Full Packed Wordpress Theme

Mercina is a Wordpress theme designed specially for portfolio display. Using a modern 2 column layout you can get a stylish website in a few minutes.

Custom Admin Control Panel

Divided in 7 sections the Mercina Options Panel will allow to fully edit the content and decide on how will some sections be displayed. It’s also very easy to translate all of the text that used on your website.

CustomTemplate Pages

- News Page with AJAX ?more posts? loading
- Portfolio Page with Jquery filter
- Contact Page

Custom Post Types

- News Custom Post type
- Slides Custom Post type

Custom Widgets

- Social Links widget
- Advertising widget
- Twitter widget

Video Tutorials

Despite being easy to manage all the content you can follow video tutorials that will explain step by step how to edit the theme.

Other features

- Shortcodes
- Widgets ready (3 Sidebars)
- Worpress custom menu ready
- Font selector
- 50 background patterns
- Future implementations available: if there’s any new feature you might like on this theme, please send me an email and I’ll try to add it to the theme

Image Credits

AlegriPhotos
Dreamstime
Pixabay
Morguefile

Changelog

Apr 17, 2026 – Version 8.3

UPDATE: Envato Market plugin (version 2.0.13)

Jan 30, 2026 – Version 8.2

IMPROVEMENT: Options Framework

Nov 11, 2025 – Version 8.1

UPDATE: Theme performance

Sep 16, 2025 – Version 8.0

UPDATE: Twitter/X logo

Jun 27, 2025 – Version 7.9

IMPROVEMENT: WordPress 6.8.1 compatibility

Apr 1, 2025 – Version 7.8

IMPROVEMENT: Options Framework

Jan 31, 2025 – Version 7.7

IMPROVEMENT: WooCommerce 9.6 compatibility

Nov 26, 2024 – Version 7.6

IMPROVEMENT: WordPress 6.7 compatibility

Oct 1, 2024 – Version 7.5

IMPROVEMENT: Gutenberg compatibility

Jul 19, 2024 – Version 7.4

IMPROVEMENT: Elementor compatibility
IMPROVEMENT: Theme performance

May 14, 2024 – Version 7.3

IMPROVEMENT: WooCommerce compatibility

Mar 5, 2024 – Version 7.2

IMPROVEMENT: PHP 8.2 compatibility

Dec 12, 2023 – Version 7.1

IMPROVEMENT: Gutenberg compatibility

Out 17, 2023 – Version 7.0

IMPROVEMENT: Theme Performance

Jul 21, 2023 – Version 6.9

IMPROVEMENT: WordPress 6.2 compatibility

May 23, 2023 – Version 6.8

NEW: added option to don't load any font

Mar 21, 2023 – Version 6.7

IMPROVEMENT: Demo Import feature

Jan 6, 2023 – Version 6.6

IMPROVEMENT: WooCommerce compatibility

Nov 1, 2022 – Version 6.5

IMPROVEMENT: Licensing system

Sep 6, 2022 – Version 6.4

IMPROVEMENT: Options Framework

Jun 24, 2022 – Version 6.3

IMPROVEMENT: WordPress 6.0 compatibility

May 6, 2022 – Version 6.2

IMPROVEMENT: Gutenberg compatibility

Mar 11, 2022 – Version 6.1

IMPROVEMENT: WordPress 5.9 compatibility

Jan 4, 2022 – Version 6.0

IMPROVEMENT: Loco Translate compatibility

Oct 29, 2021 – Version 5.9

IMPROVEMENT: Theme performance

Sep 2, 2021 – Version 5.8

IMPROVEMENT: PHP 8.0 compatibility
IMPROVEMENT: WordPress 5.8 compatibility

Oct 19th, 2019 – Version 5.7

IMPROVEMENT: WordPress coding standards
IMPROVEMENT: Plugin detection

Aug 26th, 2019 – Version 5.6

IMPROVEMENT: admin area options and visuals

Jun 5th, 2019 – Version 5.5

IMPROVEMENT: WordPress coding standards

Apr 10th, 2019 – Version 5.4

UPDATE: Theme documentation
IMPROVEMENT: PHP 7.2 compatibility

Jan 26th, 2019 – Version 5.3

IMPROVEMENT: WooCommerce compatibility
IMPROVEMENT: Theme Options

Nov 16th, 2018 – Version 5.2

IMPROVEMENT: removed timthumb image resize script
IMPROVEMENT: PHP 7.2 compatibility

