Hopes - Church & Multi-Purpose WordPress Theme

Hopes is a powerful and responsive Multipurpose WordPress Theme with pretty much advanced features for church themes. It has all the features what you need for a churches and religious related theme with amazing functionality

Hopes theme has the most wanted features plugins like Revolution Slider and WPBakery Page Builder. Theme is non dependant on WPBakery Page Builder. If you wish you can disable the WPBakery Page Builder as the same shortcodes still comes with the theme using our custom shortcodes generator.

Testimonials Post types for displaying testimonials in separate page and carousel and lists style. This theme has an extensive documentation with easy to setup that you can setup your theme in no time. The main content block is placed before the sidebar regardless of the sidebar position, so it is crawled first by search engines, so it’s SEO Optimized. Hopes Theme has tons of features see detailed list below

Sliders

Flex Slider
Static Image
Slider Revolution
Custom Slider – for Third Party Sliders
Video Slider – single video display
Video Slider Supports Shortcodes. Supports YouTube and Vimeo too.

Features

5 Header Styles
Unlimited Sidebars for any page
Latest Fontawesome Icons
Left Sidebar option
Right Sidebar option
Full width page option
Full width section shortcode with parallax background option
Assign Slider on any page.
Disable breadcrumb for any page you wish
Use Left/Sidebar for any page you wish
Add subheader background color for any page
3 Subheader Alignments Left, Right and Center.
500+ Google Web Fonts
Sticky Bar on top
Business Hours Plugin worth $12
Custom Background Image for pages
Custom Background Image for posts
Custom Subheader Image for pages and posts
Custom Subheader Teasertext for pages and posts
Custom Subheader Height for pages.
Testimonials List Shortcode
Widgetized Footer
Unlimited Sidebars. Create and select any sidebar for each page.
Unlimited Color Skinning Options
Multi Threaded Comments
9 Post Formats (Standard, Aside, Audio, Link, Image, Gallery, Quote, Status, Video)
Built in Shortcodes Generator.
Advanced Options Panel (Import or Export for options settings.)
Blog Page Template

Shortcodes

Accordion
Alert Boxes
- Info
- Alert
- Success
- Light Gray
- Dark
- Custom
Appointment CallOut
Block Quotes
Blog Carousel
Boxes
- Fancy Box
- Framed Box
Button
- Flat
- Border
CallOut Box
Column Layouts
Contact Info
Dividers
- Clear Both
- Dividers
- Demo Space
- Custom Divider
Drop cap
- Drop cap 1
- Drop cap 2
- Drop cap 3
Fancy Ampersand
Fancy Heading
- h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,large,xlarge
Flickr Photos
Google Font
Google Map
Highlight
Highlight 2
Icon Styles
Image
List Styles
CountDown
Milestone
Progress Bar
Progress Circle
Section Fullwidth
Services
Share Link
Staff Box
Testimonials
- List
- Fade
- Carousel
Twitter Tweets
Vimeo
Youtube

Custom Backgrounds

Body
Pages
Header
Sub header
Featured Slider Area
Footer

Other Features

Google Map shortcode
Google Map With Custom Color Stylers Integrated
Extensive Documentation
Child Theme Compatible
Localization ready
WPMU Compatible
WordPress 4.0+ Tested
Text Widget Support Shortcodes.
80+ Custom Shortcodes
This theme skinning options empowers you to change any elements such as backgrounds, texts, links, menu, typography, etc.

10 Custom Widgets

Hopes – Contact Info
Hopes – Popular Posts
Hopes – Flickr Photos
Hopes – Post Gallery
Hopes – Recent Posts
Hopes – Sociables
Hopes – Testimonials Submission

CT Archives
CT Categories
CT Locations
CT People
CT Sermons
Breadcrumb NavXT
Revolution Slider

Hopes – Popular Posts Widget – Display the most popular posts based on comments with title and date with no of comments or title and post excerpt. Also provides you an option to display post thumbnail or no image. Limit the number of posts to display. Limit the characters to display if title and content is chosen
Hopes – Recent Posts Widget – Display the most recent posts with title and date with no of comments or title and post excerpt. Also provides you an option to display post thumbnail or no image. Limit the number of posts to display. Limit the characters to display if title and content is chosen
Hopes – Sociables * – Displays a sociables saved in theme options panel.
Hopes – Testimonials Submission* – Submissions for testimonials which will be posted by visitors and you can publish it or approve it if you would like to display in on the site.
Hopes – Twitter – Display the recent tweets with limiting the tweets and displays the tweets posted status

Custom Post Types

Gallery
Sermons
People
Locations
Slider

Color Customization

Over 500+ Google fonts offered with theme
Unlimited combinations of colors editing for many elements
Background Images – You can also upload background images on per section bases instead of solid background color for subheader, body background etc.
If you want to change only less places select only theme color from options panel and for menu define your own style.

