Musicaholic Theme Review

General Design of Musicaholic Theme

Musicaholic, as said by name, brings the finest sense that defines how to stay "crazy" of music.

This free musical theme isn't embellished with many decorations except for some short lines like this:

The short line used as a decoration

Actually, what makes Musicaholic a fabulous theme is its content layout and the extensive and spacious design made from many big content blocks. In addition to that, all the elements like typography, short decorative lines, ... are also very prominent, giving a clear, bright, and vibrant look.

Moreover, when you zoom in, you will see that Musicaholic has a container layout like this. And see, the shadow effect on the border makes this free musical theme stay sharp and fancy:

Review the shadow effect on the border

Other Elements in the Design of Musicaholic Theme

Color and Font

The color palette of Musicaholic orient to a strong and robust style. The black, white, and red color are dominant, which represents a dynamic and energetic appearance. In my opinion, that kind of "outfit" is ideal for rock, hip hop, or other strong music sites. If you want your site to be more colorful, you can change the background color. But the black and red elements can't be replaced at all, so I think the default color scheme still works best.

The short and chubby family font increases the readability and generous characteristic of Musicaholic. However, you can't change the typography so if you want to have a different look, for example, an edgy style font to look a bit "rock", it's quite difficult.

Header and Footer

Other elements are made to be straightforward.  The author seems to minimize all the unnecessary stuff. Like the header, it just has some important elements here, and the designer even uses a hamburger menu instead. That has the foremost reason: let readers focus on the content.

Review the simple header

Similar to the header, the footer is so straightforward.

Homepage and Archive Page

The division of content on the homepage is excellent. Although all blocks are quite big, they don't mess up the design or stick to each other at all. Especially, this Latest Blog section shows off the featured images in a stunning way. It keeps the original size of the images and displays all the posts in the form of a portfolio. So interesting! And the same with the archive page. You should take advantage of this style to let people enjoy the beautiful photos.

Review the Latest Blog section

Responsive Design

This free WordPress music theme ensures that your website looks stunning on every device and screen size. Even the hero image can scale to fit with all screens and keeps being the attraction of your site.

Review the responsive design

Right after I activated Musicaholic, my site looked nearly similar to the demo except for the slider, hero content, and product catalog on the homepage. I'm quite satisfied with that because I just need to do some more simple set up using the Customizer.

On the other hand, I find using the one-click demo import not really helpful. Actually, it just helps you import all data for the blog section on the homepage (as I did in the image below). You still need to manually enable other sections so I think you don't need to use it.

My site after I use the one-click demo import

With Musicaholic, you can freely express your love for music or your music style with the media playlist, album gallery, or about me section. You can even sell your album with WooCommerce. That's great!

And you don't have the social linking or social sharing to spread your music more strongly, but that's okay for me because Musicaholic is a free theme.

It's super easy to customize Musicaholic with Customizer. The options are sorted very logically so that I can easily find the needed element. For example, if I want to customize the homepage, just click the Homepage panel and have every customization option for each section here.

Review the Homepage customization

To turn on and choose which items to display is also simple. Just use clicking:

Turn on and choose which items to display is also simple

Or you can easily imagine how the layout will look like this kind of illustration;

Easily imagine how the layout will look like this kind of illustration

But there are some limitations. For example, you just can change the header title and the background image. While the important section like header or buttons color is unchangeable.

You just can change the header title and the background image

And the number of items for some homepage sections is limited to 4 or 5. Although this number is enough for me, but I'm afraid other users may find it inconvenient.

The number of items for some homepage sections is limited to 4 or 5

Gutenberg blocks look good in Musicaholic and it's simple for you to deal with all standard post format in daily use.

For example, this gallery is beautiful.

Review the gallery

But if you choose the wide or full-width style for media blocks, it doesn't look "wide" at all. Just like this:

Review the video display inside posts

Musicaholic hasn't optimized well for SEO - I knew that after using some special tool to check. The author didn't recommend any SEO plugin so you have to find one yourself.

If you test the speed of this free theme, you will see that it hasn't performed well enough. Don't worry, theme is just a factor if your website is slow. You can still use some methods to speed up your site.

Theme's speed checked by Google PageSpeed Insights

The documentation is clear and understandable. You can find all the instructions needed when install, set up, and customize this free theme. But I wish the when clicking the table of content, I didn't have to wait for the page loading.

I wish the when clicking the table of content, I didn't have to wait for the page loading

The free support forum for Musicaholic opens to everyone. You just need to login and the author will support you very kindly and quickly.