Sydney Theme Review

General Design

Sydney provides a lot of demos for various niches like eCommerce, business, wedding, ... so it's difficult to review each of them. But I can say that all demos are well-design and can give your website a good presence.

They are all clean, professional, and modern. Some are minimal and, and some are sweet and adorable depending on their niche.

Store demo of Sydney free multipurpose WordPress theme

Wedding demo of Sydney free multipurpose WordPress theme

But in some demos, like this part of

Responsive Design

This free WordPress multipurpose theme will let your website preset beautifully and flexibly on any screen size and device. I checked the responsive design on my PC, laptop, cellphone, and also us some dedicated tools.

The responsive design of Sydney theme

If you set up your website with one-click demo import, it's super easy and quick. All you need to do is 3 single clicks and 1, 2, 3 ... your site will look exactly like the demo you choose.

Import Sydney demo with one click

But if you want to set up your site by hand, you have to use Elementor. It may takes time if you're not familiar with this tools, so I still recommend using one-click demo import or hiring a developer.

The most important feature of Sydney is that it works well with Elementor page builder and has various free demos for this tool.

Besides, Sydney has built-in slider, header media display, sticky header, ... to help you build a versatile website.

Customize Sydney with Elementor

Sydney theme supports all the common modules from Elementor quite well - the modules display nicely on your site.

Moreover, there are 5 special additional modules for Elementor from aThemes, giving your site more beautiful options design. These blocks aren't so special, but they still look quite good and easy to use.

5 special additional modules for Elementor from aThemes

Customize Sydney with Customizer

There are a lot of theme options in the Customizer, from typography, color, some layout options, and so on. I believe that these customization options are enough for you to change your site on a whim. Like in this Fonts section, users are able to set up many font subsets and font weights as well as choose any font family in the drop-down menu quickly. That saves a lot of time and effort.

Review customizing fonts option in the Customizer of Sydney theme

And there are various color options, which help you easily change the color of almost every element on your site.

Review customizing color option in the Customizer of Sydney theme

But the most noticeable thing is, the interface of some sections is user-friendly and very clear.

For example, I prefer this interface because the grey background is friendly to my eyes, and the division between different options is clear.

Review the interface of Sydney's Customizer

It takes me just one day to totally know how to use this free WordPress multipurpose theme for every use.

Things like creating a gallery, uploading images, embed videos from Youtube, Vimeo, ... can be done properly and easily.

Review the gallery display of Sydney WordPress theme

And I found this blockquote looked different from the backend. Also, I don't like the black background but it's can't be changed.

Review the blockquote on the front end

The blockquote of Sydney on the backend

This free multipurpose them will not be a burden for your site's performance at all. I reviewed and tested its speed with Google PageSpeed Insights.

About SEO optimization, I used some methods to check it. And the result is not so good so I think you should install some SEO plugin to make up for it.

Actually, there are only a few articles in this documentation of Sydney theme. I think that that there should be instructions for other customization options in the Customizer. But that's fine by me because Sydney is not so difficult to use.

In the support forum, remember to choose the right section for Sydney, not Sydney Pro. Here, you can freely ask any question about Sydney free, and the moderator often responds within one or two days. But remember to read the rule of the forum first, which is stated right at the top of the forum.