Lalita Theme Review

General Design

At first sight, you can deeply immerse yourself in the retro style of this free multipurpose theme. It's like you can go back to the 1990s to visit the pubs and bars, dance in discos and watch classic movies.

All the elements, from color, typography, to every line, strongly and harmoniously reflect a retro style. Hence making Lalita impressively beautiful and unique.

Other Elements

Using triadic and bold color in the color wheel: pink, blue, yellow, Lalita not only becomes a typical retro theme but also creates strong contrast and emphasis. Likewise, the typography is bold and strong. Hence, making this free multipurpose theme far more typically retro and so prominent.

Notably, there are multiple layouts and styles for the global page and header. The two global styles look both nice and not so different, though. It even allows changing the width so that it can fit with anyone's taste.

Two global styles review

It's undeniable that every attention goes to the attractive homepage. This is my favorite part that looks like a disco with blinking light so I just want to dance with it. Especially, the background "nostalgia" picture reminds me of popular culture in the past.

Homepage review

The "antique" design can also be seen in the sidebar. Look at it, do you think of a poster in the 20th century? That's so intriguing.

Sidebar design review

And look at a single post page. Because texts are so big, they somewhat make unable to focus on and feel "tired" to read if the post is long.

Single post page review

Besides, Lalita has an amazing About page designed to show off everything about you stunningly.

Review About page

Responsive

Lalita looks perfect on all viewports so even when you stretch it our or narrow it down, it's design is still nice and reasonable.

Responsive design review

The installation can become easier when you import the Elementor front page. The benefit is you can choose any pre-made front page for your website, while the complicated setting is the disadvantage if you're a beginner. Plus, you just can import the front page template, not all the theme demo.

Setting up manually is even more difficult because you have to carefully design every element of the front page, about page, and other special pages with the Elementor page builder. So I think you should use the instant front page demo import.

Elementor page builder, WooCommerce, Gutenberg editor, and a lot of other useful features are what you need for a strong multipurpose theme. If you're looking for more, the list of the recommended plugin will make your dream come true. It gives you various widgets, custom background, Instagram Feed, ...

Using the Elementor page builder, users can customize almost every things. Especially, WPKoi provides you with four special components here, making it more diverse and competitive compared to other free themes.

Customizing by Elementor

The Customizer gives you just adequate tools to basically modify the appearance of your website.

This free multipurpose theme itself is naturally colorful. Yet you can make it more creative with any color. I reviewed the color sections and then could recolor them without any difficulty.

Customizing color

There are a large number of available fonts here and you can simply choose one favorite, and then change the style, size, ... steadily. However, text font is the only changeable typography while others must be fixed. Therefore, it's impossible to change if you don't like the default typography of the rest.

Customizing typography

Customizing the layout can't be simpler. Moreover, the Container Width can be increased up to 2000 px, hence making your website a full-width one. That's so convenient.

Customizing global layout

It's so flexible to set up the sidebar position for each kind of page, and all the positions can be applied properly as well as easily.

Review the layouts for sidebars

As for the social icons on the top bar and fixed side as you see here, you just need to put a tick to the position you want then insert the proper URLs.

Customizing social icons

How about custom icons? Is it possible to have any social links other than these default ones? Yes, you can totally insert up to three custom icons with the help of Font Awesome integration. For a beginner like me, it may be difficult to find the right icon code at first. But trust me, just look at the guide here and it will be okay.

Custom social icons review

Next, with the help of BlossomThemes Toolkit plugin, you have a long list of very useful and special widgets. That makes this free multipurpose theme more powerful.

Special widgets from BlossomThemes Toolkit plugin

Finally, there is a mistake while cropping the header image so it doesn't appear with the right frame as you want.

Customizing header

There are all the common blocks from Gutenberg editor, which is the latest and trendy editor now. Without any mistake, they all look nice and user-friendly.

Like this video embedded review. It is large and beautifully displayed.

Review the video

The gallery is so nice as well.

Review the gallery

The blockquote looks not really unique but you can still distinguish it with normal texts.

Review the blockquote

After verifying SEO optimization with special tools, I figured out that Lalita might need to improve its SEO to be completely SEO-friendly.

Speed may not be the strength of this free Lalita theme. I reviewed it using PageSpeed Insights and the result is not good.

Theme's speed check by Google PageSpeed Insights

I just found the general documentation for all WPKoi themes, including premium themes. Hence, you should carefully read it to find what can be used for this free theme.

Along with the in-depth documentation, there are helpful FAQs and additional documentation for advanced users.

Feel free to get in tough with WPKoi via the ticket system. It's free for everyone, including free-theme users.