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U-Design is a very powerful theme which suits
both, users with no programming background as well as advanced developers. It
will help you build your site in no time to your liking with minimal effort. It
empowers you to set any color to elements such as backgrounds, links, text,
menu links, etc. You can completely change the look and feel of your site in
seconds. You can also choose from
over 500 fonts, including
Google Font Directory and Cufón fonts. This number will grow with time since
many new fonts are being added to the Google fonts library. The theme also
features 6 (six) Home page sliders for you to choose from.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been made a priority
when designing the
U-Design theme. In the code
hierarchy, the main content block is placed before the sidebar regardless of
the sidebar position, so it is crawled first by search engines. Another very
powerful SEO feature has been implemented regarding Heading (h1, h2, h3,...)
tags in that on the Home page the ‘h1’ tag is assigned to the site name and the
rest of pages/posts/archives etc., the main Title has been assigned an ‘h1’
tag.
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Responsive & Mobile Ready!!! U-Design theme has a fully
responsive layout. It fits perfectly on various displays and resolutions from
regular desktop screens to tablets,iPads,iPhones and small mobile devices. Feel
free to try it out! The theme offers two responsive menus, additionally you
have the option to assign a different logo to be used for the mobile version of
your site and more. A note for those who do not require responsive layout, it
is optional so they can disable it if they wish to.
In the theme’s
SHOWCASE
I’ve demonstrated a small fraction of what can be accomplished with the
U-Design theme.
What People are Saying:
Everything the author says about this theme, including the
best support available is ABSOLUTELY true! I have used this theme on several
websites and have never had any problems or a question that went unanswered.
And not only does the author provide great service, but so do the many who
frequent the forum. So if you’re thinking about buying this theme… you can rest
assured it’s a wise choice! It’s been #1 for a reason and I’m sure it will keep
its place as the best. —
neostead
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I am a total beginner!!! Bought UDesign about 6 weeks ago,
and I am working on my first website. So you guys can only imagine how many
questions I have. Yet, the support forum has answers for just about anything
and everything, and as far as customer support, I have had all my questions
answered within 6 hours or less. —
davutor
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more…
what a breath of fresh air – someone on the interwebs who
clearly knows what they are talking about and can be bothered to provide
friendly patient and comprehensive support. at the price of this
theme all this
adds up to a real bargain – i’ll never bother with another theme. or recommend
any other theme. awesome. —
janimal
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TO ALL WHO ARE CONSIDERING PURCHASING U-DESIGN, I’ve put up
100s of WP Sites over the years and worked with dozens of premium themes. NONE
top this theme for ease of use and beautiful results. It does not require
expertise! I installed it and SNAP it was doing what I tried to make my
previous theme do for dozens of hours. —
whata1
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more…
I wish all themes were this easy to setup. Absolutely top
notch. It’s a nice change of pace to be able to start working with a theme
right away. There’s hardly even a need for documentation. Superb mate, you
really thought of everything. One of the best purchases I’ve ever made here. —
tonvie
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PREMIUM
FEATURES
U-Design Template makes it easy to create a
World class website with a unique style and clear focused message…
Seven Home Page Sliders
You will be able to upload and reorder slider images in the
theme’s options page.
- Slider
Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin – This is an
incredibly versatile and flexible slider. It features tons of unique
transition effects, an image preloader, video embedding, autoplay that
stops on user interaction and lots of easy to set options to create your
own effects. The Revolution slider has been fully integrated with the
“U-Design” theme.
- Flashmo Grid Slider – Features beautiful
transition effects. The slider can be configured entirely through the
theme’s backend option’s page, no need to deal with any code or xml files.
Very easy and convenient interface to control this beautiful slider.
- Piecemaker Flash Slider – Customize every
aspect of the slider through the theme’s options page, including being
able to upload the slider images, re-order the slides (drag-and-drop),
delete slides, choose from 40 different tween types, etc.
- Piecemaker 2 Flash Slider – Similar to the
Piecemaker slider with the exception that now you can add Flash and Video
slides as well as unlimited number of transitions.
- jQuery Cycle Slider Full Width Image – Slide controls
available: pause, resume, jump to a specific slide. Choose from 28
transition effects that could be assigned independently to each slide.
Slide link with the option to open in current or new window. Also remove
the 3D shadow option is available.
- jQuery Cycle Slider With an Image, Text and Button
– Slide controls available: pause, resume, jump to a specific slide.
Choose from 28 transition effects that could be assigned independently to
each slide. Link button auto generated with the option to open the link in
current or new window. Also remove the 3D shadow option is available.
