Solid Construction Classic is a child theme of our Free Construction WordPress theme – Solid Construction. Solid Construction Classic is a simple and clean, robust and reliable, professional and classic WordPress theme that has been constructed in order to flaunt your products and services online. As the name suggests, Solid Construction Classic makes your construction and architectural website bold and solid, giving your website a classic look on all devices regardless of the screen resolution. You can display your website logo, title, and tagline elegantly on the left side of your website. The classic design makes your construction website bold and beautiful. Solid Construction Classic empowers you with the ability todisplay your social icons on the right side of the website gracefully, making it easier for your visitors to find you on social media platforms. Solid Construction Classic helps you add all the crucial assets to your website that would help in the growth of loyal clients. With an array of amazing features integrated into the theme, Solid Construction Classic sure is a perfect fit for construction companies, architectural firms,building companies and freelance architects. The theme is easy-to-use, feature-rich and visually stunning. Showcase your construction and architectural business through your website in a revolutionary way and increase the number of visitors and clients you get every day. 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
- Testimonials
- Services
- Header Video
- 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: Image | ||
| Featured Content: Custom Post Type | ||
| Featured Slider: Page | ||
| Featured Slider: Post | ||
| Featured Slider: Category | ||
| Featured Slider: Image | ||
| 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: Image | ||
| 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: Image | ||
| Pagination Options | ||
| Portfolio: Post | ||
| Portfolio: Page | ||
| Portfolio: Category | ||
| Portfolio: Image | ||
| Portfolio: Custom Post Type | ||
| Scrollup Options | ||
| Service: Post | ||
| Service: Page | ||
| Service: Category | ||
| Service: Image | ||
| Service: Custom Post Type | ||
| Stats: Post | ||
| Stats: Page | ||
| Stats: Category | ||
| Stats: Image | ||
| Team: Post | ||
| Team: Page | ||
| Team: Category | ||
| Team: Image | ||
| Testimonials: Post | ||
| Testimonials: Page | ||
| Testimonials: Category | ||
| Testimonials: Image | ||
| 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: Image | ||
| 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.
Please download and activate Essential Content Type Plugin to activate Featured Content and Portfolio on your site.
#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
#How to add Header Video?
Go to this link
#How to add Header Image?
Go to this link
#Menus
Solid Construction 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
#How to Change the Excerpt Length and Read More Text?
Go to this link
#Featured Content
Solid Construction Custom Post Type(requires Essential Content Type Plugin ) as featured content
#How to use Featured Content using Custom Post Type?
Go to this link
#Featured Slider
Solid Construction Page as featured slider. 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
Hero Content #
Solid Construction Page as Hero Content. For Hero Content, go to “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Hero Content”.
Go to this link
#Layout Options
Solid Construction Pro has 2 Default Layout, 2 Homepage/Archive Layout to choose from “Appearance => Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options”
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
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
#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
# Portfolio
Solid construction supports portfolio as custom post type
#How to add Portfolio using custom post types?
Go to this link
#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 Construction supports custom post type as service.
#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 to add Testimonial in theme?
Solid Consturction Pro Supports team as Post, Page, Category, Image and Custom Post Types.
Go to this link
#Widget Area (Sidebar)
Solid Construction currently has 4 widgetized (Sidebar) areas thay are: Sidebar, Footer One, Footer Two, Footer Three and Footer Four. 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
#Additional CSS
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 and so on
* Contact Form 7 for Contact Form
* Regenerate Thumbnails to for Regenerating Thumbnails
* Jetpack for Infinite Scroll, Gallery, Stats, Image CDN and many more
Change Log
1.1.3 (Released: February 26, 2024)
- Updated: WordPress 6.4 ready
1.1.2 (Released: September 07, 2023)
- Updated: WordPress 6.3 ready
1.1.1 (Released: August 24 2022)
- Updated: WordPress 6.0 ready
1.1 (Released: February 16, 2022)
- Updated: WordPress 5.9 ready
1.0.4 (Released: August 14, 2020)
- Updated: WP 5.5 Compatibility
- Updated: Screenshot
1.0.3 (Released: May 22, 2020)
- Updated: readme.txt and style.css as per the new requirement
1.0.2 (Released: November 15, 2019)
- Updated: Readme file as per the new requirement
1.0.1 (Released: August 01, 2018)
- Added: Backward Compatibility for child theme
1.0 (Released: August 01, 2018)
- Initial release