Aqum | Contemporary Magazine WordPress Theme Overview
Aqum is a news and magazine layout assembled in the WPBakery builder, with the vendor’s own grid controls on top and attention paid to how columns collapse on small screens. Pages, articles and custom post types share the editing surface.
The theme options panel is unusual in being built on Advanced Custom Fields, and it reaches further than most: topbar, logo, menus, colours, footer, framing and per page sidebars, with the headings and structure of the 404, search and archive templates editable in the same place.
Presentation runs to a custom slider with SVG bullets, fullscreen animated navigation, a sticky navbar, animated thumbnails, light and dark modes and video background page headers, from a seller trading as drection.
Key Features of Aqum | Contemporary Magazine WordPress Theme
- WPBakery editing across pages, articles and custom post types
- A custom slider with SVG bullets and several transition effects
- Fullscreen animated navigation with a hamburger control
- A sticky navigation bar that reacts to scrolling
- Light and dark display modes
- Theme options built on Advanced Custom Fields, covering topbar, logo, menus, colours and footer
- Per page sidebar and heading control, including the 404, search and archive templates
- Several article styles with animated thumbnails and micro transitions
- Video background page headers and lightbox galleries
- A translation ready .pot file, Google Fonts and retina ready icons
Who Aqum | Contemporary Magazine WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
The layout suits a Canadian digital magazine covering entertainment, culture, travel or general news, where an editor restyles section fronts and interior templates without a developer. Control over archive and search headings is genuinely useful on a site with many categories.
It is a poor match for an owner committed to the block editor, since the record declares the theme unoptimised and content lives in builder shortcodes. A single author posting occasionally will not use most of the panel.
Important Notes About Aqum | Contemporary Magazine WordPress Theme
No changelog is published anywhere in the listing, the packaged style.css reads 1.0.0, and the files were last refreshed in March 2024 while the declared ceiling stops at WordPress 6.2.x. The vendor states updates are issued regularly, so the gap is documentary rather than evident abandonment, but the version string dates nothing and the release date is the figure to test. Updates are manual by the vendor’s instruction: replace the theme folder from a fresh download. The marketplace record and the feature list also disagree about the underlying CSS framework, naming Bootstrap 5 and Bootstrap 4 respectively.
Advanced Custom Fields carries the entire options panel yet appears nowhere in the declared record, so configuration depends on a third party plugin the marketplace does not list, and WPBakery stores page content as shortcodes. The documentation address is plain http. On subject matter: Canadian defamation law offers no public figure defence of the American kind, a publisher can be answerable for material in comments it moderates, and gossip or news coverage needs a moderation policy, a corrections process and a named contact. AppiAppi gives no legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
AppiAppi installs the theme and builder, imports the vendor layout as a starting point and then rebuilds the front page sections in WPBakery using the customer’s own categories, slider content and colour scheme. The options panel is configured section by section, including the archive, search and 404 templates that most builds leave untouched.
Category and tag archives, single article typography, the dark pairing, author profiles, related articles and pagination are set, advertising positions are prepared as widget areas, and feeds, structured data and sharing are checked. Maintenance, release checks, and AI-assisted SEO and editorial support continue afterwards at the level the customer’s subscription covers.
Original design by drection. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source