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Superb
By asylum119, 2014-07-25
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A lot of work has gone into this theme and it would have defiantly been a 5 if the titles used the @media or js to scale for screen size, nice work. A bit more time with this theme may be all I need to pull the trigger and purchase it.
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Why Do I Need Media with my Posts
By mythusmage, 2014-07-25
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I don’t. I want including media to be at my option. When the theme is updated please remove that requirement.
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Nice options for a free theme!
By loosefast, 2014-06-25
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I was able to get most of what I wanted using custom CSS options – changing header & footer, fonts. probably need to do more myself to change the sidebar animation effect as it interferes with Amazon widget. Thanks!
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Fantastic. Easy. Modern. Love it.
By Elizabeth Richardson, 2014-06-25
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Easy to customize, great theme setting options. Much appreciated.
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Great theme
By rgp888, 2014-06-25
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Does more for a free theme than any others I’ve tried – running it on 4 sites at present and all look fairly different without trying too hard to change much. Very easy to use.
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It's a nice theme with some slick options
By chachanp77, 2014-06-25
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updated:
My original review was a bit unnecessarily harsh, it’s actually a pretty nice theme with some nice options. And the dev has done a nice job improving it.
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Very nice
By bierenard, 2014-06-25
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The free part of this theme is great.
I like facility of publishing news (with the slider) on my home page, this make my site more attractive !
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Nice looking but not flexible, not very customizable
By exelgn, 2014-06-25
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Extremely hard to modify, very little customizing options to play with. Not recommended if you like to customize a lot of things on the original template design.
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Evolve – how I wish I could change it
By DeweyW, 2014-06-25
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I worked very hard getting Evolve looking jus tthe way I wanted. Now I wish I had used a different theme with more widget areas, more customizable areas and one I could make a child-them from without it crashing or looking like c#@p.
When I get more time I will re-do this site, get away from Evolve and never looked back. It is not a bad theme if you want something simple – very simple. But there are very simple themes that are much easier to work with and get better support. If you want support for Evolve from the developer – good luck.
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Beware This theme Can Break Your Running Website
By ajayksingh, 2014-06-25
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This theme looks great that was the reason I chose to use it for my website. But very soon I learned that in every new version this theme breaks something big. Sometime Slideshow will come with half of image going out of box, sometime it becomes impossible to hide Slideshow (yes it has happened in one update), changing color and size of font is also a common issue and in latest update now they have set thumbnail size of 680×330 for featured images on your home screen and it can not be changed through settings. My whole website is screwed and now I have to remove featured images till i find a fix for this issue.
So either ignore this theme or do not update it otherwise you may be left with a broken website. God knows if they even test their own theme or not.
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Still some issues that should be worked out
By YLE Network, 2014-06-25
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I really like the Evolve theme and have been using is on one of my hosted sites already. After I created a new site and have downloaded the latest version of the theme. I have been having trouble removing the carousel slider from my home page. I have tried going to the settings and making it so that there is no header but after saving those settings it is still there. I have also tried adding something else to the header in the place of it and it is still there. I am going to try downloading an older version to see if I have better luck with the look I want. Other than that, I really enjoy the theme.
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Every. Update. Breaks. EvoLve.
By Frutke, 2014-06-25
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This theme is free, but it’s not worth your effort.
Every single time an update for this theme is released, I shudder.
Without exception, they all have caused unexpected, significant and unwanted changes to the site. In the past, customizations made using the theme’s UI were simply lost when updates were released. Now, we have to click around the entire site and find out what’s newly broken (this time a new background was imposed upon us, menus have a weird rollover effect and – oh look – breadcrumbs are suddenly active).
A backup/restore feature was recently added – which doesn’t seem to work, incidentally. We’ve resorted to taking screenshots of each page of the theme’s configuration so I can rebuild it following an update.
If we had not have already invested significant time in getting this otherwise beautiful theme to work (in earlier versions) we’d abandon it.
We usually use free themes to test out whether we’d like to buy more themes from the same company. A test-drive, if you will. If this is an example of the quality work to be expected from Theme4Press, no thanks.
