• Integrated RokGallery for images
• Easy to use background picker
• Color chooser
• Transparent drop-down menu background
• Best for: Portfolio, Travel

Camber

• Advanced color style controls
• Wide range of styles and backgrounds
• 3D look
• Best for: Corporate, Stores
  

Reflex

• Introduced RokGallery
• Gradient styled menu
• Pre-sets are all dark
• Best for: Portfolio, Creative
  

Modulus

• Integrated styling for 9 RocketTheme plugins
• Advanced menu
• Corporate styling
• Best for: Corporate, Stores
  

Nebulae

• Advanced, sci fi look
• Transparent menus
• Integrated backgrounds
• Best for: Technology, Sci Fi, Creative
  

Entropy

• Independent styling of page sections
• Artistic, trendy retro look
• Strong bright colors
• Best for: Creative, Fashion
  

Tachyon

• Integration with social plug-in BuddyPress
• Animated LavaLamp splicemenu
• Soft corporate style with background texturizer
• Gradient widget styling options
• Best for: Community, Corporate

Mercado

• eCommerce plugin integration and add-ons
• Attractive side panel layout
• Animated LavaLamp menu option
• Best for: Stores, Corporate, Technology

Maelstrom

• Animated auto-moving header background graphics.
• Unique scrolling image rotator strip.
• Best for: Travel, Corporate, Technology

Syndicate

• Integrates multiple menus.
• Color Chooser by area.
• Best for: News, Blogs, Corporate

Paradox

• Friendly, warm graphics and backgrounds.
• Scrolling widget content rotators in four areas.
• Best for: Small Businesses, Food Services, Non-Profits

Hybrid

• Stylistic versatility through 4 independent configurable page color zone areas.
• User-controlled op-out widget section.
• Configurable styled transparent RokStories image and content rotator widget.
• Best for:  Corporate, Creative

Omnicron

• 3D product feature and price RokFeature Table.
• Integrated product image top section.
• Best for: Retail, Services, Technology

Zephyr

• Transparent design base with multiple background selections.
• Configurable RokStories image and content showcase widget.
• Best for: Technology, Games

Panacea

• Easy-to-use Color Chooser.
• Large sub-header image and content rotator.
• Logo on menu bar.
• Best for: Corporate, Portfolio

Somaxiom

• Unique easy-to-apply double circle image frame.
• Bold techie look.
• Upper and lower case letter options.
• Speedy loading and navigation.
• Best for: Technology, Corporate

Juxta

• Strong graphic styling provides a range of creative designs and textured backgrounds.
• The integrated and easily configurable RokNewsPager Widget can be used to dynamically generate related sidebar content by category. For example, in this tourism website, supplementary information about places automatically appears in the sidebar.
• Best for: Creative, Art, Portfolios

Pros

• Graphic quality
• Layout control
• Design control
• Fusion menu
• Wide range of themes
• Versatility
• Friendly admin interface
• Support forums
• iPhone support

Cons

• Learning curve
• Bugs
• Complicates the simple WordPress CMS
• Doesn’t work with all WordPress plugins
• No built-in Android support

Known Bugs

• Layout and Content control saving issues, requires patience to work

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WordPress SEO by Yoast (All in One SEO works)

Demo Installation
This is one installation option. You end up with the complete demo. If you want to build your site using the demo, you’ll need to erase and edit all the existing material. I recommend installing the demo on a sub-domain and keeping it as a reference, you can copy and paste text such as widgets from there into a blank theme.
Instructions for installing rocketlauncher as a manual install of WordPress, using a host with cpanel.

• Using the Database Wizard, create an SQL database, write down the database name, user name and password.
• FTP the zipped Rocketlauncher into the main domain folder.
• Go to File Manager, select the zipped file, and select Extract.
• Open and Edit the wp-config-sample file, add the database info. You need your host name along with the database info.
• Change the file name to wp-config, without the word ‘sample’.
• Go the domain to finish the installation.

Your host can help you with this, you’ll need to explain why you need to do a manual install.
Once you have the demo installed, you can access the backend to see how everything is configured in Gantry.

WordPress Theme Installation
This is the simplest way to use a Gantry theme. You install it the same way you would install any zipped theme: Download the theme to your computer, then in Appearance / Themes / Install Themes – select the Upload option, select the downloaded theme from your computer, upload and install. The theme comes completely blank.

Overrides
In the Theme Gantry settings, you’ll start with the Default setting, and then create one initial override, for the Home Page. Change all the Default settings to what you want on all pages, such as Header, Logo, Navigation, and Footer. The menu won’t show up until you create some posts and pages and create a WordPress menu, which Gantry will use. For the Home page, go to Widgets to add special content. Use plus to add an override, pencil to edit the name, and Save anytime you make changes. You need to hit Enter to save a new name.

Then in the Home Page Override, go to Assignments and select the home page from menu, and Save the Override change. Make sure you’re in the correct Override when you’re selecting Styles and Content. You don’t need to save when you’re in Widgets, but you need to be in the correct Override.  There is a bug with Widgets, new changes don’t always show up right away until you add multiple extra widgets. You can create additional Overrides for individual pages or page types.

Menu
After you create a few pages and posts, use the WordPress menu to create a menu. It doesn’t matter that it tells you that your theme doesn’t support the menu, you need to start with a WordPress menu. You can edit it afterwards normally.
In Widgets, drag the Gantry menu widget into the Navigation widget, and set your menu title.

Logo
There is a Gantry logo widget which can go into Header or Top, or anywhere. Background image is controlled in the Override Style.
You can replace images using FTP, make sure you’re in the correct theme option. For example, Juxta has six main layout options.

Home Page
Use the Demo backend to see how the home page widget sections are configured.
At the bottom of widgets, you have styling options which match the Demo Features Widget Variations.

Plugins
You can use RokNewsPager to have posts from specific categories show up with related posts.

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