Dandelion - Powerful Elegant WordPress Theme

Dandelion - Powerful Elegant WordPress Theme

THEME DETAILS

Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites.

UNLIMITED SKINS

This theme allows you to build your own custom skin just by selecting your favorite colors from the admin panel with a color picker. Additionally, there are 32 custom patterns that you can choose between for the body. You can heck out the settings available in the admin panel here

POWERFUL ADMIN

Dandelion theme has very powerful admin settings included, so that it can satisfy all different needs without having to change any code. You can very easily change between page layouts, theme styles, sliders and set the theme content. You can have a look at the Admin Settings section on the demo, where some of the admin settings are displayed as screenshots.

RESPONSIVE DESIGN

The theme is responsive, so that it fits and looks great on different devices – desktop, mobile phones and tablets. When testing the demo, please make sure to remove the ThemeForest frame on the top in order to see how the responsive layout works.

4 JQUERY SLIDERS (UNLIMITED USAGE)

This theme includes not only a really cool Thumbnail Slider, which is great for the easy showcasing of a large number of images, but also a Nivo slider which allows for a wide variety transition effects and an Accordion slider which is very suitable for presenting more information. Also, in version 2.6.7 of the theme we have included a new Content slider which is great for presenting more content with the images. Images are easily added or removed, or the main slider settings changed, via the admin panel.Additionally, you can use each of the sliders on different pages with different image sets.

3 FLEXIBLE PORTFOLIO GALLERIES (UNLIMITED NUMBER OF PAGES)

Dandelion has 3 impressive portfolio galleries – portfolio showcase which is great for presenting projects with more details; main gallery with pagination, category filter and lightbox preview and a gallery with item descriptions. All the galleries have been created with a great functionality, so that the content is very easy to change and maintain. You also have the option to choose between 2, 3 and 4 column layouts.

DOCUMENTATION INCLUDED

The theme comes with a detailed documentation, which includes examples, screenshots and all the main instructions you will need to customize your site.

Key Features

  • Unlimited skins
  • 32 pattern backgrounds included
  • Powerful Admin
    • Easy to change theme style
    • Dynamic sidebar generation functionality
    • Possibility to build your custom skin with colorpicker
    • Flexible slider image management
    • Easy page layout changing
    • Flexible portfolio management
    • Easy theme translation
    • Easy logo replacement
    • Google Fonts support
    • Cufon Font Replacement
    • Styling buttons with preview functionality from the edit form
    • And there is much more…
  • 4 Featured Unlimited jQuery image sliders
    • Unlimited slider usage – you can set different sets of images to different pages
    • Image Upload functionality included
    • Easy to sort, edit and delete existing images
    • Main slider settings can be changed from admin panel
    • Automatic image crop option
  • Portfolio Showcase Template
  • Portfolio Gallery template
    • Unlimited portfolio page number
    • 2,3 and 4 column layout
    • Category filter (can be hidden)
    • Option to set item descriptions
    • Option to set different clicking action to each item – you can select between opening an image/video with lightbox, opening a custom link, opening item’s main content or doing nothing
    • Option to set custom item order
    • Pagination enabled – you can set the number of items per page
  • Separate portfolio custom types
  • WordPress 3.0 Custom Menu Support
  • 24 Shortcodes included
  • AJAX contact form with CAPTCHA functionality
  • Widgetized Footer – can be easily disabled
  • Comments with reply functionality
  • Multi level drop-down menu
  • Lost of styled elements included
  • Page Layouts
    • Right Sidebar
    • Left Sidebar
    • Full Width
  • Bonus widget included – portfolio posts loader
  • Detailed documentation included
  • PSD Files included
  • Works and looks similar in all major browsers: Internet Exlorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome

