# Kalium Documentation

## Kalium Documentation

- [Introduction](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/readme.md): Start here. What Kalium is, and where to go first.
- [Before Getting Started](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/readme/before-getting-started.md): What Kalium is for, and what you need before installing it.
- [Hosting and Domain](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/readme/before-getting-started/hosting-and-domain.md): Choosing a host and domain that will not cause problems later.
- [WordPress Installation](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/readme/before-getting-started/wordpress-installation.md): Getting WordPress running before you install the theme.
- [Server Requirements](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/readme/before-getting-started/server-requirements.md): What your server needs, and how to ask your host for it.
- [How To Purchase Kalium](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/readme/how-to-purchase-kalium.md): Buying Kalium, and what you get with it.
- [Installation](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/installation.md): The two ways to install the theme, and which to use.
- [Installing theme via WordPress](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/installation/installing-theme-via-wordpress.md): The quickest install, straight from your dashboard.
- [Installing theme via FTP](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/installation/installing-theme-via-ftp.md): Uploading the theme by FTP when the dashboard route fails.
- [License Activation](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/installation/license-activation.md): Activating your license to unlock updates, plugins and starter sites.
- [Importing a Starter Site](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/installation/importing-a-starter-site.md): Start from a finished design and replace the content with your own.
- [Installing Required Plugins](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/installation/installing-required-plugins.md): The plugins Kalium bundles, and installing them from one screen.
- [Child Theme](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/installation/child-theme.md): When you need a child theme, and how to set one up.
- [Updating Kalium](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/installation/updating-kalium.md): Keeping the theme current, and what to check afterwards.
- [License](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/license.md): How licensing works inside the theme, rather than the legal terms.
- [Managing Licenses](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/license/managing-licenses.md): Moving, deactivating and reviewing your license through Freemius.
- [Activation Scope](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/license/activation-scope.md): What counts as an installation, and which plan you need.
- [Prorating Plan Updates](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/license/prorating-plan-updates.md): What happens to your billing when you change plan.
- [Dashboard](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/dashboard.md): The Kalium menu, screen by screen, and what each one is for.
- [Customizer](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/customizer.md): Where you change how the site looks, and how its settings behave.
- [Theme Settings](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/theme-settings.md): Kalium -> Settings is where whole features are switched on and off, separate from the Customizer, which decides how they look.
- [Template Parts Settings](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/theme-settings/template-parts.md): Switch the Template Parts system on or off, and control how Snippets are stored and guarded.
- [Portfolio Settings](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/theme-settings/portfolio.md): Turn the portfolio module on or off, and give its layouts to any post type on your site.
- [Theme Backups](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/theme-settings/theme-backups.md): A copy of your theme, taken automatically before each update.
- [White Label](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/theme-settings/white-label.md): Replace Kalium's branding in the admin with your own, for agencies handing a site to a client.
- [Migrating from Kalium 3 to 4](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/migrating-from-kalium-3-to-4.md): What changed in Kalium 4, and how to move a site across.
- [Migrating Automatically](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/migrating-from-kalium-3-to-4/migrating-automatically.md): The guided route, handling the license transfer and update for you.
- [Migrating Manually](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/getting-started/migrating-from-kalium-3-to-4/migrating-manually.md): The hands-on route, for when you want control over each step.
- [Header](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header.md): The five header types, the three rows, and where the logo sits.
- [Layouts](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/layouts.md): Building a header from the pre-defined layouts.
- [Custom Header](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/custom-header.md): Building a header of your own with the drag-and-drop builder.
- [Elements](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/custom-header/elements.md): Every element you can put in a header, and what each one does.
- [Styling](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/styling.md): Colors, spacing and alignment for every part of the header.
- [Top Bar](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/top-bar.md): The optional strip above the header, and what goes in it.
- [Sticky Header](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/sticky-header.md): Keeping the header on screen as visitors scroll.
- [Transparent Header](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/transparent-header.md): Letting the header float over the page instead of sitting above it.
- [Mobile Menu](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/mobile-menu.md): The menu small screens get, from its content to its breakpoint.
- [Other Options](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/other-options.md): The remaining header settings that do not fit elsewhere.
