Darcie Pro is a Premium Dark Photography WordPress theme for all photo-centric websites and blogs. The theme is ideal for photographers, graphic designers, creative artists, freelancers, and more. The dark color scheme in Darcie Pro gives your website a bold and beautiful design, making it extra charming and graceful. Dozens of specific, customizable portfolio and gallery settings have been included in the theme. With bold design and awesome features, Darcie Pro is the best dark Photography WordPress theme to go for if you want to expose and grow your photography business. All the sections included in the theme are completely responsive and extremely easy to use. Features like Contact Form, Contact Map, Countdown, Events, Featured Slider, Featured Video, Gallery, Logo Slider, Promotion Headline, Services, Stats, and more have been included. The sections are highly customizable and you can tweak these sections to give your website a unique look and feel. Moreover, Darcie Pro is mobile-ready and fully flexible. With many elements that Darcie Pro brings to the table, you can now quickly run your ideal photo-first website. Whether you are an amateur or a professional photographer, your skills and talent will be displayed elegantly and your website will look professional and classy.
Features
Theme Options
The most powerful feature of Catch Themes is its Theme Options which will allow you to easily customize your website with clicks. So, now you no longer need to be a designer or a programmer to build customized websites. Theme Options allow you to toggle on and off features, adjust layouts, change colors, fonts, logo, favicon, background, add social links and custom CSS.
Responsive Design
One of the key features of our themes is that your website will magically respond and adapt to different screen sizes delivering an optimized design for iPhones, iPads, and other mobile devices. No longer will you need to zoom and scroll around when browsing on your mobile phone.
Featured Post Slider
Featured Slider is an option that is helpful to highlight noteworthy posts on your site. You can have columns of content as well as selected images set on your post slider. The fun part is, you get to decide for how long a post stays on your page before something else comes up on the slider. How will you make that happen? By exercising your control over different slide effects and their timing!
Webmaster Tools
Webmaster Tools option helps you to minutely manage your site. Firstly, it helps to verify the site in Google, Yahoo and Bing. Additionally, whether it is something like site optimization, keeping track of your site traffic or overseeing and altering your display settings, you can call the shots for you site through Webmaster tools. These tools also allow you to add to your site Header and Footer Scripts like Google Analytics, Site Stats, Facebook, twitter and much more.
Incredible Support
We have a great line of support team and support documentation. You do not need to worry about how to use the themes we provide, just refer to our Tech Support segment. Further, if you need to do advanced customization to your website, you can always hire our theme customizer!
Featured Image Slider
Featured Image Slider allows you to not only add images, but also write a description for them. If a descriptive caption would not suffice, you also have the option of providing a clickable link. This way, as per your unique needs, should you require, you can easily add a URL to your content.
Featured Page Slider
Featured Page Slider is an option that is helpful to highlight noteworthy pages on your site. You can have columns of content as well as selected images set on your page slider. The fun part is, you get to decide for how long a page stays on your page before something else comes up on the slider. How will you make that happen? By exercising your control over different slide effects and their timing!
Featured Content
Featured Content allows you to highlight your recent & popular posts on your website. It can either be displayed on Homepage or the entire site. You can add your title and sub-title for featured content, select the number of featured content, display Meta, select multiple categories, and enjoy displaying your featured & recent posts.
Services
Every website owner wants the world to know about the services they provide. It allows you to place the services you provide for your customers on the spotlight. Choose to display the services in 2 to 4 columns. Display your services on the homepage only or on the entire website.
Custom Fonts
You can choose different types of stylish and engaging fonts for your Site Title, Tagline, Headline Tags, Content Title, and Content Body. Choose the font that suits best for your website from the font family options and makes your website more striking.
Hero Content
You can now display the best assets of your website with the Hero Content feature. The feature allows you to highlight the most important content in a fashion that is easily attention-grabbing. You can enable the hero content either on Homepage or the entire site. Hero Content - the easiest way to display your strengths.
WordPress Standard Codes
Our code is secure and optimized. We do proper data validation and sanitization and follow core theme guidelines. Our developers are active contributors to WordPress theme review and WordPress core. Our themes will always be updated as things change in WordPress.
