Balou
WooCommerce theme
Balou is a real starter website for clothing, accessories, retail or other online shops – featuring products from different categories, FAQ, contact and news. Powered by the YOOtheme Pro builder and all its features.
Features
Pages
Home Layout
Services Layout
About Layout
FAQ Layout
Contact Layout
Templates
Product Index Layout
Product Category Layout
Product Post Layout
Post Index Layout
Post Layout
Styles
Default Style
White Grey Style
White Turquoise Style
White Pink Style
White Beige Style
White Orange Style
Content structure
Balou has two content types - products and posts.
Products
The Product content type has 17 custom fields for teaser images, product details, delivery information and FAQs.
| Field | Type (Joomla) | Type (WordPress) |
|---|---|---|
| Intro Image | - | image |
| Intro Image Landscape | media | image |
| Intro Image Landscape Hover | media | image |
| Teaser Image BG Square | media | image |
| Teaser Image BG Square Text Color | list | select |
| Teaser Image BG Landscape | media | image |
| Teaser Image BG Landscape Text Color | list | select |
| Images | subform | - |
| └ Image | media | image |
| └ Image Alt Text | text | text |
| Price | text | - |
| Description | editor | - |
| Size & Fit | editor | repeater |
| └ Content | editor | text area |
| Delivery | editor | repeater |
| └ Content | editor | text area |
| Fabric | text | - |
| Color | text | - |
| Size | text | - |
| Shop Link | url | - |
| FAQ | subform | repeater |
| └ Question | text | text |
| └ Answer | editor | text area |
Product Categories
Products are grouped into different clothing types.
Product Categories
└── Clothing Types
Posts
The default Post content type has 3 custom fields for teaser media, excerpts and related products.
| Field | Type (Joomla) | Type (WordPress) |
|---|---|---|
| Intro Image | - | image |
| Excerpt | text area | - |
| Related Products | articles | relationship |
Relationships
Posts can have related products to show recommended products on the single post page.
Plugin Integration
This WordPress starter website makes use of additional 3rd party plugins. They are free and already preinstalled and configured in the demo package. Here is the list of all plugins.
| Name | Description | Documentation |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Custom Fields | Add custom post types, taxonomies and custom fields | View |
| Category Order and Taxonomy Terms Order | Manually sort terms like categories and tags | View |
| WooCommerce | Set up an e-commerce shop, get secure payments, configurable shipping options and more. | View |
Note The Repeater field is only available in the commercial ACF Pro plugin, which is not included in the demo package. Just install it to display the fields. Alternatively, use a fixed number of custom fields for a similar result.
