FullScene

The background follows the entry, not the site

Many photography themes ask you to pick one presentation and keep it. FullScene's feature list makes the background an item-level setting instead: a different fullscreen background can be assigned to each page, each post and each portfolio item.

Think about how that changes a portfolio's shape. A fullscreen home page can open on one frame, an about page on another, and each project can lead with its own image rather than a thumbnail cropped from the grid. The vendor separates fullscreen and normal backgrounds as two customisable layers, so pages with a fullscreen treatment and pages without one can share the same site.

All of this comes from the vendor's description. It describes what the settings are meant to do, not how they behave on a particular gallery's image set.

Three portfolio layouts and one column setting

The description names three portfolio page layouts: fullscreen, grid and masonry. Fullscreen shows one project at a time; grid holds thumbnails to an even rhythm; masonry lets portrait and landscape frames sit together without a common crop.

Grid and masonry share a 2, 3 or 4 column option. Version 2.0.1 added the 2 and 4 column choices, which tells you 3 was the original width and the others arrived later as alternates. The marketplace attributes separately list the layout as responsive and the column count as 4+. Fullscreen is a different layout and does not use that control.

A second control matters if you publish across several kinds of work. Version 2.0.3 added the option to exclude portfolio and blog categories in the home and portfolio page templates, so one portfolio can hold everything while a particular page shows a subset of it.

Slideshow settings you can actually switch

The fullscreen slideshow is presented as adjustable rather than fixed. Version 2.1.6 added a switch for the Ken Burns effect on the home and portfolio fullscreen slideshows, so the slow drift over each image can be turned off instead of living in the template. Version 2.1.7 added a further overlay style for fullscreen and slideshow views, joining the earlier option to turn the diagonal hatch overlay on or off.

Video sits with the portfolio item. Version 1.2 introduced self-hosted video support for portfolio items and for a home video banner; version 1.3.3 allowed images and video to be used together within a portfolio item and made the lightbox show the video rather than a still for video entries. Version 2.0.3 later extended the thumbnail lightbox to remote video and added navigation.

Read as a changelog sequence, the slideshow and video behaviour was assembled over years of releases. The entries confirm what the vendor says exists; they say nothing about how it feels with your own files.

Building pages: core blocks, Elementor, or both

The description calls the theme optimised for the WordPress 5.x block editor, and the attributes mark Gutenberg Optimized as Yes. The changelog supports this with more than a single line: 2.1.0 records Gutenberg optimisation, 2.1.5 refreshed styling for some core blocks, and 2.2 updated core block styling again. That pattern suggests native blocks were maintained as a first-class way to build pages.

Elementor is offered separately, with the vendor counting 15 exclusive content elements in its add-on. The attributes name Elementor and Elementor Pro as compatible. A support listing does not make Elementor a requirement for every demo, and which of the 15 elements you need depends on the layout in front of you.

Theme settings sit in a third place. The vendor configures them through the WordPress live Customizer, a move recorded in the 2.0.0 changelog entry.

Skins, type, widgets and the page templates

Dark and light skins are supplied, with an accent colour set separately, so the neutral base and the highlight tone are two decisions rather than one preset. Heading type comes from a Google Fonts selection the vendor counts at over 800 faces, picked directly in the settings.

The theme ships 9 custom widgets across 8 widgetised areas, which sets the ceiling for sidebars and other widget regions. A child theme is included. The 2.0.0 release added RTL support alongside the Customizer switch, and the description lists localisation readiness as a feature.

Two page templates handle common business pages: a contact template with a Google map, contact details and a form with validation, and an about template containing a team members section. Eight post formats are supported with individual designs: standard, gallery, video, audio, link, quote, aside and status.

What the vendor declares about WordPress 6.1, WooCommerce and later releases

The attributes name WordPress 5.9.x, 6.0.x and 6.1.x, and WooCommerce 7.x.x, with Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and Edge listed as browsers. The marketplace version is 2.3.0 and the vendor's last update is dated 21 February 2023. Files included are PHP, CSS and JavaScript.

A ceiling at WordPress 6.1.x paired with a 2023 update date describes what the vendor published and tested at the time, not a promise about the WordPress release running on your server. The WooCommerce entry deserves the same reading: the changelog shows template files refreshed release after release, but a working store still depends on your own configuration.

One maintenance detail is worth knowing before you plan anything. Version 2.2 moved code that had to live in a separate plugin out of the theme and into the core plugin, and 2.0.0 had already separated some core functionality that way. Whatever is outside the theme folder stays part of your install.

The demo photographs come from Unsplash under the vendor's credit note and are demonstration content, not files that ship with the theme.

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