LightNovel WordPress Theme

1.1.5

LightNovel theme is made for you who want to build an online novel reading site 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 7.4 or 8.1
  • Latest Ioncube loader
  • cURL PHP Extension
  • fileinfo PHP Extension
  • WordPress version required 5.9+

Changelog

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
IDR 250.000 ($21)
5 average based on 271 ratings.
Version1.1.5
Last Update14 October 2023
Created6 July 2020
WP Required5.9+
WP Tested6.4.3

Support

  • Responsive
  • Widgets
  • Built-in Cache
  • SEO Ready
  • Ads Management Ready

Benefit

  • Lifetime License (1 license key only for 1 domain, 1 installation)
  • 1 Year Free Update & Download Access
  • Support Access

Browser Support

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • UC Browser
  • Edge
  • Opera
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