Sidewalk is an elegant WordPress theme carefully crafted with a focus on readability and great visitor experience. It was designed with personal blog in mind, but it will suit the needs of any advanced professional blog and simple news/magazine websites as well.
Responsive Design
Your website will look just as good on big screens as it will on tablets and mobile phones.
Advanced Theme Options Panel
Sidewalk comes with an advanced, easy to use theme options panel. You will setup your website in 5 minutes.
Branding – Unlimited Fonts & Colors
Sidewalk provides options for unlimited fonts and colors as well as options to upload your logo and icons, depending on your taste. Add your personal touch to this theme!
You can add as many sidebars as you want. Then you can assign specific sidebar to any post, page or a category. Also, you can have sticky sidebars on each template which means that widgets will be always visible while you scroll through the website content.
You can have a classic “older posts / newer posts” navigation, numeric pagination, load posts with “more” button, or apply infinite scrolling.
Alongside the standard WordPress widgets, we provide several custom widgets:
Sidewalk Posts
Display your posts in a stylish way, similar to standard WordPress post widget but with more options
Sidewalk Adsense
If you are using Google Adsense, you can put your ad-sense script inside this widget. Actually, not only Google Adsense, you can use any JavaScript related advertising service
Sidewalk Video
You can easily display YouTube or Vimeo videos with this widget
Meks Easy Ads Widget
A great solution if you are dsiplaying advertisement on your website
Meks Smart Social Widget
You can use this widget to display social icons
Meks Smart Author Widget
Use this widget to display your user/author profile info
Meks Simple Flickr Widget
You can display your flicker photo-stream with this widget
Meks Smart ThemeForest Widget
You can display your own or other users’ ThemeForest items here, with affiliate links as well.
Paginated/multi-page posts
For those who use ads on their websites, we have created a very intuitive design for posts which are split into multiple pages. Boost your page views with ease!
Support for post views number
We provide support for Entry Views WordPress plugin which is used to count views for each post. We also provide smart options so your posts can be selected and ordered by number of views.
Related posts
Of course you could use one of many “related post” plugins, but we have provided a simple yet powerful solution for displaying related posts for a particular post which will get you covered in almost any case.
Built-in Theme Translator
If you want to modify or translate the text on you website, you can do it very easily in the theme options panel. Note that .po and .mo language files are provided if you prefer to use standard WordPress translation or multilingual website.
One Click Easy Updates
You can connect your website with the Envato official API and be notified about all upcoming updates through your admin dashboard. Every time we release a Sidewalk update, you can update this theme with a single click, just like you do for any other theme hosted on the official WordPress repository.
Social Sharing Integrated
Allow visitors to quickly share your posts on most popular social networks.
Shortcodes
You can add some nice elements into your content with 12 flexible shortcodes. Columns, separators, highlights, dropcaps, buttons, pull quotes, progress bars, social icons, tabs, toggles, accordions… to name just a few.
Post formats support
Besides standard posts, this theme supports video, audio, image and gallery post formats. Also, most WordPress common embedding features are supported so you can embed facebook statuses, tweets, instagram, soundcloud, youtube, vimeo…
RTL Support
If you are using your website for right-to-left oriented reading, there is a simple option for it!
Full Documentation + Demo Content Included
We provide full documentation so you can learn how to setup this theme step by step and use it’s options and features. A demo content XML file is also included in the package, so you can get content very similar to our demo website, and start tweaking from that point.
Dedicated Support
If you have any questions, issues, feature ideas, do not hesitate to contact us. We do our best to respond as soon as possible and help you out!
Credits
We would like to say big thanks to great people for their products which help us in our theme development!
JavaScript
FitVids – http://fitvidsjs.com
Magnific Popup – http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup
Bootstrap Affix – http://getbootstrap.com/javascript/#affix
Owl Carousel – http://www.owlcarousel.owlgraphic.com
ImagesLoaded – http://plugins.jquery.com/imagesloaded
Sidr – https://github.com/artberri/sidr
HTML5 Shiv – https://github.com/aFarkas/html5shiv
PHP
Redux Options Framework – http://reduxframework.com
TGM Plugin Activation – http://tgmpluginactivation.com
Pixelentity Theme Update Class – http://pixelentity.com
Hybrid Media Grabber – http://themehybrid.com/hybrid-core
Icons
Font Awesome – http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome
Images
Images on demo website are not included in the theme package and are used for demo purposes only. They are all credited to their respective creator/owner, and can be found on the following services/websites:
ShutterStock – http://www.shutterstock.com
Unsplash – http://unsplash.com
Deathtothestockphoto – http://deathtothestockphoto.com