Rating: 1 star
Smartcat is the company that sells Athena Pro. There website is up and takes payment, but they no longer respond to customers.
All the new versions of WordPress break the jumbotron (sliders).
Please save your money and your time, avoid this broken theme!
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This theme is a nightmare. My customer had some problems with the featured image. No problem, I thought. Well, not so fast. The featured image is not used as a HTML object. That’s ok. But it’s not used as a CSS background image either, which is not so ok. It is used as a data attribute. What the f***? So, I copied the page template to my child theme. Well, it simply doesn’t work. Why? No idea! There is no documentation to speak of. At least, I can’t find any. I didn’t even try to contact the support.
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Theme is not updatet even in PRO version! It have bugs and they do nothing. Dont install it
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Haven’t been updated since decembre 2018. It was still working OK until WordPress 5.5 went out and now lots of functions are deprecated so this theme and even smartcatdesign.net seems to not exist anymore.
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I have the pro version of this theme. My installed version is 1.2.1. The one offered here for download is 1.2.3. However, it is not possible to update it from my WP. I did not receive any warning from this update, as it was before. Moreover, during previous updates, I had to completely reconfigure the theme, in particular the CSS and the Widgets which had been deleted.
On the SmartCat site, online support is non-existent.
This causes me compatibility problems, especially with Woo Commerce, which refers me
error messages.
Having spent days configuring and customizing this theme, I am very disappointed that it cannot be updated any more. I would have preferred to save my money, and use a standard WP theme that is compatible with any plugin.
Edit: From now on, the site menus are no longer displayed on the Mobile version.
The paid version of the theme is always available. It is time for WordPress to banish the theme from their catalog, and dissociated itself from these crooks.
Rating: 1 star
I like the theme but there is zero customer support and a number of glitches.
Where is the customer support??????
Rating: 5 stars
the theme is really cool.
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On our homepage you can find the Athena Theme and we have the Pro License. Currently we have the problem that the theme works but is not activated correctly. So we can’t install any updates anymore. We have already created several tickets in the support and also tried to get in contact by mail. Unfortunately we do not get an answer at all since months. Therefore we will have to change the theme now, which we think is a pity.
Greetings,
Bastian
Rating: 1 star
In the article summary page the text’s summary (of all articles) contains the HTML formatting codes when I insert a video. If smartcat suport reply, I′ll give them 5*
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I really liked this theme when I built ColoradoDogPhotography.com. I just purchased a second time to rebuild MattLitPhoto.com and now I wish I hadn’t invested money with Smartcat.
1) The menus are not working on mobile devices and this has me furious. I am not getting the help nor response to my support tickets.
2) I recall Smartcat telling me they would be adding Jumbotron feature to multiple pages and they never did this.
Pretty sure I’ll be abandoning this theme and flushing the $70 I spent.
Hey Smartcat…change my mind?!
Follow up 2/21: All attempts by me and many others to reach Smartcat have failed. I have reported this theme especially since this ghost company is still accepting payments.
UPDATE: See the thread I started. The company is defunct and yet they are still accepting payments. DO NOT SEND THEM MONEY! I have reported them to WordPress.
Ok…addition to this…Jumbotron has stopped working. ALL photo galleries have stopped working.
Any attempts to reach the company are impossible. In fact, I can not find reference to it on facebook, linkedin or any other searches.
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While at first glance it looks spectacular. I have struggled for 4 days now to remove the white space above the sliders and images on all pages.
I have also struggled to remove the black image that appears on all pages when you untick the “comments box on the quick edit.
So consequently, my home page looks a shambles with white spaces and black images. I have used so many other themes, and never had this level of exasperation. But this is one that my client likes.
Plus, I posted a support topic that has not been answered. And they never appear to be answered unless there is a bad review posted.
Sarah
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Since the first day I purchased this I had problems with it, and one thing SmartCat failed to mention is you have to pay $50 a year to keep it active.
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I’ve used this for a few client sites now, and they all love it. It’s beautiful and versatile.
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I am quite new to WordPress but in a relatively short time, I was able to make a REALLY good looking site using the Athena theme. I upgraded to the PRO version so that I could take advantage of the additional features and I am VERY happy with this theme.
I read an earlier review where someone was complaining about speed – make sure that the images you use are a reasonable size for the web (well under 1 MB) and the Jumbotron moves along nicely.
Kudos to the authors.
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I paid for the pro version and it never worked. Smartcat has not responded once to my support emails, and I am still unable to use the theme. Once installed it works fine, but once you begin to make changes like adding pictures to the jumbotron, logo, changing color of font, etc., it stops all of the widgets and also stops customizing. If I were to change something through the customize menu, it will not take effect at all. DO NOT BUY THE PRO VERSION! Use your money on a better theme. I purchased it because I liked the free version, what a mistake. A theme that doesn’t work, and developers that do not give you support.
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A brilliant theme and the support is fantastic. Will be using smart cat themes for all my sites from now.
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The theme is so elegant and clean. But free does not come with all the benefits as it is a bit hard to set it up although the developers done their part of having demo content displayed once you install the theme. Simply super.
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I am currently using this theme for my small business site. It was very straightforward to set up and customize. Looks professional and has nice layout options. One improvement I might suggest (unless I missed it). It would be nice to have a blog template that shows your first # of posts. I saw the content-blog.php template, but have not found any way to apply that template to a page. Any ideas / suggestions are appreciated! Thanks for the nice theme!
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This is really too bad, because it’s a great looking theme, has lots of customization options that you really seem to WANT in every other theme. They definitely did a great job! But here is the clincher –
Theme doesn’t work 100% in Safari. 19% of people use Safari. Big miss here.
AND
You only get support when you threaten with Paypal money back. Other than that, after you buy the pro version, don’t expect a response.
Rating: 4 stars
Slick theme and free version is excellent. Some niggles to be sure but what theme doesn’t have them.
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Great theme, good job!
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Really nice and simple to customise. Good if you want to create a professional looking site in a short time. Has very good options to change as and when needed.
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Looks great, easy to setup but very slow to manage a decent page speed.
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I’m using this theme on my website (prometheus-wow.ddns.net)
It looks really great!
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I bought the pro version because it is an outstanding deal for a very modern and elegant responsive theme with lifetime updates…that seems to be hard to find nowadays I had some plugin compatibility issues that effected the paralax but Smartcat’s support went above and beyond to help me out. Great bunch of people and a great theme.
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Really loving it so far. Thank you!
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I purchased Athena Pro and I am extremely happy with it. The website looks very beautiful and professional. Above all I am very impressed with the support I had from Smartcat. This is the very first website for me and I often found myself in doubt of what the best practices are. I emailed Smartcat many times, at times even just for doubts I had or for guidance. They always responded very promptly, with lots of advices and very clear guidance to help me all along. I can honestly say Smartcat has been amazing, always ready to be there for me. Thank you Smartcat!
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Athena is a great looking free theme. I actually download a number of themes with parallax functionality that all seemed to have too many limitations in their free version. Thanks Smartcat.
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Easy to use and did exactly what we needed it to. Had a minor problem with formatting due to one of the logos we were using which was successfully resolved by Samantha within 24 hours. I’d highly recommend this theme.
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Good theme. I try and use on my own portfolio. Everithing work good and smart.
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