DarkMatter MechPress 1.2.0
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Release date: July 20, 2026

DarkMatter MechPress is a dark industrial WordPress theme designed for technical sites, software projects, documentation, downloads, and content-heavy layouts.

Core features
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- Full-width header and footer structure
- Responsive main content area
- Sidebar column appears only when widgets are active
- Main Sidebar widget area
- Three responsive footer widget areas
- Native MechPress Download Card widget
- Configurable hero title, subtitle, and banner
- Configurable footer text
- Primary and footer menu locations
- Custom logo and featured image support
- Theme-generated Open Graph fallback metadata
- WordPress wide alignment support

Installation
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1. In WordPress, open Appearance > Themes.
2. Select Add New, then Upload Theme.
3. Upload MechPress_1.2.0.zip.
4. Install and activate the theme.
5. Assign Primary and Footer menus under Appearance > Menus.
6. Configure widgets under Appearance > Widgets.
7. Configure the hero and footer under Appearance > Customize.

Upgrade note
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This release establishes the clean canonical MechPress 1.2 branch. It removes old viewport breakout hacks, inactive backup theme files, embedded plugin JavaScript, and hard-coded external tracking.
