Serif will bring a modern and delightful feel to your blog. Every single detail of the design has been taken care of to make sure your website will look tip-top. On top of that we’ve made Serif super-duper quick to load in its raw form. So if you want to throw a load of plugins at it, the base theme itself will perform very well for you. Let’s dig deeper into what you get with Serif.
Wonderful Featured Slider
Using Serif’s homepage featured slider is so easy. You can either let it pick up the latest posts, choose a specific category, or you can target pages & posts by their IDs as well as have as many slides as you want!
Randomized Header Images
Using the native WordPress Header Image control, you can upload, crop and randomize any number of header images.
Quick loading fonts
The theme loads standard system fonts by default, which means no external CSS is being loaded from Google or Typekit. This doesn’t mean that Serif won’t work with web fonts, the theme is fully compatible with these two lovely plugins…
Easy Google Fonts
Using the fantastic and free Google Fonts plugin for WordPress you can add any Google fonts.
Typekit for WordPress
Using the wonderful free Typekit plugin for WordPress you can add any Typekit fonts. You do need a Typekit account to do this.
Loads of Sidebars and Widget Areas
There are 7 widget areas in the theme, you have different sidebars for your home and archive pages, your single posts and your standard pages. There are also header and footer widget areas that count your widgets and lay them out in columns according to how many widgets you’ve added. This means if you just add one widget to the header widget area (which appears just below the header and just before the content) if will center itself, perfect for web adverts! There are even 2 bespoke widgets for displaying your social icons.
Featured image control
You can turn these off globally or post/page by post/page (aside from the gallery post format because why would you load a gallery if you didn’t want it to display). This includes the related posts box too.
Full feature list
- Homepage featured slider
- All post formats supported
- Show/Hide Featured image globally or per post/page
- Show/Hide featured image on related posts block
- Position social header widget for mobile and desktop
- Position mobile menu icon
- Show/hide back to top
- Show/hide related blog items
- Show/hide plain text logo
- Hide all comments
- Enable comments on pages
- Auto excerpt for blog
- Set word length for auto excerpt on blog
- Turn sidebar on/off globally or on posts, pages, home and categories/tag
- Custom CSS Block
- Custom Text control
- Show/hide tagline
- Control all font sizes
- Enhanced Author biographies
- Fully responsive design
- Built mobile first
- All templates are HTML5 compliant
- Child theme supplied
- Full control of colours
- Minified JavaScript files for increased performance, we provide un-compressed versions of the 2 core files if you want to tweak functionality.
- Show/hide plain text logo
- MeanThemes Social Widget built-in via MeanThemes Tools plugin
- MeanThemes “About You” Widget built-in via MeanThemes Tools plugin
- Sharing on/off on posts
- Share via twitter including your username
- Change footer credit, logo text, logo alt all from Theme Customizer
- MeanThemes Tools plugin included
- Logo upload
- Retina logo upload
- Apple touch icon upload
- Favicon upload
- Contact 7 Form support and styling built-in
- Localisation support with provided .mo and .po files
- Custom Menu
- Featured image support
- Shortcodes for columns and buttons, toggles and tabs
- Shortcodes for social icons including: Twitter, App.net, Facebook, Linked In, Google+, Zerply, Vimeo, YouTube, Pinterest, Dribbble, Github, Instagram, Flickr, Behance, Mixcloud, Soundcloud, Good reads, RSS
- Shortcode for quotes including quote source and ratings
- Shortcode dropdown straight from the content editor
- Fully responsive (optimised for iPad and iPhone with retina graphics)
- Extensive documentation
