Meet Indigo by WPZOOM : A modern responsive WordPress journal template for blogs and online magazines. The neat and clean layout gives your content a new life so that visitors can easily view lots of contents in short time. From homepage to single post and archive pages, every section is customizable with custom layouts and styling options. The theme is nicely monetized with many built-in ad sections and also provides customizer with built0in options.
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The homepage structure is based on custom widget blocks and other sections also includes widget support. So if you check out demo then it shows header, homepage, footer, sidebar all having many widget areas. That means, bloggers can drag and drop content sections to share anything easily.
WPZOOM Indigo WordPress Theme : Homepage Overview :
Close Look at Frontpage : If you are confused about homepage setup then let me tell you that, Indigo offers multiple layouts. So you are going to get options to create blog style homepage, magazine style homepage or create a combination of both. The homepage includes many optional elements so you can develop different journal sites using same template. Most of the home sections are displayed using custom widgets and other sections are enabled/disabled from options panel.
Slideshow : So you can have homepage with slideshow, recent posts, featured categorise, banner ads and more. The first homepage section is a beautiful slider which shows posts or pages. This slider offers option to choose category to display recent posts. Slider options page gives you easy way to choose auto scroll option, select category, source (posts/pages), Total posts and more.
If you open any single post then you will option named “Featured In homepage”. This features selected post on slide-show if you check the box. Post editor, also provide video embed box where yo can insert any YouTube, Vimeo or other video URL to display video with posts.
3 Columns Widget Area : This section is located below home slider and it is good place to promote main pages. WPZOOM provides custom Image Box Widget”, which allows you to highlight any page link with custom featured image. So, you can present Shop, Blog, Contact, or any top pages below slideshow area.
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Recent Posts : The homepage always shows recent post entries if it is enabled. This section is optional so you can use it to make a blog type homepage, or disable it to create truly magazine site. The blog page also permits you to use advanced “Infinite Scroll” pagination. Jetpack plugin provides this feature to help your visitors see blog posts as they keep scrolling on blog page.
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Featured Categories Widget : This is bottom section on homepage that covers best spot to display posts from all top categories. It helps you to add “Featured Category Blocks” using custom widgets. The widgets will allow you to choose custom category, unique title, and layout (multiple or single) column. There is one more widget called “Carousel slider widget”. If you pick this widget then it can surely grab visitors attention.
Unique Widgets / Layouts : As I already said in the starting that Indigo WordPress theme is highly flexible and mostly supported widget locations. Therefore, WPZOOM decided to create their own custom widgets to help you display interesting content blocks on sidebar, homepage and other widget areas. The widgets that we liked the most are : Social Icons Widget, Tabbed Widgets, Carousel Slider, Most Commented/Viewed Posts, Image Box.
There are 2 layouts given for home other pages, so you can either have a sidebar on right or use full-width style. The options panel offers different options so you can separately control layouts for home and category pages. There are multiple templates and layouts so you can select blog layout, list view layout, 2 columns and 3 columns for content listing pages like categories and other pages.
Single Post Options : The stories that you share with readers should include engaging design. Only adding contents can not gives you much benefit. That’s why, WPZOOM comes with JetPack support which provides “Floating sharing buttons”. So readers will find sharing buttons with all posts to help them spread the contents with others.
Apart from that, you can use “Post Navigation” section to display previous and next article entries below each post. Below post area can also have Author box, Related posts, Comments option and more.
Indigo Theme : Main Benefits
Custom Options Panel : ZOOM framework has visual options panel which helps you with customization and website setup process. You don’t have to be coding expert to create your own magazine website. The options panel has multiple tabs from where you can manage Homepage, Banners, Layouts, Color style, Header, Typography, and more. Each tab section that you see on the left of options board includes multiple options.
So administrator just need to choose ready control buttons to enable/disable certain content sections. For e.g. you can add floating style header menu, upload logo image, change font style and more. Also, you can get access to WordPress customizer to easily manage widgets, colors and other elements.
The ad section provides HTML code box to insert Adsense or affiliate banner code. Also there is a banner image support uploader so you can insert custom banner image. There are multiple Ad spots available for Header, Homepage, Sidebar and In post ads. The single post can display Ad banners before and after contents.
Header / Footer Details : The header section combines fixed menu that stays all the time on the top area. The menu section includes 4 options : Top, Main, Mobile, Footer menu. So you can add custom menu for all locations as required by your website. The header also shows social media icons, banners and other stuff using custom widgets.
If we scroll on the footer then it has 4 columns area to display any widgets that you like. There is an extra full-width widget section on footer area which is provided to display Instagram images.
Indigo WordPress theme is responsive for all modern devices like Tablet, Smart phones and modern browsers. So it performs effectively with all screen types by adjusting menus, videos, widget sections and all contents. This is best WordPress magazine and blogging theme which offers all features expected from a modern magazine, news and blog platform.
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