Uncover Theme Review

General design

The key feature of the design is the daring, energetic and prominent appearance with the back-and-yellow style.

When you skim through the design, I guess that you will immediately think it's clean and so straightforward. But when looking closely, you will realize how meticulous the author is. He decorates and emphasizes his design with elements like lines and icons delicately. Besides, everything looks so "condensed", robust and clear thanks to the straight lines used so reasonably.

Other elements

If you think the appearance is too dark, you can change the black background to any color. However, I still regard that the default color palette is the greatest. Black background contrasts with the white texts and yellow elements, creating a boldness that is hardly found on any theme.

The typography really coincided with the spirit of this WordPress business theme. Segoe UI and Sans-serif are common readable and solid typefaces.

On the beautiful static front page, I am attracted the most buy the borders created by the yellow straight lines. That is an impressive way to highlight and separate the different parts. On the other inner page, they are also used very effectively, giving a catchy and striking appearance.

Straight lines used in the design

The icons from Fontawesome play an important role in embellishing the service area. Therefore, this area is not only well-balanced but also very eye-catching.

Services section

The single post page and other inner pages are legible, airy. All the elements like sidebar and footer are also well-organized and clean.

Responsive

The design is friendly in all devices, which means that it looks good on a laptop, tablet, PC, and smartphone without any problem.

The responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is

Installation is very simple. It's ready to use so you don't need to install any enclosed plugin to make it run right away.

This free WordPress business isn't compatible with one-click demo import so you have to set it up in the traditional way. Firstly, this business theme requires a static homepage. Just like most of the other themes, you just need to set up it in the Customizer simply. But then, it's compulsory to select the Homepage template for that chosen homepage in the Edit Post.

Setting up static homepage in Edit Post

Next, to create the frontpage's elements, you have to install Zen Toolkit. After having this plugin in mind, there is a Homepage setting section like this.

Options before installing

Options after installing

That multiple-step sounds quite complicated yet it's very easy to do so don't worry even when you are a beginner.

This theme lacks Testimonial and Portfolio, the important features for a business theme. Besides, there is no recommended plugin from the author to let you have Social Linking, Social Sharing, the necessary feature to connect your website with users.

Using Customizer, you are given all the right to edit the custom features of this WordPress business theme. It's quick, simple and visualized by the live preview.

The most noteworthy section is the Uncover Homepage Setting. It allows you to easily turn on/of and edit all the front page elements.

Firstly, this area is called Slider, but in fact, you can add only one static featured image of the chosen page here.

Customizing slider

Next, the About setting allows you to edit all the elements, from the heading, description, and content. There are up to three About Page items, which showcase automatically all the posts from the chosen page of each item. That's a lot for you to show, isn't it? But I don't like the fact that the posts are shown with full content and you are not able to shorten it in the Customizer.

Customizing About section

You can add no more than 3 posts for the Service section. I think this number is adequate to show but it still just allows you to add pages, not single posts. The special thing about this area is that it's super simple to choose an icon from a large number of icons here. That saves your time from finding an icon in Fontawsome or adding a shortcode.

Customizing Services

The other basic elements like color, sidebar and footer widget, header image and background image are easily modifiable properly. The typography and layout including sidebar position and list structure of the archive page are fixed like in the demo. Yet I see the default style is good enough so you don't need to change.

It takes only one day for me to get used to the daily use of this WordPress business theme. And if you are a layman, I guess that two-three days are enough. All the standard post formats are provided and look very nice.

Video is shown with an adequate frame to watch without zooming.

Video

The blockquote looks so different and outstanding from the normal texts, right?

Blockquote

Despite having different sizes, all images in a gallery are still well-organized and balanced.

Gallery

After using some tools to check, I found that this business WordPress theme hasn't completely optimized for SEO yet. The author even doesn't suggest any plugin to help you have this feature.

I checked speed by Google PageSpeed Insights. It reports that the speed is medium, not so good but I think it's pretty acceptable.

Website speed checked by PageSpeed Insights

The documentation is very short and brief. There are not sufficient parts for Customization and even no illustration at all. Therefore I'm afraid that a beginner may find it hard to understand.

To ask for help about the theme-related issue, you can use the support ticket to contact the author. It's free for everyone.