Oxygen

Very NIce Template work…
Nice structured …

Just what I wanted my blog to be

This is a great theme to customize (child theme!!) because it starts off very clean and simple. The media queries all seem to work well with the kind of content I have (not much at the moment). Nice font choices, but I’m also adding custom fonts myself.
Thanks

Nice ² clean theme. Thx a lot solochris14

I installed this theme on egear.be because Devpress claims the theme is mobile optimized.

Well, it is not!

I tried a lot of different settings but on iphone and ipad (and other mobile devices) the theme still sucks.

After asking some questions on the wordpress.org forums ( http://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-oxygen-theme-and-mobile?replies=14 ) I found out that the theme is only mobile optimized for wordpress.com and not for self-hosted wordpress.org sites.

I would only recommend the oxygen theme after these issues are solved. These days you just cannot have a site anymore that doesn’t look nice on mobile.

I’ve been working with Oxygen for the past few months, building a fairly complex website for a church. It took a little digging to figure out the homepage slider and how it works w/ the posts, and some trial and error to figure out some other details — but I am a WordPress newbie (this was my fifth or sixth site), so more experienced developers might find it a cakewalk.

Anyway, I do love the theme. Using custom menus and the catlist plug-in makes it even more flexible. I’ve had little or no need to dive into the css or php files. I’ve found everything to work “as advertised,” and wouldn’t hesitate to use this theme again in the future.

This is a very well-executed theme. Coded with great attention to detail, with a beautiful clean design and nice typography. Good color scheme, lovely options page with support for a number of beautiful typefaces. The theme has a responsive design that works equally well on computer, tablet, and smartphone screens. Four out of five stars.

Due to the relatively transparent php, html and css code (inherited in part from the Hybrid core by Justin Tadlock), Oxygen is easy to customize. A child theme is created in seconds and a customized site can be up in a few hours. A great basis to work with as a parent theme, but perfectly ready straight out of the box as well.

Why not five out of five?

For two reasons:
1. The included page templates aren’t flexible enough, which hopefully will be improved in future versions. The full-width template is truly full-width; it would be nice to have it optionally with a sidebar. The front-page template is gorgeous but a bit inflexible in terms of setting up: all front page posts have to be hand-picked using a custom post_location metabox and the featured content slider does not support sticky posts. Further, sidebars are handled in an unintuitive way, with the call for the secondary sidebar being buried in footer.php and the sidebar being disabled for the full-width template in an “offhand” way via functions.php. At these and other points, the code of the theme is less than transparent.

2. The theme is perhaps a bit too heavily based on Hybrid, with a lock-in effect. Although Hybrid is a great framework, its downside is that documentation is sparse and support forums are hidden behind a paywall. This makes it hard to find good supporting information for some of the core features of the theme . For instance, a lot of metadata is called using Hybrid shortcodes like [entry-author] etc. It is hard to find out how to work with these shortcodes (and especially how to customize or translate them) without paying for Hybrid, which is not at all clear when you first download Oxygen.

But more customizable features should be added