Merope - Photography WordPress Theme

Merope – Photography WordPress Theme

Merope is a responsive and minimal photography WordPress Theme designed for Photography Creative Online Portfolios. Merope is made for creatives who are seeking to display their finest art through the lens of the visual world. This beautiful photography WordPress theme comes feature-packed with all the necessary tools for all niche photography websites, like portfolios, proofing, galleries, events, or even create a blog for photographers.

The theme is not limited to photographers only as it finds use in creative agencies, weddings, fashion websites, art blogs, and other related niches. You can build the most capable and professional sites using the powerful Neuron Builder to craft and design pages. Included with the theme are 16+ demo websites that you can import with a single click and configure them to match your style.

The intrinsic minimal design is what makes this theme a creatives’ favorite among others. The powerful Gallery element will help you display all your work in the most professional manner and you have full control over its design. All the demo websites are responsive-ready and fully customizable down to the last detail.

Merope is fully compatible with WooCommerce that allows you to display and sell your digital art without a hassle. You can build, design, and manage your online store with much flexibility. The theme comes bundled with premium plugins for free, and on top of that, you can build and design lead-converting forms and beautiful popups to serve your marketing strategy.

If you have more questions you wish to clarify please reach our Knowledge Base, or head over to our Youtube Channel to comprehend the power of Merope WordPress Theme.

For every purchase of Merope, you get professional support 24/7 for any questions or issues regarding the theme. Our team of support will be at your disposal.

If you’ve liked Merope, make sure to check out our other amazing WordPress Themes (link to the themes on our website).

Photography Website Features

Responsive Design – Merope is a 100% Responsive WordPress theme that always looks stunning on each device accordingly
Client Proofing – You can easily allow your customers to approve or reject with the gallery
Password Protected Content – The theme supports the Password Protected Content feature to protect your work
Imagery – Retina Ready, Ultra-High Resolution Graphics
Theme Options – Powerful theme options panel equipped with robust elements to build all your pages from single pages, homepages, 404 pages, and all other inner

pages.

Unique Animation & Motion Effects – Add animation and layers of interactions of every element using the unique animations and effects included
Flexible Post Layout – 1-6 Column Support for creating various post layouts.
Gallery Display – Display your galleries beautifully and gain control over the layout where you can choose from Grid, Justified, and Masonry.
Lazy Loading – The theme support lazy loading for images to improve the site’s performance

Theme Features

Visual Page Builder – that allows you to create beautiful designs in real-time, where all the changes are made instantly and intuitively
Flexible Layout System – where you can create any type of layout, style, spacing, typography settings, layout options column flex options used in columns, and section options allowing you to change the content horizontal, vertical, or justify position.
Superior Design – Merope presents a modern, coherent, multi-purpose design that can be fitted for a variety of website designs.
WooCommerce Customizer – Build any kind of online store as well as manage your business, stock, and products with efficiency. Create and design your online store to showcase your products and services.
Header Builder – Build every component on your website here including headers as well. Include any element you wish or animate your header for a more enticing introduction.
Footer Builder – Complete your website by building and designing footers all on your own using the accomplished tools and elements to give your site a taste of your brand.
Multiple demo websites – It’s as simple and selecting your preferred demo site and import it with a single click. You can then change the content as per your needs and change the design as it fits your brand
Full Elementor Integration – Elementor makes up one of the major parts of the website building in Merope helping you design and create masterpieces with the flexibility that only Elementor can provide.
SEO Optimized – Merope is fully optimized for search engines to help your website rank better on search results
80+ Elements – Amazing elements ready for use in the front-end page builder, everything drag & drop
Hundreds of Options – with more than 500 different options and shortcodes, all of them merged to create exquisite-looking websites that serve so many purposes.
Advanced Typography Options – Choose from the large repository of Google Fonts to suit your design or add custom fonts and typefaces directly to your website.
Compliance – In complete conformity with WordPress and PHP coding standards
Compatibility – Always compatible with the latest WordPress versions your website will be ready before you know it.
Third-Party Plugins – Regularly compatible with the latest versions of 3rd party integrated plugins
Framework – Built with HTML5 and CSS3
Browser Compatibility – with Firefox, Safari, Chrome, IE9, IE10, IE11
Premium Plugins – Merope comes with premium plugins bundled for added functionality within the price of the theme.
Automatic Updates – The theme updates will be automated through the WordPress Admin interface.
Icon Library & SVG Icons – Integrated with access to more than 1,500 free Font Awesome 5 as well as the ability to upload your own SVG files.
Plugin Compatibility – with all the popular WordPress plugins like WP Super Cache, Elementor, WooCommerce, WP Rocket, RankMath, Slider Revolution, WPML, Yoast, W3TC, MemberPress, PODS, LearnDash, Custom Post Types, W3 Total Cache, BBPress, JetPack, Updraft Plus, and more.

