Welcome to Holmes, a theme we made specifically for every digital agency, marketing agency, video, technology & advertising agency, creative studio and advertisement. You get absolutely all the templates a digital agency or marketing studio can wish for, including the portfolio, shop and blog layouts, as well as a collection of 50+ powerful shortcodes for anything you can imagine. Make a statement with your site! Get Holmes and your digital agency website is sure to stand out in a positive light!

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Holmes Features

Highly Customizable
Extensive Admin Interface
Simple One-Click Import of Demo Content
No coding knowledge required
Big custom shortcode collection
Responsive & Retina Ready
16 homepage examples
Large collection of useful inner pages
Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin included ($26 value)
WPBakery Page Builder Plugin for WordPress included ($46 value)
Masonry Gallery shortcode
Portfolio List shortcode
Various Portfolio List layouts
Masonry Portfolio List
Gallery Portfolio List
Portfolio Project Info shortcode
Portfolio Category List shortcode
Portfolio Slider shortcode
Portfolio Fullscreen Slider shortcode
Portfolio Pair shortcode
Interactive Portfolio Links shortcode
Various Portfolio Single layouts
Portfolio Masonry Single layouts
Portfolio Gallery Single layouts
Portfolio Slider Single layouts
Full Width Portfolio Single layouts
Small Images Portfolio Single layouts
Interactive Icon Showcase shortcode
Vertical Split Slider shortcode
Numbered Title shortcode
Testimonials shortcode
Social Share shortcode
Full Screen Info shortcode
Parallax sections
Team Carousel shortcode
Team shortcode
Mega Menu
Customizable Google Maps
Smooth Page Transitions
Side Area
Twitter and Instagram social widgets
Dropdown Shop Cart widget
Social Icons Group widget
Blog List widget
Product List shortcode
Pricing table shortcode
Instagram List shortcode
Twitter List shortcode
Animation Holder shortcode
Clients Carousel shortcode
Clients Grid shortcode
Video Button shortcode
Anchor link functionality for one page sites
Video Background Sections
Background images in sections
Minimal Header Type
Expanding Header Type
Compact Header Type
Multiple header behaviors
Separate logo variants for dark and light header skin
Separate logo for mobile header
Header Top area
Style mobile header separately
Highly customizable title area
Custom Sidebars
Mikado Search functionality
Customizable Footer Layout – up to 4 columns
Separate Footer Bottom area
Choose your grid size
Powerful typography options
800+ Google Fonts
Multiple Blog List Layouts
Blog Standard Layout
Blog List shortcode
Custom Post Formats for Standard, Gallery, Link, Quote, Video, and Audio blog posts
Optional social share functionality
Smooth Scroll
Boxed layout option
Back to Top button functionality
Child Theme Included
Translation ready
WooCommerce compatible
WPML Plugin compatible
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We do not own the copyright for the images featured in this theme. The images in question are only used for presentational purposes on our demos. These images cannot be used on your website, unless you purchase the license from a stock image website yourself.

Change Log

Version 1.8 – October 9th, 2024

- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 7.9
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.7.20
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.4.3
- Updated chart.js scrip to 3.9.1 (same as in WPBakery)
- Fixed conflict between Line Graph and WPBakery Charts
- Fixed Creation of dynamic property in php classes
- Improved PHP 8.2 compatibility
- Improved Line Graph with Enable Color Fill option
- Line Graph not displaying Bezier curve anymore (not supported for monotone cubic interpolation)

Version 1.8 notes:chart.js 3.9.1 doesn’t support Bezier curve for monotone cubic interpolation anymore, so Line Graph elements will have straight lines instead.

Version 1.7 – July 11th, 2023

- Added WordPress 6.2.2 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 7.8.2 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.13.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.6.14
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.4.2
- Fixed minified JS code

Version 1.6 – May 4th, 2023

- Added WordPress 6.2 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 7.6.1 compatibility
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.4.1
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.11.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.6.12
- Fixed Portfolio single share buttons
- Improved TGMPA functionality

Version 1.5 – February 7th, 2023

- Added WordPress 6.1.1 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 7.3.0 compatibility
- Added Disable Google Fonts option and functionality
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.4
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.10.0
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.6.10
- Fixed countdown years dropdown option
- Improved Google Maps API with callback function
- Improved Search widget functionality

Version 1.4 – June 22nd, 2022

- Added WordPress 6.0 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 6.6.1 compatibility
- Updated Holmes Child theme to 1.0.1
- Updated WPBakery plugin to 6.9.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.5.25
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.3
- Updated Holmes Instagram Feed plugin to 2.1
- Updated Holmes Twitter Feed plugin to 1.1
- Fixed RevSlider start animation after Fullscreen Info element
- Fixed PerfectScrollbar
- Fixed mobile menu
- Fixed Single Product stars rating
- Fixed revolution slider preview functionality
- Fixed potential security issue
- Fixed cart widgets in WordPress 5.8
- Fixed creation of the Custom Sidebars in new Widgets layout
- Fixed 'Bulk Select' functionality with Menus
- Fixed Portfolio single upload masonry image size
- Improved holmes_mkdf_get_attachment_id_from_url function
- Improved theme registration to block Shortcodes and CPT loading if the theme is not registered
- Removed Google Plus options

Version 1.3.2 – April 7th, 2021

- Added PHP 8 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery plugin to 6.6.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.4.6
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.2.2
- Fixed pricing table bug on Safari

Version 1.3.1 – September 7th, 2020

- Updated WPBakery plugin to 6.4.1
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.2.23
- Updated Holmes Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0

Version 1.3 – September 7th, 2020

- Added WordPress 5.5 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 4.4.1 compatibility
- Updated Holmes Core to 1.2.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.2.22
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.3.0

Version 1.2 – December 25th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.8.1 compatibility
- Added Holmes Dashboard
- Updated Holmes Core on 1.2
- Updated WPBakery plugin to 6.1
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.1.5
- Updated Holmes Instagram Feed plugin to 1.0.1
- Updated Holmes Twitter Feed plugin to 1.0.1
- Fixed social share on blog posts
- Fixed testimonials carousel pagination bug
- Fixed interactive portfolio links scroll bug
- Improved Import
- Improved Welcome Page
- Changed Holmes Options Position
- Removed unused file instagram-redirect.php from Holmes Instagram Widget plugin
- Removed unused file twitter-redirect.php from Holmes Twitter Feed plugin

Version 1.1.3 – April 23rd, 2019

- Minor theme improvements

Version 1.1.2 – April 22nd, 2019

- Fixed broken testimonials

Version 1.1.1 – April 19th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.1 compatibility
- Improved theme files
- Fixed wrong escaped labels
- Fixed broken child theme issue

Version 1.1 – March 5th, 2019

- Improved framework files
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8.3
- Updated Holmes Core to 1.1

Holmes WordPress Theme