Blogue – Personal Blog WordPress Template Theme Overview
Blogue is a personal blog layout from the seller TemeGUM, aimed at one writer rather than a publication with sections and desks. The marketplace calls it a template; it installs as an ordinary WordPress theme, with a child theme, sample content and a Redux options panel.
What distinguishes it is a small set of reader interactions on the listing page itself. A visitor can comment without opening the article, mark a piece to read later, and register that it was useful, and a view counter sits beside each entry. Timeline, grid and masonry listings, infinite scroll, a sliding sidebar and a lightbox gallery make up the rest.
It was first released in January 2017 and last published in early 2019, which is the context for the notes below.
Key Features of Blogue – Personal Blog WordPress Template Theme
- Comment entry from the article listing, without opening the post
- Pin an article to read later, cleared once the reader has opened it
- A reader reaction marking an article useful to others
- View counter on each article
- Timeline, grid and masonry listing styles
- Infinite scroll on the article feed
- Sliding sidebar and a lightbox gallery
- Edit link shown in the listing view for editors and administrators
- Grey preset style and per-category icons
- Child theme, sample content file and a translation-ready text domain
Who Blogue – Personal Blog WordPress Template Theme Is Suitable For
Blogue fits one person writing regularly who wants readers to react and come back, rather than a masthead with contributors and sections. Food, photography and personal-essay sites are the obvious match, and the pin-for-later behaviour rewards longer pieces. An owner needing current platform integrations or an active release cadence should choose a newer item here.
Important Notes About Blogue – Personal Blog WordPress Template Theme
The marketplace tag list advertises a Twitter widget and Instagram, which the readable feature text never mentions. Both depend on a platform’s own interface, both changed after this theme was last published, and no removal line exists anywhere in the listing, so a social feed here means a current third-party plugin and the owner’s own platform access. The credits also name the separate Social Count Plus plugin, which counts followers the same way.
The version signals disagree. The packaged style.css reads 1.1.1 while the newest published entry is 1.1.0 of February 2019, with a marketplace file update the following month, so a release went out undocumented and the version string cannot date the download. A page builder appears only in the release history, under the vendor’s own name, and the marketplace record names no builder at all; WooCommerce is in the same position. Confirm both on the demo.
The declared WordPress range reaches releases from years after the package was last touched, so it is not evidence that anything recent was tested. Documentation is declared as complete and its link works, but over plain http on the demo subdomain. Most sales material is a single image, so the demo is the honest account of the layout. Demo images are excluded, and AppiAppi gives no legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
AppiAppi installs and licenses the theme, migrates existing posts, categories and images, and sets the listing style, sidebar and article template. We configure the reader interactions and the view counter, arrange the author block, related entries and pagination, connect a sign-up block to the owner’s mail provider, and check the comment flow, feeds, structured data and sharing markup. Because the package predates recent WordPress releases, we test it against the current core and PHP before launch and keep it patched. Our AI-assisted SEO and copywriting service can be added to the build.
Original design by TemeGUM. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source