Theme Builder

The theme builder lets you visually design and customize every area and every page
on your website. Use the powers of the theme builder to craft and design page templates that will be used
throughout the entire website. The features of theme builder include

Template – Select the
template type you wish to create it can be headers, footers, product pages, archives, or more.
Header Builder – Build every component on your website here including headers as well. Include
any element you wish or animate your header for a more enticing introduction.
Footer Builder – Complete your website by building and designing footers all on your own using
the accomplished tools and elements to give your site a taste of your brand.
Popup Builder – Build beautiful and engaging popups using the Popup Builder, no extra plugins
needed.
Dynamic Content – Build dynamic
pages using the elements assigned with dynamic capabilities.
Conditions – Set the conditions
rules and assign where will the design be applied, on what pages, based on a precise display algorithm
of categories and taxonomies.
Search Results Pages – Design
and customize search results ages for when users explore your content.
Archive Pages – Display a
beautiful archive of your items, posts, or products where users can search through various filterable
categories.
404 Pages – Don’t leave it static, style it directly with Elementor.
Product Archive Template – Showcase of your entire products.
Preview Settings – Preview how
your dynamic content will look on the end results on each content.

Professional Support and Extensive Help Center

Our team of support will be ready to help you through every issue you encounter with our themes, always kindly and precisely resolving any problem
We will be available 24/7 for all our clients
Feature Packed Updates will have your website always running on the latest version of the theme forever
We welcome every feedback from our clients as it helps us improve our products
We provide an advanced ticketing system where you can create a ticket and you will be receiving professional support from our team directly
We proudly state that our author rating from our clients stands at 4.98 from 5 with more than 480+ reviews with 5 stars
Use other channels like our blog to get knowledge and insights on WordPress, themes, plugins, and everything about your website
Become a part of our social community to exchange knowledge with other clients surrounded by solidarity and the availability to help others
Engage in our growing community to get the best interactive experience from our tech support and tech enthusiasts actively participating.
Extensive documentation on how to use the theme and detailed articles on each feature, element, and component of Merope
High-resolution video tutorials that yet again show you use the theme and create any page on your website, all visually

Neuron Library

Neuron Library is made of blocks and sections that will help you consolidate your website utilizing the pre-made templates crafted down to every detail by our talented team of designers. Using the library blocks will help you create a fully cohesive brand and reflect that on your website by intertwining different elements and sections with a single click on import.

You will be given access to 480+ exquisitely pre-made page layouts and blocks to insert with just a click
Customize and configure the library blocks and sections with the utmost flexibility to math your content
All the library items are categorized and structured based on their utility
You can find various pre-designed blocks and sections like headers, footers, single post pages, single product pages, hero sections, services, call to actions, FAQs, archives, and more.
If you are feeling creative you can create your own template, save them and reuse it on your site or another different website.
All the templates included within the Neuron library are responsive, as they will adapt to every screen device.
You can also upload a file to your templates from your computer.
Using shortcodes you can embed templates any place you like within your page
Simply by drag & dropping the template element you can add your templates with ease and in a matter of seconds.

Rich Niche Demo Website for Every Purpose

Included with Merope are some of the most exquisite demo websites from our team of designers directly to you. Each demo website was meticulously crafted including every detail and component that every niche website needs. They present a minimal, modern, unique, as well as contemporary design based on the requirements of a photography website. Import the demos with a single click and the images and styling will be inherited immediately.

One-Click Demo Importer will give you the power to choose and import any demo website you set your eye on, all it takes is a single click. It’s really easy to use and performs at a fast pace that all your content will be imported in no time.
Professionally designed websites for multiple niches websites, choose one, and import it with just a click.
Handcrafted down to every detail by our team of professionals always keeping in mind flexibility, versatility, and convenience for our users.
Easily switch between demo websites
Every demo of ours is created and composed with precaution using the most advanced tools that will help you customize each particle of your website to your arrangements.
Preview how each demo website looks before you decide on one

