Car Dealer - Automotive Responsive WordPress Theme

Compatible with WordPress 5.6 – 6.1.x, WooCommerce 5.9 – 7.3.0 and GDPR Ready View Changelog

With 10+ years of experience of working with clients from the automotive world, we executed the most enticing, flexible and modern multi-purpose Car Dealer theme for the range of business in automotive world from car dealers, car resellers to mechanic workshop and auto motor retailers.

Give a shot to our one-stop solutions for your business as our one-click installation theme ensures:

Faster and high performing website with flexible layout
6 Types of dealer inquiry forms
Well designed and structure inventory listing (with unlimited vehicle listing comparison)
Awesome GIF Pre-loaders

Our fully responsive theme helps user to achieve success to next level no matter how big/small their business is. Go online with your 1st car dealing business website with just one click today.

MAIN FEATURES OVERVIEW:

Advanced Theme Options: Theme Options allows users to craft almost any imaginable design. Take control over the appearance of user’s site using the Theme Options panel making it unique in just a few clicks.
Compare Functionality: Allow users to compare multiple vehicle functionality with drag & drop feature.
Filter Functionality: Powerful cars filters integrated with AJAX and GET method.
Dealer Inquiry Forms: Six dealer inquiry forms provided with captcha and validation along with three types of mail functionality (ADF, HTMl and Text ) and entry for each inquiry forms are maintained on admin side in “inquiries” menu.
Vehicle Review Stamps: Using this functionality, you can show certification or review / ratings of vehicles from vehicle valuation providers like Carfax.com.
Tab Listing: Vertical and Horizontal tabs provided for car listing based on car make.
Car Slider: Car Slider shortcode provided with different categories (like Featured, OnSale, Cheapest ).
Finance Calculator: Includes an integrated loan calculator to calculate payments.
PDF brochure: Dynamic PDF brochure generation functionality for cars. Printable Brochures for Inventory Listings – one click PDF page creation.
Social Media: Social Sharing Integrated – increase your customer engagement with ease.
WooCommerce Ready: Car Dealer theme comes with complete support for the WooCommerce plugin, which enables you to sell your products online. This popular e-commerce plugin will help you to set-up a clean and modern shop.
800+ Google web fonts to Choose From: The theme integrates Google web fonts, offering you a large variety of typefaces to choose from when customizing the theme.
Translation Ready: Car Dealer is fully prepared for translation to any language using po & mo files.
One click DEMO data importer: Get your WordPress Theme installed at the click of a button.
Contact Form 7 ready: Create beautiful contact forms with Contact form 7 plugin.
RTL Support: RTL languages support. Which means that if you write in a right-to-left language (Such as Arabic, puritan, Urdu… etc.), it will display properly.
Cross-Browser Compatibility: Supports all major browser (FireFox, Safari, Chrome, IE11).
Fully Responsive Design Super Mobile-Friendly: With a responsive design and retina ready display, your site will look awesome on any device.
MailChimp Support: MailChimp for WordPress helps you add more subscribers to your MailChimp lists using beautiful and simple form. Subscribe your WordPress site visitors to your MailChimp lists, with ease. We have designed this forms and created a subscription element. All you need to do is to connect your form to your MailChimp list and drop the related element in your page.
Unlimited Colours options: Car Dealer comes with unlimited colors. You will have thousands of way to change the appearance, according to your preference and your brand.
Advanced Blog Options: Different blog post formats including standard, quote, youtube video, vimeo video, gallery and audio. With Classic, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar, Full Width, Masonry, 2 Column, 3 Column, 4 Column…
Powerful Bootstrap v3+: Built on latest Bootstrap v3+ powerful framework for faster and easier web development.
Retina Ready: Car Dealer comes with high-resolution icons. With Car Dealer your website will look awesome on high-density Retina displays and high-resolution screens.
10 Stunning Home Page Options: With 10 different and unique demo homepages gives you options to build your own site.
Well Document: Very detailed step by step online and offline documentation has been carefully detailed and completed with super easy to understand instructions giving you the full access to all of its features.
Child Theme Compatible: Includes basic child theme!
Auto update: Auto-update support Envato Toolkit plugin (theme auto-update plugin).
Fully Customizable: Easily change the color of every element you see! The theme is easy for beginners and requires no programming skills to create a website – multiple options and elements will do that for you.
Custom Inner page header Backgrounds: Custom Backgrounds on every Page header (Patterns, Images or Solid Color).
Multiple Header options: Car Dealer comes with Multiple Header options to choose from, each header has its own set of options, is sure to satisfy your every need. Clients can change header text color, link color and background color.
Sticky Header: You can set header to be sticky on the top. Clients can also change sticky header logo, text color, link color and background color.
Built with HTML5 and CSS3: Coded in HTML5, CCS3 and jQuery.
Tons of Pages options: 60+ Pre-configured page layouts for Home, About, Service, F.A.Q., Team, Blog, Contact and more!
bbPress Plugin fully design integrated!
BuddyPress Plugin fully design integrated!
Fast Performance: High performance, super-fast with top page speed & slow ratings.
Responsive Carousels: Amazing responsive Carousels will look awesome on any device.
Professional and fast 5-star support: Whether you are an expert or a beginner, our Support Team will do its best to provide the best possible and helpful answer for the issues that you are having.
And much more…

