A great start with some cool options

  • Anonymous User 14263651

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    9 years, 8 months ago

    I’ve switched from GeneratePress (though its author provided excellent and speedy support) to FlyMag for the sole reason – FlyMag has front page widgets that make it possible to output the contents of the site in a magazine style without coding.

    Overall so far the theme is very good. It lets you quite quickly build a nice-looking magazine-style site. But there are a few things you should know beforehand. I love that this theme lets you combine site logo and site title/description in the header (most other themes make you choose only either option).

    1. Font setting is not automatic. You will have to go to Google Fonts, choose the font and then try to figure out what data to copy/paste where exactly. The accompanying video helps a bit but not much.

    2. Serious drawback is the lack of image.php which means that your photos will not have a dedicated page with meta and the rest of the site essentials. In fact, WP should make the incusion of image.php a must for all approved themes.

    3. If you choose to fill the front page through widgets (a great tool and automated for that matter) only, then in the mobile theme you will only see the contents of your sidebar. So, I guess if you set your front page with no sidebar, then mobile-users won’t see anything but the site title. A major drawback!

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  • Thanks a lot for your feedback.

    1) If by non-automatic you mean that there isn’t a built-in list for fonts, then yeah, we’re using a lightweight method to let you choose any font from Google. I belive the video is clear enough, suggestions to improve it are more than welcome if there’s something I’m missing.

    2) Will look into it.

    3) I answered this on the forum, not much to do with the theme. Feel free to check the our demo with all the widgets there and you’ll see them displayed.

    Thread Starter Anonymous User 14263651

    (@anonymized-14263651)

    The video on fonts is sort of quick for the whole four areas in the font menu to fill in, especially since by default the font families/sets are neat, while on copying from Google Fonts there’s more and you have to figure out to delete the unnecessary parts (like the ‘stylesheet css’ and beginning of the link). Plus by default ‘400,700’ are there, while when you copy info from GF no mention of size is there (even when you choose it in GF). But this latter thing miraculously doesn’t prevent the theme from rendering (I guess) the right size.

    On the other hand I found it very useful to watch the widetizing front page video before making my mind to activate the theme. The video showed that there’s no need for coding and that for the first time in my experience you can set the magazine-style front page as it looks in the demo. With all other beautifully-looking demo themes you have to figure out the wy through shortcodes and hard-coding, which makes the experience sad and disappointing. Not with FlyMag!

    One more note here. Not all Font Awesome icons show when chosen for the menu items, namely: newspaper-o, all the charts.

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