Maktub Blog Magazine Theme Review : Minimal & Lightweight Blog for WordPress

Introduction Maktub Blog Magazine Theme

Maktub Blog Magazine Theme Clean, Fast, Minimalist and lightweight. Maktub is a super modern Blog highly focused on Speed and Typography. This text-centric theme includes one unique mode “text-mode” which can dramatically increase the rendering time of your website, also this theme fits perfectly any kind of blog specially personal, travel, technology, or biography blogs. It is super light (just 1 required plugin for all features). This fast theme was made with multiple techniques to achieve excellent Scores on Google Insights, also we keep in mind the code quality and SEO. It is easy to use and customize. Includes 11 customs widgets and a powerful Theme Options Panel to make easier the administration.

Maktub is fully compatible with AMP in Transitional Mode (home, archives, author and single post pages) and it is multilanguage, includes: English, Spanish, French and Turkish. and you can easily translate the theme into any language you want. This Theme is capable to get high scores on Google Insights (up to 100%) for Desktop

Some Important Basic Information

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How To Install From Maktub Blog Magazine Theme Review

The normal installation method is done via your WordPress Dashboard area.

1. From your ThemeForest Downloads Screen, click the Download button next to . Select All files & documentation.
2. On your computer, unzip this package you’ve just downloaded. Within, you’ll find a file titled “.zip”. This is the theme file.
3. In your WordPress Dashboard, navigate to Appearance > Themes.
4. Click the Add New button and then click the Upload button.
5. Select the “.zip” file and click Upload.
6. Once you’ve installed , click the Activate button.

Features :

• Two sidebar positions: left sidebar & right sidebar
• Two header style: dark and white
• Sticky navigation
• WordPress 4.0 ready
• WordPress dropdown menu support
• Easy setup with user-friendly theme options
• Social media icons in header
• Translation ready, .po/.mo files included
• Widget ready comes with useful custom widgets
• Integrated social sharing tool
• Unlimited accent colors
• Customisable font with google font selection
• Logo & favicon uploader
• Contact Form 7 support
• Disqus support
• Social links widget
• Useful custom widgets
• And many more interesting features

Theme Options Panel

Maktub Blog Magazine Theme includes a powerfull options panel, so you can easily change the main options of the template. This panel is located at the bottom of the wp-admin sidebar:

This page is really easy to use, is just like any form inside the wp-admin, you must click/change the option that you prefer and finally click on save changes.

If you are experiencing any kind of problems with the theme options, you can always click Reset section (this will reset the current active tab) or even you can Reset All options (all tabs inside the theme options panel).

Before you Reset all the options it is important to create a backup of your current options:

• Go to theme options -> Import/Export
• Click on Download Data File

Header

Maktub Blog Magazine Theme header tab you can change the appearance of the Header, it is important to know there is some hidden options that will be displayed only on certain cases, for example:

Footer

Maktub Blog Magazine Theme Just secondary options like copyright and a custom logo (only for footer) can be added here.

Advertising

Maktub Blog Magazine Theme Here you can manipulate Advertising from all sections. The only ads section that will not be displayed automatically is the “Custom ADS shortcode”, that will generate a custom ads that can be used anywhere inside your website, for example:

Styling

Maktub Blog Magazine Theme Usefull if you want to change the main colors of the template, if you need to add some extra changes it is recommended to use advanced settings -> custom css box.

Typography

Maktub Blog Magazine Theme you can change current fonts used for primary texts and primary titles, if you don’t want to change any font, just leave everything in blank. The Article titles font size only applies when you are viewing the content of an article, not homepages, archives or any other page.

Sidebars

This panel is fully optional, you can add custom sidebars that can be used on your pages, for example

• .Click on Add More
• Now you will see an input text field, here you must name you custom sidebar (with an unique name)
• Click Save Changes
• Go to appearance -> Widgets
• Now you will see your custom sidebar to use in any page that you want.

 Blog

Maktub Blog Magazine Theme these options affects Single Articles (content inside any article), the only important option is if you want to use Disqus Platform instead of self hosted comments you must follow the next steps:

• Select Disqus instead of self hosted.
• Add your Disqus ID
• Click Save Changes

Theme Development

Maktub is using a precompiler for SCSS and Javascript files, this means everytime one of these files (inside assets) changed, it will be compiled into a minified version on assets/dist folder. For example,If you want to do heavy changes to CSS, you must follow the next steps: REQUIRED: Go to Theme Options -> optimization and disable “Optimization” so after every save you will see all your changes immediately.