Borderland – Multipurpose Vintage WordPress Theme Overview
Borderland is a long running multipurpose WordPress theme, first published in 2015 and still receiving updates. Its look rests on a vintage treatment: a passepartout frame around the page, animated transitions between pages, and scroll driven movement in title areas and slider content.
Elated Themes supplies twelve demo sites that import in a single step, along with the WPBakery Page Builder and LayerSlider plugins and a companion plugin of its own that registers the portfolio, testimonial and client post types the layouts draw on.
What it delivers is a presentation layer rather than an operating system. Projects, articles and products sit in grids, carousels and full screen sections, and a WooCommerce shop can run alongside them, but the material on show has to be written, photographed and licensed by the owner.
Key Features of Borderland – Multipurpose Vintage WordPress Theme
- Twelve demo sites, each importable in one step
- Passepartout border framing with several layout options
- Portfolio list and single project templates with a collection of hover effects
- Blog layouts including masonry, a post slider and a vertical loop
- Full screen slider taking images or video, with parallax movement
- Vertical split screen slider and a full screen sections page template
- Header in top or side position, with separate logos for sticky, light, dark and mobile states
- WPBakery Page Builder and LayerSlider supplied with the theme
- WooCommerce, Contact Form 7 and WPML integration
- Over forty shortcodes, icon font packs, a mega menu and a child theme
Who Borderland – Multipurpose Vintage WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
The theme suits Canadian studios and sole traders whose site exists to show finished work: photographers, illustrators, furniture and craft makers, small design practices, and writers or musicians who publish often. Its styling is pronounced, so it fits businesses whose identity already runs to serif type and texture rather than those wanting a neutral corporate frame.
Because WooCommerce is wired in, a maker selling a modest range of prints or goods can run that shop from the same install. Large catalogues, memberships and booking led businesses are better served elsewhere. The theme’s age is not a concern here: the vendor still records updates against current WooCommerce releases.
Important Notes About Borderland – Multipurpose Vintage WordPress Theme
The photography, video and display faces in the demo are licensed to the vendor and are not passed on, so imported content has to be replaced with material the owner holds or has licensed. Publishing commissioned work may also need the client’s permission, and under Canada’s Copyright Act moral rights, attribution and integrity among them, can be waived but not assigned, which bears on cropping or recolouring another person’s work inside a grid. AppiAppi gives no legal advice.
Pages are built with WPBakery, so a later move to a different builder means rebuilding them. The bundled plugins keep their own release cycles, and the theme vendor’s support does not cover them. Block editor compatibility appears in the update log rather than the current feature list and is worth confirming on the demo.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
The customer selects Borderland from the AppiAppi catalogue and buys the licence. AppiAppi installs it, imports the closest demo, then replaces that content with the customer’s own projects, services, team profiles, articles and shop items. We set up the header and footer, the portfolio grids and their categories, the single project template and the enquiry form, and tune the sliders and transitions so movement does not fight the reading.
Images are compressed and given responsive sizes. Continuing work follows the subscription plan: AI assisted SEO and content help, uploads of new projects and posts, theme and plugin updates, and replies to enquiries arriving through the site.
Original design by Elated-Themes. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source