After all those add-ons released last week it’s time to spice things up with a fancy new (child) theme. That theme is Locations, a new and colorful take on the well-established Directory design. Lots of design tweaks Locations is the first Directory child theme with a new approach to the header city selector. The button for expanding the cities section was usually located at the very top (left) of the site. Now the selector is available next to the logo. Also, the header search fields are hidden for the first time. To show them visitors will need to click on the big search button on the right side. Big changes have also come to the listing detail page. The map for instance isn’t placed within a container and will automatically expand towards the right margin on devices with large screen sizes. Unlike the parent Directory theme, the page structure doesn’t feature tabs. Instead, usually tabbed elements are divided with h2 headings (e.g. Description, Special Offer, Video, etc). Full integration with Directory add-ons Recently released add-ons such as List Filter, Category Icons and Header Fields will all work beautifully with the Locations child theme. One exception is the Tabs Manager add-on considering Locations detail page doesn’t utilize tabs. Despite the theme name suggesting otherwise, the Events add-on will also work perfectly. For a full list of all available add-on open the this page. More free map icons For the Locations demo we didn’t use our original icon set (available for download here), we instead used an icon set more in line with the rest of the theme. There are around 60 icons inside the set, if you’re interested in downloading them just click here. View Live Demo, take a Test Drive or Purchase Locations
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