Videology is a WordPress theme that is rich in visual features, easy to customize with or without programming knowledge, and tested thoroughly to be fast and stable. Here’s a quick run-down of Videology’s features:
Home Page and Sliders
There are two types of content sliders you can use in the home page – main slider and news slider. The main slider appears at the top of the content area and intends to highlight your chosen set of contents. It also allows for video player for each item. The news slider is a much simpler, drag-and-drop slider, which is another option for highlighting your contents. You may use the two together. Aside from these, there are other visual elements you may add in the home page. For more information, please visit this link.
Custom Widgets
There are 9 custom widgets that come with this theme – the “About Us” box, advertisement, post listings with thumbnails, featured videos (list and player), latest tweets, and recent comments (with post thumbnails or avatars). They allow you to put dynamic content in the sidebars of different pages and the footer. Please browse different pages in the demo site to see the custom widgets in action. For more information about the custom widgets, please visit this link.
Shortcodes
Videology has built-in shortcodes that allow you to create simple text elements such as columns, pullquotes, and message boxes, and complex visual elements such as tabbed elements and accordion, portfolio, photos and video galleries. Shortcut buttons are added in the post editor for quicker access and editing. For more information about Videology’s built-in shortcodes, please visit this page.
Appearance Settings and Color Customizer
You can do full customization with Videology without editing directly any of the theme files. You can do all customizations within the theme options. The appearance settings section enables you to change background image (including its tiling and scrolling), and the font styles and sizes. The color customizer, simply put, allows you to change every bit of color in the theme easily using color pickers. For more information about Appearance Settings, Color Customizer, and other customization options in Videology, please check out this page.
Typography and HTML Elements Styling
The text elements in the theme such as headings, paragraphs, and lists are styled for good readability. The HTML elements such as tables, images, forms, and form elements are also well-styled. Visit this pageto see a sample of typography and HTML elements.
Search Engine and Social Media Optimization
This theme has built-in features that ensures the pages of your WordPress site appear properly on search engine results and social media shares (more particularly with Facebook) with well formatted titles, description, and the right thumbnails. For more information about this feature, please visit this page.
Browser Compatibility and Coding Standards
This theme has been tested to work and look consistently on all the major web browsers – Google Chrome (Chromium), Firefox, Internet Explorer (from IE6 to the latest version), Safari, and Opera. The markup uses XHTML strict standards and the styling is valid CSS.
Documentation and Support Forums
Videology has a very detailed documentation which can be used as guide for installing and customizing the contents and appearance of your site. The support forumsis a great place to ask questions and find answers from older threads. You may also post feature requests in the forums.
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Recycled – Videology Customized Version
The customized version gives you a good idea of how much customization you can achieve by using the theme options features (appearance settings and color customizer) without editing any of the theme files. Also, when you download this theme, the package contains this version in case you want to use this version as the starting point of your customization.
Videology Website
This website contains news and updates, documentation, support forums, and customization showcase.