Theme Details
Mineral is a modern, clean and fully responsive WordPress theme. It comes with an extensive admin panel, packed with various options so you can easily modify stylings, colors,fonts, layouts and other aspects of the theme. Mineral WordPress theme is a multi-purpose theme and can be used for any type of website, such as creative portfolio,photography, digital products, corporate and business sites.
Advanced AJAX Gallery (unlimited pages)
Mineral includes a flexible AJAX gallery with awesome jQuery animations and effects, which comes with lots of options available for its items. For each gallery item you have the options to:
- dynamically open an image slider with a nice jQuery animation, containing additional images attached to the item (bulk upload supported for the slider images). The slider can be in a full-width layout or a side-content layout.
- open an image lightbox as image gallery attached to the item (images can be uploaded in bulk)
- play video
- open item content in a new page
- open a custom link in a new page
Also there are lots of options the gallery provides, some of them are:
- Masonry Layout Support- Option to choose between two, three and four column layout
- Unlimited gallery pages – you can create as many galleries as you need with different image sets
- Partial Loading in slider – loads images in background on portions for faster performance. Works well with large amount of images attached to a single item.
- Social Sharing – the slider view of the gallery provide sharing options, so you can easily share your items images on the most popular social networks – Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Pinterest.
- dynamic AJAX category filter (can be enabled/disabled per page)
- AJAX pagination which is great for large number of items
Responsive Design
The theme is responsive, so that it fits and looks great on different size of devices – desktop, mobile phones and tablets. Also, the main gallery slider supports finger gestures, so it is very easy to navigate between the images on touch devices.
Unlimited Skins
The theme includes options to change all the main colors used – you can easily build your custom skin with your favorite colors. You can see some examples here.
Advanced Content Editor Buttons
The theme includes an unique set of buttons that allows you to directly insert the various elements (such as services boxes, portfolio carousel, slider, etc.) into your editor area. In this way you can easily buildfull-width background sections with custom elements and style settings.
Parallax slider and sections
The theme implements parallax effects in differen elements and sections, such as:
- Content slider background image
- Full-width sections background images
- Servcies boxes animations
- Testimonials animations
The parallax functionality can be enabled/disabled for each individual section/item.
Font Management
The theme provides a friendly user interface to implement the default web-safe fonts and Google API Fonts. We have created a section where you can enable as many fonts as you like just by adding the URL the Google API provides. You can check out the font management section here
Retina Display Optimizations
We have included retina display optimizations for all the main graphics (such as icons and arrows) used in the theme – they look clear and sharp on both retina and standard screens.
2 Image Sliders Included (unlimited usage)
Mineral also includes three different sliders that can be included on separate pages:
- Content Slider – in each slide you can set:
- a background image and set and set a different opacity to it
- background color
- slide animation direction
- slide layout – centered, text on the left or text on the right
- description, titles, buttons and side image
- Nivo Slider – can be used as a main page header slider, gallery post type slider or it can be embedded into the content of the posts and pages.
Extensive Documentation
The theme comes with a detailed documentation, which includes examples, screenshots and all the main instructions you will need to customize your site. Additionally, we have included a “Beginners” section which includes some helpful links about working with WordPress and instructions about what steps to follow when setting the theme.
Other Key Features
- Sticky Header functionality (since v1.1.0) – can be enabled/disabled from the options panel
- Post Formats Support, including the following formats:
- Standard Post – includes a featured image in the header
- Video Post – includes a video in the header
- Gallery Post – includes a slider in the header
- Aside Post
- Quote Post
- Unlimited Sidebars – dynamic sidebar generation functionality
- Easy page layout changing – for each page you can choose between:
- Right Sidebar
- Left Sidebar
- Full-width
- .po file included for theme translation
- Easy logo replacement with retina display support
- Separate portfolio section
- WordPress 3.0 Custom Menu Support
- jQuery Tabs
- AJAX contact form
- Sociable Icons section in header
- Comments with reply functionality (multiple levels depth)
- Multi level drop-down menu
- Custom styled elements included
- Two bonus widgets included – Portfolio Posts Loader displaying the latest items’ images and a Latest Posts Loaderwidget which displays the latest blog posts with a thumbnail image
- Works and looks similar in all major browsers: Internet Exlorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome
Updates
- Version 1.5.5
- Improved: when replying to comments, adds the reply form below the comment to reply to
- Fixed: WordPress 4.5 issue – the new inline link tooltip not working in background sections
- Fixed: compatibility issue with 3rd party plugins: theme’s editor dialogs broken when plugins load custom jQuery UI dialog styles and apply them globally to all dialogs used in the dashboard
- General code improvements
- Version 1.5.4
- Fixed: WordPress 4.4 issue – selected and saved sets in editor elements not selected by default when editing
- Added: hentry properties to the blog posts markup – this can help the search engines to more easily identify the different elements of the blog posts data
- Improved: made the post titles use h1 tag on the single post page, while blog page post listing still uses h2 tags
- Version 1.5.3
- Handle the WordPress 4.3 terms splitting. The upcoming WordPress 4.3 will automatically split all of the shared terms between different taxonomies, which means that it will change the IDs of those terms in the database. This can affect the theme’s elements that store references to the terms IDs. With this theme update, when a term splitting occurs, the theme will change all of the references from the old IDs to the new IDs. Please make sure to update the theme before updating WordPress to 4.3 once it is released, as the terms splitting will be performed during the WordPress upgrade process.
