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Theme Description
Benchmark is a multipurpose landing page WordPress theme, designed for instant promotion and marketing of your product. The theme can be used as click-through landing page, a standalone micro site, or as a lead generation page. Benchmark encompasses conversion centered design, and is built with latest coding standards and SEO practices. With call-to-action areas above the fold, services section and social proof sections; the theme is envisioned to boost your business and convert visitors into buyers in large number.
The theme is best suited for small to medium enterprises, new startups, existing online stores and corporate firms. If you have just launched a new startup or looking for instant promotion of your existing business, Benchmark is the right choice. You would be able to set up lead generation and squeeze landing pages effortlessly with this theme.
Full feature list
Design and Layout
- Responsive and retina ready design
- Design based on Google’s Material Design guidelines
- Boxed / Stretched layout
- Dynamic layout width (choose between 800px to 2000px)
- 13 built in color schemes
- Global sidebar placement as left, right or none
One Page Features
- 8 pre built hero layouts for SiteOrigin Page Builder
- Exclusive Custom Menus per page (i.e. you can create unlimited one-page templates on same site)
- Exclusive Color Schemes per page
- Show/hide menus or top nave per page (Useful for creating click-through landing pages)
- Unlimited contact forms via Contact Form 7 plugin. (Sample form data included with theme)
- Parallax Backgrounds
- Full Screen hero layouts
Page Utilities
- Drag and drop Page builder by SiteOrigin Panels
- Custom page options panel per page
- Sidebar placement as left, right or none per page
- Custom shortcodes plugin with inline documentation in TinyMCE
- 30+ useful shortcodes (Including grids, slider, tabs, accordion, parallax, buttons, etc.)
Header/Navigation
- 2 menu layout styles (logo + menu, or logo + menu + icons)
- Sticky navbar (can be disabled from theme options)
- Custom logo uploader (show logo as text or image)
- Material Design style off-canvas responsive menu
- Simple and easy-to-use Mega Menu using class names (Supports up to 5 columns)
Theme Options
- Powerful, flexible and easy to use theme options panel (powered by Redux Framework)
- Plugin can be deactivated by exporting all settings and saving them as .json file. (The theme will use this file for settings).
- Options can be easily extended in child theme
Blog/Archives
- 3 global archive styles (gird, list and classic)
- Masonry enabled grid archives (masonry can be disabled)
- Grid columns supported as 2, 3 and 4 columns
- Post meta items can be configured and rearranged via Theme Options
- 4 built in page templates for blog and portfolio styles
- Image resize on-the-fly using Aqua Resizer. Per template resizing also available via page options.
Single Post
- Sidebar enabled or full width posts
- Automated featured images, author bio, related posts and post navigation
- Video and gallery post formats
- Social sharing buttons per post (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, vKontakte, email, print, reddit)
- Inline widget areas before and after main content
Widget areas
- 1 Primary widget area (shown before content+sidebar, supports 1 to 6 columns)
- 2 inline widget areas before and after main content (supports 1 to 4 columns)
- 1 Sidebar widget area
- 2 secondary widget areas before footer (supports 1 to 6 columns)
SEO
- Optimized for SEO and microdata
- Semantic and heirarchical markup
- Dynamic heading tags for site title/logo
- Internal links on single posts via related posts
Miscellaneous
- Owl Slider/Carousel for posts and HTML content
- Magnific popup lightbox
- Fontawesome 4.5+ icon library included
- Material design icon library included
- Simple Line Icons library included
- Unlimited Google fonts for headings and body text
- Animated section elements via animate.css
- Pricin Grids
- Member profile cards
- Social icons widget with built in brand color styles for 25+ icons
- WordPress Customizer support merged with Redux Theme Options (You can configure theme options in WordPress customizer)
- WordPress Custom background supported
- WordPress site icon (favicon) supported
- Valid HTML5 markup on theme generated data
- Supported on all modern browsers, IE 9 and above
- Pre configured Child theme included in main download
- Step-by-step documentation guide for theme installation and setup
- Filter and action hooks applied wherever possible and required
- Sample site data included in XML format
- Translation ready with sample POT file included
- Performs well in pagespeed tests. Performance can be further improved by serving resized images
- Theme developed on WordPress 4.4+, php 5.5.12 and MySQL 5.6.17
Theme Support
All support is provided via comments section and email. You can post your query on item comments section or email me at xconsau[at]gmail[dot]com. Support requests are replied within 24 to 36 hours or earlier as possible.
Credits
Important: Images shown on live demo are not included with the download. They are only for demonstration purpose.
Thank you for browsing the theme. If you have any questions related to theme, or have a general query; feel free to email me through my profile page message box. I would be glad to respond. Thanks once again.
