The work of customizing may require meticulosity. You can change many sections and all of the custom features are in the Customize.
Firstly, you have an add unlimited number of the slider for the homepage slider in the Thinkup slider section. You can even add the title and URL to the slider here. There are even 2 styles for the slider: full-width and container style. And the height of it can be modified up to 500 px. That's such a good way to diversify this area.
Customizing slider
If you want other styles for the slider, there is a Custom slider section require knowledge about coding. But I'm a blogger, not a developer so I don't need to use this section. Additionally, this slider can be disabled.
The featured area has at most 3 posts. I think that this number is adequate to perform your most prominent posts here. I test 1 post on my WordPress blog and see that it's easy to set up this section.
Customizing featured area
To add more elements to the header, go to the Header content and here you can control the Search tool and Social icon. They appear on the top bar and are distributed logically to fit with the design of the header.
Customizing header
There are 6 most common social networking site and 1 custom URL in the Social Media Content. You can carefully style the social icon by using the default or uploaded image.
Customizing social media
From my point of view, besides the designated social media, I need to add other sites. And 1 custom URL is not enough for me to connect my readers to my social sites.
The style of the whole site can't be changed but you can modify the sidebar position to the left, right or even no sidebar. There are the sidebar options for the homepage, blog page, and single page. On the blog page, you can even control some option to make it fit with your purpose.
Customizing layout
The most unique thing I find in this theme is the footer style. There are numerous styles for the footer column, the feature that I thought only the Premium version possesses. Such an amazing thing you can do to your footer columns. All the styles can be applied and every basic widget of a WordPress blog theme can be rendered properly here.
Customizing footer content
The custom color is restricted with only 2 sections. Yet when I change the header text color, it still remains black. I couldn't find any part that turns into green in this blog.
Customizing color
Like almost every other blog, you can choose an image as the background and select style, position and size to make it fit with the whole site.
Next, the header image is another choice to personalize your WordPress blog. You can crop it to any size. But I find the display not really attractive. I think that the title should be on the header image to make it look reasonable.
Customizing header image
Other elements like typography, blog structure are fixed with the default style. But I think it's good for a minimal blog so you don't need any change.
Ran into a problem where I couldn't update my theme (Minamaze) and it was displaying a message stating that I needed to reauthorize the license.
I logged into my ThinkUp Themes account, and the ONLY things you can see in the dashboard are: Dashboard, Account Details and Logout.
1. In the main Dashboard tab you see a list of your orders. Clicking on the Order number or on the “View” button“View” takes you to a webpage showing the order details. Clicking on “Invoice” downloads a PDF pdf the order details. On the Order Details page there is nothing but the Theme name, price, payment method, first name, last name and email address. No license number. Or anything where you can do anything with your license.
2. If you click on “Account Details” the “Dashboard” tab stays highlighted, but you can set your First Name, Last Name, Display Name, email address and password. That’s it.
There is absolutely, positively NO place in a member’s account dashboard that allows them to see their license number, allows them to reauthorize their license to a site, or anything other than viewing basic details of an order. That’s it. Full Stop.
I clicked on the Contact link on their main menu and then clicked the Support button for current members. It took me back to my (useless) account dashboard. There is no email or phone number listed on their site, so there was no way to contact them except for the generic contact form at the bottom of their page. I ended up sending two messages after I didn't hear from them for a while after the first.
I also went to their facebook page, to see if there was any contact info there (nope), and to message them directly to let them know of the issues with their site and the theme. It looks like the last post on facebook was January of 2019, so almost 2 years ago. And they had tons of "community" posts from angry customers talking about the lack of support and response. So I switched my client to another theme that has better support and a more user-friendly site.
I finally heard from them this morning *weeks* after I contacted them multiple times with no response. They claimed that my email got caught in their spam, and that they'd added it to a white filter, but that I could use their support contact feature to get help in the future to avoid that issue. That is not the case as illustrated above. They also claimed that I could manage my license in my account panel. Nope. And then they said that if there was no "renew" button next to my license (do they mean on the order? because there IS no license info in the account dashboard!) I could add Minamaze to my cart which would renew it. Meaning I need to re-purchase the theme.
While I'm not opposed to subscriptions for well-made themes, this was not listed as a subscription. It does not say "annual" anywhere in the theme description. The only thing that kind of points to that is the fact that it says it comes with "1 year of support and updates," way down in the list of featuyres. $35 a year for this level of support and service? I think not! I would much rather use something like the BeTheme which is a one-time cost of $60 and offers *hundreds* of layouts with that price, and is NOT subscription based.
The fact that it took this long to hear from them, AND their response was grossly inaccurate tells me I made the right decision in leaving them behind. Don't make the same mistake I did. Stay far away from them.
I have given up on this company (ThinkUpThemes). My site was down for days and days. It took 3 days to get any response, and then it was one non-responsive response at 6 AM on the last 2 days. No answers to questions, no work done, no help, no results.
I engaged a friend to replace your shoddy theme and the entire site was working perfectly in less than an hour. And it looks better than ever.
This is surely one of the most pathetic displays of customer service and tech support I have ever seen. You should be ashamed. People depend on their websites to make their livings.
Again, a shocking travesty. And a terrible way to treat someone who has been a loyal client for 8 years.
Shame on this ragtag outfit.