Footer

Theme currently has 10 Footer Column Layout Styles where you can place the custom widgets or default widgets

Theme Localization

This theme is Internationalization and localization built into its structure to easily used for different languages. Few texts in the theme have an option to change texts in theme options panel.

Updates Change log

v5.0 - 2023-10-22
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Updated: Moved ribbons array to Hopes Core plugin
Updated: Moved Sociables array to Hopes Core plugin
Updated: Animation array to Hopes Core plugin
Updated: Custom Post Types from Theme and moved to Hopes Core Plugin
Updated: Custom Post Types Meta from Theme and moved to Hopes Core Plugin
Updated: Theme Constants already defined issue from child theme
Updated: Moved the contact info widget to Hopes Core plugin
Updated: Moved the sociable widget to Hopes Core plugin
Removed: Twitter widget and twitter related functions from subheader
Updated: Moved the recent post widget to Hopes Core plugin
Updated: Moved the testimonials widget to Hopes Core plugin
Updated: Moved the gallery widget to Hopes Core plugin
Updated: Moved custom post types slider, testimonial and gallery
Updated: Escaping data by stripping out unwanted data
Added: Missing wp_body_openfunctionn from WordPress
Updated: Subheader alignments issue not working in new WP Versions
Updated: jQuery deprecated .change function
Updated: jQuery deprecated .load function
Updated: jQuery deprecated .click function
Updated: jQuery deprecated .hover function
Updated: Moved add_shortcodes to Hopes Core Plugin as shortcodes are plugin teritory
Fixed: Dark.css theme options tyles was not working
Removed: non sanitized code for the theme
Updated: changed the use of $_SERVER to use admin_url
Updated: removed get_contents and used WP_Filesystems
Fixed: Add Sub Menu Page was called directly function error
Fixed: removed base64_encode from theme options exporting
Fixed: removed base64_decode from theme options importing
Removed: Twitter tweets from subheader section
Removed: Business Hours Pro Plugin as it is discontinued
Updated: Revolution Slider to latest version 6.6.17
Updated: WP Bakery Page Builder to the latest version 7.0
Added: Hopes Core Plugin
Removed: The Event Calendar Pro support.

v4.6 - 2019-04-03
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### Fixed
- PHP 7 version errors in admin-interface.php
- Flex slider responsive issues
- Fixed translators comment in comments.php
- Fixed minor responsive issues in Tablet
- Fixed issues with mobile responsive

### Changed
- updated create_function deprecated function
- Changed text domain hopes-textdomain to hopes
- Updated Business Hours Pro plugin to v5.5.0
- Updated Revolution Slider to v5.4.8.3
- Updates WP Bakery Page Builder to v5.7
- Changed the tribe notices function to the latest version

### Removed
- remove_filters override for the core WordPress
- woocommerce dependencies files

Modified Child Theme funtions.php file

v4.5.1 - 2018-02-05
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### Changed
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.6.4
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.4.5
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v5.2

v4.5.0 - 2018-01-19
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### Changed
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.6
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.3
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.3.1

### Fixed
- vc_pattern issue fixed its due to deprecated function.
- Testimonial Shortcode not showing names.

v4.4.0 - 2017-10-08
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### Changed
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.6
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.3
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.3.1

### Fixed
- Categories not displaying in Sermons shortcode.
- Categories not displaying in People shortcode.
- Categories not displaying in Sermons Books shortcode.
- Categories not displaying in Sermons series shortcode.
- Categories not displaying in Sermons topics shortcode.
- Categories not displaying in Sermons speakers shortcode.
- Demo install doesn't set frontpage by default.

v4.3.0 - 2017-08-18
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### Added
- Smooth Transition for the links.

### Changed
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.2
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.5.1
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.3.1
- Fontawesome icons to v4.7.0

### Removed
- Edit post link option from page.php.
- Multiple box-sizing properties.

### Fixed
- Tribe Events pagination in responsive.
- Post Pagination issues in the responsive.
- header style 3 responsive nav icon.
- Responsive issues with the inner content area.
- Font awesome shortcodes for staff socials.
- WooCommerce shop page responsive.
- On sale shop icon on the WooCommerce shop page.

v4.2.0 - 2017-06-19
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### Changed
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.4.5.1
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.1.1
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.3.1
- WooCommerce content product page template.
- WooCommerce content single product page template.

