Justread Theme Review

General design

To deliver the best reading experience, the design of Justread mainly concentrates on the layout and typography. The header image and sidebar doesn't exist to give the spotlight for the body content. That layout makes sure that the reader won't be distracted under any condition.

Although the straight lines are the most primary elements used in the design, the author still creates curved corners to soften the design. That can make the reader feel more comfortable and friendly, I think.

Other elements

The color palette includes solely the cool shade. The light grey background reduce the contrast that the white content-box causes so that the reader can feel very relax while reading. Addtionally, there are some small blue elements to make some emphasis.

Both Helvetica and Georgia are the san-serif, which conveys the readability, modernity and minimalism.

As for the header, it's super straightforward without header image. All the elements are in a single bar, distributed very logically. Generally, this default style is a gift to the whole site because its humbleness hepls bring the body content into spotlight.

The archived post display all the content-box in 3 column-grid. That is the default style, aiming to quickly let you skim and scan all the content. Plus, to make it more attractive, the zoom-in effect is added in every featured images.

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I think that the most noteworthy design lies in the single post page. This page resembles a paper that is put on a table. This single-column content possitively increases the reading efficiency and allows you to enjoy reading a lengthy post.

Particularly, the bottom of single post page looks so clean and neat. The "next and previous post" and comments are really prominent to enhance the interaction between the reader and the user.

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Responsive

I use this WordPress theme in my iPad and can't find where the social menu is. This problem also happens when I use this theme in any kind of smartphone. Apart from this mistake, the design is still good in all devices. You can see the responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is.

 

 

You don't need much knowledge about technology to install and set up this theme. It needs no enclosed plugin or any extra steps to be readily used. After being activated, it recommends you to install Jetpack and enable some features, which is also very simple action.

This theme doesn't have 1-click demo import so you have to spend time setting up by yourself. If you want your website look like the demo, just adding your content, widget, and menu and I bet that nothing can be simpler than that.

The social sharing, like button and related post are compatible with Jetpack.

You can change all the custom section easily in the Customizer. Despite having a small number of custom features, it still can let you change the basic things like color, background image or adding widgets.

There are only 2 sections for the color but it has the unlimited shade of color for you to use.

If you don't want to color the background, a background image may help. You can even make some change to have a perfect fit.

Next, the social media in the header can be edited by adding a custom link. When you link to one of the list with more than 30 sites (you can find this list in the documentation), there will be an automatic display of its icon in your menu.

The most important section in the Customizer is the Content options. Thanks to it, you can meticulously manage your content as much as you want. Just by one click, the change you want can be rendered immediately.

And after enabling the Related posts section in the Jetpack setting, there is a new option called Related posts with many choices.

Last but not least, I want to note that you have up to 4 footer columns to add all the basic widget from WordPress. Hence, just make use of this appropriately.

 

It takes a beginner like me a couple of hours to learn to create and edit a post with all the necessary post formats provided.

For example, the gallery looks very well-organized even when the images have different sizes.

Blockquote is really outstanding, leaving a long-lasting impression.

The video makes you enjoyable for watching.

I used some special tools to check the SEO configuration. It is already in mind so you don't have to think about it.

Justread is a light, fast WordPress theme in both mobile device or computer. You can see the speed checked by PageSpeed Insight. The green color indicated an excellent result.

 

Just read documentation is written very carefully with the step-by-step instruction. That is so helpful and understandable with the annotated illustration.

You can use free support ticket to write the detailed problem as you want. They respond quickly and responsibly.

In the WordPress.org support forum, you can just receive help from the user community.