Testimonials
People are always curious about what your goods and services are really like. Since customer testimonials are candid and not by the company promoting the product, they assist in building trust. You can display testimonials on Homepage, the entire site or disable it completely.
Portfolio
Portfolio empowers you to showcase your professional skills and accomplishments to the world at large. Display your Portfolio in an elegant manner on the Homepage/Frontpage, the entire site or you can also disable it completely if you don’t need it. An astounding way to easily display your experience, skills, talent, and expertise.
Sections Sorter
Sections Sorter allows you to organize various sections on your website by manually sorting them. Simply drag and drop the sections to your desired position and display them orderly.The cool feature in this option is that you can not only rearrange the order but also can quickly edit those sections from Sections Sorter option if you want any changes.
Footer Editor
Footer Editor Options enables you to edit the content of the footer easily. You can either add HTML, plain text, or custom shortcodes which will be inserted into your theme automatically. You can use shortcodes like [the-year], [site-link] and [privacy-policy-link] for the current year, site link and privacy policy link respectively.
More Features
- Theme Options
- Responsive Design
- Featured Slider
- Page Templates
- Color Options
- Featured Thumbnail
- Threaded Comments
- Dropdown Menu
- Excerpt Length
- Gravatar Ready
- Countdown Timer
- Localized for translations
- Custom Header / Logo
- Custom Favicon
- Custom Menu
- Custom Footer
- Custom Background
- Custom Layout
- Custom Fonts
- Custom Homepage
- Custom CSS
- Support
- WooCommerce Ready
- WPML Ready
- Hero Content
- Portfolio
- Logo Slider
- Testimonials
- Services
- Featured Content
- WordPress Standard Codes
- Promotion Headline
- Sections Sorter
- Teams
Free Vs Pro (Premium)
| Free | Features | Pro (Premium) |
|---|---|---|
| Responsive Design | ||
| Super Easy Setup | ||
| Color Options for various sections | ||
| Base Color Scheme: Light, Red and Blue | ||
| Header Media | ||
| Primary Menu | ||
| Floating Social Menu | ||
| Footer Social Menu | ||
| Footer Menu | ||
| Comment Options | ||
| Countdown | ||
| Contact Form | ||
| Contact Map | ||
| Events | ||
| Excerpt Options | ||
| Featured content: Post | ||
| Featured content: Page | ||
| Featured content: Category | ||
| Featured content: Custom | ||
| Featured content: Custom Post Types | ||
| Featured Slider: Post | ||
| Featured Slider: Page | ||
| Featured Slider: Category | ||
| Featured Slider: Custom | ||
| Featured Video | ||
| Font Family Options | ||
| Footer Editor Options | ||
| Gallery | ||
| Hero Content: Page | ||
| Hero Content: Post | ||
| Hero Content: Category | ||
| Hero Content: Custom | ||
| Site Layout: Fluid/Boxed | ||
| Default Layout: Right Sidebar ( Content, Primary Sidebar ) | ||
| Default Layout: Left Sidebar ( Primary Sidebar, Content ) | ||
| Default Layout: No Sidebar | ||
| Default Layout: No Sidebar: Full Width | ||
| Homepage Layout/Archive Layout: Right Sidebar(Content, Primary Side) | ||
| Homepage Layout/Archive Layout: Left Sidebar(Primary Side, Content) | ||
| Homepage Layout/Archive Layout: No Sidebar | ||
| Homepage Layout/Archive Layout: No Sidebar:Full Width | ||
| Archive Content Layout: Excerpt with Featured Image | ||
| Archive Content Layout: Show Full Content with Image | ||
| Archive Content Layout: Show Full Content(No Featured Image) | ||
| Single Page/Post Image Layout: Slider Image Size(1920*1080) | ||
| Single Page/Post Image Layout: Original Image Size | ||
| WooCommerce Layout: Right Sidebar(Content, Primary Sidebar | ||
| WooCommerce Layout: Left Sidebar(Primary Sidebar, Content | ||
| WooCommerce Layout: No Sidebar | ||
| WooCommerce Layout: No Sidebar: Full Width | ||
| Logo Slider | ||
| Menu Options | ||
| Portfolio: Page | ||
| Portfolio: Post | ||
| Portfolio: Category | ||
| Portfolio: Custom | ||
| Portfolio: Custom Post Type | ||
| Promotion Headline: Page | ||
| Promotion Headline: Post | ||
| Promotion Headline: Category | ||
| Promotion Headline: Custom | ||
| Pagination Options | ||
| Scroll Up Options | ||
| Section Sorter | ||
| Services: Page | ||
| Services: Post | ||
| Services: Category | ||
| Services: Custom Post Types | ||
| Stats: Post | ||
| Stats: Page | ||
| Stats: Category | ||
| Stats: Custom | ||
| Team: Post | ||
| Team: Page | ||
| Team: Category | ||
| Team: Custom | ||
| Testimonials: Post | ||
| Testimonials: Page | ||
| Testimonials: Category | ||
| Testimonials: Custom | ||
| Testimonials: Custom Post Type | ||
| WPML Ready | ||
| WooCommerce Ready |
Theme Instructions
#How to install theme?