### Removed
- Support for IE6,7,8,9 Browsers.
- Unwanted font awesome css files.

v4.1.0 - 2017-03-30
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### Changed
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v4.1.0
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.1
- Revolution Slider Plugin to v5.1.0

### Fixed
- Blog page issue with the single page title.
- The wp-admin bar overlapping issue for Fixed Header.

v4.0.0 - 2017-02-03
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### Added
- Fontawesome Icons for the theme options menu bar.
- New One-Click Demo Installer.

### Changed
- Backend UI for page meta options.
- Sociables theme options jquery.
- Default sidebar from the right sidebar to left sidebar.
- Topbar font size increased to 13px.
- Footer default background color.
- Copyright default background color.
- Screenshot.png.
- Hopes-textdomain.pot file.
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.3.1.5
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v3.6.3
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v5.0.1
- TGM Class Activation Plugin.
- New dashicons for the WordPress backend post types.
- New User Interface for the theme options panel.

### Removed
- Old images for the columns and sidebars.
- Chosen jquery conflict with woocommerce.
- Old One Click Demo Content.
- Chosen jquery css conflict with other plugins.
- Unwanted old sociables images icons.
- Unwanted old sociables css.

### Fixed
- Breadcrumb Navigation alignment issue.
- Footer custom menu widget css conflict with sidebar custom menu.

:warning: *Existing buyers kindly please take backup before making an update.*

v3.4.0 - 2016-09-27
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### Added
- Copyright text link color by default.
- Prefix for the jquery UI datepicker.
- 200+ New Google Fonts.
- Conditional code for the copyright area bottom. Hides if no content.

### Changed
- Single page template version number.
- WooCommerce to the latest version.
- Version number in style.css
- Menu font size increased by default.
- Subheader fontsize increased and weight reduced to 700.
- Display comments without default condition for post single page.
- Version numbers in the tgm class activation file.
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.12.1
- Default slider image.
- Default slider image.
- Datepicker with a new prefix to avoid conflict with breadcrumb-navxt.
- Flex title with fonts from core heading family.
- Sermons widget titles font size increased.
- Font-weight removed from the sermon header time display.

### Removed
- Old sample data XML file and widgets JSON data.
- Edit post link for the archive and other post type single pages.

### Fixed
- An issue with the slider direction navigation color.
- Red border for the theme options save changes buttons.
- Issue importing sample widgets.
- Importing sample data issues after v4.6.1
- Conditional code for the empty div in the subheader.
- Hides the about author if there is no biography of the author in posts.
- Columns with the shop page template.
- Subheader vertical-align issue for the title.
- Breadcrumbs default arrow with fontawesome added.
- Progressbar font size increased.
- Church post type plugins title font weight Changed.
- Missing holder for the Custom VC Addons elements.

v3.3.0 - 2016-07-25
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### Changed
- Church Category Widgets redirection on select for widgets.
- Revolution Slider Plugin to v5.2.6
- Google Map Scripts Enqueue.
- Business Hours Pro Plugin v3.6.3
- Plugins and TGMPA to the latest version.
- Google Map API Key Mandatory option.

v3.2.0 - 2016-06-27
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### Changed
- TGM Plugin Activation.
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.2.5.4
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.12
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v3.5.2

### Fixed
- Flex caption horizontally centered with layout

v3.1.1 - 2016-04-21
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### Fixed
- Issue with titles appearing on top for Events Calendar Plugin

v3.1.0 - 2016-04-20
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### Changed
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.2.5
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.11.2
- Breadcrumb Navxt Plugin to v5.4.0
- Church Theme Content Plugin.
- Theme Text Domain. to hopes-textdomain.

v3.0.0 - 2015-12-02
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### Added
- WooCommerce Full Compatibility.
- WooCommerce Mini Cart in Headers.

### Changed
- TGM Class Plugin Activation.
- Revolution Slider Plugin to v5.1.4
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.8.1
- Breadcrumb NavXT Plugin to v5.3.0
- Church Theme Content to v1.2.1
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v5.2.4
- Fontawesome to v4.5.0

### Fixed
- Wrong heading elements in sermons archive.
- Wrong heading elements in sermons taxonomy.
- Deprecated WPBakery Page Builder function.

