Solid Construction is a Free Construction WordPress theme, which is highly customizable and fits perfectly for construction companies to put their website in the forefront. Solid Construction has a capable framework for crafting impressive, modern websites for the architectural firms, building companies, and freelance architects. Your website will look powerful yet elegant on mobile devices and desktop computers, regardless of screen resolution with its responsive design. With Solid Construction, you are able to build an astounding web page with excellent loading speeds resulting in a superior customer experience. Solid Construction is easy-to-use, feature-rich and visually stunning. The theme is extremely creative, modern, and user-friendly. With all the amazing features included, Solid Construction will take care of everything to give your construction website an awesome online presence which in turn will definitely attract more customers to your business. To top it all, the theme is translation ready.
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.
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 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.
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.
More Features
- Theme Options
- Responsive Design
- Featured Slider
- Webmaster Tools
- Page Templates
- Featured Thumbnail
- Threaded Comments
- Dropdown Menu
- Excerpt Length
- Gravatar Ready
- Localized for translations
- Custom Header / Logo
- Custom Favicon
- Custom Menu
- Custom Background
- Custom Layout
- Custom CSS
- Support
- Hero Content
- Portfolio
- Testimonials
- Services
- Header Video
- Clean Header
- Featured Content
- WordPress Standard Codes
Free Vs Pro (Premium)
| Free | Features | Pro (Premium) |
|---|---|---|
| Responsive Design | ||
| Super Easy Setup | ||
| Color Options for various sections | ||
| Header Media | ||
| Primary | ||
| Social on Header Top | ||
| Social on Header Right | ||
| Social on Primary Menu | ||
| Social on Contact Section | ||
| Social on Footer | ||
| Breadcrumb | ||
| Comment Options | ||
| Contact Info | ||
| Excerpt Options | ||
| Featured Content: Post | ||
| Featured Content: Page | ||
| Featured Content: Category | ||
| Featured Content: Custom | ||
| Featured Content: Custom Post Type | ||
| Featured Slider: Page | ||
| Featured Slider: Post | ||
| Featured Slider: Category | ||
| Featured Slider: Custom | ||
| Featured Slider: Image Overlay | ||
| Featured Slider: Content Alignment | ||
| Font Family Options | ||
| Footer Editor Options | ||
| Header Options | ||
| Hero Content Options: Page | ||
| Hero Content Options: Post | ||
| Hero Content Options: Category | ||
| Hero Content Options: Custom | ||
| Site Layout: Fluid | ||
| Site Layout: 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 | ||
| Site Content Style: Classic | ||
| Site Content Style: Modern | ||
| Homepage/Archive: Right Sidebar(Content,Primary Sidebar) | ||
| Homepage/Archive: Left Sidebar(Primary Sidebar,Content) | ||
| Homepage/Archive: No Sidebar | ||
| Homepage/Archive: No Sidebar:Full Width | ||
| Archive Content Layout: 2columns | ||
| Archive Content Layout: 3columns | ||
| Archive Content Layout: 4columns | ||
| Single Page/Post Image Layout: Post Thumbnail | ||
| Single Page/Post Image Layout: Slider Image Size | ||
| Single Page/Post Image Layout: Original Image Size | ||
| Menu Option: Menu Style: Classic or Modern | ||
| News: Post | ||
| News: Page | ||
| News: Category | ||
| News: Custom | ||
| Pagination Options | ||
| Portfolio: Post | ||
| Portfolio: Page | ||
| Portfolio: Category | ||
| Portfolio: Custom | ||
| Portfolio: Custom Post Type | ||
| Scrollup Options | ||
| Service: Post | ||
| Service: Page | ||
| Service: Category | ||
| Service: Custom | ||
| Service: Custom Post Type | ||
| 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 | ||
| Update Notifier | ||
| Why Choose Us: Post | ||
| Why Choose Us: Page | ||
| Why Choose Us: Post | ||
| Why Choose Us: Category | ||
| Why Choose Us: Custom | ||
| WooCommerce Options | ||
| WPML Ready | ||
| WooCommerce Ready |
Theme Instructions
#How to install theme?
Go to this link
#How to update theme to the latest version?
Go to this link
#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. Click Here to see how to add Featured Image in your Post/Page.
#Image Sizes(in px):
Header and Slider Image
Width: 1920
Height: 820
Header for Inner Pages
Width: 1920
Height: 450
Services
Width: 470
Height: 352
Featured Content(in free via plugin), Why Choose Us(Pro) and Stats(Pro)
Width: 70
Height: 70
Post Thumbnail
Width: 470
Height: 264
Hero Image
Width: 960
Height: 680
Porfolio first image
Width: 1024
Height: 1024
Porfolio other image
Width: 340
Height: 340
Team(Pro)
Width: 470
Height: 626
Testimonial
Width: 150
Height: 150
How to add Featured Image in Post/Page?
Go to this link.