- [In Page Options](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/header/in-page-options.md): Override the header on one page, post, product or project.
- [Footer](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/footer.md): The footer, its widget areas, and how it is put together.
- [Adding/Editing Content](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/footer/adding-editing-content.md): The two layers of a footer, structure in the builder and content in widgets.
- [Styling](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/footer/styling.md): Row width, spacing and the look of the footer.
- [Sidebars](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/sidebars.md): Turning sidebars on, styling them, and making them follow the page.
- [Troubleshooting Sidebar](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/general/sidebars/troubleshooting-sidebar.md): When a sidebar is missing, empty, or showing the wrong widgets.
- [Blog](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/blog.md): Setting up a blog and choosing how it looks.
- [Blog Page](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/blog/blog-page.md): The layout and card style of your post listing.
- [Post Page](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/blog/post-page.md): The single post layout, from featured image to related posts.
- [Creating a Blog Page](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/blog/creating-a-blog-page.md): Telling WordPress which page shows your posts.
- [Creating a Blog Post](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/blog/creating-a-blog-post.md): Writing a post, and the options Kalium adds to it.
- [Portfolio](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio.md): Showcasing your work, and giving other post types the same layouts.
- [Portfolio Page](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/portfolio-page.md): The project grid, its columns, filters and hover effects.
- [Project Page](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/project-page.md): The settings shared by every project, whichever layout it uses.
- [Creating a Portfolio Page](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/creating-a-portfolio-page.md): Setting up the page that lists your projects.
- [Creating a Portfolio Item](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/creating-a-portfolio-item.md): Creating a project and choosing one of the seven layouts.
- [Side Portfolio](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/creating-a-portfolio-item/side-portfolio.md): Gallery and description side by side.
- [Columned](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/creating-a-portfolio-item/columned.md): A grid of gallery items beside the project content.
- [Carousel](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/creating-a-portfolio-item/carousel.md): A full-width sliding gallery for a project.
- [Zig Zag](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/creating-a-portfolio-item/zig-zag.md): Content and gallery alternating down the page.
- [Fullscreen](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/creating-a-portfolio-item/fullscreen.md): A gallery that fills the viewport, for image-led projects.
- [Lightbox](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/creating-a-portfolio-item/lightbox.md): Open media straight in an overlay, with no project page.
- [Design Your Own](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/creating-a-portfolio-item/design-your-own.md): Build a project layout yourself with any page builder.
- [Portfolio Post Types](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/portfolio/portfolio-post-types.md): Use Kalium's project layouts on a Case Studies, Services or any other post type, without calling it Portfolio.
- [WooCommerce](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce.md): What Kalium adds to WooCommerce, screen by screen.
- [General Settings](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/general-settings.md): Shop-wide behavior, including catalog mode and the mini cart.
- [Mini Cart](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/general-settings/mini-cart.md): The cart drawer, and how it opens.
- [Free Shipping Bar](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/general-settings/free-shipping-bar.md): Show customers how close they are to free shipping.
- [Product Badges](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/general-settings/product-badges.md): The Sale, Featured, Out of Stock and Backorder labels on your products.
- [Product Catalog](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/product-catalog.md): The shop grid, its columns, filters and pagination.
- [Product Card](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/product-catalog/product-card.md): Design the card that repeats for every product in the grid.
- [Product Page](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/product-page.md): The single product page, from gallery style to tabs.
- [Product Images](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/product-images.md): The sizes WooCommerce saves your product images at.
- [Cart & Checkout](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/cart-and-checkout.md): The cart and checkout layout, including multi-step checkout.
- [My Account](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/my-account.md): Adding an image beside the login and registration forms.
- [Store Notice](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/woocommerce/store-notice.md): A single message shown across the whole store.
- [Search Results](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/post-types/search-results.md): Control what appears when someone searches your site, and how the results look.
- [What are Template Parts?](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/what-are-template-parts.md): Reusable pieces of layout and code you build once and place anywhere.
- [Creating Template Parts](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts.md): Where template parts live, and the six kinds you can create.
- [Creating a Section](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/creating-a-section.md): Placing your own content at a chosen spot on the site.
- [Creating a Section with Elementor](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/creating-a-section/creating-a-section-with-elementor.md): Building a section visually, without needing Elementor Pro.
