Kanni 3.5 - Home Automation CCTV Security WordPress Theme

Key features and compatibility

• Visual Composer — a powerful page builder that enables drag-and-drop design and content creation, simplifying page assembly without coding.
• Ultimate Addon — extends WPBakery Page Builder with premium elements such as animation blocks, advanced buttons, interactive banners, and more for flexible section creation.
• Design Themes Core Features Plugin — a simple WordPress plugin designed to implement core BuddhaThemes features; integrated as version 1.0 and compatible with Visual Composer extensions and third-party APIs.
• WordPress Customizer — enhanced with Kirki for live previews and easy changes to site title, breadcrumbs, widgets, and menus.
• Slider Revolution — a multipurpose slider solution with powerful customization, enabling rich transitions and animations for any content, including media-rich security offerings.
• Unyson Importer — one-click demo content import to replicate the theme demo for faster setup.
• Events Calendar — a carefully crafted, extensible plugin for managing events by day, week, month, or list view with an attractive presentation.
• Events Calendar PRO — premium views and features (detail, list, day, week, map, venue, organizer, month, photo views) with backend customization options.
• Contact Form 7 — full compatibility to create and edit forms; supports template editing and flexible form setups.
• Shortcodes — deep Visual Composer integration with a wide range of shortcodes (Blockquotes, Buttons & Lists, Carousel, Columns, Contact Info, Content Shortcodes, Custom Posts, Fancy Boxes, Icon Boxes, and more).
• WooCommerce — fully compatible ecommerce platform for selling products online, with multi-currency payment support and enhanced online sales focus; includes compatibility with YITH WooCommerce Wishlist.
• Typography — over 600 Google web fonts and FontAwesome icons for flexible color and size control, with live typography previews.
• Legendary Support — extensive documentation, knowledge base, and video tutorials with 24/7 support.

Theme architecture, plugins, and integrations

The Kanni theme is designed to work seamlessly with popular WordPress tools to deliver a robust security and home-automation site. It emphasizes compatibility with Visual Composer, Slider Revolution, Unyson, and WooCommerce, ensuring both aesthetic flexibility and functional strength for security services.

• Premium plugin compatibility includes premium plugins and their latest versions to ensure stability with WordPress updates.
• Demo content import is streamlined through Unyson Importer, allowing rapid replication of the theme demo.
• Event management is enhanced by native support for The Events Calendar and The Events Calendar PRO, offering multiple view modes and backend customization.

Theme customization and design tooling

The Kanni theme extends WordPress Customizer with Kirki for a flexible, live-preview UI. Users can adjust site title, breadcrumbs, widgets, and menus, enabling rapid iteration of layout and styling while seeing changes in real time.

• Typography control leverages Google fonts and icons to craft unique typographic brands and readable interfaces.
• Color and style options are designed to fit security-focused sites, including home automation and surveillance services.

Visual design and content presentation

The theme is optimized for high visual impact, with features that support showcasing security services, installation work, and surveillance solutions. It emphasizes clean layouts, responsive behavior, and smooth animation capabilities through integrated sliders and shortcodes.

• Shortcode-rich design enables advanced layouts without coding, including blocks for quotes, media, and information sections.
• Drag-and-drop design enables building complex pages quickly, benefiting agencies and installers presenting services and portfolios.

E-commerce and product presentation

WooCommerce integration ensures secure online sales capabilities for security products or installations, with support for multiple currencies and an expanded wishlist option through YITH WooCommerce Wishlist.

• Currency flexibility supports international customers and diverse payment setups.
• Shop-ready layouts align with product catalogs, service packages, and security equipment offerings.

Support, licensing, and licensing notes

Legendary support is backed by comprehensive documentation, knowledge base, and video tutorials. Note that demo images are not included for download and are copyrighted; licenses can be provided on request.

• Demo images not included by default; licensing links can be provided for legally obtaining images.

Changelog

The Kanni theme maintains a detailed changelog documenting updates, compatibility improvements, and fixes across versions.

