PinkRio: A Free WordPress Responsive Multi-Purpose Theme

There are many things that are part of a web designer’s life: WordPress is one of these. It’s so integrated in our scale of values, always present in everything we do, that it also nourishes itself with our emotions and feelings.

The theme we’re presenting today, besides being a technically interesting product, of which we’ll talk about later, has become a symbol of a rememberance, an emblem of a value, of a higher force, love, that belongs to us, as human beings, limited by this same nature, but extraordinarily unpredictable.

The theme has been named PinkRio in memory of Nando’s father, Rosario, that passed away in 2012 and inspired the major part of what exists in this group. So, it had to be, something really special. We believe we reached our intent.

PinkRio is a WordPress theme, clean and modern (and free), suitable for users that don’t have a large experience in programming but want to have full control over all the elements of their website/blog.

Obviously it’s responsive, and it’s particularly indicated for corporate/portfolio sites.

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In all these years we’ve had the fortune to develop many successful WordPress themes and have helped thousands of people to set up these themes in the best manner according to their needs.
This allowed us to take knowledge that the administration panel probably is the most important feature of a theme, even if it’s less visible than the layout or the graphics of the pages.

Therefore, we decided to optimize and enhance it in pursuit of a greater usability by the users.

PinkRio is the proof of all this work. Its administration panel has been designed to easily manage the configuration of every single element, so customizing the theme has become a very simple operation, accessible to all, even to those who aren’t familiar with the code.

Since the logo is one of the first physical evidence of a website (and its importance is known for what you want to communicate and for the identity of the brand), its configuration represents the first step for the customization of the theme.

As you can notice from the image above, the configuration options of the first section of the panel (accessible from PinkRio Free > Theme Options) are at an advanced level. The user can control:

logo customization;tag-line;favicon;breadcrumb;layout of website (this is fantastic);responsive behavior;Following the order of the configuration of the panel, immediately after the logo we find the section dedicated to the footer.

It’s important to notice here what the user can do with the simplicity of a couple of clicks. He can choose the type of footer:

two-columned;centered;two columned big footer;centered big footer.And you can modify the typical texts of the footer just rewriting it (even in HTML) in the specific fields provided in this section for the customization of the copyright.

There had to be a section dedicated to archive, categories and search pages. Here, the panel allows you to operate according to three preferences:

show or not the title of the page (through a button like switch on/off);write the title of the page in the text field;choose whether to show the contents or an excerpt of the same.

And now this is when the real fun begins. The blog. The beating heart of every web project that points to the growth and the construction of one’s corporate identity. Obviously the panel of PinkRio considers all this, giving to the users a very flexible management of the elements.

The setting begins with a choice of opportunities. The user is asked if there are categories that must be excluded:

from the blog page;or from the list of categories that appear on the sidebar.On the screenshot you see only Uncategorized activated . Try to imagine all your topic arguments. A long list, indeed. Which of these do you prefer on the homepage or hidden in the blog page? Which must not appear on the list of the sidebar?

It seems like a minor feature. Instead it’s a very smart option that can make the difference in the management of the contents. Other options follow that get enabled/disabled simply with the switch on/off button. They are:

Show featured image, to enable or disable on the blog page an of evidence.Show featured image detail, to enable or disable the image of evidence even in the single post.Show date, to show the date in the posts.Show author, to show the author of the post.Show comments, to show the number of comments in the post.Show read more button, to show the read more button that takes the reader from the blog page to the single post.Read more text: this is a field (not a switch) in which you can write a text instead of read more (eg. continuo, more info, go etc.)Show tags, to show the tags in the post.

By default, all these options are set at on.

The management of the testimonials has become an unavoidable strategic factor for a good policy of credibility of the brand. For this reason, almost all the premium themes have implemented the function (remember that this is a free theme). But PinkRio allows you to do much more.

With two switch on/off and a pull down choice:

Show Thumbnail: you can decide to show or not a thumbnail photo of the testimonial. It’s easy like drinking a glass of water.Link to the testimonial detail page: you can decide to link or not to the site of the testimonial.Testimonial text type: to show all the feedbacks or just part of them.

Take note of the slide that indicates the number of words to show for each testimonial.

It’s all so easy, right? You can build up your WordPress site in a few minutes.

But what happens if you weren’t a novice user and want to further customize the theme we’re offering, how can you do it?

Easy! On the panel of PinkRio, in the last section, there’re custom fields where you can modify both the style and the javascript.

Moreover, there’s a Google Analytics code field where you just need to paste the code tracking of your analytics to start the tracking of Google compared to the traffic and the events of your website.

Completed the phase of the theme options, there’s still another section to explore. It’s the management of the sidebars, accessible from PinkRio Free > Sidebars.

