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Hi, is there a i way i could add text or menu within the footer?
Hi there,
The footer displays a newsletter form instead of widgets, like I said in the last comment please sending me a list of all the custom work you would like to be done via email here https://themeforest.net/user/daisonme
Thank you.
Hi there! is there any “testimonials” widget?
Hi,
No there is no testimonials widget, but you can try one of these https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/Testimonials/
Thank you.
thanks. Is it compatible with https://wpspectra.com? i’m trying to add the testimonial component from there, but it seems doesn’t work with your theme.
No it is not compatible with Spectra, that is a page builder. You can try one of the plugins from the link I gave you earlier. Or I can build one for you that works with the Arikon design, just send me an email here https://themeforest.net/user/daisonme with a list of everything you would like.
Thank you.
Review of the Arikon WordPress Theme: visually stunning, but functionally lacking
I purchased the Arikon theme impressed by its elegant aesthetics. In fact, it’s one of the most visually appealing layouts available for news websites on WordPress. The clean design, well-crafted typography, and responsive cards on the homepage — which adapt seamlessly to various screen sizes — show a strong focus on user experience and visual coherence.
However, despite its excellent visual presentation, the theme falls short in essential editorial functionalities, which significantly impacts the workflow for professional content creators.
NO CONTROL OVER FEATURED POSTS One major limitation is the homepage featured section, which does not allow editors to manually pin posts. As a result, the posts displayed in the featured block also appear in the regular homepage feed, creating a redundant and cluttered layout.
An ideal solution would be to allow posts to be fixed manually via a specific tag or category. Once featured, those posts should automatically be removed from the main feed and sorted only by their published date. This functionality is available in themes like ZoxPress – The All-In-One WordPress News Theme, and it works seamlessly.
LIMITED VIDEO EMBEDDING OPTIONS Another drawback is that the theme only supports YouTube embeds. This restriction limits editorial flexibility, especially for sites using alternative video platforms like Vimeo or native self-hosted players.
Moreover, when viewed on mobile devices, the post page layout becomes distorted — the video player and featured image do not scale properly, resulting in stretched or vertically forced elements that disrupt the reading experience.
NO OPTION TO DISABLE FEATURED MEDIA The theme also lacks a useful feature found in many other themes: the ability to disable the featured image, video, or gallery on the single post page. The setting often appears as “Disable Featured? Do not show featured Image, Video, or Gallery at the top for this post,” and gives editors the flexibility to use a different image for the cover than the one displayed in the body of the post — a crucial tool for content formatting.
Conclusion: Arikon is flawless in terms of design and responsiveness, but it needs significant improvements in editorial functionality. There’s still time to address these gaps. The theme is smartly crafted and holds strong potential to become one of the top news-oriented themes in the WordPress market — if it listens to the needs of real content producers.
Hi there,
Thank you for taking the time to review and suggest features for the theme. All the recommended features will be added to Arikon version 2 as requested, because they make a lot of sense.
Again thank you for this review, I really appreciate it.
Hi there,
Thank you very much for your kind response and for considering the suggestions for version 2 of the Arikon theme. I truly appreciate your openness and attention to user feedback.
However, due to the urgency of my project, I would like to invite you to work on a custom version of the theme tailored specifically to my website. The idea is to maintain the main structure and design of Arikon, but implement some targeted customizations that are essential for our editorial workflow.
If you’re open to this collaboration, I’d be happy to explain each feature and adjustment in detail. We can also discuss compensation and timelines accordingly.
Please feel free to contact me directly at hugo@radar64.com.
Best regards, Hugo Santos
I’m interested, this is my email thefireman99@gmail.com I’ll follow up with you via email shortly.
Hi,
I just installed the theme and I really like it. I have a couple of questions.
(1) how do I customise the social media icons that appear at the bottom of the posts?
(2) In the theme’s live preview there is an icon for image, headphones (audio) and play (video) in the top-left corner of the featured images. How do I make them appear in my website?
Many thanks.
Hi there,
1. How would you like to customize them?.
2. On the post edit page select the appropriate format, this option is found on the right side under “Revisions”.
Thank you.
1. Regarding the social media icons I just need to take out Reddit.
2. OK. do you have the headphone, play and image icons that you use in the Arikon liveview?
Many thanks.
1. In the “Additional CSS” section of the customizer, paste the following code:
.single-share-icons .reddit { display: none; }
2. You can get the svg files straight from the browser, for example https://arikon.jubix.store/wp-content/themes/arikon/images/audio-format.svg
Great. I’ll try those. Many thanks.
Hi, many thanks for the previous responses, I got all that fixed with the additional css. I now have – hopefully – the last 2 questions:
(1) Can I somehow set to always start the website in dark mode for all users? The option to switch to light is great but most of my audience uses dark mode as default.
(2) In the footer I have links to You Tube and Instagram, but it would be great to also have an icon for Spotify with a link to my podcast. Is there a way to get one of the icons I do not use – e.g. Telegram – customised for Spotify?
Many thanks. Really happy with how the website is coming up.
Hello,
1. This feature will be available in the next update coming end of this month.
2. I’ll add this to the update as well.
Thanks.