• 2025.09.15 – version 3.5 — Added: Security Improvements.
• 2025.08.05 – version 3.4 — Premium plugins source updated; Compatible with the latest version of premium plugins listed.
• 2025.02.18 – version 3.3 — Premium plugins source updated; Compatible with the latest version of premium plugins listed.
• 2024.08.08 – version 3.2 — Updated: WooCommerce outdated files; Compatible with latest WordPress and Premium plugins; Updated: WDT Importer source; Fixed: Warnings and Deprecated errors.
• 2023.12.19 – version 3.1 — Compatible: Latest WordPress and WooCommerce; Updated: All premium plugins; Fixed: Design and script issues.
• 2023.11.06 – version 3.0 — Fixed: Unyson plugin installation issue; The source is included in the theme package; Compatible: latest WordPress.
• 2023.08.26 – version 2.9 — Compatible: WordPress 6.3; Compatible: WooCommerce latest version; Updated: All premium plugins; Fixes: Layout design and script issues; Fixes: Kirki customizer panel design issue.
• 2023.06.09 – version 2.8 — Compatible with WordPress 6.2; Compatible with PHP 8.2; Updated: All premium plugins; Resolved PHP warnings and deprecated errors.
• 2022.12.19 – version 2.7 — Compatible with WordPress 6.1; Compatible with latest WooCommerce versions; Compatible with PHP 8.1; Updated: All premium plugins.
• 2022.03.02 – version 2.6 — Fixed Kirki Customizer Issue.
• 2021.08.26 – version 2.5 — Compatible with WordPress 5.8.
• 2021.01.22 – version 2.4 — Compatible with WordPress 5.6; Some design issues updated; Updated: All premium plugins.
• 2020.11.27 – version 2.3 — Latest jQuery fixes updated; Updated: All premium plugins.
• 2020.08.13 – version 2.2 — Compatible with WordPress 5.5.
• 2020.08.05 – version 2.1 — Updated: Envato Theme check; Updated: sanitize_text_field added; Updated: All WordPress theme standards; Updated: All premium plugins.
• 2020.06.18 – version 2.0 — Compatible with WordPress 5.4.2; Updated: Some design tweaks; Updated: Resolves error when activating another theme.
• 2020.02.06 – version 1.9 — Updated: All premium plugins.
• 2020.01.29 – version 1.8 — Compatible with WordPress 5.3.2; Updated: All premium plugins; Updated: All WordPress theme standards; Updated: Privacy and Cookies concept; Updated: Gutenberg editor support for custom post types.
• 2019.11.14 – version 1.7 — Compatible with WordPress 5.2.3; Updated: All WordPress theme standards; Updated: All premium plugins.
• 2019.07.19 – version 1.6 — Compatible with WordPress 5.2.2; Updated: All premium plugins; Updated: Revisions added to all custom post types; Updated: Gutenberg editor support for custom post types; Updated: Link for phone number module; Updated: Online documentation link; check readme file.
• 2019.05.15 – version 1.5 — Gutenberg Latest update compatible; Portfolio Video option; Coming Soon page fix; Portfolio archive page breadcrumb fix; Mega menu image fix; GDPR product single page fix; Codestar framework update; Simple Booking Manager plugin fix; WPML XML file updated; Disable options for likes and views in single post page; Updated latest version of all third party plugins; Some design tweaks.
• 2019.01.19 – version 1.4 — Gutenberg compatible; Latest WordPress version 5.0.3 compatible; Updated latest version of all third party plugins; Some design tweaks.
• 2018.10.29 – version 1.3 — Small bug fix.
• 2018.10.10 – version 1.2 — Gutenberg plugin compatible; GDPR Compliant update in comment form, mailchimp form, etc.; Updated documentation; Updated WPBakery Page Builder plugin; Updated Ultimate Addons for WPBakery Page Builder;
• 2018.08.28 – version 1.1 — Unyson Demo Content Updated.