Crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo have enabled many entrepreneurs to introduce their ideas to the world and raise enough funds to take the next step. Those sites are not right for every crowdfunding campaign. But you don’t need to learn a whole new CMS to create your own site. Backer happens to be a theme that turns your WordPress site into an attractive crowdfunding portal. It has an elegant, Retina ready design and supports unlimited projects.
Backer puts the focus on fundraising. It is fully responsive and has minimalistic blog layouts. Revolution Slider is also included. The theme has a custom project sidebar and an attractive projects grid. You can handle front-end submissions via IgnitionDeck enterprise. Backer has various useful shortcodes. It is ready to be translated. It is coded in HTML5 and performed fairly well during our speed tests.
Backer is not the only crowdfunding theme around, but it does look decent and gets the job done for the most part. Whether you want to find technology, art, music, and charity projects, this theme has you covered.