Benchmark - Multipurpose Landing Page WordPress Theme

Benchmark is a one page wordpress theme for creating leadpages, landing page templates and single page application. The theme comes with free updates and 6 months of free support.

Whether you are in an existing business or have just launched a startup, promote your products and capture lead using this single page wordpress theme. With Benchmark, you can create best landing pages, leadpages, and single page application without much effort.

The theme encompasses conversion centered landing page design, backed with best SEO practices and well optimized code. Benchmark comes with built in support for plugins like contact form 7, Woo Commerce, siteorigin page builder and many more. Not to mention, the theme comes with useful features like parallax backgrounds, megamenu, page builder, shortcodes, responsive menu, widgets and much more.

With fast loading time, ease of use, powerful theme features and great support; the theme is envisioned to provide you a long term stable website for your existing or upcoming landing page design project. Check below key highlights of Benchmark theme.

Full feature list

Responsive Design

• Design based on Google’s Material Design guidelines
• Boxed / Stretched layout
• Dynamic layout width (choose between 800px to 2000px)
• 13 built in color schemes
• Global sidebar placement as left, right or none

Single page application

• 8 pre built hero layouts for SiteOrigin Page Builder
• Exclusive Custom Menus per page (i.e. you can create unlimited landing page templates on same site)
• Exclusive Color Schemes per page
• Show/hide menus or top navbar per page (Useful for creating click through landing page template)
• Unlimited contact forms via Contact Form 7 plugin. (Sample form data included with theme)
• Unlimited Parallax Backgrounds (Create parallax website template per page)
• Fullscreen hero layouts

e commerce WordPress Shop

• Built in integration and style support for WooCommerce Plugin (Create an e commerce site using this plugin) — See Shop
• Ajax cart menu drop down and cart items counter
• Material Design style product cards
• Social sharing per product
• Product gallery with slider, swipe and zoom support on single product pages — See Example
• Choose shop columns as 2, 3 or 4 via Theme Options
• Built in style support and integration for Yith Wishlist and Quick view plugin
• Image resize on-the-fly for product archives and single product. (No need of regenerating thumbnails).

Page features

• Drag and drop page builder using siteorigin page builder plugin
• Custom page options panel per page
• Sidebar placement as left, right or none per page
• Custom shortcodes plugin with inline documentation in TinyMCE
• 30+ useful shortcodes (Including grids, slider, tabs, accordion, parallax, buttons, etc.) — See all components

Header features

• 2 menu layout styles (logo + menu, or logo + menu + icons)
• Sticky navbar (can be disabled from theme options)
• Custom logo uploader (show logo as text or image)
• Material Design style off canvas responsive menu
• Simple and easy-to-use megamenu using class names (Supports up to 5 columns)

Theme Options

• Powerful, flexible and easy to use theme options panel (powered by Redux Framework)
• Plugin can be deactivated by exporting all settings and saving them as .json file. (The theme will use this file for settings).
• Options can be easily extended in child theme

WordPress Blog

• 3 global archive styles (gird, list and classic) — See Blog
• Masonry enabled grid archives (masonry can be disabled)
• Grid columns supported as 2, 3 and 4 columns
• Post meta items can be configured and rearranged via Theme Options
• 4 built in page templates for blog and portfolio styles — See Portfolio
• Image resize on-the-fly using Aqua Resizer. Per template resizing also available via page options.

Single post

• Sidebar enabled or Full width posts. — See Example
• Automated featured images, author bio, related posts and post navigation
• Video and gallery post formats — See Example
• Social sharing buttons per post (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, vKontakte, email, print, reddit)
• Inline widget areas before and after main content

Widget areas

• 1 Primary widget area (shown before content+sidebar, supports 1 to 6 columns)
• 2 inline widget areas before and after main content (supports 1 to 4 columns)
• 1 Sidebar widget area
• 2 secondary widget areas before footer (supports 1 to 6 columns)

SEO

• Optimized for SEO and microdata
• Semantic and heirarchical markup
• Dynamic heading tags for site title/logo
• Internal links on single posts via related posts

