Thank you for purchasing our theme. We are happy that you are one of our customers, and we assure you will not be disappointed. We do our best to produce top-notch themes with great functionality, premium designs, and clear code.
With ThemeForest regular license, you are licensed to use this theme to create one single End Product (the final website customized with your content) for yourself or one client.
What is allowed with the single regular license:
What is not allowed:
For more information regarding license regulations and policies, see the links below:
IMPORTANT! We do not include theme-related .FIG
files into the theme package, because it significantly increases the theme archive size. If you need those files, feel free to submit a support request.
All the clipart images included in this theme are supplied with a copyright sign on them. The original images belong to their owners and are not available for download with this theme. They can be purchased separately directly from these owners.
Nevertheless, you can request the clipart-related image IDs/references and .FIG files by contacting our support department.
The theme package contains several bundled plugins. Please click here to view the list of plugins that come included in the theme.
If a new version of a bundled plugin is available, it will be included in the next theme release. You can also request it by submitting a support ticket.
Bundled plugins are fully functional without the activation using a registration license key. In case you are willing to receive automatic updates and support from the plugin team, you will need to purchase the plugin separately. Only the direct buyers get the plugin license key.
To receive technical support assistance, you need to have a valid purchase code. To get the code, please navigate to your ThemeForest "Downloads" page and click on the theme download link. Check this guide for more details.
PLEASE NOTE! As authors of this theme, we do provide support only for the theme-related features.
We do not provide support for additional customization, 3rd party plugins integration, or any other compatibility issues that might arise. Nevertheless, there is an exception that is only applied to the plugin(s) we have developed and integrated ourselves.
If you have any questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, feel free to contact us. We will respond as soon as possible (within 24 – 48 hours, usually faster). We are open from 10 am to 7 pm (CET), from Monday to Friday.
Please be aware that some questions are posted on our website. So, before submitting a new ticket, please try searching our website for an answer as well as checking our Video Tutorials and Articles. Our website has its inner search and also has been indexed by Google, so if you can not find your answer with our website search, it is worth typing it into Google too. Please make sure you have looked at all the available resources before submitting a support request.
Unfortunately, we do not provide support for third-party extensions. Please contact the author of the extension if needed. If you feel that you might have trouble with installing an extension, we advise you to order a professional installation service.
For more information regarding the theme's functionality, we suggest checking our Video Tutorials and Articles.
The most popular video tutorials:
To install this theme, you must have a working version of WordPress already installed. Below are some useful links regarding WordPress information.
To use this theme you must be running at least WordPress 6.0, PHP 7.4 or higher.
External plugins may require additional limitations, like Elementor - WordPress 6.3+, PHP 8.0+ (for all features), WooCommerce - WordPress 6.5+, etc.
If you use a hosting service with limited resources (e.g. GoDaddy!), you may experience issues with the "one-click" demo data installation.
We recommend that you contact your web hosting service provider to make sure that your server PHP configuration limits are as follows:
max_execution_time 600
(recommended - 600
, minimum value - 60
)
memory_limit 128M
post_max_size 32M
upload_max_filesize 32M
If you are running an unmanaged dedicated server or VPS, you should check your php.ini
file. Alternatively, you can edit .htaccess
file at the root of your website and add the following values:
php_value max_execution_time 600
(recommended - 600
, minimum value - 60
)
php_value memory_limit 128M
php_value post_max_size 32M
php_value upload_max_filesize 32M
Setting these values will ensure you will not get error messages during the installation. To safeguard your website, please use secure passwords and the latest version of WordPress and plugins.
Here is the list of web hosting service providers we recommend:
Before installing the theme, please make sure you unpacked the archive and extracted the theme files. Some of the folders' names may slightly vary. Treat the screenshot below as an example only.
The main package contains archives with the main theme, child theme, a file with the documentation link, and bundled plugins (if used in the theme).
If you try to install the wrong files, you will get the missing style.css error. This is the most common error that means you are trying to install an incorrect package.
To install the theme, you need to have a working version of WordPress installed on your server first. Check out this guide for detailed information on how to install WordPress. We also highly recommend updating your WordPress to the latest stable version.
Below, you can find a video tutorial on how to install the theme.
There are 2 ways to install the theme:
catwalk.zip
file and ONLY use the extracted /catwalk
theme folder.
catwalk
theme folder into /wp-content/themes
.
catwalk.zip
folder and click the Install Now button.
Attention! If you want to make changes to the theme’s templates or functions, we strongly recommend activating a child theme before demo data installation. Please see the Child Theme section for more information.
The theme license allows you to install the theme on ONE domain only! To connect the license to a different domain, first, click "Disconnect domain" (Theme Panel > Theme Dashboard > General) and then re-enter the purchase key/token on a different WordPress installation.
For Envato Elements, if you want to activate another theme or install the same theme on a new domain, please generate a new token (1 token = 1 domain).
If you have accidentally removed your WordPress installation without purchase code disconnection, please use this 1-time disconnection service: https://deactivate.themerex.net/.
If you have any questions, please contact our support department.
Attention! Before any manipulations that will require re-entering the purchase key/Elements token even on the same domain (e.g.: WordPress reinstallation or cleaning the database), please FIRST disconnect the domain!
If you have accidentally removed your WordPress installation without domain disconnection, please use this 1-time disconnection service: https://deactivate.themerex.net/.
Below is the list of the plugins that come included into the theme.
Some of these plugins can also be installed from the WordPress.org repository.
PLEASE NOTE! This theme is compatible with The GDPR Framework plugin, though it is not provided with the theme.
You can find a detailed overview of each plugin in the Plugins section of this documentation file.
There is only one required plugin for proper theme functioning, and that is ThemeREX Addons. The rest of the plugins are recommended for installation, but not required.
To make the theme look exactly as on the demo page, after the installation/activation of the ThemeREX Addons plugin and theme activation you would need to install the recommended plugins. Our theme supports two ways: through the "Theme Dashboard" menu or a prompt with a list of plugins to install. Let's look closer to both.
We suggest using this method, as it consolidates all controls related to theme activation, domain connection, selection of addons and skins (if available for a specific theme), plugin installation/activation, demo data installation, and basic website settings. This approach eliminates the need to navigate through multiple menus in the WordPress Dashboard when configuring the theme.
Navigate to WP Dashboard > Theme Panel > Theme Dashboard and under the "Plugins" tab choose all plugins you need by clicking on them.
To proceed, click on the "Install & Activate" button at the bottom. This process may take a while.
This is an old method of installing plugins, though it still works.
In case you are running a shared hosting with limited resources (e.g. GoDaddy), we do recommend enabling only the essential plugins (e.g. ThemeREX Addons, Elementor) and disabling the rest. Otherwise, it may significantly increase memory consumption, which might lead to unwanted issues.
PLEASE NOTE! The installation and activation of bundled plugins run automatically. Anyway, if you have any issues, please extract plugins.zip
archive (from the theme package) and proceed with the installation of the plugins manually.
Our theme is compatible with the Gutenberg page builder. You can create new pages using this editor, though you can still use pre-built custom header and footer layouts.
All existing demo pages and layouts are built through the Elementor Page Builder and should be customized via Elementor ONLY.
PLEASE NOTE! It is possible to switch between the page builders. Please use One page builder for creating/customizing One particular page/post/layout.
If you want to make changes to the theme's files and functions, we strongly recommend installing a child theme. This ensures that your theme customizations stay in place after the theme update. If you are not planning to change the core theme files, you are free to skip this chapter.
IMPORTANT! Install the child theme before importing the demo data. Otherwise, all of your theme options will be reset.
A child theme is installed the same way you install a parent theme. Locate the catwalk-child.zip
file in the theme package and upload it via the WordPress admin panel. Alternatively, you can unzip it and upload it via FTP (see main theme installation chapter).
Your child theme has its own functions.php
file. Use it to copy modified functions from the parent theme's functions.php
, or register new functions.
You can copy all files from the parent theme into the child theme, except files located in the following folders:
/includes
/plugins
/theme-options
/theme-specifics
In the /front-page
folder, you can copy all files except front-page.options.php
.
If the file you want to edit is in one of these folders, you need to copy the required function from that file and register it in the child theme's functions.php
.
The rest of the files can be copied and edited directly in the child theme folder.
When copying parent theme files into the child theme, preserve the original folder structure. Create respective folders and make sure that the file path is the same as in the parent theme.
Our theme includes a simple One-click demo data installation, which allows your site to look exactly as on the theme demo.
Before installing demo data, please make sure you have activated your theme copy (entered the purchase code or Envato Elements token in the WP Dashboard > Theme Panel > Theme Dashboard > General tab) and installed all the required plugins. Check the Plugins installation section for more information about the required plugins.
In case you do not have your Purchase Code, please navigate to your ThemeForest "Downloads" page and click on the theme download link. Check this guide for more details.
To generate the Envato Elements token, follow the link from your WP admin panel. Please view this guide for more information.
IMPORTANT! Our theme supports RTL text direction (compatibility, without rtl-demo content)! Please FIRST choose the correct language in your WordPress settings (WP Dashboard > Settings > General > Site Language), then proceed with the demo data installation.
Our theme contains RTL styles. The page content should be manually adjusted for RTL text direction using Elementor settings (e.g.: changing the alignment of icons, etc.).
To import the demo content, go to Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > Theme Dashboard > Demo Data.
On the page that showed up, set the required parameters.
When choosing the partial demo data import, the new content will be added to your existing data.
Although this will not overwrite your existing content, we still recommend backing up your website before doing this.
Note, that the pages are imported without the original images. Instead, the image placeholders are used. This is done to keep your existing content intact.
Import separate pages means that you receive the page structured like on our demo, just widgets set that requires further customization: you should replace demo categories/post IDs with your own ones.
When choosing this option, all the existing content of your website will be lost and replaced with new data. We recommend using this option for new WordPress installations only.
Use the full import option if you want to have an exact copy of the theme demo. It enables you to import all media files, pages, theme options, and plugin settings.
Some plugins increase memory consumption. For example, BuddyPress and bbPress (not included in the theme's package) require additional 60-80Mb
. If you are having trouble installing the demo data, deactivate massive plugins and try again.
In case the demo data installation is stuck, and you see "Error load data from the file ... " error message, you can manually install it by downloading the default.zip archive with demo data from our server. The archive should be unzipped. Then create demo/
folder in wp-content/themes/catwalk/
directory and copy /default
folder to wp-content/themes/catwalk/demo
.
Treat the screenshot below as an example only. The list of folders inside a theme package may vary.
If the issue persists, please contact your hosting service provider to make sure that your server configuration meets the Theme Requirements. Otherwise, please refer your request to our support department.
upload_max_filesize
to 80M
.wp-content/themes
directory.memory_limit
. You can increase memory_limit
on your server in several ways, namely by editing:
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');
memory_limit = 128M;
php_value memory_limit 128M;
mbstring PHP
function in server settings. The function is needed for some languages, such as Japanese, Chinese, etc. In case you can not enable the settings, please contact the support team to get assistance with disabling the function in the theme.
wp-config.php
file and add the following lines after the database information:
define( 'FS_METHOD', 'direct' );
define('FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0770);
define('FS_CHMOD_FILE', 0660);
max_execution_time 600
memory_limit 128M
post_max_size 32M
upload_max_filesize 32M
This step is required if you received the notification that a new version of the theme or plugin is available. You can see this information in the Changelog section at the bottom of the item's details page.
Before you go ahead with the update, make sure to back up your old theme's folder. Download it to your computer locally.
/wp-content/themes
.
themes
folder.
PLEASE NOTE! We carefully monitor the relevance of our themes and continuously make improvements, functional extensions, and necessary fixes. Some of these changes occur automatically in many themes immediately after adjustments are made in the framework. Due to the large number of themes in our portfolio, there may be a delay between making changes and uploading the theme to ThemeForest. You should not worry, as immediately after installing and activating the theme downloaded from ThemeForest, you will be offered a theme update in the admin panel if a more recent version is available on our server. Furthermore, to update the theme in the future, there is no need to download it from ThemeForest again - notifications of new versions will appear in the admin panel. The theme and bundled plugins can be updated directly from the Dashboard > Updates menu.
Now let's navigate to Appearance (WP Dashboard) > Customize to flexibly control the appearance and behavior of the whole website as well as individual types of posts, pages, and categories.
IMPORTANT! Please be aware that our theme provides a special inheritance hierarchy system for "Theme Options" settings. It means that individual settings of each page may override global settings made with Customizer Panel.
Settings of "Blog", "WooCommerce", "Plugins settings" (such as Portfolio, Services, Team, and Testimonials), and other groups (depending on the plugins installed) may also override default/general settings available through Customizer.
Moreover, you can see the changes in the front end right after the alterations - when the needed parameter is selected, without switching from admin to front end each time. When you are done with the changes, you should click on Publish button at the top of the Customizer's side menu.
IMPORTANT! Please be aware that all the Customizer's settings are also available for editing through Theme Panel (WordPress Dashboard Menu) > Theme Options section.
PLEASE NOTE! The screenshots from this chapter are given for demonstration purposes only. The theme settings (enabled/disabled options) may vary from the ones provided in the screenshots.
The settings of this group are responsible for managing site identity features. This is the initial place where you should upload your logo.
The text entered into this field appears as the logo title (if the image logo is not uploaded and the "Use Site Name as Logo" option is enabled) and as the website's title in your browser tab.
The text entered into this field appears as the website slogan under the logo. By default, the tagline is used if no image logo is selected and the "Use Site Name as Logo" option is enabled.
You can modify the site title and tagline appearance by inserting special characters, e.g.:
||
- line break;{{
... }}
- modifies style and color of parts of the text;[[
... ]]
- makes the text bold;The site icon (favicon) is used as a browser and app icon for your site. Icons must be square, and at least 512 pixels wide and tall.
These settings allow managing your logo images (main, for mobile header, and mobile menu) as well as their Retina versions (if the "Allow retina display logo" option is checked). As a rule, the retina logo should be twice as big as the regular logo to be displayed properly.
