Mythos Theme Review

General Design

The principle element in the design is the thin straight lines. You can see them frequently from the top to bottom with excellent design. Additionally, the corners are curved so that Mythos becomes so soft and friendly. Therefore, the appearance can be solid and neat but still very ethereal.

However, in the free version, you don't have a static homepage like the demo.

Other elements

The first thing I pay attention to is the color. Besides the background and text color, the sapphire color plays the main role in the beauty of this theme. You can change this color but I still prefer it as it makes me feel extremely peaceful and relaxed.

The default typography is just adequate for a clean and readable blog. Besides, there are many standard fonts for you to choose from.

The white background can be replaced by any color or image. I think that you should add an image to highlight the box-style of the general design.

On the archive page, there are 3 styles you can select to display post: a list or a grid with two or three columns. Whatever you choose, your page still looks well-organized and tidy without any mistake. Furthermore, the zoom-in effect makes the images so prominent and fancy.

The single post page has the featured image as the largest element. It causes a strong impression for readers at first sight. I have no comment about the body part as the texts are well-arranged and easy to read.

Mythos even has a 404 error page with a simple design and a unique home page button.

The footer lies in a different background with a darker color so it becomes distinctive. This background also gives me a sense of elegance and "maturity".

 

Responsive

When you use this theme in other devices or even zoom in, zoom out the screen, the design still looks good. You can see the example that I took by a free tool here.

Yes, this is a simple theme to use so you don't need any other thing to make it run properly. Just install it and begin your journey.

This theme isn't compatible with one-click demo import so you need time to set up it. It's not difficult to make your website look like the demo, but you should know that the static homepage with many modules included belongs to the pro version.

If you are using it as a blog, it provides you with all the necessary features. But the advanced stuff for a multipurpose theme is only available in the pro version.

You just need to use the Customizer to modify your website's appearance. The Theme Options give you all the basic options to customize.

The most noteworthy feature to say is the various color sections for you to make your blog so colorful.

However, I don't see any change with the header texts color.

Secondly, there are many Google fonts, nearly all the standard ones and it's really simple to choose your favorite from the dropdown menu. You can even type the name in the search bar for a quick search. Interestingly, there are up to 7 font sections with the custom font, size, and style. I try all the fonts and they can be applied properly.

With Mythos, you can dramatically extend your social media with various default channel. They are the popular social sites and you just need to insert your URL on the right track to see the icons of them on the header.

The design of footer columns is always justified if the number of widget columns you add is as many as the number of footer columns you select.

There are up to 4 footer columns to add widgets. Besides, you have one sidebar, but it has only one default position on the right. All the common widgets from WordPress are available and all show up properly.

Other elements can be edited easily within a few clicks. The author allows you to carefully edit the minor section of your blog and style with ease.

 

There are enough common post types like youtube embed video, social sites embed, gallery, blockquote, ...

There you have a blockquote that looks distinctive. You will never confuse it with other normal texts

The gallery looks nice and tidy.

You can embed videos from many sources. I tried Vimeo video and this is how it displays.

Then I find one problem that if I choose the full-width style, the video will lie on the left margin and looks unsymmetrical with the whole page like this.

 

 

I used a special tool to check Search Engine Optimization. Unfortunately, I find that this WordPress blog theme hasn't had good optimization for SEO yet. So if you want to accomplish it, you have to use a plugin.

The speed is quite low, I have to say that after checking it by Google PageSpeed Insights.

The documentation is for the pro version so you should read it carefully to find some sections that meet your demand.

You can get technical support in a support forum. But first, you have to sign up for an account and login to see the reply of each topic. The procedure to sign up is very simple and quick by using your Gmail or Facebook account. This support is free and can be resolved by participants and the keymaster.