Cayman theme introduction
About license: I bought the All HTML bundle on 17.3.2017 with “A perfect package with extended license & unlimited sites use.” I asked for confirmation and the answer was “This is exactly what we want you to do with these bundled items! Use them on unlimited sites for your personal, client, or commercial projects.”
Requirements:
- - demo is running on PHP 7.4, development on PHP 8.0
- - basic HTML and PHP knowledge
Original description:
Cayman is a multi-concept and eye-catching HTML Bootstrap Template, modern looking, colorful, and of course, responsive.
Theme description
Type of theme: New version with HTML layouts
Needed plugins:
- JMTheme
- JMElements
Layouts: 6
- book
- contact
- full (default)
- home
- right_sidebar
- singleform
Headers: 3
- default (transparent)
- light (light grey)
- primary (with primary background color)
Footers: 2
- default (black with columns)
- light (light grey)
Elements: (in progress)
- 3 column features with icons
- Split element (2 columns full width element)
- Testimonials with Owl carousel
- Animated header
- Pricing lists
Page Headers: (in progress)
- Moving background image
- Parallax background image
Supported plugins: (in progress)
- Hero
- Forum
- Pages
- Contact
- News
- Gallery
Skins
- default (light green)
- orange
- red
Because all colors are in separate files (skins folder), it is easy to change site colors.
Frontpage Layout
<layout name='home' title='Default Home'> <custompages>FRONTPAGE</custompages> </layout>
Frontpage layout is very simple. Just 2 menu areas and by default Welcome Message is displayed.
{SETSTYLE=none} {MENUAREA=10} {ALERTS} {---} {SETSTYLE=none} {MENU=11}
Menuarea 10 should be used for the Hero plugin (only an Animated Header is supported) or for any Page Header Element. With Hero plugin, you need to change the background image manually.
Menuarea 11 should be used for any Content Element. You can add your own elements if you want.
SingleForm Layout
- login form
- coppa and signup form
- forgotten password form
Parallax header, image editable in layout prefs. Not more options are needed.
Members-only (modal) version supported.
Contact Layout
- background-image
- main title (Contact Us - h1 heading)
- subtitle (h2 heading)
- iframe as google map
All other fields are core fields from the contact page setting.
Book Layout
age/chapter/index age/book/index
The default layout (Full) is used for pages.
{ALERTS} {SETSTYLE=main} {---}
This means that look of the book or chapter is done only in chapter templates.
The caption is removed for chapter and pages lists in tablestyle():
case "cpage-chapter-list":
$style = 'none';
break;
PORTFOLIO TEMPLATE
A portfolio template is a template for displaying chapters and pages on the book page (skipping chapter part)
You need to select the template "portfolio" for the book. Then chapters are used for filtering portfolio pages.
If you let Displaying Book/Chapters on main page, then links to chapters are still available too and you can select for them "portfolio" template too. But it is not mandatory. Then only pages are displayed without filtering.
SINGLECHAPTER TEMPLATE
SingleChapter (or Documentation) template is a special template for some chapters. With this template, pages are displayed directly on the chapter page with navigation on the left side.
Header:
- chapter image is used for background
- search box is done with theme shortcode {PAGES_SEARCH}
- for now, all pages are searched, but it is easy now to customized this searching in the actual chapter only.
Plugin News
For this setting for full layout:
:news/list/items
Setting for sidebar layout:
:news/list/ :news/view/item
For more information see Sidebar Layout.
Right Sidebar Layout
It uses core {---CAPTION---}
for h1 text displayed on the header, so if you use this layout for something else than news, check the "caption" key in the related template.
For the right sidebar is used. Each second menu has a colored background, so if you use a not tested menu, just try to change the order to fix its look.