Sparkling WordPress Theme
Sparkling is a clean minimal and responsive WordPress theme well suited for travel, health, business, finance, portfolio, design, art, photography, personal, ecommerce and any other creative websites and blogs. Developed using Bootstrap 3 that makes it mobile and tablets friendly. Theme comes with full-screen slider, social icon integration, author bio, popular posts widget and improved category widget. Sparkling incorporates latest web standards such as HTML5 and CSS3 and is SEO friendly thanks to its clean structure and codebase. It has dozens of Theme Options based on WordPress Customizer to change theme layout, colors, fonts, slider settings and much more. Theme is also translation and multilingual ready, compatible with WPML and is available in Spanish, French, Dutch, Polish, Russian, German, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese (Portugal), Persian (Iranian language), Romanian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Czech, Ukrainian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Indonesian, Estonian, Spanish (Argentina), Hungarian and Italian. Sparkling is a free WordPress theme with premium functionality and design. Theme is ecommerce ready thanks to its WooCommerce integration. Now theme is optimized to work with bbPress, Contact Form 7, Jetpack, WooCommerce and other popular free and premium plugins. Lately we introduced a sticky/fixed navigation that you can enable or disable via WordPress Customizer.
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Usage of Sparkling over time
May 2023 — July 2024Between May 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites using this theme went from 3 098 to 1 957 — down 1 141 (-36.8%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 1 957 | -107 |
| June 2024 | 2 064 | -29 |
| May 2024 | 2 093 | +3 |
| April 2024 | 2 090 | -23 |
| March 2024 | 2 113 | -166 |
| February 2024 | 2 279 | -32 |
| January 2024 | 2 311 | -308 |
| December 2023 | 2 619 | -118 |
| November 2023 | 2 737 | -16 |
| October 2023 | 2 753 | -79 |
| September 2023 | 2 832 | -147 |
| August 2023 | 2 979 | -76 |
| July 2023 | 3 055 | -30 |
| June 2023 | 3 085 | -13 |
| May 2023 | 3 098 | — |
Plugins used alongside Sparkling
Detected most often on sites that run this theme. Check compatibility before installing anything new.
| # | Plugin |
|---|---|
| 1 | Contact-form-7 |
| 2 | Jetpack |
| 3 | Add-to-any |
| 4 | Google-analyticator |
| 5 | Easy-bootstrap-shortcodes |
| 6 | Captcha |
| 7 | Contact-form-plugin |
| 8 | All-in-one-seo-pack |
| 9 | Gravityforms |
| 10 | Cookie-notice |
| 11 | Bbpress |
| 12 | Akismet |
| 13 | Wp-polls |
| 14 | Feedburner-form |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Digg-digg |
| 17 | Commentluv |
| 18 | Instagram-feed |
| 19 | Simple-share-buttons-adder |
| 20 | Wp-pagenavi |
Sites built with Sparkling
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