Klean Blog Theme Review

General design

The name "Klean Blog" refers to the purity and simpleness of the general design. This theme is blog-focused so it minimizes the unnecessary details as much as possible to make it clean and tidy. Besides, the main decoration and creation come from straight lines, which plays an essential role in the straightforward and solid sense of the design.

Other elements

When I scanned the whole site, I thought there were only white and black colors in this theme. But looking closely, some yellow and green elements are used to emphasize some special parts. That choice of color helps this WordPress blog theme super bright, yet still has creativity when needed. And when you use this theme for yourself, there are many color sections to make it more colorful.

The author uses Sans-serif and Noto Sans font, the basic and simple font for a website. They are legible and really clear.

Instead of the traditional header and menu, this WordPress theme has a sticky sidebar menu. You can see the clear separation between the content and the sidebar menu here.

When both menu, title and widgets are put in one sidebar, it can save the room for the body content. Furthermore, I see that the sidebar menu and widget are made to look extremely simple and humble. That's why people mostly pay attention to body content rather than the sidebar. Contributing to the blog-focused style, the very large featured image is so promising to leave the long-lasting impression on every reader.

On the single post page, it remains the clean and pure style and the attractive large featured image. But the most stunning thing lies in the bottom, where you can see the next and previous post. They are extremely unique and saves this page from being boring.

Responsive

This free WordPress theme has a good way to be adaptive in every kind of device. The design is still fine without any problem, which you can see by ami.responsivedesign.is tool check.

The responsive design checked by ami.responsivedesign.is.

To use this theme, you don't need to any enclosed plugin. It runs smoothly right after being activated.

You are not able to have the demo content as it doesn't support 1-click demo import. But if you already have the full-content website, it will be nearly similar to the demo after you install this theme. You just need to add the sidebar, menu, and social icons, which is very simple for everyone to do.

This theme doesn't recommend any plugin for more features. But I find that it also supports Jetpack so that you can install it and enable some important features for your own blog like Like button, Social sharing, Related post.

You can easily change every custom features in the Customizer. Plus, there are enough sections to personalize like color, header image, widget and options for blog and post.

There are many color sections except for the body content background and text. After choosing the different colors, now it looks more vibrant. But I think you should be careful because too many colors may make the site quite glitzy.

This theme doesn't support background image and custom typography. But I don't think it will affect the design and beauty of this theme so much.

To add the social media icons, you just have to do only 1 step: inserting the URL to these tracks. And if you don't want to have them, you can quickly hide theme by 1 click here as well. They give you 7 most common designated social media. I think it's good to let you know what you are allowed to add. However, that may restrict your connection to other social networking sites as the users may have more social linking to add than these designated ones.

Just by giving a tick, you can immediately hide or show the elements of a blog page and category page. It's also very convenient that you can display the excerpt length without any limitation.

Finally, I want to note that this theme just gives you 1 position, the sidebar, to add widgets. The footer column is not available, just the copyright line can be rewritten.

Within a couple of hours, I guess that you can quickly learn how to use this WordPress theme every day. Even a beginner like me can master using it, so why can't you?

With all the necessary formats, users are able to display their post in the most effective way.

For example, the blockquote looks very distinctive from the normal text. The quotation marks are put in the right position, making it very outstanding.

Video

The video is embeds that way.

Video

You have a gallery that gathers the images in a well-organized way even though they have dissimilar size.

Gallery

I checked the SEO configuration by a special tool. It shows that Klean Blog hasn't been effectively optimized for SEO yet. The author doesn't suggest any plugin for SEO so if you want to have it, you have to find yourself. I think that may be a difficulty for those who are not familiar with technology like me to search for a suitable plugin.

The speed of this Free WordPress theme will definitely surprise you. It's not only speedy on a computer, but also very fast on a mobile device. I checked the speed by PageSpeed Insight, a very popular and prestigious tool.

I can't find the Klean Blog's documentation in the list of documentation. There is just 1 article for the general installation and other theme's doc. So I guess that there is no instruction for a free WordPress theme here.

You can create a ticket and get the 24/7 support from the theme author.