Knowledge Base

To use Kalium we recommend your host supports: WordPress 5.0 or greater. PHP 7 or greater (WordPress officially suggests to use PHP 7.3, read more) MySQL 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB 10.0 or greater. We have tested it on...

Theme authors are not allowed to include the purchase codes for the premium plugins that are included bundled with the theme. However, you don’t have to be worried about this, because...

When there is a new update for Kalium, a notification will be shown in the admin menu, admin bar and a notification throughout admin panel. Even if you haven’t activated your theme,...

You can change the ordering of Portfolio items, Blog posts or Shop products easily by using the famous Post Types Order plugin. To install the plugin: Go to your WordPress dashboard and hover...

Ordering the categories (filters) of the Portfolio items, Shop products or Blog posts cannot be done directly through WordPress or the Theme Options, you can do it by using a plugin...

When using the Build Query option in WPBakery Page Builder you will want to filter your Portfolio or Shop items by category, the Categories field won’t work if you want to...

A site can be slow for many reasons, from server and domain setup to bad plugins or themes, image sizes, etc. From the theme’s perspective, we’ve been able to achieve great...

Sometimes when you change brand logo, menu color, or menu position on Theme Option it can happen that those changes that you made are not applied on some pages. This happens because some of...

Changing the skin to a custom one you’ve manually customized can be done by going in the Theme Settings > Theme Styling but sometimes it may not be applied, to get...

While using the theme you would want to have your own custom styling and settings, so to modify and customize the theme on your own needs you need the Custom...

Some Kalium users prefer to add any of the Portfolio, Shop or Blog category links on their menu. To do that please go through Appearance > Menus, navigate at the top right of the...

Google maps require an API key in order to show the map. If you see an error: Ooops! Something went wrong then you have to add a Google API key to your site that...

Each page has it’s own parameters area that will be valid for that page only. You can find detailed information about Parameters and Options for each post type here: Page Parameters...

If you see that some of your items are not showing on the front end, don’t worry there are some ways why this can happen, here you can read some possibilities:...

Portfolio post type adds URL prefix for all portfolio items (mysite.com/portfolio/your-project-name) and this can be removed or renamed in Theme Options: Before: After: Remove Portfolio prefix To remove portfolio items post type prefix...

This problem happens in some rare cases. Usually, the problem is with your mail server (SMTP) which is not sending e-mails, this can be fixed by using WP Mail SMTP by WPForms plugin...

To obtain purchase code for the theme go to Downloads tab in ThemeForest and click Download for the item, then choose: License certificate & purchase code (PDF) or License certificate & purchase...

Sometimes where you encounter a problem with your website, such as not seeing changes you have made in the front end of your site, it could simply be that you...

A staging site is a local setup on your own machine where you can build your site, or where you can make test changes. Having a staging site is an...

If your thumbnails are not correctly cropped, you can regenerate them by following these steps: Go to Plugins > Add New Search for Regenerate Thumbnails (created by Viper007Bond) Install and...

There are plenty of plugins for WordPress but not every plugin works with every theme. Here is a short list of the popular plugins which Kalium supports: WPBakery Page Builder (formerly Visual Composer) (included for...

That’s a common issue caused by not uploading the correct zip file. Go back to https://themeforest.net/downloads and when clicking the Download button, choose the “Installable WordPress file only“. If you...

While trying to Upload the theme: If you’re seeing this confusing WordPress error when trying to upload the theme, it means the process breaks at some point and that’s most...

Kalium is constantly being updated with new features, bug fixes, and adjustments. We recommend you to read this changelog for every update release. Also please consider deactivating caching plugins temporarily to avoid the...

If you are still using an old Kalium update such as 1.x and you want to update to the latest version 2.x then you need to use Envato Market plugin. To see how to...

In this update of Kalium you will be introduced to some great new features of Kalium which mostly affect the code structure of Kalium towards new future of template hierarchy...

This is an important update of Kalium, containing changes on how WooCommerce was implemented previously in our theme (just a single file), now functions, template functions, and hooks are separated...

Kalium theme is not officially compatible with Internet Explorer browser because it is relatively an old browser (last release in 2013) and it doesn’t support the latest technologies such as...

If you are using Kalium version 2.6 or newer Simply deactivate and then delete free version of Advanced Custom Fields, Flexible Content Field, Gallery Field and Repeater Field plugins and...