Shop features the vendor names one by one
Elated's feature list treats Askka as a WooCommerce storefront first, and it names the selling pieces individually rather than bundling them into a promise of "advanced shop functionality". Quick View and Wishlist are listed as YITH plugin compatibility, which means the theme is written to work alongside those add-ons instead of reproducing them internally. For a catalogue of jars and tins in different scents, Quick View keeps a shopper in the grid rather than bouncing them to a product page and back.
The cart is offered in two distinct widgets: a WooCommerce DropDown Cart and a WooCommerce Side Area Cart. These are different behaviours, not duplicates. A dropdown keeps the basket compact in the header; a side-area cart opens a panel holding line items and a running total while the customer keeps browsing. Which one you place is a header decision worth making early.
Both YITH entries are compatibility claims only. The listing does not say the plugin licences come with the theme, so plan for those separately if your build depends on them.
Shortcodes aimed at questions a candle shop actually gets
Beyond the standard banner and call-to-action shortcodes, the vendor lists Product List, Product Category List and Order Tracking. The first two let you curate shelves by hand — a best-sellers row on the front page, a strip of seasonal scents — without leaning on a single default shop loop.
Order Tracking is the one that solves a support problem rather than a design one. Hand-poured goods ship with a lead time, and a page where customers check an order themselves cuts the email queue.
Countdown, Counter and Progress Bar elements are listed too. On a candle site those suit limited-edition drops and restock announcements better than a generic sale banner. They are vendor-described building blocks; see how each renders inside Elementor before you design around one.
The portfolio is where the making process lives
Most retail themes give you a blog and stop. Askka's portfolio is the more developed surface, and it is the reason the theme can suit a maker as much as a reseller. List layouts are named individually — Gallery, Masonry, Slider and Justified Gallery — with Standard, Load More and Infinite Scroll pagination to choose from.
Six single-item layouts are listed: Gallery, Images and Masonry, each in big and small. That changes how much a single candle or collection page can show. A big masonry single page handles process photography and poured-wax close-ups; the small variants keep attention on one hero image.
Category filtering and custom hover animation on portfolio lists are separate options. Hover animation sounds cosmetic, but on a grid of product-style images it controls how much information appears without a click. The vendor describes both as configurable, so they are choices to make rather than fixed behaviour.
Headers, the passepartout border and the boxed-layout question
Three header types are listed — Split Left to Right, Minimal and Centered — with three behaviours attached: Sticky, Sticky on Scroll Up and Fixed. Sticky on scroll up hides the header as you move down and brings it back when you scroll up, giving long category pages more room without losing navigation. Fixed keeps it visible throughout, consuming vertical space on every screen.
Separate mobile header styling is listed, along with multiple logo versions for sticky and mobile headers and dark and light logo variants. That pair matters if you plan a transparent header over a hero image and a solid header further down the page.
The theme also offers a passepartout border around the site and a boxed layout option, plus a selectable grid size. The border frames the whole page like a print mount, so it either matches the shop's tone or reads as a mistake — decide before you build content, not after.
What the compatibility attributes do and do not settle
Marketplace attributes observed on 5 November 2026 declare Elementor, WooCommerce 10.x and 9.x, and WPML as compatible, with a WordPress range from 6.3.x through 7.0.x. Gutenberg Optimized is marked Yes, and the browser list names Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and Opera.
Those are vendor and marketplace statements, not the result of running Askka on your stack. The changelog offers some evidence of upkeep: version 1.3 in November 2024 added a WPML configuration file and improved Elementor and PHP 8.3 compatibility, and version 1.4 in March 2026 records improved WooCommerce styles and an updated WPML config file. The changelog is a record the vendor publishes, and it is the more informative of the two sources.
WPML only matters if you sell in more than one language, but the entries behind that claim show work rather than a bare checkbox.
Files in the package, and the one-click demo
The files included are listed as PHP, CSS, SCSS and JS. The SCSS sources are the useful detail: if the palette has to move past the admin panel's typography and colour options, you can edit at source instead of stacking overriding CSS. A child theme is also listed, which is the safer place to put those changes so a theme update does not overwrite them.
Slider Revolution is bundled according to the vendor, with a stated $85 value, and the changelog shows the bundled slider being updated with each release. A one-click demo import is listed as well.
Large collections of premade homepages, inner pages and shop templates are claimed, but the description does not count them, so how far those layouts reach is something to judge from the demo rather than from a number here.
Questions & answers
Do I need YITH Quick View and Wishlist for the shop to work?
No. They are listed as compatibility, not requirements. WooCommerce is the ecommerce base; the YITH plugins add the preview and shortlist layers. The listing does not state that plugin licences are included, so budget for them separately if you want those features.
Is Askka built with Elementor or with the block editor?
The vendor lists Elementor Page Builder compatibility, and the changelog records Elementor compatibility improvements. Gutenberg Optimized is also marked Yes in the marketplace attributes, but that field does not describe how the theme's own templates are authored. If block-based editing is central to your workflow, look at how the demo pages are put together before committing.
Can the portfolio layouts be used for something other than candles?
Yes in practice. They are generic gallery, masonry, slider and justified-gallery arrangements with filtering and pagination, so they work for collection lookbooks, workshop documentation or ingredient-sourcing pages as easily as for product photography.