### Child Theme Modifications

### Changed
- style.css version.
- functions.php
- page_builder/index.php
- page_builder/aivah_sc/index.php

v2.2.0 - 2015-10-31
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### Changed
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.8.0.1
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v2.5.0
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.1

v2.1.0 - 2015-10-06
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### Changed
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.7.4
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v2.4.0
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.0.9

### Fixed
- Sociable Icons missing in peoples post type.

v2.0.0 - 2015-08-26
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### Changed
- Revamped the complete css for the Mega Menu.
- Business Hours Pro Plugin to v2.3.0
- Slider Revolution Plugin to v5.0.4.1
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v6.4.2
- Church Theme Content v1.3.3
- Fixed Header Opacity increased.

### Fixed
- Deprecated PHP constructors in WordPress v4.3
- All Headers are issues with responsiveness.
- Mega Menu Issues with column sizes.

:warning: *After Updating the theme kindly please update the plugins by going to your plugins directory
and make sure you deactivate and activate the Business Hours Pro plugin to get all the new features installed
and Changed with the databases.

If you wish to update other plugins manually then kindly download the full package from theme forest
and make sure you update manually at your own risk.*

v1.4.2 - 2015-06-29
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### Changed
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to the latest version.
- Revolution Slider Plugin to the latest version.
- Breadcrumb-navXT Plugin to the latest version.

### Fixed
- jQuery PrettyPhoto to the latest version.

v1.4.1 - 2015-06-02
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### Added
- WPBakery Page Builder Frontend Editing.

### Fixed
- WPBakery Page Builder Frontend editing bug.
- Responsive issues if the logo is wide enough.
- Flex slider auto height removed for responsiveness.

v1.4.0 - 2015-06-02
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### Added
- Once Click Import Sample Data.
- Once Click Import Options Data.
- Once Click Exports Options Data.
- Sociable Icons for Instagram.
- Image Alignment CSS in style.css.

### Changed
- Revolutions slider to Latest Version.
- WPBakery Page Builder to Latest Version.
- Link to services shortcode now clickable for the image.
- TGM Class plugin activation.
- Breadcrumb Navxt plugin.
- Modified Child Theme files.

### Removed
- Google Analytics Field from the options panel.
- Services link_text attribute from the shortcode.

### Fixed
- Pagination issues with sermons, locations, peoples
- Page breadcrumbs not working
- Featured Image enabled still after disabling the option
- Comments showing in meta after disabling comments in CPT
- Google fonts URL break HTML5 Validation on w3.org
- Blog post Featured Image disable option
- Widget Custom Menu box shadow overlapping

### Child Theme Modifications

### Changed
- style.css version.
- functions.php
- church/index.php

v1.3.0 - 2015-03-12
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### Added
- Group Hours now if they are the same.
- Toggle option for business hours pro widget.
- Toggle option for business hours pro shortcode.
- Closed Text background color option.
- Frontend WPBakery Page Builder option.
- Business hours plugin time format options: Business hours time toggle/show full-time option.

### Changed
- Now back to top icon is hidden in the mobile devices.
- Business Hours Pro plugin to the latest version.

### Fixed
- Sort by last saved options import in theme options panel.
- Taxonomy Archive display messed for Sermons, People & Locations.
- Pagination issue with the blog and other CPT's.
- Pagination issue with taxonomy pages.
- Pagination issue with CPT archive pages.
- Sociables fa prefix missing in admin options.
- Error in child theme activation.

v1.2.1 - 2015-01-20
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### Fixed
- Date displaying issue with sermons posts.
- Date issue for the sermons shortcode.
- Date issue for all taxonomies.
- sermons single pages date issue.
- Date issue with all template pages.

### Child Theme Modifications

### Changed
- style.css version.

v1.2.0 - 2015-01-14
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### Added
- WordPress Custom Menu for the sidebar with new styles.

### Removed
- Duplicate 'hopes' folder inside of 'hopes' folder.

### Fixed
- Fade option not generating in the testimonial carousel.
- Teaser_option function removed from the static slider.
- Flex Slider query changed to compatible with WordPress v4.1
- Post meta data disable not working.

v1.1.0 - 2015-01-06
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### Added
- Child Theme functionality more extending.

### Changed
- Revolution Slider Plugin to v4.6.5
- WPBakery Page Builder Plugin to v4.3.5
- Google Page Speed fixes.
- Compressed Javascript files.

### Removed
- Unwanted javascript files.

### Fixed
- WordPress v4.1 Compatibility.
- Multiple Taxonomy issues with post types.
- WPBakery Page Builder drag issue with WordPress 4.1 Changed.

v1.0 Initial Release - 2014-11-04
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Note : Images, Audios and videos are not included in the downloadable package of this theme. Images are from Flickr under the Creative Commons license and some purchased from Photodune.net