LightNovel is made for creators who want to introduce their novel works through a personal website with proper features and best design. WordPress theme for reading online novel with a convenient design for desktop and mobile.
LightNovel Features
- Responsive design
- Slider
- RTL support
- Dark mode
- SEO optimized
- Hot Series Update
- Popular Widget (optimized)
- Filter Search Widget
- Genre Widget
- New Series Widget
- History Widget
- AutoComplete Search (include tag and alternative title search)
- Series list page
- AZ list page
- Read Option (Change background color & font)
- Bookmark page (without login)
- color theme feature (to change the basic color)
- Photon CDN (to speed up image load)
- Built-in Cache (speed up web load and reduce your server load)
- Integration with WP Fastest Cache plugin
- Support Autoptimize plugin
- Ads space ready (Ads Management)
- Free PDF Downloader Plugin for LightNovel theme
- Integration with SoraLink plugin
Requirements
- PHP 8.1 – 8.4
- Ioncube loader PHP Extension
- cURL PHP Extension
- fileinfo PHP Extension
- WordPress version required 5.9+
Changelog
1.1.6 – 26 December 2025
- Requirement: Starting with version 1.1.6 it requires PHP 8.1 - 8.4 to run the theme
1.1.5 – 14 October 2023
- Fixed: Bug that affects the "Sort Chapters" feature when dealing with a series that has a large number of chapters
- Improvement: PHP 8.1 compatibility
- Improvement: Main CSS
- Improvement: RTL CSS
1.1.4 – 31 July 2023
- Requirement: Starting with version 1.1.4 it requires PHP 7.4 or 8.1 to run the theme
- Added: 'Add' new chapter button on series posts list (admin area)
- Added: 'Latest Chapter' displayed next to the 'Add' Chapter button in the series posts list (admin area)
- Added: Latest Reading area in Series info page
- Added: Rating filter
- Improvement: Photon CDN
- Improvement: Popular Today
- Improvement: Main CSS
- Improvement: RTL CSS
- Update: Language file
1.1.3 – 9 February 2023
- Fixed: Remove Slug Bug
- Added: Change slug feature
- Added: Integration with W3 Total Cache, WP Rocket, WP Super Cache
- Added: option to purge Built-in cache files periodically. Instead of Purging all the cache at once, in the first 15 minutes, periodic purge cache will slowly regenerate all the cache.
- Added: option to set Anime List using AZ Heading, if disabled, the Heading will take the data from the existing item in list
- Improvement: child theme
- Improvement: Performance
- Improvement: Main CSS
- Improvement: RTL CSS
- Update: language file
1.1.2 – 21 November 2022
- Fixed: status label in popular today and tooltip
- Added: option to hide post author and post date
1.1.1 – 7 October 2022
- Improvement: Ads Management
- Improvement: Trending this week
- Improvement: Theme panel
1.1.0 – 25 August 2022
- Fixed: chapter list order
- Rework: homepage
- Rework: popular widget (added weekly and monthly popular section)
- Rework: hot update area based on today's most viewed series or based on series that have the most users online
- Added: child theme
- Added: style 4 for homepage thumbnail
- Added: style 2 for series info
- Added: reset view feature
- Added: option to hide view counter
- Added: Template part for widget popular, genres and new series
- Improvement: new series widget content to always up to date even if page is fully cached [Built-in Cache and ajax cache must be enabled]
- Improvement: trending now based on weekly popular
- Improvement: view system
- Improvement: Theme panel
- Improvement: Main CSS
- Improvement: RTL CSS
- Improvement: built-in cache
- Improvement: Performance
- Update: Language file
1.0.7 – 10 March 2022
- Added: share button on blog post
- Added: required attribute for input chapter and select series
- Improvement: blog
- Improvement: reader area (single post)
- Improvement: main CSS
- Update: language file
1.0.6 – 26 January 2022
- Added: compatibility for WordPress v5.9
- Added: compatibility for comment system with closed status
- Improvement: Slightly improved front end performance
1.0.5 – 24 August 2021
- Added: feature to change the author in post type series
- Added: script to change widget editor to classic version
- Added: feature to sort chapter
- Added: feature to reset view
- Added: feature to push to latest update manually
- Added: RTL support
- Improvement: Main CSS
1.0.4 – 13 March 2021
- Fixed: First & last chapter feature is not working properly
- Improvement: Built-in cache
1.0.3 – 12 March 2021
- Added: Total Series/Chapter View Count on admin dashboard
- Added: Sorting option for chapterlist (When changing this option, please flush built-in cache)
- Added: Capability to group chapters by their volume (When changing this option, please flush built-in cache)
- Added: Volume implementation
- Added: Malaysia language to synopsis auto translate
- Improvement: Built-in cache
- Improvement: Popular, New Series, Genre widget
- Improvement: Reading option feature
- Improvement: Photon implementation
- Improvement: PDF downloader
- Improvement: Main CSS
- Update: Language file
1.0.2 – 16 November 2020
- Fixed: Shortcode appear not in correct place
- Added: PDF Downloader Plugin
- Added: Integration with SoraLink plugin
- Added: Disable option for featured image single blog
- Added: Template part for chapter list
- Added: Author page
- Added: Scripts in Header & Footer (Theme panel)
- Added: Hiatus status
- Added: Shortcode area in homepage
- Added: Shortcode for custom series page based on meta & taxonomy
- Improvement: Performance
- Improvement: Recommended Series
- Improvement: Comment Feature
- Improvement: Related Series
- Improvement: AZ List
- Improvement: Reading Area
- Improvement: Ads Management
- Improvement: Main CSS
- Update: Language file
1.0.1 – 11 July 2020
- Fixed: Built-in cache
- Improvement: Main CSS
1.0 – 6 July 2020
- LightNovel released