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#How to update theme to the latest version?
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How to add Demo Content?
Go to this link
Download Demo content files?
Click on the button below to download the demo zip files which contain, customizer.dat (Customizer Settings File), demo-content.xml (Content File), and widgets.wie (Widget Settings File) files.
Always Set Featured Images
This theme relies heavily on Featured Images. If your post is missing a Featured Image, the post image will not show up on homepage, on archived pages and on Featured Page Slider Content. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.
Customizer (Theme Options)
You can customize this theme using cool additional features through Customizer at “Appearance => Customize” from your WordPress Dashboard.
How to add Logo?
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How to enable/disable Site Title and Tagline
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How to add Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)?
Go to this link
How to add Header Video?
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How to add Header Image?
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Menus
Darcie Pro offers exciting Menu Options! This theme supports and recommends using “Custom Menus”. You can create Custom Menu through “Appearance => Menus” from your WordPress Dashboard.
Go to this link to know how to add custom menu
Select Menu Locations
You can assign your custom menu in 4 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus => Manage Location” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Location”
Select your Custom Menu as Primary Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu
Select Floatign Social Menu
Footer Social Menu
r Social Menu to dispaly social menu in footer
Select Footer Menu
Comment Options
Go to this link
Contact Form
Darcie Pro supports contact form here you can choose type as Page, Post or Custom.
Go to this link to see how you create you own customized contact form. You can just copy shortcodes and add shortcode of the form you created in page, post or custom(Custom Content)
- Go to Cutomize => Theme Option => Contact
- Enable Contact form by choosing option under “Enable on”, entire site or homepage/frontpage
- Choose type as Page, Post or Custom where you have made page/post for contact form
- If you choose Contact Form as “Page”, add shortcode in the page you want to display as contact form
- If you choose Type as “Post”, add shortcode in the post you want to display as contact form
- If you choose type as Custom you will find option “Custom Content” area there you can add shortcode of the contact form you created
- Fill up Email, address, Phone number in the respective field
- Finally click on publish to save your changes
Countdown
- Go to Cutomize => Theme Option => Countdown
- Enable Countdown by choosing option ubder “Enable on”, entire site or homepage/frontpage
- Fill up content under respective headings like background image, tagline, title, description
- You can change content position, text alignment
- For countdown you can choose “End Date” of your event and “Time”
- Further option to add Small Description, Button text, Button link
- Finally click on publish to save your changes
How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text?
Go to this link
Featured Content
Darcie Pro supports 5 featured content types, 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom. 5.Custom Post Type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin ).
For Featured Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Content”
Go to this link
Featured Slider
Darcie Pro supports 4 featured slider including, 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom. For Featured Slider Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options =>Featured Slider”.