#Regenerate Thumbnails
For regenerate thumbnails got to this link
#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?
Go to this link
#How to disable Site Title and Tagline?
Go to this link
#How to add Site Icon (Favicon/Web Clip Icon)?
Go to this link
#Color
Go to this link
#How to add Header Video?
Go to this link
#How to add Header Image?
Go to this link
#Menus
Solid Construction 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.
Select Menu Locations
You can assign your custom menu in 3 different locations. You assign it either from “Appearance => Customize => Menus => Manage Location” or from “Appearance => Menus => Manage Location”
Select your Custom Menu as Header Menu to display it as the Main Menu, which will replace the default Page Menu
Select your custom menu as Social Menu
Display social links as Social Footer Menu
#How to enable Breadcrumb?
Go to this link
#Comment Options
Go to this link
#Contact Info
Go to this link
#How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text?
Go to this link
#Featured Content
Solid Construction Pro supports 5 featured content types to choose from: 1. Post, 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom. 5.Custom Post Type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin ).
Go to this link
#How to use Featured Content using Custom Post Type?
Go to this link
#Featured Slider
Solid Construction Pro supports 4 featured slider types they are: 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 to add featured slider
#How to change number of slides in featured slider?
Go to this link to change number of sliders for featured slider
#How to select different font for different sections?
Go to this link
#How to edit Footer content?
Go to this link
#How to edit Header Options?
- Go to Customize=> Theme Options =>Header Options
- Choose “Header Style” from Classic or Modern
- Then add/edit Phone, Email, Hours, Address, Address Link, Quote Text, Quote Link under respective headings
- Further option to add option on Header Top
- Finally, “Save & Publish”
Hero Content #
Solid Construction Pro supports 4 Hero Content types to choose from: 1. Post , 2. Page, 3. Category and 4. Custom. For Hero Content, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content”.
Go to this link
#Layout Options
Solid Construction Pro has 2 Site Layout, 4 Default Layout, 2 Site Content Layout, 2 Archive Display Meta, 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 option 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 “Solid Construction Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing
Site Content Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can check the option 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 “Solid Construction Options => Layout Options”, which you shall find below individual posts and pages, when you click on them for adding/editing
Archive Display Meta
Once you are in Layout Options, you can check the option below “Archive Display Meta” choose “Show Meta” or “Hide Meta” for archive pages
Homepage/Archive Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option below “Homepage/Archive Layout” which will set our layout for Homepage/Archive Page. Further, you have the choice of selecting custom layout for individual pages and posts through “Solid Construction 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 option below “Archive Content Layout” which will set our layout for Archive Contents
Single Page/Post Image Layout
Once you are in Layout Options, you can Check the option 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 “Solid Construction 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.Right Sidebar(Content,Primary Sidebar), ii. Left Sidebar(Primary Sidebar,Content), iii. No Sidebar and iv. No Sidebar:Full Width
#How to add News?
Go to this link
#How to change Pagination Options?
Go to this link
#How to enable/disable Scrollup feature?
Go to this link
#How to add Portfolio?
Go to this link
#How to add Promotional headline?
Go to this link
Note:Solid Construction Pro supports addition of forms like contact forms, Get a Quote form,etc via plugin. All you need to do is add form’s shordcode in page/post, then select the same page or post as promotional headline.
#How to enable/disable scrollup options?
Go to this link
#How to edit search option text?
Go to this link
#How to add Services in theme?
Solid Consturction Pro Supports service type as Post, Page, Category, Image and Custom Post Types.
Go to this link
#How to add Services using custom post types?
Go to this link
#How to add Services using custom post types?
Go to this link
#How add testimonials using Custom Post Type?
Go to this link
#How to add Stats in theme?
Solid Consturction Pro Supports stats as Post, Page, Category, Custom and Custom Post Types.
Go to this link
#How to add Team in theme?
Solid Consturction Pro Supports team as Post, Page, Category and Custom.
Go to this link
#How to add Testimonial in theme?
Solid Consturction Pro Supports team as Post, Page, Category, Custom and Custom Post Types.
Go to this link
#How to enable/disable update notifications?
Go to this link
#How to add Why choose us section?
Solid Construction supports Page, Post, Category and Custom as why choose us section.
- Go to “Customize => Theme Options => Why Choose Us” from your WordPress Dashboard
- To enable featured why choose us, select “Homepage/Frontpage or Entire Site” option under “Enable on”
- Under “Type”, you need to select “Post, Page, Category, Custom” as per your need
- If you select Post as why choose us type, choose Post under Post 1, Post 2 and so on
- If you select Page as why choose us type, choose Page under Page 1, Page 2 and so on
- If you select Category as why choose us type, choose categories under Select Categories
- If you select Custom as why choose us type then, under Why Choose Us#1, Why Choose Us#2 and so on add “Title”, “Content”, “More Button Text” as per your need
- Finally, click on “Save & Publish”
Note: Further option to move why choose us above the footer, change headline and subheadline, number of items.
