Freshlife by Theme-Junkie

Alexander Hamilton | Dec 24, 2013 | Comments 0

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FreshLife by Theme Junkie is specifically designed for online newspapers and magazines, but can also be used as a personal blog for in-house news feeds. This theme is compatible with the latest web browsers and will work correctly on all versions of WordPress 3.1 or later. FreshLife contains social media integration and an easy-to-use Options Panel for website administration.

USER-FRIENDLY OPTIONS PANEL

All of the premium themes that can be downloaded from Theme Junkie boast a user-friendly Options Panel that is ideal for both beginning and experienced webmasters.

There are dedicated tabs for General Settings, Navigation, Layout Settings, Ad Management, SEO Options, and Integration. Best of all, you can enact major changes within your theme without ever having to manipulate a single line of code.

FRESHLIFE HOMEPAGE

The homepage displays pretty much what you would expect from an organized, busy newspaper or magazine website. At the very top, you’ll find the main page links along with a search bar, followed by a slot for your company’s logo on the left accompanied by an advertisement banner slot on the right.

News categories can be placed in the next row (drop down menus are used for sub-categories). This leads into the Featured news stories which are laid out in three columns and boast a square-shaped thumbnail image along with a title and publication date. From there, All Stories are listed in a single column and contain text excerpts, thumbnails, social media clicks, number of comments, publication date, and author name.

This is a simple method for getting a lot of content on your front page for readers to view and discuss. You can even customize which categories appear in the main feed from the back-end Control Panel; giving you full discretion over the news layout and style of your website.

FULLY WIDGETIZED WORDPRESS THEME

FreshLife is a fully widgetized WordPress theme with room for widget insertion in both the sidebar and footer regions. All you have to do is spend a couple of minutes on the Options Panel and decide which widgets you’d like to use for your dedicated areas and then insert them.

This will give visitors one-click access to important pages such as recent posts, comments, social media feeds, sponsors, Flickr photos, personalized blogroll, etc.

Having widgets placed properly throughout a site can go a long way toward making it more balanced and interactive. There is even an option to insert your site’s Twitter Feed if you wish to do so, plus you can add extra text widgets in the footer as well as tags, recent articles, etc.

COMPATIBLE WITH WORDPRESS 3.1+

The FreshLife theme is compatible with all version of WordPress 3.1 or later, and will work on Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera. When you purchase this theme from Theme Junkie, you will be provided with complete support along with all upgrades and updates that come with the download.

There are a number of custom page templates for this theme: Full Width, Blog, Archives, and Contact Page. FreshLife would be best implemented on a newspaper or magazine website.