New — Official IrisAI Theme
Vamika AI Magazine
An AI-first WordPress magazine theme. Long-form typography, editorial layouts, and every template wired for IrisAI — so readers can ask about anything they're reading.
Read less. Understand more.
Vamika, Iris AI, and Iris Theme Kit are licensed under GPLv2 or later. The plugins are optional. Read licensing details.
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A serious magazine theme, with AI baked in
Vamika is built for editorial sites that take their writing seriously. Underneath the AI layer, it's a full magazine theme — long-form typography, an opinionated editorial colour system, responsive layouts, and translation-ready markup.
Pair it with the IrisAI plugin and every template becomes a conversation: one-click summaries, per-article chat, semantic search, author voice profiles, and a conversational homepage. Activate just the theme and you still get a beautifully designed magazine — AI features light up the moment the plugin is installed.
Hero on the homepage
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Every prompt label and text is editable from Appearance → Customize → Hero.
Everything in the box
Vamika ships as a complete editorial system — not a starter theme you'll need to rebuild.
AI-aware on every template
Posts, authors, categories, tags, archives, search, and even the 404 page are wired for IrisAI — readers can ask about anything they're looking at.
Magazine-grade homepage
Featured stories, category grids, editorial sections, and a configurable hero with rotating AI prompts for instant reader engagement.
Immersive single post
Long-form typography, a reading-progress bar, sticky Iris AI sidebar, related posts, and reaction buttons — built for readers who stay.
Author profile pages
Dedicated author pages with bio, stats, and an essay listing — perfect for editorial sites with named writers and voice profiles.
Year-grouped archives
Archive and category pages render as issue grids grouped by year, making it easy to browse a deep back catalogue.
Services page template
Includes a complete services template for editorial consultancies, agencies, and freelancers — hero, tracks, work, stats, and CTA.
Full Customizer integration
Tune the hero headline, AI prompts, stats, header CTA, footer tagline, and newsletter copy from Appearance → Customize.
Locally bundled fonts
Bricolage Grotesque, Fraunces, and JetBrains Mono — all served from your own domain. GDPR-safe, no external CDN calls, no visitor tracking.
Optional Elementor widgets
Install the companion Iris Theme Kit plugin to unlock 15+ Elementor widgets — hero chat, featured stories, semantic search, services, about, contact.
Accessibility-ready
Semantic HTML, ARIA attributes, skip-to-content link, threaded comments, keyboard-friendly navigation, and full translation-ready markup.
Standards-compliant
WordPress 6.4+, PHP 7.4+, GPL v2 or later. No required plugins, no premium dependencies, and a clean classic theme architecture.
Graceful AI fallback
Without the IrisAI plugin, Vamika still runs as a serious magazine theme. AI features light up automatically when the plugin is installed.
Every template, AI-aware
Thirteen finished templates and partials — covering everything from your homepage to a not-found page.
front-page.phpMagazine homepage with featured storieshome.phpBlog index for the posts pagesingle.phpImmersive long-form article layoutarchive.phpYear-grouped issue grid for archivescategory.phpCategory browsing with editorial stylingtag.phpTag browsing with consistent card gridsauthor.phpAuthor profile with stats and essay listsearch.phpSearch results in card layoutpage.phpStandard page template404.phpAI-aware not-found with reader promptstemplates/template-homepage.phpAlternate magazine homepage as a page templatetemplate-parts/content-card.phpReusable article card partialtemplate-parts/content-related.phpRelated posts partial for singlesThe Vamika ecosystem
Vamika works standalone. Add the companion plugins to unlock AI and visual page-building.
IrisAI Plugin
OptionalTurns every template into a conversation. One-click summaries, per-article chat, semantic search, author voice profiles, and a conversational homepage.
- • Per-article AI chat sidebar on singles
- • Card-level summaries on archives
- • Reader-facing semantic search
- • Author "voice" profile responses
Iris Theme Kit
OptionalAdds Elementor widgets, a dashboard toggle for AI features, and a one-click demo content importer so your site looks like the live demo on day one.
15+ Elementor widgets
Ships alongside the theme bundle.
Typography that earns the long read
Three carefully chosen open-source typefaces — bundled locally, served from your domain, never from an external CDN.
Headlines & UI
Bricolage Grotesque
by Mathieu Triay
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Editorial body & display
Fraunces (Regular + Italic)
by Undercase Type
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Code & metadata
JetBrains Mono
by JetBrains
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Technical specs
Built to WordPress.org's standards, not against them.
- WordPress
- 6.4 or higher (tested up to 6.9)
- PHP
- 7.4 or higher
- License
- GNU GPL v2 or later
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Text domain
- vamika
- Translation-ready
- Yes — full i18n markup
- External CDN calls
- None
- Required plugins
- None — IrisAI is optional
Ready to publish smarter?
Download Vamika from WordPress.org, activate the IrisAI plugin, and turn your magazine into a conversation with your readers.