Articlewave is a modernized and highly minimalistic WordPress theme created for bloggers who want to not only showcase their writing skills but also want various options and freedoms for personalizing their website. Furthermore, this theme will help you garner effective traffic for your website because of its highly optimized SEO features and image optimizations.
So, what are the customization options provided by Articlewave?
There are quite some customization options for you to explore; let’s learn them in order.
General Settings
In the General Settings category, we have 10 different options for customization.
- Site Layout: You can now choose from three different site layout options according to your preference. You can also enable or disable site mode with this option.
- Pre-loaders: There are three different options for the free version of Articlewave. You can choose any of them based on your desire. You can always purchase the premium version if you want more options for the pre-loaders. You can also turn on or off the pre-loaders for your websites.
- Colors: In Colors options, you can customize the colors of different areas of your website. Customization options include changing colors for text, the whole site, links, and categories
- Sidebar Layouts: Now, you can change your layouts for the sidebar on different pages of your websites. It includes Archive/Blog, Page and Post Sidebar Layouts
- Breadcrumbs: You can now enable and disable Breadcrumbs on your website. We advise you to keep it on for SEO purposes.
- Typography: In the typography options, you can now customize your font family, weight, style, and decoration in both the headings and body of the content. Furthermore, you can also transform your fonts to lowercase, capitalize, underline, or inherit from previous settings.
- Scroll Top: You can now enable or disable Scroll Top buttons on your website. Further customizations come when you purchase the premium version. For the free version, you can only disable or enable the Scroll Top button.
- Posts: You can now add hover effects to your posts. There is only one option to choose from but be sure it will give your website a dynamic look.
- Background Image: In Articlewave, you can now change the background image of your website. This feature will help you add attractive images to your website’s background for better user experience.
Header Settings
In Header Settings, you have three different options for customizations of header areas. Let’s get to know them.
- Site Identity: In this section, you can add your website’s logo, title, and tagline. In site identity, you can also enable or disable the site title and tagline. You can also select the site favicon from this section.
- Header Image: In the Header Image options, you can add a header image to further beautify your header area.
- Header Items: There are various options in Header Items that you can add to your website, including social icons, a live search bar, and a sticky sidebar toggle. You can also enable or disable these options from the toggle bars.
Frontpage Settings
Frontpage settings allow you to configure banner and front post settings. Let’s get to know them.
- Banner Settings: In Banner Settings, you can enable or disable sliders for banners. You can also choose the category you want to display in your banner. That category will also be implemented in the Popular and Recent Posts field. And you can also rename those fields as per your preference.
- Front Post Settings: In the front page settings, you can choose the grid style of the post. The options are Grid, Classic, and List
Innerpage Settings
Following the previous structure and well-worked too, we have similar options for innerpage settings but with different tweaks in the customizers.
- Archive Setting: In this setting, you can enable or disable page prefix, page style, reading time, and more options.
- Post Setting: In Post Setting, you can enable or disable Author Box and Related Post
- 404 Error Page: This is the page that appears when users try to visit a page that does not exist on your website. Be mindful that it happens often if you have a high amount of traffic. So, we have an Enable Search button and a homepage button in this section.
Footer Settings
In Footer Settings, you can customize the main footer area and the bottom footer area.
- Footer Widget Area: In Footer Widget Area, you have four different layout options for you to choose from for your website’s footer.
- Bottom Footer: In the bottom footer, you can change the copyright and other essential information.
Menu Settings
The menu is an important section for any website. The menu bar allows users to freely navigate throughout the website. It has some of the essential sections, such as Home and other important pages.
Widgets Settings
Widgets gives you more customization options for sections such as sidebars and footers. There are six different widget areas in Articlewave. Four of them are for footer areas. One for the right sidebar and another for the header sidebar Toggle
Homepage Settings
Homepage settings offer you the ability to sort out posts on the homepage of your website. You can sort your website’s homepage in two different ways:
- Your latest Posts
- A static page
Additional CSS
If you know how to code, specifically using CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), this is the right option for you. Additional CSS allows you to further customize your site in the white text area.
Articlewave gives you the freedom to customize many parts of your website, which is a majorly necessary customization for bloggers.