It’s been a long time since parallax effect made its debut in the form of classic video games, but the trends have now makes its deeper place in the world of web designing. The parallax effect features layered images which move at different speeds, creating depth illusion as you scroll down the page. The scrolling will let reveal new content as well as works similar to one-page sites when all the content lies on a single page. We have compiled 11 of the best amazing examples of WordPress themes that use the scrolling parallax effect.
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Dynamo
- 100% Fully Responsive WordPress theme for Mac, PC, Tablet and Mobile Devices
- Fully customizable with a vast amount of color options available
- eCommerce Ready
- Many Font choices
- Translation ready
- Full width and boxed layouts
- Choose from a blog, preset or widget-driven homepage layout
- Sidebar layout options
- Super-powerful slider
- Social icons included
- WordPress 3.5 fully tested
- Great SEO base built-in
- Editor styles built in – safer alternative to shortcodes
- Pre-configured homepage layout
- 10 Page templates
- Obox Custom Widgets
- Layered PSD files included
- Advanced theme options panel
- Custom Widgets
Mercurial
- One page with parallax effect
- Liquid smooth scrolling
- Fully responsive
- Retina display ready
- Custom color/background on every front page section and on all the pages.
- Shortcode based (create front page sections / pages easy using shortcodes)
- 17 awesome shortcodes (columns, buttons, alerts, toggles, tabs, text types – for typographic effects, smart padding – for smart spacing, sliders, info columns, team, pricing tables, skill bars, portfolios, clients logos, social icons, twitter feed and contact form)
- Full Localisation Support (contains .po/.mo files)
- Post Format Support (Gallery, Standard, Video)
- Extensive Documentation
KULA
- ‘One-Page’ theme
- Fully Responsive HTML5/CSS3 WordPress theme
- Quality assortment of Google Web Fonts
- Retina Ready (Looks stunning on Retina devices)
- jQuery enhanced
- Homepage Sorter – Layout the Homepage anyway you want, with pre-defined elements
- Blog Sidebar / Pages Sidebar
- Lots of Shortcodes (Pricing Tables, Buttons & Alerts, Video, Accordions, Toggles & Tabs & more)
- Filterable Portfolio
- FlexSlider
- Flickr Widget
- Add Images & Video (Vimeo, YouTube etc…)
- Quote/Testimonial rotator
- Demo XML file included
- Beautiful Icon Set by ‘Font Awesome’
- Tested on Multiple Devices
- Documentation included
- Translation Ready (.po/.mo files included)
- Fast Performance
Impress
- Responsive
- Advanced theme options panel
- Lots of shortcodes
- Fully localized
- Single Page
- Parallax effect
- Sticky Navigation
- HTML5 /CSS3
- jQuery-powered Contact form
- Sample data included
Pulsar
- Fully Responsive
- Five Different Parallax Sections To Choose
- Custom Sections Builder
- Fullscreen Homepage
- About Section
- Team Section
- Services Section
- News Section
- Contact Section
- Working Contact Form
- Google Analytics Support
- Easy to use settings to get you up and running quickly
- Custom logo upload
- Custom loader upload
- Custom Menu
- Featured image support
- HTML5 & CSS3
Dreamer
- Fully Responsive
- FullScreen HTML5 Video Background Support
- Fullscreen Homepage Slideshow
- Parallax Effect
- Team Section
- Skills Section
- About Us Section
- Testimonials Section
- Services Section
- Filterable Portfolio
- News / Blog Section
- Customized Twitter Feed
- Contact Section
- Fully Working Contact Form (jQuery, PHP)
- More Than 20 Social Media Icons
- More Than 1000 Web Icons
- Responsive Video Support
- HTML5 & CSS3
Status
- Theme can be used without scroll effect
- Advanced theme admin panel
- Modular homepage – Layout sections + Layout Shortcodes
- Responsive layout
- Unlimited color schemes – using colorpickers
- Font selector/custom typography – 52 fonts available (web-safe fonts and Google webfonts)
- Full width jQuery slider (Flex slider)
- Custom posts: Layout, Services, Portfolio, Clients, Pricing tables
- Unique Mosaic section for Blog and/or Portfolio posts
- 7 Posts formats: standard, video, audio, gallery, image, link, quote
- Custom archive post
- Video ready – custom metaboxes
- Logo and favicon upload
- Social networks section
- Dropdown menu (custom menus are possible)
- Author template
- Translation ready
- WordPress 3.5 + ready
- Smooth tabless design
Pen and Paper
- Gorgeous black and white style
- Scrolling single page, with ability to add static pages
- Built with HTML5 and CSS3
- Fully responsive
- Based on slightly modified Skeleton boilerplate and 960px grid
- Google fonts
- Translation ready, both front end and wp-admin (.po file included)
- Widgets ready blog sidebar
- WP3 menu support (please note that dropdown menu is not supported)
- Basic shortcodes
- 220 Icons with Font Awesome
- PSD included
- Integrated Flexslider
- Portfolio (only one available) with a slideshow (possible to autoplay), and a Quicksand category filtering (can be turned off)
- Styled Google map with animated marker
- Parallax scrolling effect
- Custom posts types
- Options page
- Comes with importable demo content so you can easily set your theme as shown in the demo
- Step-by-step guide inside documentation
Surreal
- Fully responsive web design for all devices
- Parallax scrolling
- Work with YouTube (YouTube only). Copy/Paste a YouTube URL and the video will automatically plays full screen – lots of options
- Isotope masonry portfolio with prettyphoto lightbox
- Advanced CSS3 animations
- Google Web Fonts
- Prefix Free CSS (no more webkit or moz)
- Fully working AJAX/PHP contact form
- Flickr feed
- Compatible on all major modern browsers
- Well documented
- Full layered PSD Files
Tokyo
- Theme options panel
- Unlimited styles
- Custom layouts
- Custom backgrounds
- Customizable header
- Textures and icons
- Powerful shortcodes
- Contact form builder
- Easy translation
- Custom menu
- Widget-ready
- Unlimited sidebars
- Custom widgets
- Google analytics
- Responsive
- SEO-optimized
- Child theme support
- Detailed user manual
- Dedicated support
907
- One Page Responsive WP Theme
- Front Ajaxed Blog Pagination
- Premium Sliders Included
- Translation Ready (includes .po/.mo files)
- WPML Supported & qTranslate Supported
- 640+ Google Font Options Through Options Panel With Fallback
- Ajax Contact Form with Shortcode Insert
- Header Options
- Great Theme Options Panel with Lots of Options
- Unlimited Parallax and Page Sections
- 5 Custom Post Types
- Posts Support Slider/Videos as Featured
- Sample Data Included
- 2 level sub nav
- 5 Custom Widgets
- Filterable Portfolio(supports slides/videos within prettyPhoto) with 3-4 column toggle
- Shortcodes + Generator
- Threaded Comments
- Sticky Nav on Full Screen Slider & Full Screen Parallax