VellumArchive WordPress Theme
Vellum is built for herbariums and botanical archives, and it deliberately breaks from the catalogue's usual dark themes with a light, high-key paper palette. Body and headline type run in the editorial serif Spectral rather than a grotesque display face, giving it a research-journal voice instead of a tech-startup one. A persistent sticky-pane split screen keeps each specimen paired with its field notes as you scroll, so image and annotation never separate.
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Highlights
- Light, high-key paper palette — deliberately not another dark theme
- Editorial serif voice (Spectral) instead of a grotesque display face
- Persistent sticky-pane split screen pairs a specimen image with its notes
- Specimen content type with genus/species, collection date & habitat
Overview
Vellum breaks the studio’s recurring skeleton on purpose: a light, high-key paper palette instead of another dark theme, an editorial serif voice (Spectral) rather than a grotesque display face for the hero, and a persistent sticky-pane split screen — one pane holds a specimen image steady while the facing pane scrolls through its taxonomic notes, the way an actual herbarium sheet pairs a pressed specimen with its label.
A Specimen content type carries genus/species, collection date and habitat fields, giving botanical archives real structured taxonomy instead of a generic ‘gallery’ post type.
What's included
- Full theme source — every template, style sheet & script
- One-click demo importer (idempotent, no page builder)
- Live Customizer controls for copy, colours & content
- Translation-ready .pot file + RTL stylesheet
- HTML documentation + a CHANGELOG file
- Lifetime updates + 6 months support (renewable)
Specifications
| WordPress | 5.6 – 7.0 |
|---|---|
| PHP | 8.0 – 8.3 |
| Browsers | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (latest) |
| Layout | Fully responsive, mobile → desktop |
| Localization | Translation-ready · RTL included |
| Accessibility | Keyboard-navigable · prefers-reduced-motion |
| Page builder | Not required — native Customizer |
| License | GNU GPL v2 · single-site commercial |
Release
The complete, dated version history ships in the theme’s CHANGELOG file. Every purchase includes lifetime access to future updates.