Advanced Portfolio Composition

You can use these layouts to display your portfolio such as Grid, Masonry, Metro, Carousel
Hover Animations: This feature lets you animate elements on your website: Translate – Scale – Tooltip – Fixed
Loading Animations: Fade In – Fade In Up – Fade In Left – Fade in Right – Zoom In – Zoom Out – Preserve 3D
Advanced Query: Change the query to different sources like post, page, portfolio, product or combine them by manual selection
Powerful Style Options: Manage easily the columns & row gap, change the alignment of title, category, and much more
Pagination – the sequence of numbers assigned to pages in a book or periodical: Numbers – Show More (Loads the posts without having to reload the page) – Previous / Next – Numbers + Previous / Next
Filters: Enable sorting with different taxonomy as category or tag
Change columns from 1 to 6, you can change them on different devices.
Manipulate with image sizes to reduce the page loading time.
Change the number of posts that you want to be displayed on a page load, Post Per Page option.
Manipulate with Image Ratio from 0.1 to 2.
Change the order of posts.
Choose to include or exclude certain posts
Enable comments on portfolio posts
Isotope filers can hide and show item elements via filtering
Advanced Query Option – You should always pay close attention to related posts, pages or filter them regularly in order to keep your visitors engaged with your blog. Bearing that in mind the advanced query option we have stored for you is your strongest weapon. They include Related Posts, Date Filter, and Exclude posts.
With this widget you can keep your readers/visitors on your page by sorting posts that might interest them, that’s why it’s so handy to use due to its immense utility.
So is date filtering your posts, where you can showcase best posts monthly, weekly to keep up with the pace of your readers.
You can as well exclude certain posts from your blog/site for different reasons.

Advanced Blog Composition

You can either choose Grid, Masonry, Metro, or Carousel as your layout to display your blog content depending on your taste and refinery.
In all the layouts you can add or remove the sidebar and place it left or right or full width
Individual Page and Posts settings
Choose your outer layer to be Wide or Box depending
Display featured image as full, large, medium thumbnail size
Exceptional Carousel Settings to shuffled and display different content
Impressive, lightweight, responsive Image hover effects and animations
Full control over hover options and like opacity or color
4 types of posts (image, videos, slideshow, audio)
Choose skin of your posts to classic or card types
Select to either show or not metadata, post excerpt, and so on.
Show or hide tag, title, link title, category anywhere on your blog
Choose to archive a post that you don’t want to be shown to your readers
Effortlessly determine the number of items shown per page using the Post per Page option
Easily navigate between any post on your site with post navigation and customize it however you like
Pagination – Add the number of pages or infinite scrolling
Choose to add or ignore sticky posts
Display the archive title based on the queried object.
display author information
Let your users share thoughts and opinions through the Post Comments option
Isotope filers – can hide and show item elements via filtering
The badge is used for showing a category, tags, or custom taxonomies, it is displayed at the top of the posts and it has plenty of options like changing position, color, and size
The Advanced Query Option is available for blog posts as well, where you can include or exclude blog posts based on a certain category or taxonomy

Create Online Stores with Merope

Build beautiful and capable online stores to sell your photographies
The scope of features varies from physical to digital goods. The theme is supported to make it easy for you to not only design your site like a pro but also run our workflow as smoothly as possible. Due to its highly configurable options, you can manage inventory and shipping, take secure payments, and sort taxes automatically.
You can design every element and area on your online store and have your brand style take over
Single Product Template – creating the perfect site for selling and promoting your products. Use the WooCommerce Elements to create wonders as you change and adjust every aspect of your page product – from the homepage layout to the buy button.
Breadcrumbs – Don’t let your customers get lost while searching for their item. It helps them follow their tracks in case they want to go back.
Product title – Probably one of the most important things when introducing a certain product.
Price – Add the price of each product on the back and design it to match your style from the visual editor screen. Also, you can sort products based on the price range.
Product ratings – You can show your product’s feedback directly to the product page.
Product Content – A picture is worth a million words, but I say nothing can beat a picture and a thousand words. That’s why it is better if you add some description and tell why your product is worth the buy.
Short description – Besides the product content, a short description allows you to shortly illustrate the highlights of your product.
Product stock – Show how many items are left or if an item is sold out
Add to cart button – One step further to make a purchase. It helps customers choose different products and decide among them
Additional info – P.S If you have anything to say that’s important and back up your arguments just add it here.
Reviews – Provide reviews from other clients elaborating your products as it helps clients make the final purchase
Product Archive Template – Showcase of all your products.
Filtering among specific categories on an online store on your archive page. You can sort your products by Date, Categories, Price, Popularity, Rating, Tags, or any other taxonomy (e.g. Size, Color, etc.)
Unlimited images, galleries, and products – show off your products in the best way possible by adding photos that capture and highlight your product’s attributes.
Built-in payment processing from leading providers: Take payments via Stripe and PayPal. Accept credit cards, Direct Bank transfers, checks, or Cash on Delivery.
Cart Pages to show you the content on your cart, which you can update and change quantity per each product that you have.
Digital Downloads – If you sell downloadable products or with a variation. Easy integration with digital goods, e-books, music, design, and much more.
Reports – Provides insights on sales, refunds, coupons, your top products, categories over time.
Unlimited variations – With this component you can create a more complicated multi-variation product by adding attributes of a certain good like color, size, fabric, model, and so on with the option to set prices, stock, and images for each variation.
Customer accounts and registration – Give your customer a chance to sign up and create accounts. But those that don’t want to commit to an account, can always choose guest checkout.
Ajax Mini Cart – Addition to the menu cart and the cart itself, this small tool is of great help since it saves your orders and their details within seconds you add them to your cart, also users can take a quick view of their cart orders.
Use the carousel mode to beautifully display your products, or use a category to assemble your products and so many other features from our Design Customization toolkit
Easily include or exclude products to show or not on display based on a precise query setting.

