Lucid is a highly customizable, Search Engine Optimized WordPress Theme that can be used as a business site, fully featured blog, or portfolio. It is built on the excellent Thematic Framework, and has many additional features and styles added. Lucid comes equipped with 18 skins and 2 choices of jQuery Featured Content Sliders which can be controlled through the extensive Control Panel (6 Admin Pages), as well as 5 Portfolio Styles, 13 Widget-Ready Areas, 9 Customizable Widgets, and over 20 Handy Shortcodes.
You’ll find many options in the WordPress administrative area to help configure and customize the Theme.
For more information, how-tos, documentation, and to preview the theme, please visit http://lucid.sevenspark.com
Features
Professional Quality
* Valid XHTML
* Tableless Design
* jQuery Enhanced
* 13 Widget-Ready Areas
2 jQuery Featured Content Sliders
* choose from the Fading Slider or the Coin Slider (Preview Sliders »)
* Automatically generate slides from a specific post category
* Or create custom slides
* choose text position for each slide
* Configure transition duration and style
* choose a light or dark background
* Easily switch skins using the control panel
* Customize your site further with easily activated custom CSS
* Preview Skins »
Custom Post Enhancements
* Customize your SEO meta keywords, description, and title tag on each post
* Customize slides right from the post page (or use the Slide Manager to create custom slides)
* Visually select primary media image for each post, or specify a YouTube or Vimeo video
Extensive Control Panel
* a myriad of blog & post customizations
* Configure Social Media Feeds
* Manage Slider with Drag and Drop Ease
* and much more
Create Portfolios quickly and easily using the portfolio shortcode.
* 5 Sizes (Small, Medium, Large, Square, Thumb – with and without sidebars)
* Turn Excerpts On or Off
* Select Posts by Category or Tag
* Select Posts by Author
* Easily Configurable Pagination
* Preview Portfolios »
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
* Structured for SEO
* Leverages the optimization of the Thematic Framework
* Per-post SEO settings
Lucid provides over 20 useful shortcodes to make your life easier.
* Contact Form
* Portfolio
* Recent Posts
* Posts by Category
* Related Content
* Post Gallery
* Simple Lists
* Easy Links
* Video Embedding
* Columns
* TimThumb
* Flickr Feed
* Vimeo Feed
* YouTube Feed
* Twitter Feed
Import feeds from your favorite Social Media Networks.
* Twitter
* Flickr
* YouTube
* Vimeo
Cufon Font Replacement
* Enhance your site with the beautiful PT Sans font
* Degrades Gracefully when JavaScript is turned off
* Easy to disable if unwanted
Superfish Dropdown Menus
* Unlimited levels
* Organize Navigation Menu through WordPress 3 Menu System
* Degrades gracefully when JavaScript is turned off
TimThumb & Colorbox Lightbox
* Quickly and easily create Post Lightbox Galleries
* Simple Portfolio Shortcodes in 5 sizes
* Automatic Imported Flickr Slideshow
* Post Galleries automatically generate lightbox slideshows
* Lucid is built on the excellent Thematic Framework
* 13 Widget-Ready Areas
Help, Documentation, and How-To can be found at http://lucid.sevenspark.com/.
Sources and Credits
Thematic Framework
jQuery Plugins
AnythingSlider (basis for the Fading Slider)
qTip
JavaScript
JSON2
PHP
TimThumb
Fonts
ParaType PT Sans Caption
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