Holmes - Digital Agency Theme

Welcome to Holmes, a theme we made specifically for every digital agency, marketing agency, video, technology & advertising agency, creative studio and advertisement. You get absolutely all the templates a digital agency or marketing studio can wish for, including the portfolio, shop and blog layouts, as well as a collection of 50+ powerful shortcodes for anything you can imagine. Make a statement with your site! Get Holmes and your digital agency website is sure to stand out in a positive light!

Here’s a link if you wish to view the Holmes documentation.

If you have any questions or wish to learn more about Holmes theme, we’ve compiled a huge selection of useful articles which you can easily lookup over at our Knowledge Base.

In case you have already purchased Holmes and you happen to have some questions about it, feel free to visit our Help Center where our support team will be more than glad to help you out.

Check out the Qode Video Tutorials where you can find step-by-step guides on how to customize our themes to achieve exactly what your website needs.

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Holmes Features

• Highly Customizable
• Extensive Admin Interface
• Simple One-Click Import of Demo Content
• No coding knowledge required
• Big custom shortcode collection
• Responsive & Retina Ready
• 16 homepage examples
• Large collection of useful inner pages
• Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin included ($26 value)
• WPBakery Page Builder Plugin for WordPress included ($46 value)
• Masonry Gallery shortcode
• Portfolio List shortcode
• Various Portfolio List layouts
• Masonry Portfolio List
• Gallery Portfolio List
• Portfolio Project Info shortcode
• Portfolio Category List shortcode
• Portfolio Slider shortcode
• Portfolio Fullscreen Slider shortcode
• Portfolio Pair shortcode
• Interactive Portfolio Links shortcode
• Various Portfolio Single layouts
• Portfolio Masonry Single layouts
• Portfolio Gallery Single layouts
• Portfolio Slider Single layouts
• Full Width Portfolio Single layouts
• Small Images Portfolio Single layouts
• Interactive Icon Showcase shortcode
• Vertical Split Slider shortcode
• Numbered Title shortcode
• Testimonials shortcode
• Social Share shortcode
• Full Screen Info shortcode
• Parallax sections
• Team Carousel shortcode
• Team shortcode
• Mega Menu
• Customizable Google Maps
• Smooth Page Transitions
• Side Area
• Twitter and Instagram social widgets
• Dropdown Shop Cart widget
• Social Icons Group widget
• Blog List widget
• Product List shortcode
• Pricing table shortcode
• Instagram List shortcode
• Twitter List shortcode
• Animation Holder shortcode
• Clients Carousel shortcode
• Clients Grid shortcode
• Video Button shortcode
• Anchor link functionality for one page sites
• Video Background Sections
• Background images in sections
• Minimal Header Type
• Expanding Header Type
• Compact Header Type
• Multiple header behaviors
• Separate logo variants for dark and light header skin
• Separate logo for mobile header
• Header Top area
• Style mobile header separately
• Highly customizable title area
• Custom Sidebars
• Mikado Search functionality
• Customizable Footer Layout – up to 4 columns
• Separate Footer Bottom area
• Choose your grid size
• Powerful typography options
• 800+ Google Fonts
• Multiple Blog List Layouts
• Blog Standard Layout
• Blog List shortcode
• Custom Post Formats for Standard, Gallery, Link, Quote, Video, and Audio blog posts
• Optional social share functionality
• Smooth Scroll
• Boxed layout option
• Back to Top button functionality
• Child Theme Included
• Translation ready
• WooCommerce compatible
• WPML Plugin compatible
• Find out more about Holmes WordPress Theme

We do not own the copyright for the images featured in this theme. The images in question are only used for presentational purposes on our demos. These images cannot be used on your website, unless you purchase the license from a stock image website yourself.

