TownPress v3.8.1 - Municipality & Town Government WordPress Theme

TownPress is a free premium WordPress theme designed for municipal, parish, town and city websites. It is designed to meet all the basic requirements of a contemporary city.TownPress has a variety of niche-specific features such as local weather widgets, listing directories, upcoming events, town files, galleries, and more.All of this is crammed into the typical three-column style.

European quality - attention to detail in frontend, backend and code.Its five-star rating is also backed by comprehensive documentation and reliable service through support and pre-sale forums or private messages.

With over 100 updates since its first release, TownPress has proven to be one of the most reliable WordPress themes!

Demo: https://theme forest.net/item/town press-municipality-WordPress-theme/11490395

Clean code will not only please developers (if you decide to perform some complex code customization), but also people with disabilities and search engines, because TownPress is designed with strong accessibility and SEO standards in mind.

TownPress Lets you build custom color schemes in just a few clicks to better fit your city's logo.Of course, this is a responsive theme, so your website will look great on both mobile and desktop platforms!

TownPress is ready to translate into your language (RTL support) and optimized for the WordPress block editor (Gutenberg). ThisElementorplugins andWPBakery Page Builderare supported.

Features: TownPress – Municipality & Town Government WordPress Theme

  • The Listings module is a great choice for displaying business directories in your city with important contact information and hours of operation.
  • The Documentation module allows you to view local attachments and external URLs uploaded to your WordPress installation.
  • The Events module is a powerful system for organizing town events with accurate location, date, time and repeat support.
  • The Gallery module is the most efficient way to showcase beautiful photo galleries of your town's most important assets, areas of interest and buildings.
  • The news module will help you keep abreast of the people, visitors and members of the public in your city.
  • The notification module is a convenient way to display basic informational messages without blocking the main news flow.
  • The People module is an essential tool for presenting professional biographies of elected officials, service members, and workers in a simple and engaging manner.
  • Directory entries and event locations are supported on Google Maps, Mapbox, and Open Street Map.
  • Mobile-friendly design: The theme looks great and is easy to use on devices with different screen widths.
  • Gutenberg-compatible: Support for the WordPress native editor, allowing you to simply create custom pages. A third-party page builder is not required (but it also works with Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder).
  • TownPress supports the bbPress plugin, which can be used to create powerful forums on your website.
  • Custom Color Schemes: Create custom color schemes by choosing the main color from the admin with a few clicks, or get more involved by using a specific CSS (SCSS) file and changing each color of the theme.
  • Translation files included: This theme, along with all provided LSVR plugins, is fully translatable.
  • Modular post types: To keep your admins completely bloated, you can disable post types you don't need.
  • The following demo materials are included: In a few minutes, you can recreate the live preview site (however, please note that demo images are not included for copyright reasons).
  • Developer-friendly code: All front-end code can be covered by sub-themes, and the code is well commented.
  • The following child themes are included: Prepare your site for more complex code customization.
  • RTL support: When you change your site language to RTL, the theme will automatically switch to RTL (right-to-left) mode.
  • PHP 8 Compatibility: Get the most out of your server by using the latest version of PHP.

Changelog: TownPress – Municipality & Town Government WordPress Theme

v3.8.1 - 27 January 2022
Updated WPBakery Page Builder plugin to 6.8.0 (learn how to update it https://themeforest.net/item/townpress-municipality-wordpress-theme/11490395/faqs/32829)

v3.8.0
Changed accent colors to more contrast ones for all predefined color schemes for increased accessibility.
To switch back to original colors, just go to Appearance / Cutomize / Colors, set "Set Colors By" to "Custom Colors"
and change Accent to one of these values:
Default: #ec5237
Blue: #2196F3
Green: #4CAF50
Orange: #FB8C00
Blue grey: #607D8B
Fixed issue with the child theme so its style.css is now properly loaded after the color scheme. To make the change on the existing installation, overwrite line 10 in functions.php of your child theme with this line:
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'lsvr_townpress_child_enqueue_parent_styles', 20 );
Updated LSVR Events plugin to 1.9.6
Updated LSVR Galleries plugin to 1.7.2
Updated child theme to version 3.1.1
Changed core files:
style.css, assets, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.7.3
Items in the first level of navigation in both Header Menu and Header Mobile Menu can now contain an icon. Just add the icon class to the "Description" field of the menu item (it works for the menu assigned to the TownPress Menu widget as well).
Updated LSVR TownPress Toolkit plugin to 1.5.9
Changed core files:
style.css, assets, rtl.css, inc/classes/lsvr-townpress-header-menu-walker.php, inc/classes/lsvr-townpress-header-mobile-menu-walker.php

