SeaShell is a professional WordPress blog theme, created by experienced WordPress developers. Perfect choice for your personal blog, niche blog, corporate blog, marketing blog, authority blog or any type of creative blog.
Made with modern responsive design, awesome typography and focus on readability. Highly customizable so it can match your personal taste. Also, SeaShell theme is developed with SEO in mind, as well as for fast page loading and security.
Feel free to check the demo and explore all the features.
Modern Responsive Design
Your website will look good on big monitor screens just as on tablets and mobile phones. Also, responsive mode is optional and it can be easily switched off through theme options.
Advanced Theme Options Panel
SeaShell comes with an advanced, easy to use theme options panel. You will setup your website in 5 minutes.
Branding – Unlimited Fonts And Colors
SeaShell 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.
Unlimited sidebars
You can add as many sidebars as you want. Then you can assign specific sidebar to any post, page or a category! If you prefer, you can also completely disable sidebars and use a one-column layout only.
Smart Categories
Each category may have it’s own custom color, background image and different sidebar.A great solution if you are used to organizing your website by WordPress categories, just a bit more!
Built-in Theme Translator
If you want modify or translate words/strings on the front-end, you can do it very easily via theme options panel. Also, .po and .mo translation files are provided if you prefer to use standard WordPress translation or multilingual website.
Google Authorship Support
You can quickly connect your Google+ profile with your website and be recognized as a website author in Google search results. Actually, you can do it for all the users (post authors) on your website.
One Click Updates
You can connect your website with Envato official API and be notified about all upcoming updates via your admin dashboard. Every time we release a SeaShell update, you can update this theme with a single click, just like you do for any other theme hosted on the official WordPress repository.
Post Formats Support
Besides standard posts, this theme supports video, audio, image, quote, gallery and link post formats. Also, most WordPress common embedding features are supported so you can embed facebook statuses, tweets, instagram, soundcloud, youtube, vimeo…
Social Sharing Integrated
Allow visitors to quickly share your posts on most popular social networks.
11 Additional Custom Widgets
Besides standard WordPress widgets, SeaShell provides 11 additional custom widgets you may want to use.
- SeaShell Posts – Display list of your posts here, similar to standard recent post widget but with more options provided.
- SeaShell Adsense Widget – If you are using Google Adsense, you can put your ad-sense script inside this widget. Actually, not only Google Adsense, you can put any JavaScript related advertising service here.
- SeaShell Video – You can easily display YouTube or Vimeo videos with this widget.
- SeaShell Quote – Display your quote post with this widget.
- SeaShell Image – Display your image post with this widget.
- SeaShell Gallery - Display your gallery post with this widget.
- Meks Easy Ads Widget – Great solution if you are using advertisement on your website.
- Meks Smart Social Widget – You can use this widget to display up to 40 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 or other users ThemeForest items here, with affiliate links as well.
Custom colors for posts and pages
Yes, each post and page may have it’s own custom color!
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…
Flexible post meta data (icons)
Choose whether you want to use icons for date, author, comments, categories/tags and sharing. Make your own order. For each post format.
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 most of it’s options and features. A demo content XML file is also included in the package so you can get very similar content as on our demo website, then start tweaking from that point.Dedicated Support
If you have any questions, issues, feature ideas, or even pre-sale questions, do not hesitate to contact us. We’ll try to respond ASAP and help you out!
Rating
Happy users
Changelog
1.5.3
* Fixed: Problem with editing categories in WP 4.5
1.5.2
* Fixed: SeaShell widgets throwing notices in WordPress 4.3 if WP_DEBUG mode is enabled* Fixed: Scrolling issue on some mobile devices
1.5.1
* Fixed: Issue with share buttons on mobiles
1.5
* Added: Support for Google structured data (updated and hcard fields)* Added: Share buttons will now display on mobile phones as well* Added: Option to remove all posts from home page and use static content only (Theme Options -> Home Page)* Improved: Video widget now works on SSL websites too* Improved: Minor CSS improvements and tweaks for reported glitches* Fixed: Home page pagination issue on specific website configurations
1.4
* Added: Home page options - you can filter posts on home page by specific categoires and tags* Added: Options to set explicit height of subheader area as well as top position of content inside of it* Added: Logo option for devices with retina displays* Added: Comments support for pages* Added: Option to change color for meta icon hovers and button hovers* Added: Option to remove featured image on single posts* Added: Allowed usage of shortcodes in page subtitles* Added: Allowed usage of shortcodes in category descriptions* Added: Allowed usage of shortcodes in tag descriptions* Added: Support for paginated content on pages using <!--nextpage--> tag* Added: Option to exclude specific users from author page template* Added: Translation strings for comments form* Improved: Page speed - using better technique for loading CSS to improve website performance* Improved: All widgets fully supports new customizer in WP 3.9+* Improved: Prevented pagination issue on homepage caused by Facebook WordPress plugin* Improved: Display comments if discussion is closed for particular post but it contains some comments already* Changed: Removed automatic detection of post description/excerpt for social media sharing (in favor of using SEO by Yoast or similar plugin)* Fixed: Pagination issue on search page when using more than one word in search query* Fixed: Missing image for Pinterest share* Fixed: Minor CSS improvements and tweaks for reported glitches
1.3
* Added: Option to change sidebar color* Added: Support for YARPP related post plugin* Added: Option to enable captions on galleries* Added: Page template to list all authors* Added: Option to enable excerpt instead of full content* Added: Support for custom color and subheader if page is set as "posts page" * Added: Option to enable "#" anchor position for "read more" button* Improved: Description field for Facebook share* Fixed: Post titles on single post template changed to H1* Minor CSS improvements and tweaks
1.2
* Added: Full width page template with no sidebar* Added: Meta icons list style* Improved: Translation options* Improved: Main CSS file added to default style.css so it can be modified via theme editor* Minor CSS improvements and tweaks
1.1
* NEW FEATURE: RTL support* Page load optimization, fewer http requests* CSS improvements* Responsive CSS improvements* Fixed small navigation issue on iPhone 5* Fixed custom colors in navigation menu
1.0
* Initial release
Sources & Credits
JS- Flexslider – http://flexslider.woothemes.com
- FitVids – http://fitvidsjs.com/
- Magnific Popup – http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/
- Skrollr – https://github.com/Prinzhorn/skrollr
- Waypoints – http://imakewebthings.com/jquery-waypoints/
- ScrollToFixed – https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed
- MatchMedia – https://github.com/paulirish/matchMedia.js/
PHP
- Redux Options Framework – http://reduxframework.com/
- Simple PHP Captcha – http://www.abeautifulsite.net/blog/2011/01/a-simple-php-captcha-script/
- TGM Plugin Activation – http://tgmpluginactivation.com/
- Pixelentity Theme Update Class – http://pixelentity.com/
ICONS
- Font Awesome – http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/
IMAGES
Images used on demo website are purchased from ShutterStock and downloaded from Unsplash and they are all credited to their respective creator/owner. These images are not included in theme package.