✦ SCDEV THEME PAGES
The WordPress blog theme that doesn’t scroll. There is almost nothing else like it.
Every WordPress theme scrolls. That’s just how it works — content stacks vertically, you scroll down to read it, you scroll back up to navigate. It’s been that way since the beginning. Theme Pages doesn’t do that.
It presents content as paginated views. One page at a time. Full viewport. You move through a post the way you’d move through a presentation or a photo gallery — forward and back, not up and down.
It’s a fundamentally different reading experience, and there are very few themes in the WordPress ecosystem that attempt it at all. Fewer still that do it well.
▸ HOW IT WORKS
Your post content is split into pages using WordPress’s built-in page break system. Add a page break in the editor and the theme treats each section as its own full-screen view. The reader moves through them one at a time.
On desktop: arrow buttons on the sides, or keyboard arrow keys. On mobile: swipe left and right.
The footer shows a page counter. Tap it and a page picker appears — jump directly to any page in the post without swiping through all of them.
No scrolling. No endless page. Just clean, deliberate navigation through content that was written to be read that way.
☰ THE RADIAL MENU
Traditional navigation bars don’t fit a no-scroll layout. They take up space, they compete with the content, and they feel wrong when the whole point is a clean, immersive view.
Theme Pages uses a radial menu instead. A single button — positioned wherever you want it — that expands into a circular navigation when tapped or clicked. It stays out of the way until you need it, then disappears again when you’re done.
Two radial menus are supported: one for the header area, one for the footer. Both are configurable from Appearance → Menus. The button styling — size, color, position — is all in the Customizer.
📋 THE ARCHIVE — CARDS THAT SWIPE
The archive page follows the same philosophy. On desktop it’s a clean three-column card grid. On mobile, it becomes a swipeable single-card view — one post at a time, left and right, no scrolling through a long list.
It’s consistent. The whole theme feels like one thing, not a collection of separate templates that happen to share a stylesheet.
💬 COMMENTS — THEIR OWN PAGE
Comments don’t get bolted onto the bottom of the last content page. They get their own dedicated page — the final view in the post. Scrollable comment list, pinned comment form at the bottom.
It’s a small structural decision that makes a big difference to how the whole thing feels. Comments are part of the experience, not an afterthought appended after the content ends.
🎨 CUSTOMIZATION
Full Customizer support — colors, opacity, animations, radial button styling. Dark mode is admin-controlled from the Customizer. Visitors don’t toggle it; you set the mode for the site.
Per-post meta controls let you show or hide the title, author, category, date, and comments count on each post individually. Not a global setting — per post, in the editor.
Featured images work as full-viewport backgrounds per page. Set a featured image on a post and it becomes the background for that post’s view. You can also set a manual background URL per post in the meta box.
The single post layout is two-column on desktop — content on one side, meta and context on the other. On mobile it stacks cleanly.
◈ WHO IS THEME PAGES FOR?
Bloggers who want their site to feel different from every other WordPress blog on the internet.
Writers who think about how their content is read, not just what it says. The page-by-page format encourages writing in sections — each page a complete thought, not a wall of text.
Photographers and visual creators who want each image or piece of content to have the full screen to itself.
Anyone who’s looked at the standard WordPress blog layout and thought: there has to be another way.
There is. This is it.
✦ THE SHORT VERSION
No scrolling. Page-by-page navigation. Swipe on mobile, arrows on desktop. Radial menu. Swipeable archive cards. Comments on their own dedicated page. Per-post meta controls. Full-viewport featured image backgrounds. Dark mode. All of it built into the theme.
There are very few WordPress themes that work this way. Theme Pages is one of them.
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