Lucid is a highly customizable, Search Engine Optimized WordPress Theme that can be used as a business site, fully featured blog, or portfolio. It is built on the excellent Thematic Framework, and has many additional features and styles added.

Lucid comes equipped with 18 skins and 2 choices of jQuery Featured Content Sliders which can be controlled through the extensive Control Panel (6 Admin Pages), as well as 5 Portfolio Styles, 13 Widget-Ready Areas, 9 Customizable Widgets, and over 20 Handy Shortcodes.

You’ll find many options in the WordPress administrative area to help configure and customize the theme.

Lucid Features:

  • Valid XHTML
  • Tableless Design
  • jQuery Enhanced
  • 13 Widget-Ready Areas

2 jQuery Featured Content Sliders

  • Choose from the Fading Slider or the Coin Slider
  • Automatically generate slides from a specific post category
  • Or create custom slides
  • Choose text position for each slide
  • Configure transition duration and style
  • Choose a light or dark background

18 Skins

  • Easily switch skins using the control panel
  • Customize your site further with easily activated custom CSS

Custom Post Enhancements

  • Customize your SEO meta keywords, description, and title tag on each post
  • Customize slides right from the post page (or use the Slide Manager to create custom slides)
  • Visually select primary media image for each post, or specify a YouTube or Vimeo video

Extensive Control Panel

  • A myriad of blog & post customizations
  • Configure Social Media Feeds
  • Manage Slider with Drag and Drop Ease
  • And much more

Easy Portfolios

Create Portfolios quickly and easily using the portfolio shortcode.

  • 5 Sizes (Small, Medium, Large, Square, Thumb – with and without sidebars)
  • Turn Excerpts On or Off
  • Select Posts by Category or Tag
  • Select Posts by Author
  • Easily Configurable Pagination

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

  • Structured for SEO
  • Leverages the optimization of the Thematic Framework
  • Per-post SEO settings

Useful Shortcodes

Lucid provides over 20 useful shortcodes to make your life easier.

  • Contact Form
  • Portfolio
  • Recent Posts
  • Posts by Category
  • Related Content
  • Post Gallery
  • Simple Lists
  • Easy Links
  • Video Embedding
  • Columns
  • TimThumb
  • Flickr Feed
  • Vimeo Feed
  • YouTube Feed
  • Twitter Feed

Social Media Feeds

Import feeds from your favorite Social Media Networks.

  • Twitter
  • Flickr
  • YouTube
  • Vimeo

Cufon Font Replacement

  • Enhance your site with the beautiful PT Sans font
  • Degrades Gracefully when JavaScript is turned off
  • Easy to disable if unwanted

Superfish Dropdown Menus

  • Unlimited levels
  • Organize Navigation Menu through WordPress 3 Menu System
  • Degrades gracefully when JavaScript is turned off

TimThumb & Colorbox Lightbox

  • Quickly and easily create Post Lightbox Galleries
  • Simple Portfolio Shortcodes in 5 sizes
  • Automatic Imported Flickr Slideshow
  • Post Galleries automatically generate lightbox slideshows

Thematic Framework

  • Lucid is built on the excellent Thematic Framework
  • 13 Widget-Ready Areas