New Imagehover Addon

29 July 2020

Today we released the new Imagehover Addon. With the Addon you can have images follow your mousecursor when you hover over a link.

Find out more here.

If you have the Pro or Studio License, these contain all addons and now contain the Imagehover Addon too. Look for the email you got when you purchased your Pro or Studio License and click "View Product". There you can download the Imagehover Addon.

Speed Improvements

18 April 2020

• New Frontend! We redeveloped the whole frontend part of Lay Theme and it is now a PHP frontend. This gives us much improved loading times and better plugin compatibility. Everything should still look the same though.
• 1 to 2 seconds faster initial loading times
• Please update Lay Theme and all Plugins for this to work.
• Redesigned Gridder Context Menus
• Improved Image loading behaviour. Now in-view images are loaded first before the ones below are loaded.
• Carousel: When your carousel has autoplay activated, there is a new option to disable clicking/dragging the carousel. This will disable any carousel navigation and hide the carousel's controls like dots, mouse cursors and arrows.

Mobile Menu Update

29 August 2019

• New Mobile Menu Customizer Options!
• Find these new Options in "Customize" → "Mobile (Smartphone)"
• Choose between 4 different Mobile Menu Styles
• Option "do Animation"
• Menu Point Line Height, Padding Left, Top, Right, Bottom
• Mobile Menu Icons: Choose between 3 different preset Menu Icons or use your own
• Other Mobile improvements
• "Customize" → "Mobile" → "Mobile Spaces" can now be in Pixel too
• Use a custom Mobile Menu. This can be useful if you want different Menu Points in your mobile version compared to your desktop version. Create a Menu in "Appearance" → "Menus" and then assign it to "Mobile Menu" in "Appearance" → "Menus" → "Manage Locations".

Major Carousel Update

11 April 2019

Please update Lay Theme and your Carousel Addon. With the new Carousel version you have many new options!
Watch my YouTube Video about it!

• Show multiple slides at once
• Make your carousel browser filling, using "Fixed Height": 100vh
• Have different transition types for different carousels: Slide, Fade or None
• Use alternative prev/next buttons for each slide. If your slide is a black image, you can use white prev/next buttons for this slide for example.
• Link an image slide
• "Fill Slides" Make your images always fill the carousel
• "Slides Width"
• "Free Drag" make your sliding carousel freely draggable
• Put Captions and Numbers on top of the carousel

Update 2.6.7 Search Beta

12 December 2018

There is a new Search Feature!
See a video about it here: https://youtu.be/538zMPMnKEI

Update 2.5.6 Multilanguage

7 June 2018

Please update the Lightbox and Carousel plugins to make them compatible with the latest features!

• A new Element: "Elementgrid". Add hundreds of images with a few clicks. Has layout settings for desktop, tablet and phone. Find out more.
• Multilanguage! With the plugin qtranslate-X you can now make your website multilingual! Find out how.

These are the most important changes. Head to Version History for the full list.

Update 2.5.0 released

26 March 2018

Please update all of your Lay Theme Addons so they will work with the latest Lay Theme version.

These are the most important changes. Head to Version History for the full list.

• A new Gridder! We have completely re-developed the Gridder as a "React" App. This means the Gridder is more performant and our code is much better structured.
• New "Stack" Element! In your Gridder click "+More"→"+Stack". Put elements inside the stack element to have multiple elements on top of each other in one row.
• New Feature: Multiple Menus. Lay Options → Menu Amount. Create up to 4 Menus now!

Update 2.0.7 released

3 February 2017

Please update all of your Lay Theme Addons so they will work with the latest Lay Theme version. Also, see if on mobile your site title and menu bar are still positioned nicely. If not, please position them in "Customize" → "Mobile (Smartphone)".

These are the most important changes. Head to Version History for the full list.

• A new feature "Thumbnail Grid" in the Gridder in "+More" → "+Thumbnail Grid". Now you can have a grid of project thumbnails that always show all project thumbnails of a chosen category. You can have different layout settings for phone, tablet and desktop. See a video in the documentation.
• The Intro can now be a HTML5 video and you can have a phone intro now.
• For phone, you can now use a regular menu instead of a mobile menu with a burger. "Use desktop menu as mobile menu" in "Customizer" → "Mobile (Smartphone)" → "Mobile Menu"

Key Activation Fix & Moving Lay Theme Website Video Tutorial

28 September 2016

With Lay Theme 1.9.1 license key activation should work better. Previously on some webhosts keys could not be activated, but I switched to another license key server and now it should work for everyone :).

Many people had a hard time moving their Lay Theme website to another URL. I just did a video tutorial that is easier to understand than the written tutorial we had before.

Update 1.8.0 released

26 July 2016

These are the most important changes. Head to Version History for the full list.

