Retina Ready WordPress Themes: Spartan: A Fully-featured theme for Mobile+Tablets

Thursday, May 30, 2013

Spartan: A Fully-featured theme for Mobile+Tablets

About SPARTAN A Fully-featured theme for Mobiles and Tablets

The goal with SPARTAN was to create a fully-loaded theme that would serve as the mobile and tablet home for any and all types of WordPress sites while also being a great stand-alone theme. With its color scheme suitable for all businesses, organizations, as well as personal sites, the theme allows your content to take center stage.

It’s the little things that we think are so great. Like the menu that goes beyond just listing a number of links in predetermined styles, allowing you to instead build and color a unique navigation system. Or the comment button also serving as a visual indicator; grayed out when comments for a given post are disabled, or shaking itself ever so gently to remind the user to read and leave comments when comments are enabled. Or the amount of customization available for shortcodes. It’s your call how deep you want to go.

We’ve linked to a great number of live examples to showcase these as well as other aspects of the theme, including how the blog index looks and behaves, how the theme handles comments, displays galleries, how you could set up a portfolio, all the different post formats etc. In the live preview, just bring down the menu by clicking/tapping the menu button on the upper left corner of your screen and browse away.

We sincerely hope you like what you see.

Feature list: Information about SPARTAN in neat list form

works alongside your existing desktop theme

‘install as web app’ functionality on iOS (with install prompt, splash screens + icons!)

ready for localization/translation (*mo, *.po)

tested on iOS, Android, WP7 as well as desktop browsers

unique ‘layered’ design (the site’s menu and comments are opened in full-screen, dedicated slideouts, giving the site a ‘layered’ look and feel)

a unique, customizable ‘descriptive’ two-level pull-down accordion menu

touch/swipe gallery (customized PhotoSwipe)

supports 10 post formats (Standard, Aside, Link, Gallery, Status, Quote, Image, Video, Audio, Chat)

subtle and effective use of jQuery

a ton of extremely customizable shortcodes..

..plus shortcodes for YouTube, Vimeo, USTREAM, DailyMotion, Blip.tv

retina icons

custom background tool enabled; change the theme’s background color/image in seconds (a dozen hand-picked background images by the theme’s designer are included)

a fully responsive liquid design (everything from forms and fields to menus and embedded content is automatically resized to ensure your site looks its best on whatever device and resolution it’s being viewed on)

works beautifully in both landscape and portrait

detailed documentation

layered PSD included

Support you can count on What our customers are saying

Below are some kind words those who’ve purchased our themes have sent our way. Needless to say, we are super proud of the support we offer.

“Best support I’ve ever seen! .. Five stars is not enough!”

”..customer service provided goes above and beyond … An excellent experience from start to finish.”

“… extreme fast response!!!”

”..documentation [has] been a great help..”

“This is by far the best support I’ve gotten on TF.”

”...quick to respond and very helpful.”

“I’m really amazed with Spartan”

“Thanks for such a speedy response! You rock man!”

“Awesome support!”

“Wow, thanks for the prompt response.”

Install as a web app (use your own splash screens and icons)

As a part of the theme’s default functionality, SPARTAN can be installed on your iOS device as a web app. Upon arriving on your site, a handy prompt alerts your visitor to add the site to their Home Screen, meaning your site will be just a single tap away.

You can also add your own custom icons and splash screens that the web app will make use of, as can be seen by the included default images below: