
Gallery
The Widgetkit Gallery provides a smart and automated way to publish images on your website. You only need to select the image folders and the whole gallery is generated automatically.
Features
- Fully responsive including all effects
- Folder based image selection
- Support for multiple image folders
- Automatic thumbnail creation
- Support for image captions and custom links
- Uses the Widgetkit Spotlight and Lightbox
- Built with HTML5, CSS3, PHP 5.2+, and the latest jQuery version
- Works with Joomla and WordPress
Showcase Box Example
This is an image showcase with eye-catching transition effects and a thumbnail navigation.
Image Wall Example
This is an image wall with zoom effect, no margins and squared corners using the lightbox.
Polaroid Example
This is an image wall with scattered polaroid pictures using the lightbox.
Slider Example 1
This is an image slider where the image centers automatically during the effect. It also features a spotlight caption and the lightbox.
Slider Example 2
This is an image slider where the image stays left during the effect.
Slideshow Screen Example
This is an image gallery using the nice swipe effect from the slideshow widget.
Slideshow Default Example
This is an image gallery using all the features from the slideshow widget.
Showcase Example
This is a simple image showcase mashing up all the features from the slideshow and slideset widget.
Slideshow Inside Example
This is a very basic slideshow which uses preview thumbnails inside the image as navigation.
Spotlight Example
This is an image wall with some margins and rounded corners using the spotlight and lightbox.
Slideset Example
This is an image gallery using all the features from the slideset widget.
How To Use
The Widgetkit Gallery comes with a user-friendly administration user interface which let's you create new galleries with just a few clicks. The integrated directory browser let's you easily add or remove source directories of your images. All galleries can be loaded anywhere in your theme using shortcodes or the universal Widgetkit Joomla module or WordPress widget.
Media Player
The Widgetkit Media Player is a HTML5 audio and video player completely built HTML and CSS. You can easily embed video files into your website by using the HTML5 video element. A Flash player fallback is included for all unsupported browsers.
Features
- Native playback for modern HTML5 browsers
- Supports MP4 (h.264), WebM, FLV, WMV and MP3 files
- Completely built with HTML and CSS
- Responsive design to fit all device resolutions
- Same UI in all browsers
- Create your own skins
- Flash player fallback for unsupported browsers
- Works with Joomla and WordPress
Examples
This is a MP3 Audio Sample:
How To Use
Use the HTML5 video
element to embed video in your website. For example:
<video src="/video.mp4" width="320" height="240"></video>
You can also provide multiple sources, to add support for the different video formats like h.264, WebM or Ogg:
<video width="320" height="240"> <source type="video/mp4" src="/video.mp4" /> <source type="video/webm" src="/video.webm" /> <source type="video/ogg" src="/video.ogv" /> </video>
Use the HTML5 audio
element to embed MP3 files in your website. For example:
<audio src="/audio.mp3" type="audio/mp3"></audio>
Master Theme
This is the Master theme of our fast and slick Warp theme framework! It is optimized and streamlined to serve as a blueprint to build your own custom themes.
The Master theme takes full advantage of all the latest Warp6 features like a completely responsive layout, semantic HTML5 markup, a nice and clean administration UI and much more.
Read moreThe Widgetkit Twitter module is the neatest way to display tweets directly on your website. All displayed tweets get cached so they show up super fast, even if Twitter is not available.
Features
- Filter tweets by hashtags, words, from users, to users, referencing users
- Block tweets using a blacklist
- Tweets are cached for high performance
- Tweets show up even if Twitter is not available
- 3 different styles to show your tweets
- Responsive design to fit all device resolutions
- Built with HTML5 using article and time elements
- Works with Joomla and WordPress
How To Use
Create a Twitter module in Joomla or a Twitter widget in WordPress and publish it in a module position. A lot of options are available to choose which tweets you want to show.
For example you can show only tweets from a specific user or tweets that contain a certain hash-tag or a specific word. All options can be combined. To filter by more than one word or user use a space between them. For example: yootheme joomla
.
Features
This theme utilizes the latest features of the fast and slick Warp theme framework. It comes with a broad range of layout and module variations as well as a neat typography to style your content. Read on to learn more about this theme and its features:
- Available for Joomla and WordPress
- 8 style variations and 5textures available
- Choose from 9 colors and 9 fonts
- 3 module styles combinable with 4 badges and 6 icons
- Fluid Article Blog Layout (optional)
- Fixed Header & Menu (optional)
- Custom Widgetkit slideshow style
- Flexible template and column widths
- All Warp framework features are available
Theme Styles
Solar provides different style variations of the default theme. In addition to these styles we added several other style settings like colors and fonts. Combining the different style options allows you to create your own unique website design.
