by Ben Sibley
4.9 (39 reviews)
Period Rank #697
Period is a dark, clean, and SEO-optimized blogging theme. As a responsive theme, it displays your content beautifully across phones, widescreen mo...
Rank
#697
Downloads
103.9K
Version
1.760
Rating
4.9
39 reviews
Description
Period is a dark, clean, and SEO-optimized blogging theme. As a responsive theme, it displays your content beautifully across phones, widescreen monitors, and everything in between. With special attention to typography, accessibility, and minimalism, Period has a design you can trust for presenting your content. Now with WooCommerce support, you can include an eCommerce shop right on your website (for free). Use Period to blog about the news, music, travel, business, gaming, you name it! It’s equally well-suited for a corporate blog or personal podcast. Period also has full compatibility with the new Gutenberg post editor. Preview Period on desktop, tablets, and mobile devices with the interactive live demo: https://www.competethemes.com/demos/?theme=period
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Theme Details
- Version
- 1.760
- Last Updated
- Oct 27, 2026
- Requires WP
- PHP Version
- 5.4+
- Author
- Ben Sibley
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Frequently Asked Questions
The Period WordPress theme has 1,000+ active installations on WordPress.org.
Period holds a 4.9 out of 5 star rating based on 39 reviews on WordPress.org.
The Period theme is created by Ben Sibley and published on the official WordPress.org theme directory.
The latest version of the Period theme is 1.760. It was last updated on October 27, 2026.
Yes. Period is a free WordPress theme available to download and install from the WordPress.org theme directory.