- jQuery Cycle Slider With sliding Images and Sliding Text
– Slide controls available: pause, resume, jump to a specific slide. The
practical aspect of this slider is that it allows you to create dynamic
interactive look of three sliding layers.
- An
additional “No slider”
option has been added with the ability to add custom text in the place of
the slider
Choosing Your Fonts
& Colors:
- Over
500 fonts offered (more info)
- Unlimited
combinations of colors (more info)
- Background
Images – You could also upload background images on per section bases
instead of solid background color if you wish. (more info)
- U-Design: Recent Posts – Display the most
recent posts with teaser text, author and date info (optional), you also
have the option to offset the displayed recent posts from the most current
one, use this to omit the first 2 or 3 latest posts for example. In
addition to that the widget allows you to select a specific category and
all its descendants respectively. Limit the number of words to show from
each post. Auto generate thumbnails and optionally show thumbnail frame
shadow. The Thumbnails can have any width or height. In addition I have
provided a shortcode version of this widget so that it can be used
anywhere in the content, not just widget areas. Here’s an
example.
- U-Design: Login Form – Displays a login in the
sidebar. Users can login and logout directly from the sidebar without
being redirected to the default WP login page.
- U-Design: Custom Category widget – allows you
to display a single category and all of its descendant categories
respectively. This comes in handy for sections of the website such as the
Portfolio or Blog/News, where you might want to narrow the categories
displayed in the sidebar for the current section to be more relevant.
- U-Design: Google Map – Copy and paste your
Google map code to display a Google Map in the sidebar.
- U-Design: Subpages – Displays a current pages’
children pages. The parent is displayed as the title. This widget is handy
if you have a lot of pages that would normally take up too much room in
the sidebar, so you could use this widget to display a much shorter
version of the menu in the sidebar showing just the descendant pages of
the current page.
Home page
Columns with Widget Areas
- There
are 11 (eleven) widget areas. They are designed in a such a way to span
the width of the page dynamically, e.g. if one column is deactivated, then
the remaining columns will re-size to span the full width of the page, if
let’s say only one column is active then it will span the full width of
the page, etc.
There are 12 (twelve) custom sidebars with positioning that
could be set as left or right at any time from the theme’s Options page for
each section (e.g. Blog, Contact page, Sitemap page, etc.) independently.
- In the
code hierarchy, the main content block is always placed before the sidebar
regardless of the sidebar position, so it is crawled first by search
engines.
They go hand in hand with the available page templates (see
below) and allow for customized look and feel for the various sections of the
website. Available sidebars: Portfolio section sidebar, Blog section sidebar,
Contact page sidebar, Default page sidebar, Pages sidebar 2, Pages sidebar 3,
Pages sidebar 4, Pages sidebar 5, Pages sidebar 6, Pages sidebar 7, Pages
sidebar 8, Sitemap sidebar
Contact page
- Pre-formatted Business Contact Fields – that
could be entered directly from the theme’s Options page. This feature can
be enabled/disabled from the Option’s page as well. The Business Contact
Fields provide a way to better display additional contact information such
as Company Name, Address, Phone, etc.
- E-mail form:
- Phone
number validation (North America format) that could be enabled/disabled
from the theme’s Options page (disabled by default).
- Unobtrusive
form validation (works with JavaScript ON or OFF)
- The
contact form offers ReCAPTCHA
for extra security
Portfolio section
Unlimited Portfolio sections/pages.
- You can
choose from four layouts: one, two, three and four column
- Auto
generate portfolio thumbnails
- You can
add description to each portfolio item
- Specify
the number of items per page
- Automatic
pagination
- Option
to include/exclude date, post metadata and comments from the portfolio
item’s individual post
- Custom
sidebar with widgets and sidebar position control for the portfolio item’s
individual post
- Galleries
- Sortable/Filterable
Portfolios, you can filter by Category or by Tags, also sort by
Alphabetical and Ascending/Descending order
Blog section
- Blog
section pages can have left, right or no sidebar (full-width) pages
- Option
to remove the sidebar from Blog, Archive and Single Post View pages
independently
- Option
to set the post image/thumbnail dimensions (width and height) as well as
the image alignment
- Option
to show or remove Post Tags and Author Name and to change the excerpt
length
Typography
960 Grid system
This theme has been designed with the help of the 960-grid
system – more info
here
Unobtrusive Menu
Works if JavaScript is disabled. Multi-level deep support.
You can enable menu’s auto arrows. Those are the arrows indicating a submenu.
Also enable/disable drop shadows to the sub-menus.
