Stål

The theme's real centre of gravity is a figures toolkit

Mikado Themes describes Stål as built for industry and construction sites, from oil and metallurgy to renewable energy. That positioning is common enough. What separates the theme in its own feature list is a cluster the vendor labels "various infographic shortcodes" — a Charts shortcode, a Progress Bar shortcode, a Counter shortcode and a Countdown shortcode.

Those four answer a specific problem on an industrial site. Capacity figures, production numbers, project stages and deadlines are the content that makes a manufacturer or contractor credible, and they usually arrive as a static paragraph. With these modules the same numbers become a rendered chart, an animated counter, a stage-by-stage bar or a ticking deadline. The vendor presents them as no-coding modules, so the work is choosing the right module and entering figures, not writing markup.

Plan for measurement discipline, though: a chart needs numbers that update, and a counter that animates to a figure nobody maintains becomes a liability faster than plain text would.

Comparison tables, and where they differ from a single price table

The feature list names two pricing modules separately: a Pricing Table shortcode and a Comparison Pricing Table shortcode. That distinction matters more than it looks. A pricing table presents one plan's price and inclusions. A comparison table places plans side by side so a visitor can read down a column of features.

Industrial buying rarely resolves in one step. A fabricator comparing service tiers, a machinery supplier listing maintenance packages, or a contractor offering survey, installation and servicing levels all sell through differences between tiers. That is the comparison table's job, and it is worth checking the demo build to see how many columns it holds and how feature rows are labelled before you commit a page to it.

The same set also includes a Clients List, Team List and an Interactive Link Showcase — the supporting furniture of a corporate credibility page rather than decoration.

Portfolio layouts are the project-reference layer

Portfolio work in this theme is unusually granular. The vendor lists four listing layouts — Gallery, Masonry, Slider and Justified Gallery — and seven single-project layouts: Masonry, Gallery, Images, Slider, Full Width and Small Images among them.

Those are two separate decisions. The listing layout decides how a set of projects is browsed: masonry and justified gallery absorb mixed image proportions, a slider controls the order in which references are seen, a plain gallery stays closest to a grid. The single layout decides how one project is told — a full-width layout gives a completed build room to breathe, a small-images layout keeps a technical reference compact, and the slider form structures a sequence of stages.

Building a template and reusing it across projects are separate acts. Nothing in the description suggests that editing one project's presentation updates the others, so treat each layout choice as a per-entry decision.

Five headers, three scroll behaviours, and logos per state

Headers are the most configurable surface the vendor describes. Five types are named — Standard, Divided, Minimal, Vertical and Centered — plus a fullscreen menu option and a customisable mega menu. On top of the type, three behaviour modes: sticky, fixed, or sticky only when scrolling up.

For a site built around specification pages and long equipment lists, that combination is a navigation decision rather than a styling one. A vertical header keeps primary sections visible down a long page; a minimal header gives a dense technical layout its horizontal room back; sticky-on-scroll-up keeps menus reachable without permanently eating viewport height.

The detail worth noting is separate logo versions for normal, sticky and mobile headers, and separately for dark and light header skins. Each header state gets its own image, so a wide horizontal mark can give way to a compact one on mobile without manual swapping. A side area, an optional header-top widget region and 1–4 column footers complete the shell.

What the marketplace attributes declare about editing and plugins

The compatibility attributes, observed on 4 November 2026, list Elementor and WPBakery Page Builder together. The theme's own feature list only names Elementor as compatible, so treat WPBakery as a declared compatibility rather than a second documented build path, and confirm which one you intend to use before starting.

The same attribute set lists WooCommerce 9.x.x and 10.x.x, WPML, WordPress 6.5.x through 7.0.x, and Gutenberg Optimized marked Yes. Those are vendor and marketplace declarations, not results from running the theme against your own plugin stack, PHP version or server. The marketplace's latest version is 1.7; it does not establish what is in any particular copy you obtain.

The vendor also states that Slider Revolution is included as a bundled responsive plugin, which is a claim about what the vendor ships. Check the actual package contents rather than assuming the bundle.

The release notes show what gets maintained

Stål is not a set that ships once. The changelog shows repeated updates to the pieces underneath the theme: Stal Core and Qode Framework plugin versions move alongside nearly every release, and Revolution Slider is bumped in step with them.

Two entries are more informative for planning. Version 1.6 (November 2024) records improved PHP 8.3 compatibility alongside Google Map API and security work; version 1.5 fixed Elementor deprecated functions; 1.6.1 improved WooCommerce product styles. The 2025 and 2026 releases concentrate on the WPML config file, font and pagination helper functions, and translation loading — housekeeping that suggests the maintained surface is the theme's own framework and integrations rather than a stream of new layouts.

The package listing names PHP, CSS and JS files, and the vendor includes a child theme. There is no layered design source in that list, so plan on adapting Stål through its options, Elementor and the supplied shortcodes rather than editing artwork at source.

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