The7 theme review: a “powerful” theme on ThemeForest

The7 is a multipurpose theme sold on ThemeForest . With its high customizability and rich features, The7 is capable of being suitable for many types of websites.

Today we’re going to take a look at The7’s most powerful features to see if it’s right for your upcoming project. I will also show you how to install The7 like the demo site.

One point worth mentioning:

Theme The 7 is currently deeply discounted. As you can see below the theme price is now only $39. So great for a theme with so many powerful features like The7!

First, let’s see who is behind the success of The7

Who Developed The7

Dream Theme is the web design team behind The7. This is a group of WordPress theme developers and designers based in Ukraine.

Up to now, the group has 24 items sold on EnvatoMarket with nearly 80,000 sales.The7 is the group’s main product with nearly 40,000 sales. These numbers prove that the group is very successful.

So you can rest assured to buy the theme here. Make sure you always get the latest updates. And don’t worry the theme will disappear from ThemeForest like some other new themes. ​

Still need to see more of the development team’s background? You can see more of the team’s portfolio here .

Outstanding features of The7

The7 packs a lot of powerful features to meet most of your website creation needs. 

So what are the expensive features of The7. Let’s explore them together below:​

Built-in Visual Composer and Ultimate Addons

The7 is optimized for 2 famous page builder plugins: Visual Composer and Ultimate Addons . Not only that, The7 also extends the functionality of two plugins by adding a lot of other convenient shortcodes.

These powerful tools make it easy to build beautiful and complex page layouts. Nearly any layout can be built with The7. The only limit is your creativity.

However, this also makes it difficult for you to switch themes, so you need to keep this point in mind when deciding to use The7.

Unlimited theme customization

The7 brags about its huge number of theme options. Exactly up to 750 different options.

Indeed The7 allows you to customize every little aspect of your website. Now you have a powerful tool to design the website you’ve always dreamed of.

Certainly, the large number of theme options will also confuse you when you first use it. But if you’re willing to spend some time reading the documentation  , theme mastering shouldn’t be too difficult. 

In addition, The 7 also provides a tool called Design Wizard. It helps you quickly design the website you want. Your task is just to choose the layout, upload the logo, choose the color scheme and font you like.

26 Dummy Website pre-built.

Building a website from scratch can take time. And bored you if you are not a technical person. 

No need to worry. ​

The7 comes with 26 pre-built websites. It has demo websites in many different areas. So you can easily find a demo site suitable for your niche. 

What is your remaining mission? 

Install demo site. It’s extremely simple. I will guide you to do that below. 

Next you customize the demo page to suit your needs and personal style. It’s done. 

Comes with 6 worthwhile plugins

Here are the most attractive points of The7:

The7 comes bundled with 6 paid plugins that are worth it. These include: Visual Composer page builder, Ultimate Addons , Slider Revolution , Layer Slider , Go Pricing Tables and ConvertPlug.

Thus, you have in hand the web building kit with the most economical cost of only $39. However, I also note that you only install the plugins you need to ensure the best website speed. 

Besides, The7 is fully compatible with popular plugins like Woocomerce, WPML, Yoast SEO, W3 Total Cache.

The7 installation instructions are similar to the demo page

First, you need to download the plugin from the ThemeForest site. When extracting you will get the files and folders below:

Then you install the theme by uploading the theme file named dt-the7-vxxxzip. Difficulty installing theme? See  instructions on how to install your theme.

Or you can refer to the Quick Start Guide. This file is located in the User Guide folder.

The7 also provides you Child Theme. You should install this ChildTheme after installing the main Theme​. So if you have theme customization, don’t be afraid to lose it when updating the theme. 

Note : If you are getting the upload size limit error, read this article to see how to fix it.

Immediately after the theme is activated, The7 suggests you to install some plugins as follows:

Because The7 is built to work best with Visual Composer. So you should install 2 plugins Visual Composer and Ultimate Addons. The remaining plugins depend on the needs of the website that you consider to be installed or not.

Note : As I said, you should only install the plugin you really need. This helps your website get the best performance.

Now let’s try to install a website like the Market Agency demo site. To import the demo site, make sure you install and activate the The7 Demo Content plugin.

Once this plugin is activated, you go to Tools -> The7 Demo Content . Scroll down to the Marketing Agency Demo section. Select the options below. And click the Import button.

Note : As of the time of this article, The7 demo import function doesn’t work well on PHP 7. So if your website is running on PHP 7 and get import failed error, switch to low PHP version and retry.

Maybe the bug will be fixed in the next updates. So you should still update PHP to the latest version. If there is an error then move to a lower version. 

How to change the PHP version you can refer to this article or ask the hosting party to help you.

The Market Agency demo site uses Slider Revolution. So you need to install this plugin. To import an existing slider, click on the link interface if you are on the The7 Demo content screen.

Next, click on Import slider.

Popup appears asking you to select the file to import. You choose the file the7-marketsign-agency.zip in Demo ContentMarketing AgencySlider Revolution . Click import Slider.

Set up Google Fonts, Icon fonts Settings, and Visual Composer Settings

Also in the Demo ContentMarketing Agency folder, you will see 3 snapshots for Google Fonts, Icon Fonts and Visual Composer Settings. You follow the instructions.

As for the Icon Fonts section, The7 uses two more icomoon font sets: icomoon-feather-24×24 and icomoon-free-social-contact-16×16. You can go here and here .

At this point, we have installed an available demo page of The7.

Below I want to give you the speed test results after installing the Market Agency demo site. The results are for reference only. Results may vary for your environment. 

Epilogue

The7 is a multifunctional theme with powerful customization capabilities. It’s hard to find a website feature that The7 doesn’t support.

Besides, The7 also packs many paid plugins that are very popular today. Buying The7 saves you a lot of money if you love the included plugins. 

For the first time, you may be overwhelmed with The7’s endless options.

But the development team has created very detailed documentation. So make sure you don’t have much trouble getting used to and making full use of The7’s power.

If you are interested in The7 you can buy directly at ThemeForest . And don’t risk using themes from unknown sources. 

Trust me. The7 will bring your website more than the money you spend.

And now it’s your turn to share your views on this theme in the comments section below.