Rife Lite Theme Review

General Design

Each demo has different designs to fit with the niche. But in general, they are all intuitive with prominent elements and own the professional, clean, modern and beautiful look.

Other Elements

Color and Font

The use of color is really smart. Each demo has its own typical color, for example, the grey demo for photography is so cool!

Grey demo for photography

Moreover, the colors not only emphasize the special characteristic of each demo but also follow the color wheel rule. Therefore, they are pretty harmonious and beautiful. Like this demo, you can see the use of pink, green, and blue is really good.

Review the use of colors

As for the typography, this free multipurpose put the intuitiveness at the top of priority. Hence, all the font types and styles are readable and prominent, but still, get along well with other elements.

Notably, you are allowed to change the typography and some color sections to have your own personal style.

Layout

Layout boxed & framed are available in Rife Pro. In this free version, the layouts of all demo are full-width, really extensive, and spacious. They all have an impressive homepage and other clean, tidy inner page. Especially, this Frame demo is the most unique of all with only a video slider on the front end.

The special layout of Frame demo

Other Inner Pages

Rife focuses on homepage design but doesn't forget the single post pages. Featured images are large, overwhelming, giving an impressive look for these pages.

Featured images in single post pages are large, overwhelming

There are different styles for archive pages like masonry, grid, list. They are all beautiful and well-organized. Moreover, you can customize the layout to make it center-focused, right-focused, or left-focused depending on your taste. But I still prefer a center-focused style like this:

Archive post pages with center-focused layout

Well, it looks more balanced than this:

Archive post pages with right-focused layout

Responsive

The full-width layout, header, menu, ... and every element still look beautiful on any view ports. So your experience on any device with this theme is still great!

Responsive design

This is my website after activating Rife Lite. It doesn't look like the demo yet the full-width hero image is already available.

My website after activating Rife Lite

If you don't want to manually create your site with Elementor, which is quite time-consuming, you can instantly import one of the 7 pre-made designs.

Instantly import one of the 7 pre-made designs

One-click demo importing is not difficult but it's a bit complicated with multiple steps. Besides, the demos are quite heavy so you have to wait a few minutes until the process finishes.

Wait a few minutes until the importing process finishes.

This theme comes with a lot of advanced features like Elementor compatibility, WooCommerce compatibility, One-click demo import, ... Therefore, you can build any kind of website easily.

Besides, there are many other interesting things like lightbox for image, social linking, ... which are already available in this free multipurpose theme itself.

But if you want to have more like writing effect, count down, socials, scroller, slider, galleries, post grid, you need to install Apollo13 Framework Extensions. It's free and already recommended after you activate this theme.

Rife Lite has strong and powerful customization tools: Elementor and Live Customizer with so many options.

Customize with Elementor

Together with all basic widgets from Elementor, Apollo13Themes provides you with 5 extra ones. They work well and not difficult to deal with. For example, this is the beautiful social icons that I added.

Extra Elementor widgets from the theme author

Customize with Customizer tool

General Review

Well, there is a tone of options and panels in this Customizer. Therefore, it's very difficult for me to get used to them. After about a few days, I just can gradually find out the positions of the needed options. I think that the author should organize the panel in a more logical and way.

Customize with a lot of Customizer options

Fortunately, it's easy to work with each option. For each feature, you can simply turn on/off or choose an option for them with one button to save your time.

Turn on/off or choose an option with one button to save your time

Color and Font

Choosing ideal typography is also not difficult. There is no need to insert font code or any complicated things because you just need to select one among many standard fonts in the drop-down menu. The change can be immediately seen after you change the family fonts, sizes, and styles.

Review the typography customization

How about custom colors? It's just as simple as other themes I've reviewed and you can choose any color.

Review the colors customization

However, as I mentioned, because there are so many custom color sections scattering in different panels, it takes time to find your needed ones.

Some Mistakes I've Found

In the Single Page option, the background and sidebar can't be rendered properly. I don't know why it happened like that.

In the Single Page option, the background and sidebar can't be rendered properly

I also have difficulty with the title bar. As you see, I set it up but it's nowhere to be found. I think I should ask for help from the support team.

Difficulty with the title bar

Daily use is convenient with all common blocks from Gutenberg. You can modify and edit them properly.

For example, the embedded video can display properly as you want.

Review video display

Here is the gallery that shows all images in a very clean and tidy way.

Review the gallery

But be careful with the large style of blockquote as it has a mistake with the quotation mark.

Review the blockquote

I checked the SEO of free demos with some tools. Then, I found that they've not been completely optimized for SEO yet. Among the recommended plugin, there is no SEO plugin so you should find one yourself.

The demos contain a lot of data so the speed is not good. It may be different when you use this free multipurpose theme for your site, but I still recommend you try other methods to speed up your site.

Theme's speed checked by Google PageSpeed Insights

Instead of normal documentation, Apollo13Themes prepared many video tutorials. Apparently, video tutorials are more understandable and easier to follow. However, I think because the Customizer contains too many options, they can't cover it. So you just can find tutorials for difficult or important features.

Rife Lite users only can receive official support from the WordPress support forum. The support team has two men, but I think they work pretty effectively as they've covered nearly all the questions (the number of questions is not small, though).