Description
Backcountry is a WordPress theme designed for travel bloggers, adventure photographers, and outdoor content creators, with a layout focused on featured images, clean typography, and a dedicated area for galleries. Built as a child theme for the Genesis framework, it transforms WordPress into a visual travel blog, featuring a generous header for panoramic photos and a structure designed for long narratives rich in media.
Main Features of Backcountry
- Genesis child theme
Works on top of the Genesis Framework, inheriting hook structure, schema markup, and clean code. - Layout focused on images
Wide header and featured areas that showcase landscape photos and outdoor scenes. - Widgetized homepage
Allows organizing the homepage by dragging widgets to pre-defined areas, without editing code. - Clean typography for long reading
Font combination designed for extensive posts with travel stories and itineraries. - Responsive design
Automatically adjusts columns, menus, and galleries for smartphones, tablets, and large screens.
Benefits of Backcountry
- Focus on visual content
Your travel photos take center stage without competing with decorative elements of the theme. - Solid technical foundation
Relying on Genesis guarantees clean code and good scores in performance metrics. - Codeless customization
Widget areas and customizer options allow building the homepage without touching PHP. - Niche-appropriate identity
Ready-to-use outdoor aesthetic avoids lengthy adaptations for travel and adventure websites.
Who Is Backcountry For?
- Anyone running a travel blog with itineraries, tips, and destination stories.
- Nature and adventure photographers who need to showcase portfolios with large galleries.
- You who produce content about hiking, camping, backpacking, or outdoor sports.
How to Download Backcountry
Backcountry is available for download here at Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it under Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the file, and activate it. Remember that Backcountry is a Genesis child theme, so the Genesis framework needs to be installed and activated first.
Designed for visual travel storytelling, Backcountry combines the technical foundation of the Genesis Framework with a ready-to-use outdoor visual identity. It is a solid choice for anyone looking for a blog with a clear hierarchy between panoramic photos, striking headlines, and long-form text, without wasting time building the structure from scratch or tweaking framework code.
Frequently asked questions
Is Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme GPL-licensed?
Yes. Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme on as many sites as you want. Only automatic updates through Ultrapack Auto Updater have a limit: from 3 to 80 sites, depending on the plan.
How much does Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme cost at Ultrapack?
Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme include updates?
Yes. The current version of Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme is 1.0.2, published at Ultrapack on May 25, 2017. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Studiopress Backcountry Child Theme goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
How to install
Automatic updates: this item is updated by the Ultrapack Auto Updater. With it installed, the new version shows up in your dashboard like any other WordPress update (how to set it up).
The file on this page is already the theme, ready to upload to WordPress.
- Download the file
backcountry.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
- Select the file
backcountry.zipand click Install Now. - Click Activate.
- If WordPress answers that no valid theme was found, the file is the developer’s full package and the theme is in a folder inside it. Extract the file on your computer, look for the folder that has
style.cssandscreenshot.png, zip that folder only and upload it again.
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