Hopes 6.0 - Church & Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

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Hopes - Church & Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

Hopes is a powerful, responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme tailored for churches and religious sites, offering built-in sliders, extensive shortcodes, customizable layouts, and SEO-friendly structure.

Core capabilities and purpose

  • Multipurpose WordPress Theme focused on church and religious themes with advanced functionality.
  • SEO optimized with a main content block placed before the sidebar to improve crawlability.
  • Compatible with popular slider and page-builder plugins, with options to disable WPBakery Page Builder while preserving shortcodes via the theme's custom shortcodes generator.

Sliders

  • Flex Slider
  • Static Image
  • Slider Revolution
  • Custom Slider
  • – for Third Party Sliders
  • Video Slider – single video display
  • Video Slider Supports Shortcodes. Supports YouTube and Vimeo too.

Key features and layout options

  • 5 Header Styles
  • Unlimited Sidebars for any page
  • Latest Fontawesome Icons
  • Left Sidebar option
  • Right Sidebar option
  • Full width page option
  • Full width section shortcode with parallax background option
  • Assign Slider on any page
  • Disable breadcrumb for any page you wish
  • Use Left/Sidebar for any page you wish
  • Add subheader background color for any page
  • 3 Subheader Alignments Left, Right and Center
  • 500+ Google Web Fonts
  • Sticky Bar on top
  • Business Hours Plugin worth $12
  • Custom Background Image for pages
  • Custom Background Image for posts
  • Custom Subheader Image for pages and posts
  • Custom Subheader Teasertext for pages and posts
  • Custom Subheader Height for pages

Post types, widgets and builders

  • Testimonials Post types for displaying testimonials in separate page, carousel and lists style
  • Testimonials List Shortcode
  • Widgetized Footer
  • Unlimited Sidebars. Create and select any sidebar for each page
  • Unlimited Color Skinning Options
  • Multi Threaded Comments
  • 9 Post Formats (Standard, Aside, Audio, Link, Image, Gallery, Quote, Status, Video)
  • Built in Shortcodes Generator
  • Advanced Options Panel (Import or Export for options settings)
  • Blog Page Template

Shortcodes and design elements

  • Accordion
  • Alert Boxes (Info, Alert, Success, Light Gray, Dark, Custom)
  • Appointment CallOut
  • Block Quotes
  • Blog Carousel
  • Boxes (Fancy Box, Framed Box)
  • Button
  • Flat
  • Border
  • CallOut Box
  • Column Layouts
  • Contact Info
  • Dividers (Dividers, Clear Both, Demo Space, Custom Divider)
  • Drop Cap (Drop cap 1, Drop cap 2, Drop cap 3)
  • Fancy Ampersand
  • Fancy Heading (h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,large,xlarge)
  • Flickr Photos
  • Google Font
  • Google Map
  • Highlight, Highlight 2
  • Icon Styles
  • Image
  • List Styles
  • CountDown
  • Milestone
  • Progress Bar
  • Progress Circle
  • Section Fullwidth
  • Services
  • Share Link
  • Staff Box
  • Testimonials
  • List
  • Fade
  • Carousel
  • Twitter Tweets
  • Vimeo
  • Youtube
  • Custom Backgrounds
  • Body, Pages, Header, Sub header, Featured Slider Area, Footer

Additional features and customization

  • Google Map shortcode
  • Google Map With Custom Color Stylers Integrated
  • Extensive Documentation
  • Child Theme Compatible
  • Localization ready
  • WPMU Compatible
  • WordPress 4.0+ Tested
  • Text Widget Support Shortcodes
  • 80+ Custom Shortcodes
  • This theme skinning options empower you to change any elements such as backgrounds, texts, links, menu, typography, etc.
  • 10 Custom Widgets (Hopes – Contact Info, Popular Posts, Flickr Photos, Post Gallery, Recent Posts, Sociables, Testimonials Submission, CT Archives, CT Categories, CT Locations, CT People, CT Sermons)
  • Revolution Slider
  • Hopes – Popular Posts Widget, Hopes – Recent Posts Widget, Hopes – Twitter
  • Hopes – Sociables – Displays sociables saved in theme options panel

Custom Post Types and color customization

  • Custom Post Types: Gallery, Sermons, People, Locations, Slider
  • Color Customization
  • Over 500+ Google Fonts offered with the theme
  • Unlimited color combinations for many elements
  • Background Images on a per-section basis (subheader, body background, etc.)

