Every page can carry its own header
QODE's feature list spends its longest entries on the top of the page. Each page can be given its own custom header, with a dark or light colour scheme, a chosen height, and a background image that is parallax, parallax with a zoom-out effect, or responsive. The title text sits in the middle or at the bottom and animates on page load and on leaving.
That is a different planning problem from picking one header style and applying it everywhere. If a dark page follows a light one, the header can follow rather than clash, and the background image can change per page without a second template. Logos are handled in the same spirit: the vendor documents separate files for the initial header and the sticky header, plus a further field for a dark colour scheme.
The practical cost is bookkeeping. Each page's header is a setting you can override, so a large site needs a decision about which pages actually deserve a different treatment before anyone starts uploading parallax images.
The slider can drive the header, and the sticky bar can follow the slider
The Qode Slider is described as a responsive full-screen or fixed-height image and video slider with parallax and fade in/out animations. The detail worth noticing is that each slide can specify whether the header should be dark or light, so a bright opening frame and a dark closing frame do not have to share one header treatment.
Sticky header behaviour is tied to the same region. The vendor says you control the scroll amount, counted from the top of the page, before the sticky header appears, and that when a slider is on the page the slider's height becomes that amount. In other words, the sticky bar arrives when the slider has scrolled away instead of floating over it part-way through.
Section video backgrounds extend the same idea to content further down: a section can take a video that fits it fully. All of these are vendor descriptions of the theme's intended behaviour rather than results of running a build here.
Page transitions: a global switch with per-page exceptions
Elision ships what the vendor calls AJAX animations, with a choice of four fluid animated transitions between pages. The switch can be turned off entirely for a conventional site, which is the option to consider if you are building something where reading speed and predictability matter more than motion.
The less common part is the override. Beyond the predefined transitions, the vendor says you can pick an animation type for any individual page. That allows a mostly calm site with one deliberate transition on a landing page, or a deliberately animated portfolio section without committing the whole site to the effect.
Set the default before you build. Retrofitting four transitions across an existing site is a sitewide decision, while a single page's animation is a small change you can make late.
Portfolio, blog and sidebar options
For project work, the vendor documents six single-portfolio layouts and three list layouts, combined with different column counts. Blog pages can use a masonry layout, and posts can use the Standard, Gallery, Link, Quote, Video and Audio formats. The footer takes one to four columns.
Sidebars are more flexible than a fixed left-or-right choice: the vendor describes unlimited custom sidebars that you can assign globally or per post and page. There is also a side menu widget area, which the vendor says includes an invisible scroller and closes itself after a certain amount of scrolling.
That combination suits a site where different sections need different supporting content — a shop widget column, a service sidebar, a blog sidebar — without duplicating widget configurations.
What you actually edit with
The content editing happens in WPBakery Page Builder, which the vendor describes as bundled with the theme, alongside modular shortcodes for page elements. Two slider tools are named separately: LayerSlider, described as bundled, and the Qode Carousel, a full-width carousel slider plugin. A companion plugin, Elision Core, appears throughout the changelog and carries theme functionality.
A one-click demo import is documented to bring in the demo content, and the package includes a dummy child theme as a starting point for customisations. The vendor does not hold the copyright on the demo photography; those images are presentational, and you would replace them with your own licensed or commissioned shots.
The marketplace attributes record the file set as PHP, CSS and JS files with documentation, and mark the theme as widget ready, high resolution and Gutenberg optimised.
Languages, and what the version record shows
The vendor declares WPML compatibility and states the theme is prepared for translation using po and mo files. Those are two different jobs: WPML handles a multilingual site, while the po/mo files give you a path to translate the theme's own strings.
On the compatibility record, the marketplace attributes list WooCommerce 7.x, 8.x and 9.x, while the 4.7 changelog entry dated 1 December 2025 states WooCommerce 10.x compatibility and records updates to WPBakery 8.7.2 and LayerSlider 8.0.1, plus improved PHP 8.3 and Google Maps API compatibility. Declared WordPress support in the attributes runs from 6.0.x to 6.9.x.
Where two records disagree, treat both as vendor claims rather than tested results, and confirm behaviour on a staging copy with your own plugin versions before committing to a build.
Questions & answers
Does Elision use the block editor or WPBakery?
The vendor documents WPBakery Page Builder as the bundled page builder, used together with modular shortcodes. The marketplace attributes also mark the theme as Gutenberg optimised, so both are recorded, but the feature description describes a WPBakery workflow.
Can one page have a different header from the rest of the site?
Yes, according to the vendor: each page can have its own custom header with a dark or light colour scheme, a different height, and its own background image, with the title placed in the middle or at the bottom.
Can I use the demo images on my own site?
No. The vendor states it does not own the copyright to the images in the theme and that they are used only for presentation in the demos. You need to license your own images or use your own photography.
