Templates Review Franklin Wordpress Crowdfunding Theme

Themes Review WordPress Miscellaneous Franklin Wordpress Crowdfunding Theme

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Now with community crowdfunding

Version 1.1 features a brand new community campaigns functionality so you can set up a community-oriented crowdfunding website ala Kickstarter or Indiegogo.

About Franklin

Franklin is a Wordpress crowdfunding theme, lovingly crafted from the ground up to be 100% responsive, elegant and bloat-free.

Built on top of Easy Digital Downloads and Crowdfunding by Astoundify, Franklin gives you the ability to crowdfund your latest project in style. Franklin is designed to work both for single-campaign websites and community oriented crowdfunding websites.

Note: Franklin requires Easy Digital Downloads and Crowdfunding by Astoundify for its crowdfunding features.

Features

• Supports Crowdfunding by Astoundify and Easy Digital Downloads
• Single campaign OR community campaigns
• 100% responsive design, built with a mobile-first approach
• Crisp retina graphics
• Unlimited colours
• 6 preset colour palettes
• 8 optional textures, and the ability to load your own
• 5 custom widgets: Campaign Updates, Campaign Video, Campaign Pledge Levels, Campaign Backers, Sofa Posts
• Widgetized campaign page
• Full-featured blog, with support for every post format: video, gallery, image, audio, aside, status, chat, link, quote
• Allow anonymous backers
• Contact page template
• Supports Ninja Forms
• Demo content included
• Multilingual ready (.mo/.po files included)

Note: Photos used in the demo site are not included.

Anything missing

If Franklin is missing that one killer feature you just can’t live without, tell us! If there’s something stopping you from choosing Franklin, we would love to know so that we can improve the theme.

Supported plugins

• Easy Digital Downloads – https://easydigitaldownloads.com/
• Crowdfunding by Astoundify – http://wordpress.org/plugins/appthemer-crowdfunding/
• Ninja Forms – http://wpninjas.com/ninja-forms/

Credits

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrikneckman/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/rapfish/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallery-art/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/

Changelog

1.2?July 6, 2013

• Added a website stats widget.
• Added extra PSD file.
• Fixed a bug in the Sofa Posts widget.

1.1?July 4, 2013

• Community campaigns functionality added!
• New page templates: Campaigns homepage, Single campaign page, Featured campaigns page
• Improved navigation styling
• IE8 bugs fixed
• Improved customizer preview
• Added Spanish translation, courtesy of SoyJimmy
• Expanded documentation

1.0?June 26, 2013

• Initial release