Kause Wordpress Theme - Rating, Reviews, Preview, Demo & Download

Kause is a super flexible WordPress theme designed for churches, charities, sporting clubs and non-profit websites.

A beautifully designed multi-purpose WordPress theme, perfect for charities, churches and non-profit websites in including political campaigns. Kause is clean and minimal and puts direct focus on your message.

VIDEO TUTORIALS

1. Video 1 – Kause 10 Mintue Set Up
2. Video 2 – Create Your Blog
3. Video 3 – Working With Posts
4. Video 4 – Working with the Pagebuilder

FULL FEATURE LIST

Design Customization

• 600+ Google Webfonts,
• 350+ Font Awesome icons,
• 240+ Flag icons makes it easy to set up a language menu to use on multilingual sites,
• Boxed or full width layout,
• Comes with 3 Predefined Skins
• Supports unlimited colour variations,
• Final Call CSS, Add your own custom CSS straight from the admin menu,
• Powerful yet easy to use drag-and-drop Page-Builder lets you create unlimited layout variations,
• 23 fully customizable Page-Builder blocks,
• Unique Header Builder lets you combine more than 40 header options to build a a header that will perfectly suit your needs,
• Customize background (in boxed layout) using either tiles or full size images,
• Option to make background clickable – great for background “takeover” style ad campaigns,
• Integrate ads easily in layout using Page-Builder or in widget areas,
• Add Font Awesome icons to the main menu to highlight specific menu items,
• Make sure your menu stays visible even when you scroll down using the option for sticky header,
• HD/Retina Ready,
• Responsive design,
• Photoshop PSD included,

Smart WordPress Features

• 23 custom Short Codes and 11 custom HTML snippets,
• 13 custom widgets,
• 3 custom plugins bundled with theme,
• 9 different standard page templates,
• Smart footer resizes to accomodate active widget areas,
• Assign each page a unique sidebar,
• Dedicated search results page and 404 page,
• Amazing placeholder page template lets you easily create your own “Coming Soon” pages to use while site is under construction,
• Turn on Construction mode to prevent all non-logged-in users from viewing site content,
• Custom widget area manager lets you create unlimited widget areas that can be added using the Pagebuilder,

Amazing Galleries

• 3 different gallery styles incl. Isotope gallery, and Flex Slider galleries,
• Dedicated portfolio for showcasing projects,
• Create media galleries containing video or audio,
• Lightbox functionality to showcase your images,
• Media Centre, good for downloadable audio, video, speeches, sermons and presentations,

Blog & Post Options

• 2 different blog layouts,
• Supports 5 different post formats,
• Amazing Multi-Post feature lets you group posts together in one parent post. Great for top lists and themed articles,
• Beautiful Timeline page lets you display your posts as milestones along a timeline. Loads new posts with AJAX for a smooth navigation experience,
• 5 different post layouts,
• Dedicated layouts for project and people posts,
• Great support for embeddable media (e.g. Vimeo, Youtube, Soundcloud etc),
• Each post can be represented in blog with featured image, embeddable media or featured image that opens up media in a lightbox,
• Custom Post Type “People” lets you add and manage groups of people. Great for maintaining team roster, testimonials or list of supporters,

SEO (Search Engine Optimized)

• Google Analytics integration,
• SEO Optimized – built with best SEO practices in mind,
• Theme SEO can be suppressed if 3rd party SEO software is preferred to minimize risk of conflicts,
• Custom social widgets lets you add Twitter feed or Facebook like box to your site,
• Compatible with SEO by Yoast

Multiple Language Support

• Translation/localization ready with ready-to-go .po file,
• Multilingual ready using WPML,
• Multilingual ready using multisite structure and free plugins like e.g Multisite Language Switcher or Multilingual Press,

Quick Setup

• Demo content files included,
• Child theme included,
• Export/import your settings,

Professional Support

• Extensive documentation and tutorial videos,
• Documentation can be accessed straight from dashboard,
• Auto update checks and “One Click” theme updates,
• Smart admin panel with contextual help,
• Fully Tested in WordPress 4.1

Free Plugins

• CleanTabs (value $6),
• Revolution Slider comes bundled with theme (value $15),
• WooCommerce compatible (free plugin) – add your own online store with this great eCommerce plugin,
• bbPress compatible (free plugin) – create and maintain your own forum,
• BuddyPress compatible (free plugin) – add social networking to your site with user profiles and user interactions,
• The Events Calendar compatible (free plugin) – add and keep track of events,
• Contact Form 7 compatible (free plugin) – add powerful and flexible contact forms to your site,
• Mail-Chimp (free plugin) – create and manage your own mailing lists,

Note: Images are for display purposes only and are not supplied with the download package.

TESTED WITH THESE POPULAR PLUGINS

• WPML
• WooCommerce
• The Events Calendar
• BuddyPress
• BBPress
• Envato Toolkit
• Gravity Forms
• Contact Form 7
• Mailchimp for WordPress
• Revolution Slider
• Yoast SEO
• Regenerate Thumbs
• WordPress Importer
• W3 Total Cache
• WooCommerce Product Archive Customiser Plugin
• TablePress
• And More…

TESTIMONIALS

CHANGE LOG

// JANUARY 28, 2015
- ADDED: Embeded Google Map on contact page now has overlay to prevent default map interaction when scrolling with mouse over map. Click once on map to interact with map.
- FIXED: Issue with the TGM bulk installer that prevented bulk installation of bundled plugins. 
- FIXED: Issue where two Call To Action blocks with custom colors on the same page would get same colours.
- FIXED: Issue where expand/collapse pagebuilder block would not work in Safari.
- FIXED: Corrected shortcodes plugin localizaton textdomain.