Responsive Design

You can build exceptional WordPress websites that are 100% responsive and will look exceptional on all devices including desktops, tablets, and mobiles.
You can set the breakpoints and rules as to where the design change according to which device the page will be displayed on.
Use the Reverse Columns option when designing for mobile. This will have the multi-columned section be structured beautifully on mobiles.
Preview how your design will look on each device individually
Set the values for each element and setting for all devices separately
Intelligent image generation so that only the best image size is used per layout
Adaptive images so that each image added on your website will be displayed according to the size of the device it’s being displayed on.

Popup Builder

Build beautiful and engaging popups using the Popup Builder, no extra plugins needed
Design and craft popups all on a live interface by simply dragging and dropping elements
Add any element from the Element’s Panel to include on your popup
Flexible layout options for each popup creation
Build any type of popups
Set the triggers that determine when the popup will be display
Assign the condition rules as to what pages will your popup be displayed
Add Advanced Rules to further channelize your popup display
Target specific audience for the popup display
You can create Exit Intent Popups, Newsletter Popups, Related Posts Popup, Promotional Banners, Login Popups, Subscribe Popups, Full-Screen Popups, and more
You can create multiple popups and display them as the user scrolls down the page or also trigger them on user inactivity
Link your popups display with a button click
Display popups after a user submit your forms

Form Builder

Build and create forms to establish solid communication with your users as well as have them submit their information as part of your marketing strategy.
Designing forms in Merope is a delight as it gives you all the tools you need to create robust form submissions
You can select from multiple field types like Text, Tel, Email, Text area, Number, Select, URL, Date & Time, Checkbox, Radio, reCAPTCHA, and more depending on the information you may require.
Connect your form with your favorite marketing platforms like MailChimp to easily track and manage your email submissions
Set an action after submitting either as a thank you page, a custom message, redirect them to a specific page, or display a popup expressing gratitude
You can easily customize layout, spacing, add and customize form fields to receive information you require, style and edit the look of the form from fields, buttons, backgrounds to colors and typography
Fill in your data to receive the form submission and decide on the information you needs
Mark certain fields as required
Now you can make a custom confirmation email to send to or visitors after they submit it.
You can create a custom message to be displayed while users interact with the form. It will be considered a nice touch from your visitors.
Send advanced data using hidden fields that are not visible to the user, mostly used to add tracking to form submissions.
File upload is remarkably flexible and offers a lot of options to tailor your forms exactly how you want them.
Allow multiple files for the user to upload at once.
Add acceptance fields on your forms for users to agree with rules and regulations
Add a security layer to your forms using reCaptcha integration

Theme Style

50+ Elements to build and design anything you wish on your website
Comprehensive theme options panel to optimize any element and component on your website without touching a single line of code
Add your own Custom CSS
Create global elements that will be used on your entire website, change it once, and will be spread evenly throughout
Advanced search form and categorization to easily find any element you need
Make style changes that will be applied throughout the entire site, all without coding
Change the theme settings like site title, logo, description, all from one interface
Create your design system to make a consistent style on your entire site
Set default styles for colors, typography, buttons, and other elements
Full control over the entire layout of your website
Create global color and typography styles

