Title: Sparkling Author: Silkalns Published: April 17, 2014 Last modified: October 2, 2026 --- # Sparkling ![Silkalns Avatar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/ba8ffcefbaaec481373d85072fdfdae628449bf1ebae707ca57aa3b69dbbf350? s=24&d=mm&r=g) [Silkalns](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/author/silkalns/) ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/sparkling/2.7.0/screenshot.png?w= post-thumbnail&strip=all) [Preview](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/sparkling/preview/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/theme/sparkling.2.7.0.zip) * Version 2.7.0 * Last updated October 2, 2026 * Active installations 10,000+ * WordPress version 6.0 * PHP version 7.4 * [Theme homepage](https://colorlib.com/wp/themes/sparkling) Sparkling is a clean, minimal and fully responsive WordPress theme suited to blogs, news, magazines, business, portfolio and shop sites. It ships a full-width front page slider, a call-to-action bar, social icon menu, author bio, popular posts and enhanced category widgets, and four sidebar layouts you can set globally or per post. Dozens of Customizer options cover colours, typography, header, footer and layout, with a live preview. Built on Bootstrap 3, the front end runs on plain JavaScript with no jQuery dependency of its own. Sparkling is translation ready and ships with over twenty translations, is WooCommerce ready, and works with bbPress, Contact Form 7 and Jetpack. ## Features [Block editor styles](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/block-styles/), [Blog](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/blog/), [Custom background](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-background/), [Custom colors](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-colors/), [Custom header](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/custom-header/), [E-commerce](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/e-commerce/), [Editor style](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/editor-style/), [Featured images](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/featured-images/), [Footer widgets](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/footer-widgets/), [Full width template](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/full-width-template/), [Left sidebar](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/left-sidebar/), [News](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/news/), [One column](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/one-column/), [Post formats](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/post-formats/), [Right sidebar](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/right-sidebar/), [Sticky post](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/sticky-post/), [Theme options](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/theme-options/), [Two columns](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/two-columns/), [Wide blocks](https://pcd.wordpress.org/themes/tags/wide-blocks/) ## Patterns ## Downloads per day Active Installations: **10,000+** ## Ratings 4.8 out of 5 stars. * [ 140 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/sparkling/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 11 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/sparkling/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/sparkling/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/sparkling/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 5 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/sparkling/reviews/?filter=1) [Add my review](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/sparkling/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/sparkling/reviews/) ## Support Got something to say? 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