There are many decisions that you need to make while working on a new website. It includes the choice of the best web platform for building a website. It also involves the choice of the best theme, design, functionality, and other aspects that will make your website one of a kind. One more decision that one should make is deciding whether it’s the visual appeal and the availability of striking visual elements or a lighting-fast site loading speed that matters the most for your new web project.
After the release of the Kicker WordPress Theme by AxiomThemes in May 2021, you do not need to choose between design and functionality that play a major role in your website construction. Now, you can find a perfect balance between an appealing web design, outstanding functionality, and flawless website performance in just one theme. Let’s take a closer look at the Axiomkicker WordPress theme and the features making it the ultimate choice for building blogs and news magazines.
Table of Contents
- Predesigned Demo Skins
- AMP and Site Speed Optimization
- Color & Font Options
- Elementor Page Builder
- Numerous Post Layouts
- Ads & Banners
- WooCommerce
- Menu Panels & Mega Menu
- Custom Popups & Newsletters
- GDPR & Cookies
- Localization-friendly, Multilingual & RTL
1. Predesigned Demo Skins
By downloading the Axiomkicker WordPress theme, you get more than one default skin that you can use on your website. The theme’s download package features an impressive collection of demo skins that match personal or business blogs, news, magazines, and other kinds of media-related projects.
The collection of skins grows bigger and more diverse with the monthly release of theme updates. It means that you will get at least 1 new demo skin every month after the purchase.
In the collection of demo skins added to the Axiomkicker theme, you can come across modern and trendy solutions for news, fashion, sports, travel, food, creatives, games, tech, music, science, viral, kids, review blogs, and other topics. Every skin added to the theme has a unique and versatile design intended to be used for a specific micro-niche.
If you take a look at the Main Skin, you will notice that it works best for a news portal website.
With the Cyber Skin, you will enhance your blog with a more vibrant visual appeal and catching typography patterns.
As the name implies, Fashion Skin is the best fit for fashion and beauty sites. The demo skin represents a perfect combination of fonts, useful elements, and visual effects.
The Sports & Fitness Skin engages your site’s visitors with a dynamic and motivating environment.
There are plenty of other impressive ready-to-go designs available in the Axiomkicker WordPress theme. Feel free to browse the entire collection to choose the design that will be a perfect fit for your blog or news magazine website.
2. AMP and Site Speed Optimization
The speed at which your site loads has been one of the most crucial factors influencing your site’s ranking in search engines over the last few years. Since May 2021, Google announced site speed and the site’s core web vitals as the major ranking factors influencing its positions in search results. It’s become indispensable for your web page to run equally well on desktop and handheld devices. With a growing number of mobile users, it’s essential to optimize your content for all screen sizes. It’s especially important for blogs and media websites, which users often browse on the run.
Keeping all this in mind, the Axiomkicker WordPress theme includes 2 extremely useful features that make your website rank higher than your competitors. More specifically, the theme supports AMP and includes custom Lazy Loading functionality.
AMP
The Axiomkicker WordPress theme is integrated with the AMP plugin, which optimizes your website’s content for mobile devices. It lets you reveal an AMP version of your website to mobile users. People can also decide when they would like to browse an AMP version of your site and when they’d like to see a full desktop version by clicking on the link in the footer of your site.
By installing the Axiomkicker theme on shared hosting with no caching and zero optimization, you can achieve an impressive Google Pagespeed insights score for mobile devices.
Lazy Load
The technique has become part of the core since the WordPress 5.5 release. With the lazy loading effect implemented into a website, the web page loads images only when a user scrolls down to the place where it should be. As a result, your website has better TTI (Time to interactive) and CLS (Cumulative layout shift) indicators.
The Axiomkicker WordPress theme is integrated with its own Lazy Load script, which proves to be more effective for your site. The theme also includes additional customization options that let you enable or disable the Lazy Load effect and adjust the number of images that will be loaded on the pages/posts of your site at one time.
Besides, the custom lazy load script added to the Axiomkicker WordPress theme covers 95%-100% of all images available on your web page, while the lazy load plugin by WordPress covers only 40%-50%. Besides, the custom script works flawlessly with the masonry blocks, which the WordPress plugin can hardly boast.
3. Color & Font Options
Axiomkicker WordPress theme is supplied with a bunch of handy customization options. Most importantly, it includes advanced color and font modification options, which let you adjust the color scheme of different elements of your site according to your brand identity.
Besides, the Axiomkicker WordPress theme gives you complete control over your site’s typography. It contains a selection of Google Fonts and supports dozens of other font options out-of-the-box.
The theme also lets you upload custom fonts to your website, including Adobe Fonts.
4. Elementor Page Builder
The thing that makes the Axiomkicker WordPress theme easy-to-handle for users of all skill levels is the availability of the Elementor page builder on board. The powerful visual page builder lets you apply any kind of changes to the theme in the code-free mode. With the help of the Elementor builder, you can edit every section of your site, including the header, footer, posts, sidebars, content pages, etc.
Header & Footer Builder
Axiomkicker theme lets you easily update the header and footer sections of your website with the help of the Elementor page builder. The header and footer builder let you:
- Assign to any post or page individually.
