Carbon WordPress Theme
Business and Corporate
Carbon Light is a free fully responsive HTML5/CSS3 WordPress theme. It is suitable for Business, Service, Portfolio, Blog websites. It has clean and minimalist design that is very easy to customize. It comes packed with a whole lot of code-snippets.
Design & Customization
Carbon Light is completely White label. It comes in a very clean and uncluttered design on top of a super flexible layout. It is very simple to change all kinds of stuff so you get the design you want. Brand it however you want in no time.
Layout
The layout is based on a 24 columns responsive grid system. This makes it very flexible and powerful. Works on all kinds of modern browsers and devices. The layout is divided in sections – header, page title, slider area, content, footer. Boxed layout and sidebar examples are included too.
Recommended plugins
Here is a list of plugins we recommend you to use with this theme:
- Sidebar Widget Manager – a plugin that will give you total layout control. It can set widgets visibility. It can replace sidebars. You can easily widgetize a page and create whatever layout you like by using sideabars. Here is more info on how to create widget areas in WordPress and how to widgetize a page
- Smart Post Lists – Builds post lists based on options you choose from a form in a widget. It supports custom post types as well.
Page templates
- Default template with sidebar
- Blog 1 column
- Page Contact
- Page full width
The following two come with the free recommened plugin OTW Portfolio Light, and are available via shortcode:
- Portfolio Filterable
- Portfolio Paginated
Codesnippets
- Welcome text
- Info box
- Icon links – font icons
- Buttons
- Dropcaps
- Quotes
- Tab layout – horizontal and vertical
- Content toggles
- Accordions
- FAQ section
- Services – with image, font icon or image icon
- Table
- Price table
- Price boxes
- Clients
Icons
Two types of icons
- Font icons – easy to set size, color, always the same quality
- Image icons – standard image icons
Includes classes for both types and a big set of Font Icons.
Portfolio
When installed the theme will recommend the free OTW Portfolio Light plugin. Once you install it and activate it, it has its own custom post type for portfolio. The portfolio items have lots of features and can be easily categorized. Page templates are available via shortcodes too.
Blog
Nice templates are available to make your blog look fancier. Post, category, tag management is pretty much following default WordPress logic.
Localization/Internationalization
This theme comes Localization/Internationalization ready. It is following WordPress I18n standards.
Documentation
There is full online documentation for Carbon Light theme available.
Support
Since this is a free item, it is distributed as is without any support included.
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If you like this free theme please don’t forget to spread the word, like it, share it so other people can try it too. Thanks in advance!