- [Creating a Section with WPBakery](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/creating-a-section/creating-a-section-with-wpbakery.md): Building a section with WPBakery, which is bundled with the theme.
- [Replace the Header](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/replace-the-header.md): Build a completely different header and use it on the pages you choose, while the rest of the site keeps the header from the Customizer.
- [Replace the Footer](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/replace-the-footer.md): Build a different footer and use it on the pages you choose, while the rest of the site keeps the footer you set up in the Customizer.
- [Replace a Page](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/replace-a-page.md): Take over an entire page (the 404 page, search results, an archive) and design it yourself.
- [Popups](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/popups.md): Content that opens over the page, with triggers and display rules.
- [Code Snippets](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/code-snippets.md): Add PHP, CSS or JavaScript to your site without touching a single theme file.
- [PHP Snippets](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/code-snippets/php-snippets.md): Change how your site behaves, the safe replacement for editing functions.php.
- [CSS and JavaScript Snippets](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/code-snippets/css-and-javascript-snippets.md): Add styles and scripts to your site, with control over how they load.
- [When a Snippet Goes Wrong](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/creating-template-parts/code-snippets/troubleshooting-snippets.md): What to do when a snippet misbehaves, including getting back into a locked admin.
- [Settings](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/settings.md): The panel beside the editor, and which settings each type shows.
- [Type](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/settings/type.md): The six types, and why this setting decides all the others.
- [Display Conditions](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/settings/display-conditions.md): Choosing which pages a template part applies to.
- [Placement](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/settings/placement.md): Where on the page a Section appears, or when a Snippet runs.
- [Container Settings](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/template-parts/settings/container-settings.md): Wrapper width, device visibility and classes for a Section, Header or Footer.
- [Fonts](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/typography/fonts.md): Every font on your site, and where each one applies.
- [How to Add a Font](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/typography/fonts/how-to-add-a-font.md): Adding a font and choosing where it applies.
- [Adding Adobe Fonts](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/typography/fonts/how-to-add-a-font/adding-adobe-fonts.md): Using your Adobe Fonts library in Kalium.
- [Adding Self-Hosted Fonts](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/typography/fonts/how-to-add-a-font/adding-self-hosted-fonts.md): Serving font files from your own server, which also helps with GDPR.
- [Adding External Fonts](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/typography/fonts/how-to-add-a-font/adding-external-fonts.md): Loading a font from another service by linking its stylesheet.
- [Custom Selectors](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/typography/fonts/custom-selectors.md): Point a font at exactly the part of the site you want it on.
- [Advanced Settings](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/typography/fonts/advanced-settings.md): Load a font only where it is needed, and override its defaults.
- [Font Sizes](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/typography/font-sizes.md): Size, line height and letter spacing for every text element.
- [Typography Settings](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/typography/typography-settings.md): How fonts load, and the defaults that apply to all of them.
- [Brand and Logo](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/styling/brand-and-logo.md): Your logo, favicon and the browser colors that go with them.
- [Colors](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/styling/colors.md): The palette behind the whole theme, and how to use it.
- [Buttons](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/styling/buttons.md): One place to set how every button on the site looks.
- [Forms](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/styling/forms.md): The look of every form field, from contact forms to checkout.
- [Layout](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/styling/layout.md): Container width and the spacing between blocks.
- [Link Styles](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/styling/link-styles.md): How links look and animate inside your content.
- [Site Frame](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/styling/site-frame.md): An optional border around the whole site.
- [Translation introduction](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/translation/translation-introduction.md): How Kalium handles translation, and which tool suits your site.
- [Translating with WPML](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/translation/translating-with-wpml.md): Build a multilingual site with WPML, which Kalium is certified for.
- [Translating with Loco Translate](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/translation/translating-with-loco-translate.md): Translate the theme from inside WordPress, with no external tools.
- [Translating with Poedit](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/translation/translating-with-poedit.md): Create or edit a .po file when your language is not bundled.
- [Adding a Language Switcher](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/translation/adding-a-language-switcher.md): Three ways to let visitors change language, using WPML.
- [RTL Languages](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/translation/rtl-languages.md): Running Kalium in Arabic, Hebrew and other right-to-left languages.