Endless Styling Options

Complete freedom over the theme options to assign select and specify colors across the theme
Select a Light or Dark skin
Enhanced Backgrounds
Add videos as backgrounds
600+ Google Fonts
Advanced color picker with full flexibility
Full design control over every element on your website
Use gradient backgrounds to elevate our designs
Utilize the Shape Dividers to create stunning separation in between sections
Have your preferred elements be sticky on the page like a header, button, social icons, or others
Create background slideshows of sections, columns, or inner sections.
Use CSS Filters and Blend Modes to fine-tune your images with precision
Add your own Custom Fonts to your website

Animations and Motion Effects

Bring your design to life with stunning animation and breathtaking motion effects
Animated Heading Element to create eye-catching headers where you can choose from Animated, Rotating, or Highlighted
Vertical Scroll (Classic Parallax Effect)
Horizontal Scroll
Transparency
Blur
Rotate
Scale
Mouse Track
3D Tilt
Smooth CSS3 Animation
You can animate entire sections, columns, elements, or background images
All Scrolling Effects also work on mobile devices

Header and Footer Builder

Pre-defined headers can be included in the template library with only one click.
Select from pre-designed footer templates included in the Neuron Library to get you started in an instant.
Create attention-seeking headers to add to your headline, it provides a cool transition of text from the viewport down.
Time-saving when it comes to your new custom header and footer elements automatic publication.
Design the layout of your choice by drag and dropping functionality
Logo – Add, customize and position your logo as you like
Nav Menu – Design your navigation menu to your liking.
Search Form -choose the typography color and size of the search box and add it to our page in order to give your visitors the chance to explore your page
Menu Cart – If you run a commerce site this tool is a MUST. It is vital to your page to add the woo-commerce cart icon in your menu to showcase your products to your clients.
Hamburger menu – A navigation element used to switch between the menu or nav bar while being folded behind the icon or output on the screen
Add social media icons to your footer design to promote your social platforms
But that doesn’t mean your options run out here, if you dare to be a little creative you can use every element to your advantage.

Multi-Lingual and RTL Ready

Merope WordPress theme comes translation-ready
Built-In RTL support
You can find the translate files in the main folder of the theme in the languages folder.
Use Polylang to translate your website and create multilingual sites
Full support of all multilingual plugins like WPML, Polylang, Loco Translate, and much more.

Extended Features

Coming Soon and Maintenance Mode
Inherit Option
Unlimited Google Maps Styles
Auto Updates
Social Media support and link
Margin and Padding to add space around and outside the elements
Z-Index – This property allows you to precisely place elements on your page in a stack order of elements
CSS ID – You set CSS ID for your section, a customs selector which can find many uses
CSS Classes – Add your custom CSS class with a specific class attribute
Absolute Position – This will allow you to place your elements more precisely and anywhere you want on the page
Valid HTML5/CSS3
Fancybox Gallery
Multiple Map Markers
Attachment Page
Split Screen Page
Developer Friendly
Coded in PSR2 style

Infographic Elements

When providing information and data, sometimes to make it seem more fun and striking for your audience, you can refer to infographics which are used to provide a visual image of facts you present.
Progress Bar – Using the progress bar feature not only will upgrade your site’s appearance but also is one of the approaches to add valuable information like the skills you possess for example.
Counter – Number counters can be used for different occasions. You can use this element to build trust among your visitors by showing your expertise or your experience, and with Neuron Theme is just as simple as drag and dropping the feature anywhere you like.
Countdown – You can add a countdown when you want to announce something exciting like a new feature, a new product, your future presence on the web, or anything you are excited about and want to share with your users.

Social Media

Blockquotes – Use blockquotes when you want to emphasize a certain text or quotation or when you just want to offset a portion of text from the main body and gain total freedom to style and design them
Share Buttons – Merope includes flexible share buttons that are available to style and design them to the full extend
Social Icon Element – Add your social platforms to help you boost your page’s influx and help send conversion rate to the sky
Facebook Embed – You can easily embed Facebook posts, comments, or videos on your WordPress website.
Facebook Page – Establish your Facebook page feed from which you can choose a timeline, event, or a message display within your website
Facebook Button – Add a like Facebook button to your posts to stimulate your users to like content off of your Facebook page.

General Features

Add testimonials for presenting kudos from customers and clients to display on your site in order to gain trust among your visitors. Style and design as per your desire.
Exhibit multiple reviews and feedback from your customers with slides to make it more appealing for your audience.
Integration with Custom Fields with which you can easily add any kind of information you feel is valuable to your content.
Seamlessly integrate with your Adobe account and it instantly supplies you with your Typekit fonts.
Add pricing tables to present and inform what your pricing package contains.
Add price lists to showcase your products, items along with the title, description, price a featured image, and many other components.