TheGem Creative Multi Purpose

Why TheGem?

Take a look at our demos and you will quickly see 45 different reasons. Its design is impressive, the features and options are creative and well-balanced. There is nothing unnecessary and odd here – each and every design, style, layout and feature has been well thought out, based on years of experience building multi-purpose WordPress themes. This culminates in a massive toolbox of a theme that gives you maximum creative freedom and simplicity in usage, that’s our promise.

Ultimate Creative Power

The main intention for TheGem was to create a WordPress Theme for business, agencies, online shops, photographers, bloggers and designers that would give a maximum creative freedom for users not deeply involved in design & coding. The result is impressive: with more than 200 styles for more than 50 content elements you can create absolutely unique designs in minutes. It’s a wordpress onestop tool shop, and truly easy to use.

TheGem Creative Multi Purpose

Future-Proof Design & Features

TheGem’s design is based on thorough analysis of 2016 Web Designs by UX Pin. This theme reflects modern trends of UI / UX design in the unique way, free of annoying mainstream approaches. TheGem is a fresh design experience, aimed to fulfill both understated and crazy ideas in a minimalistic, or excessive way – ultimately the choice is yours.

TheGem has over 40 complete design concepts, each and every one featuring its own style and character. These are not simple reskins; each demo has been thoroughly researched and features carefully considered design concepts, with a myriad of business types covered.

TheGem has been developed for high-performance and fully optimized for modern devices, including laptops, desktops, smartphones and tablets, as well as mastering SEO best practise. That’s why when buying TheGem you can be sure that you get the long- term winning website.

Secure, No Bloat, Focussed Usefulness

TheGem focuses only on addons & features which are needed for creating a diverse, unique website. Reducing the plugins dependency & optimising the code, we have achieved a much more stable and secure theme than many other multi-purpose themes on the market today. You can rest assured that with TheGem your new website is secure, future-proof, speedy and yet still packed with intuitive, awesome features without the bloat.

Broad Plugin Compatibility

By focussing on what users need and expect with a multi-purpose theme, TheGem has been optimized for compatibility with the most popular plugins from the WordPress plugin directory. This provides peace of mind to the end user that compatibility with industry bestpractise has already been achieved for you, no messy conflicts we promise.

Quick Facts

• Built in collaboration with star designers from behance.net
• Covers major UX / UI design trends of 2017
• Strong focus on usability & user-experience
• Perfect for corporate, agency, online shop, business, portfolio, blog, photography, landing page, app, onepage, fullscreen vertical scrolling, real estate, architecture, interior, construction
• Fully responsive, mobile & retina ready
• Can be used as multipage & onepage website
• Includes fullscreen vertical scrolling
• Multiple header & widgetised footer layouts
• Unlimited sidebars with 20+ custom widgets
• Fancy page headings with amazing backgrounds incl.
• Parallax & video backgrounds
• Built-in mega menu in 2 beautiful styles
• Enhanced isotope grids
• Infinite scrolling & load more pagination
• Smooth scroll
• Elegant animations
• 2500+ font icons (material design pack, elegant icons, fontawesome)

Easy To Use

• No coding knowledge required
• Updatable Visual Composer (No additional license needed, you save $34)
• Very easy page building per drag’n’drop
• 150+ pre-built pages for quick start
• Flexible easy-to-use page options
• Enhanced intuitive portfolio & gallery management
• Very detailed online documentation
• Create stunning website without touching a line of code

Customizations

• Fully Customizable
• Powerful theme options
• Unlimited colors for design & content elements
• Google fonts & your own webfonts with font manager
• 250+ combinable style settings for shortcodes
• Customize content styles easily in Visual Composer, no coding needed
• Responsive visibility options

Optimizations

• High performance, super fast with top pagespeed & yslow ratings
• SEO / Search Engines Optimized, compatible with SEO plugins
• WooCommerce full design integration for online shops
• WPML optimized for translations & multilingual websites
• Optimized for Contact Form 7
• RTL ready
• Child Theme Ready
• Gutenberg & WordPress 5.0 ready
• Compatible with 20 top popular wordpress plugins
• Full cross-browser compatibility
• One click demo import
• Social networks, social sharing

Additional Values

• Visual Composer ($64)
• Revolution Slider ($26)
• LayerSlider ($25)
• Free updates
• Experienced elite support in english, german & russian
• More infos on bundled plugins

UPDATE LOG:

"** Version 4.4.2 - July 1st, 2020 
NEW
- Ken Burns effect added for rows 
Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming effect used in video production from still imagery. Like parallax, this effect adds dynamics to large background areas. TheGem includes zoom-in and zoom-out Ken Burns effects with transition speed settings.
Demo 1: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/lookbook-vertical-slider/
Demo 2: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/music-festival/

UPDATE 
- Update in fullpage vertical scroller for Ken Burns support 
- Update in fullpage parallax sliding effect 
- Update in GDPR compatibility for WPML translations 
- Update in WPML documentation 
- Instagram Gallery element deprecated

FIX
- Fix in SmoothScroll script for browsing websites via iFrame in incognito mode 
- Fix in Blog Extended Grid post linking

"** Version 4.4.1 - June 3rd, 2020 
NEW 
- New TheGem blocks added in following categories (both in multicolor and dark mode): Contact Forms, Counters, Footers, News & Blog, Galleries, Grids, Pricing Tables, Testimonials
- New parallax scrolling effect added to fullscreen vertical slider. Demo: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/app-landing/ 

FIX 
- Fix for target "_blank" setting in portfolio page options

"** Version 4.4.0 - May 14th, 2020 
NEW 
TheGem Blocks extended:
- "Dark Mode" added. All blocks are now available both in multicolor & dark color modes to maximize the trendy look of your website, create dark mode page versions and provide more A/B test options.
- New category “eCommerce” with rich selection of WooCommerce blocks added
- New category “Custom Titles” with collection of pre-made page titles added
- New blocks added in categories: Call to Action, Hero, Contact Forms, Newsletter Subscriptions, News

UPDATE
- WooCommerce templates
- TheGem Blocks: removing blocks from favorites improved

FIX
- TheGem Blocks: fatal error because of lack of mbstring fixed
- Fix for portfolios in fullpage vertical scroller
- Fix for diagrams in fullpage vertical scroller

"** Version 4.3.0 - April 21st, 2020 
MEET THEGEM BLOCKS
An ultimate tool for building webpages in a speed of light!