- [Parameters and Options](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/parameters-and-options.md): The tabbed panel below the editor, where you override the site-wide settings for one page, post, project or product.
- [Responsive Settings](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/responsive-settings.md): How to set a different value for desktop, tablet and mobile, and why a site can look fine on a computer but wrong on a phone.
- [Page Builders](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/page-builders.md): Kalium works with Elementor, WPBakery and the built-in WordPress editor, and adds its own elements to each.
- [The WordPress Block Editor](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/page-builders/block-editor.md): The editor built into WordPress, and the Kalium blocks that appear alongside the standard ones.
- [Elementor](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/page-builders/elementor.md): What Kalium adds to Elementor, and how the two work together.
- [WPBakery](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/page-builders/wpbakery.md): The builder bundled with Kalium, and the 27 elements the theme adds to it.
- [Adding Custom Code](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/custom-code.md): Where custom PHP, CSS and JavaScript belongs, and why it should never go in a theme file.
- [Shortcodes](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/shortcodes.md): Small tags that drop dynamic content, the copyright line, social icons, a template part, into places that only accept text.
- [Performance](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/performance.md): The settings Kalium gives you for a faster site, and the things that matter more than any of them.
- [Social Icons](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/social-icons.md): Set your social accounts once, then place them anywhere.
- [Image Placeholder](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/image-placeholder.md): What visitors see while an image is still loading.
- [Video and Audio](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/video-and-audio.md): Which player Kalium uses for video and audio, and how autoplay, repeat and YouTube behave.
- [Breadcrumbs](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/breadcrumbs.md): Showing visitors where they are, using Breadcrumb NavXT.
- [Scroll to Top](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/scroll-to-top.md): The button that returns visitors to the top of a long page.
- [Maintenance Mode](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/maintenance-mode.md): Put the site behind a holding page while you work, with no plugin.
- [Lightbox](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/lightbox.md): The overlay that opens images and video, and how to style it.
- [Custom CSS](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/custom-css.md): Adding your own CSS through the Customizer.
- [Integrations](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/other/integrations.md): Third-party keys and services Kalium connects to, starting with Google Maps.
- [Overview](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/wp-cli-api/wp-cli-api.md): Managing Kalium from the command line, for automated deployments and people who work in a terminal.
- [Starter Sites](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/wp-cli-api/starter-sites.md): List, import and remove starter sites from the command line.
- [License Management](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/wp-cli-api/license-management.md): Activate and deactivate the license from the command line.
- [Where to Start](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.md): Where to start when something isn't working.
- [Problems After Updating](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/after-an-update.md): Broken layouts, missing images, lost settings and failed updates.
- [Critical Errors and Blank Pages](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/critical-errors.md): White screens, PHP errors, and getting back into a site you can't reach.
- [Starter Site Import Problems](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/starter-site-imports.md): The list won't load, the import stops partway, images are missing, or the result doesn't match the demo.
- [A Setting Isn't Working](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/settings-not-applying.md): The setting is right, but something else is overriding it. The five usual culprits.
- [Header and Menu Problems](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/header-and-menus.md): Mobile menus that won't open, sticky headers that misbehave, and colors that won't apply.
- [Mobile and Responsive Problems](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/mobile-problems.md): Symptoms that only appear on phones and tablets.
- [Image Problems](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/image-problems.md): Blurry, cropped, oversized or slow-loading images.
- [Shop Problems](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/shop-problems.md): Add to cart, the cart drawer, product galleries and pagination.
- [Plugin Problems and Conflicts](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/plugin-conflicts.md): Bundled plugin updates, double lightboxes, caching plugins, and finding which two plugins don't get along.
- [License and Activation Problems](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/license-and-activation.md): Moving to a new domain, slots in use, activation failures.
- [Child Theme Problems](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/child-theme-problems.md): Broken child themes, settings that vanished, and blank pages.
- [Manage Options in Customizer](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/manage-options-in-customizer.md): Export, import and reset your theme settings, and move them between sites.
- [Bad Hosting Environment](https://docs.kaliumtheme.com/troubleshooting/bad-hosting-environment.md): How to tell whether your host is the real cause, and what to ask for.