Lucid is a highly customizable, Search Engine Optimized WordPress Theme that can be used as a business site, fully featured blog, or portfolio. It is built on the excellent Thematic Framework, and has many additional features and styles added. Lucid comes equipped with 18 skins and 2 choices of jQuery Featured Content Sliders which can be controlled through the extensive Control Panel (6 Admin Pages), as well as 5 Portfolio Styles, 13 Widget-Ready Areas, 9 Customizable Widgets, and over 20 Handy Shortcodes.
You’ll find many options in the WordPress administrative area to help configure and customize the Theme.
For more information, how-tos, documentation, and to preview the theme, please visit http://lucid.sevenspark.com
Features
Professional Quality
- Valid XHTML
- Tableless Design
- jQuery Enhanced
- 13 Widget-Ready Areas
2 jQuery Featured Content Sliders
- Choose from the Fading Slider or the Coin Slider (Preview Sliders »)
- Automatically generate slides from a specific post category
- Or create custom slides
- Choose text position for each slide
- Configure transition duration and style
- Choose a light or dark background
18 Skins
- Easily switch skins using the control panel
- Customize your site further with easily activated custom CSS
- Preview Skins »
Custom Post Enhancements
- Customize your SEO meta keywords, description, and title tag on each post
- Customize slides right from the post page (or use the Slide Manager to create custom slides)
- Visually select primary media image for each post, or specify a YouTube or Vimeo video
Extensive Control Panel
- A myriad of blog & post customizations
- Configure Social Media Feeds
- Manage Slider with Drag and Drop Ease
- And much more
Easy Portfolios
Create Portfolios quickly and easily using the portfolio shortcode.
- 5 Sizes (Small, Medium, Large, Square, Thumb – with and without sidebars)
- Turn Excerpts On or Off
- Select Posts by Category or Tag
- Select Posts by Author
- Easily Configurable Pagination
- Preview Portfolios »
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Structured for SEO
- Leverages the optimization of the Thematic Framework
- Per-post SEO settings
Useful Shortcodes
Lucid provides over 20 useful shortcodes to make your life easier.
- Contact Form
- Portfolio
- Recent Posts
- Posts by Category
- Related Content
- Post Gallery
- Simple Lists
- Easy Links
- Video Embedding
- Columns
- TimThumb
- Flickr Feed
- Vimeo Feed
- YouTube Feed
- Twitter Feed
Social Media Feeds
Import feeds from your favorite Social Media Networks.
- Flickr
- YouTube
- Vimeo
Cufon Font Replacement
- Enhance your site with the beautiful PT Sans font
- Degrades Gracefully when JavaScript is turned off
- Easy to disable if unwanted
Superfish Dropdown Menus
- Unlimited levels
- Organize Navigation Menu through WordPress 3 Menu System
- Degrades gracefully when JavaScript is turned off
TimThumb & Colorbox Lightbox
- Quickly and easily create Post Lightbox Galleries
- Simple Portfolio Shortcodes in 5 sizes
- Automatic Imported Flickr Slideshow
- Post Galleries automatically generate lightbox slideshows
Thematic Framework
- Lucid is built on the excellent Thematic Framework
- 13 Widget-Ready Areas
Help, Documentation, and How-To can be found at http://lucid.sevenspark.com/.
Sources and Credits
jQuery Plugins
AnythingSlider (basis for the Fading Slider)