Here, you can also zoom the logo. 1 - original size. Please note, that the maximum size of the logo depends on the actual size of the image. This option works if the max height of the logo is set in em
in the Elementor "Layouts: Logo" widget.
The "Use Site Name as Logo" option displays the site title and tagline as a text logo if no image is selected.
The logo uploaded in the Customizer can be overwritten by the logo image selected in the Header layout. This allows you to upload a different logo image for each page.
The settings of this group are responsible for managing the overall look of the site.
Here you can choose the body style, page margins, the page width (site content + sidebar) in pixels as well as apply a background image and page extra spaces for the "Boxed" body style.
PLEASE NOTE! In the Theme Options section of a particular page, additional body styles are available: fullwidth and fullscreen.
PLEASE NOTE! When you upload your background image, please pay attention to the image size. By default, WordPress may resize images.
The WordPress also limits the size of uploading images, thus allowing you to upload any image to your media library up to 2560px
ONLY!
These settings allow specifying the behavior of the widgets area on Fullscreen Mobile Menu and selecting the style of the scroll to top button.
<div class="extra_item"> <h6>Have a Project?</h6> <a href="mailto:info@website.com">info@website.com</a> </div> <div class="extra_item"> <h6>Want to Work With Me?</h6> <a href="#">Send Brief</a> </div> <div class="extra_item"> <h6>Want to Buy Illustrations?</h6> <a href="#">Go to Shop</a> </div>
Here you can control page elements with a fixed position in the middle of the screen when you scroll down the page.
Sticky socials - this option enables the social icons on the left side of the page. The social icons inherit the links (URLs) to your social profiles specified in the Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab. Please also check our video tutorial.
Here you can specify widgets sets for such locations as top page, above content, below content, and bottom page. Check the Widgets section for more information.
Here you can specify the image's hovers.
Below, you can find an example of an image's hover effect with the option set to "Dots".
This setting is responsible for specifying SEO-related parameters.
Specify the text for the checkbox in a default form (the Elementor "Form" widget), comment form on single posts, review form on single products (if the WooCommerce plugin is installed), and in a registration form ("Layouts: Login Link" widget). This text will be displayed before the Privacy Policy link.
To add/customize the Privacy Policy link, navigate to Settings (WP Dashboard) > Privacy and specify the page that will be used as a Privacy Policy one. If you do not want to display the "For further details on handling user data, see our Privacy Policy" text, just leave this setting empty.
PLEASE NOTE! In case you are planning to use default forms without consent checkboxes, just leave the "Text with Privacy Policy link" option empty!
The settings of this group allow you to manage the overall look and behavior of the header elements.
You can set up header settings for a specific page in the Theme Options > Header section of that page.
These settings allow managing the style ("Default" or "Custom") and position of the header area as well as zooming the header title. For custom header style, you can specify the header layout (available only if the ThemeREX Addons plugin is activated).
Available Custom Header Layouts:
Please also see the header-related layouts section of this documentation file. All elements of pre-built custom header areas can be edited in the Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header tab, using a user-friendly Elementor. Check the Theme Layouts section and this video tutorial for more information.
To avoid "Sticky Menu" behavior, select the "Don't fix" option in the Edit Section > panel > Custom Layout > Fix this row when scroll (for the section with the menu element). Check also the Theme Layouts description.
You can also watch this video tutorial on how to enable a sticky header:
Available Default Header Style: Sticky Menu
The header area in the "Default" style is created via the Global Customize settings (Appearance > Customize). You can also navigate to the .../wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/templates/
folder and edit the corresponding template file header-default.php.
Header Position
The Header position setting controls the way your header behaves regarding the main body area.
The "Header fullheight" option enlarges the header area to fill the whole screen. It is used only if the header contains a background image.
The "Header fullwidth" option stretches the header widgets area to the entire window width.
Here you can specify the widgets set for the header area. You can customize the widgets in the Appearance > Widgets section.
This section is responsible for customizing the header area on the Error 404 page. You can choose between "Default" or "Custom" header styles. For custom header style, please specify the header layout (Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header tab).
These settings allow selecting a header background image or background video as well as choosing whether to override the header image with the post's/page's featured image or not.
Here you can enable a mobile header. It lets you show/hide such elements as a logo, search form, login link, and shopping cart. You can also use the Additional Info section, a text block where you can add information about your business, such as telephone number, open hours, etc.
.../wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/templates/
folder and edit the corresponding template file header-default.php.
The setting of this group is responsible for choosing the style of the footer area.
These settings allow choosing a footer style: "Default" or "Custom". Please note that custom footer layouts are available only if the ThemeREX Addons plugin is activated.
Available Custom Footer Layouts:
Please also see the footer-related layouts section of this documentation file. All elements of custom footer areas can be edited in the Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Footer tab. Check the Theme Layouts section and this video tutorial for more information.
Available Default Footer Style (without footer widgets):
The footer area in the "Default" style is created via the Global Customize settings (Appearance > Customize). You can also navigate to the .../wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/templates/
folder and edit the corresponding template file footer-default.php in any text editor.
Additional options for the Default Footer style:
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to autodetect the number of columns based on how many widgets you have got in the set.{Y}
symbol to indicate the current year.In case you care about page speed optimization and want your website to load faster on mobile devices, this section is just for you. The settings of this group allow you to set separate header and footer layouts as well as specify a sidebar to be displayed on mobile devices only.
We recommend that you create alternative custom header and footer layouts for mobile devices (without any hidden elements for other screen resolutions), as these hidden elements still take time while loading your website.
These settings allow selecting a header style and position. For custom header style, you can specify a header layout, that is available for customizing in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header.
The Header position setting controls the way your header behaves regarding the main body area.
These settings allow selecting a footer style. The Inherit option inherits the value specified in the Appearance > Customize > Footer section. For a "Default" footer style, you can also specify widgets sets and column quantity. For a "Custom" footer style, the "Select custom layout" option is available. You can manage these footer layouts in the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Footer tab.
The settings of this group are responsible for managing Menus. Each menu location is available for filling with any of the predefined menu sets.
Menus are also available for editing through the "Appearance > Menus" options.
Below are predefined Menu locations:
Within custom header & footer layouts, you can add menus using the Elementor Layouts: Menu widget.
The functionality of creating custom menus, or any kind of complex menus is embedded into the theme. Thus, you do not need to install any external plugins, like Uber Menu or Mega Menu.
To build a complex menu:
Here are some examples of custom menus from our themes:
We have added the following custom CSS classes to stretch the drop-down menu items. The class names should be assigned to the menu items of the first level, like on our demo:
.columns-X
- "X" is for the number of columns to split your menu items into.
.trx_addons_stretch_window_boxed
- stretches the background of the drop-down menu to the whole window width, though the content stays in the area of limited screen width.
.trx_addons_stretch_window
- stretches the drop-down menu to the whole screen width.
You can enable or disable the CSS Classes option in the Screen Options in the top right corner of the WordPress admin.
Widgets are the blocks of content that can be placed into specifically designed widget areas.
You can find the list of available widgets and widget areas under Appearance (WP Dashboard) > Widgets. Here it is possible to create additional widgets sets, that can be assigned to available default widget areas. This is useful when you have different widgets sets for different pages.
IMPORTANT! Our theme supports both Classic Widgets Editor and New Block Widgets Editor (WordPress 5.8+). You can easily switch between the editors using the "Disable new Widgets Block Editor" option in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > General section.
You can add widgets into widget areas by simply dragging and dropping.
But to see them on your website, you need to make sure you have a particular widgets set assigned to a particular default widget area. You can assign widgets sets either for the whole website (in Appearance > Customize), or for a specific page (single Page > Theme Options > Content/Widgets/Header/Footer).
IMPORTANT! The Sidebar/Footer widgets are available for "Default" sidebar/footer styles ONLY!
To manage custom sidebar or custom footer styles, proceed to the Dashboard > Theme Layouts tab and update the corresponding sidebar/footer layout.
Header widgets can be assigned in the Appearance > Customize > Header section.
Body widgets (for sidebar, top of the page, above the content, below the content, and bottom of the page) are accessible in the Appearance > Customize > General section.
The sidebar widgets work for the Default Sidebar Style only! Otherwise, navigate to the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Sidebar tab to manage the sidebar layout.
Footer widgets are available for managing in the Appearance > Customize > Footer section. The footer widgets work for Default Footer Style only! Otherwise, you need to customize the corresponding footer Layout in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Footer.
If you want to specify a widgets set for a separate page, open that page in your WordPress admin, and in the Theme Options section choose the required widgets. The widgets assigned in Theme Options would be applicable only to that particular page.
Depending on the selected page that is available for editing with Customizer's tools, you can notice different kinds of widgets sets on a particular page. The same can be done through Appearance (WP Dashboard) > Widgets.
Below are options responsible for managing widgets/blocks.
After you reorder the position of the widgets/blocks in the sidebar, save your changes.
See the example of how the Sidebar Widgets Set may look like ("Default" sidebar style):
Moreover, our theme provides a few Custom Widgets that are available in the Appearance > Widgets section (for New Block Widgets Editor - under the "Widgets" group).
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sign in the corresponding field in the widget's settings./wp-content/uploads/
).
Please also see sidebar-related layouts section of this documentation file. All elements of pre-built custom sidebar areas can be edited in the Dashboard > Theme Layouts tab, using a user-friendly Elementor. Check the "Theme Layouts" section for more information.
The settings of this group are responsible for selecting the way to display a homepage (front page), as a blog stream or a static one and specifying the pages to be set as a static homepage and as a posts page.
IMPORTANT! Please be aware that these settings are also available for editing through the Settings > Reading section.
As a free addition to this theme, we provide it with the Front Page Builder. A special tool that helps you manage the entire content of your website in just a few clicks without using external page builders, like Elementor or Gutenberg. You can enable the Front Page builder in the General tab.
The Page Builder provides a few different areas for customization. Feel free to discover them and make any changes to the content you want.
Check the video below for more information on how to properly use the Front Page Builder.
These settings are responsible for customizing blog-related pages.
The settings of this group allow you to manage the overall look and behavior of post pages.
These settings are applied to all types of blog pages, including post pages defined in the WordPress settings (Posts, available post types: Testimonials) as well as pages created via the Blog Archive template (unless no custom settings are specified in the Theme Options panel of a particular page/post).
Please check our article or visit this video tutorial for more information on how to add/customize the Posts pages.
These settings allow selecting a header style and position. For custom header style, you can specify a header layout, that is available for managing in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header.
Here you can specify widgets sets for such locations as top page, above content, below content, and bottom page. Check the Widgets section for more information.
If the page is created using the Blog Archive template, the post meta settings should be specified in the Theme Options > Content section of that page.
Here you can set the overall view of a single category/tag/author/search posts page.
These settings allow selecting a header style and position. For custom header style, you can specify a header layout, that is available for managing in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header.
Here you can specify widgets sets for such locations as top page, above content, below content, and bottom page. Check the Widgets section for more information.
The settings of this group are responsible for managing the overall look and behavior of single posts' pages.
These settings allow selecting a header style and position. For custom header style, you can specify a header layout, that is available for customizing in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header.
The position of the featured image, post title, and meta can be overridden by the settings of "Layouts: Title and Breadcrumbs" and Elementor "Layouts: Featured Image" widgets in a custom header layout!
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, the effect is not applied.Here you can enable related posts on a single post's page ("Show related posts" option).
This option enables/disables post navigation on a single post's page. The following styles of the post's navigation are available:
These settings are responsible for selecting a footer style. For a "Custom" footer style, the "Select custom layout" option is available. You can manage these custom footer layouts in the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Footer tab. The Inherit option inherits the value specified in the Appearance > Customize > Footer panel.
These settings are responsible for customizing shop-related pages (works only if the WooCommerce plugin is installed).
Here you can specify common settings for both product list and single product pages: color scheme, the width of the content area, and additional widgets panels.
Here you can specify widgets sets for such locations as top page, above content, below content, and bottom page. Check the Widgets section for more information.
These settings are responsible for managing the overall view of a product list page.
These settings allow selecting a header style and position, specifying its widgets, and choosing whether to override the header image with the post's featured image or not. For custom header style, you can specify a header layout, that is available for customizing in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header.
These settings are responsible for specifying a sidebar style and the position of the sidebar area on the Shop List page as well as its version for devices with a small screen resolution.
These settings allow you to manage a footer style. For a "Default" footer style, specify widgets sets and widgets' column quantity as well as choose whether to expand the footer for the whole width of the page ("Footer fullwidth" option). For a "Custom" footer style, the "Select custom layout" option is available. You can manage these footer layouts in the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Footer tab.
This is how the pre-built Shop page looks like with default settings.
The settings of this group are responsible for managing the overall look and behavior of single product pages.
This setting is responsible for choosing a body style for single product posts. For the "Boxed" body style, here you can upload a background image.
These settings allow selecting a header style and position, specifying its widgets, and choosing whether to override the header image with the post's featured image or not. For custom header style, you can specify a header layout, that is available for customizing in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header.
These settings are responsible for specifying a sidebar style and the position of the sidebar area on a Shop List page and single product posts as well as their versions for devices with a small screen resolution.
These settings allow specifying a footer style. For a "Default" footer style, specify widgets sets and widgets' column quantity as well as choose whether to expand the footer for the whole width of the page ("Footer fullwidth" option). For a "Custom" footer style, the "Select custom layout" option is available. You can manage these footer layouts in the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Footer tab.
Here you can assign a product attribute as a brand item and enable it under a product title on a shop archive and single products pages.
PLEASE NOTE! The 'Brand' attribute is designed to display 1 single value ONLY!
This attribute is inherited from the corresponding value, specified on a single product.
'Brand' attribute on shop page:
'Brand' attribute on a single product:
The settings of this group allow managing the overall look of the WooCommerce elements (works only if the WooCommerce plugin is installed). The single products can be added/customized in WordPress Dashboard Menu > Products.
The quantity of products displayed on a shop page is inherited from the Appearance > Customize > WooCommerce > Product Catalog section.
Here you can upload fonts and adjust font settings for specific typography elements.
