WordPress 4.0 Compatible. Last Update on: 07 July 2014 | version 1.2 – Change Log
Austin is a multi-purpose WordPress theme theme delicately handcrafted to meet the needs of design agencies, artists, photographers, corporates and many other types of small businesses. It is a result of our detailed study of requirements and design of countless actual creative agency websites, corporate sites, product showcase sites, community sites etc.
Austin features multiple stunning portfolio pages – one of the best seen here in ThemeForest, fully documented 50+ shortcodes with plethora of options for easy creation of any type of content imaginable anywhere on the site – shortcodes for video intros (YouTube or HTML5), sliders, tickers, services, video backgrounds with text overlay, animated stats, pricing, testimonials, contact forms, gallery, team members etc. In short, it has everything you really require to build a great looking portfolio/agency or corporate site. The nature of this multi-purpose theme lends itself to creating sites in several other categories – medical health, education/schools, personal portfolio, restaurants/hotels, product or mobile app showcase, travel, photography, law firms, small businesses like beauty salons etc.
Unique Design with Cutting Edge Features – The theme support for large twelve column 1180px grid, wide backgrounds that span entire browser width, premium shortcode builder, trendy mobile menu, easy to use YouTube/HTML5 video sections/backgrounds, smooth scrolling parallax backgrounds/headers, animations, statistics, revolution slider, bold typography, unlimited colors, unlimited page/post header styling etc. makes it one of the most modern themes in its category.
60+ Shortcodes with Premium Shortcode Builder – The theme now features a premium shortcode builder with an user friendly GUI for each of the 60+ shortcodes. The shortcode builder provides input plus inline documentation for each parameters that shortcode takes. Easy to use shortcodes help to breeze through development. Many powerful functions like parallax sections, video backgrounds/headers, responsive sliders, animated statistics are all simple shortcodes. Every shortcode with all of its parameters have been documented in detail.
6+ Custom Post Types with backend UI – More than 6 custom post types with domain relevant data attributes have been created with a user friendly backend UI for inputting data related to team members, sliders, gallery, pricing plans, testimonials etc. The intuitive backend UI for input of data helps avoid dealing with custom HTML and speeds up development immensely.
Portfolio and Gallery Support – The theme sports powerful Portfolio features including shortcodes for insertion of Portfolio/Gallery practically anywhere in the site. Along with support for native gallery shortcode from WordPress, Agile lets you create gallery items and insert them wherever you need using powerful shortcodes that support filtering, packed/spaced layouts etc. Page templates for portfolio and gallery items lets you do lazy load on portfolio/gallery items and paginated category archives help manage large portfolio/gallery collection.
Easy to Use/Configure Page Sections – The theme builds on the concept of page sections which enables you to work on your site incrementally on individual page elements independently and then compose a page instantly via drag and drop interface.
Single Page/Multi-Page – Austin can be used to design single page sites just as easily with the help of page sections. Internal navigation using smooth scroll is supported for top level internal links in the menu. The page sections composing a page can be opened for editing right from the frontend.
Intuitive Admin Panel with 200+ Options – Large number of options ensures that you get to configure many elements of the site with a click of a mouse button. The Custom CSS option helps you further tailor the theme to your needs without touching the original source code.
Easy Customization – Along with many theme options, the theme comes bundled with child theme. When you have minor changes to make, the custom.css file, custom-functions.php and Custom CSS tab in theme options are invaluable help.
Modular Framework – Quality code, semantic markup, standards compliance are core strengths of the common framework that powers our themes. Modular code promotes code reuse and helps us release fixes/updates more quickly.
1500+ Retina Icons and 500+ Google Fonts – Quality font icons bundled with the theme help speed up development. The theme options panel lets you choose from 500+ Google fonts for headings, body or meta elements.
Boxed/Wide Layout – The theme can be configured for a boxed or stretched layout with a single click of a button. The theme options lets you set custom color, pattern or image as background for the boxed version.
Excellent Support – Dedicated support forum helps us provide better support through issue tracking, search and having users help each other. It helps build a knowledge base from which all users benefit.
Extensive Documentation – The 75+ pages of documentation tries to address all aspects of theme usage. Each and every section has visual screenshots for easier understanding of the theme functions. Additionally, the theme options panel has detailed documentation for every option.
+New! - Completely new shortcode builder with rich interactive UI for entering shortcode details for each of the 50+ shortcodes. +Fixed - Thumbnail generation not generating images of right sizes in certain situations. +Tweak - URL rewrites of pricing and testimonials +Fixed - The mobile menu parent menu items not clickable in mobile devices
+Fixed - Minor stylesheet changes