EASY TO USE:

Unique stunning animated slider
No coding knowledge required
Visual Composer (No additional license needed, you save $34)
Dashboard provided with effective charts, So information can easily be understandable.
Flexible import & export functionality with log included of each.
Easy cars compare functionality with drag & drop feature.
Dealer forms provided with 3 types of mail functionality with simple instructions and entry maintained of each inquiry.
GEO Fencing and Promocode functionality with easy steps and are well documentated.
Very easy page building using drag and drop
60+ pre-built pages for quick start
Flexible easy-to-use page options
Very detailed online documentation
Create stunning website without touching a line of code

ADVANCED THEME OPTIONS:

Layout options: Boxed, Framed and Standard. With Boxed and Framed layout, you can also set main body background image or color.
Site Logo:You can set Logo as text or as image, logo height, Sticky Logo, Sticky Logo height, mobile Logo and mobile Logo height.
Sticky Header: Enable/disable stick header for the desktop device and also for mobile device. you can also change sticky header logo, text color, link color and background color.
Back to Top: Enable/disable back to top button for the desktop device and also for mobile device.
Site Preloader option: Enable/disable Site Preloader. Set preloader type from our 16 pre-loader GIF images or upload your own pre-loader image.
Site Header: You can manage site header settings here, like Header Type, Header Colors, Top Bar, Top bar Colors and other various settings.
Topbar: Enable/disable top bar. You can manage left top bar and right top bar items from here with drag and drop option.
Heading Separator: You can show/hide seperator for Section Title in “Section Title Shortcode”.
Search: Enable/disable Search icon in header. you can also set search Input Placeholder Word and Search Content Type from this options: All, post and Cars.
Page Header: You can manage page header settings from here, like Page Header Type(image, color, youtube or vimeo video), Breadcrumb, Page Header Height, Titlebar Text Align and other various settings.
Footer: You can manage footer settings from here. you can manage footer Column Layout, Footer Background Type(Image or color), Background Opacity Color, Footer Heading Color, Footer Text Color, Footer Link Color, Copyright Section Enable/disable, Show Copyright Text, Copyright Background Color, Text Color, Link Color and many more….
Color Scheme: In color schemes, you can change the site default color and set as per your site design.
Sidebar Settings: Select page sidebar alignment from Full Width, Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar.
Currency Settings: You can set currency settings like currency symbol, placement of symbol, currency seperator settings etc.
Car Page Settings: It includes car page settings like number of cars to display, number of columns to display on car list page, layout and sidebar settings of car list page, layout of car detail page, show/hide sold vehicles on listing etc.
Custom Forms: It includes all settings for dealer inquiry forms like contact form 7 and custom forms settings like mail title, mail body, receiver mail id and so on.
API Keys: You can add key details for Google Maps, Google Captcha and Mailchimp.
Blog/Post Settings: You can manage blog title, Blog Sidebar (Full Width, Left Sidebar and Right Sidebar), Blog Layout (Classic or Masonry) and show/hide meta items on blog page.
Default Values: You can set car default values like car default location and car default values like Price Label, City MPG Label, Highwat MPG Label.
Archive Settings: Select archive header information( like Author Info, Category Information, Tag Description) to display on blog archive pages.
Single Post: Enable/disable Related Posts, Author Details and Post Navigation. you can also manage show/hide meta items on blog detail page from here.
Team Settings: Two layouts of team page are available. You can set according to your need.
Woocommerce Settings: You can manage Woocommerce related setting from here like Product Listing Column, Number of Products per Page, Cart Icon in Primary Menu, Show Related Products, Number of Related Products per Page and Woocommerce Related Product Number of Columns
Site Info: Manage Social Profiles and Site Contacts information (Email, Phone Number and Opening hours) from here.
Social Sharing: You can Enable/disable post sharing functionality.
Typography: You can manage Body font and h1 to h6 heading’s font family, Backup Font Family, Font Weight, Font Subsets, Font Size, Line Height and Letter Spacing.
Maintenance: You can Enable/disable Maintenance or Coming Soon mode. you can also manage title, subtitle, date, Social icons (Enable/disable), Display Newsletter(Enable/disable) and Newsletter form.
Custom CSS/JS: You can add Custom CSS and Custom JS here.
Sample Data: You can import pre-defined sample data, as shown on our demo site from here.
Options Object: You can Show Object in Javascript Console Object
Import Options: You can import and Export your site date.

