The League Theme is a simple and refreshing WordPress team theme that supports team score display, game schedule and other features specific to team games. But today we recommend this theme not because of these features, but because of its clean design, restrained functionality and excellent performance, which are rare in WordPress paid themes.

The League Theme main features

  • Import demo content with one click:Demo content can be imported with one click to display the same content and layout as the demo site!
  • Optional customized scoreboard:It is easy to enter and display game scores using a game customized scoreboard. We can customize the scoreboard to suit our own team or league by entering the desired sport or team.
  • Featured Title:Most major news and magazine sites use shorter "twisted" headlines in their Featured Content sections. The League gives you the same option of organizing featured items in the "Featured Articles" section on the home page and category pages.
  • RTL support:And support for RTL text can be built in.
  • Video/Audio ArticlesEasily replace standard featured images in posts with embedded video or audio from sites like YouTube, Vimeo and SoundCloud. With a little modification, it's also easy to support domestic video sites.
  • Retina screen support: Themes and images can be displayed more clearly on devices that support retina resolution.
  • All Google fonts can be used: You can use any of the Google Fonts to display regular text, navigation menu text, Featured Articles and Headlines, Article Titles and Headings.
  • Unlimited colors: Easily modify the main background, navigation background/text, main color, and link colors.
  • Unlimited advertising units: If we intend to place ads in the site, the theme also supports unlimited number of ad units, we can use Google Adsense or other ad affiliates to place ads.
  • Supports unlimited loading: Support for Ajax infinite loading and numeric paging
  • Support scrolling fixed sidebar: The sidebar can be fixed while the page is scrolling.
  • Advanced menu support:Supports at least 3 levels of dropdown menus and article page dropdown menus.
  • Quick Article Navigation:You can use the arrows on the left and right side of the article page to quickly view the previous and next article.

Reasons why we recommend The League theme

Simple and uncomplicated design

The theme provides a very simple UI modules, organic combination, but can bring rich visual effects, the site content well in front of the eyes of the user, to cause the user's interest in reading. When browsing for a long time, it will not bring visual fatigue to users because of too many interface elements.

superior performance

The size of all CSS in the theme is less than 150K, and after Gzip compression, it will be further reduced to less than 50K, which can certainly reduce the CSS download and rendering time, and is very useful for theImprove PageSpeed ratingsIt will help a lot. After our testing, the theme's homepage scored 85 out of 100 on PageSpeed PC with no other optimizations.

Article Grid Support

The biggest difference between the theme and other simple blog theme is that the theme supports some simple post grid layout (as shown in the above figure), although the style changes are not much, but in terms of user experience, has been able to bring a great improvement.

The League Needs Improvement

  1. Multi-language support is not perfect, the style is not optimized for Chinese language, and the paragraph spacing looks a bit crowded when using Chinese language.
  2. The size of the images in the article list is not displayed in a uniform way, and it does not deal with the situation when the images are too small, when the images are too small, the image part will leave more blank space, making the page layout look messy.

If you're ready to specialize in content, you might want to consider The League Theme , which supports traditional blog layouts and also has some advanced post grid modules, which can also greatly enhance the user experience compared to ordinary blog themes; with good performance, it allows users to open the site quickly.