WP Diary Theme Review

General design

All the elements are made from straight lines. The slim lines are also often used in decoration to make the design both solid and catchy.

In the demo, you can see the global layout is full-width. But you can switch to container style when customizing.

I think that both styles are good and harmonious with the other elements.

In general, this theme has a trendy and modern design. And why it's a feminine style theme will be explained in the next part.

Other elements

The color palette is the main factor that defines the feminism and girly style of this theme. Besides the combination of black, light grey and white - the classic colors for background and texts, the pinky elements are the most noteworthy of all. The author colors some special parts by light pink in a very reasonable way, which made the site very sweet and lovely.

The Lora font for the heading is also adorable and creative while Roboto is so readable and basic. This little mix gives the sense of being both clean, easy to read and gentle.

Along with the clean and well-organized sticky main header, WP diary also gives you a slide-out header. This slide-out header can help you save space for other elements. Overall, the header are very spacious, which makes me feel really comfortable.

The most beautiful part of this theme, I think, is the full-width featured post slider. The slider is made to be professional and trendy. It has a box containing the title and read more button to effectively encourage people to explore the post.

The masonry structure focuses on the neatness and helps you have a quick look at the content in the archive page. Moreover, this free WordPress theme has multiple layouts for the archived page. Each layout has its own strength and beauty so you can choose any layout that suits your style.

Especially, the details of every post are centralized so each post resembles a poet, so nice and sweet.

The single post page has a full-width header banner for itself. The banner lies in a reasonable position and contains the title and breadcrumb.

When choosing a new image for the banner, I see that it's much better and more lively with the parallax effect.

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As I described before, the center alignment of the post's information and excerpt on the archive page is poetic and nice. However, I don't think this alignment is suitable for a lengthy post on the single post page because it's quite hard to read. If you have the same thought as me, you can restyle this alignment in the Edit Post.

Finally, the 3 footer columns look also super airy and cute with creative symbols here. Plus, the footer menu can be shown or hidden when you customize it for yourself.

Responsive

Lastly, I want to compliment that Fashion Blossom displays fine on every device like PC, Laptop, table, and friendly with the cellphone as well. I use ami.responsivedesign.is to test the design as you can see here.

This free WordPress theme doesn't require you any enclosed plugin or any other steps to be ready to be used. If you want to immediately have all the content from the demo, it's impossible as the one-click demo import is not valid. However, if you have a full-content website, it's very quick and easy to make your page as pretty as the demo. You just need to add the slider

The Customizer allows you to customize most of the theme settings easily with live previews.

You can choose any color for 3 color sections here. But I don't see any change of the background color at all.

It's impossible to change the background color but the background image can be applied properly.

Next, a chosen header image appears on every page except the homepage or archive page. Remember that you can crop the header image to any size.

The header style can't be modified, but you can change it a bit by enabling/disabling some elements.

The slider can be shown or hide quickly with one click in the Slider Setting. It even has the search bar so that you can easily enter keywords and find what you want to display. Furthermore, all the post in that chosen category will come up here. However, the author gives you only 1 category to display rather than any other pages or posts. You are not able to manage the number of the slider here, either.

Besides the multiple global layouts as I described in the design, each post and page's layout can be changed as well. All the layout can be rendered in the right way.

As for social media on the header, you have maximumly 5 rows to add. I think that there should be more rows to make use of the abundant social icons provided there.

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Lastly, the footer has 4 styles that divide the footer widgets in different ways. So you should choose a style that matches with the number of footer columns to make it look nice. Otherwise, it will be unreasonable like that.

 

This free WordPress theme supplies you with many post formats and you can learn how to create and edit them easily.

One of the special blocks is blockquote. It looks unique and beautiful with a large size and quotation mark.

The gallery looks good and well-organized.

Last but not least, there are many options for the layout you can change right in that post. Therefore, you can save your time in the Customizer and create distinctive layouts for different posts or pages.

 

Regarding the SEO, I check it by some special tools and find that this feature hasn't been ready in mind. But the author doesn't recommend any SEO plugin to let a beginner like me have it quickly.

The speed is tested by PageSpeed Insights. The result shows that it still needs improving. But overall, I think that is an acceptable speed for a free WordPress theme.

The documentation is written carefully and sufficiently. You have the step-by-step and detailed instruction for every aspect of the theme. However, I think that it should have illustrations to help a layman understand and imagine more clearly.

You can receive support from 2 methods: the F.A.Q and the support forum. But the F.Q.A contains only the pre-purchase matter. So if you want to have questions related to a specific theme, the free support forum welcomes you nicely. In the free support forum, the author replies to all the questions within a few days. He responds very kindly an enthusiastically to help you solve the problem.