Plugged is a crisp and elegant genesis magazine WordPress theme that is released by Zigzagpress. Any one can use this genesis child theme who needs an online news, magazine or blog type website. The theme covers all customization features so you can develop blog style or magazine style homepage.
Apart from that, you will see many styling options which gives you many colors and fonts. Thanks to genesis framework which provides strong base and secure platform to create a journal site.
Minimalis Theme Review – Zigzagpress
Plugged WordPress Theme : Homepage Area
Whenever we review a WP template, we always check-out homepage and customization features. Because, this is what really matters to create a unique website. The frontpage that is visible on demo is provided with Boxed and Full-width layout options. Once you pick layout style then you can decide on what to display on homepage. So bloggers can set “Blog” template as homepage to display all recent post entries.
If you need a magazine or professional news style website (as shown in demo) then you need to follow other way. Zigzagpress Plugged theme provides widget ready custom homepage design where you can drag and drop sections easily. No need to spend hours for coding as you are getting support for custom content widgets. It takes only little time to insert slider, carousel section, featured posts, categories and other sections.
Genesis Featured Posts and Featured page widgets are top choice when it comes to display articles or featured post entries. These widgets helps you to display latest news stories from selected categories. Same way, you can use Genesis Featured Page plugin to highlight other pages like Shop, About, or Contact page links on homepage.
Readers will surely enjoy browsing site made with Plugged as it combines responsive layout and crisp clear design. The way is shows featured sections on homepage makes it look purely content focused. Despite adding many content widget sections it still maintains spacing and nice visibility for every post that is highlighted on homepage area.
Customization Features : Plugged Genesis Theme
Easy Setup : Many people fall into pit of manual coding when they use poor coded templates. But this magazine WordPress theme covers every need within customization board. So you are just going to edit everything from one place which reflects changes in preview box. The options panel shows basic and custom options for better customization experience.
So administrator can upload logo, select header or sidebar layout style within little time. Blog and magazine sites always need to be fine tuned with right font and color style. So you can setup header and body font as per niche or brand requirement. Not only that, you can change font style, font size, font color, link color and more. Similarly, you can optimize background style for body area, header, navigation and any many other places.
Header Layouts : The header section provides custom layouts so that you can display banner, logo and menu in proper way. Look over the screenshot below which shows that first header style shows logo on left and primary navigation bar on right. The top bar shows one more navigation on left and custom widget (social links) on right.
The 2nd layout puts logo in center and move menu on the bottom, just below the logo. The top bar keeps menu and social links on left and and right corners. The 3rd layout keeps logo and menu on left side to display 728×90 size Ad banner into free space. So adsense bloggers and marketers are more likely to use this layout.
Zigzagpress : Blog and Sidebar Layouts
Sidebar Layout : Never keep your site in single layout mode as you can not predict the future needs. Plugged Genesis child theme gives you setting for global layout which is used in default mode. But, it will show you all 3 layouts on the bottom of post editor screen. So this is where you can swith to full-width, left and right sidebar position.
The layouts are available for homepage, single post and every post or page that you may add into website. Mostly, magazine and content sharing websites use sidebar for content and advertisements. The sidebar is good place to show-off social links, banners, recent posts, blog categories, author details and other stuff.
The footer is also another important widget area which shows 3 columns to add any widgets. Bloggers mostly display Newsletter sign-up box, Contacts and custom links on footer.
Blog Features : Plugged WordPress magazine theme can also work as a standard blog. All you have to do is just use blog template as homepage or use it as separate page, whatever works for you. The blog page uses standard list view layout which shows recent posts in excerpt mode. The back-end genesis options panel helps you to decide post view style, thumbnail size, excerpt text length and other stuff.
The numbered pagination is placed on the bottom so user can browse more articles. Every page and post helps you to use custom background image for heading area. So you can use a full-width featured heading for blog, single post and all pages. We checked single article and found that it shows author box and threaded comments option on the bottom.
The demo just shows a standard example of magazine and blog type website. You can still add banners, social sharing buttons and many other stuff. I suggest this magazine WordPress theme to all people who need SEO ready, fast loading and well monetize template.
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