Atelvia documentation

A WordPress theme for interior designers and architecture studios. Six demos, a filterable project portfolio by room and style, case studies with a materials palette and a full-screen gallery, a style finder, services with design fees, design process steps, a press and awards strip and a consultation booking form saved in your dashboard.

Thank you for choosing Atelvia. This guide takes you from a fresh WordPress site to a copy of the demo with your own details. If something is not covered here, write to support@codememory.com — we answer within one working day.

• Version1.0.0
• WordPress6.5 or later
• PHP7.4 or later
• Live demoOpen the demo

Highlights

• Six interior design demos imported in one click
• Project portfolio with filter buttons by room and by style
• Case-study pages: key facts, materials palette, full-screen photo gallery and project phases
• Style finder: room, palette and feeling point visitors to one of your styles
• Consultation booking form with meeting type, date, time slot and a guide design fee
• Hero planner bar: service, room and budget, sent to your consultation page
• Services with a design fee per sq ft or per room, timeline and what is included
• Design process steps, press and awards strip, stats and reviews
• Team profiles with role, training, specialty and their latest projects
• Design fee and package tables
• Studio hours with an "Open now" badge
• 18 Elementor widgets (free Elementor)
• Every section also works as a shortcode
• Call / consultation bar on phones
• Light and dark mode, and a dark architecture demo
• Colours and fonts from the Customizer
• Block patterns and every core block styled
• Self-hosted fonts, nothing loaded from Google
• Translation ready, right-to-left support
• Child theme included

What is in the download

themeforest-atelvia-wordpress-theme/
├── atelvia.zip               ← the theme: upload this in WordPress
├── atelvia-child.zip         ← child theme, for your own code changes (optional)
├── plugins/atelvia-core.zip  ← the theme's plugin (also installed from inside the theme)
├── demo-content/             ← demo files for a manual import
├── documentation/            ← this guide, as HTML and PDF
└── licensing/                ← GPL licence, font licences and credits

Requirements

• WordPress 6.5 or later (tested up to 7.1).
• PHP 7.4 or later (8.2 or later recommended).
• For the demo import: PHP memory_limit 256M, max_execution_time 300, upload size 32M. Most hosts already allow this; if an import stops half-way, ask your host to raise these values.

Every plugin the theme uses is free from wordpress.org. Nothing needs a paid licence.

Installing the theme

1. In your dashboard, go to Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme → Upload Theme.
2. Choose atelvia.zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Optional: install and activate atelvia-child.zip the same way (see Child theme).

Upload by FTP instead: unzip atelvia.zip and copy the atelvia folder to wp-content/themes/, then activate it under Appearance → Themes.

Plugins

After activation, a notice at the top of the dashboard lists the plugins the theme uses. Click Begin installing plugins (or go to Appearance → Install Plugins), select them all, choose Install, then activate them.

The theme works without any plugin: posts, pages, menus, widgets and search are styled the same. The plugin is needed for the studio features (services, projects, team, style finder, consultation form…).

Importing a demo

The import gives you the demo site: pages, services, projects with their galleries, team members, reviews, posts, menus, widgets and the Customizer settings. Use it on a new site: it adds content next to what you already have.

1. Install the plugins above.
2. Go to Appearance → Import Demo Data.
3. Pick a demo and click Import. It takes one to three minutes; keep the page open.
4. Done: visit your site. The home page, menus and blog page are already set.

All six home pages are imported with every demo; the demo you pick decides which one is the front page and which colours and header the Customizer uses. To switch later, go to Settings → Reading and choose another home page.

Manual import

If the one-click import is blocked by your host, use the files in demo-content/:

1. Tools → Import → WordPress (install the importer when asked) → upload content.xml.
2. Install Widget Importer & Exporter → Tools → Widget Importer & Exporter → upload widgets.wie.
3. Install Customizer Export/Import → Appearance → Customize → Export/Import → upload customizer-<demo>.dat.
4. Appearance → Menus → Manage Locations: set the main, top bar and footer menus. Settings → Reading: choose the home and blog pages.

After the import: your details

The demo uses a made-up phone number, address, studio hours and fees. Replace them with yours, in this order:

1. Phone number and top bar: Appearance → Customize → Atelvia options → Header and top bar. Set Phone number, Top bar text (a short line such as your studio hours; the part before a "·" is also shown in the Contact header layout) and the Label next to the phone (the demo says "Studio"). Every "Call" button on the site uses this number.
2. Logo and site icon: Appearance → Customize → Site Identity.
3. Colours: Appearance → Customize → Colors. The six demo home pages each have their own accent colour (see Page options); clear it there to use the Customizer colour.
4. Consultation page, studio hours, fees and emails: Settings → Atelvia Core (see Consultation requests and Studio hours).
5. Footer widgets: Appearance → Widgets → Footer column 1–4: edit the Contact details widget (address, phone, email).
6. Your content: edit the services, projects, team and reviews in the dashboard menus of the same names, and replace the grey placeholder photos with your own.

