FAQ

No. Gutenberg is the native default and works fully out of the box — the home page renders automatically from the theme's own template parts, and every marketing section elsewhere is a native Gutenberg block pattern (block inserter → Patterns → Fieldcraft category). See Block Patterns. If you'd rather use a page builder, the setup wizard currently offers Elementor as a one-click free install. Fieldcraft also includes real element/module support for WPBakery Page Builder and Divi Builder if you already own a license and activate it yourself — all 22 signature sections are available in each — though neither appears as a new pick inside the wizard's builder-picker step. See Getting Started → Choose your builder.

Go to Appearance → Customize → Fieldcraft Options → Colors. There are six swatches (ground, surface, paper, text-on-dark, text-on-paper, accent) that update live as you edit. See Customizer → Colors.

Go to Appearance → Customize → Fieldcraft Options → Typography → Font pairing and pick from six curated, self-hosted pairings (Big Shoulders + IBM Plex Sans is the default; alternates include Anton + Inter, Oswald + Roboto, Bebas Neue + Work Sans, Archivo Black + Archivo, and Teko + IBM Plex Sans). No code required, and no external Google Fonts request is ever made — the five alternate pairings are self-hosted woff2 files that only load once you pick one. If you want a font that isn't one of the six pairings, that's a code-level change: a developer adds the new font's files to /assets/fonts, registers it in fonts.css, and updates the corresponding font-family value in the theme's tokens stylesheet — make that kind of change in a child theme so it survives updates. See Customizer → Typography.

Go to Appearance → Customize → Site Identity → Logo. See Site Setup → Logo.

Yes. Appearance → Customize → Fieldcraft Options → Buttons controls button shape (Square, Rounded, Pill) and style (Fill or Outline). Fieldcraft Options → Layout controls the container max-width (Standard 1440px, Wide 1600px, or Full width 100%), header style (solid or transparent-over-hero), and section spacing rhythm (Default, Compact, Roomy). All six are dropdowns — no code, no child theme required. See Customizer → Buttons and Customizer → Layout.

Almost always: the menu was created but never assigned to a display location. Go to Appearance → Menus, open your menu, and under Menu Settings tick the correct location checkbox (Primary Menu, Footer — Trades, Footer — Company, or Legal), then click Save Menu. See Site Setup → Menus.

The theme's image sizes are cropped to fixed aspect ratios (a 4:5 "job file" card, a 21:9 wide band) so the layout stays consistent. If your uploaded photo has a very different aspect ratio than the demo photo, WordPress will crop it to fit, which can cut off parts of the image. Crop your source photo close to the target ratio before uploading, or use the image editor at Media → Edit Image to adjust the crop after upload.

Not on its own. Fieldcraft validates and processes the form, then fires the fieldcraft_quote_submitted action hook with the sanitized submission data — you (or a form plugin) hook that action to actually send the email or push it to a CRM. See Site Setup → The quote-request form for a copy-paste example.

No plugins are required. Fieldcraft works fully out of the box. The dashboard's Install Plugins screen (Fieldcraft menu) offers exactly four one-click installs — Envato Market, One Click Demo Import, Contact Form 7 and Elementor — all optional. Separately, the Documentation subpage's "Recommended plugins" section lists a couple of general optional suggestions (an alternate form plugin, a caching plugin) purely as informational advice; those aren't part of the one-click installer.

Yes. The child theme only matters if you plan to edit the parent theme's PHP or CSS files directly. If you're only using the Customizer, block patterns and normal page/post content (which covers the vast majority of buyers), activating the parent theme alone is completely fine. If you do want it, the setup wizard's Requirements step installs and activates it for you in one click — see Getting Started → Step 0: Requirements.

Both work. Fieldcraft → Theme Options is a full in-admin settings panel that edits the exact same settings as the Customizer, tab by tab, without the live-preview pane. Use whichever surface you prefer — a change on one always shows up on the other and on the front end. See Customizer → The Theme Options page.

Go to Settings → Reading. Leaving it on "Your latest posts", or assigning a static page with no content, both show the built-in demo home composition. Assigning a static page that has content shows your content instead. See Site Setup → Front page setup.

Go to Appearance → Customize → Fieldcraft Options → Home Sections and untick the section you want to hide (Hero, Trust strip, Services rows, Manifesto, Ledger stats, Emergency band, Process, Job files grid, Reviews, Team band, Notes teaser). See Customizer → Home Sections.

No — it's designed to cooperate. If Yoast, Rank Math, All in One SEO or The SEO Framework is active, Fieldcraft automatically stops printing its own JSON-LD/meta tags so there's no duplication. See SEO.

Yes. Every string uses the fieldcraft text domain and a .pot file ships in /languages. See Translation.

Pick the one that matches your trade: Ironhouse Mechanical (flagship, all trades), Millrace (Plumbing), Northgale (Heating & Cooling), Copperline (Electrical), Ridgeline (Roofing), Punchline (Handyman), Broadcoat (Painting), or Marrowbone (Landscaping). All eight share the same 12 pages (Home plus 11 interior pages) and design system — only the brand name, accent color and home-page copy differ. Import only one; each is a complete package on its own. See Demo Content → Which demo should I import?.

Support requests go through your ThemeForest item page's Comments tab, or the support channel linked from the item description. This documentation site (and the documentation.html quick-start bundled in your download) covers the vast majority of setup questions before you need to open a ticket.

Partly. The flagship Ironhouse demo has real Elementor content for its Home page; the other 7 variants and WPBakery/Divi have no matching builder-native demo package yet. If you switch to WPBakery or Divi in the setup wizard, you start from a blank page and add Fieldcraft's widgets/elements/modules yourself; there's no pre-built demo layout for those two builders in this version. Builder-native demo packages for the rest are planned for a future update. See Getting Started → Choose your builder.

No. The demo picker and the Import button both live inside the wizard's own Import Demo Data step — you never get sent to the One Click Demo Import plugin's own admin page as part of the normal flow. See Getting Started → Step 3.