CrossRoad v 1.04 Available for Download [2012-12-20]
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CrossRoad is a Responsive WordPress Theme, best suited for Magazines, News and Blogs.It comes with 18 awesome widgets and 22 widget areas and 4 post formats (image, audio, video & gallerie) and tons of theme options. Crossroad developed on the Bootstrap — beautifull boilerplate for responsive |
Key Features
 18 Custom Widgets 22 widget areas Responsive Design 5 Different Theme Layouts Sticky Menu |
SEO + Schema.org Microdata Built with Bootstrap Translation Ready Fully Widgetized Theme AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild |
3 Comments Type Demo Content Highly Customizable Ajax Contact Form And much more… |
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Just install theme, activate it, choose a widgets and drag it to the any of 22 areas, tune up theme settings and enjoy! Read more in the Documentation. |
The flexible and widgetized layout lets you easily adapt the theme to your needs. You can display articles in many ways, with the feature slider or as featured categories. The best part is that all custom widgets in the demo come with the theme.
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Theme Features
Responsive Design – This means you website will automatically adjust its layout and proportions to suit the device it is being viewed on. The theme content will be easy to read and easy to navigate whether it is being viewed on a desktop computer, a tablet or a mobile device.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) The theme is built with SEO best practices in mind. It uses semantical valid HTML code and CSS so search engines can index the content of your site with ease. Important content is always placed before unimportent in your source code (eg: Blog Post content before Sidebar), Page titles are wrapped in heading tags (h1, h2, h3 etc) to signalise their importance to search engines. The site also uses heavy internal site linking, which is also of vital for search engines (related posts, primary and secondary navigation menus, footer navigation, etc) With this WordPress Template you are well equipped to get a high google ranking and attract visitors to show them your fantastic work.
Schema.org Microdata (SEO improvement)
Coded with schema.org format Microdata can help search engines and other applications better understand your content and display it in a useful, relevant way. Our sites will be better seo-wise and easier readable by search engines.
What are the benefits?
The benefits are include:
1) Drawing a user’s attention to your relevant result.
2) Providing instant information as related to their query.
3) Increasing click-through rates and lessen the amount of bounces due to not searchers not finding the content they were looking for.
AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild
AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild allows you to rebuild all thumbnails on your site. You can also select the thumbnail sizes you want to rebuild, so that you don’t need to recreate all images if you’ve just changed one thumbnail-size. You can also choose to only rebuild post thumbnails (featured images).
- Unlimited Color Schemes: Easily adjust the theme colors via a color picker in the theme options panel
- 5 Home Page layouts
- 5 Blog Page layouts
- 5 Category Page layouts
- 5 Single Page layouts
- Demo Content included in an XML Import file for quick setup
- Post Rating System
- Ajax Contact Form
- 3 Comments Type
- Standard
- Disqus
- Shortcode Generator (Columns, BUttons, Dropcaps, Highlights, Video, etc.)
- 18 Custom Widgets
- Pages
- Contacts
- Archives
- Full width
- Sitemap
- Translation ready with mo/po files
- WPML plugin ready
- Blog Post Formats (image, gallery, video, audio, standard)
- jQuery Powered
- Responsive Layout
- Custom Archive and Full Width Page
- WordPress 3.0+ Ready (Compatible up to WP 3 .5+)
ChangeLog
Version 1.04 2012-12-20
Improved: "Blog" widget
Improved: "Popular" and "Related" posts widget
Improved: "Carousel" widget
Fixed: Minor bugs
Version 1.03 2012-11-09
Improved: "Blog" widget (added "Type of Pagination" option)
Improved: "Popular" and "Recent" posts widget (added "Show blank thumbnail" option)
Improved: "Carousel" widget (added "Show random posts" option)
Improved: "Text" widget (added more options)
Improved: AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild feature
Improved: Contact form
Changed: 404.php template page
Fixed: Minor bugs
Version 1.02 2012-10-28
Changed: Options for "Recent Posts" widget
Added: FitVids for fluid width video embeds
Added: Author.php template
Improved: "Blog" widget
Fixed: Minor bugs
Version 1.01 2012-10-26
Added: Update notifier
Added: AJAX Thumbnail Rebuild feature
Added: Options for "Popular posts" widget - Show related category posts
Added: Youtube subscribers counter to "Social counters" widget
Added: Translation for Dutch language (big thx @tijnfaas)
Fixed: Minor bugs
Images used in the Demo
All images used in the demo are not distributed with the theme. They are all licensed under Creative Commons and credited to their respective creator/owner.
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