Artisan Creatif is the ideal, turn-key WordPress theme solution for creative professionals, design firms, agencies & studios.
Whether you’re an established photography studio or an up and coming artist, Artisan Creatif will answer your needs for a professional portfolio publishing platform. Born from our extensive knowledge and experience as a boutique design and development studio, this theme is expressly designed to successfully showcase and promote your work with elements such as a filterable portfolio, individual case studies and much more.
Hand crafted by the We Are Pixel8 team specifically for the versatile WordPress application, Artisan Creatif is the perfect means in which to show off your creative profile while providing users with a unique, effortless and enjoyable experience.
Please take a moment to view our FAQ page and download the User Guide before making a purchase.
Theme Features
Artisan Creatif was built, from the ground up, to include many of the sought after features in a premium WordPress theme including:
- Fully localized with .po and .mo file included
- All HTML code written in valid XHTML 1 .0 Strict
- No inline styling. All css files are external and written in CSS 2 .1/3.0
- Well written and easy to understand User Guide
- Two Alternate Stylesheets (Light & Dark)
- Two Home Page Sliders (Large or Small) powered by jQuery Cycle
- Two WordPress 3+ Menus.
- Six widget ready sidebars
- Six custom widgets
- Twitter Feed Widget
- Flickr Feed Widget
- jQuery Powered Tabbed Content Widget
- Contact Widget
- Testimonials Widget with jQuery slider functionality
- Recent Work Widget
- Intuitive, easy to understand Theme Options, powered by the Theme Options Framework
- You decide what to display on your Home page via Theme Options
- One Custom Post Type (“Portfolio”) with One Custom Taxonomy (“Services”)
- Three custom Portfolio page templates with jQuery filtering functionality (Grid, Two Column, One Column)
- Case study template that supports images and videos
- Add a stack images or slider gallery to your case studies. This is a post level option so no two case studies will be the same
- Add a streaming video to your case study whether from YouTube, Vimeo or your own self hosted FLV or MP4 files with post editor previews.
- Optionally add related case studies on a per portfolio item basis
- Three page templates (Default, Full Width & Contact)
- jQuery Lightbox effect (FancyBox) on all images wrapped in an anchor tag
- Full blogging capabilities with
- Featured thumbnail
- Fully developed nested comments
- Optional related posts (based on tag relationship)
- Optional author bio with link to author archive
- Pagination support with WP Page Navi
- Using Tiny MCE Styles drop down for applying custom styles to your content. No shortcodes to remember! Available post class styles include:
- Button
- Testimonials with author
- Right Pull Quote
- Left Pull Quote
- Accordion (to create a jQuery powered accordion within your posts or pages)
- Two Columns
- Three Columns
- Four Columns
- Editor Styles for post, pages and portfolio. No more guessing what the content will look like on your live site
Package Contents
Included in your download will be everything you need to get your site up and running easily. Aside from the theme folder, the package includes:
- All production level PSD files for both Light and Dark version. The PSD ’s are fully named, grouped and layered. Each PSD contains our vertical grid and 10px baseline grid on its own layer
- An XML file to get you started with content. (Please respect the ownership of images in the portfolio)
- User Guide documentation in PDF format
- A starter child theme for customization
- Code snippets
Recommended Plugins
The theme will work just fine without our list of recommended plugins. But, if you would like to extend Artisan Creatif’s functionality, as we have in the demo, you will want to download and install them. Each plugin has been hand chosen and vetted for compatibility and stability and, though we cannot guarantee someone else’s work, we firmly stand behind these recommendations:
- Cleaner Gallery by Justin Tadlock
- Attachments by Jonathan Christopher
- WP Page Navi by Lester Chan & Silviu-Cristian Burc?
- Contact Form 7 by Takayuki Miyoshi
- Codestyling Localization by Heiko Rabe (if you need to translate the theme)