Go to this link
Darcie pro has further option to edit in featured slider. You can enable disable:
- Display nav arrows
- Display nav dots
- Autoplay
- Loop (Last to first)
- Content Alignment(Center, Right, Left)
- Text Alignment(Center, Right, Left)
Featured Video
Darcie Pro supports featured video. You can embed your video from various sites to your web site. Follow the following step to add featured video:
- Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Featured Video
- To enable featured video select option under “Enable on”, select homepage/frontpage or Enite site
- You can enable/disable lightbox option
- Fill up content under Tagline, Title, Description as per your requirment
- Choose no of featured video you want to show
- Under Video Url 1, Video Url 2 and so on add the link of video you want to feature in your website(Go to this link to see the list of site you can embed videos from)
- Further option to edit video title and subtitle too
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
How to select different font for different sections?
Go to this link
How to edit Footer Content?
Go to this link
Note: To reset Footer Content check option “Check to reset Footer Content”
How to add Gallery in theme?
Darcie Pro supports Page, Post and Category as Gallery.
Go to this link
Hero Content
Darcie Pro supports 4 Hero Content types to choose from, 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom. For Hero Content Options, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content Options”.
Go to this link
How to Set Certain Categories to Display in Homepage/Frontpage?
Go to this link
Further options in Darcie Pro
- Enable/disable Recent Posts/Content on homepage
- Edit Recent Posts Heading, Recent Posts Sub Heading
- Enable/Disable Recent Posts on Static Page
Layout Options
Darcie Pro has 2 Site Layout, 3 homepage post columns,3 blog/archive post columns, 4 Default Layout, 4 Homepage/Archive Layout, 3 Archive Content Layout, 3 Single Page/Post Image and 4 Woocommerce Layout options image layout to choose from “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”
Site Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option below “Site Layout” which will set your site layout.
Default Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Default Layout Options” which will set our site layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Darcie Pro Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing
Homepage/Archive Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Homepage/Archive Layout” which will set our layout for Archive Page. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Darcie Pro Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing
Archive Content Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our layout for Archive Content Page. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Darcie Pro Options => Archive Content Layout”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing
Single Page/Post Image Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the box below “Single Page/Post Image Layout” which will set our posts/page image layout. Further, you have the choice of selecting Single Page/Post Image Layout for individual pages and posts through “Darcie Pro Options => Single Page/Post Image Layout”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing.
WooCommerce Layout
Select layout for your WooCommerce pages. Option to choose from 4 Layout Options: i. Left Sidebar(Primary Sidebar,Content), ii. No Sidebar, iii. No Sidebar:Full Width and iv. Right Sidebar(Content,Primary Sidebar)
How to add logo slider?
Darcie Pro support Page, Post, Category and Custom as Logo Slider.
Go to this link
Darcie pro has further option to edit in logo slider. You can enable disable:
- Display nav arrows
- Display nav dots
- Autoplay
- Loop (Last to first)
- Choose Transition time out
Menu Options
Extra Menu Options specific to this theme.
- Go to Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Menu Options
- Under “Primary Menu”, enable disable primary menu
- Select Primary Menu Type as “Modern”, “Vertical Menu” or “Horizontal Menu”
- Edit Header Top Mobile menuu label
- Finally, click on Publish to save changes
How to change Pagination Options?
Go to this link
Portfolio
Darcie Pro supports 5 Portfolio types to choose from, 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Custom, 4. Category and 5. Custom Post Type.
Go to this link
How to add Promotion Headline?
- Go to this link
- Further option to change content position, text alignment, background image overlay and promotion headline image
- Darcie Pro have option to add video URL too in promotional headline option
How to enable/disable Scrollup feature?
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How to change default text in search box?
Go to this link
How use section sorter?
The Sections Sorter is a feature that allows you to organize various sections on your website by manually sorting them. You can now rearrange and put forward the section that you want your visitors to see first.
You can sort the sections of your theme by visiting Customize => Theme Options => Sections Sorter. Simply drag and drop the sections to your desired position and display them orderly. Also, another cool feature in this option is that you can not only rearrange the order but also can quickly edit those sections from Sections Sorter option if you want any changes.
Services
Darcie Pro supports 5 services types including, 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category, 4. Custom and 5. Custom Post Types. For Services, go to “Appearance => Customize => Services”.
Go to this link
How to add stats in theme?
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Testimonials
Darcie Pro supports 5 Testimonial types to choose from, 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Image, 4. Category and 5. Custom Post Type.
Go to this link
How to add Team in theme?
