Loveshack

Loveshack is a modern micro-blogging and subscriber-supported publishing theme for WordPress. It combines an activity-stream homepage, IndieWeb-friendly defaults, gated content, paid tiers, private RSS feeds, and scheduled subscriber digest emails — without handing your site over to a hosted newsletter platform.

Version

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What Loveshack gives you

• An activity stream, not a blog roll

  Statuses, images, videos, and long-form posts share one chronological homepage, each rendered in its own card style.

• Subscribers built into the theme

  Passwordless registration and login, a frontend settings screen, local avatars, and per-subscriber notification preferences — no plugin required.

• A real membership model

  Gate posts by subscription tier, sell tiers through Stripe Checkout, and keep gated content out of public RSS.

• Email that you control

  Scheduled HTML digests rendered from the theme's own email layout and sent through wp_mail(), so any SMTP provider works.

Where to start

If you want to…	Go to
Install the theme for the first time	Installation
Get a new site publishing quickly	First run
Understand statuses, images, and videos	Stream post types
Change colors, fonts, and layout	Customizer
Turn on paid memberships	Tiers and Stripe
Fix digests that are not sending	Cron

Requirements

Requirement	Minimum
WordPress	6.4
PHP	8.1
Tested up to	WordPress 6.7

Loveshack does not require any plugins. Core publishing, subscriber settings, private feeds, digests, gated content, and the Stripe integration all live in the theme. ActivityPub, Webmention, IndieAuth, FluentSMTP, and ALTCHA are optional and recommended depending on what the site needs.

License

Loveshack is released under the GNU General Public License v2 or later. See Changelog for release history and the theme's readme.txt for the full third-party asset attribution list.