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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.