Howl | Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme Overview
Howl is a multipurpose theme for creative and corporate sites, built on the vendor’s own page builder rather than a third party one. Its strongest area is project presentation: seven portfolio types and five gallery styles.
imaginem publishes it. Headers come in transparent and boxed light and dark variants plus a logo only option, navigation runs horizontally, vertically or as a quick toggle, and the theme runs boxed or full width, as one page or many.
The demo situation is worth stating plainly. Five demo links are offered, but four point at the same address and the other two are query string switches for a vertical menu and a boxed layout. What ships is one demo with options.
Key Features of Howl | Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
- The vendor’s own page builder, with blocks for staff, testimonials and tabs
- Seven portfolio types, including a before and after comparison
- Five gallery styles, from grid and masonry to fullscreen, with bulk upload
- Portfolio control per page, with layout, skills and client fields
- Three header styles plus a logo only header, and three navigation modes
- One page and multi page operation, boxed or full width
- Blog as a standard list, a timeline or grids, with audio and video formats
- Multisite compatible, right to left ready, and translation ready
- Widgets for address, social icons, galleries and related portfolio items
- Shortcode generator, 400 Google fonts, custom sidebars, SVG icons and demo data
Who Howl | Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
It suits a studio or agency needing both sides of a site: a portfolio with real variety in how projects are shown, and conventional pages for services, staff and contact. The before and after type is an advantage for retouchers, renovators and landscapers.
Buyers who want a current, documented codebase should weigh the gap since the last release. The theme is also less suited to a content heavy publisher or to a shop, despite the shop support sitting quietly in the record.
Important Notes About Howl | Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
Versions disagree and nothing can be dated. The newest block in the update log is numbered 2.3 and the log carries no dates, while the stylesheet in the package reports 2.6 and names the product differently. The marketplace records the last update in December 2020, so a compatibility review comes before any commitment.
The declared record carries WooCommerce, and the log records shop templates and a forms plugin, yet the current feature list never advertises a shop. The log names the bundled plugins: a page builder, a shortcodes plugin and a widgets plugin from the vendor, plus a commercial slider. Each keeps its own licence and release cycle, the bundle does not transfer the slider author’s support, and deactivating the page builder takes the block layouts with it. Two social feed widgets depend on platform interfaces that have since changed, and the body claims design source files the declared download does not list. Demo photography came from a stock library and is excluded, and client work usually needs permission to publish. AppiAppi gives no legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
You purchase the theme licence. AppiAppi installs it, tests it against a current platform given its age, and is straight about anything that needs replacing.
The build then uses your own content: projects in whichever portfolio type suits the work, galleries compressed properly, service and team pages, a blog in the layout matching how often you publish, and contact forms that reach you. AppiAppi also provides AI-assisted SEO and content support so each project and service page carries real headings, copy and alt text, applies whatever updates the vendor issues, answers enquiries, and manages everything under your subscription plan.
Original design by imaginem. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source