Thanks for checking out Car Dealer!

Notes:

Images and videos used in the demo are not included in the Downloaded Package. However, you may purchase it separately. All credits are included in the documentation

Feel free to contact us with any questions you may have. You’re the reason we’re here! We would love to hear any constructive feedback.

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CHANGELOG – Past Versions Changelog

Version 4.8.0 – March 16, 2023

Added: Added feature to display fields as dropdown on the Add Car page.
Added: Added setting in the Lead Forms to send mail to vehicle sellers.
Added: Added two new separate elements for Short Description and Price for vehicle detail page mobile layout.
Fixed: Fixed search not working in mobile view.
Fixed: Fixed fatal error when the theme is downgraded but the plugin is latest.
Fixed: Fixed social share issue in the Share widget/shortcode.
Fixed: Fixed PHP warnings and notices.
Fixed: Fixed translation string.
Fixed: Fixed textdomain.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Updated: Updated language files.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

Version 4.7.0 – March 07, 2023

Added: Added new (and extendible) social share feature. Site admin can switch to the new social share option containing many new built-in social medias. And can expand the built-in list by custom coding.
Added: Added new option to select image size for Vehicle Listing image for mobile devices.
Added: Added new options to set hover image and hover image width for the "Back to Top" link.
Added: Added category support in the Teams post type.
Added: Added new option select category in Teams Widget/shortcode.
Added: Added styling and alignment option to Timeline widget/shortcode.
Added: Added various improvements in search field in header and sidebar widgets.
Added: Added new options to show/hide the "Select Package" section in the "Add Car" Form.
Added: Added compatibility for Car Dealer application WebView.
Fixed: Fixed incorrect variable name.
Fixed: Fixed scroll issue in the WPbakery's My Templates pop-up.
Fixed: Fixed translation issue on Vehicle Review Stamp section in the Admin Panel.
Fixed: Fixed translation issue in "Add Car" form.
Fixed: Fixed translation issue on My Items in the Dealer Dashboard.
Fixed: Fixed undefined variable warning.
Fixed: Fixed to prevent saving new vehicles in the Free plan when limit is exceeded.
Fixed: Fixed image display issue with image selected on the "Add Car" page.
Fixed: Fixed Max Mega Menu header alignment issue.
Fixed: Fixed header Cart issue when Max Mega Menu is enabled.
Fixed: Fixed tax label display issue on the vehicle listing page.
Fixed: Fixed currency price display issue on the inventory page.
Fixed: Fixed space issue in some fonts.
Fixed: Fixed title display issue in the related posts.
Fixed: Fixed related vehicle display issue in small screens (size < 390) on the vehicle detail page.
Fixed: Fixed fatal error when value with the wrong format provided in number_format function.
Fixed: Fixed loader issue.
Fixed: Fixed text domain.
Fixed: Fixed typo.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Updated: Updated language files.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

