Bloguten Theme Review

General design

When you have a quick look at the demo, I'm sure that you'll be impressed with the bright and clean design. This is the demo of a food blog so the featured images are the colorful dishes. They do a good job to make me feel really hungry.

Besides the straight lines used in the design and decoration, the author borders the feature images by curved lines. That design brings a sense of softness and delicacy to me.

Other elements

The classic colors like black, white and light grey are mainly used here. It's a good choice for a food blogger to spotlight the colorful pictures of dishes. And to embellish the appearance, the author adds some red elements, which makes the theme look warm and less boring.

Popin and Playfair Display are the 2 fonts of this theme. The combination of a Serif and a San-serif font helps the text both readable and creative.

The header area is well-organized and spacious. The main menu sticks on the top of the website so that you can keep an eye on the menu anywhere. One more convenient feature of this theme is the slide-out menu. It jumps out when you click the hamburger menu button on the header. That helps to save space for other areas.

Bloguten looks more stunning with the display of a large slider. It is very attractive with the title and read more button so I guess that readers will explore this post immediately.

There is 1 style for the homepage layout in the demo. Grid structure can help readers quickly scan the content and photo of the dishes. There is no except to focus on the photo display. The sidebar is on the right, under the slider. Every widget here is bordered by the open squares to look prominent from other elements. The straight lines of these squares are slim and thin so that it won't make you feel cramped.

The footer area has many factors like Instagram Carousel, a social menu, footer menu, footer columns. But thanks to the good arrangement, they are still tidy and harmonious with each other.

To draw people's attention, the feature image on a single post stretches out in the head and has a very large size. At the end of the body content, colorful social icons make it look more creative. I also like the way they divide different parts by slim lines, looking straightforward but so nice and tidy.

 

Responsive

When I use this theme in different devices, it still looks okay and beautiful without any problem. You can see the responsive design on a laptop, PC, tablet, and smartphone checked by ami.responsivedesign.is.

With the help of one-click demo import, all the demo content can be transferred to your website in a couple of minutes. All you need to do is installing the One-click demo import plugin recommended in the Dashboard and click the import button. That's very easy to do and fast. Additionally, if you want to have the Instagram Carousel with the same look as the demo, you will have to activate the recommended Instagram Feed Plugin. Yet it's not as easy as the documentation indicates. Although I follow the instruction, the Instagram carousel doesn't show up on my website. It required some more complicated steps to display the Instagram carousel. Hence, that's a disadvantage for a person knowing little about technology like me.

You should know that this demo is a food blog. If you don't want to have that demo, you can switch to manual set up. The color is already as same as the demo. You need to spend time customizing other areas like header, footer, sidebar, and slider. All the manipulations can be done in the Customizer.

The author suggests some plugins for you to have more features. Or you can upgrade to the Pro version to earn much more.

There are lots of custom features for you to personalize your website. They can all be done in Customize. In this WordPress theme review, I will note some most prominent feature for you.

I will start with the theme layout. The author gives you multiple choices for every page. You can change from the grid to list layout with different style, or change the position of the sidebar. All the layouts are shown here.

I tried all the layouts and see that they can be rendered properly.

As for the sider, you can choose only 1 category here. Single post or pages are not allowed. And whatever category you choose, you just can show no more than 3 posts. I think that's a restriction as 3 posts are not enough for me. The slider type and layout are also limited to only one style.

Apart from a slider, a static header image is available for you if you disable the slider section. It's said that you can crop your image to any size to make a perfect fit, But I just see that the default size is applied to my image even when I don't choose this size.

Almost every element of the pages, post or header can be on/off or changed. You will find it quick and easy to turn on or off these elements in the Theme options. I think that work is so suitable for meticulous persons as they can carefully customize their website.

To coloring your website, the author gives you quite many custom sections. It can make your website creative and colorful. And an image can be a good choice for you to fill the site's background.

The only feature you can't modify here is the typography. But I think the default fonts are already good so you don't need to change.

Keon Themes gives you every basic widget of a WordPress blog theme and you can add it to sidebar or footer columns.

The last words, I want to tell you that you have many locations for your menu. It's so good to display different kinds of menu throughout your website. These menus can help the reader interact effectively with your website.

 

On daily using, I'm sure that even a beginner like me can quickly learn how to use this theme. All necessary formats are supplied and they all look so good.

You can see that Blockquote has 2 styles and both of theme are unique and beautiful.

Video display that way, comfortable to enjoy.

Your gallery can be very well-organized even if the photos inside have different sizes.

 

After using some special tools to check, I realize that this theme hasn't been customized for SEO yet. The author doesn't suggest any Plugin for this feature so you have to find yourself. I think a beginner like me won't like that as we don't know how to search for a suitable plugin.

The speed is quite low if you use this theme on mobile devices. And it will be higher when this WordPress blog theme is used by a computer, but the speed is still medium. I checked the speed by PageSpeed Insight, a popular tool to check the speed.

There are only 2 articles in the documentation: Theme set up and Instagram feed shortcode. Everything about setting up and installation is demonstrated in the form of a video. That's a good way to make it understandable.

The author supports users in a support forum. You just need to login and create a topic.