Helivolt documentation

A WordPress theme for solar installers and renewable energy companies: home solar, commercial rooftops, battery storage, EV chargers, farm arrays and heat pumps. Six demos, a solar savings calculator, a hero quote bar, services with guide prices, a project portfolio with output and savings, team profiles and a free quote form saved in your dashboard.

Thank you for choosing Helivolt. 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 solar demos imported in one click
• Solar savings calculator: system size, panels, price after incentives, payback, 25-year savings and CO₂
• Quote bar in the hero: service, monthly bill and ZIP code, sent to your quote page
• Services with a guide price per kW or a fixed price, install time, warranty and equipment
• Project portfolio with sector filters, system size, yearly output, savings and switch-on date
• Free quote form with system size, install date, address, monthly bill and a live guide price, saved in your dashboard
• Pricing and financing tables: pay in full, solar loan, power agreement
• Team profiles with role, certifications, years with you and specialty
• Sectors and system types to group services and projects
• Office hours with an "Open now" badge
• 19 Elementor widgets (free Elementor)
• Every section also works as a shortcode
• Call / quote bar on phones
• Light and dark mode
• 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-helivolt-wordpress-theme/
├── helivolt.zip               ← the theme: upload this in WordPress
├── helivolt-child.zip         ← child theme, for your own code changes (optional)
├── plugins/helivolt-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 helivolt.zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Optional: install and activate helivolt-child.zip the same way (see Child theme).

Upload by FTP instead: unzip helivolt.zip and copy the helivolt 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 solar features (services, projects, team, savings calculator, quote form…).

Importing a demo

The import gives you the demo site: pages, services, projects, 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, office hours and prices. Replace them with yours, in this order:

1. Phone number and top bar: Appearance → Customize → Helivolt options → Header and top bar. Set Phone number, Top bar text (a short line such as your office hours; the part before a "·" is also shown in the Contact header layout) and the Label next to the phone (the demo says "Free survey"). 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. Quote page, office hours, calculator figures and quote emails: Settings → Helivolt Core (see Quote requests, Office hours and Solar savings calculator).
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 Helivolt Core plugin adds four content types, a System types list and a Sectors list to the dashboard. Each content type has a Details box under the editor.

Sectors (under Projects) group projects and services by client type, for example Residential or Commercial. Each sector has its own page at /sector/<name>/, and the Sectors widget shows each one as a photo tile with its number of projects (the photo comes from the newest project in that sector). System types (under Projects) group projects by the kind of system, for example Rooftop solar or Battery storage, with a page at /system/<name>/. A project can have several of each; the Projects widget can show one sector or one system type only.

Turn on Show filter buttons by sector in the Projects widget (or filter="yes" in the shortcode) to add a button per sector above the cards; visitors click one to see only those projects.

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 × 900 px.

Quote requests

The Quote form widget (or the [helivolt_quote] shortcode) asks for the client's name, phone and email, the service, the system size if they know it, the preferred install date, the installation address or ZIP code, their average monthly power bill, how to reply (email, phone call or home survey) 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 priced per kW and types a system size, the form shows a guide price as they type (price per kW × size). Services with a fixed price show no guide price. The saved request gets its own estimate, worked out from the service price on the server.
• Every request is saved under Quotes in the dashboard, with a counter of new ones. Open a request to see the details and set its status: New, Contacted, Home survey booked, Proposal sent, Signed, Lost.
• The services in the form come from your Services, so they stay up to date.
• Settings → Helivolt Core → Quote enquiries: choose the Quote page (the page with the Quote form widget), turn email alerts on or off, choose the address (empty = the site admin email), list your Monthly power bill ranges (one per line; leave empty to hide the field), 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 quote bar

Turn on Show the quote bar in the Hero widget. Visitors pick a service, their monthly power bill and their ZIP code and press Get my quote: the quote page opens with the form already filled in. The Get a quote for this button on each service page opens the same form with that service chosen, and the savings calculator's button fills in the system size it worked out.

Office hours

Settings → Helivolt Core → Office hours: set an opening and a closing time for each day. Leave both empty on days you are closed, and add an optional note (for example "Install crews work Monday to Saturday").

• The Office hours widget (Elementor) or [helivolt_hours] shortcode shows the hours beside your address and phone number. The Helivolt: Office 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.

Solar savings calculator

The Savings calculator widget (or [helivolt_calculator]) lets a visitor move a slider to their average monthly power bill, pick where the home is and how much of the bill to cover, and optionally add a home battery. It shows the estimated savings in year one, a 25-year savings chart, the system size, the number of panels, the price after incentives, the payback year, the savings over 25 years and the CO₂ saved each year. It is worked out in the browser: nothing is sent or stored until the visitor presses the button, which opens your quote page with the system size filled in.

Settings → Helivolt Core → Solar savings calculator: set the currency symbol, the unit of system size (kW or kWp), the electricity price per kWh, your sun regions (one per line as Label|peak sun hours per day, for example Coast (5.2 sun hours)|5.2), the installed price per kW, rebates and incentives (%), the panel size in watts, the battery price (0 hides the battery option), the yearly electricity price rise, the CO₂ per kWh of grid power and the note under the result. The same unit and currency are used by the quote bar, the quote form and the guide prices.

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 Commercial solar demo is dark).
• Header layout: classic, centered 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 Helivolt 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 Helivolt: … in the widget list:

• Contact details — phone, email, address, each with a link.
• Office hours — your hours from Settings → Helivolt 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 Helivolt 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, Sectors, 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:

[helivolt_calculator]
[helivolt_projects count="6" columns="3" filter="yes"]
[helivolt_quote title="Get a free solar quote"]

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: [helivolt_hero], [helivolt_services], [helivolt_sectors], [helivolt_reviews], [helivolt_team], [helivolt_stats], [helivolt_features], [helivolt_steps], [helivolt_pricing], [helivolt_faq], [helivolt_cta], [helivolt_trust], [helivolt_calculator], [helivolt_projects], [helivolt_posts], [helivolt_emergency], [helivolt_about], [helivolt_quote], [helivolt_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 → Helivolt 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 → Helivolt options → Blog. Posts show the author, date, category, share links (turn them off in Settings → Helivolt Core) and related posts.

Light and dark mode

Customize → Helivolt 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 helivolt-child.zip and activate Helivolt Child. Put your CSS in the child theme's style.css and your PHP in its functions.php; copy a template file from helivolt 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 helivolt/languages/helivolt.pot and helivolt-core/languages/helivolt-core.pot.

1. Easiest: install Loco Translate → Loco Translate → Themes → Helivolt → New language, and translate in your browser. Do the same under Plugins for Helivolt Core.
2. Or use Poedit: open the .pot file, translate, and save the files as helivolt-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 helivolt.zip → Replace current with uploaded; or
• replace the wp-content/themes/helivolt folder by FTP.

When the theme comes with a newer Helivolt 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.