Draftly

I was looking for a distraction-free single-column layout similar to Facebook and LinkedIn. This comes real close.

This layout appears similar to Facebook and LinkedIn on mobile devices. Major plus. However the sidebar area ruins the single column layout on larger screens, leaving a large blank area to the right. Though the theme works fine on smaller screens and smaller devices.

Google likes the font sizing and the layout. No more errors in Google telling me my site is not mobile friendly nor responsive enough. Major major plus.

Is a good theme. No clue why another rated it so low. Is highly responsive to every device I tossed at it. Near perfect. Just needs a little more flexibility.

* Here’s what I mean… something is amiss between this plugin, my cache, or some other plugin(s) on my site because the forced featured image of this theme can get annoying. On my landing pages I do not want a featured image. I want the sales message to lead the page not a huge image randomly grabbed by this theme. I delete the forced featured image and it shows right back up. Even with cache disabled. Is a pain. After enabling and disabling plugins and cache and removing the featured image from the post (not from media library) messing with a ton of settings it took days before the featured image finally stopped showing up on my landing page. No clue what made the difference. Other than that annoyance this is the closet to an off-the-shelf single column theme I’ve come across that even comes close to what I have been searching for.

I’d give it five starts if 1) the featured image would stop auto-populating and 2) if I could find how to better manage the sidebar area so the entire layout is available for content, not just the narrow area left remaining after the sidebar loads (controlling that may be my lack of knowledge). Deleting widgets has no impact. The space is still reserved for the sidebar. I don’t want that dead space there at all. My footer area and nav bar at the top contain my links. So no need for a distracting sidebar.

Thanks for an otherwise killer theme.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by andrebell82.

I purchased the Draftly theme by SuperbThemes. They have a bunch of other themes which are just different designs but same framework so essentially this is a review for all of their work. Other premium themes have a one click install for their plugins and demo content. This is not the case for SuperbThemes. You have to install all the plugins manually. Even then, installing the demo content requires at least three different files that you have to manually download from their website and it does not recreate their demo without a bunch of additional steps and work.

I bumped them up to two stars because they were very nice and refunded me the money.

• This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Vincent.
• This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Vincent.
• This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Vincent.