Templates Review
WordPress WooCommerce Forte multipurpose WP theme (eCommerce ready)
NOTE: the compatibility with Internet Explorer 8 concerns only the usability of the front-end, the contents and the main functions. Some CSS3 effects are avoided in Internet Explorer 8 (some transitions and some properties such as the rounded borders)
Theme description
Forte is a powerful, elegant and flexible WordPress e-commerce theme with an adaptive layout and many features inside. It has got a (really) powerful admin panel, and an intuitive page builder (page composer).
Forte supports WooCommerce,WP Super Cache, WPMU (Wordpress Multi-User or Wordpress Network), and WPML, only to name the most famous ones.
The possibilities of customization are almost infinite, the 2 skins available are only examples you can use as starting points:
It comes with many jQuery effects (Tabs, Accordions, Drop Down Menu, Mega menu, Tooltips, Multi-Layer slideshow, Fullscreen slideshow, Colorbox and more…), unlimited skins, unlimited possibilities, Google web fonts, many layouts, drag & drop system to compose your multi-layer slideshows, your contact forms and your price tables, a huge number of shortcodes with useful buttons in the text editor, a powerful extended administration panel, widget ready with seven widgets integrated, easy to translate with a .po file.
Requirements
Please, buy this theme only if you think that the speed of the demo site (click here) is acceptable. Forte is a powerful theme, with many features, and many customizations possible. This requires a quite good server. The demo site is hosted on a VPS with other sites together with it : 768 MB of RAM , nothing special, but it’s enough.
The performance of your site will be faster or slower depending on whether you put your custom styles inline or you create a static file (this option is available on the admin panel). Each time you save something on your Forte admin panel a static file is generated with the settings just saved, but only if the CHMOD of this file is set to 777 and if the function file_put_contents() is available on your server.
Video Tutorials
- Install Wordpress and Forte
- First steps
- Import demo content and the skins
- Create a menu
- Sidebars and side icons
- Create a slideshow
- The page builder
Theme features
- Responsive / adaptive design
- Multi-layer, fullscreen slideshow completely editable (drag & drop) with touch enabled (swipe gestures)
- Sortable/filterable portfolio galleries, post categories and shop pages
- Page navigation numbers or infinite scroll button available
- WPMU ready
- WPML ready
- Zoom effect integrated for the product pages
- Sidebar generator
- 7 native widgets:
- Contact Forms
- Thumb Gallery
- Recent posts
- Recent comments
- Last tweets
- Advanced Search
- Login form
- 14 layouts to use with your Blog, your Portfolio or your Shop
- ColorBox plugin integrated
- Tooltip plugin integrated
- AJAX Contact Form generator completely editable (drag & drop)
- Price table generator completely editable (drag & drop)
- Brand customization available
- jQuery drop-down menu and mega menu
- Google Web Fonts ready
- Almost every color are editable by Farbtastic color picker (body, loading, menu, links…)
- Skin exporter/importer
- SEO optimization
- The icons and the layout are Retina-ready
- A huge number of shortcodes with available as buttons in the text editor:
- Slideshows
- Google map
- Contact forms
- Tooltips
- Videos (MP4 and OGG uploader or externally hosted… Vimeo, YouTube etc.)
- UI Accordion
- Ui Tabs
- Sitemap
- Custom boxes
- Dropcap
- Custom buttons
- Price tables
- Galleries
- Categories
- Tweets
... and more
- Many jQuery effects inside
- Powerful admin panel
- Documentation included
- Support forum available
- Fontawesome + other icons integrated
- Demo content included
Resources
French translation, kindly provided by Armand Billard available here (.po e .mo files): http://www.pixedelic.com/envato-assets/forte/fr_FR.zip