Check this article or video tutorials for more information on how to add new Google Fonts and Custom Fonts.
The theme enables you to use both Google Fonts and custom fonts in your design. You can load up to 5 different font families, including different styles and weights for each typeface.
IMPORTANT! To manage the fonts quantity available for upload, edit 'max_load_fonts' => 5
variable in theme-specific/theme.setup.php
file.
The Other font is used for the following elements:
The theme allows you to assign color schemes to specific parts of your website. This is useful for highlighting certain areas and giving them a distinctive look.
The theme supports 6 color schemes:
Default (light) Dark Light (alternative) |
Beige (light) Beige Dark Beige Light (alternative) |
Check this video tutorial for more information on how to customize color schemes.
IMPORTANT! Due to specifics of CSS rules, you are unable to assign a light color scheme to any website part, if the dark color scheme is enabled.
Here are the website parts to which you can assign color schemes:
You can also assign color schemes for individual pages in the Theme Options > Colors panel of those pages.
Here you can customize the color schemes of your website.
Three additional buttons are available:
Select the color scheme you want to customize and choose one of 2 modes (editor types) - simple or advanced.
In a simple mode, you can customize the accent colors (link colors) of a theme. If you want to dig deeper, switch to the advanced mode. You can entirely change the theme colors.
Both modes contain the following groups of settings:
MAIN
The main color group of a website. Here you can find the following elements:
ALTER
Alter means alternative color group, mostly applied for the sidebar and footer, if a color scheme is assigned to them and it coincides with the site color scheme (NOT inherited). This group of colors can also be applied to page widgets or blocks that are output on some background by default (the background is NOT added through the page builders). Alter colors include the same elements as the Main color group, plus two additional hover colors for the border and background.
EXTRA
An additional color group for extra elements such as dropdowns, price blocks, table headers, blockquotes, etc.
As a rule, the text and background colors from the Extra group should contrast against the respective colors from the Main color group.
INVERSE (for advanced mode only)
Inverse elements are the elements that use the theme accent color (usually the main one) ("Link", "Accent 2", and "Accent 3" options) as a background color. In this way, they get a distinctive look and stand out from the rest of the content. You can apply these settings for buttons, blockquotes, dropdowns, etc.
INPUT (for advanced mode only)
Colors for form fields: input fields, text areas, select fields, etc.
In case the changes of the color schemes are not applied, please enable Debug mode (in Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > General tab) and save ThemeREX Addons settings.
The settings of this group allow editing the background color/image (the one behind the body's content when the "Boxed" body style is on).
Just click on the Select image button to upload the image from the Media Library or your computer. Right after this step, additional options appear, such as "Preset", "Image Position", "Image Size", and a few others.
The settings of this group are responsible for managing the overall look and behavior of portfolio-related pages (the all portfolio items page and single portfolio posts).
IMPORTANT! The number of portfolio posts displayed on the all portfolio items page is inherited from the Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most option. The portfolio posts can be added/customized in WordPress Dashboard Menu > Portfolio section.
Here you can enable/disable portfolio post type and specify the style of the portfolio archive.
Please check "Disable post type Portfolio" option only if you do not want to use this post type.
Apply the "Style" option only after you save the other options!
These settings allow selecting a header style and position, specifying its widgets, and choosing whether to override the header image with the post's featured image or not. For custom header style, you can specify a header layout, that is available for customizing in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header.
These settings are responsible for specifying a widgets set for a sidebar and its position for the All Portfolio Items page and single portfolio posts as well as their versions for devices with a small screen resolution.
These settings allow selecting a footer style. For a "Default" footer style, you can also specify widgets sets and column quantity as well as choose whether to expand the footer for the whole width of the page ("Footer fullwidth" option). For a "Custom" footer style, the "Select custom layout" option is available. You can manage these footer layouts in the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Footer tab.
Here you can specify widgets sets for such locations as top page, above content, below content, and bottom page. Check the Widgets section for more information.
Here you can choose whether to show or hide a featured image and related posts on a single portfolio page; specify related portfolio items and their column quantity (if the "Show related posts" option is checked).
PLEASE NOTE! The hover effects for the related posts require the Mouse Helper Add-on to be active. The image on hover is a featured image of a particular post.
The settings of this group are responsible for managing the overall look and behavior of services-related pages (the all services page and single service posts).
IMPORTANT! The number of service posts displayed on the all services page is inherited from the Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most option. The service posts can be added/customized in WordPress Dashboard Menu > Services section.
Here you can enable/disable a services post type, specify the style of the services archive as well as add a contact form to a single service post.
Please check the "Disable post type Services" option only if you do not want to use this post type.
Apply the "Style" option only after you save the other options!
Post animation in the archive - select the animation to show posts in the archive. Attention! Do not use any animation on pages with the "wheel to the anchor" behavior!
Contact form option:
This setting is responsible for choosing the body style of the service posts. For the "Boxed" body style, here you can upload the background image.
These settings allow selecting a header style and position, specifying its widgets, and choosing whether to override the header image with the post's featured image or not. For custom header style, you can specify a header layout, that is available for customizing in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header.
These settings are responsible for specifying widgets set for a sidebar and its position for the All Services page and single service posts as well as their versions for devices with small screen resolution.
These settings allow selecting a footer style. For a "Default" footer style, you can also specify widgets sets and column quantity as well as choose whether to expand the footer for the whole width of the page ("Footer fullwidth" option). For a "Custom" footer style, the "Select custom layout" option is available. You can manage these footer layouts in the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Footer tab.
Here you can specify widgets sets for such locations as top page, above content, below content, and bottom page. Check the Widgets section for more information.
Here you can choose whether to show or hide a featured image and related posts on a single service page; specify related services and their column quantity (if the "Show related posts" option is checked).
The settings of this group are responsible for managing the overall look and behavior of team-related pages (the all team members page and single team member posts).
IMPORTANT! The number of team posts displayed on the all team members page is inherited from the Settings > Reading > Blog pages show at most option. The team posts can be added in WordPress Dashboard Menu > Team section.
Here you can enable/disable team post type, specify the style of the team archive as well as add a contact form to a single team member post.
Please check the "Disable post type Team" option only if you do not want to use this post type.
Apply the "Style" option only after you save the other options!
Post animation in the archive - select the animation to show posts in the archive. Attention! Do not use any animation on pages with the "wheel to the anchor" behavior!
Contact form option:
This setting is responsible for choosing the body style of the team posts. For the "Boxed" body style, here you can upload the background image.
These settings allow selecting a header style and position, specifying its widgets, and choosing whether to override the header image with the post's featured image or not. For custom header style, you can specify a header layout, that is available for customizing in WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header.
These settings are responsible for specifying widgets set for a sidebar and its position for the All Team Members page and single team posts as well as their versions for devices with small screen resolution.
These settings allow selecting a footer style. For a "Default" footer style, you can also specify widgets sets and column quantity as well as choose whether to expand the footer for the whole width of the page ("Footer fullwidth" option). For a "Custom" footer style, the "Select custom layout" option is available. You can manage these footer layouts in the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Footer tab.
Here you can specify widgets sets for such locations as top page, above content, below content, and bottom page. Check the Widgets section for more information.
You can choose whether to show or hide the posts, written by a team member, on a single team member page; specify the quantity of the posts to be displayed (if the "Show related posts" option is checked).
PLEASE NOTE! In order to make the system identify a team member as an author of a post, you should open a particular team member post and in Item Options > Link to WordPress user option choose a WordPress user. Now log in under a definite WordPress user and create the posts you need.
This section allows enabling/disabling a "Testimonials" post type. The single testimonials can be managed in Testimonials (WP Dashboard) > All Testimonials.
The settings of this group allow you to specify additional custom styles.
This section covers the information about Pages on your website: included page templates, how to edit existing pages and add new ones.
You can import required pages, along with the page settings, using the Importer tool. Learn more about it in the Demo Content chapter.
To create a new page navigate to the "Pages" dashboard menu item in your WordPress admin panel and click on the Add New button.
Choose either the "Blog Archive" (blog page) or "Default Template" (regular page) option in right panel > Page > Template. Check the Posts pages article to find out more information on how to customize them.
Usually, the page consists of Sections, Columns, Widgets, and some other elements that can be edited via Elementor. Before you start, please check the following tutorials:
Each page has a Theme Options panel, where you can specify custom page parameters.
In Theme Options, you can assign a different header/footer style, widgets set, body style, as well as many other options for each individual page.
These settings are applied to the page you are editing and will overwrite the global settings specified in the Customizer.
Options Presets Group
Here you can save the page settings (for header, widgets, footer, etc.) as a preset template and duplicate these settings on a new page without checking the required options in each section of the Theme Options panel (Content/Widgets/Header/Footer/Colors). All you need to do is to apply the already created preset template on a new page by using control icons ("Apply selected preset"/"Create a new preset"/"Delete selected preset"). The tooltips for the icons will help you.
You can enable or disable the Theme Options panel in Preferences > General in the top right corner of the WordPress admin.
Once you finished building your page, assign it as a Homepage:
Alternatively, you can assign a page as a homepage in Appearance > Customize > Homepage Settings.
PLEASE NOTE! The Default skin comes with the following Homepages.
Below, you can find the screenshots of "Fashion Agency" front end with hotspots describing where you can customize content for a particular section and the "Theme Options" settings.
The background color/image for the page blocks can be set or managed in the Edit Section/Column > Style > "Background"/"Background Overlay" tabs in the Elementor widgets panel.
"Edit Section/Column > Advanced > Position" settings in the Elementor widgets panel let page blocks overlap each other, the following parameters are available:
You can also set the entrance animation for page elements in Edit Section/any element > Advanced > Motion Effects.
The main additional CSS classes used in the theme are described in the Custom CSS Classes chapter of this documentation file.
Default popup banners are created using the "Advanced Popups" plugin. You can customize the popup banners in WP Dashboard > Settings > Popups tab.
The content for the popup banner above is taken from a custom layout (WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Custom tab).
You can enable/disable the mouse helper globally or replace the image in the Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Mouse helper section. Please also see the "Mouse Helper Add-on" section of this documentation file for more information.
You can also make the mouse helper display some special information for a definite page section or just change the cursor style over a specific section/element. In this case, proceed to the Elementor widgets panel, enable the mouse helper for a particular section/column/widget, and specify additional settings (text, background image, icon, etc.).
Theme Options settings (Fashion Agency):
This is what the second homepage looks like.
Theme Options settings (Model Agency):
This is what the third version looks like.
Theme Options settings (Fashion Event):
This is what the fourth version looks like.
Theme Options settings (Women's Fashion):
This is what the fifth version looks like.
Theme Options settings (Lingerie Store):
This is what the sixth version looks like.
Theme Options settings (Men's Fashion):
This is what the seventh version looks like.
Theme Options settings (Bags and Accessories):
This is what the eighth version looks like.
Theme Options settings (Fashiom Room):
You can easily decorate your website with stacked sections.
When you scroll your page down, the section below moves over the visible content. When you scroll the page up, the visible block slides down, recovering the section underneath.
Open the Elementor section's settings and under Edit Section > Advanced > Advanced tab enable the "Stack section" option. Here you can also specify the stack effect: slide or fade. Save your changes.
In this chapter, you will see how to set a scroll to content functionality on single pages/posts. Let's look closer at two variants:
Here is an example of what we are aiming to achieve.
An ID content_skip_link_anchor
is implemented by default to the page and post templates and is assigned to the content area.
If you want to add a scroll to content functionality, you need to open a header layout (WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Header), insert an icon or a button according to your design, and specify #content_skip_link_anchor
as a link for it. Safe your changes.
The link will work automatically. The corresponding anchor is added to the theme core files. No further alterations are necessary.
Alternatively you can use the Elementor Anchor widget (ThemeREX Addons Elements group) and place this anchor wherever you want on a page with your own links and IDs.
A scroll-down icon/text link in this case is a part of a slider that is inserted into the content area on a page. Once you click on the icon you will be scrolled down to the content section right below the slider.
This is a revolution slider's functionality. You can easily enable it for a definite slider (WP Dashboard > Slider Revolution) through the slider's settings. Open a slider, find a layer with such icon/text link (it can be also placed on the global layer), and click on it to open its actions settings, like in the screenshot below.
In the "Action Type" option choose "Scroll below slider" and save your changes.
PLEASE NOTE! We have used additional CSS classes to make the page blocks look like in our demo.
.sc_item_partners
- adds opacity to the images, like on the demo "Women's Fashion" homepage.
.map_marker
- stylizes a marker on a google map. Please view the demo "Fashion Event" homepage for more information.
<div class="map_marker"><div></div><div></div></div>
.up-translateZ
, .up-translateZ-wrap
, up-translateZ-elem
and .up-translateZ-elem-front
- reposition page elements along the z-axis in 3D space.
.VanillaTiltHover
- adds a 3D effect on hover to an image.
.button_bg_icon_color
and .button_alter2_icon_color
- stylize and position an icon in a button (for Elementor "Buttons" widget in Simple style).
.line-height-0
- resets the line-height to 0
(for the Icon widget).
.play_center
- centers an arrow inside a play button (for Icon or Buttons widgets). Please see the demo "Lingerie Store" homepage for more information.
.skills_br_control
- removes <br>
in skills item titles (for Elementor "Skills" widget) on screen resolutions from 768px
to 1023px
. Please view the demo "Lingerie Store" homepage for more information.
.awards_slider
- stylizes a slider with logos and hover effect for them (Slider widget - Swiper).
.no-title
- makes an image title invisible when you hover over the image on the front end (for the Image widget).
.underline_anim
- adds underlining effect to a link (for Elementor "Text Editor" widget). Please see pre-built footer layouts with such elements for more information.
<a class="underline_anim" href="mailto:info@email.com">info@email.com</a>
.top_index
- stylizes uppercase (reduces the font size to 70%
and aligns digits top). It is designed to display decimal numbers, like prices. This class name can be applied to any text field (even titles, subtitles, descriptions, etc.) in any Elementor widget.
$587.<span class="top_index">00</span>
.form-position-abs
- places an inner section above the main one.