• Lay Theme is now using a new system for License Keys. Please enter your License Key that you received when you purchased Lay Theme in "Lay Options" → "License Key" and click "Activate". If you have already entered your key before please enter it again and click "Activate".
• New feature "mouseover image for thumbnails". Now a project thumbnail image can switch to another image on mouseover. Activate the feature in "Lay Options" → "Extra Features" → "Activate mouseover image for thumbnails".
• New feature "video for thumbnails". Now a project thumbnail can be a HTML5 video. Activate the feature in "Lay Options" → "Extra Features" → "Activate video for thumbnails".
• "Next Project Links" can now be created using buttons inside the texteditor instead of buttons in a contextmenu (Link to documentation). This fixes an issue where "Next Project Link" text did not work with text-align.
• Customizer: "Project Thumbnails" → "Project Thumbnail Mouseover" → new settings for brightness on mouseover. Brightness works better than the "show Background Color" setting if all you need is a darker or brighter thumbnail on mouseover. With brightness you will not experience glitchy 1 pixel lines in Safari on mouseover.

Update 1.7.5 released

29 June 2016

These are the most important changes. Head to Version History for the full list.

• New feature "Custom Phone Layouts"! Link to documentation. With this feature you can switch between desktop and phone layouts in the Gridder. For your phone layout you could just change the order of your elements or even create a different layout with different content. Please update your Carousel Addon before you use this feature.
• In a row with "Use Browser Height for Row Height" activated, you can now place text elements anywhere you want, even if the columns are occupied already
• Gridder: When adding/editing HTML5 videos that have "autoplay" activated, there is now a new checkbox "Play/pause on click"
• "Lay Options" → "Cover Options" added "Disable for phone" setting
• Grouped options in "Lay Options" and added links to docs
• Fixed row background images sometimes not sharp
• Fixed linking to a page in a text not working when admin panel language is not English
• Fixed a misconfiguration that can cause the media library to load slowly
• Fixed "Customize" → "Menu Style" → "Menu" → "Text Format" not working

Text-Slides for Carousel 1.1.0 Update

30 May 2016

Carousels now support slides with text! When adding a carousel, click "+Text". This version is only compatible with Lay Theme 1.7.3 and greater so please update Lay Theme as well. These are the other fixes that come with 1.1.0:

• Fixed double slide bug
• Fixed captions jumping bug
• Now uses Lay Theme setting "Never show resized images"
• Added support for bigger image sizes than 1920px width
• Now there is always a pause of 3 seconds before autoplay is resumed if someone navigates the slideshow by clicking
• Fixed page not scrollable on touch devices when swiping vertically on slideshow of "Transition Type": "Slide"

Update 1.7.0 released

8 May 2016

These are the most important changes. Head to Version History for the full list.

• A new feature called Covers. Here is an explanation
• Embed Instagram images, SoundCloud songs and more in the Gridder with "+More" → "+Embed"
• Gridder now works on smaller screens and is more performant
• Improved Simple Parallax feature. Right click an element in the Gridder and find a "y-parallax" slider that makes elements scroll faster
• If you wish to keep using the old Simple Parallax Feature, go to "Lay Options" and click "Use old Simple Parallax"
• Insert HTML in the Gridder with "+More" → "+HTML"
• New options for "Lay Options" → "Intro Image"
• New options for mobile site title in "Customize" → "Mobile" → "Mobile Site Title"
• "Hide when scrolling down" setting now independent for menu and site title
• Footers can now be "sticky" meaning they will stick to the bottom even if the page content does not fill the browser: "Lay Options" → "Footers" → "Sticky Footer"
• 14 bugfixes :D

Captions for Lightbox 1.2.0 Update

21 March 2016

If you update Lightbox to 1.2.0 and Lay Theme to 1.6.8 you can have captions for your Lightbox! Just right click an image in the Gridder and choose "Edit Lightbox Caption".

Here are more changes:

• Fixed opening animation bug
• Fixed in some cases image staying there when closing
• Option "Sliding Duration"
• Option "Space Between Image and Caption"
• Option "Minimum Space below Image for Captions (only applies if image has caption)"
• Option "Space Around Image" in px replaces option "Image Size"
• Lightbox can now be activated for categories too

If you find any bugs or if you have questions please let me know in the forum.

Lay Theme not free anymore

1 March 2016

Hey,
Lay Theme has been free since its launch in June 2015. Since then I have been updating it with new features and fixes. There has been at least one update every month except for last December.

To me Lay Theme is a “never ending” project. I want to keep coding new features and improvements for it in the future. But it’s financially not sustainable for me to invest time into Lay Theme (more updates, forum support) and give it away for free.

That’s why it’s not free anymore. With the “Single License” you get Lay Theme and 1 Addon of your choice for $49. This license is valid for 1 website, either personal or commercial. I think this is a fair price compared to other themes in the same niche.

If you already have a Lay Theme website you can keep using Lay Theme on that website for free of course!

Long live Lay Theme :)