Austin - Multi-Purpose Design Agency WP Theme

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Austin is a multi-purpose WordPress themeCarefully hand-made to meet the needs of design agencies, artists, photographers, businesses and many other types of small businesses. It is the result of our detailed research on the needs and designs of countless actual creative agency websites, corporate websites, product display websites, community websites, etc.

Theme pages are popularSiteOrigin Page Builder.Austin supports more than 40 custom page builder elements/widgets, these elements/widgets can be easily inserted and configured in the page builder, including our popularSiteOrigin widget plugin.

Austin FeaturesMultiple amazing portfolio pages-one of the best pages in ThemeForest, More than 50 well-documented short codes with tons of optionsEasily create any type of content imaginable anywhere on the website- Shortcodes for video introductions (YouTube or HTML5), sliders, codes, services, video backgrounds with text overlays, animation statistics, pricing, recommendations, contact forms, galleries, team members, etc.In short, it has everything needed to build a beautiful portfolio/institution or company website.The nature of this multifunctional theme is suitable for the creation of several other categories of websites-medical and health, education/school, personal portfolio, restaurant/hotel, product or mobile application display, travel, photography, law firm, beauty salon, etc. Small businesses and so on.

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Functional Overview:

Unique design with cutting-edge functions

60+ shortcodes with advanced shortcode generator

Portfolio and gallery support

Ease of use/configuration page section

Single page/Multi page

Intuitive management panel with more than 200 options

Easy to customize

Modular framework

1500+ Retina icons and 500+ Google fonts

Boxed/wide layout

Excellent support

Extensive documentation

Functional Overview:

Advanced Shortcode Generator
Fully responsive
Options for single-page or multi-page sites
6 custom post types
Simple parallax background with customizable scroll speed
Unlimited color schemes
1500+ Retina Ready Icons
Lots of choices
WooCommerce integration
Includes Premium Revolution Slider, Flex 2 Slider and Nivo Slider (all sliders are fully responsive)
Awesome responsive smartphone slider
Support gallery
AJAX-enabled portfolio
Infinite sidebar
WPML compatible
Translation ready
SEO optimization
Més de 500 tipus de lletra
Including children's themes
70+ shortcodes with visual shortcode assistant tools
Modern mobile menu
Flickr gadgets

Change log

Version 5.2

Fixed - The widgets page was broken
Fixed - Deprecated warnings on PHP 8
Added - Compatibility with WordPress 5.8 and PHP 8
Updated - Livemesh Austin Shortcodes Plugin
Updated - Livemesh Theme Addons plugin 
Updated - Sample data
Updated - Revolution Slider

Version 5.1

Fixed - The team widget social icons missing.
Updated - Minor fixes to the new backend framework. 
Updated - Livemesh Theme Addons plugin 
Updated - Sample data

Version 5.0

Updated - Complete rewrite of the theme with new backend framework. Incorporates template based design for easy customization of the theme. Kindly test the upgrade in a dev environment prior to upgrading if you have done major customization to the earlier versions. More details on migration to v5.01 version provided in the documentation.
Updated - The new lightweight yet feature rich framework provides upto 50% performance improvement.
Updated - Moved shortcodes to new plugin named 'Livemesh Austin Shortcodes' to conform to new standards prescribed by the Envato Theme Review team for existing items.
Updated - Moved widgets, custom post types and their metaboxes, options framework to a plugin named 'Livemesh Themes Addons' to conform to the new coding standards prescribed by the Envato Theme Review Team.
Updated - Moved from PrettyPhoto lightbox plugin to Magnific Popup lightbox framework is much faster and responsive.
Updated - The font icons with modern icons and also to remove surplus icons. The font icon files are about 80% smaller to help reduce the load on the site.
Added - Large number of templates for quick customization of the theme.
Added - The filters for the portfolio and gallery displays active item.
Removed - The WP hooks that were present in the earlier versions. They were hardly used and obsolete.
Removed - The Nivo Slider and Flex Slider options for the top slider. Please go through documentation which talks about migrating to new version to know more.
Updated - Revolution Slider
Updated - Documentation

Version 2.6

Fixed - Color picker not found field in theme options.
Updated - Revolution Slider .

