Title: Author
Author: Ben Sibley
Published: March 18, 2015
Last modified: June 25, 2025

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# Author

![Ben Sibley Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/300547007f18e9a5b8eab3d451fd11f18a1c008b405403387d36656247e2d962?
s=24&d=mm&r=g)

[Ben Sibley](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/author/bensibley/)

![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/author/1.56/screenshot.png?w=post-
thumbnail&strip=all)

[Preview](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/author/preview/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/author.1.56.zip)

 *  Version 1.56
 *  Last updated June 25, 2025
 *  Active installations 3,000+
 *  PHP version 5.6.40
 *  [Theme homepage](https://www.competethemes.com/author/)

Author is designed for publishers who want readers. That’s why Author is fast, responsive,
accessibility-ready, and optimally designed for reading. All scripts and stylesheets
are minified, concatenated, and conditionally loaded to maximize performance. The
layout adapts fluidly to all screen sizes to enhance usability. As one of few accessibility-
ready themes, it performs well for users with wide ranges of disabilities. Based
on the ancient Van de Graaf canon, Author features a layout that promotes readability.
Use Author to create a simple blog, magazine, or news website. The simple and minimalist
design works great for gaming, business, fashion, music, food, travel, and photography
niches. Now with complete WooCommerce support for eCommerce stores and fully compatible
with the new Gutenberg post editor. Preview Author now on desktop, tablets, and 
mobile devices with the interactive live demo: https://www.competethemes.com/demos/?
theme=author

## Features

[Accessibility ready](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready/),
[Blog](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/blog/), [Custom logo](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-logo/),
[Custom menu](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-menu/), [Education](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/education/),
[Featured images](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/featured-images/), [Left sidebar](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/left-sidebar/),
[News](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/news/), [One column](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/one-column/),
[RTL language support](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/rtl-language-support/),
[Sticky post](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/sticky-post/), [Theme options](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/theme-options/),
[Threaded comments](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/threaded-comments/), 
[Translation ready](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/translation-ready/), 
[Two columns](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/two-columns/), [Wide blocks](https://test.wordpress.org/themes/tags/wide-blocks/)

## Downloads per day

Active Installations: **3,000+**

## Ratings

 4.9 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  94 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/author/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  7 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/author/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  0 3-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/author/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/author/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/author/reviews/?filter=1)

[Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/author/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/author/reviews/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

[View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/author/)

## Report

Does this theme have major issues?

[Report this theme](https://make.wordpress.org/themes/report-theme/?rep-theme=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fthemes%2Fauthor%2F&rep-subject=Reported+Theme%3A+Author)

## Translations

This theme is available in the following languages: [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/themes/author/),
[Español de Chile](https://cl.wordpress.org/themes/author/), [Español de Colombia](https://es-co.wordpress.org/themes/author/),
[Español de Ecuador](https://es-ec.wordpress.org/themes/author/), [Español](https://es.wordpress.org/themes/author/),
[Español de México](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/themes/author/), [Español de Venezuela](https://ve.wordpress.org/themes/author/),
[فارسی](https://fa.wordpress.org/themes/author/), [Italiano](https://it.wordpress.org/themes/author/),
[Nederlands](https://nl.wordpress.org/themes/author/), [Русский](https://ru.wordpress.org/themes/author/),
[Svenska](https://sv.wordpress.org/themes/author/), [Türkçe](https://tr.wordpress.org/themes/author/),
[Українська](https://uk.wordpress.org/themes/author/), and [繁體中文](https://tw.wordpress.org/themes/author/).

[Translate this theme](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/author)

## Browse the code

[Development log](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/log/author)

[Subversion repository](https://themes.svn.wordpress.org/author)

[Browse in Trac](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/author)

[Trac tickets](https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/query?keywords=~theme-author)

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