.left_shift
- stretches the width of the column by 160px
to the left on a single team member post.
.simple_text_link
in combination with .underline_anim
- stylizes linked text, inserted to the page using the Elementor "Text Editor" widget, like on the demo "Lingerie Store" homepage.
<a class="simple_text_link underline_anim" href="#">Read More</a>
.alter_clients
- changes the opacity level for images and the background color for slides to white (for the Elementor "Slider - Swiper" widget).
.round-square
- makes a default Elementor button round (if you specified border-radius) or square (for default Elementor Button widget), like on the demo "Fashion Agency" homepage. The button becomes 101px
wide and 101px
tall.
.round-square-2
- makes a default Elementor button round (if you specified border-radius) or square. The button becomes 193px
wide and 193px
tall.
.small_padding
- sets custom paddings between slides in a Swiper Slider. The content for the slides should be taken from custom layouts.
.remove_padding
- removes default padding between slides in a Swiper Slider.
.slider_width_auto
- stylizes portfolio posts, displayed in a form of a slider (for the Elementor "Portfolio" widget in "Default" and "Extra", and "QW Simple" layouts).
.no-inner-padding
- removes paddings (for Elementor "Slider" widget, Swiper slider engine).
.bordered
- adds a delimiter between accordion items (for default Elementor Accordion widget). Please see the demo "Fashion Agency" homepage for more information.
.extra-size-skills
- enlarges the counter in the "Alter" layout (Elementor "Skills" widget from "ThemeREX Addons Elements" group).
.size-around
- adds paddings (10px
) to the default Elementor icon.
Layout is a tool that lets you create custom headers, footers, and other website sections and is based on the Elementor Page Builder.
Layouts are available after you activate the ThemeREX Addons plugin. After the activation, a new menu item appears in your WordPress admin panel.
Your theme comes with some pre-built Layouts. If you've imported the full content, the layouts will be available for you from the start. Otherwise, you would need to generate them in Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > Theme Specific > Create Layouts.
To create a layout, navigate to Theme Layouts (WP Dashboard) > Add New.
Layouts are built in a similar way you build regular pages with the Elementor Page Builder. The difference is that Layouts expand the default list of widgets by adding layout-specific widgets and provide you with additional section settings.
Please check this article for detailed information regarding layouts customization.
You can also view our video tutorials about header and footer layouts customization.
When creating a Layout, first you need to specify the correct Layout type in the Item Options panel:
You can also choose a different Header/Footer Layout for a specific page. Simply open that page in the WordPress admin, and in the Theme Options > Header/Footer panel edit the Header Style and Footer Style settings.
Custom Layouts can be especially useful when you need to use the same section in different places on your website. Instead of building it from scratch on every new page, you can save it as a custom Layout and insert using a Layouts widget.
To add a custom Layout to a web page:
Blog Layout is just a scheme showing the position of post elements like featured image, post title, metadata, excerpt, etc. Use the Blog Item Parts widget to output each element, like in the example below.
You can apply the blog layouts to:
In case there are some page fragments with more or less identical structure, you can create one layout using the Elementor Page Builder, save it as a template, and use it as a foundation for your new Layout. Thus, there is no need to create a new layout or block each time. Please see this article for more information.
Open a Layout and click on the Add Template button from the editing screen (Elementor Page Builder's back-end editor). Scroll down to view the available templates:
PLEASE NOTE! The demo content of the theme is assembled as separate pages that can be easily imported through Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > Theme Dashboard > Demo Data > Partial Import. Our theme comes with empty Elementor library.
Layout is a preferred way of creating a mobile header since it gives you flexibility and control over your elements. Creating a mobile header is similar to creating a standard header, except there are several features you should know about to use Layouts more efficiently. Please see the official Elementor video tutorial or article for more information.
We recommend creating a separate custom header layout for mobile devices and specifying it in the Appearance > Customize > Mobile section. This will improve the website loading speed on mobile devices.
Layout-specific widgets are additional widgets available for editing/creating layouts. They are especially useful for building headers and footers. You can find layout-specific widgets under the ThemeREX Addons Layouts group in the Elementor widgets panel.
Inserts any post parts (featured image, title, metadata, content, custom fields) into your custom page fragment. This widget outputs 1 post part at a time. If you want to create a page block with a unique structure, just use as many "Blog Item Parts" widgets as you need and output post parts in any combination and any quantity.
Displays a shopping cart icon (in case the WooCommerce plugin is active). When clicked, the icon triggers a window with additional shopping details.
For narrow and normal row types, the cart displays the number of products in the cart, the sum total, and an icon label. The compact row type has a shopping cart with a product counter badge only.
Displays a currency button, in case the WooCommerce and WooCommerce Currency Switcher plugins are active.
Displays a color scheme switcher. It works only if the colors of page elements are set through the theme styles (are inherited from Appearance > Customize > Colors settings) and NOT through the Elementor page builder.
Two styles are available: default (for the header area) and round (for the content area). You can specify an unlimited number of blocks to which you want to apply the color scheme changes, for light/dark modes separately. The switcher is fully customizable (icon, background color, etc.). By default, it looks like:
Should be used for headers only. Displays a featured image of the current post/page. Often used in combination with the Title and Breadcrumbs widget.
The widget has to contain at least one element, otherwise the featured image would be hidden.
Inserts an icon and two text lines. It is possible to add a URL to the icon.
Inserts content in different ways, depending on the type of layout:
Select which type of layout to use in the layouts widget's content settings.
The algorithm of building a popup notification or panel:
example_popup
.
#
), as an address for the link or button that should trigger the popup/panel.The background color for the panels is inherited from the "Layouts" widget's color scheme, specified in a particular header layout. Use Elementor navigator to open the settings, if needed.
In case the WPML plugin is active, the widget displays a button (drop-down list) that allows choosing the necessary language for the current page.
Displays a login/logout link with an icon.
The text for the checkbox "I agree..." (the registration form) is set in Appearance > Customize > General > Text with Privacy Policy link.
To add/customize the Privacy Policy link, navigate to Settings (WP Dashboard) > Privacy and specify the page that will be used as a Privacy Policy one.
PLEASE NOTE! In case you are planning to use the registration form without consent checkbox, just leave the "Text with Privacy Policy link" option empty in the Appearance > Customize > General section!
Inserts a logo (any image). In case there is no logo (both in layouts and in the Customizer), the theme displays the website title and description specified in Appearance > Customize > Logo & Site Identity.
Uploading Logo
The algorithm of our actions would be as follows:
IMPORTANT! The logo is available for editing for each particular layout. If no logo is selected in the Layouts: Logo widget, the initial logo from the Appearance > Customize > Logo & Site Identity will be used.
Displays one of the available menus. Specify a preferred menu in the Menu field by its name, like in the screenshot below.
The Layout parameter allows selecting the Menu Layout:
Direction of the menu items: Horizontal or Vertical.
Specify a default behavior for a responsive menu in the Content tab:
Displays elements from metadata of the current post (categories, post author, post date, post counters, share links, edit link).
Adds a search button/input field. There are 2 layouts (default and modern) available and 3 styles for the default layout:
Displays a title and breadcrumbs of the currently opened page/post.
Displays one of the available widgets sets (sidebars). You can choose the number of widget columns. In case 0
is chosen, the number of columns equals the number of widgets in the selected widgets set.
Layouts have an extended number of settings for Section, default Elementor element.
Choose which section you want to edit, click on the Edit Section button and go to the panel > Edit Section > Custom Layout.
is_singular()
).
In this section, you can find examples of layouts that come with the theme (Default Skin). If you have imported the full demo content, the layouts will be available for you from the start. Otherwise, you would need to generate them in Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > Theme Specific > Create Layouts. Feel free to create your own layouts.
You can view the list of available Layouts in Theme Layouts (WP Dashboard) > All Layouts.
All layouts are divided into six types. For more information on how to add each type of layouts to the page, please view the Creating Layouts section of this documentation file.
Important! Please be aware that this theme does not provide any examples of submenu and blog layouts. Feel free to create your own ones.
The header menu can be customized in Appearance > Menus > Edit Menus or Appearance > Customize > Menus.
In case no logo is selected in the Elementor "Layouts: Logo" widget, the initial logo from the Appearance > Customize > Logo & Site Identity will be used.
The menu icons in our demos:
The background color/image for the header sections can be set or managed in Edit Section/Column > Style > Background/Background Overlay in the Elementor editor.
Otherwise, the background color for the sections can be inherited from the color scheme, specified in Edit Section > Advanced > Advanced > Theme-specific params. The color scheme is set in the Appearance > Customize > Colors section (with Advanced mode).
.shop-nav-slider-custom
stylizes the slider controls.
.header_fullscreen
stretches the height of the background image or video to the window's height.
The footer menu can be customized in Appearance > Menus > Edit Menus or Appearance > Customize > Menus.
In case no logo is selected in the Elementor "Layouts: Logo" widget, the initial logo from the Appearance > Customize > Logo & Site Identity will be used.
To make the current year change automatically in the copyright area, just paste {Y}
or {{Y}}
instead of the year.
The social icons primarily inherit the links (URLs) to your social profiles specified in the Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab.
The subscription form can be managed in MC4WP (WP Dashboard) > Form. The style of the form depends on the element ID (like: element_id="style-9"
), specified through the code. In most cases, the form is used with ID style-9
.
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-9"]
The background color/image for the footer areas can be set or customized in the Edit Section/Column > Style > Background/Background Overlay tabs in the Elementor widgets panel.
Otherwise, the background color for the sections can be inherited from the color scheme, specified in Edit Section > Advanced > Advanced > Theme-specific params. The color scheme is set in the Appearance > Customize > Colors section (with Advanced mode).
We have used an additional CSS class .underline_anim
to add an underlining effect to a link (for Elementor "Text Editor" widget).
<a class="underline_anim" href="mailto:info@email.com">info@email.com</a>
Pre-built custom sidebar layouts are designed to be displayed in the sidebar area. This type of the layout appears in the list of available sidebars in the Appearance > Customize > General/Mobile/Blog/WooCommerce/Plugin Settings sections or in the Theme Options > Widgets settings on a particular page and in Theme Options > Content > Sidebar > Sidebar style > Custom.
In this chapter, we will describe the custom layouts combined into groups by their formation.
Please view the description of the Layouts Widget for more information about the popup notifications and panels.
The background color/image for the page sections can be set or customized in the Edit Section/Column > Style > Background tab in the Elementor widgets panel.
The custom layouts of this group are designed to be displayed inside a slider. Please view the demo single products or the "Header Shop Single" header layout for more information.
The subscription form can be managed in MC4WP (WP Dashboard) > Form. The form is used with ID style-11
.
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-11"]
The background color for the panels is inherited from the "Layouts" widget's color scheme, specified in a particular header layout. Use the Elementor navigator to open the settings, if needed.
The example below is displayed in a panel.
You can manage the links (URLs) to your social profiles in the Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab.
A custom post type is an additional type of post that is tailored for a specific kind of content. Custom post types are a part of the ThemeREX Addons plugin, and you can use them after the plugin activation.
Custom Post Types support icons from the standard Fontello icons set. You can expand the list of available icons by adding new ones from the fontello website. To add new icons proceed to wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/css/font-icons/config.json
. Watch this video guide for more information.
Please note that the location of the config.json
file and website page builder with the available set of widgets/shortcodes in your theme may vary from the video provided!
If you want to add a portfolio section to your web page, you need to create the portfolio posts and display them using the Elementor Portfolio widget (ThemeREX Addons Elements group).
To create a new portfolio post, click on Portfolio > Add New in your WordPress dashboard.
Below is an example of the back-end view of a single portfolio post.
Apart from the standard fields, such as title, description, portfolio group, excerpt, and featured image, you can use additional fields in the Item Options panel:
%%GALLERY%%
tag to the content of the post (preferably using Gutenberg page builder), where you want your gallery to appear, and choose "Inside content" for the Item Options > Gallery > Gallery position option.
%%VIDEO%%
tag (preferably using Gutenberg page builder), where you want your video to appear, and choose "Inside content" for the Item Options > Video > Video position option.
The single portfolio page as well as the all portfolio items page inherit the general settings (for header, footer, etc.) specified in Appearance > Customize > Plugins Settings > Portfolio.
The global settings for a single portfolio page can also be overridden in the Theme Options section of a particular portfolio post. Here you can assign a different header/footer style, widgets set, body style, etc.
After creating the required number of portfolio posts, you need to output them on your page using an Elementor widget. Add a new Elementor Page Builder section to your page and in the ThemeREX Addons Elements group of elements, select the Portfolio widget.
You can also use one of the generic Elementor widgets like the Blogger and Services widgets (ThemeREX Addons Elements group) to output portfolio posts.
If you want to add a services section to your web page, you need to create the service posts and output them using the Elementor "Services" or "Blogger" widgets (ThemeREX Addons Elements group).
To create a new service, click on Services (WP Dashboard) > Add New.
The back-end view of a single service post:
Apart from the standard fields, such as title, description, services group, excerpt, and featured image, you can use additional fields in the Item Options panel:
The single service pages as well as all services page inherit the general settings (for header, footer, etc.) specified in Appearance > Customize > Plugins Settings > Services.
The global settings for a single service page can also be overridden in the Theme Options section of a particular service post. Here you can assign a different header/footer style, widgets set, body style, etc.
After creating the required number of service posts, you need to display them on your page using an Elementor widget. Add a new Elementor Page Builder section to your page, and under the ThemeREX Addons Elements group of elements, select the Services or Blogger widget.
The Services widget provides you with a large number of options, including the layout style, featured element, featured element position, number of posts to show, and many more.
To display team members on your page, you need to create team posts first and then output them using an Elementor widget. Add a new team member post by clicking Team > Add New.
Please find the screenshot below with the back-end view of a team post.
On a team member page, you can enter the team member's name, description, featured image, excerpt, and elements in the Item Options panel, which include:
The "Secondary Image" section appears if the Secondary Image Add-on is active and this functionality is enabled for a definite post type in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Secondary image. The "Secondary Image" add-on allows you to upload a separate hover image for a single post that can be viewed on custom post type archive pages and in page sections that are built using the Elementor widgets, like Blogger, Services, Team, etc.
