Matina- Creative Blog WordPress Theme Review- Is it good?
Matina is a creative blog WordPress theme that is perfect for creating fashion, lifestyle, recipes, travel blog websites. It is fully responsive and adjusts perfectly to display content on any device or resolution. Theme is highly flexible and SEO friendly. With features like breadcrumbs, unlimited colors, typography, and author box, Matina is the best choice for creating a blogging website.
Besides that, it comes with multiple demos, sticky header, sliders, wooCommerce ready, translation ready, and so on. Theme is also integrated with WP Blog post layout plugin that helps you achieve the exact design and layout you desired, without touching any code. It is also compatible with popular page builder such as Elementor and Beaver Builder.
Key Features:
- Easy to set up
- Highly Customization with Woocommerce
- Retina ready and Responsive Design
- Unlimited Primary Color Option
- SEO Optimized
- WordPress Page Builder Compatible
- Top-Notch Support
Installation and Setup
Matina is extremely easy to install and setup. The installation process is similar to other themes. All you have to do is follow the steps mentioned below.
- First of all, login to WordPress Dashboard. Then, go to Appearance >> Themes >> Add New.
- Click on the upload option.
- Upload the zip file that you downloaded earlier. Next, click on the Install Now option.
Once it’s done, activate the theme to complete the installation of Matina blog WordPress theme.
Theme also has multiple beautiful demos that you can explore and import your favorite demo in just one click. Check out the video tutorials on how to import Matina demo using mystery themes demo importer plugin.
Main Features:
Now that we have introduced the theme and explained the setup process, let’s jump into the main features of Matina.
Built-in Customizer
Matina is highly customizable and has customizer based settings. Hence, you can design and customize your theme using the WordPress Customizer. To do so, navigate to Appearance >> Customize and you’ll see all options and settings right there.
- Header and footer options
- Breadcrumbs options
- Dark mode option
- Blog, posts and archive layout
- Favicon, Icon, and typography
- Social sharing option
- Menu options and many more.
Each main option has multiple sub-options. You can also make changes to your WordPress site while looking at the live preview. Once you’re done with customizing your site, don’t forget to click on save option to implement the changes you made.
Compatible with Page Builders
Matina works perfectly with popular page builders such as Elementor, Visual Composer, Beaver Builder, and others. You can design your website easily with the help of drag and drop page builders. Apart from that, it is also compatible with the latest version of WordPress and a new block editor.
Responsive Designs and Layouts
Matina is fully responsive and retina ready. It is designed to automatically adjust itself according to the user’s screen size. That means your website will display content and images beautifully on mobile phones, tablets, and desktop devices.
Matina also offers multiple templates and layout for header, footer, archive posts, and pages. Theme has stunning layouts that you can choose from to attract your visitors.
WP Blog Post Layouts Compatible
WP Blog Post Layout plugin comes bundled up with the Matina WordPress blog theme. This plugin offers several layouts- Grid layout, List layout, and Masonry Layout. It works great with Gutenberg and Elementor page builder. With this plugin, you can rearrange the posts, configure the color and typography, show/hide metadata, and many more. Plus, it supports custom post type and displays the posts according to the specific category on your site.
Performance and SEO Optimized
Matina is specially designed by keeping performance and SEO in mind. Hence, it makes it easy for your website to get the necessary visibility in search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and many more. It is light-weighted and fast and lets you create a website that doesn’t keep your visitors waiting.
Matina Pingdom Test
When we tested the main demo URL of Matina using Pingdom Speed Test, the results we got were very impressive. It only takes 1.69 s to load and performance grade is 89 B.
WooCommerce ready
Matina is seamlessly integrated with WooCommerce and compatible with other e-Commerce plugins. You can easily create an online selling and e-store website with this theme.
Support, Documentation, and Updates
Matina theme has a 24/7 active support team that provides dedicated and top-notch support. If you ever need help with the theme, you can reach out directly to the Matina support team and they will fix the problem for you.
Matina also has detailed documentation and tutorial videos to help you get started with the theme. Furthermore, the developer team also frequently pushes new updates by adding new features and bug fixes.
Wrapping Up
Overall, Matina is a creative blog WordPress theme that is powerful enough for creating a successful blogging site. It is easy for beginners and also has all the advanced features needed for a blog site.
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