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A furniture theme judged by what shoppers can do with a product

Furniture buying is slow. Someone comparing sofas keeps a shortlist for days, checks a fabric against a wall colour, and often asks a second person before ordering. The feature list Elated-Themes publishes for Töbel speaks to that behaviour directly: full compatibility with QODE Wishlist for WooCommerce, which the vendor says lets visitors "easily create and share lists with products they are interested in purchasing."

That is the part worth reading first, because layout tools are replaceable and saved-product behaviour is not. The same list declares QODE Quick View and QODE Variation Swatches, plus YITH Quick View, YITH Wishlist and YITH Color and Label Variations. Two wishlist routes rather than one is a real choice, not a bonus: you would pick QODE or YITH and work with the one whose settings and styling you can live with. The vendor does not state that the two run side by side.

One item is not optional. The 1.7 changelog entry from 23 July 2024 says QODE Variation Swatches for WooCommerce was "added as required," with compatibility following in the same release. Plan on the plugin being part of the install rather than something you can skip.

Why swatches carry more weight in this niche

A colour swatch on a t-shirt is a nice touch. On an armchair it is often the decision: oak versus walnut, bouclé versus linen, brushed brass versus matte black. That is why a variation layer with colour and label options matters more here than the brevity of the feature entry suggests.

The vendor describes the swatch support as a compatibility claim, not a documented workflow. Nothing in the supplied material states how swatches are assigned, whether images per variation are supported, or how swatch attributes behave inside filters. If your catalogue leans on finish variations, confirm those points against the demo and the theme documentation before you build product templates around them.

Shortcodes and widgets that map onto showroom pages

Beyond the plugin layer, the feature list includes theme-built tools that fit how furniture and interior businesses actually structure pages: a Product List shortcode, a Product Category List shortcode, an Order Tracking shortcode, and WooCommerce DropDown Cart and WooCommerce Side Area Cart widgets.

Product Category List is the one that earns its place on a showroom homepage. A room-by-room index of sofas, lighting and storage is closer to how customers walk through a physical store than a flat grid of everything in stock. Product List covers curated collections such as a new-arrivals row or a seasonal edit. The side-area cart widget pairs with the theme's side area, so a small basket stays within reach without a full cart page load.

Elated-Themes also lists a portfolio set: four list layouts, pagination that includes load more and infinite scroll, category filtering, and separate single-project layouts. For an interior design studio, that is where completed room projects live apart from the shop.

Elementor with Qi Addons, or Gutenberg with Qi Blocks

The vendor describes the theme as fully compatible with Elementor alongside Qi Addons for Elementor, and separately compatible with Qi Blocks for the block editor. Both Qi plugins come from the same vendor, so the two paths share a design language rather than producing pages that look like different products.

The marketplace attributes mark Gutenberg Optimized as Yes. Read that as the block editor remaining usable, not as a promise that the imported demo pages are assembled from blocks — the described design workflow is Elementor. If block-based editing is a requirement for your team, check which demo pages survive a switch before committing.

Around the page content sit structural options: four header types (standard, minimal, vertical, centered) with sticky, sticky-on-scroll-up and fixed behaviours, separate mobile header styling, dark and light logo variants, a mega menu, and a footer configurable from one to four columns. The vendor also lists a bundled Slider Revolution and an included child theme, which matters if you expect to modify templates rather than only style them.

Version record and declared compatibility

As observed on the marketplace listing on 4 November 2026, the latest marketplace version is 1.9, with the vendor's last update dated 19 March 2026. The declared software range covers WordPress 6.5.x through 7.0.x and WooCommerce 9.x.x and 10.x.x, alongside Contact Form 7, Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder and WPML in the compatibility attribute.

WPBakery appearing in that list does not mean the theme's pages are built with it — the vendor's description points to Elementor. Treat the attribute as a declared compatibility statement rather than a description of the demo.

The recent changelog reads as maintenance rather than reinvention. Version 1.9 refreshed Revolution Slider and the Tobel Core plugin, adjusted the WPML config file and touched WooCommerce figure CSS selectors. Version 1.8.1, from May 2025, worked on PHP 8.3 compatibility, Google Map API handling and translation loading. Neither release adds or removes a shop feature, so the plugin stack documented in the earlier releases still defines the theme.

These remain vendor and marketplace declarations, not the result of testing against your plugins, PHP build or hosting setup. The listed browsers — Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, Opera — say nothing about how the theme behaves with the plugins you already run.

Two decisions that shape the build

Settle the wishlist route before you design product pages, since QODE and YITH are both declared and you should not need two. Then check how QODE Variation Swatches, required since version 1.7, handles the finish and fabric options your catalogue actually uses. Those two answers determine the shop templates; the Elementor-versus-Gutenberg question only changes how you assemble the surrounding pages.

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