Adrenalin

The switch that changes what your shop is

Catalog mode is the setting that alters the site rather than decorating it. The vendor describes it twice: once as an option to hide or show catalog mode, and once in plain terms as using the theme like a catalogue, without the cart option. Turn it on and product pages keep presenting your items while the purchasing path comes out of the journey.

That is a real decision for a brand with no online checkout, for a wholesale catalogue that prices on request, or for a shop still being built behind a public front. What it is not is a per-page trick: it reads as a site-wide switch in the theme's options, so treat it as a property of the whole store rather than something you sprinkle on a section.

Product quick view sits alongside it with its own show/hide control. Quick view opens a product without a full page transition, which shortens browsing in a dense grid and matters more, not less, in a catalogue where visitors are comparing rather than buying. A configurable size guide on the product details page belongs to the same group — a piece of reference content you switch on rather than build from scratch.

Listing and product page controls you set once

Adrenalin gives you three choices about how a shopper meets your catalogue: products shown in a list or grid format, categories hidden or shown, and left, right or no sidebar on both listings and product pages. The vendor states these as theme-level settings, so the practical work is deciding the shape of your shop once and letting every product follow it.

Those choices interact. A sidebar on a product page competes for width with an image and buy area, and a list layout gives each item more room to explain itself while showing fewer products per screen. The changelog adds a small but telling detail: a 2019 entry moved products-per-row and rows-per-page into the WordPress Customizer, which puts catalogue density in the same place as the rest of your site's settings.

Beyond layout, the vendor's overview points to deep WooCommerce work — wishlists, Ajax filters, Ajax product search, quick view — plus Cloud Zoom on the product details page and a shop announcements slider for offers. How much of that you need depends on catalogue size: Ajax filtering earns its place when narrowing by attribute is the main way people shop.

A topbar built for two languages and two currencies

The header features the vendor highlights most are the ones that help an international shop explain itself before anyone clicks. A WPML-optimised language and currency switcher sits in the topbar, and the overview states that .po and .mo translation files are included, so a second-language storefront is presented as part of the theme rather than an add-on you bolt on later.

Around that sit a predictive Ajax search that returns results as you type, a megamenu with image support, and a choice of cart, bag or basket icon for the cart label. The search plugin and the megamenu do different jobs: one rescues a visitor who half-remembers a product name, the other holds a deep category structure without pushing everything into a single dropdown.

The header is also where the theme is most adjustable. Vendor copy lists separate height settings for the regular, fixed and mobile headers, colour changes to match your brand, a sticky header, and boxed or full-width layouts. Two bundled tools handle motion: WPBakery for page building and LayerSlider for slideshows, both named as included in the marketplace description.

What maintenance has looked like lately

The release history is the most honest signal about what this theme is being worked on for. The April 2025 release, version 2.3.1, lists three things: WPBakery 8.4.1 supported, LayerSlider 7.14.4 supported, template updates. The previous April, 2.3.0, listed a quick view display fix, an updated WooCommerce archive template, and support for then-current WPBakery and LayerSlider versions.

Read together, that pattern says the recent work is plugin compatibility and template upkeep rather than new feature design. Older entries fill in the longer arc: PHP 8 improvements in 2023, classic widget support restored, a mobile menu display fix, a sticky menu fix. If you choose Adrenalin, expect to track WooCommerce, WPBakery and LayerSlider releases, because that is what the changelog tracks.

A practical consequence: the versions that matter to your build are stated in the listing attributes, observed on 4 November 2026, as WooCommerce 9.x.x and WordPress 6.8.x, with WPML named as compatible. Those are claims attached to the listing, not the result of anyone running the theme against your host's stack, and the marketplace's latest version is not automatically the archive you would install.

Demo content: five homepages and grey boxes

The vendor counts five different homepage templates, plus contact, about, services and FAQ-dropdown pages, six blog layouts with the full set of post formats, and three showcase layouts with a details page. Those are starting points to edit, and the vendor describes a one-click demo data install that takes minutes.

One sentence in that section deserves attention before you plan anything visual: the sample images are not included in the theme and are replaced with grey placeholders. Import the demo and you get structure and settings without the photography you saw in the preview. For a shop, that means the first real work after import is loading your own product images and checking how the grid or list layout crops them.

The editing model explains the rest. WPBakery is the page builder the vendor includes, alongside a shortcode manager, and the listing marks Gutenberg Optimized as No. That attribute describes where the vendor put their layout tooling; it is not proof that the block editor cannot be used. If your team works in blocks, look at what the demos actually do rather than reading that field as a yes-or-no on the editor.

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