Special Layout
You want to benefit from the whole screen resolution to provide your customers with a great experience? Solar is divided into 6 different sections (Header, Top-A, Main, Bottom, Footer), whose width can be set separately to up to 100%.


Theme Profiles
We created some nice theme profiles using the different styles, colors and fonts, you can choose from in the theme administration. You can create your own profiles and even assign them to different menu items. Click on one of the profile images to load it.
Theme Layout
This theme comes with a customized Warp6 module layout. The blue module positions allow you to choose a module layout which defines the module alignment and proportions: equal, double or stack. You can easily add your own module layouts. The two available sidebars, highlighted red, can be switched to the left or right side and their widths can easily be set within the theme administration. For modules in the blue and red positions you can choose different module styles. Take a look at the module variations page to get an overview.



Special Features
Grid-a-Licious
Looking for a totally different way to present your blog articles? Solar gives you the opportunity to arrange posts in a fluid layout like the one you can see on the frontpage: Grid-a-Licious! It is fully responsive and automatically adapts to all screen resolutions.


To implement this effect follow these steps:
- Set all articles you want in the fluid layout as Featured Article
- Joomla: Create a menu item with the menu item type Featured Articles
- Joomla: Now just set the number of articles you want to be displayed in # Intro Articles
Fixed Header & Menu
Enhance your website with an eyecatching header effect. Just set the header fixed to hide it with a cool scroll effect. The main menu is attached to the top of the site.
Featured Image
Present your blog images in a beautiful way. The Featured Image is placed in front of the title and benefits from the whole article width. To make them look even better, you can enable the Widgetkit Spotlight effect on all Featured Images. To set up images like the one you can see on the theme frontpage just follow these steps:

-
Joomla: Add an Intro Image to your article in the Images and Links option
WordPress: Click Set featured image in the post and upload the image you want to add -
Joomla: Set the Image Float to none
-
Enable Featured Spotlight in the template configuration if you like
Custom Widgetkit Styles
We created a custom style for our Widgetkit Slideshow, perfectly fitting the theme. To apply this style, follow these steps:
Slideshow
- Download and unzip the bonus styles package for Widgetkit available in the download area
- Copy the folder slideshow/styles/solar
-
Joomla: Paste it to media/widgetkit/widgets/slideshow/styles
WordPress: Paste it to wp-content/plugins/widgetkit/widgets/slideshow/styles - Now you can select the style "Solar" in the settings of your Widgetkit Slideshow
Social Icons
As a little extra Solar theme offers a set of social icons. They are easy to add to your content and are part of our editable Adobe Fireworks Image Source Files.
Here is a little code example how to add them:
<ul class="social-icons"> <li class="twitter"><a href="#"></a></li> <li class="rss"><a href="#"></a></li> <li class="facebook"><a href="#"></a></li> <li class="flickr"><a href="#"></a></li> <li class="xing"><a href="#"></a></li> <li class="google-plus"><a href="#"></a></li> <li class="youtube"><a href="#"></a></li> <li class="vimeo"><a href="#"></a></li> <li class="github"><a href="#"></a></li> </ul>
Possible class names are twitter, rss, facebook, flickr, xing, google-plus, youtube, vimeo and github.
Spotlight
The Widgetkit Spotlight allows you to add an overlay to your images which fades or moves in on mouse hover. The overlay can be an image or HTML content. The default magnifier spotlight is a perfect match to be used with a lightbox.
Features
- Create nicely animated image overlays
- Supports custom image or HTML content overlays
- 5 different animation modes
- Responsive design to fit all device resolutions
- Built with the latest jQuery version
- Works with Joomla and WordPress
Examples
If no custom overlay is set the default spotlight fades in an overlay with an magnifier image. If you define a custom overlay you can choose between different animations - fade
, bottom
, top
, right
and left
.
How To Use
Use the HTML5 custom data attribute data-spotlight
to activate the spotlight.