- “Portfolio
page 1 Column” template
- “Portfolio
page 1 Column Sortable” template
- “Portfolio
page 2 Column” template
- “Portfolio
page 2 Column Sortable” template
- “Portfolio
page 3 Column” template
- “Portfolio
page 3 Column Sortable” template
- “Portfolio
page 4 Column” template
- “Portfolio
page 4 Column Sortable” template
- Blog
page template
- Contact
page template
- Full-width
page template (no sidebar)
- Sitemap
page template
- Default
Template
- Page
Template 2
- Page
Template 3
- Page
Template 4
- Page
Template 5
- Page
Template 6
- Page
Template 7
- Page
Template 8
- Archives
Translations
This theme is Internationalized
(translation ready) – the theme has been updated to support translations in
more than one language. We have included a (.pot file included to have the
theme localized) Included Translations with the theme:
Search Results Page
Highlighted searched term
in search results.
Shortcodes
Documentation
Help and extensive documentation is provided through the
theme’s options page
UPDATES HISTORY:
Version 2.0.0 –
Updated: 23.04.2013
- Added
: Responsive Layout support
- Updated
: Revolution Slider update to latest version
- Updated
: “U-Design WooCommerce Integration” plugin
- Updated
: “U-Design Shortcode Insert Button” plugin
- Updated
: Performance improvements (JavaScripts now placed before closing body
tag)
- Updated
: Rewrite of theme’s custom image frames markup
- Updated
: Isotope script to latest version
- Updated
: French Translation
- Updated
: WPML support for Revolution Slider translation
- Fixed
: Compatibility issue with Portfolio Sorting by Tags only if PHP < 2.5.9
Version 1.9.1 –
Updated: 11.02.2013
- Added :
62 new Google fonts
- Updated
: Revolution Slider update to version 2.2.4
- Updated
: Dutch Translation
- Fixed :
home page slider area custom backgrounds bug when Revolution Slider used
- Fixed :
compatibility with UberMenu related to z-index
- Fixed :
admin area post filtering by category
Version 1.9.0 –
Updated: 29.01.2013
- Added
: Revolution Slider
- Added
: WooCommerce Integration
- Added
: Swedish Translation courtesy of Ola Walfridsson (www.facebook.com/ola.walfridsson)
- Added
: Instagram icon to social icons
- Updated
: prettyPhoto script to latest version
- Updated
: Theme’s Documentation
- Updated
: Timthumb script update
- Fixed
: “more” tag issue on Blog pages
- Fixed
: z-index related issue between the logo and menu in some cases
- Fixed
: a small search results formatting issue
Version 1.8.0 –
Updated: 10.10.2012
- Added
: 54 new Google fonts
- Added
: Sortable Portfolio for all four Portfolio page templates (Filter by
Category/Tags, sort by alpha and/or ascending/descending)
- Added
: An option to choose the position of the page title, as well as to remove
it
- Added
: An option to choose the position of the main navigation menu
- Added
: An option to remove the sidebar in the theme’s Contact Page
- Added
: Chinese Traditional (zh_tw) Translation courtesy of Sylvia Ho
- Added
: Danish Translation courtesy of Nikolaj Mackowski ( http://www.vagtformidlingen.dk/
)
- Added
: Polish Translation courtesy of Elzbieta Wozniak ( http://gaztec.pl/ )
- Added
: Portuguese (Brazil) Translation courtesy of Lord Marcio Moreira ( http://acas.com.br/ )
- Added
: Turkish Translation courtesy of Web Tasarim PRO ( http://www.webtasarimpro.com/ )
- Added
: Yelp icon to social icons
- Added
: Yahoo icon to social icons
- Added
: Option to add ThemeForest affiliate link in the footer
- Updated
: Performance improvements related to loading the custom styles
- Updated
: Removed the “Loading” text from the Flashmo slider preloader
- Updated
: Theme’s Documentation
- Fixed
: WPML compatibility with the theme’s Portfolio pages
- Fixed
: Searchbox left margin issue
- Fixed
: Image Frame Shadow
Version 1.7.0 –
Updated: 12.07.2012
- Updated
: IMPORTANT SECURITY UPDATE
- Added
: Option for Percentage Based Column Layouts (“General Options”)
- Fixed
: Issue with Theme Update Notification and child themes
- Fixed
: Sitemap page template missing a string for translations
Version 1.6.1 –
Updated: 05.07.2012
- Updated
: Security updates
- Updated
: Theme Update Notifier script
Version 1.6.0 –
Updated: 12.06.2012
- Added
: 58 new Google fonts
- Added
: Option to remove the sidebar from Portfolio Single Post View pages
- Added
: An option to disable TimThumb script for cropping images (added under
“General Options”)
- Added
: Greek Translation courtesy of George Girtsou ( http://automatismosweb.gr/ )
- Updated
