EXCEPTION – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme Overview
EXCEPTION is a multipurpose theme from WinsomeThemes built on a Bootstrap base. A drag and drop page builder is bundled with it, together with Slider Revolution, LayerSlider, Essential Grid and a responsive pricing table plugin, and the page sections themselves come from the vendor’s own shortcodes plugin.
Breadth of ready made structure is what the theme sells: fourteen home page designs in wide or boxed layouts, with light and dark skins and twelve predefined colour schemes, seven header styles, twelve menu animations, four footer styles, five blog styles, four contact page designs, a one page option and right to left support.
The theme also styles several community and commerce plugins, giving WooCommerce, bbPress, BuddyPress and Easy Digital Downloads their own sidebars and pagination. The site it produces is a creative company site: projects, services, team, pricing, a blog and a contact route, with a shop or forum where one is wanted.
Key Features of EXCEPTION – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
- Bundled drag and drop page builder, with the vendor’s shortcodes supplying sections
- Slider Revolution, LayerSlider and Essential Grid included with the theme
- Responsive pricing table plugin for package and rate tables
- Fourteen home page designs, each available wide or boxed
- Light and dark skins with twelve predefined colour schemes
- Seven header styles with customizable sticky navigation and menu animations
- Five blog styles with three pagination types in six visual treatments
- Shortcodes for headings, icon boxes, testimonials, client logos, counters and dividers
- WooCommerce, bbPress, BuddyPress and Easy Digital Downloads layouts with custom sidebars
- Four contact page designs, a coming soon page and right to left support
Who EXCEPTION – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
The theme fits a Canadian creative agency, studio, consultancy or freelancer wanting a large, ready made structure and willing to work within it. Firms needing a forum, a membership community or a downloads store benefit from the styling already prepared for those plugins.
It suits less well a business planning to stay on the newest WordPress releases. The vendor’s declared support stops at WordPress 6.8, and both the page builder and the vendor shortcodes bind the content to this theme rather than to portable blocks.
Important Notes About EXCEPTION – Responsive Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
The versions disagree. The packaged style.css reports 3.4.0 while the newest published entry is 3.3.0, dated 30 January 2023, and the marketplace records a February 2024 change the history never describes. With a declared ceiling of WordPress 6.8, the download needs testing on a current installation.
The vendor’s shortcodes plugin was renamed along the way, appearing as IT RAYS Shortcodes in older entries and under the WinsomeThemes name later; the page sections depend on it, and deactivating it removes them. Slider Revolution, LayerSlider, Essential Grid and the pricing table plugin keep their own licences and release cycles, and bundling them transfers no support from their authors. The login widget in the update history is a WordPress sign in form, not a customer portal.
Internet Explorer 9 and 10 are still named as supported, which dates the front end code. Pricing tables should show all in amounts, since dripped mandatory fees are prohibited under the Competition Act, and AppiAppi gives no legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
The customer licenses the theme and AppiAppi installs it with the bundled plugins, imports one of the home designs and rebuilds it around the firm’s own work, services, people and pricing, with testimonial and client sections left empty until real material arrives.
The subscription plan then covers AI assisted SEO and content support, new project and article pages, careful testing of theme and WordPress updates, backups and handling enquiries received through the contact pages.
Original design by WinsomeThemes. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source