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Every conversion becomes a theme

T-Builder 0.9.16 turns each converted template into a WordPress theme at once, with role-named Elementor widgets, the design's screenshot, a Theme Settings page, and a real reset.

By Tredcoo 2 min read T-Builder 0.9.16

Yesterday's release packaged a theme on request. From T-Builder 0.9.16 every conversion makes one, on its own, and the widgets inside read like a developer named them.

Widgets named by what they are

The Elementor panel no longer lists "Section 3" or the first words of a heading. Widgets are named and iconed by their role: Site header, Hero, About section, Feature grid, Figures strip, Steps process, CTA banner, Contact panel, Site footer, or the section's own eyebrow, "Core values". Their controls are grouped the same way: Background, with the picture or video laid over the section and a scrim slider to darken it; Eyebrow; Heading; Body copy; Buttons; Images; and repeaters named after their items, Stats, Cards, Chips, Menu links. A Layout panel holds the minimum height.

A theme, at once

The moment a template is converted, the site gets the theme: installed, with the design's own screenshot in the Themes screen, a description of what it ships, the agency as author, the WordPress tags, and header.php and footer.php drawing the design's header and footer on every page. It is activated when the site still runs a default theme; a client's own theme is never switched away from unasked, and the agent offers the switch.

Under Appearance the theme has its own Theme Settings page: Identity & brand, Colours, Typography, Layout & motion, Header, Footer, Contact & forms, Demo content, and a live preview link. Colours and fonts set there lead every section; a section's own Style tab in Elementor overrides them for that section; empty means as designed. Preferences has a switch for accounts that would rather not get a theme with every conversion.

Start over

"Reset everything" now means it: the agent trashes the drafts it made, removes every widget it added from the Elementor panel, the fetched templates and the themes it built, and the theme that was active before comes back.

Update to 0.9.16 from your account, or let the plugin update itself.

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