Sep 18th, 2018 – Version 5.1

IMPROVEMENT: WordPress coding standards
IMPROVEMENT: Plugin detection

Jul 10th, 2018 – Version 5.0

IMPROVEMENT: Visual refreshment
IMPROVEMENT: GDPR compliance – comments cookie notice display
IMPROVEMENT: WordPress coding standards

Apr 24th, 2018 – Version 4.9

NEW: Added Envato Market plugin for easier theme updates
FIX: Menu display when using a custom menu name

Mar 7th, 2018 – Version 4.8

Improved theme performance
CSS adjustments

Aug 08th, 2017 – Version 4.7

Improved theme update feature
Code cleanup - WordPress standards improvements

Jun 07th, 2017 – Version 4.6

Improved PHP 7.x compatibility
Code cleanup - WordPress standards improvements

Jul 22nd, 2016 – Version 4.5

Updated Documentation
Updated TGM Plugin

Sep 3rd, 2015 – Version 4.4

Removed plugin related warnings (since WordPress 4.3)
Updated Envato WordPress Toolkit

Jun 26th, 2015 – Version 4.3

Updated TGM Plugin Activation script
Updated prettyPhoto script - prettyPhoto XSS fix

Apr 24th, 2015 – Version 4.2

Updated TGM Activation Plugin (security improvement)
Updated documentation
Improved qTranslate compatibility

Oct 6th, 2014 – Version 4.1

NEW ? posts don't have to show any image on single pages
BIG IMPROVEMENT ? Multiple CSS adjustments (visual refreshment)
Improved Videos size/display on smaller screens
Combined jQuery and CSS files (improve loading performance)

Sep 5th, 2014 – Version 4.0

 Fixed admin buttons icons display
Fixed favicon display
Improved contact details panel display
Updated Envato WordPress Toolkit

Dec 2nd, 2013 – Version 3.9

Improved child theme support
Improved excerpt with special characters display
Updates are now made using the Envato Wordpress Toolkit

Nov 8th, 2013 – Version 3.8

Updated Documentation
Improved image resize script
Improved lists display
Removed PHP Strict Standard Warnings

Aug 8th, 2013 – Version 3.7

Added compatibility with Pirenko Extra Fonts plugin
Added the ability to show category descriptions on archive pages
Improved contact page special characters support
Improved IE10 support
Improved Child Theme support

Jun 13th, 2013 – Version 3.6

Improved Child theme support
Added Google Analytics option
Made Twitter widget compatible with API 1.1

Feb 12th, 2013 – Version 3.5

Added AJAX save settings feature under Pixia Options (WP Dashboard)
CSS adjustments to the left sidebar and HTML module
Removed jQuery older version load from the theme functions

Oct 25th, 2012 – Version 3.4

Added 21 google fonts
Added option to translate ?all? text on potfolio filter
Fixed Twitter api connection according to new rules
Fixed background resizing when responsiveness is on

Oct 8th, 2012 – Version 3.3

Improved the HTML module rendering on responsive websites
Fixed the iPhone media query
Fixed the collapsed menu navigation

Aug 8th, 2012 – Version 3.2

Improved archive file for monthly posts display

Aug 4th, 2012 – Version 3.1

Added special icons to the wordpress dashboard custom posts buttons

Aug 1st, 2012 – Version 3.0

Made the theme responsive
Improved comments and email inputs display
Added unlimited sliders via shortcode

Jul 23rd, 2012 – Version 2.7

Added news slideshow autplay option
Improved Pin It support on lightbox
Improved the script that check for theme updates

