Native is a fresh, premium WordPress theme created by DFDevelopment, an Envato Elite Author. It is designed as a one-page layout and comes packed with demos and a helpful options panel. The Native template may be a good solution if you plan to build an eShop, a creative website or a blog.
Design
Native is an elegant, responsive and retina ready template. This theme gives you the absolute control to choose which page and post will be displayed on what device. Whether you want your site to be boxed or full width, you can give it a quick test drive using the premade layouts from the theme’s repository. You can import a Corporate, Digital, Car, Restaurant, Portfolio, Coming Soon demo and make yourself an idea about the template you’re about to design.
When you start building or remodeling a website, I know that one of the main concerns is “How easy is it to create the layout I need?”. Well, you’ll be glad to know that with the Native theme, you can build pages and posts using the Visual Composer drag-n-drop page builder. It brings you over 50 custom elements, like the Animated Heading, Facts, Gallery Meteo, Milestone, Social Accounts or the Slide Parallax. With eight page templates and four post layouts, this theme is ready to give you considerable variations for pages and posts. Also, you can style the way a post is displayed, using different types, galleries or portfolios, and everything in between.
Native gives you 14 header styles to change how the above the fold area looks. There are also extra mobile header options, which you can apply globally on your website and display social icons, language switcher, shopping buttons and change colors for distinct areas.
Besides, the Native theme lets you assign a different header style for each page or post, and upload an image or a video. The header section uses a parallax effect, and a light or dark background scheme. You can also decide your header’s behavior as sticky or fixed.
As for the bottom section, you can use a compact, a widgetized or a Visual Composer Page layout, and you can show copyright information, the site’s logo and social networks.
As we already mentioned, this theme has a couple of interesting layouts, media and animations included. A nice feature of the Native theme is the lightbox effect with distinct styles and multiple options.
With the Native theme’ typography system you can acquire different Google and custom fonts to enhance the design for separate website areas.
Native allows you to keep your fans and friends always connected by displaying your favorite social networks. No matter if you use Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Vkontakte, Xing, Behance, Odnoklassniki and another 31 social platforms, this theme has gathered them all. Moreover, your site’s content can be shared on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, Google Plus and Pinterest.
Functionality
If you want to customize Native globally, you will be happy to discover a well-structured Theme Options panel. You can setup sections like Logo, Header, Footer, Typography, Blog, Portfolio, Styling, Social Accounts, Icon Manager.
The DFDevelopment team included the popular drag-n-drop page builder Visual Composer plugin, to help you create your posts and pages with ease on backend and frontend.
On both pages and posts, you can make individual settings for headers, sidebars, layout framework, parallax footer, and add one of the 28 custom fields. Moreover, the theme comes with a pack of shortcodes, counting Tooltips, Testimonial, Popover, DropCaps, Featured quote, Featured decoration and Underline Advanced.
The theme also brings 16 custom widgets, like the Additional info, Counter mail or Flickr which you can display on the left, right or dual sidebars. This template comes bundled with the DFD Extensions, DMK Sidebar Generator, Revolution Slider, and Visual Composer plugins and it’s compatible with popular plugins like the WPML and SEO by Yoast.
One more great feature of Native is the Simple Advertisement module, which helps you create banners and include them into your website. You can use one of the seven predefined styles, add animation, image, information, colors, hover effect and typography.
| GENERAL | |
|---|---|
| Item name | Native |
| Category | Multi-purpose |
| Type | Premium |
| Author | DFDevelopment |
| Envato elite author | Yes |
| Tested version | 1.0.9 |
| COMPATIBILITY | |
| Content width | Full Width |
| Browser compatibility | IE11+ / Chrome / FF / Opera / Safari / Edge |
| WooCommerce | Yes |
| bbPress | - |
| BuddyPress | - |
| WPML | Yes |
| FONTS AND TRANSLATION | |
| Integrated translation | - |
| Google fonts | Yes |
| Custom fonts | Yes |
| Typekit fonts | - |
| RTL support | - |
| POST FEATURES | |
| Video posts | Yes |
| Audio posts | Yes |
| Post templates | 4 |
| Post view counter | Yes |
| Smart lists | - |
| Social share | Yes |
| Custom image lightbox | Yes |
| Custom image galery | Yes |
| Link post | Yes |
| PAGE FEATURES | |
| Page templates | 8 |
| Blocks | 60 |
| Widgets | 16 |
| Header styles | 14 |
| Footer styles | 3 |
| Masonry layout | Yes |
| Mega menus | Yes |
| Sticky menu | Yes |
| Social networks | Yes |
| Social counter | Yes |
| Video playlists | - |
| Instagram widget | - |
| Custom Page Builder | Visual Composer |
| Portfolio styles | 5 |
| Responsive layout | Fluid |
| Blog layouts | 5 |
| Menu styles | 1 |
| Dual Sidebars | Yes |
| Shortcodes | Yes |
| Video slider | - |
| OTHER FEATURES | |
| Demos included | 42 |
| SEO optimized | Yes |
| Custom Theme Updater | - |
| ADS | |
| Ad system | Yes |
| Adsense support | - |
| Custom ads | Yes |
| PERFORMANCE | |
| CSS file size | 2640 MB |
| Overall speed | High |
| Performance documentation | - |
| USER EXPERIENCE | |
| Total ratings | 49 |
| User rating | |
| Learnability | Medium |
| DESIGN | |
| Responsive design | Yes |
| Retina ready | Yes |
| DOCUMENTATION | |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Explanations | Explicit |
| Explicit screen shots | Yes |
| Video tutorials | Yes |
| Search option | Yes |
| Extra documentation | - |
| PREMIUM PLUGINS | |
| Plugins | DFD Extensions, Revolution Slider, Visual Composer |
| VALUE | |
| Price | $59 |
| Value for the money | Excellent |
Performance
We have tested Native default demo on different page speed tests, and it loads at high speed.
The theme provides an extensive documentation, with extra information on plugins.
Downsides
The theme has a variety of settings for each element, and this might be a little bit overwhelming. But, the author has well organized every tool and related options, so once you get used to it, Native is easy to manage.
The theme is not RTL language ready.
