Cindy - Accessible Local Government WordPress Theme

Hello there

Thank you for your interest in Cindy accessibility ready WordPress theme.

Are you looking for a theme to build an accessible, inclusive website for your hometown, city, village, community, local government or a politician? Do you need to share your information with the widest audience possible? And you also want to make the net a better place by making your website accessible to anyone, despite their conditions, disabilities or barriers?

Congratulation, you’ve just found your solution!

Your content is the most important asset of your website and it deserves honest, accessible and attractive display. Cindy makes your website shine while keeping your content more readable. The theme looks stunning out of the box on any device.

With built in support for advanced categories display (by adding pages to categories, color-coding categories, setting category featured image, searching within a specific category) you can section your website information effectively.

Cindy is an accessibility ready, inclusive WordPress theme ideal for municipal, local government and political websites with a modern stylish approach. Seamless and thorough integration with WordPress native drag & drop block editor (Gutenberg) makes it easier than ever to create eyecatching performant websites for your visitors.

Thank you for choosing Cindy theme by WebMan Design!

  Why “Cindy” name?

Does Cindy sound almost like Sydney to you too?

  Features

Cindy theme…
  provides the best experience for your website visitors,
  users and editors love how easy it is to work with,
  administrators and developers value its flexibility,
…and here is why:

  Accessibility & inclusivity

• Fully accessibility ready WordPress theme, passes WCAG 2.2 level AA accessibility requirements
• Helps you build a website compliant with European Accessibility Act (EAA), and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements
• Disabilities friendly, barrier-less
• Keyboard and screen reader friendly
• With proper headings structure and color contrast
• Optimized for readability
• Responsive, adapts to any device
• Localization ready, multilingual, with right-to-left (RTL) languages support
• User friendly

  Content & layout

• Mobile-first approach
• Full WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) compatibility – no need for page builders
• Simple megamenu functionality
• No more confusing post formats
• One click demo content installation (demo content website was built using WordPress native block editor (Gutenberg) – there are no page builders used)
• Useful page and post templates
• Advanced categories display supporting color-coding categories, assigning pages to categories, searching specific category and assigning a featured image to category

(Assets – such as images, video, and audio files – in theme demo website are not included within the theme download package. They are for preview purposes only. Please use your own assets.)

  Customization

• Fast real-time preview of theme options in customizer when changing colors, layout, typography and others
• Use any Google Fonts font
• Integrated directly into WordPress customizer with option pointers and partial refresh for easier and faster use

  Plugins

• Beaver Builder, Elementor page builder compatible – actually, compatible with any page builder plugin! (Theme demo content was built using WordPress native block editor, Gutenberg.)
• Compatible with form plugins, such as Gravity Forms, WPForms, Ninja Forms,…
• Theme builder plugins compatible (with help of additional free Integration for Beaver Themer or Integration for Elementor Theme Builder)
• Works with Polylang, WPML and other multilingual plugins, Loco Translate plugin compatible
• Integration with Jetpack plugin
• Full WooCommerce e-commerce plugin integration with help of free WooCommerce Theme Integration plugin
• Plugin-friendly code ensures the widest compatibility with any plugin

  Others

• Bloat-free WordPress theme with no lock-in effect!
• Easy to use
• Coded according to WordPress coding standards and requirements
• Search engine optimized (SEO), speed optimized
• Secure, semantic, flexible, extensible developer-friendly code
• Child theme ready (child theme included in the download ZIP package)
• 100% GPL licensed

  Requirements

Please make sure your hosting/server environment meets these theme requirements:

• WordPress 5.2+
• PHP 7.0+

  Updates

Obtain free automatic theme updates with Envato Market plugin.
For update changes please see the changelog.md file inside the theme folder.

  Support

In case you can’t find the answer in theme documentation, feel free to ask and search at the dedicated support center.

Tip: Check out Appearance → Welcome page for info, instructions, tips and resources.

  Who is WebMan Design?

Hi, my name is Oliver.

I’m Envato Market’s WordPress Requirements Compliant 5-stars author focusing on simplicity, beauty and ease of use in my products at WebManDesign.eu.

My specialty is building accessibility ready WordPress themes (and plugins) used by thousands of happy customers around the world. I love to see customers smile

Waking up every day to make online world more accessible and inclusive place.
Let’s make it so together!

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Thank you for your time and interest!