<a data-spotlight="on" href="/mypage.html"> <img src="/image.jpg" width="180" height="120" alt="" /> </a>
To create a custom overlay use a div element with the CSS class overlay
. You can set the effect parameter to the data attribute. For example:
<a data-spotlight="effect:bottom;" href="/mypage.html"> <img src="/image.jpg" width="180" height="120" alt="" /> <div class="overlay">Custom Overlay</div> </a>
You can set the effect parameter to fade
, bottom
, top
, right
and left
.
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Lightbox
The Widgetkit Lightbox allows you to view images, HTML and multi-media content on a dark dimmed overlay without having to leave the current page.
Features
- Display images, videos, HTML, Iframes, Ajax requests and SWF
- Supports YouTube, Vimeo, MP4 (h.264), WebM and FLV movies
- Group lightboxes and mix different content types
- Responsive design to fit all device resolutions
- Load other widgets in lightbox
- 3 different opening and closing transitions
- 4 different caption styles
- Keyboard and mouse scroll wheel navigation
- Build on the latest jQuery version
- Works with Joomla and WordPress
Examples
Different animations - fade
, elastic
and none
Different title positions - float
, inside
and over
Various examples in one gallery (try also using the keyboard and mouse scroll wheel)
Load Widgets In A Lightbox
Use #wk-ID
to load widgets like slideshows or galleries in a lightbox. For example: Widgetkit Slideshow
<a data-lightbox="width:600;height:300;" href="#wk-10">Lightbox</a>
How To Use
Use the HTML5 custom data attribute data-lightbox
to activate the lightbox. You can set various lightbox parameters to the data attribute. For example:
<a data-lightbox="width:1000;height:600;" href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Lightbox</a>
Here is a list of the most common parameters:
- titlePosition - How should the title show up? (
float
,outside
,inside
orover
) - transitionIn - Set a opening transition. (
fade
,elastic
, ornone
) - transitionOut - Set a closing transition (
fade
,elastic
, ornone
) - overlayShow - Set to
true
orfalse
- scrolling - Set to
yes
orno
- width - Set a width in pixel
- height - Set a height in pixel
- padding - Set a padding in pixel
Typography
You can create some beautiful content by using some simple HTML elements. The Warp theme framework offers some neat styles for all HTML elements and a great set of CSS classes to style your content. Basic HTML is very easy to learn and this small guide shows you how to use all styles provided by the Warp framework.
Basic HTML Elements
Here is a short demonstration of text-level semanticts. The <p> element creates a new paragraph. It will have some space before and after itself. To turn your text into hypertext just use the <a> element.
Text-Level Semantics
You can emphasize text using the <em> element or to imply any extra importance the <strong> element. Highlight text with no semantic meaning using the <mark> element. Markup document changes like inserted or deleted text with the <del> element or <ins> element. To define an abbreviation use the <abbr> element and to define a definition term use the <dfn> element.
Short List with Links
- YOOtheme - Premium Joomla Templates and WordPress Themes
- Warp Framework - Fast and Slick Theme Framework
- ZOO - Content Application Builder
- Stock Icons - For Web and Print Projects
Quotations and Code
Inline quotations can be defined by using the <q> element
.
The <blockquote> element defines a long quotation which also creates a new block by inserting white space before and after the blockquote element.
To define a short inline computer code use the <code> element
. For a larger code snippet use the <pre> element which defines preformatted text. It creates a new text block which preserves both spaces and line breaks.
pre { margin: 15px 0; padding: 10px; font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap; }Use the <small> element for side comments and small print.
Useful CSS Classes
Here is a short demonstration of all style related CSS classes provided by the Warp framework.
Highlight Content
Drop caps are the first letter of a paragraph which are displayed bigger than the rest of the text. You can create a drop cap using the CSS class dropcap
. To emphasize text with some small boxes use <em> element with the CSS class box
.
This simple box is intended to group large parts of your content using the CSS class
box-content
.This is a simple box to highlight some text using the CSS class
box-note
.This is a simple box with useful information using the CSS class
box-info
.This is a simple box with important notes and warnings using the CSS class
box-warning
.This is a simple box with additional hints using the CSS class
box-hint
.This is a simple box with download information using the CSS class
box-download
.Use the CSS class dotted
to create a dotted horizontal rule.
Tables
Create a zebra stripped table using using the CSS class zebra
.
Table Heading | Table Heading | Table Heading |
---|---|---|
Table Footer | Table Footer | Table Footer |
Table Data | Table Data | Data Centered |
Data Bold | Table Data | Data Centered |
Table Data | Table Data | Data Centered |
Definition Lists
Create a nice looking definition list separated with a line by using the CSS class separator
.
