Bridge by MyThemeShop is a best responsive WordPress theme for journal and content sharing websites. To be more specific, you can have it for magazine, news, blog, reviews and all types of content sharing portals. The light weight design will achieve good loading speed, if you use “Lazy Loading” option then you can load pages at double speed. The theme uses elegant background style to display featured stories on homepage, archive, and other sections.
What we like in homepage templates is easy options panel, custom widgets, short-codes and their dedicated support. This theme has SEO friendly and mobile optimized layout which is best among all top features.
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Demo Layouts : This WordPress theme comes in multi-purpose mode so you can buy it to start magazine site for all news topics. The demo sample files will show you 4 extra options which doesn’t includes default one. So you can either go with default style that is shown here in demo screen-shot. Other three layouts also highlights featured posts, but they are little different.
Bridge has pre-defined homepage layouts which includes Health, News, Sports and Shop. So, any one who need news or magazine site for these topics can directly upload demo files. All layouts share different homepage elements, color styles, and fonts according to topics. But, you also change what is provided in given layouts.
Header Area : This section works as the navigation part by showing custom menu links as selected by administrator. The header will display main menu on top left and search box on right. So visitors can use menu bar to find news stories from best categories or they can insert keyword in search box to find desired contents.
The header main area will highlight logo image with tag-line on left side and social media links (if enabled) on the right. Just below header, you can display a banner which is visible everywhere.
Footer : The footer page shows 3 and 4 widgets layout options. You can enable footer to display Above footer section with subscribe box and insert other widgets on bottom part. The footer is optional so you an enable or disable it with one click.
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Featured Area : This section can display 4 posts with one on left (large size) and 3 on right (vertical listing view style). If you enable it from homepage settings then it will appear on the top of the homepage. Bridge WP theme provides this option to replace traditional slider. It can display top stories just like headlines news. The settings page has category box which helps site owners to choose one or multiple categories for this section.
Then it will keep featuring latest stories from those best categories in home featured block. The stories are shown using thumbnails, and title and category names.
Featured Category (Homepage): Let your homepage be the best spots to browse news stories from all topics. Traditional blogs only show latest posts, but magazine style homepage can add different sections for selected categories. You can have your homepage to display featured categories in desired style. The settings box will show you list categories, so you can choose one and define layout and total posts.
So whenever you published new post then it will update home category section automatically. This way, front-page visitors can also view latest articles from top categories and browse more articles from there.
Responsive : If you view demo on mobile then you won’t find any difference in browsing experience. The responsive layout loads this theme nicely on small screens by adjusting to view port. So mobile device and tablet users can always browse menu, archive pages and single stories in clear way.
Other Features and Theme Options :
Like or Dislike Buttons : This is unique voting feature that is displayed with single post entries and featured posts. If you check demo then you will see buttons in the form of icon showing Thumbs Up / Thumbs down. This is a kind of like/dislike button that you use to vote on Facebook. Having this feature enabled on your site can engage with user nicely. It will help them provide opinion about your content quality.
Theme Options : Bridge MyThemeShop WordPress theme has options panel that shows tabs to control everything. You can enable custom sidebars for pages, posts and other sections. If you are adsense or marketers then you can use Ad Management page to insert banners in single post. There are 12 custom widgets which can be placed on sidebar, and footer area. Widgets can display social profile links, newsletter sign-up box, featured posts, banners etc.
Last but not least, you can also choose Pagination (4 options with ajax auto loading), Typography style, Translation settings and much more. This is highly suggestible premium magazine theme for news, and marketing sites. You can also modify homepage layout to turn it into simple blog.
Single Post : Each post will contents along with sidebar on right side. Besides that, you can choose other single post options to display Related posts, Author profile, Social sharing buttons etc. The social share options can add sharing links on top, or bottom or both places. You can also have floating social share bar on the left of each article.
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