Vex 1.2.8 - Creative Music Theme

Theme concept and target users

Designed specifically for music-focused websites, Vex combines a clean aesthetic with practical features that facilitate music publishing, performance events, and online storytelling for artists and bands. The theme emphasizes a smooth, uninterrupted listening experience through AJAX-driven interactions and a responsive layout that adapts to multiple devices.

Sell Your Music with Full Ajaxed Shop Plugin

The most customizable eCommerce platform for building your online business. Angio includes full support for the WooCommerce e-commerce plugin, which means you can easily

• sell your music
• add products
• affiliate goods
• coupon codes
• and more

WooCommerce can scale with you as you grow your business. From selling one product to thousands, and from your first order to your millionth, WooCommerce will be able to scale and ride the wave with you.

Interactive Background Player and AJAX navigation

AJAX — or Asynchronous Javascript and XML — is a group of techniques used in web development which allows a web page to communicate with a server without reloading the page. This makes it awesome for playing music!

You know when you select a track to play then click a link to a different page and the music stops? Not with Vex. Just select your favorite song on any page and it will be played in the background.

• Browse multiple pages and keep the music in the background that acts as an overlay allowing users to play, pause, fast-forward, etc.
• Doesn’t need to reload with page content, it’s slick, fast and easy to use across multiple device types.

Theme works by fetching HTML from your server via ajax and replacing the content of a container element on your page with the loaded HTML. It then updates the current URL in the browser using pushState. This results in faster page loads. No page resources (JS, CSS) get re-executed or re-applied.

Design and page building

Light, Fast and Stunning Visual Page Builder

Take your music website to the top of the charts with Vex and Elementor Page Builder. Create layouts and any web element you can think of with drag & drop simplicity using a simple visual interface that doesn’t require any coding on your part — huzzah! Vex plus the #1 top fastest Page Builder for WordPress = design gold.

One Click Demo Import

Choose a demo, and click install. It’s that simple! Everything you see in the Demo of your choice gets installed along with your new WordPress site. We have made this as simple and as complete as possible so that you can be up and running with your new website and all the features you fell in love with in as little time as possible.

Stunning Fullscreen Pages

A beautifully designed fullscreen experience can make a big difference in user engagement. Vex provides advanced backgrounds and navigation systems tailored for the music industry to help you create a powerful first impression and strong interactive moments as users land on your site.

Built-in music features and content management

Built-in Music Player with drag drop playlist

Includes a built-in music player with a drag-and-drop playlist for seamless audio management and playback control.

Content types and events

3 Custom posts types with AJAX sorting: Music, Events, Tracks Manager. The built-in Event Manager supports repetitive and multi-day events; in the events archive they automatically switch from future to past after they occur.

Performance and flexibility

• Exceptional page-load performance straight out of the box
• Niche-specific design and functionality
• No coding knowledge required
• Dedicated mobile responsive design, looks perfect on your iOS or Android device
• Multiple customizable layouts for music single items
• Single Event Page with all event info
• Supports embed players from Spotify, Soundcloud, Mixcloud, Bandcamp etc.
• Multiple Custom Sidebars

SEO, translation, and social

• SEO Ready
• Contact Form 7 Integration
• Translation (po and mo files) Ready

Customization, layouts and administration

All images are included in the Demo Content and the theme provides a powerful Theme Option Panel to tailor the site to your needs. Re-order sections via drag-and-drop, and enjoy one-click demo content import and custom page backgrounds.

• Dedicated mobile responsive design, looks perfect on iOS or Android
• Multiple customizable layouts for music single items
• Single Event Page with all event info
• Social Share functionality
• Translation (po and mo files) Ready

Support, documentation and community

5 Star Ultimate Support

At Rascals we value our customers more than anything else and if you become one, you get the same top quality 5 Star Rated Support that we offer to everyone who joins our community. We provide a full solution through a Support Center and ticketing system; create a user account and tell us what your problem is. Technical support is offered during 8:00AM to 4:00PM (GMT +1), Monday to Friday. Customization services are also available on request.

Documentation and updates

See Online Documentation for detailed guidance and keep the toolkit updated with the latest plugin versions. The changelog tracks improvements and fixes across versions.