: Provided more space/width of the “Back to Top” link area in footer
- Updated
: TimThumb script update
- Fixed
: Accordion Styling when used in Sidebar
- Fixed
: Cufón font selection saving issue when Google fonts are disabled in the
theme’s “Font Settings” section
- Fixed
: ‘Comfortaa’ font issue when selected as Google Font
Version 1.5.1 –
Updated: 14.02.2012
- Fixed
: Small bug in v1.5.0 affecting excerpts
Version 1.5.0 –
Updated: 12.02.2012
- Added :
130 new Google fonts
- Added :
Ability to enable comments section in Full-width page template
- Added :
Ability to use shortcodes in the footer “Copyright Message” area
- Added :
g+ button (googleplus-icon.png) and a Skype button (skype-icon.png) to the
social icons
- Added :
Image Gallery on Portfolio Page to order the images so that they follow
the order set by the integer fields in the Insert / Upload Media Gallery
dialog
- Added :
Cycle sliders images’ “alt” tags can now be specified for each slide
- Added :
A link relation attribute for Portfolio thumbnails
- Added :
Serbian Translation courtesy of Draganche Golubac
- Updated
: Spanish Translation courtesy of Vicent Llopis ( http://www.elpatiodigital.com )
- Updated
: Dutch Translation courtesy of Jeroen van Beusekom ( http://leefretail.nl/ )
- Updated
: TimThumb script update
- Updated
: “U-Design Shortcode Insert Button” plugin
- Updated
: Google Analytics code option adjustment
- Updated
: Author page changed the author name to the author’s “Display Name” setup
from the Profile page
- Updated
: “Uploadify” script
- Fixed :
Redirect in “U-Design: Login Form” widget
- Fixed :
Google fonts for SSL
Version 1.4.2 –
Updated: 27.12.2011
- Fixed
: Layout issues with the latest Google Chrome release (16.0.912.63)
- Updated
: Timthumb script update
Version 1.4.1 –
Updated: 01.12.2011
- Added
: 29 new Google fonts
- Added
: Author page (author.php)
- Updated
: Changed the post’s author link to now link to the author’s page
- Updated
: Timthumb script update
- Updated
: Monthly archive date format in the title, removed the comma between the
month and year
- Fixed
: WordPress 3.3 compatibility
Version 1.4.0 –
Updated: 14.11.2011
- Added
: An option to Portfolio section to not link adjacent items in a category
as gallery
- Added
: An option to include all the images attached to a single post to the
Portfolio
- Added
: 43 new Google fonts
- Added
: YouTube icon to the “Social_Icons_and_Arrows.psd”
- Added
: In the “Blog page” template, display the page’s content if provided,
above the Blog posts
- Added
: Russian Translation courtesy of Marina Barayeva ( http://makebestphoto.ru )
- Added
: French Translation courtesy of Suzanne Roy ( http://themeforest.net/user/idmuse/profile
)
- Updated
: Native WP Gallery thumbs formatting
- Updated
: Some typos in the Documentation
- Updated
: Piecemaker 2 default text adjustment
- Fixed
: Portfolio item title attribute being truncated by prettyPhoto in longer
strings
- Fixed
: Removed the forced font-family definition for Table content
- Fixed
: Full-width Single Post View Page to have the comments section also span
full-width
- Fixed
: Force long unbroken strings to fold on new line in Comments
- Fixed
: Remove shortcodes from search results
- Fixed
: Display issue with Tabs in IE7
- Fixed
: “Read more” at the end of Blog posts when not necessary
- Fixed
: Cycle 1 padding alignment when frame is disabled
- Fixed
: Cycle 2 slider text area unordered lists not taking the specified font
size
- Fixed
: Missing strings in ‘sitemap.php’ for translations
Version 1.3.2 –
Updated: 25.09.2011
- Added
: Automatic insertion of ‘rel’ attribute for prettyPhoto to all images,
*.mov, *.swf, YouTube and iFrame links in the content
- Added
: Option to display the Post Image on the Single Post View page
- Fixed
: Shortcode empty paragraph insertion which causes problems with column
alignment
- Fixed
: The ‘Continuous Background Image’ being cut-off by footer on very short
pages
Version 1.3.1 –
Updated: 20.09.2011
- Updated
: Dutch translation
- Fixed :
Featured Image not showing up in Archive pages (“archive.php”)
- Fixed :
Text typo in the backend under the theme’s “Blog Section”
Version 1.3.0 –
Updated: 19.09.2011
- Added
: Option to customize the post image size and alignment that is shown on
the Blog and Archive pages and optionally to use the “Featured Image” for
that
- Added
: Option to remove the sidebar from Blog, Archive and Single Post View
pages independently, basically to have then as full-width pages
- Added
