Hornet – Urban Multipurpose WordPress Theme Overview
Hornet is a WordPress theme built around a dark, street-inspired look, aimed at personal sites, small studios and creative businesses that want a shop sitting beside their work.
It comes from Mikado-Themes. Layout and slideshow work run through WPBakery Page Builder and LayerSlider, both supplied inside the download, while a Mikado Core plugin provides the theme’s shortcodes and its project post type. Six icon sets and typography controls cover most brand work without code.
What arrives is a presentation layer rather than a system: project galleries, blog formats and product listings arranged across fullscreen and parallax sections. The photography, copy and product data are all brought by the owner.
Key Features of Hornet – Urban Multipurpose WordPress Theme
- Dark visual styling with fullscreen and parallax section layouts
- WPBakery Page Builder and LayerSlider supplied inside the download
- More than eighty shortcodes, including call to action, tooltip and infographic elements
- Several portfolio list layouts, among them masonry and a Pinterest-style grid
- Multiple single-project templates plus custom project layouts
- Animated page transitions with four options, controlled globally or page by page
- Side menu and fullscreen menu modes, with separate logos per header type
- WooCommerce integration with a product slider and optional header cart widget
- Blog masonry and carousel lists with six post formats
- One-click demo import, custom sidebars, mega menu and a coming-soon template
Who Hornet – Urban Multipurpose WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
The natural fit is a design studio, illustrator, photographer or small label that wants one site to carry a portfolio, a journal and a modest product range. The dark palette suits music, streetwear and lifestyle work far better than a conservative professional practice.
Canadian studios selling prints or merchandise alongside commissioned work get the most from it, because the shop templates are part of the theme rather than an afterthought. Anyone needing client proofing, quoting or bookings should budget for those separately, since none of them is present. The marketplace record declares support for the two most recent WooCommerce generations and WPML, useful for a bilingual Canadian site.
Important Notes About Hornet – Urban Multipurpose WordPress Theme
The feature list still advertises Twitter and Instagram widgets and a Twitter slider, while the May 2026 release records all three removed after those platforms changed their interfaces, so the social sections of the demo should be treated as unavailable. The documentation button is broken as well: its address carries a duplicated protocol prefix and resolves nowhere, although the marketplace record declares the item well documented. A working documentation route is worth confirming before a build is committed.
The bundled builder and slider carry no entitlement from their own authors, so new versions of them depend on the vendor shipping a fresh copy or the owner buying separate licences. Switching off Mikado Core takes the shortcodes and project entries with it. Demo photography is licensed to the vendor alone, and work produced for clients may need their permission before it is published. None of this is legal advice, which AppiAppi does not provide.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
The customer buys and holds the theme licence. AppiAppi installs it and turns the demo into a real site: project and case-study pages, filterable portfolio categories, a studio page with team profiles, a services section, enquiry forms, the journal, and the shop templates where products are part of the plan.
Images and video are compressed and given responsive sizes, and the transitions and parallax motion are dialled back wherever they interfere with keyboard or screen-reader navigation. Project pages are given real headings, copy and alt text rather than content that only appears on scroll. AppiAppi also supplies AI-assisted SEO and content support, applies updates, and answers enquiries and orders under the customer’s plan.
Original design by Mikado-Themes. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source