Filmax is a stylish WordPress theme for a movie review website, online magazine, film portal, or any other type of website that focuses on publishing articles online.
The theme offers multiple ways of presenting content to your audiences, such as sliders, carousels, post widgets and shortcodes. Moreover, thanks to responsive design, your website now looks great both on tablet and mobile screens.
Filmax includes a quick demo data installation, which helps you import the demo content and make your website look exactly as on the demo. Let’s examine some of the other prominent features of the theme.
Flexible Shortcode Collection
When publishing content on the web, you may need something more than basic WordPress content types. That’s where additional shortcodes come in handy.
The theme lets you use multiple types of content for various needs, such as progress bars, counters, sliders, Google maps, call to action buttons, and more. With Filmax, you’ve got a reliable set of beautiful content blocks, ready to be inserted wherever you need.
Testimonials
Testimonials are yet another crucial component of a movie reviews website, since here you can display opinion of movie critics as well as overall impression with your site. Using the integrated testimonials custom post type, you can create as many testimonials as you need, specify the person’s position, name, and display their image.
Readable Typography
Filmax is all about engaging content, and what constitutes the word ‘content’ if not typography? A web page consists mostly of images and typefaces, and it was our job to provide you with the cleanest and simple typography styles, which would make your content easy and fun to read and navigate.
Having thought through the typography styles to the smallest detail, we’ve made sure that no element is left unnoticed. Drop caps, tooltips, bold and italicized text, highlighted text, links, lists and many other elements are carefully designed and styled to provide the most visual engagement and readability.
Social Links Widget
Building social presence and growing the social media subscribers list is important for any online media outlet, especially for a movie review website. Thanks to our social links widget, you can showcase your social media links in various places on your website with ease.
Post Widgets & Shortcodes
One of the main advantages of Filmax is its variety of ways to lay out blog posts and articles. Thanks to a collection of post-oriented widgets and shortcodes, you can display posts in several ways, making your website fun to navigate and search for content.
Thanks to detailed page builder settings, you can stretch a row of posts for the whole page width, making your articles more engaging and eye-grabbing.
The post widget allows you to add filtering to your list of posts and display articles based on rating, popularity or publication date. An alternative way of displaying articles includes the carousel view, making it possible for your visitors to reveal other articles as they drag on the screen.
WPBakery Page Builder
Formerly known as Visual Composer, WPBakery Page Builder is a flexible and robust tool for laying out page components and customizing the layout of your website elements.
The page builder is available in two modes – backend and frontend. The backend mode focuses on the overall page structure and helps you get a better picture of the page layout. The frontend mode helps you see all the page components in real time, as soon as you add them to the page.
Thanks to a large number of shortcodes built specifically for WPBakery Builder, the tool is a crucial element for customizing the appearance of your website.
Multiple Blog Styles
Beside constructing blog post layouts with the help of widgets and shortcodes, you can also set up your blog feed page separately by means of the WordPress Customizer.
With a large number of Customizer settings, you can fine-tune your blog page, choosing from several blog styles, and adjusting more minute settings, such as pagination style, post-animation post excerpt length, etc. The blog styles include classic, portfolio, and chess styles, each one with several column variations.
Customize the appearance of your blog page and view all the changes on the fly thanks to intuitive WordPress Customize interface.
Color & Typography Options
Filmax features an elegant color and typography combination, however, if needed you can customize each of the two aspects of your site. Thanks to the flexible color scheme editor, you can not only adjust the main accent colors of the theme but customize the base and auxiliary color palette, thus being able to change the appearance drastically.
As for the typography options, you are free to adjust most of the type settings individually for each major element, such as headings, body text, buttons, menu items, etc. Customize such font properties as font family, weight, style, size, margins, and more. All the changes are made via the WordPress Customizer, which is well-known for its easy-to-use real-time interface.
Conclusion
Filmax is a stylish movie listing and reviews WordPress theme that focuses on presenting your content in a most beautiful and engaging way. It comes with WPBakery Page Builder as the main tool for creating and customizing pages.
Thanks to additional shortcodes and widgets, the theme boasts a large number of possible layout variations, which allows you to lay out content in a fun and memorable format. The theme is fully responsive and looks great on all modern devices. If you want to build a stylish movie database or review website, Filmax may be just what you need.