Version 4.6.0 – January 17, 2023

Added: Added new feature to show/hide seller profile tabs (Reviews, Location, etc.)
Added: Added new feature to add custom seller profile tabs.
Added: Added new feature to enable/disable Vehicle Views/Statistics.
Added: Added icon support in the seller profile tabs.
Added: Added new option to set unit for Mileage and MPG.
Added: Added new field to add title on the Dealers list.
Added: Added new field to include vehicle title and link in the WhatsApp "Click to Chat" link.
Added: Added new FAQ WPBakery Shortcode and Elementor Widget.
Added: Added extendibility and optimized code to add custom social profiles with custom code.
Added: Added vehicle category/attribute name in the vehicle category/attribute archive page.
Added: Added fix to prevent negative value when adding/editing vehicle on Add Car page.
Added: Added missing string translation.
Fixed: Fixed security nonce verification issue on Add Car page.
Fixed: Fixed the "Remove from Featured" icon alignment.
Fixed: Fixed fatal error when ACF plugin is not active.
Fixed: Added notice for and restricted Sell Price larger than Regular Price on Add Car page.
Fixed: Fixed Elementor deprecated function notice.
Fixed: Fixed Saudi Riyal and other RTL currency symbols alignment issue.
Fixed: Fixed social profile icon issue in the footer when Footer Top Layout is set to "Layout 2" in Theme Options.
Fixed: Fixed filtered parameters link issue.
Fixed: Fixed thousand separator not working properly in price range filter.
Fixed: Fixed broken structure in the Elementor "CDFS Dealers" widget.
Fixed: Fixed vehicle data issue in the CF7 lead form on the vehicle detail page built with template builder.
Fixed: Fixed "Features & Options" item alignment on vehicle detail page.
Fixed: Fixed language-switcher alignment issue on the login page.
Fixed: Fixed search button issue in the mobile.
Fixed: Fixed issue when multiple Vehicles Search shortcodes added on a single page.
Fixed: Fixed price strikethrough issue on the inventory Page.
Fixed: Fixed color issue on car item style 2.
Fixed: Fixed undefined index notice.
Fixed: Fixed text-domain.
Fixed: Fixed typo.
Removed: Removed theme options' support from the WordPress customizer due to some fields' incompatibility.
Updated: Moved seller-profile related options to new separate tab.
Updated: Updated FontAwesome to v.6.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Updated: Updated language files.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

Version 4.5.2 – November 07, 2022

Fixed: Fixed lead form popup issue.

Version 4.5.1 – November 04, 2022

Fixed: Fixed fatal error when updating from very old version.
Fixed: Fixed vehicle filter dropdown (with lot of items) formatting issue.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Updated: Updated language files.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

Version 4.5.0 – October 19, 2022

Added: Added PHP 8.1 compatibility.
Fixed: Fixed issue where attribute is broken in cars list in some languages.
Fixed: Fixed pagination issue when permalink structure is set to Plain.
Fixed: Fixed PHP warnings and notices.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Updated: Updated language files.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

