Maël – Modern Creative Agency WordPress Theme Overview
Maël is a portfolio and agency theme from the seller Mikado-Themes, with fifteen homepage examples and a large set of inner pages. Its emphasis is the project archive: interactive featured lists, full height sliders, justified galleries and masonry grids.
Pages are built in WPBakery Page Builder, with Slider Revolution for the headers, both copies travelling with the download. The Mael Core plugin registers the shortcodes and the portfolio content type, so deactivating it empties the pages built from them.
Six header types are offered, from a standard bar to vertical and vertical sliding variants, each with separate logos for light, dark and mobile use. A WooCommerce section adds product lists and a dropdown cart for studios that sell alongside their work.
Key Features of Maël – Modern Creative Agency WordPress Theme
- Fifteen homepage examples with a large inner page collection
- Portfolio shortcodes for featured, list, slider and category views
- Single project layouts in masonry, gallery and full width
- Six header types with separate light, dark and mobile logos
- WPBakery Page Builder and Slider Revolution copies in the download
- WooCommerce product lists, product information element and dropdown cart
- Smooth transitions between pages plus a slide out side area
- Team, clients carousel, testimonials and pricing table elements
- Typography options drawing on a large Google Fonts list
- Child theme, translation files and a WPML configuration file
Who Maël – Modern Creative Agency WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
Design studios, creative agencies and established freelancers in Canada with enough finished work to fill a deep archive, particularly those wanting each project presented differently rather than poured into one grid. The shop elements suit a studio selling prints or merchandise as a sideline.
A studio with three or four projects will find the structure larger than its content. Nothing here manages the business: there is no client portal, no proposal or invoicing tool and no time tracking, and the contact page is a form.
Important Notes About Maël – Modern Creative Agency WordPress Theme
The current feature list advertises Twitter and Instagram widgets, and the changelog records both being removed, the Twitter plugin in August 2023 and the Instagram feed plugin in May 2026, each because the platform changed its interface. The vendor could not prevent either. A working social feed on this site needs a current third party plugin and the business’s own platform access, so treat those entries as unconfirmed against the package and check the demo.
The three version signals agree for once: packaged 1.5, newest log entry 1.5 dated 28 May 2026, and a marketplace file update the same day. The title’s letter with a diaeresis survives nowhere else: the packaged style.css records the theme as Mael and the marketplace address drops the letter, so file paths and searches will not match the printed title. The documentation link is plain http, and the vendor states demo images are not licensed for buyer use. AppiAppi gives no legal advice. A studio serving Quebec should note that the Charter of the French Language sets expectations for commercial web content.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
The customer buys the licence, and AppiAppi installs the theme and the Mael Core plugin, chooses the homepage and header type that suits the business, and fills the project archive, studio page, team profiles and services copy with the customer’s own material. Shop products and tax settings are configured where relevant.
Heavy imagery is compressed and given responsive sizes, and transition and scroll effects are moderated so the site stays usable by keyboard and with a screen reader. AppiAppi provides AI-assisted SEO and content support, applies updates to the theme and its bundled plugins, replies to enquiries, and manages the site 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