version 1.4 : April 13, 2015
-Fixed footer widget bug. 

Version 1.3 : April 6, 2015
- [NEW FEATURE] Liquid Homepage Design (If the number of pages/posts is less than the width of the page, the columns widen to fill the page evenly).
- [NEW FEATURE] User can update footer text in Customizer.
- [NEW FEATURE] User can show/hide the copyright date in Customizer.
- [NEW FEATURE] User can select posts or pages for the front page in Customizer.
- [NEW FEATURE] User can show/hide the post date info on the front page columns in Customizer.

Version 1.2 : March 10, 2015
-Fixed directional arrow issue on front page. 
-Fixed php 5.2 background image bug. 
-Fixed Firefox customizer radio button issue.

Version 1.1 : March 3, 2015
- Made archive thumbnail images fullwidth on smaller mobile devices
- Added a broadsword-demo.xml import file containing the content from the online demo site