Loupely Canvas Lite includes a blog, and unlike the full free theme, it arrives already styled. You do not paste post templates or learn any tokens. You choose which page is your blog, write posts, and Lite renders them in a clean, readable layout.
How it differs from the full theme’s blog
The full free theme leaves post markup to you: you paste a Post card and a Single post template and style them yourself. Lite is the look and feel edition for the WordPress.org directory, so it ships a finished blog instead. Each post gets a title, the date and author, a featured image, an excerpt with a Read more link on lists, and the full content on the single view, with categories, tags, post navigation, and comments. The blog sits in a centered, readable column, while your Custom HTML pages still render full width.
Step 1: Set your Posts page
Create a Page titled something like Blog. You can leave it empty, or paste an intro into a Custom HTML block; that content renders full width above the post list. Go to Settings, Reading. To keep a separate homepage, set Your homepage displays to A static page, pick your homepage, and set the Posts page to your Blog page. To put posts at the site root, leave it on Your latest posts.
Step 2: Write posts
That is most of the work. Write a post the normal way and Lite handles the layout. The title, date, and author appear automatically. Set a Featured image and it shows on both the list and the single post. The list shows each post’s excerpt with a Read more link; the single post shows the full content. Categories and tags show at the foot of the single post.
Step 3: Header and footer
Lite’s global header and footer are set in the Customizer, not on a settings screen. Go to Appearance, Customize, then Header and Footer, and paste your HTML into the Header HTML and Footer HTML controls. They wrap every page, including the blog. One limit to know: Lite runs that HTML through the WordPress wp_kses_post filter, so ordinary markup is allowed but script tags are not. That is the WordPress.org directory rule the Lite edition follows. If you need raw scripts in your header or footer, that is the full free theme.
Step 4: Comments
Standard WordPress comments are supported and styled, including the comment list, pagination, and the comment form. Turn them on or off per post, or for the whole site under Settings, Discussion. If you turn on threaded (nested) comments there, the Reply link under each comment opens the form beneath the comment it answers; with threading off, comments stay in one flat list.
RSS feed
Your blog has an RSS feed at the usual /feed/ address, and Lite adds the feed discovery links to every page, so readers and feed apps can find and subscribe to it.
What you can and cannot change
Lite styles the blog for you, which is the point of the edition. You do not get template boxes or tokens, so the post layout is the theme’s, not yours. If you want to write the post markup yourself, the way you write your pages, the full free theme’s blog is the tool for that. Lite is the clean, styled starting point.