Other theme features

• jQuery slideshow using owl carousel
• Magnific popup lightbox
• Fontawesome 4.6+ icon library included
• Material design icon library included (890+ icons)
• Simple Line Icons library included (160+ icons)
• Unlimited Google fonts for headings and body text
• css3 animation using animate.css
• Pricing Grids
• Member profile cards (Material Design Style)
• Social icons widget with built in brand color styles for 25+ icons
• WordPress Customizer support merged with Redux Theme Options (You can configure theme options in WordPress customizer)
• WordPress Custom background supported
• WordPress site icon (favicon) supported
• Valid HTML5 markup on theme generated data
• Supported on all modern browsers, IE 9 and above
• Pre configured Child theme included in main download
• Step-by-step documentation guide and help manual for theme installation and setup
• Filter and action hooks applied wherever possible and required
• Sample site data included in XML format
• Translation ready with sample POT file included
• Performs well in pagespeed tests. Performance can be further improved by serving resized images
• Theme developed on php 5.5.12 (compatible with php 7) and MySQL 5.6.17

Theme Support

All support is provided via comments section and email. You can post your query on item comments section or email me at xconsaugmailcom. Support requests are replied within 24 to 36 hours or earlier as possible.

Update log

== June 06, 2018 - v1.6.0 ==
* Added support for latest Material Design Icons Library
    - Now you can use icons as <i class="icon mdi">icon_name</i>
    - You can also use as <i class="material-icons">icon_name</i>
    - Full icon list at: https://material.io/resources/icons/
* Updated twitter share code as per latest API
* Ensured compatibility with WooCommerce 4.2.x
* Ensured compatibility with WordPress 5.4.x

== Dec 23, 2018 - v1.5.7 ==
* Ensured compatibility with WooCommerce 3.5.x
* Ensured compatibility with WordPress 5.0.x and Gutenberg editor

== June 14, 2018 - v1.5.6 ==
* Ensured and fixed compatibility with WooCommerce 3.4.x

== Feb 11, 2018 - v1.5.5 ==
* Fixed: Category thumbnails not showing in shop page

= Feb 09, 2018 / v1.5.4 =
* Fixed cart table styling for grouped products
* Updated minimum required version for SS WooCommerce Ajax Filters plugin to 1.5.3

= Feb 08, 2018 / v1.5.3 =
* Tested and ensured compatibility with WooCommerce 3.3.x
* Fixed compatibility with latest versions of YITH Wishlist and Quick View Plugin

= Oct 24, 2017 / v1.5.2 =
* Fixed: Deprecated WooCommerce functions in cart contents
* Fixed: Define YITH variables in JS when wishlist plugin not active

= Oct 04, 2017 / v1.5.1 =
* Updated jQuery viewport checker to fix disappearing elements

= July 19, 2017 / v1.5.0 =
* Fixed php notice in SS WooCommerce Product COllection widget
* Improved form field styling (visibility) for single posts comment form

= June 21, 2017 / v1.4.0 =
* Added 'Plain Text' widget for adding HTML markup and text without wpautop
* Added JSON export of siteorigin page layouts. (You can use import/export feature of SiteOrigin)
* Updated pre built layouts with the new text widget

= Apr 06, 2017 / v1.3.0 =
* Added compatibility for WooCommerce 3.0
* Added slider, zoom and swipe support for WooCommerce product gallery thumbnails
* Updated Fontawesome icons to v4.7.0
* Updated TGM plugin activation class

= Aug 20, 2016 / v1.2.0 =
* Fixed navigation menu hover effect for iPad and tablets

= July 18, 2016 / v1.1.0 =
* Updated Aqua resizer and JS plugins to latest versions in Bonanza Shortcodes Plugin
* Updated TGM plugin activation class to v2.6.1
* Fixed social sharing bug in which http appears twice
* Fixed number of related posts in WooCommerce. (Now shows same as loop shop columns)
* Minor style improvements and fixes for WooCommerce

= Jun 20, 2016 / v1.0.8 =
* Added styles for WooCommerce my account tab and average rating widget

= Jun 18, 2016 / v1.0.7 =
* Added compatibility with WooCommerce 2.6+
* Removed dummy links from pre made templates
* Updated fontawesome library to v4.6.3

Full update log available inside the main download.

Credits

• jQuery
• SiteOrigin Panels
• TGM Plugin Activation
• Owl Carousel
• Magnific Popup
• Material Design Icons
• Material Design Guidelines
• Fontawesome
• Simple Line Icons
• jQuery Easing
• jQuery Viewport Checker
• Animate CSS

Important: Images shown on live demo are not included with the download. They are only for demonstration purpose.

Thank you for browsing the theme. If you have any questions related to theme, or have a general query; feel free to email me through my profile page message box. I would be glad to respond. Thanks once again.