DesignOrbital has recently released a uniquely designed WordPress journal template called “Perennial”. This WP theme is best fit for all journal and personal sites like blog, news, travel, entertainment, food, technology and more. The theme looks tightly content focused and elegant.
It has customizer panel with options to set logo, color skin, font style and much more. We will review all top features in detail, but to give you a quick look at top features
What’s Great In Perennial DesignOrbital ?
This theme has been developed to out-beat traditional blog and news website concepts. Many blogging themes are developed with single column list view layout concept. If you check news or magazine themes then you just see a crappy homepage with lots of featured sections. Most of these old design concept slows your website speed and also affect reading experience.
But Perennial theme will keep balance between presentation and speed. If you check demo screen-shot or live preview then you will find amazing font style for heading, body, menu, and other areas. Thy way it shows featured posts on homepage is just awesome. We can clearly see that homepage area uses ajax “infinite scroll” pagination style. At the same time, you can also choose numbered pagination for your website.
Dicot DesignOrbital : Magazine Theme
The homepage includes 2 columns featured layout for body area. So visitors can see latest post entries and browse more using pagination. The top of the page shows “Featured Carousel Slider”. This section can will show maximum 5 posts or pages from selected tag. Whatever is shown in home featured area won’t be shown in content section to avoid repetition.
You will see that home top featured block uses full-width style to show images for posts and pages. Apart from that, DesignOrbital also gives you access to “Hero” section to highlight best elements in eye catchy style.
The header looks awesome with transparent background style, which easily melts along with top featured image. This WordPress theme uses modern and clean coding style to keep up best performance. It has 1 sidebar and 3 footer widget sections to promote featured posts, category links, social links, banners and more.
Top Features : Perennial Magazine Theme
off-canvas Menu/Sidebar : Both of these entities are different from each other in terms of functionality. We are still going to cover them together as they both share similar attributes. If yo check top header area then you will find a button on the top left in hamburger styl4e. This is called off-screen menu button. Now, if you look over top right then it shows sidebar button with “3 Dots”.
Perennial WordPress theme wanted to give you a full-width type design while still not eliminating important sidebar area. That’s why DesignOrbital developers decided to hide navigation and sidebar part behind the scene, and made them accessible in manual mode. So user need to click menu button to navigate over top pages, categories and other sections. The canvas menu button works on tablet, mobile and everywhere.
The sidebar button loads widgets list which has been added on sidebar. Hence, this is great place to display recent posts, featured posts, custom text, custom banners or whatever you need to show on sidebar. You must feel excited to know that header section comes in floating mode option. So it is visible every-time when user start scrolling in up side from middle, bottom or any area of the site.
Responsive : Your stories and news should be readable on smallest and micro devices. Therefore, DesignOrbital blog and magazine themes are provided in full responsive mode to adapt on every screen types. So mobile, iPad, Laptop, Tablet and device users can easily browse posts, carousel, menu and everything from handy devices.
Single Post and Advertisements : Features
Post Features :We have checked single post entries from live demo to see what is really has to offer. And we found some great features on the bottom area. So you can now display related posts list below every single story in featured style. So readers can choose to browse more similar stories when they come to the bottom area. Apart from that, it has options to enable Author section, Next/Previous (In-Post) navigation block and threaded comments.
Perennial works with “Jetpack” plugin which helps you to insert social sharing buttons, related posts, infinite scroll and other modern features. Every blog story is displayed in appealing style using elegant typography that uses special style for main paragraphs. You can use drop cap, pull quotes and other styles to highlight main content lines.
The top of the each story shows featured image in full-width style. Hence, readers should be able to see unique full-width background featured image on the top of the every post.
Ad Banner Support : This WordPress theme has simple to use Advertisement management system. So, adsense users can easily display Ad blocks on different areas. Not only that, you can display banners for affiliate program or any other advertisement programs. You just have to copy/paste Ad code into Ad fields and then control all ad spots from one place.
DesignOrbital Ad panel allows you to display Ads on single post, blog page, or on the selected post type. No plugins or extra coding work is expected to implement banner into website. If you display banners in right place then surely it can generate great revenue.
There SEO friendly design, flexible customization options and modern blog features makes it best WordPress blogging theme. You can purchase this versatile theme to create blog, news, magazine or any personal content featuring platform.
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