Solstice – A Responsive WordPress Theme for Blogging and Business

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Solstice is a responsive WordPress theme. The clean, modern, and minimal design makes it perfect for any kind of blogging, creative, service-based, business, or nonprofit use. It’s fully responsive and has been optimized for tablet and mobile platforms.

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It also is retina optimized to look incredible on high definition displays. It comes with Featured Videos, a Testimonials page, a filtered Portfolio, a gorgeous homepage slider, and Post Formats. Featuring the WordPress Customizer, Solstice is amazingly easy to customize. Change colors, use Google Fonts, add custom CSS, and more. The homepage is fully customizable, with the option to use or hide many features. You can also choose from multiple header layout options–choose the one that works best for you! Additionally, Solstice has a Call to Action feature that makes it easy to direct customers to your event, product, or newsletter signup. Make your next website project easy to realize and eye catching with the flexible and adaptive features of Solstice.

Full Feature List:

General

Responsive design – layout adjusts the display accordingly across all screen sizes and devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile)
Retina optimized – show off graphics on high density displays
Customizer – See your changes live before committing to them–the WordPress Customizer makes changing many features of the site as easy as clicking a button
Custom logo upload
Call to Action bar – custom text and button on every page/post
Custom CSS – Add custom CSS as needed to completely stylize every aspect of the site
Custom colors – Easily change colors for any of the following site features: Background, Font, Headings, Menu, Menu Hover, Links, Links Hover, Buttons, Buttons Hover, Footer Widget, Footer
Custom fonts – Use any Google Font to customize body text and heading text
Multiple Header Layout Options – Choose from any of the following header layout options: Logo on top (with navigation below), Navigation on top (with logo below), Single Row (with logo to the left and navigation to the right)
Social icons in footer – optional icons that can link to social networks of choice–use only the ones you want: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Vine, Bloglovin’, Map, RSS, Email, and a Custom link
Customize footer text
Support for Jetpack Tile Galleries & Carousel – Easily make beautiful mosaic gallery layouts with a pop-up lightbox carousel
Compatible with the Menu Social Icons plugin – Easily add links and icons to your favorite social networks
Localization – Includes a .po template file for theme translation
Analytics – Easily add Google Analytics code
Theme Documentation – Instructions for how to install and customize the theme to your website.

Homepage

All sections of the homepage are optional and can easily be turned on/off as needed.

Homepage Slider – full width cover images with optional text and link
Optional Single Image in place of Slider – single full width cover images with optional text and link if a slider is not needed/wanted
Optional Single Video in place of Slider – full width cover video if a slider is not needed/wanted
Homepage Featured Pages – highlight any 3 pages of your website such as About, Services, and Contact
Homepage Welcome Message – greet your visitors to your website with the welcome message area
Homepage Featured Posts – select from any Post Category, or simply display your most recent posts
Homepage Sidebar – display a sidebar alongside your Homepage Featured Posts
Homepage Additional Content – add any additional content to the homepage such as a welcome message, images, or SEO focused content

Posts

Excerpts vs Full Posts – Choose whether to display post excerpts or the full post on blog and blog archive pages
Post Formats – Choose from any of the following format options when publishing a post: Standard, Audio, Gallery, Image, Quote, Status, or Video
Post Meta Data – Choose whether to display any combination of the following with every post: Date, Category, Tag, and/or Featured Image
Author Bio – Included at the bottom of every post and on the author archives page is a place for a short bio
Editor Styles – the visual editor has imported styles to look very similar to the published post
Optional Sidebar – Display a full width layout or a sidebar with any post
Post Featured Image – Display a featured images on posts
Post Featured Video – Display a featured video on posts
Comments – threaded comments and highlighted author replies

Portfolio

Clean Grid Layout – show off your projects and/or artwork in an attractive grid layout. Can be used for any number of scenarios, such as artists, projects, recipes, staff, services, etc.
Filterable Portfolio – visitors can filter projects by skill to view only the type they wish to see
Custom Layouts – individual portfolio pages can display content in a variety of custom layouts such as full width or as columns
Optional Text – images can be displayed on their own or with accompanying text