The Colormag Wp Theme is a free theme designed for news, journals, and other web publications but can also be used as a multi-purpose theme.
It’s one of the most common WordPress themes with over 100,000 active installs.
And with over 430 5-star ratings, we’ve chosen to delve into this WordPress-style free magazine-newspaper theme to help you find out if it’s the right theme for you.
What is precisely the Colormag Wp theme?
The ColorMag Wp theme is the brainchild of Theme Grill designers and creators Sanjip Shah and Rabin Shrestha.
After the launch of ThemeGrill, this pair has created over 15 separate Free and Pro versions of their WordPress themes. Including the other widely common Spacious theme is ideal for any form of business (especially SaaS business).
They cover everything from restaurants to fitness centers and have a range of built-in applications. You can download all of their free themes, upgrade to pro versions (where available) or buy all 16 of their WordPress Premium themes for $249.
The Extraordinary features.
- So many color options.
ColorMag helps you to change the colors on your web conveniently. You can select a primary accent color for your site under Appearance » Customize » Design Options » Primary Color Choice. The color picker helps you select whatever color you want or enter the hex code for your chosen color. Your menus, ties, and buttons will be displayed in the color of your preference.
Under Appearance » Configure » Category Color Choices, you can also choose a new color for each post category. The category color will be used for the category mark in the post meta, both on the front page and the actual post page.
- Page layouts.
You can select a regular full-width, left sidebar, right-sidebar, or both page style.
You can select different formats for your files, pages, and single posts. You may also use various page templates to override the norm.
- Fields of the widget.
ColorMag Wp theme comes with 16 widget zones.
There are separate widget areas for the left and right sidebars, a header widget area above the main navigation, and a widget area where you can put ads right above the footer.
The footer has four widget zones, four columns in the footer. The first column is almost half as wide as the other three columns.
Different widget areas only exist on your contact page and your 404 error page.
And there are six widget areas for content on the front page.
The documentation of Colormag Wp Theme.
The documentation for ColorMag available on the ThemeGrill website is quite clear.
The page has an outline in the sidebar that makes it easy to switch from installation to customization of your brand’s theme.
Both directions are grouped into numbered parts with detailed explanations and pictures to demonstrate what is described in the instructions.
Conclusion.
The free ColorMag WP Theme is a perfect newspaper/magazine theme for everyone starting. It’s no surprise why it’s the #1 most popular magazine-newspaper type theme beyond being free.
As pointed out in a novice’s review, “my blog transformed from a caterpillar to a butterfly in an hour.”
The Pro edition offers a range of additional ways to customize and build. And it’s a nice-to-have one year of dedicated support when the forums go silent.
How are you going to change the Colormag theme?
If you just want to customize with the tools, go to Appearance-Customize. This video illustrates how to delete or edit the colormag theme footer. Choose inc/functions. PHP from the right sidebar to change the text of the footer.
