Amped – a small magazine WordPress theme – is a Genesis Child theme from StudioPress. It’s a high contrast grunge theme employing an inverted color scheme with light text on a dark background.
Apart from the widgetized sidebars and the footer areas which are static across the site, the homepage has 3 widget sections for featured content. We can use the built-in custom widgets for quick and easy setup of the featured content.
Since Amped is a Genesis child theme, we get all the features and configurable theme settings of it’s parent. It is search engine friendly, has 2 drop-down navigation menus, breadcrumb navigation, 3 widgetized sidebars on the right & 1 optional sidebar on the left, custom widgets etc.
Amped WordPress theme features
- Fully widgetized homepage.
- Built as a child theme for Genesis framework
- Theme settings panel with a comprehensive list of options for easy customizations
- 4 widgetized sidebars and 3 widget areas in the footer
- 7 custom WP widgets including a twitter widget
- 6 optional layouts – content/sidebar, sidebar/content, content/sidebar/sidebar, sidebar/content/sidebar, sidebar/sidebar/content, full width content without sidebars
- SEO options – Head titles, meta descriptions, meta tags, noindex & nofollow options
- 40 action hooks for customizations – mainly for developers
- Supports post thumbnails and custom WordPress navigation menus
- Compatible with buddypress
- Automatic theme updates
- Documentation and support
