Introducing Calcio: The February 2018 Joomla template
It’s February 2018. A momentous month for sports enthusiasts to have a flying start with their sports news, magazine, football club, and team sites. Yes, you guessed right. Our February 2018 Joomla template is all about sports, exclusively for soccer or football. Don’t be surprised yet as most of the surprises are in the features and functionalities. Despite having some other sports templates in our offering, we are coming up with “Calcio” to give you the best ever sports information/news Joomla template.
The complete soccer news/magazine, club, team and relevant website solution with full of amazing features and stunning design aesthetics.
Calcio is a state of the art Joomla sports template that fits into any size of soccer teams, organizations, leagues, tournaments, newspapers, magazines etc. With cool features and powerful functionalities, you have everything for your visitors to present sports in the way they want.
Let's watch the short video overview of Calcio.
Calcio core features
Calcio offers a wide range of features and superb functionalities for you to build a complete soccer website. It is powered by SP Page Builder Pro ($49 value) and SP Soccer component that are given for free inside the package. With Calcio in hand, you have everything you need to build an influential soccer news/magazine or related website. Now let's check some of the awesome features of Calcio.
- 5 homepage layouts, fully responsive
- SP Soccer component
- Tournament, match, player and other details
- SP Page Builder Pro, Helix3 framework
- Full-width slideshow addon
- Upcoming match, social media addons
- Tabbed articles, recent results, poll modules
- News & blogs, AcyMailing newsletter
- Translation & RTL ready, Retina ready
- Dedicated support
A complete package
Figure: Calcio is an all-in-one soccer template.
From displaying upcoming soccer matches to showing top players’ profiles, you can do all necessary things on a soccer-centric site built with Calcio. Show recent match results, tournament details, share everything that happens in the soccer world on your Calcio powered website. It's an all-in-one soccer template to build your soccer news, team, football club and any relevant site. Explore what more a Joomla template can do.
5 homepage layouts
Figure: 5 homepage layouts of Calcio.
Calcio offers 5 different home layouts (Default, Creative, Classic, Magazine, Dark) and 4 color presets for you to choose from. Each of these home variations is unique with noticeable characteristics. They are different in look but when it comes to the functionalities, 5 of them have all necessary ones.
Here are the brief descriptions of all these 5 layouts.
- Default - A dedicated soccer news layout having a hero slider, stories, and ads.
- Creative - Stunning sliders with LIVE video contents and latest news/blogs.
- Classic - A countdown timer on the top. Includes game results, news, and more.
- Magazine - Best for soccer magazines with all necessary features.
- Dark - The default layout with a dark and attractive color scheme.
SP Soccer component
Figure: SP Soccer powers Calcio's sports features.
Calcio gives everything you need to present a soccer website elegantly. Integrated SP Soccer component (made by JoomShaper) will help you do so. You can present the football tournaments with each required details including matches, players, teams, and many other stuff. You have also the system to add player details and display them beautifully on the site for your visitors.
Tournaments and matches
Figure: Calcio lets you display detailed information related to soccer.
Calcio lets you add detailed information related to soccer tournaments and matches on your site. You can add and display an unlimited number of soccer tournaments, fixtures, group combinations, match results, timelines and so on utilizing the power of SP Soccer component given inside the template.
Sports news
Figure: Soccer news is at the heart of Calcio.
Calcio is a news/magazine friendly Joomla template. You can display blog posts on the sliders right on the slides with Article Slider addon. You can set and manage articles from there. The Article addon, on the other hand, will display the news announcements, and other blog posts in multiple attractive layouts.
Monetize contents
Figure: Calcio has an effective monetization system.
Get paid back for your hard work. With Calcio, you can monetize your contents by showing ads on the site easily. The template has several highly visible ad areas that are very conversion friendly.
Build everything visually
Figure: Build and customize your website quickly with real-time editing capabilities.
Having built with the most powerful Joomla page composer tool SP Page Builder Pro, you can build everything right on the frontend. Building sites are much easier with this superb tool. You don’t need to write a single line of code to bring required modifications. Making changes to any content, page, sections are so easy with it.
Dedicated addons & modules
Figure: A bunch of exclusive addons & modules are used in Calcio.
There are several useful addons and modules in Calcio. With Recent Results addon, you can show recent soccer results, date of gameplay, names of teams and their logos. Results are displayed stunningly with smooth navigation buttons. There is the Poll module in Calcio that you can use to engage visitors with poll campaigns. A tabbed articles module is given to generate thumbnailed mega menu items in the navigation bar. This will let you present your news/articles more beautifully.
If you want to develop a soccer-centric site that offers all required functionalities for both the admins and visitors, then Calcio is the template you should be going for. With an elegant look and superb functionalities, you will surely be ahead of the competition once your site is built with Calcio.
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