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Honshi

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Honshi is Ninetheme's creative portfolio theme, and its distinguishing arrangement is editorial: pages can be assembled in either WPBakery or Elementor, while menus, background images and onepage scroll sections are set per page through metaboxes and theme options rather than rebuilt inside the builder. The article explains how that split affects a portfolio build, what the plugin and language support covers, and which compatibility claims are declarations rather than tested facts.

Updated November 5, 2026 · theme.markets editorial team

Two page builders, and a third place where settings live

The marketplace description for Honshi says you can "Create any page with WPBakery and Elementor (Elementor Pro or Elementor Free)." That is not a builder being phased out in favour of another; both are listed as available editors, and the general feature list repeats them side by side as "WPBakery & Elementor Page Builder."

What makes the arrangement worth understanding before you buy is where the rest of the control sits. The vendor describes logo, menu and sidebar components as built specifically for the theme, hideable or removable from Theme Options without code. So a page is assembled in whichever builder you choose, but the surrounding decisions — header behaviour, footer content, colours, typography — are theme settings rather than builder rows. If you plan to hand a site to a client who only ever opens one panel, decide early which panel that will be.

Per-page menus and scroll sections come from metaboxes

Honshi's feature list includes "Custom menus for per page via metaboxes," and the sections list adds "Create onepage scroll sections for each page via metabox menu." Read together, that means a single site can give different pages different navigation, and can give an individual page its own set of scroll-linked sections, without building a separate menu structure through the builder canvas.

The vendor also describes metaboxes as the place for page-specific background images and CSS applied to header and footer areas. For a portfolio, that pattern is practical: project pages can carry their own menu and background while the contact and blog pages keep the standard set. The cost is that some of what shapes a page is not visible in Elementor's or WPBakery's panel — you need to remember the metabox area exists.

Onepage inside a multipage site

The feature list claims "Onepage and Multipage theme layouts supported," and the description spells out the combination: you can build a onepage page style on a multipage website. In practice that lets a landing-style front page scroll through sections while inner pages — a project archive, an about page, a blog — stay conventional.

This is where the metabox scroll setting earns its place. Rather than committing the whole site to a one-page structure, you scope the scroll behaviour to the pages that benefit from it. The vendor offers no guidance in the supplied material on how many sections a scroll page should carry, so that judgment stays with you.

Global design controls: colours, fonts and layout options

Theme Options is described as covering the preloader, back-to-top control, logo, menu, colours, general layout, footer, and sidebar and page structure on inner pages — including 404, search and archive templates. Typography is handled there too, with Google Web Fonts assignable to body text, headings and paragraphs, and the feature list adds custom font uploads and 700+ vector icons.

Sidebar and layout choices are also per page and per post: left sidebar, right sidebar or full width. For a portfolio that mixes a wide image-led project page with text-heavy case studies, that is a real distinction rather than a cosmetic one. The uncertainty is scope: the description lists Redux or Option Tree as the options framework, without saying which one this version uses, so don't plan around a specific panel layout.

Plugins the listing names

Contact Form 7, WPML, WPForms, Gravity Forms and Jetpack appear in the compatibility attributes. WPML support is consistent with the translation claim: the vendor describes a .POT file in the theme's language folder for converting the theme's strings, and RTL support is listed among the general features.

WooCommerce is declared across versions 5.x through 9.x, which covers selling prints, presets or services from a portfolio. Revolution Slider is described as usable anywhere on the site with ready-made demos in the plugin. Note the wording: those are the marketplace's compatibility declarations and the vendor's description of the product, not a statement about the contents of any particular copy you install. Plugin bundles age, and the slider and WPBakery are paid products you may need to license separately.

Declared compatibility, and what the attributes do not settle

As observed on 4 November 2026, the listing declares WordPress 4.9.x through 7.0.x, Bootstrap 4.x and 5.x, and browsers including IE11, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and Edge. Files are listed as PHP, CSS and JavaScript. Documentation is described as well documented, and a one-click demo import with XML is named in the feature list.

Gutenberg Optimized is recorded as No. That attribute describes the vendor's editing surface, not the availability of the block editor for posts and pages — the description itself discusses WPBakery behaviour under WordPress 5.0, and the vendor states compatibility issues from that release were addressed. The marketplace's latest recorded version is 2.7.2, which says nothing about the version in front of you; the theme screen inside WordPress is the only reliable number once installed. The listing shows 1,304 sales and a 4.91 rating from 101 ratings at observation time.

Questions & answers

Do I have to use both WPBakery and Elementor?

The vendor presents them as alternatives for building pages. Nothing in the supplied material describes a page needing both, so the practical decision is which one your team will open. Keep in mind that WPBakery and Revolution Slider are paid plugins, and their availability in your copy is separate from the theme's code.

Can different pages use different navigation menus?

Yes, according to the vendor. Per-page custom menus are set through metaboxes, which is how you would give a project or campaign page its own navigation while the rest of the site keeps the primary menu.

Does the theme work with the block editor?

The Gutenberg Optimized attribute is No, but that records the vendor's builder-based editing workflow rather than removing the block editor for posts and pages. If your team works primarily in blocks, test the editing experience on a staging copy before committing.

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