Change Log

Version 1.9 – December 25th, 2025

- Added WPML config file
- Added WooCommerce 10.x compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 8.7.2
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.7.40
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.5
- Updated pot files
- Improved Google Maps API compatibility
- Improved theme's security
- Removed Holmes Instagram Feed plugin due Instagram API changes
- Removed Holmes Twitter Feed plugin due Twitter API changes
- Removed Simple Line Icons, Linear Icons and Dripicons packs to increase theme performance
- Minor fixes

Version 1.8 – October 9th, 2024

- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 7.9
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.7.20
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.4.3
- Updated chart.js scrip to 3.9.1 (same as in WPBakery)
- Fixed conflict between Line Graph and WPBakery Charts
- Fixed Creation of dynamic property in php classes
- Improved PHP 8.2 compatibility
- Improved Line Graph with Enable Color Fill option
- Line Graph not displaying Bezier curve anymore (not supported for monotone cubic interpolation)

Version 1.8 notes:chart.js 3.9.1 doesn’t support Bezier curve for monotone cubic interpolation anymore, so Line Graph elements will have straight lines instead.

Version 1.7 – July 11th, 2023

- Added WordPress 6.2.2 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 7.8.2 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.13.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.6.14
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.4.2
- Fixed minified JS code

Version 1.6 – May 4th, 2023

- Added WordPress 6.2 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 7.6.1 compatibility
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.4.1
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.11.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.6.12
- Fixed Portfolio single share buttons
- Improved TGMPA functionality

Version 1.5 – February 7th, 2023

- Added WordPress 6.1.1 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 7.3.0 compatibility
- Added Disable Google Fonts option and functionality
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.4
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.10.0
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.6.10
- Fixed countdown years dropdown option
- Improved Google Maps API with callback function
- Improved Search widget functionality

Version 1.4 – June 22nd, 2022

- Added WordPress 6.0 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 6.6.1 compatibility
- Updated Holmes Child theme to 1.0.1
- Updated WPBakery plugin to 6.9.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.5.25
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.3
- Updated Holmes Instagram Feed plugin to 2.1
- Updated Holmes Twitter Feed plugin to 1.1
- Fixed RevSlider start animation after Fullscreen Info element
- Fixed PerfectScrollbar
- Fixed mobile menu
- Fixed Single Product stars rating
- Fixed revolution slider preview functionality
- Fixed potential security issue
- Fixed cart widgets in WordPress 5.8
- Fixed creation of the Custom Sidebars in new Widgets layout
- Fixed 'Bulk Select' functionality with Menus
- Fixed Portfolio single upload masonry image size
- Improved holmes_mkdf_get_attachment_id_from_url function
- Improved theme registration to block Shortcodes and CPT loading if the theme is not registered
- Removed Google Plus options

Version 1.3.2 – April 7th, 2021

- Added PHP 8 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery plugin to 6.6.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.4.6
- Updated Holmes Core plugin to 1.2.2
- Fixed pricing table bug on Safari

Version 1.3.1 – September 7th, 2020

- Updated WPBakery plugin to 6.4.1
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.2.23
- Updated Holmes Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0

Version 1.3 – September 7th, 2020

- Added WordPress 5.5 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 4.4.1 compatibility
- Updated Holmes Core to 1.2.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.2.22
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.3.0

Version 1.2 – December 25th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.8.1 compatibility
- Added Holmes Dashboard
- Updated Holmes Core on 1.2
- Updated WPBakery plugin to 6.1
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.1.5
- Updated Holmes Instagram Feed plugin to 1.0.1
- Updated Holmes Twitter Feed plugin to 1.0.1
- Fixed social share on blog posts
- Fixed testimonials carousel pagination bug
- Fixed interactive portfolio links scroll bug
- Improved Import
- Improved Welcome Page
- Changed Holmes Options Position
- Removed unused file instagram-redirect.php from Holmes Instagram Widget plugin
- Removed unused file twitter-redirect.php from Holmes Twitter Feed plugin

Version 1.1.3 – April 23rd, 2019

- Minor theme improvements

Version 1.1.2 – April 22nd, 2019

- Fixed broken testimonials

Version 1.1.1 – April 19th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.1 compatibility
- Improved theme files
- Fixed wrong escaped labels
- Fixed broken child theme issue

Version 1.1 – March 5th, 2019

- Improved framework files
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8.3
- Updated Holmes Core to 1.1