Footer, localization and multilingual readiness

  • 10 Footer Column Layout Styles for placing custom or default widgets
  • Theme Localization: Internationalization ready with option to change texts in theme options panel

Updates and changelog

v6.0 - 2025-02-06

  • Fixed added church theme content plugin support
  • Fixed added ctc sermons supports
  • Fixed added ctc events supports
  • Fixed added ctc people supports
  • Fixed added ctc locations supports
  • Fixed empty post type slug array when theme switched
  • Removed unwanted commented code
  • Fixed Theme support code modified with church theme content support with latest WP
  • Updated Theme Options UI
  • Added email display for the Single Location page
  • Fixed flex slider missing navigation issues
  • Fixed CTC framework textdomain from hopes to church-theme-framework
  • Moved the ctc framework shortcode to the hopes core plugin
  • Added documentation in theme popup in theme options panel
  • Fixed Custom sidebars not working
  • Updated Hopes Core plugin
  • Updated WP Bakery Page Builder
  • Updated Slider Revolution plugin

v5.0 - 2023-10-22

  • Updated: Moved ribbons array to Hopes Core plugin
  • Updated: Moved Sociables array to Hopes Core plugin
  • Updated: Animation array to Hopes Core plugin
  • Updated: Custom Post Types from Theme and moved to Hopes Core Plugin
  • Updated: Custom Post Types Meta from Theme and moved to Hopes Core Plugin
  • Updated: Theme Constants already defined issue from child theme
  • Updated: Moved the contact info widget to Hopes Core plugin
  • Updated: Moved the sociable widget to Hopes Core plugin
  • Removed: Twitter widget and twitter related functions from subheader
  • Updated: Moved the recent post widget to Hopes Core plugin
  • Updated: Moved the testimonials widget to Hopes Core plugin
  • Updated: Moved the gallery widget to Hopes Core plugin
  • Updated: Moved custom post types slider, testimonial and gallery
  • Updated: Escaping data by stripping out unwanted data
  • Added: Missing wp_body_open function from WordPress
  • Updated: Subheader alignments issue not working in new WP Versions
  • Updated: jQuery deprecated updates
  • Moved: add_shortcodes to Hopes Core Plugin as shortcodes are plugin territory
  • Fixed: Dark.css theme options styles
  • Removed: non sanitized code for the theme
  • Updated: changed the use of $_SERVER to use admin_url
  • Updated: removed get_contents and used WP_Filesystems
  • Fixed: Add Sub Menu Page was called directly function error
  • Fixed: removed base64_encode from theme options exporting
  • Fixed: removed base64_decode from theme options importing
  • Removed: Twitter tweets from subheader
  • Removed: Business Hours Pro Plugin as it is discontinued
  • Updated: Revolution Slider to latest version 6.6.17
  • Updated: WP Bakery Page Builder to the latest version 7.0
  • Added: Hopes Core Plugin
  • Removed: The Event Calendar Pro support

v4.6 - 2019-04-03

  • Fixed PHP 7 version errors in admin-interface.php
  • Fixed Flex slider responsive issues
  • Fixed translators comment in comments.php
  • Fixed minor responsive issues in Tablet
  • Fixed issues with mobile responsive
  • Changed updated create_function deprecated function
  • Changed text domain hopes-textdomain to hopes
  • Updated Business Hours Pro plugin to v5.5.0
  • Updated Revolution Slider to v5.4.8.3
  • Updated WP Bakery Page Builder to v5.7
  • Changed the tribe notices function to the latest version
  • Removed old compatibility or deprecated items

v4.5.1 - 2018-02-05

  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.6.4
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.4.5
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v5.2

v4.5.0 - 2018-01-19

  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.6
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.3
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.3.1
  • Fixed - vc_pattern issue fixed
  • Fixed - Testimonial Shortcode not showing names

v4.4.0 - 2017-10-08

  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.6
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.3
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.3.1
  • Fixed - Categories not displaying in Sermons shortcode
  • Fixed - Categories not displaying in People shortcode
  • Fixed - Categories not displaying in Sermons Books shortcode
  • Fixed - Categories not displaying in Sermons topics shortcode
  • Fixed - Categories not displaying in Sermons speakers shortcode
  • Fixed - Demo install doesn't set frontpage by default

v4.3.0 - 2017-08-18

  • Added - Smooth Transition for the links
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.2
  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.5.1
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.3.1
  • Changed - Fontawesome icons to v4.7.0
  • Removed - Edit post link option from page.php
  • Removed - Multiple box-sizing properties
  • Fixed - Tribe Events pagination in responsive

v4.2.0 - 2017-06-19

  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.5.1
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.1.1
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.3.1
  • Changed - WooCommerce content product page template
  • Changed - WooCommerce content single product page template

v4.1.0 - 2017-03-30

  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.1.0
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.1
  • Changed - Revolution Slider Plugin to v5.1.0
  • Fixed - Blog page issue with the single page title
  • Fixed - wp-admin bar overlapping issue for Fixed Header

