Welcome to Stilo… A full-fledged Responsive Portfolio / Gallery Theme, built to showcase your beautiful works with a certain pizazz. It’s an easy to use theme with loads of nifty features. View the live demo
A. The Features Roundup
- 3 Sweet Designs: Clean, Dark and Stitched
- Responsively Built
- Custom Theme Options Panel More Info
- Inbuilt SEO Engine (Within Options Panel)
- Portfolio Custom Post Type
- Post Formats (Standard, Videos, Quotes, Galleries, Chat, Images, Links, Asides)
- Awesome Isotope JQuery Filterable Portfolio
- 2 Functional PHP forms Work Inquiry and Send a Message
- 9 Custom Widgets (Social API Counter, Recent Posts, Recent Portfolio Posts, Twitter Feed, Flickr, Testimonials, Sidebar Images, Custom Tags, Sidebar Video)
- Shortcodes Galore: (Buttons, Tabs, Toggles, Messages/Alerts, Columns)
- Easy Shortcodes Generator integrated into the WordPress Editor
- 6 Page Templates (Home, Contact, Work Inquiry, Portfolio, Full, Archives, Sitemap)
- Other styled pages: (Blogroll, Blog Posts, Portfolio Posts)
- 12 Fully Layered Page/Style PSDs
- Source PSDs included (Clean/Dark/Stitched Versions) for easy customization
- HTML5 Valid Code
- Fully translatable po/mo files included
- WordPress 3.0+ Tested and Approved
- Works with WordPress MultiSite
- Detailed Documentation
B. The Highlights
1. Fully Responsive: This theme is built to act responsively based on the screen size it’s viewed on. Whether you have a smartphone, iPad, ancient PC or a 27” iMac, your website will look and act fantastically. Why not take a gander, scan that QR code there and check Stilo out on your phone or tablet.
2. Three Different CSS Styles: Stilo has you covered with three awesome variations, pre-packaged in the download. There’s a Spiffy Clean Version, Crisp Dark Version and a rad Craftily Stitched Version. It’s easy to switch up the styles through the Theme Options Panel. Just choose what you want from the dropdown menu and hit save. Be sure to check them all out.
3. Simple/Effective Theme Options Panel: Stilo has some pretty nifty features built into the stellar Theme Options Panel. It’s easy to get a hand on the many options, with ease and simplicity. Read More Info on the Theme Options Panel
4. Built in Website SEO Options: That’s right, there’s Search Engine Optimization built right into this theme. No more installing third-party SEO plugins, that may or may not function properly with your WordPress theme. With Stilo, it’s all here in one nifty bundle. The SEO Options even appear on each post or page, so you can take advantage of each search engine optimization opportunity possible. Click Here to find out more.
5. Filterable / Drag-&-Drop Sortable Portfolio: Yep, you read that right. Simply change the order of your portfolio pieces/home page slider images by dragging and dropping them from within WordPress. It’s super easy and super functional.
6. Nine Awesome Custom Widgets: This theme is jam packed with some quite awesome custom widgets. Read a bit down below for details, but as a round-up: Custom Social API widget, Flickr widget, Tags widget, Recent Posts widget, Recent Portfolios widget, Latest Tweets widget, Vimeo/YouTube Sidebar widget, Testimonials widget and Services widget.
7. Two PHP Forms (Work Inquiry & Message): Stilo comes pre-packaged with two swell, fully functional contact forms. Not only can you receive lil’ messages, you can start off receiving all the important facts of a work inquiry, saving you from endless email responses.
9. Nine Sweet Shortcode Types: So I’ve slammed Stilo with some useful shortcodes (and a simple shortcode generator system so you don’t have to remember all those codes). There’s Social Media Icon/Links (Facebook, Rss, Dribbble, Forrst, Twitter, Zerply, Digg, YouTube, Envato and Flickr) Buttons (6), List Styles (3), Notification Messages (5), Toggles and Tabs, Pricing Tables and Columns of course.
