Since the Kallyas launch 6 years ago, we had some major milestones that turned it into the best of breed themes on ThemeForest.
But the journey doesn’t stop here. As we try to keep a high status of quality products, we’ve started producing a new version of Kallyas, trying to outpace not only ourselves but other competitors also.
A new milestone is coming…so here is what to expect from the near future.
The new Zion page builder plugin
The Kallyas current included page builder will become a WordPress standalone plugin with its own back-end WordPress Management. It is specially designed for our customers’ needs and will always come free together with our theme.
Benefiting from all the features of an autonomous plugin, you will be the sole Creator of your website by managing the overall settings, templates and presets.
History control of actions
The era of “oops… I deleted this, how do I undo?” has now come to an end. You will have full control over your actions while editing a page. This will be a major upgrade as it was demanded by lots of our customers. Moreover, you will also have full control over the WordPress page revisions that will also include Zion builder modifications.
Flexibility
Are you a back-end or a front-end type of designer? We’ve got you covered!
The new page builder system will offer 4 types of viewing the page structure:
- live editor – Just like the current builder but on steroids
- wire-frame view – similar to old back-end WordPress page builders
- tree-view of elements
- sections view
Responsive preview
There will be a full live responsive control over your page elements. One click away to change the design on the mobile, tablet or other devices, without leaving your current window. Designing the layout on different devices will be a kids game: you will visually decide the sizes and positioning of the elements for each screen.
Better UX and UI
Did you enjoy dragging and dropping our elements in Kallyas? We really hope this new experience will be more than satisfying. Accessibility will be one of the major characteristics of our product, as our target market will be literally anyone who wants to build a site.
Unified element options
No more searching for the right element options. Because creating a website should be an enjoyable experience, we’ve thought about a new simplified structure. The options will be not only intuitive but will also have all the “spices” needed for all the fancy elements.
Library
The new Library system will include in addition to over 100+ page builder elements a multitude of pre-made sections already designed by us. We’ve curated the best and most popular design sections on the internet and adapted them to the latest trends so you don’t have to do the heavy lifting. The included element Library will speed up the building process tremendously. If you want to help others you can even submit your own designs and we will add it to the collection.
Header / Footer Builder
A Front-end visual Header builder with multiple scroll behaviors to choose from will also be included. Customizing the header the proper way, making different navigation headers for different pages and ability to customize the position of the elements for any device will make the header building a satisfying experience.
Kallyas Demos Compatibility
Already a Kallyas customer? We’ve got you covered!
While building the new theme and page builder, we’ve closely followed your suggestions. This is why we’ve done our best to preserve compatibility with the old version. All of you who already created your website with the older version will have the ability to easily upgrade to the new version. For new customers, the new features will become available at purchase.
New saving system
Did we mention about full control? This is what we mean: save a page template, save drafts, globally save settings, featured images of posts and more to come…
What more could you possibly want from a page builder?
We welcome new suggestions, so if you have a little bit of time, please give us your feedback.
Also stay tuned, in the weeks to come we will publish new articles expanding each feature. If you want to be the first to know when this will be released or find out more about this change, you can subscribe to Zion builder newsletter from “Insert Mail-chimp newsletter here”.
I have a website I have build using Kallyas and WooCommerce. The question is: If I will upgrade the template, the website will work properly? Or I will have to put in some work to make it work like it is working now?
Hi there,
Thank you for your interest in our theme. At the moment, we have several update possibilities that we work on:
1. Release the theme update and make a “backwards compatibility” plugin. With this approach, there is a chance that the site won’t display exactly the same for clients who already made changes to the theme ( for example, sites where custom css was used to style the elements )
2. Release the update as a separate theme ( which will be available in the package downloaded from ThemeForest ) and release a backwards compatibility plugin. With this method, when you download the package from ThemeForest you will find two versions of the theme:
a. The current version which is updatable the same way as it is now. This version will continue to get regular updates, however, will not include the new builder
b. The updated version. With the updated version, there will be 2 solutions for existing clients. The first option would be to recreate the site using the new builder and the second one would be to use the included backwards compatibility plugin that we provide. As in point 1, the problem with the backwards compatibility plugin is that we cannot provide support for the modifications made to the theme ( custom CSS, custom javascript )
If you have any future feedback on this matter please don’t hesitate to reply to this comment.
Best regards,
Stefan
Try for a ultra fast 1 second load time
Hello John,
Thank you for your interest in our products, we really appreciate!
The new version of Zion Builder it will definitely faster than the actual one.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to ask me. 🙂
Best,
Laurentiu
HTML Version planned ?
Thank
Hello Samia,
Thank you for your interest in our products, we really appreciate!
For the moment we’re focused for the WordPress version, and we cannot promise that will be ready for HTML version.
Thank you for understanding, and if you have any further questions please do not hesitate to ask me. 🙂
Best,
Laurentiu
Hey hey, when are you planning to release this version? I’m currently working on my personal site and one of the big things missing is the possibility to work with my own custom post types, I already added in in the feedback.
Example: Divi is integrated with Toolset so it’s easier to create the custom page templates.
And with Kallyas I will have to enable the zion builder and import the template I’m creating each time that I publish a new element of my custom post types, and also archives, etc.
Hi there,
Thank you for choosing Kallyas as your go-to theme. We are currently still working on the update and we hope to release it in a couple of months. This feature will be included in the update along with many other features and integrations that the current version is missing.
If you have further questions or feedback, please don’t hesitate to reply to this comment.
Best regards,
Stefan
I was wondering if I should continue building my site like this or if I should wait until you release it, obviously, best option for me would be using the new builder if it includes options to work with custom post types so I will have to update it anyway but would like to know if it’s worth it to continue working with this current version.
Hello, this looks really promising. Would you have some sort of beta-testing? I’d be happy to be a candidate!
We were about to begin building the website for our new startup company. We can definitely wait 2 months to get the new and improved builder, we wan to thank you very much for your guy’s work on this. We really appreciate the work you guys are putting in.
Hey Oscar,
Thank you for your kind words and interest in our products, we really appreciate!
Unfortunately, at this moment we don’t have an ETA, but for sure this year, maybe in a few months. I’m really sorry, hope to take a good decision regarding the website of your startup. You can use Kallyas and when the time will come you can simply migrate your actual website project to the latest massive update of Kallyas WordPress theme and Zion Page Builder. 😊
Thank you for understanding, and if you have any further questions please do not hesitate to ask me.
Best,
Laurentiu from Hogash Team.