Aurum – Luxury eCommerce Theme

Aurum is a premium WooCommerce WordPress theme crafted for brands that value both performance and aesthetics. Designed with a modern and refined visual style, Aurum helps you build stunning online stores for fashion, technology, lifestyle, furniture, jewelry, beauty, and premium products.

The theme features a fully dynamic homepage, allowing you to manage hero sliders, editorial sections, product showcases, testimonials, statistics, and newsletter areas directly from the WordPress dashboard. Every section is customizable without touching a single line of code. Aurum delivers a fast and seamless shopping experience through AJAX-powered product filtering, live search, instant add-to-cart functionality, and a dynamic cart drawer. PJAX navigation reduces page reloads and creates smooth transitions throughout the store. Key Features • Premium and modern WooCommerce design • AJAX product filtering and shop navigation • AJAX add-to-cart with live cart drawer • Dark & Light mode support • Dynamic homepage builder • Hero slider management system • Advanced product attributes and filters • Fully responsive layout • Translation ready • WooCommerce compatible • Customizable colors and typography • Testimonials and editorial content sections • Newsletter integration • Child theme included • Optimized for performance and user experience Whether you're launching a luxury fashion brand, a modern electronics store, or a premium lifestyle marketplace, Aurum provides the tools and flexibility needed to create a memorable shopping experience and maximize conversions.

Features

• Premium Modern WooCommerce Design

• AJAX Shop Filtering & Sorting • AJAX Add to Cart • Live Cart Drawer • PJAX Navigation for Faster Browsing • Dark & Light Mode Support • Dynamic Homepage Sections • Advanced Hero Slider Management • Fully Responsive Layout • WooCommerce Ready • Advanced Product Filters • Product Attribute Filtering • Product Color Swatches • Product Brand Filtering • Product Reviews & Ratings • Related Products Section • Custom Product Gallery • Testimonial Management • Newsletter Integration • Animated Statistics Counters • Announcement Top Bar • Custom Footer Builder • Customizable Color System • Unlimited Accent Colors • Translation Ready • Child Theme Included • SEO Friendly Structure • Performance Optimized • Cross-Browser Compatible • Mobile-First Experience • One-Click Theme Setup • Developer Friendly Code • Regular Updates • Detailed Documentation

Requirements

• WordPress 6.2 or higher

• PHP 7.4 or higher (PHP 8.0+ recommended) • WooCommerce (latest version recommended) • MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+ • Modern web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge) • Recommended memory limit: 256MB+ • HTTPS enabled for checkout and account pages

Instructions

AURUM Documentation · v1.0.0 Getting started Introduction Requirements Installation Front page setup Content Hero slider Menus Widgets Testimonials Customizing Customizer options Dark & light mode Child theme WooCommerce Shop & cart Filters & attributes Product page More Translation Credits & support Technology, refined Aurum theme guide

Thank you for choosing Aurum — a premium, animation-rich WooCommerce theme. This guide walks you through installation, setup and every option, from the dynamic hero to the AJAX shop.

01Introduction

Aurum is built so that everything visitors see is editable from the WordPress dashboard — the header, footer, hero slider, marquee, editorial block, stat counters, testimonials and newsletter are all dynamic, with elegant demo fallbacks so the site looks complete from the moment it is activated.

Dark & lightAJAX shopHero sliderPJAX navigationFully dynamicTranslation-ready

02Requirements

• WordPress 6.2+
• PHP 7.4+ (8.0+ recommended)
• WooCommerce (latest) — required for the shop, cart and product pages. Aurum also runs beautifully as a blog/marketing theme without it.

03Installation

1. In your dashboard go to Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme.
2. Upload aurum.zip, click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Install & activate WooCommerce from Plugins → Add New to unlock shop features.
4. Open Appearance → Customize to set your logo, colours and options.

Tip: If you prefer to customize code, install the included aurum-child theme instead and activate that — see Child theme.

04Front page setup

To display the long Aurum home page (hero, categories, featured, editorial, bestsellers, stats, testimonials, newsletter):

1. Create a new empty Page (e.g. “Home”) and, optionally, a Page named “Journal” for your blog.
2. Go to Settings → Reading.
3. Set Your homepage displays to A static page.
4. Choose “Home” as the Homepage and “Journal” as the Posts page.

Each home section can be switched on or off and edited under Customize → Aurum Options → Front Page Sections.

05Hero slider

The hero is powered by a dedicated Slides post type that appears in your dashboard sidebar after activation.