Version 2.5

Fixed - The website won't scroll in Chrome browser if smooth scroll was enabled in theme options
Fixed - Error in ticker slider widget
Updated - Revolution Slider

Version 2.4

Updated - Revolution Slider
Fixed - Warnings raised with PHP 7.x versions
Updated - OptionTree framework to handle PHP 7.x versions
Updated - Isotope version and improved compatibility with plugins
Fixed - Instagram and email icon not showing on team profiles
Added - Improved compatibility with plugins like Events Calendar that use easing functions
Updated - Sample data
Updated - Documentation

Version 2.3

Fixed - Title tags as per the latest codex recommendation. Use one of the popular SEO plugins if you need to customize page or post titles. 
Fixed - Pricing table not responsive for 2 column and 6 column layouts
Fixed - The alt tags not taking effect when explicitly specified in media library
Fixed - Legacy page sections order not preserved in composite pages
Added - A separate class for SO page builder integration
Updated - Documentation to reflect changed support forum URL. 
Updated - Revolution Slider Plugin

Version 2.2

Fixed - Removed skin.php to address PCI security compliance - moved to inline CSS.
Fixed - The theme would raise error on command line interfaces like WP-CLI. 
Updated - Austin child theme.
Updated - The plugin activation prompt less intrusive. 
Updated - Revolution Slider

Version 2.1

Updated - SiteOrigin page builder elements/widgets
Updated - Revolution slider

Version 2.0

Added - Integration with SiteOrigin page builder. 
Added - 25+ custom page builder elements for easy drag/drop/configure page building using SiteOrigin builder.
Added - Updated sample data with demo pages built using 25+ custom page builder widgets. 
Added - Support for 16+ additional premium page builder elements through our popular plugin for SiteOrigin page builder. 
Removed - Thumbnail generation by Aqua resizer and some redundant image sizes.

Version 1.8

Updated - Revolution slider plugin
Fixed - WooCommerce pagination
Fixed - Isotope error in certain installations
Fixed - Deprecated widget constructor
Fixed - YouTube player background does not autoplay

Version 1.7

Fixed - XSS vulnerability in prettyPhoto plugin. 
Updated - Revolution Slider plugin.

Version 1.6

+Updated - Changes to video elements to use the new YouTube API.
+Tweak - Check for empty sidebar id when registering sidebar.

Version 1.5

+ Fixed - Updated Option Tree and TGM plugin activation framework to address security issue. 
+ Tweak - Revolution Slider update
+ Fixed - The pricing archive prevented the user from creating a page with pricing permalink. 
+ Added - Ability to retain original images for single post page to help address HTTPS issue
+ Added - Some WooCommerce styling changes to address latest version of WC.

Version 1.4

+ Tweak - Modified page section admin script to make it compatible with WordPress 4.1
+ Fixed - A few column shortcodes not inserting the right shortcode from premium shortcode builder
+ Added - Updated revolution slider to 4.6.5
and other minor fixes/enhancements.

Version 1.3

+ Fixed - Updated JQuery Smooth Scroll script to fix the bug where certain external links in the menu would not respond to user click. 
+ Fixed - Updated the YTP plugin to fix a bug where the YouTube video cannot be seen even though the audio is audible. 
+ Fixed - Issue with certain video shortcode attributes not taking effect. 
+ Tweak - The portfolio navigation in single portfolio entries now take default portfolio page into account. 
+ Fixed - The sitemap page not displaying some of the portfolio entries.
+ Tweak - Updated Revolution Slider

Version 1.2

+New! - Completely new shortcode builder with rich interactive UI for entering shortcode details for each of the 50+ shortcodes. 
+Fixed - Thumbnail generation not generating images of right sizes in certain situations. 
+Tweak - URL rewrites of pricing and testimonials
+Fixed - The mobile menu parent menu items not clickable in mobile devices