The single team member posts as well as all team page inherit the general settings (for header, footer, etc.) specified in Appearance > Customize > Plugins Settings > Team.
The global settings for a single team member page can also be overridden in the Theme Options section of a particular team post. Here you can assign a different header/footer style, widgets set, body style, etc.
Additional CSS class .left_shift
moves a column left on a single team member post (sets margin-left: -160px
).
Please treat the screenshot below as an example only, the styles of the elements may vary from the ones provided with the theme.
Display the team member section on the front end using the Team, Blogger, or Services widgets (ThemeREX Addons Elements group). The Team widget provides you with several display options that let you customize the section in detail.
Add a new testimonial by clicking Testimonials (WP Dashboard) > Add New.
Here you can add a person's name, the item's subtitle, testimonial author's rating (Item Options section),and a picture and insert the testimonial content. The published date sets automatically after the post is saved. Please see the screenshot below with the back-end view of a testimonial post:
The single testimonial page inherits the global settings (for header, footer, etc.) specified in Appearance > Customize. The sidebar and additional widgets set can be added in Appearance > Customize > Posts Page > Sidebar/Additional Widgets.
The "Item's rating" option displays the testimonial author's rating if the testimonial is inserted into the page using the Testimonials widget (Elementor Page Builder > ThemeREX Addons Elements group) and if the rating is enabled in the widget's settings.
Insert the testimonials on your page using the Testimonials, Blogger, or Services widgets (ThemeREX Addons Elements group).
Specify the Testimonials widget settings, including the layout, the number of columns, the title, the subtitle, and others. You can also display them in a form of a slider by enabling this option under the Slider tab.
Elementor Widgets in WordPress let you add different kinds of functionality to your website without writing a single line of code.
Our theme comes with some custom Elementor widgets allowing you to add the information in a simple way.
Custom Elementor widgets (with icon functionality) support icons from the standard Fontello icons set. You can expand the list of available icons by adding new ones from the Fontello website. To add new icons proceed to wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/css/font-icons/config.json
. Watch this video guide for more information.
Please note that the location of the config.json
file and website page builder with the available set of widgets/shortcodes in your theme may vary from the video provided!
We have arranged all custom Elementor widgets in the following groups of elements in the Elementor Editor:
ThemeREX Addons Elements group
PLEASE NOTE! The hover effects of some widgets or their styles may require additional add-ons to be active. We are still developing new effects, so we strongly recommend that you activate all add-ons provided with the theme to make the widgets work properly.
We have enhanced our themes with macros features for the "Title" and "Heading" Elementor widgets, as well as for some widgets with a title element (like Blogger, Services, etc.). The macros allow you to add code to your widgets without the need to write complex code manually. Thus, you can make a part of your title italic or bold, add an icon or an image between words, or simply move some words to a new line (add a line break). Please also view our article for more information.
We will [image id=34020 size=0.9em valign=bottom thumb=tiny css="border-radius:25%; margin: 0.1em;"] help you to ideate, design, and implement [image id=34357 size=0.9em valign=bottom thumb=tiny css="border-radius:25%; margin: 0.1em;"] your ideas|| we are creative [icon name=clock size=1em margin=0.1em] studio|| {{some italic text}}|| ((some bold text))
You can find the IDs for the images in your WordPress Media Library.
The names for the icons are standard Fontello icons' names from the Fontello icons set that comes with the theme. You can expand the list of available icons by adding new ones from the Fontello website. To add new icons, proceed to wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/css/font-icons/config.json
. Watch this video guide for more information.
Please note that the location of the config.json
file and website page builder with the available set of widgets/shortcodes in your theme may vary from the video provided!
PLEASE NOTE!Below, you can find the examples of the Elementor widgets that are mainly taken from the Default Skin. The number of widgets may vary depending on the plugins installed in your skin if the theme supports several skins.
This Elementor widget inserts a "Call to action" or columns layout.
The "AI Helper Audio Generator" widget outputs a form for generating text from audio (speech-to-text), converting text to audio, translating audio-based text, or modifying voices in audio files (for ModelsLab only). This widget requires the AI Helper add-on to be active, along with an OpenAI and/or ModelsLab token set in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper section. It's a PAID service!
The "Model" drop-down option on the front end indicates what services are connected to generate audio. If the list is empty, you need to specify OpenAI and/or ModelsLab tokens in the Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper section under the "Open AI API" and "ModelsLab API" tabs.
To manage available Open AI models or add new ones, navigate to the general "ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper > Open AI API" settings. The ModelsLab model (model slug) should be entered on the front end into the corresponding field of the form.
To specify the limitations for your visitors, proceed to the global "ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper > SC Audio Generator" settings: the number of generated audio per 1 hour and the number of allowed requests from 1 visitor during 1 hour. You can set limits for regular users (free audio generation) and for registered users with paid subscriptions separately ("Premium Mode"). The premium mode should be enabled in the widget's settings of audio generation form if you are using the limitations for registered users.
Once these limits are exceeded, the audio from the "Demo Audio" section of this widget will be used (from your /wp-content/uploads/
folder).
Please consider the screenshot below as an example only. Element styles may differ from those included in the theme.
This widget inserts ChatGPT into your web page, allowing your visitor to communicate with OpenAI via live chat (ask questions and get answers on any topics) directly from your website. The AI Helper add-on is required. The chat works if a real Open AI, Open AI Assistants, Flowise AI, or Google AI (Gemini) token is set in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper section. It's a PAID service!
Enhance the chat by adding a list of suggested topics or questions that your visitors can use in their requests and/or chat history. Please view the description of the AI Helper Chat Topics" and AI Helper Chat History" widgets for more information.
In the global "ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper > SC AI Chat" settings you can also specify the limitations for your visitors: the number of requests per 1 hour for all visitors, the number of allowed requests from 1 visitor in 1 hour, and max. tokens per 1 request. These limits are available for regular users (free chatting) and for registered users with paid subscriptions ("Premium Mode"). Please do not forget to enable premium mode in the widget's settings for registered users.
The "Model" option displays available models that are enabled in the global "ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper" settings under the "Open AI API", "Flowise AI API", and "Google AI (Gemini) API" tabs.
You can extend the functionality of the Elementor "AI Helper Chat" widget by inserting a complete chat history of a current user. The information displayed by this widget is only accessible to the logged-in users! When you click on a topic, the list of the messages will be replaced with a list of messages from the selected chat.
Please do not forget to specify the ID
of the chat ("AI Helper Chat" widget) you want to output the chat history from.
This widget extends the functionality of the Elementor "AI Helper Chat" widget by letting you create a list of suggested topics or questions for a chat beforehand. The visitors of your website can just choose a question, click on it, and proceed with communicating via live chat with AI. If no topics are specified in the widget's settings, the latest chat requests will be displayed.
Before you start, please enter the ID
of the "AI Helper Chat" widget for which you want the topics to be used as prompts (Edit AI Helper Chat > Advanced > Layout > CSS ID). Then copy this ID
into the "AI Helper Chat Topics" widget's settings into the Content > Chat ID field.
Please treat the .gif
below as an example only. The styles of the elements may vary from the ones provided with the theme.
The "AI Helper Image Generator" widget displays an image generator form on your web page. This widget requires the AI Helper add-on to be active. The form works if a real Open AI, ModelsLab, and/or Stability AI token is set in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper section. It's a PAID service!
The "Default model" option outputs a list of available Open AI, ModelsLab, and Stability AI models for generating images. You can activate the models by filling them into the list in the general "ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper" settings under the "Open AI API", "ModelsLab API", or "Stability AI API" tabs.
In the global "ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper > SC Image Generator" settings you can also specify the limitations for your visitors: the number of generated images per 1 hour and the number of allowed requests from 1 visitor during 1 hour. You can set limits for regular users (free image generation) and for registered users with paid subscriptions separately ("Premium Mode"). Please do not forget to enable premium mode in the widget's settings of image generation forms for registered users.
Once these limits are exceeded, the images from the "Demo images" section of this widget will be used (from your /wp-content/uploads/
folder).
This widget shows a form to generate music from text or audio sample. The AI Helper add-on is required. The form works if a real ModelsLab token is set in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper > ModelsLab API section. Please follow this link to generate your token, if needed. It's a PAID service!
The "Default model" option currently serves only as an indicator of whether the ModelsLab token is connected. If this field is empty, you'll need to enter the ModelsLab token in the general settings. Note that the ModelsLab service does not offer model selection options for music generation.
In the global "ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper > SC Music Generator" settings, the limitation settings for your visitors are available: the number of generated music strings per 1 hour and the number of allowed requests from 1 visitor during 1 hour. You can specify limits for regular users (free music generation) and for registered users with paid subscriptions separately ("Premium Mode"). Please do not forget to enable premium mode in the widget's settings of music generation form for registered users.
When these limits are reached, music from the widget's "Demo Music" section will play instead (from your /wp-content/uploads/
folder).
The screenshot below is for reference only. Actual element styles may vary from those provided with the theme.
This widget inserts a text generator form into your web page. Thus, your visitor can generate text (post, essay, story, poem, etc.), headings, and manipulate the text (make it longer/shorter, summarize, explain, translate, spell check, and much more). The AI Helper add-on is required. The form works if a real Open AI, Open AI Assistants, Flowise AI, or Google AI (Gemini) token is set in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper section. It's a PAID service!
In the global "ThemeREX Addons > AI Helper > SC Text Generator" settings you can also specify the limitations for your visitors: the number of requests per 1 hour for all visitors, the number of allowed requests from 1 visitor in 1 hour, and max. tokens per 1 request. You can also set these limits separately for free and paid generation. Please do not forget to enable premium mode in the widget's settings for registered users.
The Elementor "Anchor" widget inserts an anchor element that lets you link to specific parts of your page (or to other pages).
If you want to add smooth navigation between your anchors, check the Scroll to Anchor box in Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > Shortcodes > Anchor section.
This Elementor widget allows you to add an equalizer (sound) icon to your page, so your customers can turn on/off the sounds on the page themselves. It works only if the Audio Effects Add-on is installed.
The following statuses of the indicator are available:
PLEASE NOTE! The sound indicator controls only advanced sound effects. Its actions do not apply to video and audio sounds that are created using video/audio widgets or external plugins.
This widget displays posts, pages, or custom post types from a specified category or group. Just specify the post type to show the posts from in the Edit Blogger > Content > Post type field in the Elementor panel. By default, the widget outputs single posts. Please click here to view our video tutorial.
You can create additional layouts to output the posts in the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts using the Blog layout's type (Item Options section). Please see Creating Layouts section of this documentation file for more information.
You can edit the post excerpt text by opening the corresponding blog post and adjusting the text in the Excerpt field.
Enable the Excerpt field in the Preferences > General panel in the top right corner of the post.
The length (in words) of the post excerpt text is inherited from the global setting in Appearance > Customize > Blog > Posts Page > Posts Page Settings.
IMPORTANT! The layout of the block depends on the combination of 2 main options: "Blogger layout" and "Template". Please feel free to play around with these options.
You can enable additional taxonomy attributes (text color, text hover color, and icon) for definite groups/categories of posts/post types in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Extended Taxonomy tab. Then navigate to a particular category/group of posts/post types in the WP Dashboard and set the required attributes. The taxonomy for posts are available for some widget's layouts only!
Hover Effects:
Some non-standard hover effects of the blogger widget require the Mouse Helper Add-on to be active. Such hover effects are embedded into the widget style: Layout "List", Template "Simple (hover)". The image on hover is a featured image of a particular post.
The image hover effects highlighted in the screenshot below require the Image Effects Add-on to be active. This list of effects is constantly being expanded.
PLEASE NOTE! We are continuously increasing the number of widget styles and hover effects. That is why we strongly recommend that you activate all add-ons provided with the theme to make the widget work properly.
This Elementor widget displays buttons.
This Elementor widget allows you to make a section switcher with two positions or tabs. You can use Elementor sections from the current page (by their IDs), pre-built custom layouts, or Elementor templates as "slides". The switching effect can be chosen from Swap, Slide, or Fade. The colors for the switcher and titles are customizable.
The examples below are placed for demonstration purposes only! The styles and images may vary from the ones provided with the theme!
A few words on how the tabs example was created.
Open the widget's settings panel and set the content for the tabs. Our goal is to make each tab with contact information trigger its own map by the section ID when you click on the tab. It means, that the sections (with maps) with these IDs should be placed below the "Content Switcher" widget with tabs. So, the "Content Type" option is set to "Section ID" and the section ID is specified. We are using different IDs for each tab.
Place the sections with google maps and assign the IDs to them.
The system will automatically display the needed section depending on the active tab.
This Elementor widget displays a time counter of two types:
This widget allows you to build unique linked banners, assembled through Elementor page builder.
This Elementor widget inserts a link with absolute position, that will overlap a parent section or column. This makes the whole section/column clickable. This widget stays invisible itself, so the section or column should contain any other element.
This Elementor widget displays a contact form. The text for the checkbox "I agree..." is set in Appearance > Customize > General > Text with Privacy Policy link.
To add/customize the Privacy Policy link, navigate to Settings (WP Dashboard) > Privacy and specify the page that will be used as a Privacy Policy one.
PLEASE NOTE! In case you are planning to use the default form without consent checkbox, just leave the "Text with Privacy Policy link" option empty in the Appearance > Customize > General section!
Check the following directory .../wp-content/plugins/trx_addons/сomponents/shortcodes/form
for the form-related files such as tpl.default.php, tpl.detailed.php and others. Each of these files is responsible for displaying the form in different styles. Choose the necessary file, open it with any text editor (for example Sublime or Atom), and modify the code according to your needs.
To translate the form fields edit .pot
file in the following directory .../wp-content/plugins/trx_addons/languages/...
. See the Theme Translation section for more information.
This Elementor widget displays a Google map. Make sure there is a valid API key in the "Google API key" field on the Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > API tab.
This Elementor widget inserts an image with an unlimited number of hotspots, that are fully customizable. The content for the hotspots can be set manually (an image, title, subtitle, price, link, description) or can be inherited from a definite post.