Great. Many thanks.
Quick question: I use an empty title of my homepage / frontpage as I want any bookmarks to the website to only have the sitename. At the moment, any bookmarks in the browser appear as a hyphen and the sitename. Like ”- ” and the sitename. Can the hyphen be removed? Many thanks.
Can I get a link to your site please? Also, are you seeing the same thing on my demo? https://arikon.jubix.store/
The site is: https://creativejournal.media/
I can see the dash / hyphen separating the word “Homepage 02 – Arikon” in the browser tab on your demo. In mine it appears as ”- Creative Journal” when I removed the “Homepage” title in the front page.
Those are page templates used for demo purpose only, I’m talking about the main homepage, I don’t get the – on the homepage, I wonder why it’s happening on your site. But incase you would like to customize that title the theme uses “add_theme_support(‘title-tag’);” you can find it in the functions.php file.
Yes, it’s strange. I tried to create a child theme to do any new customisations, but it does not pick all the styles. Is there any specific way I should enqueue the stylesheets in the child-theme’s functions.php? Many thanks.
You can look at the theme’s functions.php file to see how the stylesheets were enqueued. Everything is done the standard way.
OK. I used the same enqueuing of the stylesheets and re-entered my Wordpress Theme settings for Arikon. All is working now in the child theme, excepting the switching between light and dark modes.
FYI – the issue with the dash before the sitename in the homepage was because of the Yoast SEO plugin doing that. I had it installed not in use, but it seems it still has some default settings. I deactivated it and the dash disappeared.
So, as I mentioned, everything is working now with the child theme, excepting the switching between light and dark modes.
Hi,
I did some troubleshooting. When I looked at the failed elements with Chrome Inspect Console, it says it cannot load dark-mode.css and arikon-woo.css from the theme’s function.php and their path was the child theme’s path, not the main theme’s one.
The statements in the main theme’s function.php are:
wp_enqueue_style('arikon-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', '', '1.0.4');
wp_enqueue_style('arikon-dark-mode', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/css/dark-mode.css', '', '1.0');
wp_enqueue_style('arikon-woo', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/css/arikon-woo.css', '', '1.0');
wp_enqueue_style('arikon-media-queries', get_template_directory_uri() . '/css/media-queries.css', '', '1.0.2');I echoe’d the get_stylesheet_directory_uri() and get_template_directory_uri() from the theme’s function.php and it shows the child-theme’s path for the first one and the template’s path for the 2nd one, therefore cannot find those css in the main theme’s /css directory.
I updated the theme’s functions.php with get_template_directory_uri() for all and it now works perfectly for both Erikon and the child theme.
Perhaps you can have a look and confirm.
Many thanks.
Hi,
Quick question. Now that I have the child theme set up. Is it simple to add the code to set the theme dark in the child’s functions.php?
Many thanks.
Hi,
Please note that theme customization is not included with the purchase of a theme on ThemeForest. However, you can contact me via email here: https://themeforest.net/user/daisonme to discuss customization options.
Thank you.
No problems. I was referring to the feature upgrades you promised by the end of June, just look at your responses. I will wait until you provide us for the enhancements, for which we certainly paid for including 6 months of support.
Which enhancements did you pay for?
Don’t worry. Whatever you included in the price of the theme and 6 months of support is cool. If you deliver on the promised features 15 days ago, just awesome. I hope you find peace soon. Take care.
daisonme Author15 days ago Flag Hello,
1. This feature will be available in the next update coming end of this month.
2. I’ll add this to the update as well.
Thanks.
Apparently you do do not have direct support and I have to post? For now, a simple question as I just purchased – this theme does not support WPForm for the short code added to the newsletter in the footer?
I must be doing something wrong. I have installed the theme. Added the plug ins but the pages are showing the short code scripts and not the element. There is no demo import.
Example: If I go to the page you call “Buttons” all I see is code: Buttons title=”Buttons.”]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing. Iste ratione molestias magni risus./proton_page_heading/vc_rowvc_column
Where is the button? Where is the scroll arrow? ETC? Something isn’t installed I thinnk.
UPDATE: You can ignore above since I have spent more time with the theme. So for now….
1. this theme does not support WPForm for the short code added to the newsletter in the footer?
2. How do we alter the speed of the posts scrolling across the top?
3. To date (still learning) it seems the entire theme is based around posts(?) and not pages?
4. I still see no short code to add a buttonfor example.
You need 14+ hours to respond to a buyer?
1. Yes it was built for Mailchimp.
2. You have to go directly into the custom.js file to do this.
3. The theme has page templates as well.
4. You can use the buttons block.
5. By going directly into the style.css file or just paste the following code into the customizer Additional CSS>
.small-post .post-date::first-letter {
color: #B4B4B4;
}
.small-content .post-meta::before {
background-color: transparent;
}
Please note that theme customization is not included with a ThemeForest purchase.
Thank you.
Hello, is this theme elementor compatible?
Hi there,
You can use Elementor with the full page template or default page template that come with the theme, if you run into any problems just let me know and I’ll gladly help.