10 Post Formats Galore: With Stilo, you get to take advantage of the full breath of what makes WordPress awesome. Post videos, quotes, galleries, images, links, chats, asides and naturally, the normal written posts. I’ve taken and styled out each post format to properly enhance the viewer’s experience. Check out the blog to view the various post formats.
11. Three Different Sidebar Widget Areas: Oh yea. There’s the Home/Portfolio Sidebar, Internal Page Sidebar, and a nifty Contact Page Sidebar. I decided to add these multiple sidebars so that you’d have loads of flexibility throughout your website.
12. 6 Page Templates: Home, Contact, Work Inquiry, Archives, Portfolio Archive, and Site Map. There’s also the standard Blogroll, Blog Posts and Portfolio Posts page styles included.
C. The Shortcodes in Detail
1. Shortcode Generator: Seamlessly built into the WordPress editor is a simple-to-use shortcode generator button set. No more sifting through the detailed documentation to find your shortcodes. Just simply press the icon and select your shortcode. Boom. Click Here to view the shortcodes in action
2. Social Media Icons: That’s right ladies and gents, there’s simple-to-use social media shortcodes, which you can use to link your social presence straight into any page, post and portfolio you’d like.
3. 6 Three State Buttons:Yep, there’s yellow, red, blue, green, black and silver-ish as well. Each button is coded via CSS3 , with default, hover, and active attributes. You’ll be sure to catch some click-throughs with these bad boys.
4. 3 List Styles: Stilo is pre-packaged with three various list styles: a naughty checkmark, subtle plus and a purposeful arrow.
5. Notification Messages: Have a overwhelming need to shoot your visitors a little notification? Well, there’s a shortcode for that. There’s 5 styles of notifications you can easily include in any page, post and portfolio that you want: grey, yellow, blue, red, and green.
6. Cool Toggles: If you’re ever in the mood to toggle anything, I’ve got you covered with a spiffy toggle shortcode. It’s particularly fantastic for using on Frequently Asked Questions pages, and it’s super easy to implement.
7. Nifty Tabs: Lookin’ to tab out something? There’s a simple shortcode for that as well.
8. Pricing Tables: Insert a rad pricing table into any page/post on your site. It’s simple, easy-to-implement and commands attention.
9. Columns: You won’t be disappointed with the use of coloumns in this theme. Go from 1/2 columns down to 1/4ths easily.
10. Slider Shortcode: Easily insert a rad slider into your pages or posts with this cool shortcode.
D. The Widgets on Detail
1. Custom Social API Widget: Display your social stats, and links, for your Twitter, Facebook, Dribbble and RSS subscribers with ease. Just load the widget and plug in your usernames. #winning
2. Custom Flickr Widget: Pull in your flickr photo posts to jazz up your sidebar a bit more and show off your photos.
3. Custom Ads/Clientele/Images Widget: Add in your image urls to display up to six ads/featured clientele, sponsors and/or whatever images you’d like.
4. Custom Tags Widget: I’ve gone the extra step and took the time to style up some neato tags for your blogging needs.
5. Custom Recent Posts Widget: Display as many recent posts with this neato custom widget. It pulls in the title, featured image, author, date, and even a cool post excerpt.
6. Custom Recent Portfolios Widget: Display as many recent portfolio posts with this swell custom widget. It pulls in the title, featured image, and its associated categories.
7. Custom Latest Tweets Widget: Show off your Twitter ramblings with pride in this handy widget. You may even opt to add a customizable link back to your Twitter profile.
8. Custom Vimeo/YouTube Widget: This widget enables you the power to pull in either a Vimeo or YouTube video right into your sidebar with ease.
9. Custom Testimonials Widget: Pull in your client testimonials with ease and display it proudly on your site. Why not add one or two to your contact and work inquiry page sidebars? It’ll lead yourself quite a bit of credibility for sure.
E. The Support
Need some help? Head over to the Purty Pixels Support Forum and we’ll hook you up. Make sure you grab your purchase code from the theme License Certificate.
F. The Credits
The theme demo images are copyrighted to their respective owners and not included within this theme download. Check out their work, cause it’s all awesome.