To set the post from which you need to take the content for your hotspot, choose "Post" in the "Data Source" dropdown, click on the "Post" field, and start typing in your post title. The system will automatically find the post that matches your search request. Click on the post title and save your changes.
The "Horizontal Scroll" widget allows you to create a page block that will move horizontally when you scroll down the page. This effect is designed for the sections (slides) with fullscreen height.
Select which type of content for slides to use in the widget's settings.
This Elementor widget displays fontello icon(s), SVG-icon(s), or image(s) with title and description.
You can expand the list of available fontello icons by adding new ones from the Fontello website. To add new icons, proceed to wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/css/font-icons/config.json
. Watch this video guide for more information.
PLEASE NOTE! The location of the config.json
file and website page builder with the available set of widgets/shortcodes in your theme may vary from the video provided!
This Elementor widget inserts two images for comparison ("Before" and "After"). This widget is fully customizable, including the style and position of a handler, the direction of a separator, text "Before"/"After" and its position, uploading handler image/icon, etc.
This widget shows an OpenStreet map with a specified address, like an alternative to Google Maps.
The OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free project, but custom styles for the maps are offered by various third-party resources, which limit the number of requests per month or per day:
You can set the OpenStreetMap API script and styles for the map in the Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > API tab.
Map markers customization
If you want to use a single marker on the map with the default OSM icon, specify its parameters directly in the "Edit OpenStreet Map > Content > OpenStreet Map > Address" field.
For multiple markers, custom markers, or text tooltips, go to "Edit OpenStreet Map > Content > Markers" and create a list of markers.
When placing markers, you can specify their positions using a regular address or a pair of Latitude and Longitude (Lat, Lng) coordinates. You can also set an image for a marker in the widget's parameters. Note that the "zero" point of the marker is the center of its bottom edge.
The "Title" field - displays a tooltip when you hover the mouse over a marker.
The "Description" field - a detailed description of the marker, which appears in a pop-up block when you click on this marker. The description may contain HTML markup for inserting pictures and/or text formatting.
This Elementor widget inserts a price table divided by blocks.
This Elementor widget inserts a promo block. It also allows you to use custom images, icons and apply different color schemes.
This Elementor widget displays skills counters and pie charts.
Additional CSS class .extra-size-skills
enlarges the counter in "Alter" layout.
This Elementor widget lets you insert the following type of sliders, namely:
Select which type of slider to show in the Slider Engine option under the content tab.
Example (Swiper Slider):
The Swiper Slider lets you display your posts, pages, or custom post types in a form of a slider. Enhance the slider by adding preview image thumbnails using Slider Controller, and navigation arrows using the Slider Controls or via the Slider widgets' settings under Layout > Controls tab.
Example (ElastiStack Slider):
ElastiStack is a type of slider that allows you to navigate through a stack of slides by dragging away the first item.
Slider Controller displays image thumbnails and navigation arrows for the Swiper Slider engine in the Slider widget.
Slider Controls adds navigation pointers for the Swiper Slider engine in the Slider widget.
Make sure to enter the ID
of the Slider widget you want to control. Enter the ID first into the Slider widget settings (under the Advanced > CSS ID), and then copy it into the Slider Controller/Slider Controls settings into the Content > Slave Slider ID field.
This widget adds a colored smoke effect following mouse movements. It works only if the Smoke/Fog Add-on is installed. The effect can be assigned to the whole page, section, or column (the "Place" option).
Three types of effects are available: smoke, fog, and spots.
The background color, specified in this widget, overrides the same parameter of the area, to which the effect is applied (section, column, or the whole page).
Example:
This Elementor widget displays social icons. You can specify the necessary links (URLs) to your social profiles in the widget's settings under the content tab as well as expand the list of available icons by adding new ones from the Fontello website. To add new icons proceed to wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/css/font-icons/config.json
. Watch this video guide for more information.
PLEASE NOTE! The location of the config.json
file and website page builder with the available set of widgets/shortcodes in your theme may vary from the video provided!
If empty, the social icons will inherit the links (URLs) to your social profiles specified in the Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab.
You can create a section with images that flip like a slider. Inactive slides are vertically compressed when you scroll up/down the page. A title and an optional subtitle overlay the slides. Slides can be taken from posts (featured images) or set manually.
The sample below shows you how it works. The actual styles and images may differ from the ones provided with the theme!
This Elementor widget inserts a regular table, created using any table generator, like https://www.impressivewebs.com/html-table-code-generator/.
This Elementor widget inserts a regular title with a subtitle, some description, and a button.
You can decorate your titles with auto typing text effects. Please view our video tutorial for more information.
The following additional CSS classes are available to highlight some words in a title. The class names can be specified in the "Title" field using <span>
or <u>
tag.
Have a <span class="accent1">Cool Project?</span> ||Get in touch!
Text color changing:
.has-text-link-color
or .accent1
- the text color is inherited from Appearance > Customize > Colors > your color scheme > Main > Link.
.has-text-link-2-color
or .accent2
- the text color is inherited from Appearance > Customize > Colors > your color scheme > Main > Accent 2.
.has-text-link-3-color
or .accent3
- the text color is inherited from Appearance > Customize > Colors > your color scheme > Main > Accent 3.
.alter_link
- the text color is inherited from Appearance > Customize > Colors > your color scheme > Alter > Link.
.alter_link2
- the text color inherits value from Appearance > Customize > Colors > your color scheme > Alter > Accent 2.
.alter_link3
- the text color is inherited from Appearance > Customize > Colors > your color scheme > Alter > Accent 3.
Background color change:
.extra_bg
- makes the background color inherit value from Appearance > Customize > Colors > your color scheme > Extra > Background Color.
Meet the people ||who <span class="extra_bg">take risks</span>
This widget displays an "About Me" block with some personal information of the website's owner or any other person. If you leave the options empty, they will inherit data from the following options on the admin's profile page: "Profile Picture" (for photo), "Username" (for name), and "Biographical Info" (for description). You can hide any option by inserting the #
sign in the corresponding field in the widget's settings.
The widget is designed to be used in a sidebar.
This Elementor widget inserts an Audio Player block. You can use a locally uploaded audio file (from your Media library) or an external one (through embedded HTML code). The system ignores the "Audio caption" and "Author name" options if the embedded code is used.
This Elementor widget displays a regular banner image linked or not as well as any object inserted using HTML code (banner, iFrame for video, audio, etc.).
This Elementor widget displays a regular WP calendar. You can choose the way of shortening the weekday names: to one (first) letter or to three letters.
This Elementor widget displays a list of post or product categories/tags/formats, layouts, or CPT groups (if CPT are available in the theme). By default, it inserts post categories. You can choose the post type to show the categories/tags/groups from in the Edit Categories List > Content > Post type field.
In case you want to display thumbs with the titles, you should check the "Large Image" or "Small Image" attribute options and enable these attributes for the needed category/group of posts/post types in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Extended Taxonomy tab. Then navigate to a particular category/group of posts/post types in the WP Dashboard and upload the images (if this option is available for a definite group of posts).
This Elementor widget inserts a block with a logo, a short description, contact information, and social links. Please specify the necessary links (URLs) to your social profiles in the Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab. If you want to add a map, make sure there is a valid API key in the Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > API tab.
The Custom Links widget inserts custom links with icons, titles, and descriptions. You can also create a list with links or a menu, using this widget.
This Elementor widget displays the latest photos from your Instagram account or demo photos in a form of a feed on your WordPress website. You can connect to your Instagram account in the Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > API section (you need a valid Instagram Access Token).
Demo mode means that the images will be taken from your demo folder (/wp-content/uploads/
).
This Elementor widget inserts popular posts. The titles for tabs can be managed in Edit Popular Posts > Layout > Tabs. This widget is designed to be used in a sidebar.
You can enable additional taxonomy attributes (text color, text hover color, and icon) for definite categories of posts in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Extended Taxonomy tab. Then navigate to a particular post category in WP Dashboard > Posts > Categories and set the required attributes.
This Elementor widget displays the most recent posts. You can set additional options in the "Details" section in the element's settings window. This widget is designed to be used in a sidebar.
You can enable additional taxonomy attributes (text color, text hover color, and icon) for definite categories of posts in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Extended Taxonomy tab. Then navigate to a particular post category in WP Dashboard > Posts > Categories and set the required attributes.
This Elementor widget displays social icons of the social networks you are subscribed to. Please specify the necessary links (URLs) to your social profiles in the Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > Socials tab. Works in a sidebar (as a widget) as well.
This Elementor widget displays a video file. The widget supports direct links from YouTube, Vimeo, or locally downloaded video files. You can also insert a video through HTML code from any video hosting platform.
This Elementor widget shows a list of videos:
You can enable additional taxonomy attributes (text color, text hover color, and icon) for definite categories of posts in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Extended Taxonomy tab. Then navigate to a particular post category in WP Dashboard > Posts > Categories and set the required attributes.
This Elementor widget displays portfolio posts. To manage "Portfolio" proceed to the WordPress Dashboard Menu > Portfolio post type. Update "Portfolio Groups", "Featured Image" (for an image), "Excerpt" (for the summary) settings, and the general content section (if the "Excerpt" section is empty) of a single post. The content or excerpt settings work for the "Band" widget style.
PLEASE NOTE! In case the theme lacks portfolio post examples, please add them prior to utilizing this Elementor widget.
Example (the first post is shown on hover):
You can enable additional taxonomy attributes (text color, text hover color, and icon) for definite groups of portfolio post type in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Extended Taxonomy tab. Then navigate to a particular group of portfolio post type in WP Dashboard > Portfolio > Portfolio Groups and set the required attributes.
PLEASE NOTE! The hover effects of some widget styles require additional add-ons to be active.
For example:
We are still developing new widget styles and hover effects, so we strongly recommend that you activate all add-ons provided with the theme to make the widget work properly.
This Elementor widget displays posts/pages/custom post types from a specified category or group. By default, it inserts available services.
To manage "Services" proceed to the WordPress Dashboard Menu > Services post type. Use "Services Groups", "Item Options" (for the icon/pictogram and price), "Featured Image" (for the image), "Excerpt" (for the summary) settings, and the general content section (if the "Excerpt" section is empty) to customize the post.
PLEASE NOTE! If the theme does not provide any examples of service posts, please add the posts before using this Elementor widget.
You can choose whether to display image/pictogram/icon/number in the services widget's content settings.
The icon and pictogram are set in the "Item Options" section on single service post.
The excerpt section can be hidden in the Layout tab.
In the Edit Services > Content > Post type field you can select another type of posts for output: posts/pages/custom posts types.
You can enable additional taxonomy attributes (text color, text hover color and icon) for definite groups of services post type in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Extended Taxonomy tab. Then navigate to a particular group of services post type in WP Dashboard > Services > Services Groups and set the required attributes.
PLEASE NOTE! We are continuously increasing the number of widget styles and hover effects. That is why we strongly recommend that you activate all add-ons provided with the theme to make the widget work properly.
This Elementor widget displays team members. To manage "Teams" proceed to the WordPress Dashboard Menu > Team post type. Use "Team Groups", "Item Options" (for the position and social links), "Featured Image" and "Excerpt" (for the summary) settings to customize the post.
The summary is available for the "Alter", "List", and "Metro" widget's layouts ONLY!
PLEASE NOTE! If there are no pre-built team member posts examples in the theme, kindly create posts before using this Elementor widget.
This Elementor widget displays a testimonials block. To manage "Testimonials" proceed to the WordPress Dashboard Menu > Testimonials post type. Use "Testimonial Groups", "Item Options" (for the position or any other text and author's rating), "Featured Image", "Excerpt" (for the summary) settings, and content section (in case the "Excerpt" section is empty) to customize the post.
PLEASE NOTE! If the theme does not offer single testimonial post samples, ensure to create such posts before employing this Elementor widget.
This Elementor widget displays pre-built contact forms. The Contact Form 7 plugin must be installed and active for this functionality. The forms can be managed in the Contact (WP Dashboard) > Contact Forms section.
This Elementor widget outputs products. You can customize the single products in the Products (WP Dashboard) > All Products section. Ensure the WooCommerce plugin is installed and active to access this widget.
This Elementor widget inserts an advanced search form for products (requires the WooCommerce plugin). Please note that the widget in "Inline" style works on all pages. The rest available styles work on the shop list page only!
You can easily add new field filters in WP Dashboard > Products > Attributes
This Elementor widget displays a page title, breadcrumbs, and a description of a product category on shop-related pages. You can use this widget for creating separate custom header layouts for shop-related pages ONLY! The description inherits content from the back-end settings of a definite product category. The description becomes visible on product category pages ONLY!
This widget requires the WooCommerce plugin to be active.
Inserts content in different ways, depending on the type of layout:
Select which type of layout to use in the layouts widget's content settings.
The algorithm for building a popup notification or panel:
example_popup
.
#
), as an address for the link or button that should trigger the popup/panel.The background color for the panels is inherited from the "Layouts" widget's color scheme, specified in a particular header layout. Use the Elementor navigator to open the settings, if needed.
Example (Default layout):
The rest widgets from this group are described in the Layouts Widgets section of this documentation file.
As a free addition to this theme, we have included a unique ThemeREX Addons plugin. Once activated, it allows expanding the options of the theme noticeably. These add-ons allow you to use custom widgets sets and custom Elementor widgets, show custom post types, set links to your social profiles as well as some advanced theme-specific settings.
After the plugin's installation, the "ThemeREX Addons" menu item should appear in the "Theme Panel" tab in the WordPress dashboard menu panel.
Below is a brief description of all the available settings.
PLEASE NOTE! Please treat the screenshots in this chapter as pure examples. The theme settings (enabled/disabled options) may vary from the ones in your theme.
Settings of this tab define the general behavior of your theme.
.js
and style-related .css
data. For better theme performance the system automatically re-compiles/re-merges these files into a single .js/.css
related one after every "Save Options" button click in Customizer (Appearance > Customize) and ThemeREX Addons settings (Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons).
trx_addons.css
, trx_addons.js
, __colors.css
, __style.css
, __scripts.js
.
