In a few words, Royalty can be defined by beauty through simplicity. It can be used for a wide range of sites from corporate / business to photography, blogging and portfolios.

Features:

• 8 different skins
• 6 layout templates
• unlimited sidebars
• Powerful backend option panels: 40 admin options for content management, site design and layout.
• 2 different frontpage layouts: : fullwidth and left sidebar
• 2 types of portfolios(unlimited) and gallery with custom post types: for easy management and organization.
• Blog supports 3 layout types of posts: left floated image, full-width image, and disabled image layouts. You can choose to display the slider on blog page.
• Comments: nested four levels deep. Support for comments pagination and avatars.
• 5 custom widgets: RY Blog Categories, RY Feeds, RY Social Media Links, RY Blog(shows latest blog posts), RY Flickr
• Sidebars: no less than 8 widget areas are available
• Widgetized Footer: with 4 areas
• 404 custom error page
• WP 3 .0 Menus: top menu with enabled description, which has dropdown capability to 3 levels enhanced with superfish
• Shortcodes: no less than 60 shortcodes available for content management and lots of custom styled elements
• Working jQuery contact form
• Breadcrumbs navigation
• Custom styled archives and search pages with pagination
• Custom styled lightbox: for single image, gallery, and video using prettyPhoto. Can be used with shortcodes too.
• Video support
• Easy and intuitive setup
• Translation ready(.po file included)
• Browser compatibility: IE7 -8, Firefox 3-3.6, Chrome 4-8, Safari.
• Cufon font replacement
• PSD files: all psd layouts are included, along with lots of separate elements for easier customization / personalization
• Detailed documentation.

Update 2.3.1 – May 8th, 2012

• Fixed a bug where unlimited portfolio feature(multiple portfolios of the same time) wasn’t working properly
• Now you can create unlimited gallery sections, just like portfolios 1 & 2
• Cleaned style.css of unnecessary code that was initially used for the style switcher

Update 2.3 – May 3rd, 2012

• Removed timthumb – Now the theme uses the built in wordpress media uploader for image resizing
• Improved and changed the blog functionality
• Simplified the theme’s custom posts sections: portfolio 1, portfolio 2 and gallery setup and usage
• Made improvements & fixed bugs for theme’s comments section
• Created a basic starting child theme for easier customizations
• Updated and improved the documentation

Update 2.2 – March 26th, 2012

• Fixed a display bug introduced in previous update 2.1 that was occuring on internet explorer 7-8(content was “falling” below sidebar)
• Reworked and replaced the slider module: replaced cycle plugin(created in 2007) with flex slider(created in 2012) for better optimization
• Now the slider uses the wordpress thumbnail updoad library so documentation about how to set it up was updated accordingly
• Fixed a glitch where the theme’s content was “falling” below sidebar when the window was being resized to a resolution lower than 1024×768px
• Added png files for mouse hover state graphics that were missing from the theme’s gallery section
• Adjusted the font size for headers h1-h6
• Updated the cufon js for lobster font from version 1.4 to 2.0
• Optimised the css by removing no needed classes and made small changes to some theme elements

Update 2.1 – March 16th, 2012

• Reworked the theme’s header section to display properly on ie9 and mobile devices
• Made the custom css box from theme’s backend to properly apply styles
• Fixed a handful of css bugs

Update 2.0 – November 7th, 2011

• added unlimited sidebars option
• fixed a breadcrumbs bug
• added option to enable / disable breadcrumbs
• fixed social media icons share on blog
• improved a couple of custom widgets to increase usability
• added timthumb for automatic image resizing
• updated theme’s custom options panel to the latest version
• changed the way the main homepage is created in order to improve usability and theme’s overall structure
• made a handful of css adjustments and fixed css bugs
• fixed a couple of text domain issues
• changed flickr widget layout
• improved and optimised boxes shortcodes(now you can use these with no image link too)
• altered custom posts options for easier usage
• updated the documentation

Update 1.3.1

• Fixed a css bug occurring on blog pages on ie7-ei9 browsers
• fixed a bug where google analytics code was duplicating

Update 1.3

• Fixed a bug where sidebar widgets didn’t work properly on archive pages
• Now you can easily choose to have the slider on blog pages via blog options in the custom admin panel
• Fixed a bug where comments usernames were not displaying correctly if the name was too short
• Added localization support for page navigation
• Made a couple of css bug fixes

Update 1.2

• Added 3 new shortcodes: center align picture shortcode, center align picture with lightbox shortcode and related posts shortcode(relation is made by tags)
• Fixed a bug where pagination didn’t work when blog page was set as homepage
• Fixed several shortcodes that were generating invalid content and were breaking the layout
• Now the social media icons are in a separate tab in the theme’s custom admin panel
• Remade the 404 error page with newly added options in the custom panel
• Changed the flickr widget because the old one was loading way too slow
• Made a couple of css bug fixes

Update 1.1

• Fixed the localization support – added the “load_theme_textdomain” in functions.php
• Updated the documentation with the correct table and tabs code
• fixed a couple of css issues