Creativeily Theme Review

General design

I am really impressed by the minimalistic and elegant style of Creativeily. The full-screen header image is probably the most stunning part. I'm so into the "growth" animation, just like it's moving and reaching the eyes of viewers. The body layout is the content-box style, which makes it extremely tidy. The combination of all these elements brings about a creative, lively and also very clean appearance.

Other elements

The main default colors are black, light grey and white- the classic and safe choice for legibility. Especially, the light grey color is really effective to be harmonic with the white color of the content boxes. Thanks to this combination, I feel very comfortable when reading.

The combination of color

Not just having the classic color, the demo also has the green button to make it less boring. Green also makes me feel safe and relaxed.

The only default font is Lato. The font is simple, clean and easy to read.

As I mentioned above, the header image is very outstanding. The full-screen header image also appears on every other page. Moreover, you can see the arrow with the moving effect making the header more lively.

When you switch to a single post page, you can see that the featured image is also the header image. Then, the single post page becomes so attractive and neat. That design is really a temptation, keeping readers staying.

Single post page

And instead of a menubar, it has a sticky hamburger menu icon on the right of the header image. When you click this icon, the full-screen menu appears in a black transparent background. That menu can help you find the menu whenever you move and also save the space for the other beautiful elements.

Review the header image of Creatively theme

The body layout has a listing style with original feature images, excerpts, and information. This layout is well-organized to attract people to explore more posts.

On the bottom of the site is the full-width footer area on a black background. There are 3 footer columns are in the center and made airily.

The sidebar on the right. It looks neat with slim lines separating the different widgets. There is no sticky sidebar and banner here.

Sidebar design

Responsive

Users can see the nice design of this theme on any device. On a computer, laptop, tablet, and smartphone the layout and design are still good without any problem. Again, the header image impresses me as it remains full-screen.

Responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is

This theme doesn't have 1-click demo import so you have to set up it by yourself to make it look as pretty as the demo. After you activate the theme, the header image and color are already set up like the demo. The rest of your work is creating your own sidebar and footer column. In general, the work of customizing is not complicated at all, even a beginner can do it easily.

There are many features missed here, but the author doesn't suggest any plugin for users to have more at all. If you want to have something like Recent post, you have to update to the Pro version.

It's quite limited to custom the feature in this theme. But less choice means less complication so you don't have to spend time thinking so much. Additionally, all the actions can be done easily in the customization.

The author is really generous when giving you numerous choices for custom colors. Yet the color is just applied for the footer, background, and header

Customizing footer color

Customizing header color

Customizing the background color

Besides the header image like the demo, you can choose your own image to display. However, you can't select an image for the background of the site, so it may be less creative.

As for the sidebar and footer columns, you can choose all the basic widgets provided to display.

Other elements can't be modified, like the body structure, header style, and sidebar position. Yet I think the default layout is reasonable and fine so it needs no change.

Thanks to the ease of use and less custom feature, I can handle this theme in 1 hour. And then when I editing and creating a post, I found it so easy with all the basic formats provided.

The gallery will gather all your image and displayed it nicely despite having different image size. Even more, you can choose the layout and column when editing it.

Gallery

Secondly, the blockquote is shown with nothing different from the normal text. If I didn't make it bold, it would be totally the same with other text.

Blockquote

The video is shown that way.

Video

I used some special tools to check and know that this theme has been customized for SEO.

The speed is medium, not excellent but I think it's quite acceptable. You can see the results when I checked the speed by PageSpeed Insight.

Website speed on a mobile device

Website speed on a computer

I couldn't find the documentation of the theme anywhere. Hence, I guess that they don't give this theme's documentation.

The ticket support system is for those who buy the premium themes only. So you can use the support forum on WordPress.org. I see that besides the user's support, the author also replies the question here.