Refined is a finest WordPress blog theme for women and chic bloggers. It is a 3rd party genesis child theme by Restored 316 which provides many advanced features for blog platform. The design of this theme is totally different than what you would seen in traditional blog templates. Some of the features will optimize blog to get extra page-views and better connectivity with all sections.
If you check out header, footer and sidebar areas then you will see different widget sections. The header has option to add multiple navigation menus, logo and other stuff. Despite providing many widget areas and content sections, it still doesn’t affect the visibility. Thanks to smart designer and coders of Restored 316 who have worked hard to provide a complete journal platform in single package.
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Top Features : Refined WordPress Theme
Header and Navigation : The header section consist of multiple elements like logo, menu and notification bar. The top of the site area shows a floating notification bar. Whatever you add in this widget section is shown throughout the website. This section is best place to show message, announcement, text and links.
The header provides custom layout where you can either place logo on left and navigation on right. Or you can also place logo in middle with menu bar on the top of bottom. Furthermore, you can also add social navigation, search widget and other stuff into header area.
Custom Index Page :
The widget let’s you choose category, featured image size, custom title, excerpt and other options. Hence, you can fully control on how each featured category section would look on index page. Many bloggers use this section to add top popular posts, reviews and other important categories on single page. Hence, readers can always find best stuff on one page without digging into several archive sections.
Responsive : Never miss this feature for your website to get more people on your blogs. The responsive design keeps readers interested into your platform, especially when they are using tablet or mobiles to browse internet. On the other hand, you will see that menu, slider, blog posts, images and everything automatically fits on handy devices.
Unique Features : Genesis Blog Theme Restored 316
Blog Page : Refined WordPress theme has been developed with a fancy blog template. Once you add a blog section with given page attributes then you can start customizing it’s layout from widget section. The blog page offers 3 widget section on the top area where you can add 3 featured posts of your choice using Genesis Featured Post widget.
Apart from that, you can also use layout options from 3 choices : Full-width, Sidebar left, Sidebar right. If you check out single blog article then it has “After Entry” widget section just below article. So bloggers can now display any widgetized section below all articles. The widget can help you add banner, newsletter box, and other details.
Readers will find Social sharing buttons, Author box and other details with all articles. The right side widget area could be great place to show-off author box, best categories, recent posts and more. Similarly, footer also proves great to show-off Instagram updates, Contacts, custom links or any widgets.
Customizer :Restored 316 offers WordPress customizer so that site owners can easily change color styles. The options panel helps you to add different color style for Link, Button, home slider text, Hover and other elements. The options panel is designated to help you to make all changes from header to footer. So this is best way to add/edit widgets, font style, header, background and more.
Home Widgets and Conclusion :
Refined homepage is quiet flexible to show-off all desired contents using 6 widget areas. You can simply going to configure each home widget section with preferred widgets. The genesis and basic widgets list will help you show-off featured posts, custom pages, store products, services, calls to action, and latest posts.
The home slider provides support to add images for slideshow, and also a slider overlay box to add custom text. So visitors can always check out your introduction, photos or whatever is shown on front-page slider.
This genesis blogging theme has several unique features that is not found with anywhere into other themes. You need to use genesis framework with this child theme to make it work properly on the server. The genesis settings, shortcodes, widgets and page templates will help you develop a professional content marketing site in little time.
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