Updates

  • Version 3.1.3:
    - Fixed: issue with tabs and accordion elements with WordPress 4.5
    - Code improvements
  • Version 3.1.2:
    - Fixed: issue with third level drop-down menus on the latest version of Chrome (version 45, macs only)
  • Version 3.1.1:
    - Updated the PrettyPhoto lightbox plugin to version 3.1.6
  • Version 3.1.0:
    - Added: Sharing buttons for the posts, pages and portfolio posts – you can see an example here.
    - Added: New lightbox theme – “Pexeto Theme” – you can see an example here
    - Added: Option to change the default thumbnail height in the Portfolio Gallery page
    - Improved: Replaced Timthumb and BFI Thumb image resizing scripts with the Aqua Resizer script
    - Improved: Replaced the image upload functionality (in the Dandelion Options page and portfolio item settings section) with a Media Library image select
    - Improved: Updated the Envato WordPress Toolkit library to the latest version
    - Improved: Design of the page/post settings section in the admin panel
    - Improved: Contact form – added a sender email option to avoid messages failing to be sent due to the Yahoo DMARC reject policy
    - Improved: make the theme’s custom editor buttons always visible regardless of whether the toolbar button is enabled or not
  • Version 3.0.1:
    - Fixed: contact form sometimes not working correctly when CAPTCHA is enabled
    - Fixed: Dandelion options page not displayed when theme editing is disabled
    - Fixed: Simple Google Map widget navigation buttons not displayed correctly
    - Improved: Back-end admin style improvements
  • Version 3.0.0:
    - Dandelion is now responsive
    - Redesign of the Pexeto options panel
    - Replaced most of the image resizing functionality of Timthumb with the BFI Thumb script
    - Improved the gallery pagination animation
    - Content slider: the slider height now changes automatically depending on the current slide content height
    - Enabled touch swipe events in some sections (e.g. sliders, showcase pagination)
    - Some general improvements and small bug fixes (more info in the “Updates” section of the documentation
  • Version 2.9.1:
    - Fixed an issue with the Gallery post format – the content after the “More” separator was displayed on the blog page
  • Version 2.9.0:
    - WordPress Post Format support – added support for Gallery, Video, Aside and Quote post formats, you can see some examples on the Blog page
    - Updated the Nivo slider to the latest version
    - WooCommerce improvements – added a custom woocommerce template for some layout and style improvements
    - General code improvements and minor bug fixes
  • Version 2.8.2:
    - WordPress 3.7 Update: in this update WordPress removed the titles added to the WordPress Gallery (or as we call it Quick Gallery) items and therefore the titles are not displayed in the lightbox preview. We have applied some filters to the generated markup so that the titles are displayed in the lightbox.
    - Fixed an issue with the update notification functionality not adding a notification in the admin bar when a minor update is available (it used to add it to the Dashboard menu only)
    - Other minor bug fixes and code improvements
  • Version 2.8.1:
    - Fixed a style issue with the dialogs in the admin on WordPress 3.6
    - Other minor code improvements and modifications
  • Version 2.8.0:
    - Improvements for child theme support – the previous releases of the theme included child theme support for all the main styles and all the page templates. In this update we have also included child theme support for all the main functions used in the theme
    - Translation : apart of the default Translation section that can be used for translating the built into the theme words, we have also included a .po file for those words that can be used for additional languages
    - Added a services boxes shortcode for inserting more services boxes in different pages
    - Added support for HTML tags in the sliders descriptions
    - Added an option to select the way the thumbnails will be cropped (top, bottom, left, right, center) in the Portfolio Gallery and Portfolio Showcase page
    - Updated Timthumb to the latest version
    - Updated the instructions in the documentation regarding the latest WordPress 3.5 changes
    - Included updated versions of the Twitter Widget Pro and WP-PageNavi plugins
    - Code improvements and some small issue fixes
  • Version 2.7.0:
    - Implemented Google Fonts options
    - Implemented an Automatic Theme Update functionality
    - Fixed a pagination issue in the blog that was raised with the new WordPress 3.4
  • Version 2.6.8:
    -Embedded a CAPTCHA functionality (by using the reCAPTCHA service) in the contact form page for preventing spam emails from crawling robots
    -Added a Lightbox Options section in the Options panel, so you can change the main lightbox styling and functionality options
    -Included an upload favicon option in the Options panel
    -Updated Timthumb to the latest version available: 2.8.10
    -Updated the PrettyPhoto Lightbox plugin to the latest version available: 3.1.4
  • Version 2.6.7:
    -Added a new image slider – Content Slider
    -Updated Timthumb to the latest version available (2.8.2)
    -Fixed a small issue with the Portfolio Posts Loader – displaying “undefined” text below the image
    -Added a beginners section in the documentation
    -Did some other small improvements
  • Version 2.6.6:
    -Updated Timthumb to the latest version available (2.8)
    -Implemented an update notification functionality
  • Version 2.6.5:
    - Updated Timthumb (the image resizing script) to the latest version (1.34) – a security vulnerability was found regarding this script and version 1.34 fixes this vulnerability.
  • Version 2.6.4:
    - Improved the Thumbnail Slider functionality when browser tab is minimized for jQuery 1.6
  • Version 2.6.3:
    - Fixed some incompatibilities that may occur in the next WordPress version (3.2) regarding the newly included jQuery 1.6
    - Updated the Nivo slider to latest version – more sliding animations included
  • Version 2.6.2:
    -Added custom pattern field with upload functionality
    -Added a new sidebar widget – Pexeto’s posts loader (displays the latest blog posts within the sidebar with small thumbnails)
    -Improved the Thumbnail slider initial loading
    -Improved the contact form code
    -Improved the Showcase functionality
    -Some other small issues fixed
    -Code improvements
  • Version 2.6:
    -Added IE9 support
    -fixed some issues regarding timthumb and the upload functionality for WordPress Network (multisite) installations
    -added Quick gallery support in showcase items
    -code improvements
  • Version 2.5:
    -fixed some WordPress 3.1 incompatibilities
    -updated some of the external libraries to the latest versions
  • Version 2.4:
    -unlimited sliders functionality added
    -edit slider images functionality added
    -save last edited location in Pexeto Panel functionality added
    -Portfolio Posts Loader widget improvements
    -added some other improvements
  • Version 2.3:
    -added formatting buttons to the content areas (quick presentation here)
    -added upload functionality for the portfolio items
    -fixed some small styling issues;
  • Version 2.2:
    -fixed an issue related with the slider descriptions
  • Version 2.1:
    -added WordPress quick gallery support, you can check it out here
    -code improvements
  • Version 2.0:
    -implemented the new Pexeto Panel
  • Version 1.1 :
    -added an auto image cropping functionality for all the sliders
    -code improvements

Credits

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Note: The images used on the demo site are for demonstration purposes only and are not included in the download file.

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