Paragon | creative, upscale, boundless WP theme (Creative)

Paragon is a step forward

You may have seen the overwhelming amount of themes that look mostly the same in a way that you can not even distinguish one from the other! The very idea behind Paragon is to step forward from what WordPress does to what WordPress can do. We believe WordPress can serve beyond the stringent borders developers and community have drawn arround it.

Paragon is the best example of a upscale WordPress theme that gets the most out of WordPress technology to go beyond these borders and expands the technical and aesthetic aspects of creative content creation.

Responsive Design

When we say Paragon is fully responsive we dont just mean in popular screen sizes such as iPhone or iPad. To be more technical, Paragon will fit into any screen size less than 1140px wide. It means we dont define widths with fixed pixel values, rather layouts are flexible with percents. therefore you wont see any issue with unpopular device sizes as well.

we did not ignore any element in responsive design. All shortcodes, Blog and Portfolio loops, slideshows are carefully coded to not break in any circumstances. Just try our responsive Main Navigation. its unique animations without doubt creates a sense that this theme is developed for a smartphone.

Drag & Drop Page Composer

We have used the best plugin in the market (Visual Composer for WordPress) to build up our Page compuser. Its drag and drop module is easy and functional. It also comes with predefined layouts and templates. You have to see our exclusive video to learn how this improves your content creation experience.

Admin Panel

Paragon is powered by Masterkey Settings. Its not just another WordPress admin panel. Masterkey has been designed and developed in Artbees. Its User interface, UI elements, Icons and all are designed from scratch to provide you with a solid and flawless administration experience across all our current and future themes. It’s simple, powerful and well-organized; all of which is the result of a profound R&D in the market and WP community. No matter you are new to wordpress, an expert blogger or a profesional web designer, you won’t be lost within a labyrinth of settings and options. everything is arranged and placed according to your need, priority and usage frequency. Here is a quick set of features you’ll find in our admin panel:

Visual Background Selector

Many sections on a website can be assigned a background. Paragon enables you to define different backgrounds for Body, Header, Page and footer sections of your site. You can define color, background image, background repeat, background attachment and background position. You can choose one of predefined background images (including classic patterns or those for 3D layout) or upload your own texture or pattern.
If you place these options in a list there will be a long list of 26 options which would be very confusing and difficult for most of us to manage. And that’s why we’ve effortfully worked on various aspects a good background selector and finally come up with one of the most beautiful solution one can find across the whole market.
Thanks to its user-friendly UI, now you just manage all of those settings with a few clicks and only on a visual basis. Good news is that you can immediately preview any changes you make in the right pane. We worked hard to make this feature simple, quick and working.

One last word! Using the background selector to create demos for our theme was so much exciting and delicate. Don’t forget to check it out in action (linked).

Advanced Typography

In Paragon your text will be legible and attractive. Paragon takes advantage of advanced typography features. Thanks to its enormous repository of over 600 fonts, you’re not obliged to use a single font throughout your website anymore. You can change the font size, font-weight and font-color of every and each element.
You can assign a particular font-family to a group of different elements. Moreover you can modify most of the shortcodes to have different typography characteristics.

RGBa Color Pickers

RGBa is a great feature of modern CSS that lets you define alpha transparency for a color. If you’re one of those creatives who intend to join the creative experiemnts of new web design, you can count highly on this feature as it gives your design a bland and modern look as well as more depth and dimension. The new web is already using the different opacities for texts as part of a great typography trend. For your next project, you can define a color with preferred opacity in front-end and we will convert the HEX values to RGBa and consequently add alpha opacity to it.
It does not affect the site performance cause we cache all dynamic skin values into a CSS file once you save the options. we also handle backward compatibility for those old browsers (such as IE7 & IE8) that does not support RGBa.

Parallax 3D Backgrounds

Paragon is proud to introduce Parallax backgrounds. It can help you keep up with the cutting-edge websites you might see arround the net these days. In short, Parallax defines the movement of different backgrounds on different speeds. This trick generates an illusion of distance between two layers in human eye. and that’s where the 3D layout emerges! In Paragon this feature is implemented on page and body backgrounds, so you can easily manipulate backgrounds movement speed according to page scroll. This feature is optional and you can disable it from admin panel.

SEO

Paragon is developed based on the modern HTML and SEO standards. we used HTML5 tags for better semantics which makes it easier for search engine robots to crawl your site. Main content is placed before sidebar. Heading tags are used according to their priority within the context. “alt” properties for image tags have been used for better SEO results.

Translation Ready & WPML compatible

All of the textual content in the theme (backend & frontend) are localised and placed in .PO files. Therefore you can easily translate the theme to any language. Paragon is fully compatible with WPML plugin which enables you to use this theme for multilingual solutions.

Speed and Performance

Generally WP themes with loads of options have performance downwards.
Paragon is also a rich theme that constitutes many dynamic processes. to reduce dynamic database calls to the minimum amount, Paragon controls cached skinning processes. All options related to coloring, typography, backgrounds and so forth are saved in a CSS file which is updated everytime you save any option in backend. This action reduces around 60 database queries form the other side and ultimately increase the site performance and speed. There other other improvements in this regard, but we avoid them here for their very technical essence.

Dedicated Support

We developed this theme to help you employ the latest tools and standards into your website. but that’s not all! Accompanying you during the way towards the best usage of this theme is also part of our product. As with our other products across Envato marketplaces, there is dedicated support staff who monitor our helpdesk everyday and respond to your problems and difficulties in short time. all of which is 100% free and taken very seriously.

Key Features

WordPress 3.4 Compatible
Responsive for any screen size
Valid HTML5 and CSS3, Cross browser compatible
SEO optimized
Translation Ready
Incredibly powerful admin panel
Phenomenal Skin Manager, yet incredibly easy
Visual Theme Bakcground Manager
Predefined 30 Backgrounds Patterns and textures (picked form hundreds)
3D Layout Backgrounds (Enables background images to move faster or slower than page scroll, which creates other dimension)
Unlimited colors
Lifetime Shortcodes, Over 60 shortcodes
Includes Layer Slider
Includes Revolution Slider
Includes Flexslider
Drag and Drop Page Composer
Custom post types (Portfolios, Employees, Pricing Tables, Clients, Testimonials, Flexslider)
Unlimited homepage layouts.
Unlimited Sidebars
14 Footer Column styles
Smooth Page Scroll
3 portfolio Styles with Image, Video and Audio post types
3 Blog layouts with Image, Video and Audio, Document, Portfolio post types
Very powerful typography options with 500+ Google fonts, 40+ Fontface, all safefonts
Custom CSS, custom JS, Google Analytics and Google Map Integration
Import Export Options
Pricing Tables
AJAX enabled contact form as widget and shortcode
WPML Compatible
18 Custom widgets.
Built-in Image reseize compatible with Retina Images
Reliable Support & Documentation
Video Tutorials
Demo Content Added