#How to enable/disable Zoom, Lightbox and Slider effects for WooCommerce Product Gallery?
Go to this link
#Widget Area (Sidebar)
Solid Construction Pro currently has 16 widgetized (Sidebar) areas thay are: Sidebar, Footer One, Footer Two, Footer Three, Footer Four, WooCommerce Sidebar, 404 Page Not Found Content, Optional Homepage Sidebar, Optional Archive Sidebar, Optional Page Sidebar, Optional Post Sidebar, Optional Sidebar One, Optional Sidebar Two, Optional Sidebar Three, Newsletter and Instagram. Go to “Appearance => Widgets” or “Appearance => Customize => Widgets” in WordPress.
#How to add Widgets in widget area?
You can add widgets to your widget area from two location
Go to this link for more details
#How to add Newsletter?
Solid Construction Pro supports Newsletter via Essential Widget Pro plugin.
Activate the plugin and you will find “EW: Newsletter” in available widget list, drag the widget and place it on Newsletter widget area.
#Additional CSS
Go to this link
#WPML Ready
Go to this link
Recommended Plugins
* Catch Web Tools for Webmaster Tools
* To Top
* Catch IDs
* Essential Content Type
* 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
2.4.3 (Released: June 13, 2024)
- Removed: Depreciated Instagram Feed Plugin recommendation
- Updated: WordPress 6.5 ready
2.4.2 (Released: February 26, 2024)
- Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready
2.4.1 (Released: October 20, 2023)
- Bug Fixed: Remove unnecessary meta in Frontpage
2.4 (Released: September 18, 2023)
- Added: Amazon, Apple, Bandcamp, Behance, Deviantart, Etsy, Soundcloud, Line Social Icons CSS
- Updated: Font Awesome to version 6.4.2
- Updated: Twitter icon
2.3.2 (Released: September 07, 2023)
- Bug Fixed: Removed unnecessary comment code in custom-header.php
2.3.1 (Released: August 24, 2022)
- Updated: Google Font hosted locally (https://make.wordpress.org/themes/2022/06/18/complying-with-gdpr-when-using-google-fonts/)
2.3 (Released: February 16, 2022)
- Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready
2.2.1 (Released: January 08, 2021)
- Bug Fixed: Header Video issue
- Bug Fixed: Multi flex-height, changed to flex-height and flex-width
2.2 (Released: August 11, 2020)
- Removed: Unnecessary file (jquery.cycle2.suffle.min.js)
- Updated: WP 5.5 compatibility
- Updated: All images
- Updated: Screenshot
2.1 (Released: May 22, 2020)
- Bug Fixed: content.php headline condition
- Updated: readme.txt and style.css as per the new requirement
2.0.7 (Released: May 11, 2020)
- Updated: CSS
- Added: Icon for telephone number in Social Menu
2.0.6 (Released: April 08, 2020)
- Added: Id's for section main div
2.0.5 (Released: February 24, 2020)
- Bug Fixed: HTML issue in searchform.php
2.0.4 (Released: February 03, 2020)
- Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb issue with disabled on homepage
2.0.3 (Released: January 15, 2020)
- Bug Fixed: h1 tag issue
- Bug Fixed: Breadcrumb issue when there are no categories
2.0.2 (Released: November 15, 2019)
- Bug Fixed: Multi Category Sanitization issue
2.0.1 (Released: August 09, 2019)
- Added: Support for wp_body_open action
- Bug Fixed: Added function_exists check for get_the_privacy_policy_link function usage
2.0 (Released: December 19, 2018)
- Added: Theme support for block styles
- Added: Theme support for full and wide align images
- Added: Theme support for responsive embeds
- Added: Theme support for custom editor font sizes
- Added: Theme support for custom color scheme
- Added: Theme support for for editor styles
- Updated: Metabox UI
- Updated: Readme file as per the new requirement
1.1.4 (Released: October 24, 2018)
- Bug Fixed: Testimonial Typo corrected
1.1.3 (Released: August 21, 2018)
- Bug Fixed: Site Overlay issue
- Updated: Page max-width changed 2560px
1.1.2 (Released: August 07, 2018)
- Bug Fixed: Header Text Color option not working for tagline
1.1.1 (Released: August 01, 2018)
- Bug Fixed: Improper escaping for aria-label on menus
- Updated: Breadcrumb functions - used the_archive_title() instead of single_cat_title and single_tag_title
1.1 (Released: July 31, 2018)
- Added: Child theme ready functions
1.0 (Released: July 06, 2018)
- Added: Social Menu in primary menu area
- Bug Fixed: Layout issue on header menu with search
- Bug Fixed: Menu Flickering on site load
- Updated: Portfolio image size changed to 470 to fix mobile design
0.1 (Released: July 04, 2018)
- Initial release