Skylar is fast, optimized and multi-purpose, highly customizable WordPress theme with stunning demos & powerful tools which help you to create own design without paying thousands of dollars. It gives you a powerful toolset to a create websites which are still unique, despite the nature of the repetitiveness of the themes. You have at your disposal 820+ options to customize, however, if you don’t feel like creating your own design, you can just import the demo and leave it as it is or adjust to your preferences.
Why Skylar is so fast?
Because all customizing options are in a plugin which works only in the admin area, therefore user-end page generation time is as quick as possible, no redundant code is loaded. Moreover, some of the most time consuming functions are optimized which squeezes additional milliseconds – how many of them is dependent on your server, a number of plugins, traffic load.
How fast Skylar is?
On our testing platform [1]: Skylar is ~55% faster than the default single-design Twenty Seventeen (Skylar generates a page in 29ms, Twenty Seventeen 45ms), but when you take a theme similar to Skylar in a level of customizability, it gets even better because Skylar can be over 180% faster. The weaker the server or the bigger the traffic or the more plugins installed, the greater the performance gain is.
[1] Testing platform: 128MB memory_limit, 1 CPU Xeon E5-2650L @ 1.8Ghz, PHP 5.5.9. No cache plugins used. ‘Sample page’ page, header menu containing 10 elements, no plugins.
Why would you be fast?
Nowadays page speed is absolutely crucial, the faster your website loads the more Google “appreciate” it, less bounce rate you have, more users are satisfied. All that leads to better conversion rates & better sales.
There are many studies that show how your slow website can affect your business not only in a direct way like sales (study on reduced conversion rates by Akamai 2007), but indirect like perception of your business & brand (study on lower perceived credibility by Fogg et al. 2001; on lower perceived quality by Bouch, Kuchinsky, and Bhatti 2000; on lower attractiveness by Skadberg and Kimmel 2004). All that experience (and its consequences) caused by poor website performance.
Theme features
- Unlimited Color Selection
- Amazing dimensions control
- 100% Responsive Theme
- Retina Ready
- Unlimited Number of Sidebar
- Footer 1-6 Column Support
- OnePage support
- Megamenu
- Over 820 options to adjust
- Separate settings of post, portfolios and pages from General Options, giving you more control over unique, special pages you want to create,
- Created with HTML5 & CSS3
- Option live search
- VC templates ready to import
- Highest Quality
- Drag&Drop Builder
Page design
- 3 Page Layouts available – Wide (with full width, and any inner width you set), Boxed (with fixed width), Framed (with fixed margins width)
- Full control over page margins, paddings and border (entirely responsive)
- Also those options can be independent from the general settings on posts, portfolio, page
Page heading (title)
- Full control whether to show or hide page title, additionally easy to set exceptions (blog, archive/category/tag, search, pages, posts, portfolios, products (WooCommerce)) e.g. you want to hide by default, page titles for portfolios and products only)
- Page title text alignments
- Page title height
- Page title width (can be independent from page layout or header)
- Page title background from featured image
- Page title breadcrumbs (also easy to disable/enable)
- Page title Next/Prev buttons (also easy to disable/enable)
- Full control over margins, paddings, and border (entirely responsive)
- Page title additional description (text under title)
- Also those options can be independent from the general settings on posts, portfolio, pages
Page sidebars
- Sidebar positions left, right, hidden
- Any given sidebar width
- Sidebar distance from the content changeable
- Sidebar text align: left, center, right, justified
- Full control over margins, paddings, and border (entirely responsive)
- Easy to set up, which sidebars, on what position, should (independently from general settings) appear on Blog, Archive, Search, WooCommerce Shop, WooComerce Single Product, WooCommerce Search pages,
- 6 additional widgets (like Minimalistic Twitter Widgets, Icon Lists etc.)
