The Columnist WordPress Theme
The Columnist is a quality responsive WordPress theme for personal and magazine-style blogs. Extremely customizable: you can separately set different layouts to homepage, archives, single pages, bbPress and BuddyPress. The theme includes responsive customisable slider (no plugins needed!) and five color themes (including completely custom colors). Content can be displayed in up to four-column layout. The theme also includes bbPress and BuddyPress styles. It is built with highest coding standards in mind and is regularly updated. Support is available on the creator's website. This was a premium theme before but now all features are available for free.
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Usage of The Columnist over time
May 2023 — July 2024Between May 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites using this theme went from 5 to 7 — up 2 (+40%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| June 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 7 | +1 |
| February 2024 | 6 | +0 |
| January 2024 | 6 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| November 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| August 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| July 2023 | 6 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 6 | +1 |
| May 2023 | 5 | — |
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