Prayer times and a community calendar, not just a mosque skin
The vendor's description names a specific Prayer Times widget and credits Muslim Pro as the service behind it. According to that description, the widget can display prayer times for any country and any location on the globe. For a mosque site this is the difference between a theme that merely looks appropriate and one that carries a recurring piece of information visitors actually come for.
Alongside it, the vendor lists a handy event calendar to show what is coming up at the centre, plus several layouts for news and photo galleries. Those three together — times, calendar, announcements — cover most of what a community site publishes week to week. The vendor also says the theme includes modules for services and educational programs, which is where classes, study circles and community offerings would sit.
The marketplace listing observed on 3 November 2026 names Events Calendar among the compatible plugins, so the calendar route is declared. What the listing does not say is which demo screens the prayer times widget or the events views on, so plan to look over the demo before committing your structure.
An RTL version is supplied, and translation readiness is separate
The vendor states the theme is translation ready and that an RTL version is supplied for anyone who wants to switch to another language. Those are two different things and both matter here. An RTL stylesheet handles direction — text alignment, navigation, margin logic — while translation readiness concerns the strings the theme outputs.
The marketplace highlights attached to this item also reference Arabic and right-to-left support, which matches the vendor's framing. For an English-and-Arabic site, that pairing is the reason to start with Shaha rather than a general church or nonprofit theme dressed in new colours: mirroring a left-to-right layout correctly is work you would otherwise do yourself.
WPML appears in the compatibility list, which is the multilingual plugin the vendor declares support for. If your language plan runs to three or more locales with translated menus, that declaration is the one to verify against your setup, since it describes a vendor claim rather than a tested configuration of your own site.
Two page builders, with the header and footer built in WPBakery
Shaha declares support for both WPBakery Page Builder and Elementor, and the vendor's layout notes put header and footer customisation specifically in WPBakery. That asymmetry is worth noticing if you have a preference. Page bodies are described as editable in either builder, but the persistent frame around them — logo row, navigation, footer columns — is described as a WPBakery job.
The changelog shows this was not always so. Elementor compatibility and an Elementor-based homepage arrived in version 1.4, dated January 2021, roughly three years after the theme's initial release. Sites built before that release are WPBakery builds, and demo data has been refreshed many times since, so old screenshots and current demos may not describe the same layouts.
Beyond the builders, the vendor lists 750+ customizer options, a setting inheritance and override system, custom post types, custom widget sets, custom shortcodes and a dedicated theme options panel. Widget Ready is marked Yes in the marketplace attributes. The inheritance and override system is the one to understand early: it governs whether a change applies site-wide or only to the section you are working on, and getting that backwards on a large community site produces a lot of cleanup.
The donations claim needs checking before you build a giving flow
The current vendor description says donations can be enabled with the ThemeREX Donations Plugin "already included into the theme package". The changelog tells a more complicated story. Version 1.2.1, dated June 2020, records compatibility with GiveWP being added and lists "TRX Donations plugin" under Removed.
Both statements sit in the same vendor material. That does not resolve which is accurate for the copy you install, and it matters: a mosque or Islamic centre that collects sadaqah, zakat or building-fund donations is building a page where money moves. Confirm with the vendor which plugin the current demo actually uses, then test the full path — amount entry, one-off versus recurring, confirmation, receipt — before the page goes live.
The rest of the plugin list is a snapshot rather than a contract: Slider Revolution, Essential Grid, MailChimp for WP, Contact Form 7, Events Calendar and ThemeREX Addons. The changelog shows this list shifting over time. GiveWP arrived in 2020, Booked appeared in 2020 and was removed in version 1.5.0 in February 2024, and QuickCal was added in the same release that dropped Booked. If a booking or class-scheduling function matters to your centre, check which plugin the current version uses rather than assuming the one named in an older demo.
What the file list does and does not include
The marketplace attributes record the included files as PHP, CSS and JS. The vendor's own closing note is clearer about the rest: images used in the live preview are copyrighted to their respective owners and are not included in the template. Any photographs of the mosque interior, community events or congregation in the demo are yours to license or shoot.
The same caution applies to fonts, which the vendor lists as Google Fonts, and to the high-resolution and retina support the listing declares. That support means the theme is built to serve sharp images on dense screens; it does not supply the images themselves.
Gutenberg Optimized is marked No in the attributes. Read that narrowly. It describes the editing path the vendor prepares layouts and documentation for — the two page builders above — and does not mean the block editor is switched off. The changelog even records an early fix for Gutenberg and other page builders. If your team writes in core blocks and expects that to stay the primary workflow, this theme's demos are not aimed at you.
Blog, gallery and search, in brief
The vendor lists multiple blog styles, flexible layout options, 20+ post animations, a feed you can restrict to chosen post types or categories, post views, likes and sharing buttons, and a related posts section. For a community site that publishes weekly announcements or reports from classes, that is a usable set: you can decide what appears in the feed rather than accepting a reverse-chronological dump.
The theme also declares interactive Ajax search, user and main menu support, boxed and fullwidth page layouts, flexible colours and typography, Slider Revolution and Swiper sliders, and Fontello and image icons. Documentation is described as well documented, and the file list includes the theme's PHP, CSS and JS files.
Version history and the declared platform range
The vendor changelog in the description runs through version 1.5.8, dated October 2026, whose entries concern the bundled trx_addons plugin and script merging. That is routine upkeep rather than feature change. Earlier entries are more revealing: version 1.5.4 in October 2025 records a fix for a potential local file inclusion vulnerability during pagination, and version 1.5.6 in September 2026 notes that object unserialisation from demo data and theme options was disabled. If you are running an older copy, those are the reasons not to stay there.
Platform work appears throughout: WordPress compatibility entries appear repeatedly in 2025 and 2026, and PHP 8 support was added in version 1.4.2 in December 2021. As observed on the marketplace listing on 3 November 2026, the software version attribute spanned WordPress 4.9.x through 7.0.x and the marketplace recorded 1.5.5 as the latest version, while compatible browsers were listed as IE11, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and Edge. The changelog in the description extends beyond that recorded version, so the attribute and the description do not line up exactly. Treat these as vendor declarations about the intended environment, then confirm the WordPress and PHP versions that matter to you against the copy you install.
Questions & answers
Does Shaha work for a site in Arabic or another right-to-left language?
The vendor states an RTL version is supplied and the theme is translation ready, and the marketplace highlights reference Arabic and RTL support. That gives you a right-to-left layout rather than a mirrored afterthought. WPML appears in the compatible plugin list, so multilingual setups are declared as supported.
Which page builder should I use if I want to change the header and footer?
The vendor describes both Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder as supporting page content, but header and footer layouts specifically as customisable in WPBakery. Elementor support only arrived in version 1.4 in 2021, so older builds and older screenshots are WPBakery-based.
Is a donation plugin included for collecting sadaqah or zakat?
The vendor description says the ThemeREX Donations plugin is included, while the changelog records TRX Donations being removed in version 1.2.1 in 2020 and GiveWP compatibility added in the same release. Because donations involve real payments, confirm with the vendor which plugin the current version uses and test the full giving flow before launch.