v4.0.0 - 2017-02-03

  • Added - Fontawesome Icons for the theme options menu bar
  • Added - New One-Click Demo Installer
  • Changed - Backend UI for page meta options
  • Changed - Sociables theme options jquery
  • Changed - Default sidebar from the right sidebar to left sidebar
  • Changed - Topbar font size increased to 13px
  • Changed - Footer default background color
  • Changed - Copyright default background color

v3.4.0 - 2016-09-27

  • Added - Copyright text link color by default
  • Added - Prefix for the jquery UI datepicker
  • Added - 200+ New Google Fonts
  • Changed - Conditional code for the copyright area bottom
  • Changed - WooCommerce to the latest version

v3.3.0 - 2016-07-25

  • Changed - Church Category Widgets redirection on select for widgets
  • Changed - Revolution Slider Plugin to v5.2.6
  • Changed - Google Map Scripts Enqueue

v3.2.0 - 2016-06-27

  • Changed - TGM Plugin Activation
  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.2.5.4
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.12
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v3.5.2
  • Fixed - Flex caption horizontally centered with layout

v3.1.1 - 2016-04-21

  • Fixed - Issue with titles appearing on top for Events Calendar Plugin

v3.1.0 - 2016-04-20

  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.2.5
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.11.2
  • Changed - Breadcrumb Navxt Plugin to v5.4.0
  • Changed - Church Theme Content Plugin
  • Changed - Theme Text Domain to hopes-textdomain

v3.0.0 - 2015-12-02

  • Added - WooCommerce Full Compatibility
  • Added - WooCommerce Mini Cart in Headers
  • Changed - TGM Class Plugin Activation
  • Changed - Revolution Slider Plugin to v5.1.4
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.8.1
  • Changed - Breadcrumb NavXT Plugin to v5.3.0
  • Changed - Church Theme Content to v1.2.1
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v5.2.4
  • Changed - Fontawesome to v4.5.0

v2.2.0 - 2015-10-31

  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.8.0.1
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v2.5.0
  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.1

v2.1.0 - 2015-10-06

  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.7.4
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v2.4.0
  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.0.9
  • Fixed - Sociable Icons missing in peoples post type

v2.0.0 - 2015-08-26

  • Changed - Revamped the complete CSS for the Mega Menu
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro Plugin to v2.3.0
  • Changed - Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.0.4.1
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v6.4.2
  • Changed - Church Theme Content v1.3.3
  • Fixed - Fixed header opacity increased

v1.4.2 - 2015-06-29

  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to latest version
  • Changed - Revolution Slider Plugin to latest version
  • Changed - Breadcrumb-navXT Plugin to latest version
  • Fixed - jQuery PrettyPhoto to the latest version

v1.4.1 - 2015-06-02

  • Added - WPBakery Page Builder Frontend Editing
  • Fixed - Frontend editing bug, responsive logo issues, and height adjustments

v1.4.0 - 2015-06-02

  • Added - One-Click Import Sample Data and Options Data
  • Added - Sociable Icons for Instagram
  • Changed - Revolution Slider to Latest Version
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder to Latest Version
  • Changed - Link to services shortcode now clickable for the image
  • Changed - TGM Class plugin activation
  • Changed - Breadcrumb Navxt plugin
  • Changed - Modified Child Theme files

v1.3.0 - 2015-03-12

  • Added - Group Hours now if they are the same
  • Added - Toggle option for business hours pro widget
  • Added - Toggle option for business hours pro shortcode
  • Added - Closed Text background color option
  • Added - Frontend WPBakery Page Builder option
  • Added - Business hours time format options
  • Changed - Now back to top icon hidden on mobile
  • Changed - Business Hours Pro plugin to the latest version

v1.2.1 - 2015-01-20

  • Fixed - Date displaying issue with sermons posts
  • Fixed - Date issue for the sermons shortcode
  • Fixed - Date issue for all taxonomies
  • Fixed - sermons single pages date issue
  • Fixed - Date issue with all template pages

v1.2.0 - 2015-01-14

  • Added - WordPress Custom Menu for the sidebar with new styles
  • Removed - Duplicate 'hopes' folder inside of 'hopes' folder
  • Fixed - Fade option not generating in the testimonial carousel
  • Fixed - Teaser_option function removed from the static slider
  • Fixed - Flex Slider query changed to be compatible with WordPress v4.1
  • Fixed - Post meta data disable not working

v1.1.0 - 2015-01-06

  • Added - Child Theme functionality more extending
  • Changed - Revolution Slider Plugin to v4.6.5
  • Changed - WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.3.5

v1.0 Initial Release - 2014-11-04

  • Initial release notes and feature set for Hopes theme

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