ColorMag
WordPress Magazine Theme
ColorMag is a perfect responsive magazine style WordPress theme. Suitable for news, newspaper, magazine, publishing, business and any kind of sites.
A beautiful theme for online magazines and newspapers, with a modern look and well-organized content. The theme has a clean design and offers social links, and spaces, colorful tags, widgets, and featured sliders. You can use it for general or niche topics and you have all it takes to promote your site. ColorMag can be also used as a blogging theme if you plan to take your current blog to another level.
Features of ColorMag
ColorMag includes a good variety of features to customize the look of your site without having to touch any code. Here are some of the highlights:
Customize Your Site Design
You can choose all your site options in the Appearance » Customize menu, including:
header image and background image
header image position (above or below the site title)
enable “breaking news” header at the top of the page
enable the sticky header menu
upload favicon
display related posts (by category or tag)
enable lightbox effect for featured images in single posts
Plenty of Color Options
ColorMag allows you to easily customize the colors on your site. You can choose one primary accent color for your site under Appearance » Customize » Design Options » Primary color option. The color picker allows you to choose any color you want, or enter the hex code for your desired color. Your menus, links, and buttons will be displayed in the color you choose
Under Appearance » Customize » Category Color Options, you can also select a different color for every post category. The category the color will be used for the category label in the post meta, both on the front page and individual post page.
Flexible Page Layout Options
You can choose a default page layout of the full-width, left sidebar, right sidebar, or both.
And different layouts can be chosen for your archives, pages, and single posts. Individual pages can also use different page templates to override the default.
16 Widget Areas
ColorMag comes with 16 widgetized areas.
There are separate widget areas for your left and right sidebars, a header widget area above the main navigation, and a widget area to place advertisements right above the footer.
The footer has four widget areas, for the four columns in the footer. The first column is about twice as wide as the remaining three.
There are also separate widget areas that only display on your contact page and your 404 error page.
And there are 6 widget areas for the front page content alone.
Custom Widgets
ColorMag also includes some special theme-specific widgets:
- Featured Category Slider: displays either latest posts or posts by category
- Featured Posts (in 2 styles): display latest posts or posts from a specific category
- Advertisement: in 125×125, 300×250, or 728×90 sizes
You can also check out our Adsanity review if you’re looking for a more advanced plugin to display advertising with widgets.
Our Score
ColorMag is among the most popular free themes in the WordPress directory. It may be a good choice for your site if you need a basic magazine-style theme and you like the look of the design.Typical of magazine-style themes, the design places a lot of focus on your posts’
featured images
Customization options are available but somewhat limited in the free the theme, but you can update to the Pro version if you want the additional options that are included.
We give ColorMag 4 out of 5 stars. Here is the breakdown of our review scores.
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