Version 4.4.0 – October 10, 2022

New: Redesigned "Add Car" page.
New: Added new option to manage image upload size limit in Add Car form.
Fixed: Fixed the number of templates in the Car Dealer Templates dropdown.
Fixed: Fixed fatal error in Pricing shortcode/widget when WooCommerce plugin is not installed/active.
Fixed: Fixed fatal error in dealer dashboard when Subscriptio plugin is not installed/active.
Fixed: Fixed delete icon showing in vehicle edit screen without review stamp selection.
Fixed: Fixed vehicle image issue when editing a vehicle and adding an image that exceeds the permitted limit.
Fixed: Fixed an issue removing vehicle review stamps when editing a vehicle.
Fixed: Fixed an issue removing the vehicle PDF brochure when editing a vehicle.
Fixed: Fixed an issue where the dealer/seller could enable "Pay Per Listing" items even after order cancellation.
Fixed: Fixed button spacing issue in the WooCommerce My Account orders list.
Fixed: Fixed P tag issue in vehicle excerpt on inventory page list view.
Fixed: Fixed typo.
Fixed: Fixed PHP warning.
Updated: Updated code to display an alert when the selected image size is larger than the allowed size limit.
Updated: Updated code to restrict negative or zero values in some theme option fields.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Updated: Updated language files.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

Version 4.3.1 – September 28, 2022

Fixed: Fixed header hide issue in the "Home Listing" home page.
Fixed: Fixed carousel issue in the "Home Listing" home page.
Updated: Updated WPML config file.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Updated: Updated language files.

Version 4.3.0 – September 15, 2022

New: Added "Advertise Item" feature for dealers/sellers to advertise their items.
New: Added "Listing Payment" feature for dealers/sellers to pay for the new Add Car entry.
New: Added vehicle view count in the Dealer Dashboard > My Items.
Added: Added theme options for new features Advertise Item, Listing Payment.
Added: Added theme option to show/hide dealer logo and name in the vehicle listing.
Added: Added theme option to hide dealer name.
Added: Added fix to display listing type in Dealer Dashboard > My Items for imported vehicles.
Added: Added new label fields in the Fuel Economy widget.
Fixed: Fixed issue with vehicle enable/disable when package subscription is expired.
Fixed: Added fix for fatal error when Subscriptio plugin is not installed/activated.
Fixed: Fixed fatal error when disabling the vehicle from the dealer dashboard.
Fixed: Fixed listing layout in Dealer Dashboard vehicle listing.
Fixed: fixed duplicate reCaptcha on the Add Car page when user is not logged in.
Fixed: Fixed seller profile review design issue.
Fixed: Fixed counter widget/shortcode not working correctly.
Fixed: Fixed translation issue in the category list on the FAQ page.
Fixed: Fixed "Add Car" button is not working in mobile view.
Fixed: Fixed "Buy Online" button is not working in mobile view.
Fixed: Fixed fatal error when disabling the vehicle from the dealer dashboard.
Fixed: Fixed close icon for images on edit car page.
Fixed: Fixed Redux Framework deprecated functions.
Fixed: Fixed formatting issue on the "Sold Car" template.
Fixed: Fixed listing type for old items or items added from the backend or import process.
Fixed: Fixed vehicle enable/disable issue in the dealer dashboard for vehicles added by import and VINQuery.
Fixed: Fixed button formatting issue on various WooCommerce - My Account pages.
Fixed: Fixed vehicle enable/disable issue when subscription expires and vehicle status changes.
Fixed: Fixed error message when enabling/disabling vehicle in the dealer dashboard.
Fixed: Fixed vehicle listing formatting issue in Dealer Dashboard when listing layout is Grid.
Fixed: Fixed vehicle listing formatting issue in seller profile
Fixed: Fixed PHP Notice.
Fixed: Fixed typo.
Fixed: Fixed text domain.
Updated: Updated backend dealer profile editing.
Updated: Updated currency list and symbols.
Updated: Made financial calculator error messages translatable.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Updated: Updated language files.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

Version 4.2.1 – June 07, 2022

Fixed: Fixed JS issue in v4.2.0.

