Bloggist Theme Review

General design

Each element is put in a box, and this box-style helps Bloggist become an amazingly sleek and tidy blog theme. More than that, I really love the design of the boxes when they are well-arranged and symmetrical with one another.

Box-content style

Generally, it's a beautiful minimal theme owning the elegant and clean style. This design absolutely can give you a flawless experience in reading.

Other elements

The color palette makes this WordPress blog theme a classic and elegant one. The author uses a light grey background to create a cool and decent appearance. Besides, the orange elements can help it look more creative and brighter. The family font is also a wise choice as it's legible and clear.

The full-screen hero image, as usual, is the most stunning feature of the first screen area. This beautiful image of nature makes me feel extremely relaxed and peaceful. Moreover, you can add widgets to the header. There are 3 default widget columns, looking very symmetrical with the other elements.

The first screen area

Putting the featured image and content on one white box, the author makes me feel so "real" like reading a magazine.

The single post page

Overall, all the elements are combined very well. Therefore, it can enhance the gracefulness and gentleness of Bloggist, and then deliver you the most relaxed reading experience.

Responsive

Using this theme in different devices or screens causing no difficulty at all. It looks nice on desktop, smartphone or tablet screen without mistake.

The responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is

It requires little time and effort to install and set up this free WordPress blog theme. Although it doesn't have one-click demo import, you just need a few minutes to make your website look like the demo. All you need to do is adding the hero image, header widgets, footer and sider, which is easily editable in the Customizer.

Bloggist gives you adequate features for a WordPress blog theme. But if you want something like Social Sharing, Social Linking, Related Posts...to make your website more interesting, you have to install plugins. Find it yourself because there is no recommended plugin from the author.

As usual, the Customizer is the only tool you need to edit all the custom features of Bloggist. You can change the basic elements like color, background image, header image, widgets, and menu.

Here I change a header image. But rather than allow users to crop this image, the author will display your photo by the original size.

Customizing header image (hero image)

The only color you are able to modify is the background color. Hence, if you want more colorful elements, it's impossible.

Customizing color

Besides, as this theme concentrates on reading efficiency, the author gives you a Content Options to edit many minor factors for each post.

Content Options

The most special feature of Bloggist is the diverse widget areas. And with all the common widgets from WordPress, you can add many different things to these areas properly.

Widget area

When using this theme to create or edit posts, even a beginner like me can master everything in just one or two days. All the standard post formats are given with a beautiful way to display.

This is the way a video is inserted.

Video

And when you cite something, a blockquote helps your citation more unique.

Blockquote

I love the gallery as it's airy and well-organized.

Gallery

This WordPress blog theme hasn't been effectively optimized for SEO yet. To have this feature ready to use well, find and install a plugin as the author doesn't give you any recommended plugin.

The speed is great. I check it by PageSpeed Insights and the result is excellent.

Website speed checked by PageSpeed Insights

Like other Superb Themes, there is a brief F.A.Q with nine topics. I think that because this theme is so simple to set up, these short instructions are adequate.

In the WordPress support forum, you can receive quick support from the theme author. As for the support ticket on the theme homepage, it's only available for premium themes.