// DECEMBER 22, 2014
- Update: Revolution Slider 4.6.5

// NOVEMBER 11, 2014
- Fixed: CTA Block text color
- Update: default favicon
- Update: Social footer links open in new window
- Added: Single post include layout options with and without sidebar

// NOVEMBER 03, 2014
- Added: Standard media links (e.g. http://vimeo.com/22428395) can now be used in addition to player links (e.g. http://player.vimeo.com/video/22428395).
- Added: Posts with Use featured image but open media link in lightbox now has a hover play icon to indicate that media will play on click,
- Added: Adjusted media link help text and input size,
- Added: Blockquote shortcode no longer requires byline,
- Added: Options to include posts, pages and custom post types in search results,
- Added: Meta info options now also controls meta info on archive pages,
- Update: Font Awesome updated to version 4.2.
- Update: Google Webfonts updated,
- Update: WooCommerce Styles,
- Update: Documentation Update,
- Update: General styles, menu styles, events widget styles,
- Update: Demo content and demo settings files,
- Fixed: Issue where timeline would get posts from all categories on load more instead of only selected category,
- Fixed: Issue with pagebuilder blocks: Download List, Vertical Pricing Tables, Pricing Tables where deleting middle item would result in blank subsequent items,
- Fixed: Issue where sorting of widget areas in the Widget Areas Manager would give problems on certain server configurations,
- Fixed: Fonts folder name changed from /font/ to /fonts/ to comply with WordPress standards,
- Fixed: Statistics widget code updated. NB: Statistics widget icons may have to be reassigned.

// AUGUST 13, 2014
- Update: slider revolution text style

// JULY 30, 2014
- New: 3 Home Page Layouts in content.xml
- Updated: Content Files for all skins
- Updated: CSS for text
- Updated: Shortcodes
- Fix: Events List Widget styling

// JULY 18, 2014
- Updated WooCommerce styles
- Updated documentation on WooCommerce 

// JULY 09, 2014
- Fix: Sticky header can now be turned off in responsive mode.

// JUNE 26, 2014
- Google Webfonts now work with both SSL and non-SSL connections.
- WPML compatibility with Single Post widget.
- Fixed: Issue where sticky header javascript would break on placeholder pages.
- Fixed: Non-admins could see but did not have access to theme settings menu item. Theme settings menu item now removed for all non-admins.
- Update: Revolution Slider Plugin

// JUNE 03, 2014
- Fixed: Product display grid in Woo-Commerce

// MAY 05, 2014
- Updated Documentation
- Added support for Gravity Forms

// APRIL 25, 2014
- Updated Version Number

// APRIL 21, 2014
- Fixed: Shortcodes select does not appear in editor. 
- Fixed: Widget front end previewer / customizer. 
- Tested and working fully with WordPress 3.9.

// MARCH 27, 2014
- Fix: Issue where manual post slider would include all attached images if exactly none were chosen.
- Fix: Issue that prevented HTML in certain block texts.

// MARCH 20, 2014
- Feature: Envato WordPress Toolkit - Automatic update checker and "one-click" updating.
- Feature: New Sermon Block - add multimedia sermons to your pagebuilder pages.
- Feature: New Single Event Block - Display a single event on your pagebuilder pages.
- Update: Download block now forces files to download instead of opening files in browser.

// MARCH 11, 2014
- Feature: Each page can now be assigned a unique sidebar 
- Update: Timeline descriptions now accept HTML 
- Fixed: Issue with appending pagebuilder templates to full width blog

// FEBRUARY 27, 2014 //
- Updated: Includes Envato Toolkit, update checker
- Updated: Documentation updating themes
- Fix: Google Webfonts now work with font-variants
- Fix: WooCommerce Style fix
- Fixed: Issue with appending pagebuilder templates to full width blog.
- Feature: Each page can now be assigned a unique sidebar.
- Feature: Timeline descriptions now accept HTML.

// FEBRUARY 20, 2014 //
Update - Revolution Slider updated to latest version (v4.1.4), 
Update - Tutorial videos can now be accessed directly from the back-end help menu, 
Update - Now possible to control Post slider default behaviour (automatic, manual or off),
Update - Now possible to attach a pagebuilder template to your blog, 
FIX - Issue with unclosed tag in Featured Image block,
Fix - BuddyPress Members List

// FEBRUARY 13, 2014 //
Update - Kause Core Plugin updated
Update - Woo-commerce 2.1.2 style update

// FEBRUARY 11, 2014 //
Update - Updated documentation regarding Quick Intall

// FEBRUARY 8, 2014 //
Fix - Updated Feature Image Block, removed redundant text 

// FEBRUARY, 2014 //
Fix- Firefox background display issue on the Parallax Video block