Capture Your Stories with Mellisa - The Perfect Travel Blog Theme
Capture your stories, adventures, and insights with the Mellisa theme - a versatile companion that makes your content the focal point, whether it's travel tales, personal reflections, or technical tips. The flexible Hero section lets you feature your favorite posts - whether the latest articles, specific tags, or curated selections - creating an engaging homepage that draws readers in. The built-in modern slider adds a sleek visual element to highlight key content, while Dark Mode and customizable layouts provide your audience with an intuitive and stylish reading experience. With a focus on readability, performance, and design flexibility, Mellisa helps you craft a blog that feels authentic and professional.
Hero section types and content sources
The Hero section offers flexibility to help you highlight your key content. You can choose between a static Hero with a background image and HTML content overlay or a slider Hero to add dynamic, eye-catching visuals.
For the slider, you have full control over the content source, allowing you to choose what appears in your Hero section. You can feature content from a variety of sources to suit your needs best, including:
- Latest posts
- Featured posts
- Posts from selected tags
- Selected posts
- Selected pages
Advanced slider options
Take your Hero slider to the next level with various customization options. You can enable fade mode for smooth transitions or adjust the slide transition duration to control the speed. Enhance user interaction with features like drag-free mode, looping, and parallax effects to create a sense of depth.
The slider also supports:
- Autoplay with adjustable intervals
- Mouse wheel gestures for easier navigation
- Dot navigation for a quick overview of slides
- Previous/Next buttons for manual control
For developers, additional CSS class names can be applied to each slide for easier styling and custom control.
Light and Dark color modes
The Mellisa theme offers two color scheme modes: Light Mode and Dark Mode. You can select your preferred mode or choose the Auto option, which automatically adjusts the color scheme to match the user’s operating system settings. If the operating system doesn’t support auto-detection, the theme will default to Light Mode.
You can customize the color scheme directly from the UI or modify the CSS variables. The UI allows quick adjustments to primary and secondary colors without touching the code, while advanced users can create completely custom color schemes by editing the CSS.
Make your blog even more unique
Mellisa delivers two different ways to showcase your posts on any pages they are listed. Go for the classic speed and readability of the list view or a fancier grid. As you’d expect, post listings have just as much customization available as your front page; set spacing between items, define the number of grid columns, change widths, switch between several post separators, and set a preferred pagination style.
Additional templates
Repetitive pages can get a bit boring, so to make each part of your site unique and identifiable we’ve included three different templates for Mellisa’s post and pages, and two for tag and author pages, allowing you to give each type a sense of identity so that users know exactly where they are on your site.
Newsletter sign-ups made easy
Newsletters are a great way to stay in touch with your regular users, so an easy-to-use, unobtrusive way to sign-up for your updates is a must. Mellisa includes a fully-customizable newsletter pop-up, letting you define your own form code and then choose when it will appear; whether that’s after a time-delay, when a user scrolls a certain distance down the page, or a combination of the two.
* Plus VAT for EU customers
What's included
- ✓ Lifetime usage on unlimited domains
- ✓ 12-months access to the files and updates
- ✓ 3-months premium support
Details
- Version:
- Updated:
- Jan 15, 2025
Requirements and compatibility
- Browser:
- Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera
- Requirements:
- Publii 0.46.x and up
Lightweight for a hyper-fast load time
Speed is of the essence when you're looking for answers, so our themes use no jQuery libraries or CSS frameworks; just pure JavaScript and custom CSS for shorter load-times. You won't need to worry about FOUT or FOIT effects in your text either, as you can use a system default fonts.
Get 3 months of professional support
Getting started with a new theme on a new website can be a challenge, but our experts are here to help. Every purchase of the commercial theme includes three months of support through our dedicated ticket system, so you'll have efficient and effective assistance with any issues you run into.
Standard features *
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* The available options may vary from theme to theme but they are mostly standardized.