Liftora documentation

A WordPress theme for gyms, fitness studios, functional fitness boxes, yoga and pilates studios, boxing clubs and personal trainers. Six demos, a weekly class timetable, membership plans with a monthly / yearly switch, a BMI calculator, a busy-times chart, member transformations, trainer profiles and a free trial form.

Thank you for choosing Liftora. 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 fitness demos imported in one click
• Weekly class timetable with type filters and day tabs on phones
• Free trial form that only offers real class times
• Membership plans with a monthly / yearly switch
• BMI calculator in metric and imperial
• "Best time to train" busy-times chart
• Member transformations with before and after numbers
• Classes with sessions, intensity, level and calories
• Class finder in the hero
• Trainer profiles with qualifications and coaching days
• Opening hours with an "Open now" badge
• Reviews, FAQ, steps, stats, ticker and a blog
• 20 Elementor widgets (free Elementor)
• Every section also works as a shortcode
• Call / free class 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-liftora-wordpress-theme/
├── liftora.zip               ← the theme: upload this in WordPress
├── liftora-child.zip         ← child theme, for your own code changes (optional)
├── plugins/liftora-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 liftora.zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Optional: install and activate liftora-child.zip the same way (see Child theme).

Upload by FTP instead: unzip liftora.zip and copy the liftora 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 gym features (classes, timetable, trainers, transformations, free trial form…).

Importing a demo

The import gives you the demo site: pages, classes, trainers, transformations, 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, opening hours, timetable and prices. Replace them with yours, in this order:

1. Phone number and top bar: Appearance → Customize → Liftora options → Header and top bar. Set Phone number, Top bar text (a short line such as your opening hours) and the Label next to the phone (the demo says "First class free"). 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. Opening hours, busy times, trial page and emails: Settings → Liftora Core (see Opening hours and busy times and Free trial requests).
5. Your classes and timetable: edit each class under Classes and set its sessions (see Class timetable).
6. Footer widgets: Appearance → Widgets → Footer column 1–4: edit the Contact details widget (address, phone, email).
7. Your content: edit the trainers, transformations and reviews in the dashboard menus of the same names, and replace the placeholder photos with your own.

Classes, trainers, transformations and reviews

The Liftora Core plugin adds four content types, a Class types list and a Goals list to the dashboard. Each content type has a Details box under the editor.

Class types (under Classes) group classes, for example Strength, HIIT or Yoga & pilates. Each type has its own page at /class-type/<name>/, and the Class types widget shows each one as a photo tile with its number of classes. Goals (also under Classes) group classes and transformations by what members want, for example Lose weight or Build strength. A class can have several of each.

Turn on Show filter buttons in the Transformations widget (or filter="yes" in the shortcode) to add a button per goal above the cards.

The featured image of a class, transformation or post is used on its card and at the top of its page. Use landscape photos at least 1600 × 900 px.

Class timetable

Each class has a Sessions field: one line per session as days|time|coach|room, for example:

Mon,Wed,Fri|06:30|Marcus|Iron room
Tue-Thu|18:30|Jade|Iron room
Sat|09:00|Marcus|Iron room

Days can be one day (Sat), a list (Mon,Wed,Fri), a range (Mon-Fri) or every day. Times use the 24-hour clock. Leave the field empty for classes booked by appointment, such as personal training.

• The Class timetable widget (or [liftora_timetable]) builds the week from every class's sessions: one column per day, today highlighted, a colour per class type and a Try free link on each session that opens the free trial form with the class, day and time filled in.
• Show filter buttons adds a button per class type; Only these class types limits the timetable, for example type="mind-body" for a yoga page.
• On phones and tablets the timetable shows one day at a time with day tabs, starting with today.
• Each class page lists its own sessions under When it runs, and class cards show the days.

Free trial requests

The Free trial form widget (or the [liftora_trial] shortcode) asks for the class to try (or a gym floor visit), an optional trainer, the day and the time, the visitor's name, phone and email, their main goal, how much they train now, how to confirm (text message, phone call or email) and an optional message. Name, day, time 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.

• Times that are real: pick a class and a day and the time list shows only that class's sessions on that day; days without the class say which days it runs. With no class picked, the form offers gym floor visit times inside your opening hours. The same check runs again on the server when the form is sent.
• Every request is saved under Free trials in the dashboard, with a counter of new ones. Open a request to see the details and set its status: New, Called back, First visit booked, Came in, Joined, No-show, Did not join.
• Settings → Liftora Core → Free trial requests: choose the Free trial page (the page with the Free trial form widget), the minutes between gym floor visit times, turn email alerts on or off, choose the address (empty = the site admin email) and edit the thank-you message and the privacy note.
• 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 class finder

Turn on Show the class finder in the Hero widget. Visitors pick a class and a day and press Try it free: the free trial page opens with both filled in, ready to choose a time. The Try this class free button on each class page, the Train with button on each trainer and the timetable's Try free links open the same form.

Opening hours and busy times

Settings → Liftora Core → Opening hours and busy times: 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 "Coaches on the floor at every opening hour").

• The Opening hours widget (Elementor) or [liftora_hours] shortcode shows the hours beside your address and phone number. The Liftora: Opening 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.
• Busy times: one line per period as days|from-to|level, for example Mon-Thu|17-20|packed. Levels are quiet, steady, busy and packed; open hours you do not list count as quiet.
• The Best time to train widget (or [liftora_crowd]) turns those lines into an hour-by-hour chart for each day, with day tabs, today picked and the current hour marked ("Right now: usually steady").
• The week starts on the day set in Settings → General → Week Starts On; times use the time format set there.

Membership plans and the BMI calculator

The Membership plans widget (or [liftora_pricing]) shows one card per plan. Each line is Name|Price|Note|Feature; Feature|yes|Button text|Button link|Yearly price|Yearly note; write yes in the fifth part to highlight a plan. Turn on Show a Monthly / Yearly switch to let visitors swap every card to its yearly price, and add a badge such as "2 months free".

The BMI calculator widget (or [liftora_bmi]) works in metric (cm, kg) and imperial (ft, in, lb), shows the result on a coloured scale with the category and a tip you can edit for each category, and an optional button (for example to the free trial page). Nothing is saved or sent anywhere: the result is worked out in the visitor's browser. A short health note is shown under the ranges; edit or clear it in the widget.

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 Strength gym, Functional fitness box and Boxing club demos are 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 Liftora 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 Liftora: … in the widget list:

• Contact details — phone, email, address, each with a link.
• Opening hours — your hours from Settings → Liftora Core, with an "Open now" badge.
• Classes list — links to your classes; the current class 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 Liftora 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: Classes, Class timetable, Class types, Transformations, Trainers, 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:

[liftora_timetable filter="yes"]
[liftora_results count="6" filter="yes"]
[liftora_trial title="Claim your free class"]

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: [liftora_hero], [liftora_classes], [liftora_timetable], [liftora_types], [liftora_results], [liftora_reviews], [liftora_team], [liftora_stats], [liftora_features], [liftora_steps], [liftora_pricing], [liftora_faq], [liftora_cta], [liftora_trust], [liftora_posts], [liftora_bmi], [liftora_crowd], [liftora_about], [liftora_trial], [liftora_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 → Liftora 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 → Liftora options → Blog. Posts show the author, date, category, share links (turn them off in Settings → Liftora Core) and related posts.

Light and dark mode

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

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

When the theme comes with a newer Liftora 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.