Introducing The Mary Kate : Premium WordPress blog Theme for Women bloggers from Angie Makes. The premium blog template features lots of great stuff like feminine design that works for all chic blog niches. Th flexible design can turn a simple blog or galley into stunning masonry layout. While doing all these tasks, it still retains simplicity for content browsing, so that user can enjoy reading contents.
The theme was released as free version also, but it had limited customization features. So if you have little budget to start a modern blog platform then we recommend going for premium version.
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Mary Kate WordPress Theme : Quick Overview
We recommend browsing Kate demo to check out design, layouts and other visual stuff. The theme was prepared with women bloggers so they can share health, food, lifestyle and other news. The theme already has footer and sidebar widget areas which can be filled with great contents. If you want to optimize widget sections then you must use JetPack plugin. This multi-purpose plugin provides social widgets, social share buttons, portfolio options and more.
Angie Makes has provided page layouts options with 2 choices. So you can select full-width style to reserve all space for contents, or sidebar (left/right). All Angie Makes templates are integrated with WooCommerce. So starting an online shop with blog or in stand-alone mode is really easier. The homepage is prepared to display all latest blog post entries with pagination and widgets. You can change layout style of blog listing page from theme options page.
Mary Kate theme has several layout options for Blog and Gallery (Portfolio) pages. So bloggers can not only share articles but also display their photo collection, designs or other visual stuff. If we check out media support section then it helps bloggers to use videos from any major platform. So user can stream videos in responsive mode from small handy devices also.
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Angie Makes Blog Theme : Main Features
Blog Post Layouts : Bloggers mostly prefer to use different layout options for blog post presentation. So we can’t just expect them to use simple list view mode like traditional blog templates. Therefore, Mary Kate WordPress Theme comes packed having Mosaic (Tiling), and Full Post layout style. You can choose either of these layout with sidebar or full-width mode.
These are some pre-defined blog post layout options, but you can still use customizer panel to define more on your own. Mosaic layout uses flexible type grid section which can display many blog entries. The grid style shows excerpt with featured thumbnails to add more posts into one page. You can choose list view mode to display full or excerpt style entries.
The Jetpack plugins helps you to use like buttons, social media share buttons and other stuff with each article. If you open full-post and check out bottom area then you will see Threaded comments option, Next/Previous Post entries, Author box and Related posts. All these features are provided by custom plugins which is explained briefly in setup guide.
Built-in Gallery Options : Mary Kate wants you to share all your imagery in great style. So that visitors would love to check out your travel, food and craft photo galleries. The built-in image gallery options helps you to create gallery showcase page with Mosaic, Square, Full page slider, carousel or regular slider.
Angie Makes has 23 best shortcodes which helps you to add gallery, masonry posts, buttons, and other stuff into any page. Thanks to fluid responsive layout which keeps everything run smoothly over small screen devices also.
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Customizer : There was a time when bloggers had to go through complex customization process using manual coding. As a result, authors had to hire programmers or they need to have coding skill to manage blogs. But you are not expected to face those hard-work as Angie Makes brings custom options panel. The Customizer panel offers colors, fonts, background, header, layouts, navigation and other options.
These options comes in ready to use form with preview box to display changes. So user should not require much time to control or setup blog, online shop or any personal content marketing site.
The header shows text or image logo with tag-line text in middle area. The navigation bar is provided in floating style to keep it visible while scrolling over the page. The styling side helps you to add Subtle Patterns, Repeating border (between posts), and more. The widgets galore includes Pinterest feed, About me, Social media widget, single widget, and more. You can also use text widgets to display banners on widget areas. The blogging theme includes built-in Ad spots and many other stuff.
I recommend Mary Kate to every blogger who needs a feminine look for their site. The extremely light weight and SEO friendly design makes it right solution for all modern blog type websites.
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