CONTRAST 4.4 - Elite Photography & Portfolio Theme

Overview and design philosophy

Contrast emphasizes visual impact with horizontal and vertical homepage grid layouts that showcase photography, artworks, and designs across all devices. Generous white space ensures content stands out, while customization options let you tailor the color scheme and branding. The theme supports all post formats, smooth animations, unlimited galleries, and social links in the footer to keep audiences connected.

• Full-screen layout to showcase artworks in an immersive way.
• Horizontal & vertical homepage grid layouts for flexible presentation.
• Generous white space on posts and pages to let content breathe.
• Customize the colour scheme and add your own logo for a unique online space.
• Supports all post formats with smooth animations and unlimited galleries.
• Add your social media links to the site footer for ongoing engagement.

Key design elements

• Seven easy to use gallery variations
• Full-screen Background Slider
• Full-screen layout optimized for photography and design portfolios
• Retina-ready visuals with Retina.js support
• Responsive Layout (Tested on iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile 8)
• RTL Support for right-to-left languages
• RGBA Color Picker with transparency function
• Unlimited Page/Homepage variations

Inclusions and plugins

• Visual Composer for WordPress Plugin
• Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin
• Showbiz Pro Responsive Teaser WordPress Plugin
• Accordion Slider – Responsive and Touch accordion
• Megafolio Pro Responsive Grid JQuery Plugin
• FullScreen Video Background (YouTube, Vimeo and Self Hosted) Video Function
• FullScreen Background Google Map Function
• Fancybox Lightbox with built-in support
• DummyData Included. Easy One-Click Install with a Step by Step Guide

Includes several premium plugins and capabilities to extend galleries, sliders and media presentation, designed to accelerate development and ensure high visual impact.

Theme options, customization and content management

• Builton WhiteBoard Framework
• Built-in Ajax Theme Options Panel ( VAFPRESS )
• Custom Page Layouts and Custom Page Templates
• Custom Build Theme & Page Options
• Custom Widgets and smart admin panel for customization
• Categorized Image Gallery and Categorized Bulk Upload / Bulk Gallery
• Unlimited Portfolio Listing with Category Filtering
• Unlimited Blog Listing with Category Filtering
• Custom 404 Error Page

Compatibility, localization and e-commerce

• Compatible with WordPress 3.6+ (as listed in the feature set)
• SEO Ready
• Localize with .po .mo translation files
• WPML & PolyLang Multilingual Plugins Extended Support
• RTL Support
• Woo-Commerce Support (Customized)
• Responsive Layout (tested across major devices)

Post formats, galleries and media

• Various Post Formats With Image, Slideshow, YouTube, Vimeo Video, SoundCloud and other WordPress supported
• Unlimited Sidebars
• Unlimited Colors Options
• RGBA Color Picker with transparency function
• Unlimited Portfolio Listing with Category Filtering
• Unlimited Blog Listing with Category Filtering

Live preview, support and documentation

Check out the live preview for a hands-on look at contrasts and layouts. The theme includes extensive documentation and free ongoing support.

• Extensive Documentation
• Free Customer Support that is On-Going
• Great social media support
• Integrated Facebook Comment System

Special features and performance notes

• CSS3 / JavaScript techniques delivering a Flash-like feel without compromising load time or SEO
• HTML5 / CSS3 implementation
• Custom Page Templates and Great Photo Galleries
• Full-screen Background Slider and Full-screen Video Background options
• Localize with translation files and multilingual plugin support

Important note: All presented layouts are prepared for visual demonstration to show capabilities; images used in previews are not included in the package due to copyright issues.

Update log highlights

• Version 4.4 (20.03.2023): WPBakery plugin updated; Revolution Slider plugin updated; Showbiz plugin updated; Envato Market plugin updated; WooCommerce 7.5.x compatibility check; Various fixes & improvements
• Version 4.3 (06.01.2021): WPBakery plugin updated; Revolution Slider plugin updated; Various improvements
• Version 4.2 (09.12.2020): WPBakery plugin updated; Revolution Slider plugin updated; ShowBiz plugin updated; Polylang plugin support added; WPML & Polylang switcher function added; Various improvements & fixes
• Version 4.1 (21.08.2020): WPBakery plugin updated; Revolution Slider plugin updated; WordPress 5.5 compatibility fixes; WooCommerce 4.3.x compatibility check; Various improvements
• Version 4.0 (24.12.2019): WPBakery plugin updated; Revolution Slider plugin updated; Various improvements
• Version 3.9 (31.12.2018): WPBakery plugin updated; Revolution Slider plugin updated; WordPress 5.x compatibility (Block Editor deactivated)
• Version 3.8 (29.10.2018): WPBakery plugin updated (Formerly Visual Composer); SSL compatibility changes made on Horizontal Grid Folio

Additional historical entries detail continual updates to plugins, compatibility, and feature refinements across versions 3.x to 4.x, including major upgrades to Visual Composer, Revolution Slider, ShowBiz, and various theme options.

Credits and acknowledgments

Special thanks to contributors and partners for their assistance in development and assets used in demos.

• Jean Yves Lemoigne
• Josh Rossi
• Oleg Kovalenko