VoteStart - Political Campaign Theme

Pick VoteStart, and you’ve just elected the perfect candidate for your new political campaign, election candidate, or political activism website. VoteStart is fully equipped with everything you’ll need to easily create a modern political website. You get donation and event templates, volunteer submission forms, city government and local government templates and much more. VoteStart is sure to give your political campaign a head start!

Here’s a link if you’d like to check out the VoteStart Documentation

VoteStart Features

• Highly Customizable
• Extensive Admin Interface
• Simple One-Click Import of Demo Content
• No coding knowledge required
• Big custom shortcode collection
• Responsive & Retina Ready
• 6 homepage examples
• Large collection of useful inner pages
• Compatible with the Give – WordPress donation plugin
• Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin included ($26 value)
• WPBakery Page Builder Plugin for WordPress included ($46 value)
• Cause List shortcode
• Event List shortcode
• Donation shortcode
• Signature shortcode
• Portfolio List shortcode
• Various Portfolio List layouts
• Masonry Portfolio List
• Gallery Portfolio List
• Portfolio Project Info shortcode
• Portfolio Slider 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
• Instagram List shortcode
• Twitter List shortcode
• Image Marquee shortcode
• Testimonials shortcode
• Social Share shortcode
• Full Screen Image Slider shortcode
• Parallax sections
• Team Carousel shortcode
• Team shortcode
• Mega Menu
• Customizable Google Maps
• Smooth Page Transitions
• Side Area
• Twitter and Instagram social widgets
• Donation widget
• Dropdown Shop Cart widget
• Social Icons Group widget
• Blog List widget
• Product List shortcode
• Pricing table 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
• Standard Header Type
• Vertical Header Type
• Minimal Header Type
• Bottom Header Type
• Divided 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 Indent Layout
• Blog Masonry Layout
• 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

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 1.3 – February 24th, 2026

- Added WPML config file
- Added WooCommerce 10.x compatibility
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.41
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 8.7.2
- Updated VoteStart Core to 1.2
- Updated TGMPA class file
- Updated Google Fonts list
- Updated Countdown shortcode year options (2026-2032)
- Updated Social Share links
- Improved theme security
- Improved social icon widget performance
- Improved social icon vcMap performance
- Improved framework UI/dashboard scripts calls
- Improved votestart_mikado_get_attachment_id_from_url helper function
- Improved PHP 8.3 compatibility
- Improved Google Map API compatibility
- Fixed Welcome Page permissions and $title deprecated notice
- Fixed Blog list image size option not working
- Removed Votestart Twitter Feed plugin due Twitter API changes
- Removed Votestart Instagram Feed plugin due Instagram API changes
- Prevent WooCommerce dropdown cart widget loading on cart page
- Removed twitter-connect script and enqueue
- Removed unnecessary user image delete endpoint and user custom fields
- Minor fixes

Version 1.2 – May 27th, 2021

- Added WordPress 5.7 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 5.3.0 compatibility
- Updated VoteStart Core plugin to version 1.1
- Updated VoteStart Instagram Feed plugin to version 2.0.1
- Updated VoteStart Twitter Feed plugin to version 1.0.2
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to version 6.4.11
- Updated WP Bakery Page Builder plugin to version 6.6.0
- Updated child theme to 1.0.1
- Fixed Revolution Slider preview functionality
- Fixed title background image parallax zoom behavior
- Improved Countdown shortcode calculation
- Improved PHP 8 compatibility

Version 1.1 – October 16th, 2020

- Added WordPress 5.5 compatibility
- Updated VoteStart Core plugin to version 1.0.1
- Updated VoteStart Instagram Feed plugin to version 2.0
- Updated VoteStart Twitter Feed plugin to version 1.0.1
- Fixed Header issue on donation pages
- Removed unused file instagram-redirect.php from VoteStart Instagram Feed plugin
- Removed unused file twitter-redirect.php from VoteStart Twitter Feed plugin