Images
Links
target="_blank"
to all external links.404 Page
Menu
Search Enhance
Settings of this tab allow you to improve page loading speed.
Cache Manager
/uploads/trx_addons/cache
folder.
Layouts
Menu
This section contains settings for correct loading maps (Google maps and OpenStreet maps) as well as connecting to your profiles on Facebook and Instagram.
Google Maps API
Google Places API
Google Analytics
HTML
/JS
code to be inserted before the closing tag </head>
on each page of this site.HTML
/JS
code to be inserted before the closing tag </body>
on each page of this site.PLEASE NOTE! Check this video tutorial for more information on how to setup Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager and add them to your website.
The OpenStreet Maps contain almost all the parameters like the Google Maps, except for the animated icons. We have implemented full support for clustering, geolocation, and geocoding.
You can display the OpenStreet Maps on your website using the Elementor OpenStreet Map widget (ThemeREX Addons Elements group) and in custom post metas, if the theme provides any (like, Properties CPT).
The OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free project, but custom styles for the maps are offered by various third-party resources, which limit the number of requests per month or per day:
256x256
or 512x512
cells. The first ones are more detailed, but consume 4 times more requests to display one map.JSON
with map styles from any compatible tiler service. Token and MaxZoom are optional. The token is required to access some services, the maxzoom is needed for some tiles). Add as many items as you need.Here, you can specify Facebook App ID.
These settings allow you to connect to your Instagram account. Use the "ThemeREX Instagram Feed" widget (Appearance > Widgets) or Elementor "Instagram" widget (ThemeREX Addons Elements group) to output the Instagram photos.
How to get Access Token from Instagram:
These are the basic settings for AI Helper. Here, you can insert your own Open AI, ModelsLab AI, Stability AI, Flowise AI, and Google AI tokens, choose the models for generating images/chats/audio here as well as specify the limitations for your customers to generate images/text/audio/music from your website or for chat requests (if you have inserted the corresponding widgets/blocks into your web page). It's a PAID service!
Links for generating tokens:
Here you can enable/disable AI Assistant in your Dashboard, extend support for using AI Assistant, and choose default text model for text generations.
AI Assistant
Common settings
Below you can find settings of the AI Helper for Open AI API.
login:password
.
O
- less random, 2
- creative, but more random.
A list of assistants created in the GPT4 Plus user account and available for use as an embedded chatbot and/or model in the AI Chat block/Elementor widget.
Please check our video tutorial.
If the Open AI models are not enough for you, you can use ModelsLab service for generating images/audio/music. Just enter your own ModelsLab token and set the available parameters. By default, we have activated 10+ image models, though you can easily add new ones. The number of activated models is unlimited. The models for audio/music generation should be specified in the "AI Helper Audio Generator" or "AI Helper Music Generator" block/Elementor widgets if the corresponding option is available.
Feel free to check out our video tutorial concerning the Stable Diffusion API integration:
Our theme also supports Stability AI API for generating images.
Flowise AI API settings for the AI Helper to ensure proper AI chat and text generation functionality:
Available AI Helper settings for optimal AI chat performance and proper text generation with the Google AI (Gemini):
login:password
.
Take a look at our video tutorial for step-by-step guidance on integrating Google's Gemini AI API with your WordPress site.
Specify a scope and HTML code for each new embedding. In the "URL contain" field, you can list the parts of the address (each part separated by a comma or on a new line), if any match the current page, this block will be displayed. In the "HTML code" field, paste the code snippet you received when you created/exported the chatbot in your Flowise AI, VoiceFlow, etc. personal account. You can also use [trx_sc_chat type='popup' ...]
shortcode to insert "AI Helper Chat".
The "AI Helper" add-on allows you to display image, audio, and/or music generator forms on your web page, using the "AI Helper Image Generator", "AI Helper Audio Generator", and "AI Helper Music Generator" Gutenberg blocks or Elementor widgets ("ThemeREX Addons Elements" group).
Common settings
Limits for a Free Mode
Limits for a Premium Mode
This section is for those who want to create a paid image/audio/music generation service. Here, you can set the limits for paid usage. The options below can be applied to the "AI Helper Image Generator", "AI Helper Audio Generator", and "AI Helper Music Generator" Gutenberg blocks or Elementor widgets ("ThemeREX Addons Elements" group) with the "Premium Mode" option enabled.
Ensure restricted access to pages with these widgets by providing a link to the paid access page in the alert message from the "Limits for a Free Mode" section.
You can insert a text generator form and AI chat right into your web page, using "AI Helper Text Generator" and "AI Helper Chat" Gutenberg blocks or Elementor widgets ("ThemeREX Addons Elements" group). Thus, your visitor can generate text and headings, manipulate the text, as well as communicate with OpenAI via live chat (ask questions and get answers on any topics) directly from your website.
Common settings
O
- less random, 2
- creative, but more random.
Limits for a Free Mode
Limits for a Premium Mode
This section is for those who want to create a paid text generation service or paid chat. Here you can set the limits for paid usage. The options below can be applied to the "AI Helper Text Generator" and "AI Helper Chat" Gutenberg blocks or Elementor widgets ("ThemeREX Addons Elements" group) with the "Premium Mode" option enabled.
Ensure restricted access to pages with these widgets by providing a link to the paid access page in the alert message from the "Limits for a Free Mode" section.
PLEASE NOTE! More information about the "AI Helper" Add-on is available here.
Here you can specify the parameters of the User's Login and Registration.
Here you can specify all the necessary links (URLs) to your social profiles. Just paste the permanent URL addresses into the needed fields and click "Save."
Select an icon/image, specify social network's title and provide the URL to your profile. Just paste the permanent URL addresses into the needed fields and click "Save."
The icons are used from the standard Fontello icons set. You can expand the list of available icons by adding new ones from the fontello website. To add new icons proceed to wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/css/font-icons/config.json
. Watch this video guide for more information.
PLEASE NOTE! The location of the config.json
file and website page builder with the available set of widgets/shortcodes in your theme may vary from the video provided!
Specify URLs to share your posts in the social networks. If empty - no share post in this social network is used.
You can use the following macros to include post's parts into the URL:
{link}
- post's URL;{title}
- title of the post;{descr}
- excerpt of the post;{image}
- post's featured image URL;{id}
- post's ID;Add Open Graph tags - Enable/disable Open Graph tags. They are responsible for the information (picture, title, description) that appears on the wall of the user, when he clicks on the "Share" icon inn your blog. They are used by many popular social networks such as Facebook.
The "Allow extended emotions" option allows you to enable extended emotions set. The users can mark single posts with one nontypical emotion. Just specify the emotion names, upload the necessary icons, and click on the "Save" button.
These settings allow you to enable banners on single posts and specify parameters for banners.
PLEASE NOTE! The "Banner code" option allows using HTML code only!
Here you can enable the reviews section for posts/pages/post types and specify rating settings.
The quantity of accessible post types varies depending on the installed plugins.
Once you have enabled the reviews section globally, you should enable reviews on a single post/page/post type. Please open a post/page/post type and check the "Enable review" option in the Item Options > Review section.
If you want to display a rating above the comment form, please navigate to a particular post/page/post type in the WP Dashboard and allow comments section, like in the screenshot below:
In this section, you can add background music and sound effects on mouse events (click, hover, etc.) to your website.
The number of available post types depends on the plugins installed.
The settings of this section define the behavior of a mouse helper.
This section is responsible for applying secondary image functionality to a definite post type. A secondary image is a separate hover image for a single post that can be viewed on custom post type archive pages and in page sections that are built using the Elementor widgets, like Blogger, Services, Team, etc.
The variety of post types you can access depends on the plugins installed on your system.
To add such a hover effect to a single post, open the back-end view of the post, and upload the image in the "Secondary Image" section.
As a result, you will get something like this on the front end:
Here you can define whether you want to use the Anchor widget or not, specify hover effects for form fields, choose the type of posts selector for some widgets like Blogger, Services, and Team and also allow to use custom layouts and saved templates inside tabs (for Elementor ONLY!).
Example of advanced posts selector:
The "Allow custom layouts" option adds the "Content type" dropdown to the Elementor "Tabs" widget, allowing you to use custom layouts and saved templates inside tabs. We recommend leaving this option disabled if you are not planning to insert layouts/templates inside tabs.
Here you can enable some extended taxonomy attributes for a particular group/category of posts/post types. You can output the large/small image using the Categories List widget (ThemeREX Addons Elements group). The rest attributes can be displayed on a blog-stream page or using the Elementor "Blogger"/"Slider (Swiper)"/"Popular Posts"/"Recent Posts"/"Video List"/"Services"/"Portfolio" widgets (ThemeREX Addons Elements group).
The taxonomy list may vary depending on the plugins installed.
Navigate to a particular category/group of posts/post types in the WP Dashboard and set the required attributes.
The settings of this section override the default theme's grid classes, page wrap class, and recreate layouts. We recommend leaving these settings intact.
Create Layouts setting is responsible for recreating the set of predefined layouts. It might become useful in case there are no layouts available after theme installation.
Columns Grid
column-$1_$2
, where $1 - column width, $2 - total number of columns: column-1_4
, column-2_3
, etc. If empty - use plugin's internal grid.Page wrappers
Advanced theme add-ons enhance the functionality of a WordPress theme. They come prepacked with the theme and require the ThemeREX Addons plugin to be active.
Once you have activated your theme (entered your purchase code), please navigate to the Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > Theme Dashboard > Addons tab and make sure that all advanced add-ons, provided with the theme, are active. If an add-on is not downloaded by default and you want to use its functionality, please download this add-on yourself. Now you can proceed with demo data installation and further theme customization. Here you can activate/deactivate, download or update add-ons if needed.
PLEASE NOTE! The following advanced theme add-ons come with the theme.
We have integrated Open AI content generation functionality into our themes. It means that you can use ChatGPT right through your WordPress dashboard and save your time while creating content for pages, posts, and Custom Post Types (Services, Team, Portfolio, and Testimonials) and generate images right through the WordPress Media Library Selector popup. Moreover, you can let your visitors generate images/text/audio/music or communicate with OpenAI via live chat (ask questions and get answers on any topics) directly from your website (if you have inserted the corresponding widgets/blocks into your web page). This add-on is still in development. New features will come soon.
Before you start, please navigate to Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons and find the "AI Helper" section. Here, you can insert your own Open AI, ModelsLab (formerly Stable Diffusion), Stability AI, Flowise AI, and/or Google AI (Gemini) tokens, choose the models for generating images/chats/audio here as well as specify the limitations for your customers to generate images/text/audio/music from your website or for chat requests and much more. It's a PAID service! Please click here to find the description of the global AI Helper settings.
Links for generating tokens:
Currently, Open AI Helper can:
256x256
, 512x512
, 1024x1024
, 1792x1024
(Open AI DALL-E-3 only), or 1024x1792
(Open AI DALL-E-3 only) pixels. Smaller images can be generated faster.
With the help of the Audio Effects Add-on, you can easily set music on page loading, background music, and sound effects on mouse events (click, hover, etc.) on your website.
Once the add-on is active, the "Audio Effects" section will appear in Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons. These are the global settings. Here you can select the post types for adding params with audio effects, enable audio effects for the entire site, and set the behavior of each default sound effect globally.
If you have enabled the audio effects for a definite post type, you will gain control over the sound effects on single posts/pages from this post type in their Item Options settings. These individual settings of each page/post may override global settings made with "Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons".
Moreover, the sounds on hover can be added individually to any page element through Elementor settings of a definite widget. Open a widget, proceed to the Advanced or Content tab (depending on the widget), and in the "Audio Effects" section specify the needed parameters.
To let your customers turn on/off the sounds on a single page/post themselves, please use the Elementor "Audio Effects" widget, which adds an equalizer (sound) icon to your page.
The following statuses of the indicator are available:
PLEASE NOTE! The sounds indicator controls only advanced sound effects. Its actions do not apply to video and audio sounds that are created using video/audio widgets or external plugins.
The Background Colors Add-on allows you to create web pages with the background color, which changes smoothly from one page area to another as you scroll down the page if this page is built using the Elementor page builder.
If this add-on is active, you can find the "Background Key Color" section under the page element > Advanced tab.
You set the markers for page elements (titles, Blogger, etc., but NOT for sections or columns) and specify the background colors for these areas. Once the first page element with the marker appears in the center of the screen, the background color will be applied with the maximal color intensity (saturation). While you are scrolling down the page, the background color is gradually fading out, becoming more transparent, and merges with the background color of the next page element. You continue scrolling down the page and the second background color becomes more vivid with a pick when the page element with the second color marker reaches the center of the screen. Then the background color fades out.
"Target Selector" option - specify the CSS selector (ID or CSS class) of any page element from the current page to which the background color will be applied. Do not forget to place a pound sign (#
) before the ID of a page element, like #selector1
and dot before the CSS class. If empty, the background will be changed for the entire page.
This add-on is embedded into the theme and can not be deactivated. The add-on enhances the Elementor functionality by adding "Background Text" parameters to Elementor sections (rows) helping you create background text lines and animate them when they enter the visible area of the window. You can also make this text "scroll", like in a news ticker. In this case, after the entrance animation, the background text starts scrolling continuously.
To decorate your theme, open your page through the Elementor page builder, find the page row (Elementor section) to which the "background text" functionality you would like to apply, and proceed to Edit Section > Style > Background Text in the Elementor widgets panel. Here you can specify the text, text color, font family, font size, text shadow, and other parameters for your background line.
Below, you can find some clarifications of the basic options:
0
, it means without scrolling.
0
).
.PNG
) over a background text line to add a "texture" effect to it.
We have used the following news tickers on our demos:
"Bags and Accessories" homepage:
Handbags<span class="icon-marquee"></span>Accessories<span class="icon-marquee"></span>Fashion bags<span class="icon-marquee"></span>Designer purses<span class="icon-marquee"></span>Trendy handbags<span class="icon-marquee"></span>
The span class icon-marquee
adds an icon before text, specified in the "Text" option, Edit Inner Section > Style > Background Text..
