Trendy – Creative Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme Overview
Trendy is a flat, clean multipurpose theme aimed at agencies, personal portfolios, photographers and blogs, with an optional shop attached. It offers several header layouts, parallax and video sections, and portfolio case layouts.
TVDA Themes publishes it on ThemeForest and the packaged files declare version 1.6.5. Pages are built with Visual Composer, now sold as WPBakery, extended by the vendor’s own elements and a third-party add-on pack.
The listing shows images advertising several demos but names none of them in text, so the demo site is the only way to establish what the set covers. It is a layout kit rather than a system: portfolio, blog and shop are standard WordPress structures with styling on top.
Key Features of Trendy – Creative Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
- Visual Composer page building, extended by the theme’s own content elements
- Slider Revolution supplied with the theme, plus demo content for prebuilt pages
- Portfolio case layouts with masonry and gallery grids
- Showcase styles for presenting a selected group of projects
- Parallax and video backgrounds on page sections
- Multiple header layouts, with an options panel for colours, fonts and layout
- WooCommerce shop pages for a modest range of products
- Ninja Forms enquiry forms and a MailChimp list signup block
- An Instagram feed section and an unrestricted number of custom sidebars
- Two icon sets, over six hundred Google Fonts and a Typekit option
Who Trendy – Creative Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme Is Suitable For
On design alone the theme fits small agencies, photographers, personal portfolios and corporate sites wanting a flat, uncluttered look with room for a product line or two. The portfolio case layouts and the showcase styles are its strongest part.
In practice the age of the package narrows that considerably, and anyone choosing it should want this particular design rather than a current feature set. A business expecting to grow a real shop or use the block editor is better served elsewhere.
Important Notes About Trendy – Creative Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme
Age is the first thing to weigh. The marketplace records the last file change in December 2017, the declared software record stops at the WordPress 4.9.x line, the declared builder entry is a 2016 Visual Composer release and the declared WooCommerce entry stops at 2.6.x. The packaged file declares 1.6.5 while the listing publishes no entries of its own, only a link to the vendor’s documentation host. Every part of the package therefore needs testing against current WordPress, PHP and WooCommerce first.
Documentation and the update history live on the vendor’s own subdomain, so if that host lapses they go with it. Several plugins the body promotes, among them Slider Revolution, WPML, Ninja Forms and the MailChimp integration, are absent from the declared compatibility record.
The vendor states the preview images are not part of the purchase, so the whole launch image set must be owned or licensed, and the Typekit option needs its own account. The credits thank several outside sources without naming a licence, so anything reusable should be checked first. Client work normally needs permission under an NDA or a work-for-hire agreement. AppiAppi does not give legal guidance.
Setup & Ongoing Management by AppiAppi
The licence is purchased by the customer. Because of the package’s age, AppiAppi opens with a compatibility pass on current WordPress and PHP and reports honestly on what works and what needs replacing. We then configure the theme and set up the pages, portfolio cases, blog and, where wanted, the shop.
Once live we maintain it: updates applied to a staging copy first, backups, monitoring and handling of forms and orders. Pages and projects carry proper headings and alt text, with our AI-assisted SEO and content support improving that material to the scope the plan sets.
Original design by tvdathemes. This is the starting point — we customize it with your logo, colours, content, services and SEO structure. View original theme source