EssenceTheme is a powerful and elegant theme focused on providing all of the needed functionality without extra gadgets and filler. Additionally, you get a wealth of very fine-grained yet easy-to-use customization tools. All of this is housed in a classy and comfortable design that highlights the content, not the theme. Ultimately, EssenceTheme was designed to stay out of the creator’s way while providing an assortment of helpful tools to easily showcase any material and reach any audience with both grace and style.
Check out the live demo here.
Here are some of the features:
A Smarter Sidebar
Have you ever read a webpage that was longer than the sidebar? Many long articles extend past the content in the sidebar, leaving boring empty space all the way to the end of the article. This looks quite amateurish, and more importantly, we would lose the opportunity to tempt an uncommitted reader with additional content. With EssenceTheme, we never need to worry about it. When the content in the sidebar runs out and the article continues, EssenceTheme will hold the last sidebar widget on the screen. This will remain around the middle of the sidebar, keeping it comfortably in reach of wandering eyes while being out of the way of the more focused reader.
With most themes, Jetpack galleries sit well and work great in posts and pages but often have a hard time looking good in a sidebar, especially when changing screen sizes (for example, when moving a tablet from portrait to landscape mode). EssenceTheme solves this by automating the positioning of Jetpack galleries in the sidebar, ensuring they remain centered and looking great, no matter the movement on any device or screen size.
A More Powerful, Enjoyable and Greatly Expanded Customizer tool
WordPress’s Customizer has come a long way and is a very useful tool. However, it is still very basic and neither attractive nor intuitive. Now, EssenceTheme adds many new controls to make large-scale changes or just fine-tune granular settings. The interface has been reorganized with more sections and new groupings, all showcased by an exclusive, pleasant appearance. EssenceTheme’s new Customizer uses color, shape, and space to make groupings clear and incorporates extensive written detail right with the Customizer settings. Usually, setting up a website or even just switching themes can seem like a daunting task. With EssenceTheme, it doesn’t need to be.
Of the many special settings added with EssenceTheme, the most important is an exclusive Color Palette tool. It is always best to work with a simple three- to five-color palette. EssenceTheme makes it so all we have to do is choose/input those colors, and everything automatically lays itself out within the color scheme. If we do want to set all of the individual colors separately, we still can. For this, EssenceTheme’s Color Palette will even make our chosen color palette available with different settings. This gives us quick access to the palette without searching through the color picker or typing in color codes each time. In addition, if we want to use a color not in our color palette, no problem: the full color picker is also available for each color setting.
An Elegant Featured Posts Section
Just below the large page title header is a showcase for up to three important posts. These could be customer engagement messages, services, mission statements, special articles, or even just the latest posts. Any post that gets tagged with the "featured" tag will show up here. If nothing is tagged with "featured," the latest posts will be used. Note: When posts are tagged with "featured," the last three posts with this tag will be used. If there are more than three tagged this way, those beyond the last three will not show up.
The Versitile Footer Photo CTA (Call to Action) Tool
This powerful tool allows us to easily add up to three photos and completely customize the placement, shape, and other attributes of each. These can be arranged in a number of patterns to create a unique and attention-grabbing call to action.
This photo CTA also includes a text editor that gives us control over both the words and basic formatting of the text. This call could include contact info, a reference to a resource, or even just “Thanks for Visiting.”
Content Background & Color Overlays.
With EssenceTheme, we can not only set the main site background but also set the content background. On top of that, this content background automatically extends to the background of the top navigation bar, creating a consistent appearance from top to bottom. This would usually be a texture but could be a picture instead. The really useful part of this is that EssenceTheme adds a color overlay to both the main background and the content background. This helps make any image or texture work nicely by allowing us to use a black overlay to dim the image, allowing white text to stand out against this image, or a white overlay to “wash out” an image. Another use is to apply a colorful overlay, like the “accent” color in the color palette, to transform any image into the right color tone to match the color scheme.
Full Support for Deep Nesting of Menus
EssenceTheme fully supports any number of nested menus with an elegant display of all submenus and a clear, yet simple, display of the relationship between parent and child menus. Nested menus might sound like a small thing, but it is common to only support two or three nested menus due to the complexity of handling an unknown number of expanding submenus. Managing the menus on the screen is part of the challenge, but perhaps more so is the difficulty of making it clear to the user which child menus belong to which parents. This problem can become more challenging when considering how to display these on phones and tablets.
Plugin Support and Optimizations
EssenceTheme has been designed and built with the latest WordPress and coding best practices in mind. This ensures it will be fully compatible with any plugin that also follows best practices, and most that do not.
In addition, EssenceTheme includes extended optimized support for:
- WooCommerce
- BuddyPress
- JetPack (all modules except for Infinite Scroll, for which will be supported in a future version).
How can we make EssenceTheme work for us? It’s easy.
Download from the link below, install it using the installation steps, open the Customizer, and start at the top. Simply look at each setting and description in order as we work down the list in each section. The website will come together with each section completed and, by the end, it will be an amazing, unique, and stunning website.
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Installation
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