Chooko Lite Theme Review

General design

This WordPress blog theme is like a newspaper put on a table. The background of the table looks like it's made from stone. The magazine background contains the post, footer, header, and sidebar while only the Title and logo lie in the table. In this design, the author uses both straight lines and curved lines so that the appearance can be that flexible and harmonic. As a mean of decoration, the dashed lines appear to create a sense of creativity and cuteness. In general, I see Chooko Lite as a lovely place giving the users comfort and relax through its design.

The dashed lines

Other elements

This WordPress blog theme has a color scheme for a playful and girly WordPress theme. Pink is surely the color representing the feminine. The pink elements embellish the appearance of Chooko Lite and make it so sweet and warm. Besides, the white background of the magazine and the black and light brown texts are good choices to make the theme readable.

Throughout the theme, the author uses PT sans with a small size. From my viewpoint, it may be hard to read in a lengthy post with this kind of font.

You can see that the icons symbolize the date, comment, and other information in each post. These icons make this WordPress blog theme more adorable.

The icons

The header is simple and clean. The most prominent part here is the large header image. But I'm afraid that design is too plain and leaves no impression on the reader.

The header

On the other hand, the footer and sidebar are straightforward and tidy but still prominent. The sidebar embeds on the right side of every page. There is no sticky sidebar and  The footer is laid on a brown background to be distinctive from the body.

The footer

The archived page displays all post in a list structure. Especially, the latest post is shown in a different and attractive way: it's bordered by the dashed line. And on the single post page, the featured image stays humbly next to the sidebar. Overall, every factor in this page is arranged neatly and airily.

Single post page

Responsive

When using this theme in different devices like PC, laptop, tablet, and smartphone, the design is still okay. I see no mistake in the design at all. The responsive design can be checked by ami.responsivedesign.is.

Responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is

After you install, your website will have a color scheme like the demo. Other parts have to be set up manually because it has no 1-click demo import. Yet it will be quick and easy to make your website look like the demo. The powerful Customizer will help you.

There are not many custom features but you can still find the basic things like header, background, and widget...The Customizer helps you with all the custom sections. Here I applied all the change in my website to write this WordPress themes review.

The header has only 1 style. The only thing you can modify here is the header image, which can be on/off in different pages. That is a powerful way to control the display of this area to fit with the purpose of each page.

Customizing header image

Your website remains the default color and font like the demo. There is no section for changing them so you can't make your site more colorful. Luckily, you can still choose an image for the background and do some pre-setting to make a perfect fit. A background image will prettify your website more.

Customizing background image-

The blog layout and site layout is fixed with the demo style. The only thing you can change is the excerpt. They give you 2 kind: a full content and an excerpt in the archive post. However, you can't control the excerpt length.

In this WordPress blog theme, there are 2 areas you to add widgets: sidebar and footer. All the basic widget from WordPress blog theme can be rendered properly here. After adding the widgets to the footer, I realize that there are up to 4 footer columns. The author doesn't say exactly how many footer column, but if you add more than 4 widgets, the second row will exist like this.

Customizing footer widgets

This theme has one special feature: the responsive mode can be on/off. It means that you have a right to decide whether your website will look good on different devices or not.

Customizing responsive mode

On daily using, I find that this is very to use this WordPress theme. You can create all the necessary kind of post for a blog like a gallery, video, file, table, blockquote.

In the gallery, when photos are different in terms of size, it looks quite disorganized.

Gallery

And that is the way a blockquote is shown. It has 2 styles and looks more prominent than the normal text.

Blockquote

The video shows up that way. It has a large screen enough to watch without zooming in.

Video

The SEO configuration hasn't been available in this WordPress blog theme yet. There is no recommended plugin for SEO either. Therefore you have to find it yourself. That may be a challenge with a layman as it's not easy to know what plugin is most suitable.

I checked the speed by PageSpeed Insight. The result indicates that it has a medium score. It's not really a high score but I think it's still acceptable.

The documentation is written carefully and understandably with the illustration. However, it only covers some basic topic of the Iceable Themes in general. There is no specific instruction for the Chooko Lite

The free support forum is very helpful with the answer from the author. He replies quickly with detailed instruction to help the users resolve every theme-related problem. In the WordPress support forum, he does the same thing.