Thank you.
Hello! Hope you are doing well.
I need your help on an issue. Actually, I’m trying to put the logo above the nav menu, and center the pagination. Yet, not matter what I do, it’s not working.
So, I think I must forget to change something. Could you help?
Thanks in advance, and have a nice day!
Hi there,
Unfortunately the theme does not come with this kind of layout, you will have to edit the code directly to get the desired layout.
Thanks.
hi,I need to rename ‘Staff Picks’ to ‘Videos’ and ‘Favourites’ to ‘Audio’ across all sections, including URLs. When I attempted to rename them through the blog categories section, the ‘View All’ button in the ‘Staff Picks’ section on the front end disappeared. Please provide instructions to properly rename these sections without breaking functionality. Additionally, I want to remove the header menu section and replace it with a hamburger menu. Kindly provide the necessary steps for these changes
Hi there,
1. You can rename the sections and select which category they use in Appearance > Customize > Basics.
2. Customizing the header section to use a hamburger icon instead of menu links requires some code editing which is not covered by ThemeForest support. You can contact me directly to discuss theme customizations here https://daison.me/contact/
Thank you.
Hello! I have concern, why do my article featured photo doesn’t show up when I upload it on facebook? Only website logo shows. I hope you can help me with this. Thank you!
Hi there,
Can I please get a link to your website?
Thanks.
Hello! Hope you are doing well.
I’ve purchased your theme, which is amazing. Yet, I would like to change the colors to harmonize with my branding as black and white aren’t a part of it. In which files can I do it?
Thanks in advance for the answer.
Have a nice day! Chirley G.
Hey Chirley G.
You can change them in the style.css file just search for #222. I will be releasing an update in the coming week that lets you change the black color directly in the customizer just like the accent color.
Thank you.
Thanks a lot for the quick answer! 
I think it’s a good idea for the ones who don’t know a thing about code. I will change mine within the file.
Have a nice weekend.
Fixed. Please delete this one.
Warning: Undefined array key “tgmpa” in/www/wwwroot/xxxxx.co/wp-content/plugins/penci-soledad-demo-importer/penci-demo-importer.phpon line87
help
Hi there,
Disable the Penci Soledad Demo Importer Plugin, this error is not coming from the theme.
Thanks.
.xml file import failed. just watched and followed the video
What did the error say?
redirect to 404 error page
Can I get a link to your website please?
Sorry, there has been an error. File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini file or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini.
This is not coming from the theme, it’s the hosting.
Try this:
Increase the memory limit setting in php.ini ( e.g. memory_limit = 64M; )
Increase the maximum execution time in php.ini ( e.g. max_execution_time = 600; )
Increase these setting values in php.ini ( e.g. upload_max_filesize = 64M; and post_max_size = 64M; )
how to edit my homepage to become just like the sample you show on live preview?
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mikSSAkbRik
Documentation: https://assets.daison.me/themereadme/arikon/
Failed installing the theme. help me!!!
Installing theme from uploaded file: themeforest-fqvukuV8-arikon-a-responsive-wordpress-blogging-magazine-theme.zip Unpacking the package…
The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.
Theme installation failed.
In the final_download folder find the arikon.zip folder and install it.
Don’t upload the entire final_download.zip folder.
Cant install. It stated that missing file style.css
Hi there,
In the final_download folder find the arikon.zip folder and upload it.
Don’t upload the entire final_download.zip folder.
Thanks.
Hi. There’s a problem with all sharing buttons on mobile (facebook, twitter etc…). Everything’s OK on desktop, but it’s impossible to share a post on a android mobile (Except with the copy link…). Thanks for your support.
Hi there,
Which browser are you using?
Chrome on mobile
Ok I’m looking into it
Hi, I see you made a update on the theme. How I push the update without lost everything (my homepage, footer, header etc…)
Did you change any of the files code directly?
Only footer.php
and languages files .po…
Can you give me the list of files that you have modified, to be updated on my FTP?
You’ll have to upload the following files via FTP, style.css, functions.php, css/media-queries.css and js/custom.js
They work fine on my side, maybe it’s the social media apps or OS. I’m working on a solution for this.
Cool ! Everything seems to be OK. Thanks a lot for your support.
Hi,
Is there a way to hide the running font at the top on Homepage 2?
Hi,
You can hide it with CSS.
Hi - How can I hide the author of the article? - How can I decide in which social networks I want to share the article? - translate words from English into Italian?
thank you
Hi there,
1. Do you want to hide the post author on the homepage or the single post?.
2. Which social media sites would you like to remove?.
3. You can use this plugin to translate the theme https://wordpress.org/plugins/loco-translate/
Thank you.
1 yes I want to hide the author of articles from the home page, how?
2 i want to share my posts only on instagram and facebook. how do i remove the others and add instagram?
Can you please send me an email here https://themeforest.net/user/daisonme so we can discuss theme customization.
Hi, please I would like to have the steps to create the home page. The link https://themes.promola.co.za/themereadme/arikon/#home-setup does not work
Sorry about that, here’s the new link https://assets.daison.me/themereadme/arikon/