- General code improvements
- Version 1.5.2
- Updated the PrettyPhoto lightbox plugin to the latest version
- Improved: The dialogs functionality on the Updates page in the admin
- Version 1.5.1
- Fixed: security fix: escaped the URLs every time the add_query_arg() function is used to fix the recently found XSS vulnerability of the add_query_arg() function
- Fixed: the header slider sometimes not positioned correctly when the sticky header is enabled (Firefox only)
- Version 1.5.0
- Added: A Pricing Table element – you can see some examples here
- Added: Option to select the background image style and background image alignment in the content slider
- Added: included a child theme in the main download package
- Improved: Lightbox design
- Improved: Replaced the image upload functionality in the admin with a WordPress Media select
- Improved: Updated the Aqua image resizing script to the latest version which now supports upscaling (resizing smaller images to a bigger size)
- Improved: Updated the Envato WordPress Toolkit library to the latest version
- Improved: Contact form – added a sender email option to avoid messages failing to be sent due to the Yahoo DMARC reject policy
- Improved: The sharpness of the resized thumbnails in the Portfolio Gallery
- Improved & fixed: some compatibility issues with the upcoming WordPress 4.1
- Fixed: Gallery category loads posts category archive when linking to a portfolio category within the page and the gallery page is set as a front page
- Version 1.4.1
- Fixed: a compatibility issue with the upcoming WordPress 4.0 : content editor in the background section dialog not resizing when it contains long content
- Improved: the markup of the embedded videos, the responsive video wrapper element is now automatically added to videos that have been inserted to the editor without using the theme’s video buttons
- Improved: When sharing pages on social networks, use the featured image of the page as a thumbnail
- Fixed: Simple Google Map widget navigation buttons display
- Version 1.4.0
- Fixed some compatibility issues with the upcoming WordPress 3.9, including:
- The theme’s custom editor buttons are now WordPress 3.9 compatible – WordPress 3.9 includes a major update of the TinyMCE plugin (version 4.0) that requires modifying the custom buttons CSS selectors and some of the initializing JavaScript functionality.
- Improved the appearance of the theme’s dialogs in the admin panel on WordPress 3.9
- Changed the default formatting of the document title – the additional title formatting (such as adding the blog name) is now applied with a filter function, so that it can be overwritten by plugins or a child theme
- Added a 500px icon to the default social icons set
- Set the theme name and version to be loaded from the parent theme when a child theme is activated
- Fixed a resizing issue in the gallery slider – displaying the content when switching from side-content to a full-width content layout
- Improved the appearance of the portfolio gallery page template content – now placed after the category filter + spacing adjustments
- Issue fix: Portfolio Gallery pagination not working correctly when AJAX is disabled and a category has been selected
- Other minor bug fixes and general code improvements
- Fixed some compatibility issues with the upcoming WordPress 3.9, including:
- Version 1.3.1
- Fixed some compatibility issues with Underscore.js 1.5 – WordPress currently ships with Underscore.js 1.4.4, however the latest version could be included in WordPress soon, so we have made sure that the theme has updated the Underscore.js dependent code according to the latest release.
- Fixed an issue with the tabs/accordion element – when two elements of the same type are included in the same page, they didn’t work independently
- Improved the positioning with the gallery automatic scrolling
- Fixed some minor style issues in the admin with the upcoming WordPress 3.8
- Fixed an issue with the blog page template pagination when the page is set as a front page
- WooCommerce improvements – added a woocommerce.php template to fix some layout and style issues
- Other minor bug fixes and code improvements
- Version 1.3.0
- Added YouTube video support to the content slider
- Added an option to add a link to the services set description section
- Included PhotoShop files of the main design layouts
- Fixed an issue on Internet Explorer – videos in the portfolio slider displayed over the stickyheader
- Design and functionality improvements of the portfolio carousel on mobile devices
- Other minor code improvements
- Version 1.2.0
- Added a “Recent Blog Posts Element” that displays a list of the recent blog posts froma selected category or all categories in the content of the page – you can see an example in the “Featured from the blog” section of this page
- Added an Instagram icon to the header social icons set
- Improved the gallery items loading design
- Fixed a scroll issue in the portfolio gallery when a slider is set as a header to the page
- Fixed a static header image issue – not stretching to the full width of the screen on larger screens
- Other minor code improvements
- Version 1.1.0
- Implemented a sticky header functionality – it can be enabled/disabled
- Added an option to disable the responsive layout on mobile devices
- Added a light icon set that can be used on dark skins
- Fixed an issue on iPhone about the initial page zoom
- Improved the Parallax animation of the services boxes on large screens
- Other minor code improvements
Credits
Thanks for the great resources to:
- Mono Social Iconshttp://icondock.com/free/mono-social-icons
- Iconmoon icons: http://icomoon.io/, icon sets: Font Awesome, Entypo
- Demo Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanoakley/
- Demo Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coryschmitz/
- Demo Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nozzman/
- Demo Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theilluminated/
- Demo Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ringoblu/
- Demo Images: http://unsplash.com/
- Demo Icons: http://designmodo.com/flat-free/