Header & topbar
- 9 header layouts
- Header position: Top / Bottom
- Header under or below slider
- Fixed header support
- Fixed header displaying conditioning (after first scroll, after Revolution Slider, after header)
- Disable/Enable header overlaying
- 10 header buttons styles (+ support for own styling)
- Control over header button paddings, border radius
- Header buttons & icons spacing control
- Header icon size changeable
- Header width control (can be independent)
- Full control over margins, paddings, and border (entirely responsive)
- Dropdown menu width types (full & auto)
- Dropdown menu text alignments (left, center, right)
- Dropdown menu width
- Dropdown menu padding
- Dropdown menu button padding & border
- Topbar (disable/enable)
- Topbar overlay control
- Disable/ enable topbar on mobile
- Control over topbar margins, paddings, border
- 10 topbar button’s styles
- Topbar button styling (paddings, border radius)
- Topbar buttons & icons spacing, icon size adjustable
- Menu buttons can be suffixed or prefixed with a separator
- Easy usage of icon in menus + deep integration with Ultimate Addon for Visual Composer, which enables using icons which you imported, not only Font Awesome (there are 4000 icons free to import instantly or you can upload any own icon set you have)
Megamenu build-in
- 1-6 columns
- fully widgetizable
- Megamenu paddings and borders
- Megamenu buttons paddings
- Megamenu button text-alignment
- Megamenu button width types (full&auto)
Footer & underbar
- 1-6 Footer Columns
- Footer background color or image
- Footer width control (can be independent)
- Footer replacements – you can have different footer widgets on different type of pages: Posts, Portfolios, Posts, Blog, Archive, Search, WooCommerce Shop, WooCommerce Single Product
- Full control over margins, paddings, and border (entirely responsive)
- 10 Underbar social button styles
- Underbar margins, paddings, borders
Typography
- Google Fonts support
- Independent font control of: logo, main font, headings(independently for different post types), post text font, menu button, menu dropdown button, megamenu, megamenu widget titles.
- For all above you can set: font style, font weight, font size, letter spacing, word spacing, font weight and font subsets (especially helpful when you’re website isn’t only English language page)
Color selection
- All header & topbar elements (also separate colors can be set for fixed header, also hover state, current page state button etc.)
- All page body elements
- All footer & underbar elements
- All WooCommerce elements
- All small elements like default button, input fields etc.
- 3 Color own variations which can be used in header for CTA like “Contact Us” or “GET 30-DAYS FREE TRIAL”, you can have different styling of particular menu buttons.
- Color options available are counted in hundreds.
WooCommerce
- Integration with this the most popular ecommerce plugin
- 2-6 Product Columns
- Control over number of products per page & related/up-sell/cross-sell presented
- Disable/enable – sorting selection, ‘products per page’ selection, share buttons on product page, related products
- Special WooCommerce menu on mobile, which help users to go through your products while using mobile devices
- left, right and no sidebar
- separate sidebars for single product, shop, and WooCommerce search
Social media
- Easy adding any social media profiles you want
- 10 Share button styles
- 16 Social media pages for SHARING supported (like Facebook etc.)
King of the motion
- Support for whole page on load & unload animations
- Support for individual elements on load & unload animations like: header, content etc.
- Dropdown & megamenu show and hide animations changeable
- Fixed header show animation changeable
- Color transitions times and types adjustable
Blog & archives
- 9 Post types supported: Standard, Aside, Video, Audio, Gallery, Image, Quote, Status, Link
- 2 default blog post listing layouts (more available through VC)
- Tons of settings like excerpt length, showing/hiding metadata
- Post redirecting to the external medium like Twitter, Medium, any other link
Portfolio
- 5 Sidebar positions (left, left sticky, right, right sticky, bottom)
- Control over such settings as page layout, showing/hiding header buttons and many more.
Performance
- Rapid page generation faster than single-design themes e.g. Twenty Seventeen is about 55% slower. A similar feature customizable theme depending on the theme, can be even 200% slower.
