Fitness Park Theme Review

General Design

Focusing on fitness and sport, the design of this free WordPress theme is strong, solid, and robust. You can see that in the extensive layout, energetic colors, and bold, large typography. The lines are both straight and curved, just like the shape of a strong but supple gym-er, making the design so flexible.

Other Elements

Color and Font

Using mainly black and white elements, Fitness Park looks strong and tough. Additionally, orange elements seem to highlight the energy that this theme brings. That color schema is very suitable for a sport/gym/fitness website. But what if you want to change these colors? In this review, I'm afraid to say that you may disappoint a bit as I find only one option to change the background color. So you can't paint your site to be more colorful or creative.

Raleway family font is used evenly from top to toe, making the consistent for this free sports theme. Thanks to different styles, from bold, large, thin, and different sizes, this straightforward font can convey and emphasize the meaning of different sections. Generally, the typography is simple but effective.

Icons and Animation

I think that you can easily realize the characteristic of Fitness Park through these descriptive icons.

Even the logo and social buttons are interesting and fitted with the general design. They are simple but really shapely and pretty.

And the changing-color hovering effect scattering in this free theme makes every button, icon, text, ... so striking.

Header and Footer

The header is minimized to display the menu and logo in the same bar. That's to leave the spotlight for the full-width featured slider. The interesting temperaments of the slider aren't just the appearing animation of the texts. I bet that you can also find the quick transition effect very inspiring. And I think that's specially fitted with a robust-style fitness theme.

The footer area is intriguing! It's my favorite part of this theme because it's not only airy and uncluttered but also attractive with the social icons. Yet from my point, the hovering effect of these beautiful icons is quite slow. Therefore, it's less effective as users have to wait more than 1 second to see the effect.

Home Page and Other Pages

All the elements on the homepage are well-organized, big and bold, and really prominent that I don't have any complaints about them.

In inner pages, the sidebar is shown in a tidy manner. Each content is put in separated tabs, looking sharp and clean.

Also, inner pages like About page, Service page, ... is similar to single post pages. They are readable and easy to follow but has nothing so special.

Responsive

This free fitness theme looks good and has a reasonable display on all screen.

But on a tablet, there is a small mistake with the menu. I reviewed the responsive design in my iPad Pro and this is how the menu looks. It's too long so it covers half of the hero image.

The installation is just simple so you don't need to use any extra plugin to make this free fitness theme run smoothly.

However, manually set up is quite complicated. If you are a beginner and haven't taken a look at the documentation, I bet that it will take time to set up a static homepage like the demo as there are many front page options.

So, I recommend another method: using one-click demo import. It's much easier and less time-consuming. With one click, you can instantly import all the demo data and have a similar website to the demo effortlessly. Remember to install all the recommended plugin to have proper sections like shop, contact forms, ...

This theme has useful features for a business site like Call to action, About us, Service, Social linking, ...  especially, the Appointment and Trainer sections are extremely helpful for a fitness theme.

But it doesn't have social sharing, Instagram integration to help you contact and interact with users more so you should install plugins.

General Features

The customization can be done by using the Customizer tool. The Live Customizer is so smart and easy to use.

For example, it allows you to quickly turn on/off your homepage content in a click:

After turning on the front page content, even when you choose "the latest post" for the homepage, the front page content still displays here. So, in this review, I recommend that you should turn off the front page content if you want to use the latest post for the homepage.

Now, see how smart the Customizer is with other sections. They are organized and displayed in collapsible menus so the pannel looks really tidy and clear. Each option is divided into separate tabs, allowing you to easily understand and deal with them. Take the Slider section as an example:

Moreover, it seems like you can add as many Slider, Trainers, and Service sections items as you want because I clicked Add New button and didn't see any limitation.

Some Weakness

However, there are still some weaknesses.

First, in the Service section, the weakness lies in the limited number of pre-made icons. As you see, you just have 8 default icons. Therefore, I asked myself what if I have some services that are not in line with those symbolized by the icons.

Then, moving to the Social Linking section, I find the same matter. The icon library is quite poor.

Although it lets you add more than 10 items and any URLs as you desire, it has only 8 default icons, which means you can use a maximum of 8 items only. However, that's still good and these social icons are the most popular ones.

Next, the header background image is on this menu area instead of the page title area. It allows you to crop the image, but in reality, that image isn't displayed with my custom size here:

Review the header customizationAnd there are only 2 color sections. Anyway, any chosen color can be applied properly on the whole site.

The blockquote has two styles and the second one has a problem with the quotation mark like that:

Other blocks, including media blocks, display normally without mistake.

If you care about SEO, there will be good news: Fitness Park is already effectively optimized for SEO.

Then, I tested this free sports theme's speed with Google PageSpeed Insights. The result is not good, so I think you should apply some additional methods to optimize your website speed.

Fitness Park has concise documentation, but it covers everything you need while using this free WordPress theme. The sticky menu on this page also helps you find and jump to the needed section easily.

I visit their support forum but this page isn't found right now.

Then, I contacted the team and they answered very quickly that support now can be done via their official contact form to avoid spam. Thereby, you can still receive free support for this free theme.