For the pages and for the posts, the panel offers immediately two settings:

The switch button, to enable or disable a specific sidebar for all types of pages.The choice of the positioning of the sidebar (right or left) or of a layout with no sidebar.

There’s also a drop down menu to select the type of sidebar.

We didn’t forget the services. PinkRio, as we said, is a theme particularly indicated for corporate/portfolio sites. And so is for the fact that the user can easily create a specific offer page for services thanks to our custom post type created ad hoc.

Among the tools of the editor, there’s a button for shortcodes to be used on this page. Without writing a single line of code, you can setup buttons, icons or show the services in the modality you prefer. Simple and intuitive.

The menus of PinkRio are compatible with the Drag & Drop system introduced in the version 3.0 of WordPress. To create a main navigation menu all you need to do is drag the elements in the designed area.

The theme is localized in English. Using the translation file we released with the theme, you can translate it in any other language.

Along with the theme, we ‘ll release a support file that will help you throughout the entire configuration process of the theme.

For obvious reasons, we can’t offer support for every user that downloads and uses PinkRio, as it’s impossible for us to keep up with all the requests without compromising our work, considering the number of users that follow us today and the possibility that this theme may be included in the official directory of WordPress.

To report a bug you can use this post.

The experience accumulated over all these years of development and design, WordPress made us understand another important thing, namely that there’s no limit to the need of personalization.

Creativity and personal need of interaction with the web technology pushes the market to offer always new solutions, more advanced, more sophisticated, more qualified to meet the variables of interchange between people.

Is it possible to do more? Sure. And we did it. We developed a Premium version of PinkRio. Here you can see the features:

Free SupportVideoTutorials5 types of slidersExtension of the theme optionsSEOUnlimited colorsOver 200 fonts of the Google libraryUploader of Background + 50 backgroundsUnlimited contact forms with JavaScript validatorVideogalleryAbout Page4 different style of portfolioShortcode manager over 300 ShortcodesSample dataCustom WidgetWhen a web project stops being an amateur experience and becomes an important reality, or is created to be from the very begining an important standing point in the Market in which it operates, one of the deepest need is related to the way the contents are presented. On the home page, this need is summarized in a code technology called slider.

In the premium version of PinkRio there are 5 different sliders:

Layer SliderFlex SliderElasticThumbnailsCycle

And where is preferred or more suitable a fixed image (eg. in a landing page), PinkRio also provides a Static Header.

With the premium version, you have full control over every single element of management, administration, creation and even promotion and indexing of your website.

PinkRio allows you to optimize your website and your contents for the search engines thanks to:

a panel created specifically for the website, pages, posts and custom post type;metabox SEO of PinkRio present on every page or post.

You can easily edit the colors of each section or element, from the text to the links, from the slogans to the buttons etc.

For a better and more pleasant typography of your pages, you can choose from over 600 different fonts and use them in logos, titles, slogans, text, etc.

You can easily upload a pattern or an image to personalize the background of your pages. Additionally, you can choose from over 50 backgrounds already available in PinkRio.

You can create an unlimited number of contact forms, for all you needs, easily, directly from the custom post type of PinkRio.

To show your video projects.

To present in a more professional way your team, your company, your mission, you can take advantage of the vertical accordion slider (pleasant and effective).

You have more than one option to show your projects. You can choose the style that better suits your needs. You have 4 different styles:

filterable;three-columned;full description;big image.

With one single click you can add elements of aesthetic, usability and of contents to your web pages (video, slider, buttons, tabs etc.).

With one simple click you can import our demo file and instantly have your website exactly the same as our preview (to then modify the contents according to your needs).

With the installation of PinkRio, you also install a series of widgets (recent projects, testimonials, etc.) not stored in your basic WordPress.

You’ll have assistance you need every time you need it. All you have to do is open a ticket. And the YITHEMES team will take care of you.

Even for the premium version, the configuration is very simple, thanks to our detailed tutorial videos that guide you step-after-step in the construction of your WordPress site.

There’re much more things to write and to show about the features and the potentialities of PinkRio. However, we realize that at a certain point it can be tiring to keep the pace and read every single feature. You do first if you visit the preview.

Moreover, in these cases, despite the effort of describing point by point, your feelings browsing the pages – imagining them as yours – will not be the same reading the description.

We hope that even for you PinkRio, if you decide to use it, can represent a special theme, as it is for us…and it can bring you good luck!

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PS: we’re waiting for your feedback, we care.
PPS: in case you find a bug, you can open a new ticket in the forum so that we can fix it!

Posted by Corrado Porzio in Free Themes
Tags: free wordpress theme, minimal

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