Jun 20th, 2012 – Version 2.6

Improved Wordpress 3.4 compatibility (cleared a warning text on the Dashboard)
Improved Twitter Custom Widget
Added the Google+ icon
Removed custom logo for the login page

Jun 6th, 2012 – Version 2.5

Added the option to have a title on the footer widget
Added the option to have blog entries with no featured image
Added the option to have blog entries with no media content at all
Added featured images display to the RSS feed

May 22nd, 2012 – Version 2.4

Added a tag special template page similar to the portfolio single category page
Added 4 translations (Read more, Posted By, Submit Comment and Send
Added 4 lists styles shortcodes
Changed the subjects and news entries URL name to news and news-entries

May 15th, 2012 – Version 2.3

Added the option to show navigation buttons on the news entries (can be turned off)
Added the option to customize the Twitter Widget link text
Added the option to use only lightbox for portfolio posts
Improved style.css loading so that it forces refreshing file when the file is changed on the server

May 9th, 2012 – Version 2.2

Added gallery for the Prettyphoto plugin for portfolio and news posts
Added the option to skip the first image on news posts
Added another Sidebar at the bottom of the content
Improved left search text position
Improved some text explanations on the Dashboard
Adjusted the close button position for the Prettyphoto plugin
Improved lists styles

May 4th, 2012 – Version 2.1

Updated timthumb image resize script to V 2.9.10 and the some files to show the images accordingly
Added Viddy and Instagram Icons to the Pirenko Social Networks Widget
Made left widgets title have the same alignment as the menu
Added written content to the help file

Apr 29th, 2012 – Version 2.0

Added support for multiple items (including video) for each news/blog entry subjects
Added the option to show 3 news entries on homepage (no left text description)
Added links to portfolio and blog on headings at homepage
Added back to portfolio link when showing a single post
Added shortcodes for blockquotes, images with no margin and a simple box (no icons on the left side)
Added option to left-align menu links
Added the option to don't use the lightbox on portfolio items
Added shortcodes support for the HTML Box on homepage
Added Pin it icon for prettyphoto lightbox
Improved logo spacing when there's no subtitle to display
Removed URL change when the anythingslider is in use

Apr 24th, 2012 – Version 1.4

Added the option to add custom backgrounds for news subjects
Updated the documentation with the latest skin and options
Documentation now links to new videos
Added the shorcodes available on the documentation
Moved up the title 404 page
Moved the play/pause button on the portfolio so that it vertically aligns with the other buttons

Apr 23rd, 2012 – Version 1.3

Bug when using the lightbox gallery on portfolio and homepage (the user selects to skip the first image, but there isn't another image to show)
Fixes play/pause button unstable position on portfolio slider
Improved AJAX contact form 
Fixed contact form boxes size for large addresses
Improved news large text display on homepage 
Added the option to build slideshow controls (play/pause and navigation arrows)
Added the option to change the favicon on the Dashboard
Added special icon for videos that open on the lightbox
Added an extra HTML text module for the homepage

Apr 20th, 2012 – Version 1.2

Bug when using the lightbox gallery on homepage (with the 2nd item being an image instead of video). 
Improves the left menu section spacing when there's no search field to display. 
On the contact page I have removed the telephone and fax icons when their values are blank. 
Improved iPad support 
Homepage slides can now open URL links 
Text "Posted by" can be removed from news entries 
The comments section has now 9 text translations available

Apr 18th, 2012 – Version 1.1

Conflict when there are two search fields
Image misplaced when there's a large title on news (homepage)
Conflict on the dashboard when you upload an image using the normal uploader
Other adjustments to the code were made
Option to have a newsletter subscription on the left menu (instead of the search)
Option to autoplay  the slideshow on the homepage and portfolio page. Added also an option with the delay between transitions
Option to open URL when the news image is clicked (instead of the lightbox)

Apr 16th, 2012 – Version 1.0

Theme was released

Mercina WordPress Theme