Title: Poet Author: Ben Sibley Published: 22 June 2015 Last modified: 14 November 2018 --- # Poet ![Ben Sibley avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/300547007f18e9a5b8eab3d451fd11f18a1c008b405403387d36656247e2d962? s=24&d=mm&r=g) [Ben Sibley](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/author/bensibley/) This theme **hasn’t been updated in over 2 years**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/poet/1.2/screenshot.png?w=post-thumbnail& strip=all) [Preview](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/poet/preview/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/poet.1.2.zip) This is a child theme of [Author](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/author/). * Version 1.2 * Last updated November 14, 2018 * Active installations 100+ * [Theme homepage](https://www.competethemes.com/poet/) Poet is a child theme for the Author theme and brings a new colour palette to this beautiful theme. Poet is designed for publishers who want readers. That’s why Poet is fast, responsive, accessibility-ready, and optimally designed for reading. All scripts and stylesheets are minified, concatenated, and conditionally loaded to maximise 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, Poet features a layout that promotes readability. Use Poet 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. Preview Poet now on desktop, tablets, and mobile devices with the interactive live demo: https://www.competethemes.com/demos/?theme=poet ## Features [Accessibility ready](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/accessibility-ready/), [Black](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/black/), [Blue](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/blue/), [Custom menu](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-menu/), [Dark](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/dark/), [Featured images](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/featured-images/), [Fluid Layout](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/fluid-layout/), [Grey](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/gray/), [Left sidebar](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/left-sidebar/), [Light](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/light/), [One column](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/one-column/), [Responsive Layout](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/responsive-layout/), [RTL language support](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/rtl-language-support/), [Silver](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/silver/), [Sticky post](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/sticky-post/), [Tan](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/tan/), [Theme options](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/theme-options/), [Threaded comments](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/threaded-comments/), [Translation ready](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/translation-ready/), [Two columns](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/two-columns/), [White](https://en-gb.wordpress.org/themes/tags/white/) ## Downloads per day Active Installations: **100+** ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 1 5-star review ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/poet/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/poet/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/poet/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/poet/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/poet/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/poet/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/poet/reviews/) ## Support Got something to say? 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