Darcie Pro Supports team as Post, Page, Category, Image and Custom Post Types.
Go to this link
How to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery? “
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Content Types
If you want content type option in your theme you can use our free plugin Essential Content Type. The details are listed below:
Essential Content Type
You can install our free plugin Essential Content Type from this link and follow the steps provided by the link.
How to use Featured Content using Custom Post Type?
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How to add Testimonials in Homepage/Frontpage using Essential Content Type?
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How to add Portfolio in Homepage/Frontpage using custom post type?
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How to add Services using custom post types?
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Widget Area (Sidebar)
Darcie Pro currently has 15 widgetized (Sidebar) areas including, 1. Sidebar, 2. Footer One, 3. Footer Two, 4. Footer Three, 5. Footer Four, 6. WooCommerce Sidebar, 7. 404 Page Not Found Content, 8. Optional Homepage Sidebar, 9. Optional Archive Sidebar, 10. Optional Page Sidebar, 11. Optional Post Sidebar, 12. Optional Sidebar One, 13. Optional Sidebar Two, 14. Optional Sidebar Three and 15.Newsletter. Go to “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.
Widgets
Darcie Pro supports CT: Social Icons. You can add widget in widget area as per your need.
How to add Widgets in widget area?
You can add widgets to your widget area from two location
Go to this link for more detail.
How to add “Social Icon” in widget area(CT:Social Icon)?
This widget is used to add social icons as a widget.
- Add CT:Social Icon to desired widget area. More Info
- Add “Title” under the respective field.
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Additional CSS
You can add your custom CSS that will overwrite the theme CSS for further design customization through “Appearance => Customize => Additional CSS”, in your WordPress Dashboard.
Note: If you are doing heavy customization and adding lot of custom css then we recommended to build Child Theme and add it in your child theme style.css file. Read More about child theme…
Webmaster Tools
Go to this link for more detail
Translating Your Theme with WPML
Go to this link for more detail
Recommended Plugins
* Catch Web Tools for Webmaster Tools
* To Top
* Catch IDs
* Essential Content Type
* Catch Dark Mode
* Contact Form 7 for Contact Form
* WooCommerce for E-commerce
* WPML for multi-language
* WP-PageNavi for Numeric Pagination
* Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails
* Jetpack for Infinite Scroll, Gallery, Stats, Titled Gallery, Image CDN and many more
Change Log
1.3.1 (Released: June 13, 2024)
- Updated: WordPress 6.5 ready
1.3.0 (Released: April 01, 2024)
- Bug Fixed: Horizontal Menu issue
1.2.9 (Released: March 05, 2024)
- Bug Fixed: Theme updater deprecation notice in PHP 8.1
- Removed: CT:Instagram Widget
- Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready
1.2.8 (Released: February 23, 2023)
- Bug Fixed: Removed unnecessary comment code in custom-header.php
- Bug Fixed: XXS vulnerability in search due to JS split (Reported by: MyungJu Kim https://patchstack.com)
1.2.7 (Released: February 01, 2023)
- Bug Fixed: Social icons issue on navigation-default
1.2.6 (Released: November 10, 2022)
- Bug Fixed: Sub-menu text-align and visibility issues
1.2.5 (Released: October 12, 2022)
- Bug Fixed: Scrollup display
1.2.4 (Released: August 14, 2022)
- Bug Fixed: Demo Import link issue
- Updated: Google Font hosted locally (https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/06/18/complying-with-gdpr-when-using-google-fonts/)
1.2.3 (Released: April 02, 2022)
- Bug Fixed: Countdown section not saving AM/PM
- Bug Fixed: Countdown section time issue
- Bug Fixed: Category slider default order issue
1.2.2 (Released: March 10, 2022)
- Bug Fixed: Mobile menu issue
1.2.1 (Released: February 12, 2022)
- Fixed: Update issue
1.2 (Released: February 10, 2022)
- Added: Social Icons for Amazon, Goodreads and Tiktok (Requested by: theauthorvalentina)
1.1 (Released: January 26, 2022)
- Added: Demo Import Files
- Updated: Pinterest icon
- Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready
1.0 (Released: December 02, 2021)
- Initial Release
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