Current Build: 1.04 – Released on the 8th of July 2012.

Theme Overview

Kraken is a clean and modern Business & Portfolio Wordpress theme that’s perfect for showcasing your work in a minimalistic fashion. With custom post types, a modular homepage via drag-and-drop sections, image sliders built-in, unlimited portfolio items, 3 different portfolio styles, a regular blog section and modern jQuery/CSS3 enhancements, 2 pre-made color schemes and unlimited color options, Kraken is the perfect solution for all your projects.

Kraken comes in 2 colours or the Take a gander at the updated 1.01:

Responsive Mobile Support

The term responsive in the web design field is used quite a lot these days; although mostly in-correctly. Kraken is a true responsive theme resizing the content to fit your device; whether it be a Mobile Device, or a Computer, Kraken is ready. We have also Tested Kraken on the following mobile devices: iPad, iPhone 4/4S. Don’t take our word for it try it out on your Mobile Device or simply re-size your browser window!

Note: If you are testing on a mobile device you will first need to close the ThemeForest iframe bar at the top or click here: or the

Navigation

The way your users navigate your site is very important; that is why we have took time, thought and effort with the navigation was built into the Kraken; There is even an option to switch the text off and use icons.

2 Color Options + Unlimited Color Variations

Not a fan of the light version? No problem, the Kraken WordPress theme comes with a dark and light version pre-made, which you can easily switch back-and-forth from via your theme’s administration panel. And, if you want to change any individual colors, do so via the theme panel’s color picker options where you can change everything from the menu background to the footer link color. Putting your own preferences aside, this is great news for web developers, as the theme will better serve multiple clients (so don’t forget to buy the extended license!).

Color Pickers For All Main Elements!

Modular Homepage

Easily re-arrange your homepage items to your liking via a. No more messing with your theme files to achieve the look you seek. Choose between the 9 includes homepage modules to create your front-page structure. Easily de-activate any homepage modules you don’t wish to use.

Coming Soon Page

Is your site not ready yet? Or do you want to block access to your site while you work on it? No problem, Kraken comes with a built-in “” that when activated via the theme panel, will re-direct your traffic to it. Of course you can easily change the title and description for the page as well as enable/disable the social icons.

Simplicity

Built with professional Business and Portfolio sites in mind, Kraken includes all the necessary features to setup your website and without all the overkill. You’ll have the homepage slider option to showcase your most notable work or photos of your business, homepage highlights to describe your business and/or services, staff page where you can show-off your team, pricing tables, pages that support large header images or sliders, a filterable portfolio page, single portfolio posts with multiple image support, testimonial shortcodes, a full-fledged blog….and TON ’s more!

Option Panel

No tour would be complete without a screenshot of the

FAQ

If you have any questions have a quick look at the FAQ tab at the top of the page it might already of answered your question without having to wait for a reply!

Change Log

Version 1.02

Released on 26th March 2012

• Fixed: Related Posts On The Blog.

  • Edited: includes/blog/related-posts;.php

Version 1.01B

Released on 28th Jan 2012

• Added: Option to use a Minimal Navigation Bar.
• Added: Option to turn on navigation text for the iPad.
• Added: LinkedIn Social Media Icon/Options.
• Fixed: iPad portrait slider stretching.
• Fixed: Minor spelling mistake in the default tagline.

• Updated: Documentation with the larger shortcodes.

  • Edited: Documentation
  • Edited: /header.php
  • Edited: /admin/theme-options.php
  • Edited: /functions.php
  • Edited: /style.css

Version 1.01

Released on 21st Jan 2012

This theme now functions normally with Internet Explorer 8; however there may be slight differences in aesthetics.

• Added: Missing Shortcodes and Missing Navigation Icon Howto to the documentation.
• Fixed: The background colour of the navigation dropdown on IE9 and below.
• Added: Next/Previous Portfolio Item Navigation Text.
• Fixed: IE8 Portfolio Filtering.
• Added: IE8 CSS Support.
• Change: Previously the last blog posts would only be displayed if there was a featured image; now it is displayed regardless.
• Added: A general title styling; this allows you to have heading titles with underlines line the standard content blocks.
• Fixed: the year in the default copyright.
• Added: Heading Colour Change Option
• Added: A toggle to hide/show the portfolio navigation.
• Added: New social media icons: Tumblr, Google, Support.
• Added: Filter Link & Hover Colour Picker.
• Added: Notification Button,Link,Hover,Background,Border Colour Picker.
• Added: Page Heading Colour Picker.

• Added: Gloss Overlay to Home Highlights, Blog Highlights and Blog hovers.

  • Edited: Documentation
  • Added: /css/ie8.css
  • Edited: /css/ie.css
  • Edited: /js/jquery.portfolio.js
  • Edited: single-portfolio.php
  • Edited: header.php
  • Edited: /includes/home/blog.php
  • Edited: /style.css
  • Edited: /css/dark.css
  • Edited: /admin/theme-options.php
  • Edited: template-blog.php
  • Edited: /functions/shortcodes.php

Theme Features

• Responsive Clean, Minimal Design
• A Light & Dark Version Included
• Unlimited color combinations via theme panel color-pickers
• Drag & Drop Homepage Layout Manager
• 8 Homepage Modules: Slider, Highlights, Portfolio, Tagline, Widgets, Static Video, Static Page & Recent Blog Posts.
• Unlimited Homepage Combinations – Mix & Max modules and even use shortcodes if you want
• Image slider for pages & Image Slider shortcode (unlimited usage)
• Pricing Tables (fully responsive)
• Social bookmarking links
• Filterable portfolio page
• Portfolio category pages (unlimited)
• 4, 3 or 2 columns for the main portfolio page
• Paginated portfolio support
• 3 Portfolio types – default, slider, video
• 2 photo gallery page templates – full-width and with sidebar.
• Left or Right sidebar option
• Easily upload multiple images to your portfolio items
• PrettyPhoto lightbox on single portfolio posts
• Featured Thumbnails for portfolio items, homepage highlights, staff members, posts and pages
• Many useful shortcodes – buttons, alert boxes, columns, accordions, toggle
• Threaded comments (on blog posts)
• Blog post author highlight
• Custom Post Type -: Portfolio, Slider, Staff & Homepage Highlights
• Blog Post Formats – standard, video, image, gallery, quote, link
• Included styles for the Contact Form 7 plugin
• Widgetized Bottom Bar: This area is best suited for reasons for people to purchase your products/and or services!
• Widgetized Bottom Bar Widget: This allows you the same functionality as the text widget plus the ability to use pre-defined icons we have included with the theme!
• Widgetized Footer
• Social Media Profile icons in the header region (change to a white set for the dark stylesheet!)
• Flickr Widget included
• Staff/Team Template/Page
• Site Authors Template/Page
• Sitemap Template/Page
• Archive Template/Page
• Coming Soon Option: This allows you to hide/redirect users to this page while you are sprucing your site up or adding new content!
• .PO & .Mo files included for translation
• Sample .xml data included

The sample images used in this demonstation are not included with the downloadable product. The images used are a combination of our own images and images bought from photodune.