Rating: 3 stars
… not compatible with Jetpack. Header image won’t display. PITA to figure out.
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Beware of version 3.14.1, as the new management seeks to turn Decode into a cash-cow! Was for sure a 5-star theme that far — what a pity.
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If you are looking for a theme that’s mobile-friendly, fast, has clean code and looks pure and simple, go for decode! I have been very happy with it for several years now.
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Beautifully designed, easy to use, super-configurable, straight-forward.
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Thanks to Scott, ‘decode’ is the theme I need and I recommend using it. The best part of this theme: simply, it has all what I need. However, I just learned recently that with the latest update of the theme (Version: 3.0.8), there are some bugs and hopefully, we shall see a fix ??
Well done, really nice one!
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This is a great theme and easy to work with, for the most part. But beware when you update! The author likes to mess around with the stylesheet, changing values and sometimes even class/id names! This can really mess up your site and cause you a lot of extra time trying to track down what was changed and what you need to do to get your site back to looking the way it should.
It happened once again with the latest update – my ul lists got a huge indent and my eight letter heading became so huge only three letters fit in a row, so it took up the entire page, on three lines!
After about an hour of searching through the densely packed style.css (he doesn’t know how to work the ENTER key apparently ?? ) I finally found that 2em of padding had been added to the ul and all elements had been redefined with new font-sizes. The old font-size was 62%. Now it was changed to 100%. (To put it simply.)
So all of that extra work and I still give it four stars? YES! It’s a very good theme. If the author would stop messing about, it would be a five-star rating.
Rating: 5 stars
This theme works really-really well on any platform and browser (mobile and otherwise).
Many-many thanks!
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I needed a simple theme to link to various sites, including social media, and to display my CV. This is perfect.
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Great template, lots of space…so it makes little sense why the header image is so tiny. looks kind of ridiculous…i don’t mind the 300px limit on height, but can it at least have a full width image?
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Using this theme for my wife’s artist website. Its Simple, elegant and does what’s needed (customize) without any issues. I don’t normally post reviews but this one deserves one. My wife loved the layout and looks on its first impression itself.
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An amazingly simple and elegant theme.
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Beautiful minimalist theme by an avid developer who provides great support, even though he is already generous to offer the theme for free.
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Works well, and huge number of options available ??
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Simple question, but lazy to answer back.
lousy…
Rating: 5 stars
I never review themes but there is something about this wonderfully crisp no nonsense theme that I really like. It is so crisp that it works as a simple home web design right through to a corporate look. And as you’d expect it comes up well on smaller devices.
It also seems quite stable.
In a world of over kill it’s refreshing to see functional minimalism.
Well done.
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I saw a couple bad reviews in here, so I felt the need to chime in…
I think people tend to forget that the developer has a life outside of Decode. He’s a kid, who probably has school work and a social life. He’s not working 40hrs a week on Decode for a living. He’s doing it in his free time, and giving it away, for free. Don’t expect him to drop everything he’s doing and make his theme compatible with some obscure formatting change you’re trying to make. If you think you can do better, teach yourself HTML and CSS and help the dev out, instead of posting here complaining about how poor the support is.
I’ve been using Decode for a few months now, and like others, have run into my share of issues. Every time I’ve posted in the support forum or messaged the dev, I’ve received nothing but good support and feedback from the both the dev and the community.
Thank you for the great, free theme and for continuing to support it as much as you can.
]]>Rating: 1 star
Had such high hopes of this template, spent quite a bit of time on my site. The spacing and size of elements are ridiculously large. Tried to obtain some support from the author, took quite a few days to hear back from him and when i finally did was given a poor response and lack of interest in helping any further.
My main concern was trying to have a fixed side bar, it is NOT possible to do this using the decode template.
Disappointed to have wasted so much time on this and have an unsable product – go elsewhere!
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I am so grateful that the author generously provided this for free
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This is a wonderful theme, I really love this theme. I run this theme in my two blogs. But I am facing a slight issue with respect to images.
1. photogeneblog.org – the images are responsive and comes to full width
2. foodeverywhere.in – the images are shrinked!
Can anybody help me to sort out this?
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I enjoy using this theme… not something I can say too frequently.
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Great theme. Elegant, simple, customizable. Just what I was looking for, and it has plenty of social options too. The developer is pretty responsive and open to feedback as well.
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Was referred to this theme by a friend to test it out on a client project. Set it up offline, made it live and we were about to hand over the keys to the client until we discovered some issues with the theme… and how it is advertised (which is really why I gave it 1 star.)
Mobile first? I pray to God you guys didn’t actually design this first on mobile. On a couple of devices it was very laggy, would freeze, be choppy, or glitchy, and one simply didn’t work at all. Test first and *FIX the load times!*
Now your thinking “duh, it’s your internet!” It was tested on high speed wifi, as well as 4g, 3g, etc.
I am just really mad I wasted so much time. I have now switched to a different theme for the project. Please test the themes via multiple devices, and if your going to advertise “mobile first,” design it on mobile devices first, if you did not.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
I was able to install it and use it in 5 minutes. What else can i ask???
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**updated from a 1 star rating;
If you have trouble with the social options, check if it is asking for a username, if you are entering a page and it asks for user name, cut and paste the URL after the .com/
Example URL: https://vimeo.com/channels/okinawasurf
Vimeo Username: channels/okinawasurf
Previous 1 Star Rating:Seems like a simple feature to make work. Probably doesn’t deserve a 1 star over this but I’m giving up on this theme over it. Developer should be using direct URLs for social, not login/usernames.
]]>Rating: 5 stars
This is the most flexible theme I have ever seen! I haven’t seen much themes with even half of configuration options that’s there in this theme! Worth 5 stars!
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I love you! this is the best theme that suits me in my project site.
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The theme is incredibly easy to use. The creator is great at getting back to you and super helpful. Highly recommended! Thanks!
]]>Rating: 5 stars
Absolutely great theme.
What I would like though is that there is an icon as home button.
That’s easy on a cellphone.
But I try to figure it out myself to implement this.
I’ll be back (according to Arnold Schwarzenegger ;-))
I’m using it on https://www.artofado.nl
Thnx, Peer
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For me, it’s the best theme.
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It’s exactly what I was looking for, great theme!
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