Wow.

This theme lets the publisher show off in the best possible light.

First, the nitty gritty:

It has a learning curve. Personally, it took me about an hour to get the bugs worked out and get the hang of adding content. Figuring up the homepage setup (which is fairly innovative once operational) is a bit tricky, as is the slider. Better documentation will fix this.

Also, it does not seem to be very versatile in its range of uses; I would not want to use this theme to manage my online recipe blog. To really have a good looking website I had to stick fairly close to how the demo site looks, although that might be because of my novice leve of experience with WordPress in general.

When the website is loaded with content, the scrolling loses its fluidity. Not so much that the experience is ruined, but just enough to notice.

With my three criticisms addressed, let’s move to the positive part:

This theme is awesome. Bar none, the coolest one I could find after hours of searching online. It’s slick, responsive, intuitive from a user standpoint; development, after playing around for awhile, is fairly self-explanatory and easy. There’s also a handful of good plugins that fit perfectly, similar to how Apple products work together. On top of all that, it’s FREE! Bearded has a great user interface and can handle whatever I throw at it, with the added benefit of being 100% cost-free.

This is the first time I have downloaded a theme for creating WordPress websites and it might be the last; I can’t be more satisfied.