Loqui

Loqui theme is a personal promotion and event theme. It’s a great pick for professionals who attend on various events.

Theme installation

The theme can be installed through the WordPress Admin panel.

Log in to the WordPress admin panel.
Go to Appearance -> Themes.
Click on the Add New button, at the top of the screen.
In the Add Themes screen, click on Upload Theme.
Click on Choose theme, and then browse for theme file on your computer.
Click on Install Now to start the installation.
After the installation is done, click on Activate theme.

A detailed video of theme installation is available here.

Note: If you get the error message “The package could not be installed. The theme is missing the style.css stylesheet.” please unpack the zip file that you have downloaded, and inside the unpacked zip file you will find two more files – a parent and child theme. Install parent theme first, and then child theme. Activate the child theme when the installation is done.

After activating the theme, you will be prompted to install the required plugins. Required plugins are:

Jetpack
Gutenberg
Themes Kingdom Fonts

Jetpack plugin setup

Jetpack plugin is a required plugin. After installing the plugin, you will need to connect it with your site. When you click the Set up Jetpack button, you will need to log in to your WordPress.com account, or you’ll have to create a free Jetpack account. The official article that explains how to set up the Jetpack plugin is available here.

Theme features – explained

Besides of standard patterns, Loqui theme is coming with theme-specific patterns.

Styled Text
Contact Patterns
About & Team Patterns
Gallery Patterns
Header Templates
Call to action

Styled Text

Styled text patterns are block combinations that allow you to insert outstanding text boxes. They are coming in handy when you need to present some outstanding information or to draw the reader’s attention. There are 9 text patterns, and you can customize text and background color for each of them.

Intro with two columns – Heading with text in two columns.

Two rows with headings – Text in two rows with inline headings on the left.

Heading and text in two columns – Side by side heading with short text on the right.

Large heading text with short paragraph – Large heading text with short paragraphs in two columns.

Heading with two text columns – Heading with text in two columns.

Heading with three columns – Large heading with text in three columns.

Heading and paragraph in two columns – Longer heading and paragraph inline in two columns.

Heading with three columns and buttons – Large heading with three columns and buttons.

Heading and paragraph in two columns – Small title and paragraphs in two columns

Contact Patterns

Contact patterns are coming in handy when you need to deploy a contact page with a click. Several layouts allow you to display contact details either on social networks or to provide a mailing address or both.

Email link with social icons – Large text with email link and social icons.

Contact text with email – Short text with email link.

Email with social links menu 1 – Large title with email and social links menu.

Email with social links menu 2 – Large title with email and social links menu in two columns.

Contact details with address – Contact details with social links menu and postal address.

About & Team Patterns

For presenting team members or creating a showcase about your brand, or people behind it, you can use about and team patterns. They are designed and developed to present information in an eye-catching way and can be customized to match your site design.

Full screen section in two columns with single image and text.

Boxed pattern with image and text – Boxed pattern section in two columns with single image and text.

Full screen section with single columns – Full screen pattern in single column with image and text.

Full screen section with large image – Full screen pattern with full-width image and text.

About section in two columns – Two columns with text and images.

Team pattern 1 – Two columns with text on the left and four images on the right.

Team pattern 2 – Pattern with large text with three images.

Shuffled team pattern – Shuffled images with text pattern.

Gallery Patterns

Gallery patterns are used for manually creating gallery pages. Those patterns are not dependant on Portfolio post type or any other. Just insert your images and you are good to display your work in an outstanding way.

Four columns gallery – Gallery pattern with large title and four columns.

Four + three columns gallery – Gallery pattern with four and three columns.

Mosaic gallery – Gallery with mosaic images and large title

Two column gallery – Gallery in two asymetric columns.

Shuffle gallery – Shuffled gallery in two columns.

Two column gallery with text – Gallery in two columns with text in the middle

Header Templates

Header templates are used to create a great intro and cover for posts. They are built from a combination of image and text.

Header pattern 1 – Header template with background image, two columns, and button.

Header pattern 2 – Full screen heading with button.

Header pattern 3 – Two columns template with image on the left and text and button on the right.

Header pattern 4 – Heading with button sorted in two columns.

Call to action

Call to action patterns prompt an immediate response or encourage immediate action.

Call to action pattern 2 – Full screen CTA pattern in two columns with button on the right.

Call to action pattern 3 – Boxed CTA in two columns with button on the right.

Call to action pattern 4 – Stripe CTA with heading and button.

Call to action pattern 5 – CTA with background image, heading, and button.

How we built our demo

Loqui demo is built as wedding invitation website.

First, we have created the following pages:

Home
Journal
Events
Bio
Contact

Home page

The homepage is built using several sections. The first section is using About Pattern 1.
The second section – “Areas of expertise” is built using a three-column layout, where we have placed text. On the last column from the left, we have inserted text with the background color.
For the “Events” section pick Two rows with headings pattern – in the left column insert the title “Events”, while on the right are displayed events.
“Journal” section is built using the Latest posts Gutenberg block. For the last section, we added a button with a link and links to social profiles.

Journal

The Journal page is the page where all posts are displayed. There are no elements on this page. This page is using a template Index.

Events

The Events page is built to display upcoming events. It’s not depending on any custom post type. To build the Events page, we have inserted two columns – in the left column we have inserted the title, and on the right is displayed year range.
The following section is using a Text pattern of Two rows with headings.
In the last section, we have inserted two columns with text – text in the left section is set to a larger size.

Bio

On the Bio page, the first section is using two columns layout with text. The next section is a standard H2 text. After that section, using a three-column layout, we have inserted the image on the first left column, and the text in the middle and the right column. Publications are once more using Text pattern Two rows with headings, but with additional image on the right.
Finally, on the bottom is a large button which is linking to the contact page and links to social profiles.

Contact

Contact page is using H2 heading text and a two-column section with an email address and links to social profiles.

Once when you are done, there are two things left to be done.

Go to Appearance -> Menus and create a new menu. Add all pages to it, and mark menu as Primary.
In Settings -> Reading set theme to use static page. For homepage set Home page, and for posts landing page set Journal page.

Working with theme templates

With the new WordPress feature – Full Site Editing – tech savvy users can easily tweak theme templates using Gutenberg editor, instead of messing with the theme code.

In Loqui theme, only header and footer templates can be tweaked. To start working with theme parts, in WordPress admin panel go to Appearance -> Template Parts. Click on the part that you wish to customize.

Here are example videos on how to perform simple changes in templates.

Useful CSS classes

Loqui theme is coming with pre-defined CSS classees. Those classes can be used for specific things, like display element only on mobile devices, or to reduce white space and such.

Here is a list of those classes:

l-desktop-only: element will show only on desktop devices.
l-touch-only: element will appear only on devices with touch scree – mobile phones and tablets.
l-above-mobile-only: element will appear on all devices with screen bigger than mobile screen.
l-mobile-only: element will appear on mobile devices only.
l-center-margin-auto: element will be centered.
l-no-margin-top: removes top margin. Comes handy if you wish to reduce whitespace between elements.
l-no-margin-bottom: removes bottom margin.
background-color–transparent: removes background color from element.
padding–horizontal-default: adds left and right padding to the element. Adds 50px for dekstop devices, and 30px for mobile devices.

These classes are used on blocks that are placed on the page. To use classes:

Click on the desired element.
Expand Advanced panel.
Copy and paste name of the class.

If you need to use multiple classes, separate them with space.

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