VillaTheme Core for Theme is the dedicated companion plugin required for unlocking the full capabilities of VillaTheme’s WordPress themes, such as Draly. While the theme provides the visual design and layout foundation, this plugin activates the advanced features and customization tools that complete the theme’s intended experience.
It isn’t a standalone plugin with its own fixed settings or pages – instead, it acts as the framework that activates and expands the features each theme is built to offer.
Why You Need VillaTheme Core
VillaTheme themes include a wide range of advanced functionalities, but these features can’t all be stored inside the theme itself. To keep themes lightweight and fully compatible with WordPress standards, the more complex modules are provided through this companion plugin.
When you use a VillaTheme theme without the Core plugin, you only see the basic version of the theme. Installing the plugin unlocks the full set of theme-specific features and ensures everything works exactly as the theme designers intended.
What VillaTheme Core Does
Because it’s not an independent plugin, VillaTheme Core for Theme dynamically adapts based on the theme you’re using. The options, panels, and modules it provides will vary depending on which VillaTheme product is active. In general, it enables:
- Theme-Specific Options and Panels: Unlocks the advanced theme settings – such as typography, color schemes, layout presets, header/footer design, and custom style controls – that are hidden unless the Core plugin is active.
- Essential Modules Required by the Theme: Activates extra functions that the theme depends on, including enhanced layout blocks, AJAX features, dynamic elements, and additional WooCommerce support (for sites running WooCommerce on WordPress).
- Advanced Structural Tools: Enables features like mega menu creation, multi-column navigation layouts, custom footers, widget-ready menu areas, and other builder tools directly tied to the theme’s design.
- And more…
Everything the plugin provides is flexible, theme-dependent, and automatically loaded based on the theme in use.
In short, VillaTheme Core for Theme doesn’t work alone – it’s the key that unlocks the full capability of your VillaTheme theme.
