Hardy is a mobile friendly full-width portfolio WordPress theme from ThemeTrust. It is mainly developed for agencies and designers who needs a content focused site. Just check the demo to see how effectively it can display all your projects. You can display all newly released portfolio posts on homepage like demo. Or you can also choose blog, or any page to be featured as homepage.
What we love about this portfolio template is elegant page design and flexible layouts. You can keep full-width layout or use sidebar for pages. The options panel helps you to carry out changes for color skins, background, and everything. If you are not a programmer and still looking to create a website on your own then here is best portfolio theme.
Homepage Details : Hardy WordPress Theme
Slideshow : This section is also known as banner area which can be used to display big featured image. If you use this section smartly then you can definitely create a nice welcome or introduction cover. The home slider provides ability to highlight select posts or pages. As this is portfolio template, you can choose all your top important projects to be featured as home slider.
The slideshow is speed, transition style and other stuff are controlled from Theme Trust options panel. So no plugins or coding work is required to setup home banner section.
Home Portfolio : When you setup Hardy theme then you will see blog posts on homepage. But you can change default homepage layout by selecting any page as homepage. In order to display latest projects on homepage you have to set “Portfolio” as homepage. Special attributes are provided to create custom listing page for all portfolio posts. Once yo follow all these steps then you will see that every newly released portfolio items gets featured on homepage area.
We just love the elegant design and full-width homepage layout that keeps content in focus. The homepage shows big featured images and bold title for every project post. If you check it closely then you will find custom background for each project. Let me tell you that you can assign custom background image to each portfolio item.
The big home sections make your portfolio posts look more appealing to the readers eye. Thanks to developers providing light weight and professional portfolio layout that works for agencies and corporate firms.
Other Best Features : ThemeTrust Hardy
Ajax Loading : The pagination part includes an ajax powered pagination button known as “Load More”. If you go on demo and scroll to the homepage bottom area then you will find ajax button. This button automatically loads previous projects on the screen without page refresh. The good part about ajax is that it never refresh entire page, nor it navigates you to another page to see previous articles.
It just loads new posts on bottom area in just single moment without causing page refresh. This modern pagination feature can speed up browsing while helping user to browse many posts in small time.
Portfolio Posts : Hardy theme has custom post type for projects listing. It helps you to add all project related information in clear way. While adding text and other details, you can choose to use image, slideshow or video as media item. You must use any media item to display nice demo of your project samples. And this theme let’s you use any media element with projects.
The video, and slideshow looks awesome on small mobile screens. Thanks to responsive design which keeps menu, header, slider, and every element visible on dynamic screen sizes.
Other Details : ThemeTrust Portfolio Theme
Hardy WordPress theme is populated with custom shortcodes elements. So you need no extra hard work or tools to insert buttons, slideshow, columns and other elements into your pages. Just use editor to inert shortcodes into posts or pages. Apart from that, there are extra widgets available for sidebar and footer. You can enable sidebar for blog and other pages by selecting desired page layout style.
From header to styling, everything is managed from one options panel. The theme has ready to use options for typography, background, header, slider and every elements. Even if you don’t know coding then it still helps you to start and control your website. Freelancers, agencies and designers can surely get more clients if they display their work in appealing way.
This portfolio template offers all modern features within options panel and back-end side. So business owners can concentrate to add more contents, instead of writing programming code. The page list includes blog, full-width and custom homepage options.
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