Changelog

• [1.2.8] - 2025-09-18
  • [Added] - TikTok icon.
  • [Fixed] - Textdomain loaded too early.
  • [Fixed] - Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.
  • [Fixed] - Resolved PHP errors affecting stability.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin updated to 1.2.8.
• [1.2.7] - 24-11-2024
  • [Added] - Support for PHP 8.2
  • [Fixed] - PHP errors
  • [Fixed] - Minor bugs.
  • [Fixed] - Metabox - Taxonomy array validation bug.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.2.7
  • [Removed] - WooCommerce unused grid template
• [1.2.6] - 2023-08-31
  • [Added] - Support for PHP 8.2
  • [Added] - Support for WordPress 6.3
  • [Fixed] - Small CSS bugs.
  • [Fixed] - Minor bugs.
  • [Fixed] - Metabox - Taxonomy array validation bug.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.2.6
• [1.2.5] - 2022-10-02
  • [Fixed] - IOS stops sound after refreshing the browser window.
  • [Fixed] - Small bugs.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.2.5
• [1.2.4] - 2022-06-26
  • [Fixed] - Dummy content. Was a bug with paths on online server.
  • [Fixed] - Loader scroll issue on Safari 14+
  • [Fixed] - Small bugs.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.2.4
• [1.2.3] - 2021-07-02
  • [Added] - Support for WordPress 5.7
  • [Fixed] - CSS styles bugs.
  • [Fixed] - Minor bugs.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.2.3
• [1.2.2] - 2021-05-02
  • [Added] - Custom social icon/image in socails.
  • [Fixed] - Small bugs.
  • [Updated] - Updated Ajax Loader for new Elementor core scripts.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.2.2
• [1.2.1] - 2021-03-19
  • [Added] - Predefined homepages support for Elementor.
  • [Fixed] - WooCommerce category/tag sorting.
  • [Fixed] - Music player total time.
  • [Fixed] - Facebook Sharing options.
  • [Fixed] - Range field in theme panel.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.2.1
• [1.2.0] - 2020-11-09
  • [Added] - Full Ajaxed WooCommerce Support.
  • [Fixed] - Small bugs.
  • [Updated] - Demo content with WooCommerce products. Import file also is included in main theme package /Demo Content/woocommerce_products.csv.
  • [Updated] - AjaxLoader. Added support for WooCommerce.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.2.0
• [1.1.1] - 2020-11-02
  • [Added] - Support for responsive embeds in WP Editor.
  • [Fixed] - Filters in Events section.
  • [Fixed] - Filters in Albums section.
  • [Fixed] - Image height in lightbox height.
  • [Fixed] - Big Title overflow bug.
  • [Fixed] - Button translate bug.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.1.1
• [1.1.0] - 2020-05-29
  • [Added] - WPML Language Switcher to theme footer (on the left side).
  • [Added] - Audio Player - Elementor Module.
  • [Added] - Album Buttons - Elementor Module.
  • [Added] - Event Details - Elementor Module.
  • [Added] - Custom image preloader to Theme Panel -> General Settings.
  • [Added] - Menu Background option to Theme Panel -> General Settings. Set image background in menu layer.
  • [Added] - Menu Numbers (vertical) option to Theme Panel -> General Settings. Disable or enable small menu numbers.
  • [Added] - Menu Align (vertical) option to Theme Panel -> General Settings. Set vertical menu align.
  • [Fixed] - Player playing issue when one track from playlist is broken.
  • [Fixed] - Custom menu bug on parallax template. Selected menu disappeared from list after the page was refreshed.
  • [Fixed] - Custom sidebar area.
  • [Fixed] - Parallax and move layer effect glitch on mobile devices.
  • [Fixed] - Backend translation problem in WordPress dashboard.
  • [Fixed] - Google Drive link generator in tracks manager.
  • [Fixed] - Small bugs.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit Framework. Toolkit now is divided on two parts core and options. Core contains only main classes and template-independent functions. Options includes functions, classes and modules only for the installed theme.
  • [Updated] - Toolkit plugin to 1.1.0
• [1.0.0] - 2020-03-20
  • [] - Initial Release

Credits

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