KhaddoKothon Theme Review

General design

KhaddoKothon has a sophisticated, meticulous and vivid design. You can see it most clearly on the homepage where all the elements are intuitive and impressive.

Besides the straight lines used in the design, the author also creates the dashed lines and curved elements to diversify the appearance and make this theme more creative. The small icons also decorate and make this theme really lively.

The elements in the design

Other elements

The color scheme includes mainly the black and white elements, the safe and popular choices for a website. Plus, the green color to highlight some special parts is a wise choice. These green elements give me a sense of being calm and friendliness.

The three family-fonts: Open-sans, Niccon and Barlow Condensed are a good combination. They are readable, clear and curved. Especially, the Niccon which is used for some special parts makes the appearance extremely artistic and graceful. Moreover, you can change them to any other standard fonts in the font repository in the Customizer.

The homepage is the most attractive part of this theme. You can make use of the beautiful, lively and fancy design of this page to display many extraordinary features like Featured Post, Subscription, and more.

Elements on this page are designed carefully. For example, these straight frames embellish the images, making them so striking. Or the curved border of the navigation here is also a good idea.

Elements on the homepage

On the inner pages, the full-width header image is so attractive with all the elements of the header lying on it. This arrangement is reasonable and well-organized. Besides, you can change the header menu to a transparent one like this or disable the sticky menu. I prefer the transparent header menu as it allows me to see the beautiful header image more clearly.

Transparent header menu

On the archive page, the posts can be put in a list or a two-column grid structure. You can view these two layouts in the demo. Both these layouts are good and have no mistake at all. To my mind, the most interesting part lies in the zoom-in effect. That effect causes me a feeling of being hungry when the food images attract directly my eyes and my feeling.

Even the 404 Error page is designed in a special way like this. Although this page isn't made as pretty as the other pages, I suppose that its friendly and straightforward design is very comfortable.

The 404 page

Responsive

In different devices and viewports, you can still see the good and flexible design of this theme. That helps you use it conveniently by any mean. You can see the responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is.

The responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is.

The installation is a piece of cake since it requires no enclosed plugin or extra steps to run flawlessly.

However, it's quite complicated to set up this theme. This free WordPress theme doesn't support the one-click demo import so you are not able to import all the demo data and have the same look like the demo immediately. Therefore, you have to set it up by your hand. The compulsory work includes setting up a static front page by choosing the Home page template in the Edit post, which is quite different from the other themes.

Then, you must install the recommended Kirki plugin to have the Homepage sections and more.

There are enough necessary features for a Blog like Gutenberg Editor, Post Format and Social Sharing. However, if you want to have more things to make your website interesting, you have to find a plugin yourself because the author doesn't recommend any at all. That may waste a lot of your time if you are a layman in this field.

To have more custom features, you should install the Kirki plugin. It's easy to install and require no module to set up. Here are the extra options you receive after having Kirki in mind.

The Customizer before installing Kirki

The Customizer after installing Kirkireview

There are many editable elements and you can change it easily in the Customizer.

Notably, the homepage sections give you the power to change many aspects. Each section doesn't limit the number of items to show so that you're free to display as much as you want. They're all simply editable. For example, I customize Regular Section 2 Columns very easily and just need to pay attention to the number of posts and the category to show.

Customizing Regular section 2 columns

My favorite option is the Typography Settings. It gives you all the standard font in the repository that you just need to seek or search one. The size is also quickly customizable by entering whatever number you want.

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You are able to change almost all the factors in the Theme Color section and Footer Setting section to make your website extremely colorful like this.

Customizing color in the Theme Color Options

Customizing color in the Footer.

Additionally, there is a place in the footer to set a background image. Your chosen image will appear with the default frame so you have to crop your image before uploading if you need a resized picture. It also supplies you with many pre-setting sections to make your image perfectly fitted. However, when I select these options, I see no change with my image at all. Maybe because of my image, or anything that I haven't figure out?

Customizing footer background image

But the mistake doesn't stop here. Do you notice that it gives you options to choose the number of the widget here? In reality, I can't find the widget area for footer anywhere at all.

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Now, looking at the other positive things, I see that it's very convenient to edit the social linking. There are many default URL of the most popular website so that you can strongly broaden your network. Yet I think there should be at least one custom URL if you have a link other than these links.

Customizing social media

The position of the sidebar can be changed properly by one click to the equivalent illustration. Moreover, it allows you to flexibly change the layout of the single post page or the blog post page.

Customizing single post layout

Notably, the grid structure on the archive page can be changed to two or three columns. I think that you should choose the two-column style as the featured images are larger.

Customizing archive post layout

All standard post formats are provided and you can use it easily to create many different kinds of post.

The blockquote is large and different from the normal texts.

Blockquote

The gallery displays all the images inside it very nicely.

Gallery

And here is the table, looking airy and open.

Table

The SEO configuration is not ready in mind so you have to install a plugin to have this feature. However, it may be difficult for a non-professional user like me to find a suitable plugin as the author doesn't recommend any at all.

I tested the speed by PageSpeed Insights and the result was quite acceptable: 74/100.

Website speed checked by PageSpeed Insights

The documentation for this theme includes both instructions for the pro version and free version so you should read it carefully. Plus, I find that the instructions are not sufficient enough. It needs more step-by-step guides as well as illustrations to make it clearer.

The submit ticket is only for the premium theme buyer. So, if you want to have support, you can use the WordPress support forum but I'm not sure the author answer here or not.