Theme Support
If you encounter a bug in the theme or have any pre purchase questions you can get support by creating a support ticket at http://support.themesgenie.net, you can also generate a ticket by sending an email to support@themesgenie.net.
Please read the help document carefully before generating a ticket.
Multipurpose Usage
Build a Super Cool Micro Site With built-in Custom Post Types
Blend comes with 4 custom post types: portfolio, about, services and news. You can easily disable any of these sections if you don’t want it to be displayed on your site.
You can rename these custom post types and also change the order of appearance in the site navigation by just drag and drop in theme admin.
Premium Plugin – Development Mode
Once a theme is activated in wordpress theme admin, it becomes visible to all the site visitors. But with our development mode plugin, you can test run a dev theme without activating it from the wordpress theme admin.
All your site visitors will be pleased to see a unique under-construction website in the front end while you are busy in building and testing your dev theme on the same website.
Blend Theme Control Panel
Blend is highly configurable through it’s easy to use theme control panel.
Checkout the detailed screenshots of all available options in the themes control panel.
Highlights of theme control panel :
Inline help with each option.
All options are very well categorized and available through easy navigation.
Features
Theme Compatible with wordpress 3.3 and above.
Translation ready.
Premium plugin “development mode” (compatible with WP version 3.4 and above) to test run your development theme along with Blend.
Total 58 PSD files are included in the package.
50+ Handpicked Google fonts (we believe in quality not quantity :))
Preview Google fonts before using it from theme control panel.
Content delivered through custom post types only makes it easy to separate out your development site content and under-construction site content.
4 custom post types included: portfolio, about, services and news.
Manage custom post types, show/hide on home page, rename or change the order with easy drag-drop interface.
Portfolio :
Add video from youtube, vimeo or mp4 file.
Upload Splash screen for videos.
Add multiple pictures.
Two view of portfolio page, slide and grid, option to switch view.
Add description to each portfolio item.
Link with external webpage.
News :
Mark items as featured.
Choose the news date as it happened.
Option to direct link with an external webpage/news source.
Contact form with math guard captcha
Inbuilt inbox, all received emails can be listed in the admin area with option to export as .CSV file.
Receive emails in your personal email address.
Inbuilt Subscription form:
Send notification email after each successful subscription.
No duplicate entries.
Can be listed in admin area with option to export as .CSV file.
jQuery based animated Countdown with 5 skins, detailed PSD files for each skin.
Countdown time calculated based on your wordpress time zone.
On-complete events:
Show html content.
Redirect to a news page.
Do nothing if you don’t want any of these actions.
Choose your own animation style or disable the animation.
Pauses if user is not in the same window for more than 20 seconds, resumes once user comes back. Save browser memory usage.
Custom Social share buttons
Build your own splash screen, replace countdown and subscription panel with your own html, create html direct in the admin area with built-in WYSIWYG editor.
Build your own background style, upload a resizable full screen graphics or create a background style with color and image from the theme admin area, no need to modify the CSS file.
Extensive branding customization options:
Typography: Set font family and size for html elements.
Theme visualizer: Customize the color and appearance of the site with visual color picker, no need to modify the CSS files.
Build site background: Full screen resizable graphics or background pattern.
Upload logo.
Configure Tweeter feed in news section.
SEO options.
Separate layout for mobile and tablets.
IE6 warning page.
Configure Google Analytics in theme control panel.
Neat, clean and optimized HTML , CSS, JS and PHP code.
Dedicated support ticket system.
Detailed documentation.
Quality
Top quality files included in the package, all files are created as per the quality standards and optimized for best performance:
PSD files are well organized with proper folder structure and editable layers with proper name
HTML /PHP files are well commented and formatted for quick understanding of the parent-child tags
CSS files are created with proper classification of the selectors for better editing.
JS functions are commented very well for better editing.
Help files are included for most possible queries.
Stock images used in the demo site bought from photodune.com and bigstock.com, Stock images are not included in the download package.
For any pre purchase related query please send an email to support.themesgenie.net Your email will be converted in to a ticket and will be answered soon.
For more details visit: Blend Website
Change log
Theme was updated to v.1.1 This update addresses following issues:
Updated mobile detection class to add iPad support.
Minor fixes for slides in mobile device.