- huge collection of pre-designed page sections 
- section templates for hero, contact, about, portfolio, blog, pricing tables, counters and many more other page sections
- create any page with unique layout in minutes
- all blocks can be easily combined on one page 
- speed up your workflow: (1) insert -> (2) combine -> (3) customize -> (4) re-use
- all blocks optimized for best performance scores and responsive
- eye-catching free media content included
- regular updates and new blocks
- check more features at https://codex-themes.com/thegem/blocks-landing/

"** Version 4.2.1 - March 23rd, 2020 
* Updates for WooCommerce 4.x 
* Additional overlay settings for fullwidth container and background element in custom titles 
* Fix for using anchors in custom URLs (URLs with additional symbols)
* Additional fixes for generating custom css filename on some hosts

"** Version 4.2.0 - January 28th, 2020 
NEW: 
* Advanced Fullpage Scroller
New advanced type of vertical scroller added with following features: 
- Better smoother scrolling experience  
- Better UX for touch and mobile devices
- 5 new styles for navigation dots
- Tooltips in various styles
- Fixed backgrounds for parallax experience
- Continuous endless scrolling
- Normal scrolling mode for mobile devices
- Animation effects on scroll 
- Two new animated vertical fullscreen demos added: https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/product-landing/ , https://codex-themes.com/thegem/sites/app-landing/ 

* Custom CSS field in ROW Element in Page Builder for fine-tuned css customizations on the row level 

UPDATE: 
* Re-organisation of some page options for better UX 
* Update of shop templates for the latest WooCommerce version 
 

"** Version 4.1.2 - December 18th, 2019 
UPDATE: 
- Parallax effects: complete rewritten code optimized for smooth scrolling and better performance
- Counters and countdowns: optimized code for better animation
FIX: 
- Elements alignment in two layouts of responsive menu
- Enhancement in video player controls 
- Fix for animation in perspective menu while scrolling
- Fix for search button animation in overlay menu 

"** Version 4.1.1.1 - December 3rd, 2019 
- Update in hamburger menu for tablets 
- Fix for 3rd level menu in classic horizontal layout
- Fix for clicks in responsive menu "slide from left" 
- Update in logo position in responsive by activated hidden cart option 

"** Version 4.1.1 - November 25th, 2019 
NEW FEATURES & UPDATES:
- New WooCommerce cart widget for mobiles
- Sticky menu / header crossfade animation improvements
- Layout improvements in mobile menus
- Animation improvements in hamburger & vertical menu styles 
- Search animation for overlay menu style
- New designs & pre-built websites
- WooCommerce compatibility updates
- Pagespeed optimizations for youtube & vimeo videos on page
- RTL updates: styled lists, widgets archive & tweets
- Page options: re-grouping of header & footer settings
- Demo importer: loading speed improvements for main demo content
- Scroll-to-top improvements 
- Icon loading improvements 
- Multi-lingual updates for GDPR module
- Alt-attributes for images in textbox 

"** Version 4.0.2 - November 11th, 2019 
- Updates in WooCommerce templates

"** Version 4.0.1 - August 16th, 2019 
- Minor WooCommerce fixes

"** Version 4.0.0 - August 8th, 2019 

- BIG UPDATE RELEASE: 

- 100+ complete pre-built websites
- Brand new one-click demo import
- New advanced blog grids & layouts
- New designs: 20+ new design concepts
- GDPR built-in management 
- Custom titles builder 
- More page speed optimizations 
- Compatibility with Revolution Slider v. 6.x
- Updates in WooCommerce 
- Improved WPML compatibility
- WordPress 5.0 (Gutenberg) improved options and compatibility
- PHP 7.3 compatibility

"** Version 3.8.3.1 - May 23rd, 2019 
- Update for LayerSlider update procedure

"** Version 3.8.3 - April 19th, 2019 
- Update of WooCommerce templates

"** Version 3.8.2.1 - March 20th, 2019
- Update in WooCommerce templates 

"** Version 3.8.2 - March 5th, 2019
- Minor fixes

"** Version 3.8.1 - February 22nd, 2019
- Update of WooCommerce templates for compatibility with the latest version 
- Minor fixes

"** Version 3.8.0 - February 5th, 2019
- Image loading optimization options in "Theme Options" 
- Update of WooCommerce templates for compatibility with the latest version 
- Minor fixes

"** Version 3.7.0 - December 11th, 2018
Version 3.7.0
- Updates and additional stylings for: 
* Blogs
* Portfolio 
* Teams
* Testimonials
* Quotes
* Contact Forms
* Newseltter Forms
* Tabs & Accordions
* Top Area & Footer
* Preloaders
* Diagrams 
- Additional settings for responsive fonts 
- Option for adding custom social icons 
- Settings for social icons in teams
- Updates for the latest WooCommerce version