Services, projects, team and reviews

The Atelvia Core plugin adds four content types, a Rooms list and a Styles list to the dashboard. Each content type has a Details box under the editor.

Rooms (under Projects) group projects by room, for example Kitchens or Bathrooms, with a page at /room/<name>/. The Rooms widget shows each one as a photo tile with its number of projects (the photo comes from the newest project in that room). Styles (under Projects) group projects by style, for example Japandi or Warm minimal, with a page at /style/<name>/. Write a short description for each style: the style finder shows it. A project can have several rooms but usually one style.

Turn on Show filter buttons by room and style in the Projects widget (or filter="yes" in the shortcode) to add two rows of buttons above the cards; visitors combine a room and a style to narrow the list. A link such as /our-projects/?room=kitchen&style=japandi opens the page with those filters chosen. The widget can also show only some rooms, styles or named projects, in an even grid or an editorial layout of tall and wide photos.

The featured image of a service, project or post is used on its card and at the top of its page. Use landscape photos at least 1600 × 1000 px; gallery photos look best at 2000 px wide.

Style finder

The Style finder widget (or [atelvia_quiz]) asks three quick questions: which room the visitor is starting with (your Rooms), which palette draws them in, and how the room should feel. Each palette and each feeling points to one of your Styles; the style with the most answers wins, and the result card shows its name, colours, description, the photo of its newest project and a link to all projects in that style. The button opens your consultation page with the room and the style already chosen. Everything runs in the visitor's browser.

• Palettes: one per line as Label|style slug|#hex, #hex, #hex, for example Oak & charcoal|japandi|#d1b48a, #efe8dc, #3d3b38.
• Feelings: one per line as Label|style slug, for example Simple and natural|japandi.
• The style slug is shown under Projects → Styles. Rows that name a style you do not have are skipped.

Consultation requests

The Consultation form widget (or the [atelvia_quote] shortcode) asks for the client's name, phone and email, the service, then the project: room, style, rough floor area, budget and address, and finally how to meet (at the studio, on a video call or at their home), the preferred date and time slot and an optional message. Name and a phone number or email are required. Spam protection is built in (a hidden field and a limit on repeated sends) and no other plugin is needed.

• When the client picks a service with a fee per unit of floor area and types the area, the form shows a guide design fee as they type (fee × area). Services with a fixed fee show no guide fee. The saved request gets its own estimate, worked out from the service fee on the server.
• Every request is saved under Consultations in the dashboard, with a counter of new ones. Open a request to see the details and set its status: New, Contacted, Consultation booked, Proposal sent, Signed, Closed.
• The services, rooms and styles in the form come from your content, so they stay up to date.
• Settings → Atelvia Core → Consultation requests: choose the Consultation page (the page with the Consultation form widget), the currency symbol and the unit of floor area, list your Project budget ranges and Consultation time slots (one per line; leave empty to hide the field), turn email alerts on or off, choose the address (empty = the site admin email), and edit the thank-you message and the privacy note under the form.
• Emails are sent by WordPress. If they do not arrive, install an SMTP plugin such as WP Mail SMTP; requests are saved in the dashboard either way.

The planner bar and other ways in

Turn on Show the planner bar in the Hero widget. Visitors pick a service, a room and a budget and press Plan my project: the consultation page opens with the form already filled in. The Book a consultation button on each service page opens the same form with that service chosen, the Start a project like this button on each case study fills in its room and style, and the style finder fills in the room and style the visitor chose.

Studio hours

Settings → Atelvia Core → Studio hours: set an opening and a closing time for each day. Leave both empty on days the studio is closed, and add an optional note (for example "Saturday visits are by appointment").

• The Studio hours widget (Elementor) or [atelvia_hours] shortcode shows the hours beside your address and phone number. The Atelvia: Studio hours widget shows them in the sidebar or footer.
• Today's row is highlighted, and a badge says Open now (with the closing time) or Closed now. The badge uses the time zone in Settings → General, and it is worked out in the visitor's browser, so it stays right even when your pages are cached.
• The week starts on the day set in Settings → General → Week Starts On; times use the time format set there.

Press and awards strip

The Press and awards widget (or [atelvia_press]) shows a short label ("As featured in") and a row of publications or awards, one per line as Name|Note, for example Northfield Design Awards|Hospitality winner 2025. Names are set in the heading font in italics, so no logo files are needed. Five items fill one row on a desktop screen.

Page options

Each page has a Page options box in the editor sidebar:

• Accent colour for this page: overrides the Customizer accent on this page only. The demo uses it to give each demo home page its own colour.
• Colour scheme: light or dark for this page only (the Architecture & interiors demo is dark).
• Header layout: classic, masthead (large centred name above the menu) or contact, for this page only.

Leave them empty to follow the Customizer.

Page templates

Customizer settings

Appearance → Customize. Colours are in the Colors section; everything else is in the Atelvia options panel. Changes show in the preview before you publish them.

The site title, tagline, logo, site icon, background and homepage settings are WordPress's own, in Site Identity, Background image and Homepage Settings.