Version 4.2.0 – June 04, 2022

Added: Added dealer list shortcode.
Fixed: Fixed PHP notice.
Fixed: String translation issues.
Fixed: Fixed minor formatting in the Car Dealer Studio.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Updated: Updated language files.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

Version 4.1.0 – May 27, 2022

Major CDFS plugin reconstruction to integrate new Dealer Dashboard, Public Profile, and Modern UI.

Added: Added new, improved, and advanced Dealer Dashboard.
Added: Added new Wishlist feature.
Added: Added new Wishlist in the dealer dashboard.
Added: Added new Subscription list in the dealer dashboard.
Added: Added new Profile management in the dealer dashboard.
Added: Added new settings management in the dealer dashboard.
Added: Added new public profile for dealer/sellers to display vehicles, reviews, location, social profiles, and contact details.
Added: Added new dealer review feature for dealers.
Added: Added new options to manage dealer dashboard settings.
Added Widgets, WPBakery Shortcodes, and Elementor Widgets for Vehicle Seller WhatsApp Button.
Added Widgets, WPBakery Shortcodes, and Elementor Widgets for Vehicle Seller Email Button.
Added Widgets, WPBakery Shortcodes, and Elementor Widgets for Vehicle Seller Info.
Added Widgets, WPBakery Shortcodes, and Elementor Widgets for Vehicle Seller Contact Form.
Added: Added new theme options for Dealer Dashboard.
Fixed: Fixed PHP notices.
Fixed: Fixed fatal error when WooCommerce is not installed/activated.
Fixed: Fixed typo and string translation.
Fixed: Fixed comment form design issue on WooCommerce product page.
Fixed: Fixed button design issue on the WooCommerce order detail page.
Fixed: Fixed Buy Online button not working correctly on the vehicle detail page.
Fixed: Fixed WooCommerce Order Tracking form design issue.
Fixed: Fixed range-slider in vehicle filter not working correctly on mobile devices.
Fixed: Fixed price display issue in the price range-slider.
Fixed: Fixed text-domain.
Fixed: Fixed Financing Calculator button issue in responsive view.
Fixed: Fixed reCAPTCHA loading issue.
Fixed: Fixed footer social icon display issue.
Removed: Removed unused theme options.
Updated: Updated dashboard into new and modern Dealer Dashboard.
Updated: Updated WPML config file.
Updated: Updated language files.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

Version 4.0.0 – April 11, 2022

New: "Car Dealer Templates", the WPBakery/Elementor template builder for vehicle pages.
New: "Vehicle Detail" page builder in the "Car Dealer Templates".
New: "Vehicle Detail Mobile" page builder in the "Car Dealer Templates".
Added: New theme options section "Car Dealer Templates" to manage templates visibility on the vehicle detail page.
Added: New theme option 'Vehicle layout Type' for vehicle single page template.
Added: New theme option 'Hide Page Header' for vehicle single page template.
Added: New option to select the vehicle template for individual vehicles.
Added: Added hook to filter auto-complete search arguments.
Added: Vehicle data support in the Yoast SEO.
Added: New elements (WPBakery Shortcodes/Elementor Widgets) for vehicle detail page builder.
Fixed: Elementor deprecated functions/methods notices.
Fixed: Visibility issue with client logo images when the lazy load is enabled.
Fixed: Print button/link not working on the vehicle detail page.
Fixed: The reCAPTCHA is not working in lead forms on the vehicle detail page.
Fixed: Social security number label issue in the financial lead form.
Fixed: Breadcrumb title visibility issue on the inventory page.
Fixed: Vehicle makes visibility issue in the Vehicle by Type widget Elementor.
Fixed: Vehicle location tabs are not working.
Fixed: Author page not displaying any author data.
Fixed: Update the Owl Carousal lib to fix the broken structure in Firefox.
Fixed: Fixed text domain.
Updated: Updated language files.
Updated: Updated bundled plugins.
Various Minor code/formatting improvements and fixes.

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