Darling by Restored 316 is a feminine genesis multi-purpose content marketing and business theme for women entrepreneurs. Though, it is promoted as a blog template in product page and demo, but you can use it to share business services and more. The flexible homepage layout can be set to display featured posts, business contents or anything you need.
We have tested this theme for modern devices and performance, so that you can take SEO benefits. Let’s check out how it can prove best companion for girl bloggers and women for personal blogging and marketing needs.
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Why Darling WordPress Theme ?
Flexible Home Widget Areas : The entire homepage is powered by custom widgetized layout, so you can highlight selected contents. The homepage consist of total 5 widget areas so you can set them to promote slideshow, featured categories, latest blog posts, banners, newsletter sign-up box, services, contacts and more. These widget sections will easily adjust contents according to the number of widgets inserted in every section.
This way, you can promote top featured categories for your blog or news portal. Look below to get detail information about each section.
1) Home Top Slider : Insert nice slideshow with Genesis Responsive slider to promote best blog posts or other stuff.
2) Home Top Left/Right : The demo preview doesn’t show this section, but you can use it to display slider on left and welcome message or introduction on the right side.
3) Home Flexible : This is totally flexible widget area where you can add unlimited widgets like categories, featured pages and more. It will adjust the layout as per total widgets used in this section.
4) Home Featured : Last is best widget area to display latest blog post entries like demo. You can use custom text widget to add blog section title and then insert “Genesis Featured Posts” widget. The widget allows you to display number of posts from selected or all blog categories. You can replace this section to highlight call to action, featured pages, services, products, banners and more.
Custom Widget Areas : We love Darling and all genesis child WordPress theme because of widgetized layout. Not only homepage, but all surrounding space is also supported by widget areas. You can use widget to insert custom menu in header right side. The sidebar and footer are best widget locations to promote social media links, recent posts, Ad banners, and much more.
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Custom Category Pages : Developers have tried their best to create a content focused category layouts so that visitors can easily find what they have been looking for. The category templates are offered with tiled format so that you can show multiple featured post entries like grid style.
Furthermore, bloggers can edit category pages to display description on the top of the page for extra SEO benefits. When you insert category detail paragraph with targeted keywords then search engines are likely to rank you on good position.
Category Index Page : This page is a part of custom page templates which includes blog, landing page, columns page and more. The index page is supported by widget areas to display many category sections as required. You can use it mainly to promote hand picked best blog posts from top or popular blog topics. Drag and drop widgets will do all the jon with custom settings provided by genesis featured posts widget.
Responsive : Darling WordPress Theme is one of the the best responsive journal theme for female bloggers. We are sure that it can work on mobiles, tablet, laptop, and all screen sizes regardless of screen resolution. The feminine design and color skin will automatically make it suitable for girl bloggers.
Though, you can replace header banner, page layouts, design and styling to match your branding need. The fast website loading speed, clear layout, and flexibility are the main features that we liked. Developers have optimized it for performance, SEO and other modern needs so you are only going to be post contents which is main task of a blogger.
Darling Genesis Theme Benefits :
Header Area : The header combines the unique layout so you can display logo with branding slogan, social links and multiple menus. Two menu options are available so you can display page links, and main categories on main navigation bar. The floating header will be visible all the time to the top of the page. Furthermore, there is additional space to display social media links with custom icons and unique background for menu bar.
Single Post : You must check out Darling demo to see blog post features. The blog post bottom section highlights next/previous post links with arrows, so you can navigate to other posts easily. Furthermore, there is an easy option to display social share buttons so that readers can spread good stuff on social sites. Author box and taxonomies can also be highlighted with every article.
Bloggers will enjoy using special “Drop Cap Letters” effect which shows first latter of first paragraph in unique style. If you are planning to display some banners, newsletter subscribe box, or other custom widget in blog posts then you can do it with this theme. Just insert and widget in “After Entry Widget” and you will have selected contents visible below all blog posts.
Customizer : Never spend much time for coding process when you need to create unique style. Just use customizer panel to access color skins, header elements, layouts, font selector and other options. Genesis theme options page and customizer combines everything that you need to setup your blog. All type of user coming from professional or non coding background can work with it smoothly. That’s why I suggest this genesis blogging theme to every author.
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