: Option to remove the border line located under the menu (Option added to
the theme’s “General Options” section)
- Added
: Option under the “Custom Colors -> One Continuous Background Image”
to have the background image fixed position (not scrollable) and also to
allow background images from other sections to be shown over that
background image as well, good for layered layouts
- Added
: Option to disable the theme’s update notification
- Added
: 15 new Google fonts
- Added
: Autostop option for Cycle 3 slider. Ability to end slideshow after the
last slide
- Updated
: Small Layout change for single view post. Moved the single view post title
in the place of the post category at the top
- Updated
: prettyPhoto script to the latest version to date (v3.1.3)
- Updated
: jQuery Form Validation scripts used in the Contact page template form
- Updated
: Optimized script loading (cleaned up unnecessary script loading)
- Fixed
: A small bug with Cycle 3 slider when there is only one slide which
contains unordered list in its text layer
- Fixed
: Piecemaker 2 slider, “No JavaScript” image replacement width and height
issue
- Fixed
: IE7-8 Cycle3 transparency problem
- Fixed
: qTranslate related issue with Portfolio section
Version 1.2.1 –
Updated: 24.08.2011
- Added :
16 new Google fonts
- Added :
The option to add/remove the string “Archive for the ’...’ Category” from
the category archive title. This options is located in the theme’s “Blog
Section”
- Updated
: WP Function used for Date formatting
- Updated
: Dutch translation
- Updated
: Timthumb script update
- Updated
: When “No Slider” option is selected with no title specified, collapse
the space otherwise designated for the title
Version 1.2.0 –
Updated: 04.08.2011
- Added
: Four additional page templates with their own widgetized sidebars and an
option for left/right positioning
- Added
: Option to add one large background image across all sections under the
Custom Colors section
- Added
: 44 new Google fonts
- Added
: “portfolio_item_link_target” custom field for portfolio link items to go
along with “portfolio_item_link”
- Added
: “Read more” (link) shortcode to the “U-Design Shortcode Insert Button”
plugin
- Added
: An option under theme’s “General Options” to enable the use of
‘style.css’ for adding custom CSS from “Appearance -> Edit” section.
Also needed for child theme
- Added
: An Option to show/hide Post Tags for the Blog posts
- Added
: An Option to show/hide Post Tags for the Portfolio single-view posts
- Added
: WPML xml file to enable theme options translation
- Updated
: Timthumb script security update
- Updated
: Moved the “Help” section to the top in the theme’s options page
- Updated
: “U-Design: Recent Posts” widget to append ”...” at the end of the post
excerpt
- Fixed
: Resolved an issue with the “Tabs” shortcode and floating elements used
as tab content
- Fixed
: WP Query reset was added to the ‘sitemap.php’
- Fixed
: Search box focus text color was updated to match top area text color
when custom colors are used
- Fixed
: Formatting with subscript and superscript related to the css reset
Version 1.1.2 –
Updated: 27.06.2011
- Added
: The option to have the “Feedback” button fixed (to not scroll with the
page)
- Added
: German Translation courtesy of Silvia
- Updated
: compatibility to PHP 5.3.6
- Fixed:
Related to “U-Design Shortcode Insert Button” plugin. Added the missing …
show_thumbs=”1” ... to the “U-Design: Recent Posts” widget shortcode.
Version 1.1.1 –
Updated: 20.06.2011
- Updated
: Timthumb script
- Updated
: Sitemap page templates’ strings are included for translation now
- Updated
: Made the single view post title H1 tag
- Fixed :
Heading mismatch for post comments template
Version 1.1.0 –
Updated: 12.06.2011
- Added :
‘Top Area Social Media’ Widget Area. A widget area positioned in the top
right corner of the site designated for social media links and icons
- Added :
19 New Google Fonts
- Added :
Portfolio custom field ‘portfolio_item_link’ which allows to link directly
from the thumbnail to another page or site rather than display a preview
item
- Fixed :
Full-width widget bug experienced in some cases on home page
- Fixed :
Heading mismatch for post comments template
Version 1.0.1 –
Updated: 07.06.2011
- Added
: The options: “Bottom Area Background Image” and “Footer Background
Image” under theme’s “Custom Colors”
- Added
: A link to the theme’s Support Forum under the “Help” section
- Fixed
: Changed cursor behaviour to ‘default’ for top natigation menu items that
are not links