- Definition List
- A definition list is a list of terms and corresponding definitions. To create a definition list use the <dl> element in conjunction with <dt> to define the definition term and <dd> to define the definition description.
- Definition Term
- This is a definition description.
- Definition Term
- This is a definition description.
- This is another definition description.
Forms
Create a clearly arranged form layout with fieldset boxes using the CSS class box
.
Slideshow
The Widgetkit Slideshow is the ultimate image and content slideshow for Joomla and WordPress. It's flexible, easy to customize and completely build with HTML5 and CSS3.
Features
- Clean and very lightweight code
- 17 eye-catching transition effects
- Fully responsive including all effects
- Uses hardware accelerated CSS3 animations
- Support for HTML captions
- Swipe navigation on mobile phones
- Built with HTML5, CSS3, PHP 5.2+, and the latest jQuery version
- Works with Joomla and WordPress
Slideshow Screen Example
This is an image slideshow with the famous Ken Burns effect.
Slideshow Default Example
This is an image slideshow with eye-catching transition effects.
Showcase Box Example
This a content showcase using all the features from the Slideset widget as navigation. Any kind of HTML content can be used in the navigation.
Showcase Button Example
This is an image slideshow with some nice navigation buttons. You can place any kind of HTML in the navigation buttons.
Tabs Example
This is a classic, tabbed slideshow. Tabs can be aligned to the left, right and center.
Tabs Bar Example
This is a slideshow with a tabbed navigation bar. Tabs can be aligned to the left, right and center.
List Example
This is a slideshow with a vertical tabbed list as navigation.
How To Use
The Widgetkit Slideshow takes full advantage of the very user-friendly Widgetkit administration user interface. It has never been easier to create and manage all the slideshows and their different slides in one place. After you created a slideshow you can load it anywhere in your theme using shortcodes or the universal Widgetkit Joomla module or WordPress widget.
Icons
YOOtheme is a well-known template and extension provider for Joomla and WordPress who helps you to create professional websites. But to make your website or interface design a real eye-catcher we had one thing missing: Icons! Icons are an essential tool to simplify user interfaces and today almost every major website uses icons to highlight important parts in their content.
This is why we created a great resource of beautiful and handcrafted icons for web and print projects. We got commercial icon sets including e-commerce, community, file and folder icons and many more as well as many freebies.
As a member of our icon club you will get access to hundreds of handcrafted and detailed icons. New icon sets are added continuously!

Club Icons
- Pixel perfect design
- PNGs in 8 sizes from 16x16 to 512x512 pixels
- Handmade and optimized for each size
- Scalable vector sources
- Change the colors and customize easily
Widgetkit
Widgetkit is the next generation tool set for Joomla and WordPress. This toolkit is the first of its kind! It provides a simple and user-friendly way to enrich your websites experience with slideshows, galleries, lightboxes and much more. All widgets make use of modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts. Widgetkit is fully responsive and all widgets and their effects adapt perfectly for all device resolutions. It supports touch gestures and makes use of smooth CSS3 animations. Here is a short feature roundup:
Features
- Available for Joomla and WordPress
- All widgets are fully responsive
- Use shortcodes to show widgets anywhere
- Clean and lightweight code
- Semantic HTML5 markup
- Asset file minification and compression
- Supports touch gestures for mobile devices
- Uses hardware accelerated CSS3 animations
- Built with HTML5, CSS3, PHP 5.2+, latest jQuery version
How It Works
Widgetkit basically acts as a platform for all our widgets. It installs as a single component in Joomla or as a plugin in WordPress. The Widgetkit dashboard presents you an overview of all widgets. You can create, edit or delete all widgets and their content in one place. And after you have created the content for your first widget you can either use a shortcode or a module to display your widget anywhere on your website. In fact you can do both because once have you created a widget you are able to display it multiple times and reuse it on different parts of your website.
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This theme comes with different module styles, badges and icons. For each module you can pick a style and combine it with an icon or badge to create your own unique look. Here is a list of the available options:
Styles | Box, Plain, Postit |
Color | Dark, Color |
Header | Star, Stars, Stripes, Line, Paragraph, Crown |
Badges | Hot, New, Free, Top |
Icons | Download, Twitter, Mail, Bubble, Login, Cart |