Features – Victoria Roos

Solstice comes with a wide range of custom features to make it easy to use for your website project. Features include:

General

Responsive design – layout adjusts the display accordingly across all screen sizes and devices (desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile)
Retina optimized – show off graphics on high density displays
Customizer – See your changes live before committing to them–the WordPress Customizer makes changing many features of the site as easy as clicking a button
Custom logo upload
Call to Action bar – custom text and button on every page/post
Custom CSS – Add custom CSS as needed to completely stylize every aspect of the site
Custom colors – Easily change colors for any of the following site features: Background, Font, Headings, Menu, Menu Hover, Links, Links Hover, Buttons, Buttons Hover, Footer Widget, Footer
Custom fonts – Use any Google Font to customize body text and heading text
Multiple Header Layout Options – Choose from any of the following header layout options: Logo on top (with navigation below), Navigation on top (with logo below), Single Row (with logo to the left and navigation to the right)
Social icons in footer – optional icons that can link to social networks of choice–use only the ones you want: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, Vine, Bloglovin’, Map, RSS, Email, and a Custom link
Customize footer text
Support for Jetpack Tile Galleries & Carousel – Easily make beautiful mosaic gallery layouts with a pop-up lightbox carousel
Compatible with the Menu Social Icons plugin – Easily add links and icons to your favorite social networks
Localization – Includes a .po template file for theme translation
Analytics – Easily add Google Analytics code
Theme Documentation – Instructions for how to install and customize the theme to your website.

Homepage

All sections of the homepage are optional and can easily be turned on/off as needed.

Homepage Slider – full width cover images with optional text and link
Optional Single Image in place of Slider – single full width cover images with optional text and link if a slider is not needed/wanted
Optional Single Video in place of Slider – full width cover video if a slider is not needed/wanted
Homepage Featured Pages – highlight any 3 pages of your website such as About, Services, and Contact
Homepage Welcome Message – greet your visitors to your website with the welcome message area
Homepage Featured Posts – select from any Post Category, or simply display your most recent posts
Homepage Sidebar – display a sidebar alongside your Homepage Featured Posts
Homepage Additional Content – add any additional content to the homepage such as a welcome message, images, or SEO focused content

Posts

Excerpts vs Full Posts – Choose whether to display post excerpts or the full post on blog and blog archive pages
Post Formats – Choose from any of the following format options when publishing a post: Standard, Audio, Gallery, Image, Quote, Status, or Video
Post Meta Data – Choose whether to display any combination of the following with every post: Date, Category, Tag, and/or Featured Image
Author Bio – Included at the bottom of every post and on the author archives page is a place for a short bio
Editor Styles – the visual editor has imported styles to look very similar to the published post
Optional Sidebar – Display a full width layout or a sidebar with any post
Post Featured Image – Display a featured images on posts
Post Featured Video – Display a featured video on posts
Comments – threaded comments and highlighted author replies

Portfolio

Clean Grid Layout – show off your projects and/or artwork in an attractive grid layout. Can be used for any number of scenarios, such as artists, projects, recipes, staff, services, etc.
Filterable Portfolio – visitors can filter projects by skill to view only the type they wish to see
Custom Layouts – individual portfolio pages can display content in a variety of custom layouts such as full width or as columns
Optional Text – images can be displayed on their own or with accompanying text

Shortcodes

Simple to use shortcodes can be added to any page, post, portfolio project, or widget.

Buttons – custom messages, links, colors, and sizes
Columns – format text into columns of one half, one third, two thirds, or one fourth

Custom Widgets

Custom widgets to be added to any sidebar or footer widget area.