<span class="icon-marquee"></span>
The icon-marquee
stands for the title of the fontello icon. You can view the whole list of icons in wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/css/font-icons/css/fontello.css
. This is a Fontello icons set that comes with the theme. You can expand the list of available icons by adding new ones from the fontello website. To add new icons proceed to wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/css/font-icons/config.json
. Watch this video guide for more information.
Please note that the location of the config.json
file and website page builder with the available set of widgets/shortcodes in your theme may vary from the video provided!
To manage the color of the icon, please proceed to the Edit Inner Section > Style > Background Text > Delimiter section.
The Dynamic Background Add-on allows you to create unusual background effects for some page elements. It fills the page section with background color gradually in a form of a circle or with a fade effect, while you are scrolling down the page.
Once the add-on is active, a "Dynamic Background" section will appear in the Elementor widgets' settings, under the "Advanced" tab. These settings are available for page elements (icon, title, text, image, etc.) and NOT for sections and columns.
To add such an effect to your page, please choose a page element (icon, title, text, image, etc.) and in the widget's settings identify this page element as a Starting point. Specify the rest parameters, like ID, background effect, background color, delay, etс. Now you need to find another page element and identify it as an End point.
The effect begins when your starting breakpoint becomes visible in the window and lasts till the end breakpoint reaches the visible area of the window. The starting and end breakpoints should have the same ID to make a "pair".
The "Shift" option indicates the shift in percentage (from -100%
to 100%
of the screen height) of the start/end point of the effect from the bottom of the window, which is the default point of moving.
The negative shift means that the start/end point of the effect will not reach the bottom of the window.
The positive shift means that the effect will start/end when the point reaches the bottom of the window and moves the set distance downward (in percentage from the window height).
The sections with dynamic background effects can intersect.
PLEASE NOTE!Please also view this video tutorial on how to customize/create a dynamic background.
This add-on expands the functionality of the Elementor page builder by adding "Expand / Collapse" section to the Elementor widgets' settings. This allows you to create "drop-down" blocks from any element (sections, columns, widgets).
The block shrinks to the size set in its settings, with a gradient shade. A button shows up at the bottom. Tapping it makes the block expand, and tapping it again makes this block collapse.
The example below is placed for demonstration purposes only! The styles and images may vary from the ones provided with the theme.
You can adjust the color and size of the gradient, the height of the "collapsed" block and set the button options for the collapsed and expanded states separately (background color, border color, inscription color, and its text, icon).
This add-on adds modern image hover effects, based on OpenGL and curtains.js
library. The image hover effects work for screen resolutions 1280px
and above.
After the add-on's activation, the "Image effects" section will appear in the Elementor widgets panel for Elementor "Image" widget under the Content tab. Here you can select the image hover effect from the drop-down list and specify the needed parameters.
New hover effects are added to the Elementor widgets that deal with post images, like the Elementor Blogger widget (ThemeREX Addons Elements group). We continuously expand the list of new hover effects.
By default, the waves hover effect is embedded in the Elementor Portfolio widget (ThemeREX Addons Elements group) in "Band" style and requires the Image Effects Add-on to be active.
This add-on displays dynamic suggestions when the mouse hovers over various page objects.
Once the add-on is active, the "Mouse helper" section should appear in the Theme Panel > ThemeREX Addons > Mouse helper tab in the WordPress dashboard menu panel. Here you can set the behavior of the mouse helper globally.
PLEASE NOTE! By default, the mouse helper inherits the theme colors. You can also override these color settings by the individual ones for a particular page section/object.
In case you want the mouse helper to display some special information for a definite page section or just change the cursor style over a specific section/element, you can proceed to the Elementor widgets panel, enable the mouse helper for a particular section/column/widget and specify additional settings (text, background image, icon, etc.) in the Advanced > Mouse Helper section.
Below, you can find some clarifications of the basic options:
px
.
Moreover, the Mouse Helper Add-on enhances some Elementor widgets (Title, Promo, etc.) with the "Highlight on mouse hover" function, allowing you to make your titles unique. View on Hover
PLEASE NOTE!Please also view our video tutorial about creating mouse helpers.
Additional Examples:
By default, an "image on hover" effect is embedded into the following Elementor widgets. The image on hover is a featured image of a particular post.
This add-on is responsible for providing the possibility to upload a separate image that will be used as a hover for the existing image of a single post. Such hovers can be viewed on custom post type archive pages and in page sections that are built using the Elementor widgets, like Blogger, Services, Team, etc.
First of all, you should specify the post types to which the secondary image functionality will be applied in the Theme Panel (WP Dashboard) > ThemeREX Addons > Secondary Image section.
Once this is done, open the back-end view of a single post from the selected post type and upload a hover image in the "Secondary Image" section. Please note that this section is draggable.
This add-on can definitely improve the design of your website and draw the attention of your potential customers. It allows you to create extraordinary colored smoke effects, that will follow any mouse movements of your website's visitors.
Once you have activated the add-on, a new Elementor "Smoke" widget, and Gutenberg "Smoke" block will appear in the "ThemeREX Addons Elements" group.
Three types of effects are available: smoke, fog, and spots. They can be assigned to the whole page, section, or column ("Place" option). You can play around with the settings to achieve the best result.
PLEASE NOTE!The background color, specified in this widget/block, overrides the same parameter of the area, to which the effect is applied (section, column, or the whole page).
This extension expands theme functionality by providing extra theme styles, new animation styles, additional types of available Elementor widgets, and much more. We are still improving our theme and in order to get new effects and features, that we have implemented into the theme during the last updates, just download this add-on and make sure it is active. No further actions are required.
This section contains a brief description, as well as references, to some plugins available with this theme.
This plugin allows you to insert newsletter popups, a cookie notice, or a notification onto your website. Please click here for more information about this plugin.
The demo popup can be customized in the WP Dashboard > Settings > Popups tab:
Above you can find an example of a popup notification with content taken from a custom layout. The custom layouts can be managed in the WP Dashboard > Theme Layouts > Custom tab.
This plugin allows you to create a chatbot like ChatGPT (or any other), generate content and images, let you organize everything in templates, quickly suggest titles and excerpts, track your OpenAI usage stats, and much more! It can also significantly help you with translation, correction, SEO, suggestion, WooCommerce product fields, etc.
Currently, the AI Engine plugin supports ChatGPT, GPT-3, GPT-4, and GPT-4 32k models.
Please view the links below for more information about the AI Engine plugin:
Contact Form 7 can manage multiple contact forms, plus you can customize the form and the mail contents flexibly with simple markup. The form supports Ajax-powered submitting, CAPTCHA, Akismet spam filtering, and so on.
Check this link for more information. More guides are available here (video tutorial) and here.
The theme comes with pre-built contact forms that can be customized in Contact (WP Dashboard) > Contact Forms. Below, you can find an example of one of them.
[contact-form-7 id="df9d433" title="Contact form (main)"]
PLEASE NOTE! According to General Data Protection Regulation, you need to make your forms compliant. Some pre-built forms, that come with this theme, already have the corresponding "I agree..." checkboxes.
For newly created forms you should add the consent checkboxes in ONE of the following ways:
[acceptance acceptance-...]
tag, like in the example below:
To make your customization even easier we have added the Elementor Page Builder to this theme. Before you start, please check these Elementor-related tutorials. They will give you a basic understanding of how to build a page properly.
MailChimp is a newsletter service that allows you to send out email campaigns to a list of email subscribers. MailChimp is free for lists of up to 2000 subscribers, which is why it is the newsletter service of choice for thousands of businesses.
This plugin acts as a bridge between your WordPress site and your MailChimp account, connecting the two together.
Check this link for more information.
More guides are available here.
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-1"]
Please find the back-end settings under the WP Dashboard menu > MC4WP > MailChimp tab.
We have used different styles of the same subscription form in our demo. The element ID (like: element_id="style-1"
) stands for the styles that are available, ranging from 1 to 11.
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-1"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-2"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-3"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-4"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-5"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-6"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-7"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-8"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-9"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-10"]
[mc4wp_form id="461" element_id="style-11"]
If you need to display posts, pages, or custom post types in a form of a slider, also check out Swiper Slider.
Our theme is fully compatible with an extremely powerful Revolution Slider plugin. It allows you to create an unlimited number of sliders and set anywhere you want on the page within the necessary widget. Please view our article for more information about revolution slider customization.
Check the following links for more information regarding the Revolution Slider functionality:
Below is an example of the Revolution Slider's main page back end (default slider style with slides):
Custom CSS code is specified in Module General Options > CSS/jQuery section.
The Revolution slider also allows you to use the images from the already created website elements like posts/pages as well as from social profile streams, etc. This method also preserves adding the needed information (text/buttons) or effects via slider layers. Such images can be specified in Slider Settings. Just open a particular slider, navigate to the "Module General Options" tab (gear icon), and set the required parameters in the Content section.
You can add sliders to your page using elements in Elementor Page Builder. Insert either the Revolution Slider widget (WordPress group) or Slider widget (ThemeREX Addons Elements group) to the page and choose the slider engine - Slider Revoluion. You can also use a shortcode, like [rev_slider alias="slider-1"][/rev_slider]
.
You can also add Slider Revolution via widgets and place the slider not only in the header of the page (might vary, depending on default sidebars locations available for a particular theme).
Please note! In case you do not have a slider set up (but the Revolution Slider plugin is already installed), you need to create it first and fill it with slides by navigating to the Slider Revolution tab in the WP Dashboard side menu.
This plugin is responsible for displaying a completely customizable Instagram feed on your WordPress website. Check this link for more information.
[instagram-feed]
This is our self-made plugin that allows you to update the main theme as well as the bundled plugins through the WordPress admin panel. Once any plugins or theme updates are available for download, you will receive a corresponding notice in WP Dashboard > Updates. Please view the Theme Update chapter of this documentation file for more information.
This plugin offers a chance for your website visitors to add the products they consider interesting to the wishlist and buy the products later. Customers can share such wishlists through social networks. Sharing the wishlists will bring you new potential customers and enhance sales. You can also use a shortcode for the “Add to wishlist” button and place it anywhere on the page.
Please check the links below for more information about this plugin:
WooCommerce is an industry leader e-commerce plugin for WordPress. Our theme is fully compatible with this great tool, allowing you to turn your website into a sales machine in just a few clicks. You simply need to install this plugin and allow it to create a set of pages to display categories, products, etc. Then you need to add a set of products.
We highly encourage you to read the great documentation files WooCommerce offers. These manuals help to create effective and reliable online stores providing more features than you can imagine. Here is a list of really useful links to help you create and polish your shop.
This plugin implements "quick view" functionality to your shop. Thus, your customers can preview the single products directly on "Shop" page and obtain main information without opening the product details page. WPC Smart Quick View is fully optimized for SEO, compatible with any WordPress themes & WPML plugin for site translation.
Check the links below for more information about this plugin:
We recommend using Poedit software for translation-related purposes.
To translate the theme into your language, please follow these steps:
catwalk/skins/default/languages/
folder and locate the .pot
file. Copy it to your desktop for editing.
.pot
file. In the Poedit window click on the "Create New Translation" button, choose the necessary language of the translation from the dropdown list, and click "OK."
.po
file using the naming convention based on the language code (e.g. pt
for Portuguese) followed by the country code (for instance _BR
for Brazil). To do that click on the "sheet" icon (you can also use hotkeys CMD
+ Shift
+ S
in OS X or Win+S in Windows) and type in the name according to the screenshot below.de_DE
for Germany.en_GB
, whereas the en_US
stands for the USA. If you are not familiar with the codes for your native language and country, then visit the GNU website. See Language Codes and Country Codes for the lists of codes..po
file, Poedit automatically creates a new .mo
file, with the same naming convention. According to the example above, the file would be called pt_BR.mo.
.po
and .mo
files you just created to the .../languages
folder. Make sure these files are in the same directory as the default.pot
one.
.../wp-content/plugins/trx_addons/languages
directory. There is also a trx_addons.pot
file in this directory..po
and .mo
files according to your language. See the file names in the example below:trx_addons-pt_BR.po
,
trx_addons-pt_BR.mo
.
For more information on how to use Poedit, please check the following resources:
In this section, you can find additional information regarding fonts, clipart, .FIG files used in this theme.
catwalk/skins/default/skin-setup.php
file for more detailed information on this matter.
'max_load_fonts' => 5
variable in the theme-specific/theme.setup.php
file.
wp-content/themes/catwalk/skins/default/css/font-icons/config.json
. Watch this video guide for more information. config.json
file and website page builder with the available set of widgets/shortcodes in your theme may vary from the video provided!
theme-specific/theme.setup.php
file.
.FIG files
into the theme package, because it might significantly increase the size of a downloadable archive. In case you need these files you can always request them by contacting our support department as well.
This chapter is for those who would like to speed up their websites and care about the page loading speed. There are a lot of different ways to make your website work faster, but we will focus on caching plugins we have used in our demos, though they are not provided with the theme.
A lot of users access the website at the same time. This makes the server work slowly and takes more time to load the web page for each user. Caching is the way to store the current version of your web page on the server and prevent sending requests to the server for each user each time.
Below, you can find a short description of the caching plugins we have used in our demo. Please treat the screenshots with the main plugins settings as examples only! Feel free to play around with the plugins settings yourself to receive a better result.
WP-Optimize is all-in-one WordPress performance plugin, that is responsible for cleaning your database, compressing images and caching your website.
Please check the links below for more information about this plugin:
Once the plugin is active, the WP-Optimize section will appear in your WordPress Dashboard.
Cache
Custom Websites are usually the most important part of an online marketing campaign. A properly built custom website can help you get the most results from your marketing efforts. Our team can do it for you.
Please, find some of our offers below:
You can check the full list of offers here.
Thank you for purchasing our theme. We are happy that you are one of our customers.
If you come up with any theme-related questions that are beyond the scope of this help file, feel free to contact us. We will respond as soon as possible (within 24 – 48 hours, usually faster). We are open from 10 am to 7 pm (CET), from Monday to Friday.