Menus

Appearance → Menus. Create a menu, add pages, services or custom links, then tick a Display location:

• Primary menu — the header. Drag items under another to make a drop-down.
• Top bar menu — the small links in the top bar.
• Footer menu — the links in the footer's bottom row.
• Social links menu — links to your profiles (Facebook, Instagram…), shown in the footer. Add them as Custom Links.

Widgets

Appearance → Widgets. Areas: Blog sidebar and Footer column 1 to Footer column 4 (set the number of footer columns in the Customizer). The plugin adds three widgets, named Atelvia: … in the widget list:

• Contact details — phone, email, address, each with a link.
• Studio hours — your hours from Settings → Atelvia Core, with an "Open now" badge.
• Services list — links to your services; the current service is highlighted.

Building pages with Elementor

All demo pages are built with the free Elementor plugin and the theme's widgets.

1. Create a page, set its Template to Full width, no title, and click Edit with Elementor.
2. Search for the widget or open the Atelvia group in the left panel and drag a widget onto the page.
3. Edit its text and options in the left panel. Every widget has a Background option (light, paper, dark or accent colour) so sections alternate like the demo.

The widgets fill themselves from your content: Services, Rooms, Projects, Team, Reviews and Latest posts show the items you add in the dashboard. List fields (prices, steps, questions…) take one item per line, with the parts separated by |, as the help text under each field shows.

Elementor's own Google Fonts loading is switched off by the demo import, so the site keeps using the theme's self-hosted fonts.

Without Elementor: shortcodes

Every widget is also a shortcode, so you can build the same sections in the block editor: add a Shortcode block and type, for example:

[atelvia_projects count="6" columns="3" filter="yes"]
[atelvia_quiz palettes="Sand & limewash|warm-minimal|#ece4d6,#d9c7a7,#b59b7a" moods="Calm and light|warm-minimal"]
[atelvia_quote title="Book a consultation"]

Options are the same as in Elementor. In list options, separate items with || and parts with |. Images take an attachment ID (Media → Library → the number in the address) or a full URL.

Shortcodes: [atelvia_hero], [atelvia_press], [atelvia_services], [atelvia_projects], [atelvia_rooms], [atelvia_quiz], [atelvia_steps], [atelvia_about], [atelvia_features], [atelvia_stats], [atelvia_team], [atelvia_reviews], [atelvia_pricing], [atelvia_faq], [atelvia_posts], [atelvia_cta], [atelvia_quote], [atelvia_hours].

Block editor and patterns

Posts and simple pages use the WordPress block editor. Every core block is styled to match the theme, and the editor shows the theme's fonts and colours. Click + → Patterns → Atelvia for ready-made sections: hero with call button, three services, call to action, questions and answers, three reviews, price table and contact details. The theme also adds block styles: Card (Group), Check marks (List), Eyebrow (Paragraph) and Framed (Image).

Blog

Settings → Reading → Posts page sets the page that lists your posts (the demo uses "Blog"). Choose a grid or list layout and the sidebar position in Customize → Atelvia options → Blog. Posts show the author, date, category, share links (turn them off in Settings → Atelvia Core) and related posts.

Light and dark mode

Customize → Atelvia options → Style and fonts → Colour scheme: Light, Dark or Follow the visitor's device. With Show a light/dark switch on, visitors can switch with the moon button in the header; their choice is remembered on that device. A single page can be forced to light or dark in its Page options.

Child theme

If you want to change the theme's code, install atelvia-child.zip and activate Atelvia Child. Put your CSS in the child theme's style.css and your PHP in its functions.php; copy a template file from atelvia into the child theme to override it. Theme updates replace the parent theme only, so your changes are kept.

Small style changes do not need a child theme: use Customize → Additional CSS.

Translation and right-to-left

Every text in the theme and the plugin can be translated. The templates are atelvia/languages/atelvia.pot and atelvia-core/languages/atelvia-core.pot.

1. Easiest: install Loco Translate → Loco Translate → Themes → Atelvia → New language, and translate in your browser. Do the same under Plugins for Atelvia Core.
2. Or use Poedit: open the .pot file, translate, and save the files as atelvia-fr_FR.po/.mo in wp-content/languages/themes/.

Right-to-left languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian…) are supported: when WordPress runs in such a language, the layout mirrors automatically.

Updating

When a new version is released, download it from your ThemeForest Downloads page. Then either:

• Appearance → Themes → Add New Theme → Upload Theme → choose the new atelvia.zip → Replace current with uploaded; or
• replace the wp-content/themes/atelvia folder by FTP.

When the theme comes with a newer Atelvia Core, the dashboard notice offers to update the plugin. Your content, menus, widgets and Customizer settings are kept. Changes you made to the parent theme's files are lost: keep them in the child theme.

Questions

Support

Support is included with your purchase and covers questions about the theme's features and fixing bugs. It does not cover custom changes or problems caused by other plugins.

Email support@codememory.com with your purchase code and your site address. See the changelog for what changed in each version and third-party materials for credits.