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The project page is the design unit, not the homepage

Twelve predesigned homepages get the headline in the vendor description, but the feature list spends its detail elsewhere. Single projects are offered in six named arrangements: classic, slider, gallery, masonry, full screen and custom. That is a decision per project, not per site, which suits a studio whose work varies — a single-room renovation and a multi-storey build do not want the same page shape.

The practical question is which layout carries which kind of evidence. A full screen layout gives photography the whole viewport; slider layouts sequence views in a controlled order; masonry lets mixed image proportions sit together without cropping to a common ratio. Gallery and classic arrangements are the more conventional fallbacks. The vendor names the options but does not describe how each behaves at narrow widths, so the layout pick is worth testing with a real project rather than judging from the demo.

Shortcodes built for projects, not general pages

Alongside generic elements, the vendor lists ones that only make sense on a case study. Portfolio Project Info handles the metadata block — the details a client, location, year or scope list usually needs. Stacked Images composes overlapping photography, which is a common device in interior design layouts where a detail shot sits against a wider room view. Expanded Gallery extends the standard gallery presentation, and the Portfolio Slider shortcode gives a project its own image sequence inside a page.

Portfolio Image and Video Lightbox is declared for opening larger media from a project, and the 1.11 changelog records a fix for the gallery lightbox with overlay when pagination is enabled. That entry is a vendor note about a specific combination — overlay plus pagination — rather than a general statement about lightbox behaviour.

How the work is listed before anyone opens a project

The list level has its own vocabulary. Portfolio lists can be built as masonry or gallery arrangements, with multiple hover styles and a variable grid size. Hover styles matter more than they sound in this niche: a studio site typically shows one wide photograph per project, and what happens on hover determines whether the next click feels like a continuation or an interruption.

The variable grid size option lets a listing mix tile proportions instead of forcing every project into an identical frame — useful when some commissions are documented in portrait and others in landscape. Category archive pages and filtering are part of the portfolio scaffolding; the vendor's changelog records a portfolio-category-archive fix early in the theme's life, which suggests category structure is a supported route rather than an afterthought.

Header types and typography as the studio's voice

Four header types are named individually: Standard, Vertical, Minimal and Divided. A vertical header changes how much horizontal room the page content gets, which matters on image-heavy layouts; a divided header splits navigation across two sides of the logo. The vendor also separates logo files by state — a different mark for the mobile header, for light and dark header versions, and for the sticky state — so a light logo does not disappear when a transparent header sits over a dark image.

Typography gets unusually granular treatment in the feature list: highly customizable typography settings with separate settings for responsive breakpoints, plus 800+ Google Fonts and five icon font packs. Per-breakpoint typography is the setting that keeps oversized display headings from breaking a phone layout. A Disable Google Fonts option was added in 1.11 under Edge Options → General, which is relevant to sites that cannot load fonts from Google's servers. Anchor functionality for one-page sites is also declared.

Two things to plan around before you build

The vendor's changelog for 1.11, dated 22 September 2025, removes the Edge Twitter Feed and Edge Instagram Feed plugins because of API changes at those platforms. The older feature list still names Twitter and Instagram feed widgets. Treat the changelog as the more current statement: do not plan a social wall on the assumption that those widgets ship working. Displaying an Instagram feed on a studio site now generally means a separate integration.

The second point is photography. The vendor states plainly that it does not own the copyright for the images used in the demo and that they are for presentational purposes only — you need your own licence to use them. For a theme whose layouts depend on large, well-shot interiors, budget a photography pass before launch. The demo is a demonstration of composition, not a supply of assets. And the composition route is WPBakery Page Builder, listed among compatible plugins and named in the vendor copy as bundled; presence on the compatibility list is a vendor declaration, not proof of what a given archive contains.

Compatibility as declared, with the date attached

Attributes recorded from the marketplace listing on 4 November 2026 name WordPress 6.5.x through 7.0.x, WooCommerce 9.x.x and 10.x.x, WPML and WPBakery Page Builder, with browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge and Opera. The file attribute lists PHP, CSS and JS files, the layout is marked responsive at four or more columns, and widget areas are marked ready. A child theme is declared in the vendor description, and a Customizer-adjacent admin panel handles theme options.

These are listing declarations, not results from installing the theme against your PHP version and plugin set. The changelog for 1.11 records added WordPress 6.8.x and PHP 8.3 compatibility, which tells you what the vendor last tested and updated; it does not guarantee that an older or differently configured stack behaves the same way. Verify your own environment before committing a client site to it.

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