- SEO optimized, metadata
- GTMetrix Page Speed Score – Grade A – 98% (with default W3TC + CDN)
- YSlow Score – Grade A – 97% (with default W3TC + CDN)
Shortcodes & plugins
- Visual Composer: Page Builder for WordPress ($34)
- Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin ($19)
- Ultimate Addons for Visual Composer ($18)
- 90+ shortcodes available
- 7 Pre-made Grids for VC (ready to be customized if needed)
Integration & multi-language support & split translation
- WooCommerce support
- ContactForm support
- NinjaForm support
- WPML support
- Translation (po&mo files) Ready + incredibly useful division between frontend and backend, when you want for example translate only what the users see and don’t feel like searching between text from admin panel
- Revolution Slider support
- LayerSlider support
- Basically any slider which is available through shortcodes can be applied
Credits
Images:- some of the images in Machinery Demo comes from http://freeimages.com
- the rest is from http://unsplash.com , https://stocksnap.io/ or https://pixabay.com/
Icons:
- Elegant Themes – Line Icons
- Material Icons
- Brankic 1979 Icons
- Icons in Corporate Demo, in Service page, made by Revicon from www.flaticon.com
Changelog
August 23, 2017 – Version 1.0.18
- Improved: Scroll performance
- Fixed: Errors on PHP 7.1.1
- Fixed: Header 4 logo overlaying menu button
- Updated: Ultimate Addon for Visual Composer
- Updated: Visual Composer
- Updated: Revolution SliderJuly 18, 2017 – Version 1.0.17
- Fixed: WooCommerce Lightbox
- Improved: Fixed background position with reduced repaintsJune 26, 2017 – Version 1.0.16
- Added: Page link color options
- Updated: Slider Revolution to the latest version (5.4.5.1)
- Fixed: `* Logo with Text Widget` secondary logo not working
- Fixed: sidebar widgets border styling applying to footer ones
- Fixed: background displayed too wide on Firefox
- Fixed: TGMPA on WordPress 4.8 error fixedJune 6, 2017 – Version 1.0.15
- Fixed: not whole css applying on different mobile browsers
- Fixed: second logo showing on mobile feature not working
- Fixed: vertical alignment of menu buttons with high logos
- Fixed: problems with WPML menusJune 1, 2017 – Version 1.0.14
- Fixed: Skylar Settings panel disappearing on child themeMay 27, 2017 – Version 1.0.13
- Added: You can now search by color in Live Search & replace all occurrences of searched color in Skylar Settings to new specified color
- Added: You can choose social media profile icons by iconpicker now
- Fixed: no email & RSS icons in footer
- Fixed: independent post settings not working when Permalink settings set as `Plain`
- Improved: font weight in Personal DemoMay 19, 2017 – Version 1.0.12
- Added: 2 new header button styles
- Fixed: menus not importing on Demo importer on PHP 7.x
- Fixed: header dropdown semi transparent background design flaw on fixed header position
- Fixed: corporate demo slider timing is better
- Fixed: child theme not installing properlyMay 15, 2017 – Version 1.0.11
- Fixed: Errors, warnings, notices on PHP lower than 5.4 and on 7.1.x
- Fixed: Usage of depracated WooCommerce functions, theme now fully supports WooCommerce 3.x
- Updated: plugins `Skylar Settings` and `Skylar Custom Posts, Shortcodes & Widgets`May 12, 2017 – Version 1.0.10
- Updated: Skylar Settings plugin to version 1.0.1
- Updated: There is no need to turn off Skylar Settings to get performance boost, it's done automatically (Skylar Settings plugin)
- Fixed: Some of header options didn't apply after changing them (Skylar Settings plugin)
- Fixed: Some caching plugins were caching number of items in cart in headerMay 11, 2017 – Version 1.0.9
- Updated: Ultimate Addon for Visual Composer
- Added: more links on onboarding message
- Fixed: background image positioning on 'Limited height featured image'
- Fixed: PHP Warning from icon picker
- Fixed: Fetching sometimes wrongly post id on non-post pages
May 11, 2017 – Version 1.0.8
First official version