1. Go to Slides → Add New.
2. Set the Featured Image — this becomes the slide background.
3. Fill in the Slide Content box: eyebrow, title (before / highlighted / after), text and two buttons.
4. Control the order with the Order field under Page Attributes (lower = earlier).

No slides yet? A set of demo slides is shown automatically until you create your own. Slider timing is set under Customize → Aurum Options → Hero.

06Menus

Create menus under Appearance → Menus and assign them to these locations:

LocationUsed forPrimaryThe main header navigation (desktop).MobileThe slide-out mobile drawer menu.FooterOptional links in the footer area (try to use the Footer Widget instead of the Footer Menu.).

If no menu is assigned, Aurum shows a sensible fallback that links to your shop and pages.

07Widgets

Manage widgets under Appearance → Widgets. Available areas:

• Blog Sidebar — shown alongside blog/archive pages where applicable.
• Footer Column 1–3 — three footer widget columns.

08Testimonials

Add customer quotes via the Testimonials post type:

1. Go to Testimonials → Add New.
2. Use the title for the customer’s name and the content for the quote.
3. Set the Role (e.g. “Verified buyer”) in the meta box.

The home testimonials section shows up to three; a demo set appears until you add your own.

09Customizer options

All options live under Appearance → Customize → Aurum Options:

PanelWhat you can changeColorsAccent and bright-accent colours used site-wide.General & PerformanceDefault mode, sticky header, PJAX, open-cart-on-add.TopbarAnnouncement bar text and visibility.HeroSlider auto-play interval.Front Page SectionsToggle each home section on/off.MarqueeRepeater of scrolling strip items.EditorialEyebrow, title, text, button and three spec stats.Stats CountersRepeater of animated number / suffix / label rows.NewsletterCopy and an optional form action URL (e.g. Mailchimp).FooterAbout text, copyright and payment labels. Accent words: In titles, wrap a word in asterisks to italicise & colour it. For example First access, *always*. renders “always” in the accent colour.

10Dark & light mode

Aurum ships with both a deep “obsidian” dark theme and a refined light theme.

• Visitors toggle modes with the sun/moon button in the header; their choice is remembered.
• Set the default mode under Customize → Aurum Options → General & Performance.

11Child theme

For safe code customizations that survive updates, use the bundled aurum-child theme.

1. Upload aurum-child.zip via Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme.
2. Activate Aurum Child.
3. Add CSS to the child’s style.css and PHP to its functions.php.

Example — change the product page “Shipping” tab text from the child theme:

add_filter( 'aurum_shipping_tab_content', function ( $text ) {
    return 'Free next-day delivery on all orders.';
} );

12Shop & cart

With WooCommerce active, the shop, cart, checkout and account pages work out of the box.

• The shop archive filters, sorts, searches and paginates entirely over AJAX — no page reloads.
• Add to cart is AJAX-powered with a slide-out cart drawer and a live header count.
• Site-wide PJAX navigation is enabled, but Cart, Checkout and My Account are intentionally excluded for payment reliability.

Products per page & columns follow your WooCommerce / Customizer catalog settings.

13Filters & attributes

The shop sidebar builds its filters from your real store data:

FilterSourceCategoryWooCommerce product categories (product_cat).BrandA product_brand taxonomy if present, otherwise a pa_brand attribute.ColourA pa_color product attribute (swatch colour auto-detected from the term name).PriceAuto-ranged from your lowest and highest product prices.AvailabilityIn-stock and on-sale toggles.RatingAverage review rating.

To enable brand/colour filters, create those attributes under Products → Attributes, add terms, and assign them to products.

14Product page

The single-product page features a custom gallery, fully functional native add-to-cart (including variable products and quantity steppers), an assurance row, product meta, and tabs for Description, Specifications, Reviews and Shipping, followed by related products.

• Gallery: uses the product image plus gallery images; click a thumbnail to swap the main image.
• Specifications: pulls from your product attributes / additional information.
• Reviews: standard WooCommerce reviews with rating and form.

15Translation

Aurum is fully translation-ready with the text domain aurum. A template file is included at languages/aurum.pot.

1. Open aurum.pot in a tool like Poedit.
2. Translate the strings and save a .po / .mo pair (e.g. fr_FR.mo).
3. Place the files in the theme’s languages folder.

16Credits & support

Fonts

Cormorant Garamond & Jost — both under the SIL Open Font License, served via Google Fonts.

Images

No images are bundled. Demo fallback images reference Unsplash for preview only — replace them with your own media in production.

Built on WordPress & WooCommerce. Iconography is a custom inline SVG sprite included with the theme.

Aurum WordPress Theme — © 2026. Distributed under the GNU GPL v2 or later. Thank you for your purchase.