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Crio

By BoldGrid·Blog·Free
4.2(5 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 3 weeks ago
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As of April 2026, Crio is a WordPress theme with 10K+ active installations and a 4.2/5 rating from 5 reviews. It has been downloaded 192K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Astra.

4.2/55 reviews
10K+active installs
192K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019

Overview

Crio is a WordPress SuperTheme that allows front-end designers, developers and other web professionals to create without bounds or restrictions. Crio's advanced customization options are completely integrated with the WordPress Customizer API, providing you with a powerful, but familiar interface to customize your website. Our integration gives you granular control over many elements straight from the Customizer, and even device previews so you can see how your site looks on different devices. Crio’s unique color palette system keeps colors consistent across your site. Drag and drop colors in your palette to increase or decrease the usage of that color throughout your website. Use the advanced controls to create a custom Header, Footer, or Blog Page layout. Be Bold and stand above the re…
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Ratings & Reviews

4.25 reviews
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Recent Reviews

Fantastic Support
by yeshua14·4 years ago

I went with bold grid premium, and my level of knowledge was pre kindergarten in terms of websites. They helped me totally until I got to a place I could proceed on my own. A minimum of sixteen different back n forths. Great customer service.

  • This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by yeshua14.
  • This topic was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by yeshua14.
Great Looking & Great Results
by jg100·5 years ago

I’m a small custom upholstery shop and I love what BoldGrid Crio does for my business. I have my website set up to be clean, simple and FAST. First thing I often get from my customers is, “I love your Website”.

I’m using most of the BoldGrid plugins and in addition, getting excellent results in all the performance metrics from Chrome Lighthouse, Google PageSpeed Insights, and GTMetrix.

Very happy with BoldGrid Crio.

  • This topic was modified 5 years ago by jg100. Reason: Added BoldGrid
  • This topic was modified 5 years ago by jg100.
Very customizable, easy to use
by steelwater2290·5 years ago

Built a couple of customer websites with both the free and paid versions of Crio. As a small agency and business owner Crio is amazing. I love being able to quickly launch new aesthetically pleasing client websites super fast. Also love how Crio embraces the customizer. I can customize most of my site right from the customizer.

You’ll need their free builder plugin to really access most of the features which is a pro and a con (since I try to limit how many plugins I have installed), but it works really well (maybe the devs can integrate the editor into the theme somewhow).

Eh minor grievance. All in all positive experience.

This Theme is nice looking, But it is broken for me
by torensi·5 years ago·2 replies

I am trying to use Crio and all the Crio menu will not load. All I see when I try to use it is an hour glass for everything and I can’t do anything. I paid for premium and can’t get any help as the link is not working.

  • This topic was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by torensi.
Crio, very nice advanced customizable theme.
by Nemzag·6 years ago

Ħêllo,

I tried this new theme on my localhost blog back‑up,
and I was impressed by the number of option’s & customisations.
It’s incredible,
quasi perfect,
a real master‑piece.

I found only four things missing :

  • we can’t set the width of the logo easily in the option (Logo & icon).
    we can’t disable “white-space” (with check‑box) in option (Header\Site title), to avoid removal of some spaces made with U+00A0, it’s possible with use in CSS of .site-branding.c {white-space: break-spaces;}, but since I use wordpress.com free subscription, I don’t have access to C.S.S. editor.
  • the width of « branding » is set at 50% (.col-md-6 {width:50%;}) and we cant’t change this setting directly in option (Header\Layout), but it’s possible in C.S.S.
  • we can’t set excerpts to 0 or not to display excerpt at all (Design\Blog\Blog Page\Post List Settings), I don’t understand why…
    The Widget page don’t show title’s & subtitle’s level properly in Header sidebar or Header Column.
  • When you add « Page’s widget » in « Design\Header\Layout\Section\ » « WidgetArea »,
    the titles are shown with bullets (ul & li) and with proper level & sub‑level representation,
    but when we save,
    the bullet & level are removed in web‑site,
    that is not good.
    We need these levels in « Primary SideBar » and bullets and level in « Header Layout »…
  • The z-index position of the page / post is problematic with the sidebar (aside), because if you made a table with larger width,
    the sidebar is upon it,
    when the sidebar is on the right side.
    And if the SideBar is on the left,
    and widget post’s / page’s links use un‑breakable‑space,
    the text is upon the page or post content,
    that should be corrected

I’m sad because my blog is in « mangzedi.wordpress.com »,
and I would like to use this theme there,
without needing to take Business subscription to install « Premium theme’s ».
Hope he will be available soon.

But congratulation anyway pro this awesome theme.
The best customizator I ever seen in my life.

Good continuation,
and have a long & happy life.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Theme Info
Version
2.22.13
Last Updated
Mar 10, 2026
WP Requires
5.5+
PHP Requires
5.6+
Active Installs
10K+
Downloads
192K+
Created
Aug 1, 2019
Type
Free

Tags

blognewse-commerceone columncustom logocustom menugrid layoutsticky posttwo columnseditor stylefour columnsleft sidebarcustom colorscustom headerright sidebartheme optionsthree columnsfooter widgetsfeatured imagesflexible headercustom backgroundthreaded commentstranslation readyfull width template

Author

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BoldGrid
1 themes10K+ total installs

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