Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme Overview
Salient is a creative multipurpose theme by ThemeNectar, published in 2013 and currently at version 18.3.0. It ships a reworked edition of WPBakery Page Builder with a redrawn interface, usable from the back end or directly on the page.
The selling point is motion and finish rather than any operational system. Shape dividers, cascading overlapping images, mouse-driven parallax, fullscreen rows and page transitions are the stated reason to choose it, and the vendor stresses the frame rate at which they run.
Around that sit seven named blog layouts, four single-post headers, nine portfolio project styles with filtering, an HTML5 particle background, and a WooCommerce layer with an asynchronous cart and a zoomable gallery.
Key Features of Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme
- A tailored edition of WPBakery Page Builder included, editable from the front or the back end
- Shape dividers and cascading overlapping images, with optional parallax movement as the visitor scrolls
- Multi-layer parallax driven by mouse movement on desktop and by device tilt on handsets
- Fullscreen rows that convert page-builder sections into a stepped, animated sequence
- Nine portfolio project styles with category filters, masonry tuning, grid spacing and colour control
- Seven blog layouts and four single-post header treatments, full width or with a sidebar
- Typography panel with more than eight hundred font families and live previews in the options screen
- Four icon families included: Iconminds, FontAwesome, Steadysets and Linea
- A choice of fancyBox3 or Magnific lightboxes, wired into the galleries, sliders and video elements
- WooCommerce layer with multiple product styles, an asynchronous cart and page-builder access on product pages
Who Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme Is Suitable For
This fits a Canadian design studio, photographer or boutique agency whose pitch rests on how the site feels to move through. The structure imposed is a portfolio archive feeding project pages, a blog, and conventional service and contact pages, which suits a business needing richer visual storytelling than a stock corporate layout.
The commerce side is adequate for a small range sold beside a portfolio, such as prints, but the declared record starts at WooCommerce version eight, so an older store needs upgrading first. Businesses whose value lies in scheduling or client workflow need separate tools.
Important Notes About Salient | Creative Multipurpose & WooCommerce Theme
Because the page builder is a modified copy of a commercial plugin, layouts are tied to it: moving to another builder later means rebuilding content, and settings may differ from the standalone plugin. That plugin keeps its own licence and update cycle, and the declared record lists only WooCommerce and WPML, so verify on the demo what else the download contains.
The vendor credits the sample photography in four demos it calls legacy to named individuals and excludes it from the purchase, so every image and licensed display face must be sourced by the owner. Motion of this kind also affects keyboard and screen-reader use, and page weight on rural connections; AppiAppi can reduce it, but gives no legal advice.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
After the customer buys the licence, AppiAppi installs the theme, imports the demo chosen during design, and rebuilds each page around the customer’s real projects, service descriptions, studio profile and team biographies. Project archives, the single-project template, the journal and the brief forms are configured with the customer’s own fields and retention settings.
Imagery and video are compressed and given responsive sizes, and the parallax, transitions and particle effects are tuned so the site stays usable without a mouse. AppiAppi then maintains it: AI-assisted SEO and content help, updates to the theme and its bundled plugins, new work added to the portfolio, and replies to enquiries, according to the chosen plan.
Original design by ThemeNectar. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source