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Inkwell
A literary journal theme with real poetry support: preserved line breaks, hanging indents, and a measure that does not fight the poem.
== Description ==
Poetry breaks every assumption a blog theme makes. Lines must not reflow arbitrarily, long lines need a hanging indent rather than a centre-aligned wrap, and stanza spacing is semantic. Inkwell’s verse block handles all three, and does it in the editor as well as on the front end.
Issues are a taxonomy and contributors are a post type, so a poet’s page lists everything of theirs across nine years without anyone maintaining a list.
The measure is 58 characters for prose and unconstrained for verse, because a poem was set to a width by its author and a theme should not second-guess it.
== Screenshots ==
Numbered the way they ship in /assets/. Click any one to see it full width.
== Installation ==
- Install and activate the theme.
- Create an issue term, then add pieces to it.
- Use the Verse block for poetry and the ordinary paragraph block for prose.
Contributor pages are generated from the contributor post type. There is no separate author account needed.
== Frequently asked questions ==
Does the verse block preserve spacing?
Leading spaces, internal spacing and blank lines, all preserved and all editable.
What about translations printed facing?
A two-column facing pattern that stacks on narrow screens, keeping stanza alignment.
== Changelog ==
= 1.9.1 =
- Fixed: hanging indent applied to the first line of a stanza after a page break in print styles.
= 1.9.0 =
- Facing-translation pattern.
- Verse block preserves leading whitespace in the editor as well as the front end.
= 1.5.0 =
- Contributor post type with cross-issue archives.