- Use Elementor components with no limitations.
- Make Sticky headers.
- Add Video and Parallax backgrounds to your site’s pages.
- Choose desktop, mobile, and tablet layouts independently.
5. Numerous Post Layouts
The Axiomkicker WordPress theme includes a wide choice of ready-made design solutions suited for different post types. You may choose any of them and customize them according to your own preferences. Besides, you may feel free to adjust the sidebars of your site.
The theme also lets you choose any of the 14 premade layout styles and dozens of their combinations.
Pagination
Axiomkicker theme also provides a range of pagination options, including classic page numbers, Previous/Next buttons, load more, and infinite scroll.
Next Post auto-load
Next post-auto-load is a handy feature that lets you keep your customers for longer on your site. The functionality is added to the Axiomkicker theme. With its help, the pages of your site will automatically load the suggested next article when a person finishes reading the first one.
The Axiomkicker theme also lets you create info posts, news, video & audio posts, media gallery posts, events posts, etc. Let’s take a look at some of them.
Regular Posts with Custom Layouts
By choosing the Axiomkicker theme, you can choose from multiple premade page designs or create custom layouts that will help you share informative and engaging blog posts.
Review Posts
Furthermore, you can create Review posts, which may include:
- Different rating types, like stars, points, or percentage;
- As many your own criteria as you wish;
- Item specifications and key points;
- Lists of Pros & Cons;
- Choose the exact review placement on the page;
- Affiliate buttons to drive more affiliate sales through your blog.
Media Posts
Axiomkicker lets you create a truly engaging blog, which supports all content types you may think of. It also includes a variety of media posts.
Regular video post
Video post with the sticky frame
If you choose to play the video and then scroll down to the bottom of the page, the video will automatically appear in your right bottom corner.
Video Playlist
The Axiomkicker WordPress theme lets you create video playlists using video posts or any random videos of your own choice.
Audio post
Gallery post
With that said, the Axiomkicker WordPress theme offers plenty of opportunities to share any type of media that you may think of. It includes videos, audio podcasts, photo galleries, etc.
Related Posts
By adding a section with related posts, you can keep the readers of your blog more engaged with your content. Related posts let you improve your site’s SEO and increase conversion rates. The Axiomkicker theme includes lots of premade options, like:
- Right side positioning.
- Left side positioning.
- Placement within the content.
- Under the content positioning.
- Infinite scroll automatically shows the next post.
Updated Posts
The “updated posts” feature will be especially useful to those bloggers who plan to update some of the published articles over time. The updated posts commonly feature two dates – initial publishing and last updated.
Sponsored Posts
Axiomkicker offers a special post type that is called sponsored posts. It will come in handy for those bloggers who accept sponsored and guest posts. Sponsored articles feature “sponsored” attributes and special banner spots.
6. Ads and Banners
The Axiomkicker WordPress theme provides you with complete flexibility and entire control over the placement of different pieces of content on your site, including banner ads. On your site, you may choose any of the following advertising positioning options:
- Above the content
- Below the content
- Sidebar
- Within the content
- Popups, etc.
7. WooCommerce
It’s become a common thing to add eCommerce functionality to blogs and business websites. Axiomkicker theme includes the full WooCommerce package, which lets you a functional and usable web store out of the box.
The theme’s download package also features a product page that you can adjust according to your preferences.
8. Menu Panels & Mega Menu
The menu is one of the most crucial elements of a website. To the biggest degree, the success of your online resource depends on how well the menu panel is organized. Many businesses need to invest extra funds into buying additional plugins to boost the site’s menu. Axiomkicker includes such solutions at no cost. The theme lets you create a side menu panel that can slide in and out.
You can also create usable mega menus.
9. Custom Popups and Newsletters
Newsletters and pop-ups are an integral part of any successful online marketing campaign. The Axiomkicker theme offers a variety of newsletter forms. For example, you may opt for a large newsletter popup form like this:
Or you may add a slide in/out small newsletter popup to your site:
A static newsletter form may show up within the content:
Or you may add a static footer newsletter:
GDPR & Cookies
The Axiomkicker is a 100% GDPR-compliant WordPress theme. It includes the WP GDPR Compliance, GDPR Compliance for MailChimp, and GDPR Cookie Consent plugin.
Localization-friendly, Multilingual & RTL
In the modern-day world, it’s vital to make your site’s content comprehensive for users coming from different places in the world. To make it easy to localize and translate your site into any language, the Axiomkicker theme is localization-friendly. It is also fully compatible with the Loco Translate and PO Composer. It also seamlessly integrates with WPML and features RTL support.
Sites made with the Kicker WordPress Theme
Bottom Line
Axiomkicker is a contemporary and multi-functional WordPress theme based on the Elementor page builder. It includes plenty of handy options for starting a blog, news magazine, and even an eCommerce site out-of-the-box. The theme keeps on improving and growing all the time. It includes free lifetime updates that provide the theme’s owners with additional demo skins and more functionality needed for the launch of a topic-specific web resource.
