Writee Theme Review

General Design

The design is built from straight lines and boxes. You can see that the author uses straight lines very frequently as a decorative and dividing tool. They play an important role in drawing people's eyes to the design. I'm very interested in the way the author border the widgets in the sidebar. He leaves a space in each square in the sidebar. Hence, the sidebar looks not only outstanding and tidy but also airy. On the front page, the first post is put on a grey box. That is a good choice to ease the contrast between the background and content. I wish that all the post on the homepage could have that style, too.

In general, Writee has a decent look, classic style.

Other elements

The author mainly uses classic and neutral color: black and white. They are a safe choice for a website. To make some highlight, he adds orange for the word "category" and some colorful social icons in the sidebar.

The only default font in this theme is Popin with different size and styles. This font is clear and easy to read but I still prefer a theme with more than 1 font to be less boring and repetitive.

The header is made to be straightforward but still has all important factors like top menu, title, and social icons. Indeed, I see that the header is not attractive enough. Yet the slider successfully saves the design. It has 2 layouts: full-width or box. Both of 2 layouts look good and impressive. In addition, the slider will be faded if you hover, which is easier for the reader to see the title and information. It's also very convenient to switch to the next slide. You can directly drag to change, click the navigation buttons on the slider or those under the slider.

Next, it has a footer column on a grey background. This design makes the footer easy to read and different from the body part as well. The title of each widget is put on black boxes, which gives me a sense of neat. One more thing I like about this WordPress blog theme is the quick scroll button to help me scroll up to the top immediately.

There are different kinds of demo equivalent to different layout and structure. There are list structure or 2 columns-grid structure, box layout, right or left sidebar. Whatever the layout is, I still find the design is reasonable and nice.

Last words, the only thing I don't like much is the single post page design. The line spacing is quite narrow so it's hard to keep on reading. And I feel a bit messy with the bottom area. I think the author uses shouldn't use so many lines and squares here.

Responsive

When I used this WordPress theme in different devices like PC, laptop, tablet and smartphone, it displays very nice without any mistake at all. You can check the responsive design in this site: ami.responsivedesign.is.

After activating this theme, you are recommended to install 1-click demo import plugin. That plugin will help you import all the demo content to your data so that you don't need much time to set up your theme. Besides the main demo, there are 1 free grid layout demo and 1 pro demo you have to pay. All you need is choosing 1 demo and wait a couple of minutes. Otherwise, you can manually set up your theme in the customizer. Manual setting or using 1-click demo import, I see that it's all easy and quick to do.

You can easily change the appearance of your WordPress blog in the Customize. The author is quite generous to allow you custom important features like the site layout, sidebar position, slider styles, typography...

I will begin with the typography. This WordPress blog theme supports all the google fonts and you can just use 1 single font for the whole site. However, instead of choosing the fonts directly in the Customizer, you have to do some works according to the instruction in the typography section.

Luckily, the author suggests the "Typography settings" to link the user to the documentation. It takes me a few minutes to figure out how to change the font and you can see my result in the picture above. I think that it's quite difficult for a beginner like me to do that.

Next, there are only 2 color sections to change. I applied a new color for the background in my WordPress theme, and then I know that this is the background color when loading page. So I don't see any difference after custom the color at all. The same thing happens with the background image. You just can see it when waiting for the loaded page.

As I said before, this theme has different layouts for the whole site and for the sidebar, and you can even change more thing like the excerpt in the Theme options section. They can be applied properly.

You can show maximumly 12 sliders and choose one of 2 styles: full-width or boxes layout. It's easy when I choose the Latest added post but I still don't understand how to add a specific post. The documentation doesn't include this section.

As for the social linking, it gives you 8 most common social sites to insert URL. That's the generous number, but it's impossible when you want to add other links not included here. Hence, your choice is still limited. One more special thing about this part is the diverse kinds of the social button style. I strongly recommend you to use the default color, it's the best of all.

Finally, besides the basic widget, there are 3 extra widgets from Writee. They are all rendered properly in the sidebar and 3 footer columns.

You can master this WordPress blog theme in one day even if you're a beginner, just like me. All the forms of the post are supplied like video, file, blockquote, gallery,...

Gallery display nicely even when your images have different size.

Compared to the normal text, the blockquote looks nice and unique. They are auto justified and bold like in both styles.

The video is shown this way inside a post.

Here is good news for you: Writee is already customized for SEO. I used some tools to check it and I'm so sure about the result.

This WordPress theme gives you an acceptable speed. It'd be higher if you use it on a computer. I checked the speed by PageSpeed Insight, a prestigious tool on the internet.

Website speed on mobile devices

The author writes the instruction in a step-by-step and easy to understand way. Particularly, you can search for a keyword in the search bar to save time.

 

There are 2 kinds of support you can receive: F.Q.A and support ticket. They say that the support duration is from 9 AM to 6 PM (UTC), Monday to Friday.

In the WordPress support forum, the author also replies to the user topic.