Annuity - Financial Advisory & Consulting Theme
Annuity is a feature-rich, responsive WordPress theme designed for financial advisory firms and service-based businesses, offering a complete, ready-to-use website with demo content, extensive customization options, and a rich set of widgets and templates.
Design, Responsiveness, and Visual Quality
- Responsive Design: Fully adapted and optimized to desktops, tablets, and phones; layouts scale across screen sizes for a consistent user experience.
- Retina Ready: Hi-Def graphics ensure sharp visuals on high-resolution displays.
- Cross-browser compatibility: Works reliably across major web browsers, providing a consistent look and feel.
- Mobile and tablet optimized: Mobile side menu and touch-friendly navigation improve accessibility on small devices.
Content, Structure, and Complete Solution
- Real Content: Reviews hundreds of sites in the consulting area to select layouts and graphics that align with business needs.
- Complete Solution: Includes a carefully prepared set of pages with a logical structure for a ready-to-use website.
- Easy Setup with Demo Content: Import sample data with a few clicks to resemble the demo; then edit content quickly.
- Demo Content and Instruction: Demo data and setup instructions are included to streamline onboarding.
Design System and Theme Options
- Multicolor Scheme: Annuity offers a multicolor design with eight color schemes to choose from or create a custom palette.
- Advanced Theme Options Panel: Extensive customization for header, portfolio, typography, and other site sections.
- 2 header and 2 footer layout variations: Flexible layout choices to fit branding needs.
- CSS-based drop-down navigation: Up to 3 levels of submenu for complex navigation structures.
- Mega Menu capability: Create a simple mega menu with multiple columns for content-rich navigation.
- Translations Ready: Internationalization-friendly; .pot file included for translations.
- Demo Content and Documentation: Comprehensive documentation accompanies the theme.
Page Building, Templates, and Extensions
- Page Builder compatibility: Includes support for SiteOrigin Page Builder with an extended version tailored to the theme.
- Page Builder widgets: 35 custom widgets (elements) to craft pages without coding.
- Custom Page Templates: Include homepage, contact page, and page with full-width tabs templates.
- Built on HTML5 & CSS3: Modern, semantic markup designed for performance and accessibility.
- Bootstrap framework: Based on a slightly modified and extended version of Bootstrap v3 grid system for responsive layouts.
Typography, Icons, and Visual Assets
- Google Fonts: Access to 800+ Google web fonts; body, title, and headings can be customized from the Admin Panel.
- Icon Fonts: Font Awesome and Ionicons with over 1300 icons to choose from.
- Google Web Fonts: Additional integration for typography customization.
- Over 1400 icons: Available in two built-in icon fonts (Font Awesome and Ionicons) for rich UI design.
Typography, Widgets, and Sidebars
- 7 widget areas and 11 custom sidebar widgets, with default WordPress widgets styled and displayed consistently.
- Widget display control: Show/hide widgets on specific pages and tailor visibility for small screens.
Content Management, Forms, and Integrations
- Custom Post Types: Work, Service, Staff, Testimonial, Slide, and Section to structure content effectively.
- Post Format support: Standard, Image, Video, and Audio formats for flexible content presentation.
- Custom Styles in post editor: List Types, Styles, and Dividers for rich editorial formatting.
- Video Support: Embeds from oEmbed-enabled sources or self-hosted MP4, WebM, OGV, and HTML5 video.
- Contact and Subscription Forms: Configurable fields with email delivery for inquiries and new subscribers.
- MailChimp integration: CSS styles and integration for subscription forms.
- Contact Form 7 integration: CSS styles and integration for the plugin.
- Maps: Multi-location Google Maps with dynamic updates when offices are changed.
- Note: Google Maps API key requirement: As of June 11, 2018, a valid API key and billing account are required; up to $200/month of free usage is provided with billing enabled; dynamic usage limits apply for JavaScript Dynamic Maps and Geocoding APIs.
Security, Accessibility, and Developer Support
- Child Theme support: Safe customization by using a child theme to preserve modifications.
- Translation Ready: Designed for easy translation to other languages.
- Documentation: Complete documentation included to guide setup and customization.
Credits, Assets, and Dependencies
- Images used in Live Preview: Photos from PhotoDune; Free assets from morgueFile, Pexels, Pixabay, Iconfinder.
- JavaScript plugins and scripts: FitVids, Magnific Popup, Cycle2, Owl Carousel 2, Superfish, Sidr.
- PHP files: Redux Options Framework, TGM Plugin Activation.
- Other assets: Font Awesome, Ionicons, Animate.css.
Updates History
- Version 1.8 – 24.01.2022
- Updated to be compatible with WP 5.9.
- Fixed: Some minor issues.
- Added: Some minor improvements.
- Version 1.7 – 21.07.2021
- Updated to be compatible with WP 5.8.
- Fixed: Some minor issues.
- Added: Some minor improvements.
- Version 1.6 – 12.04.2021
- Updated for PHP 7.4 compliance.
- Fixed: Some minor issues.
- Added: Some minor improvements.
- Version 1.5 – 15.01.2021
- Updated to be compatible with WP 5.6.
- Fixed: Some minor issues.
- Added: Some minor improvements.
- Version 1.4.2 – 07.05.2020
- Fixed: Some minor issues.
- Added: Some minor improvements.
- Version 1.4.1 – 22.01.2019
- Modified: The way of escaping data on output (in a number of cases).
- Removed: Registering the Annuity theme's widgets - now via a plugin (Annuity Utilities).
- Added: Some minor improvements.
- Version 1.4 – 25.09.2018
- Added: Theme support for Gutenberg editor styles and .alignwide/.alignfull classes.
- Added: Styling for all WordPress core blocks to match the theme design.
- Version 1.3 – 15.08.2018
- Updated: Redux Framework (to the latest version 3.6.9).
- Removed: Built-in meta boxes admin section - now all custom meta boxes and custom fields are added via a plugin.
- Removed: Processing the data received from a contact/subscription form - now via a plugin (Annuity Utilities).
- Removed: Handling and Processing the Twitter feed - now completely via a plugin (Twitter Feed OAuth).
- Added: Support and settings for the process of importing the demo data via the One Click Demo Import plugin.
- Improved: The recommended WordPress 4.7+ "File Paths" helper functions are implemented.
- Improved: Strict mode is used for all JavaScript files.
- Improved: Some issues concerning Theme Coding and Security Requirements.
- Updated: Documentation.
- Version 1.2 – 26.01.2018
- Fixed: CSS issue with home slide "background-position" on a 1920-px wide screen.
- Fixed: Issue with author description output on a single post page.
- Updated: Maximum number of items in the "Stages" widget.
- Version 1.1 – 04.11.2017
- Added: Option to change the font size for body font, most headings, and "lead text light".
- Added: Option to change the stripe's default cover image.
- Added: Option to change the footer background image.
- Added: Option to enable/disable the author box on a single blog post.
- Added: Two alternatives of predefined theme options with different typography (as seen in the Style Switcher).
- Added: One more color scheme.
- Added: CSS styles and integration for MailChimp subscription form.
- Added: CSS styles and integration for Contact Form 7 plugin.
- Improved: Child theme functionality.
- Improved: Documentation (extended).
- Fixed: Minor CSS and JS issues.
- Version 1.0 – 19.09.2017
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