v3.7.2
Added an option to set a default right sidebar for pages which do not offer its choice in the Customizer, like search results page or 3rd party CPT pages. You can find this option under Appearance / Misc / Default Right Sidebar.
Fixed minor issues with theme translation files
Changed core files:
style.css, languages, inc/classes/tgm-plugin-activation.php, inc/actions, inc/customizer-config.php, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.7.1
Improved PHP 8 compatibility
Updated LSVR Elements plugin to 1.4.8
Updated LSVR Events plugin to 1.9.5
Updated LSVR Framework plugin to 1.8.5
Updated LSVR Galleries plugin to 1.7.1
Updated LSVR 3rd Party Toolkit to 1.2.3
Various small fixes
Changed core files:
style.css, inc/classes/class-tgm-plugin-activation.php, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.7.0
Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.8
Updated LSVR Framework plugin to 1.8.4
Updated LSVR TownPress Toolkit plugin to 1.5.8
Changed core files:
style.css, functions.php, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.6.10
Updated WPBakery Page Builder plugin to 6.7.0 (learn how to update it https://themeforest.net/item/townpress-municipality-wordpress-theme/11490395/faqs/32829)
Changed core files:
style.css

v3.6.9
Fixed issue in TownPress Posts element with chosen category not working properly.
Updated LSVR TownPress Toolkit plugin to 1.5.7
Changed core files:
style.css, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.6.8
Fixed issue with LSVR Posts widget and TownPress Posts element so the sticky posts will now show at the top as they should.
Updated LSVR TownPress Toolkit plugin to 1.5.6
Updated LSVR Elements plugin to 1.4.7
Changed core files:
style.css, languages, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.6.7
Fixed issue with TownPress Posts element and LSVR Posts widget.
Updated LSVR Elements plugin to 1.4.6
Updated LSVR TownPress Theme Toolkit plugin to 1.5.5
Changed core files:
style.css, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.6.6
Fixed issue with the displayed number of external document attachments in admin.
Updated LSVR Documents plugin to 1.7.2
Updated LSVR Elements plugin to 1.4.5
Updated LSVR TownPress Theme Toolkit plugin to 1.5.4
Updated WPBakery Page Builder plugin to 6.6.0 (learn how to update it https://themeforest.net/item/townpress-municipality-wordpress-theme/11490395/faqs/32829)
Changed core files:
style.css, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.6.5
You can now use CURRENT_YEAR variable in the footer text field to display the current year.
Updated LSVR Events plugin to 1.9.3
Updated LSVR Framework plugin to 1.8.3
Changed core files:
style.css, languages, inc/customizer-config.php, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins
Changed template files:
template-parts/footer/text.php

v3.6.4
Updated LSVR Elements plugin to 1.4.4
Changed core files:
style.css, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.6.3
Improved compatibility with WordPress 5.6
Updated LSVR 3rd Party Toolkit plugin to 1.1.1
Updated LSVR Elements plugin to 1.4.3
Updated LSVR Events plugin to 1.9.2
Updated WPBakery Page Builder plugin to 6.5.0 (learn how to update it https://themeforest.net/item/townpress-municipality-wordpress-theme/11490395/faqs/32829)
Changed core files:
style.css, assets, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins

v3.6.2
Fixed issue with LSVR Event Calendar widget displaying wrong day numbers in some cases
Added option to disable masonry layout on gallery detail page (you can toggle it under Appearance / Customize / Galleries)
Fixed issues with structured data for improved SEO
Updated LSVR Events plugin to 1.9.1
Updated LSVR Framework plugin to 1.8.2
Updated WPBakery Page Builder plugin to 6.4.2 (learn how to update it https://themeforest.net/item/townpress-municipality-wordpress-theme/11490395/faqs/32829)
Various small fixes
Changed core files:
style.css, assets, languages, inc/actions.php, inc/lsvr-directory/actions.php, inc/lsvr-documents/actions.php, inc/lsvr-events/actions.php, inc/lsvr-galleries/actions.php, inc/lsvr-galleries/customzer-config.php, inc/lsvr-galleries/frontend-functions.php, inc/lsvr-notices/actions.php, inc/lsvr-people/actions.php, inc/tgm-settings.php, inc/plugins
Changed template files:
template-parts/lsvr_gallery/singe-images.php