Documentation

Find setup and customization instructions for HoverCraft, including installation, layout options, theme updates, WooCommerce support, and reference.

404 Pages

HoverCraft uses its normal page layout for not-found requests, including optional breadcrumbs and sidebar support.

Accessibility

HoverCraft uses practical accessibility patterns for navigation, forms, overlays, focus states, and keyboard interaction.

AI Agents

Download the HoverCraft theme ZIP or inspect its GitHub source with AI agents and scripts, without a WordPress.org login, API key, or package registry.

Archive Pages

HoverCraft uses standard WordPress archive listings with featured images, excerpts, pagination, category descriptions, and optional sidebars.

bbPress Support

HoverCraft includes lightweight bbPress support for forum styling, search results, QuickTags, reply behavior, and document titles.

Blog Posts

Configure HoverCraft post images, sharing links, author details, dates, tags, related posts, and reusable post-content areas.

Branding

Configure HoverCraft logos, logo widths, tagline placement, and mobile site-name display from WordPress Site Identity and the Customizer.

Breadcrumbs

HoverCraft provides one consistent breadcrumb system across WordPress, WooCommerce, and bbPress pages with configurable sitewide visibility.

Buttons

Create primary or secondary link buttons in HoverCraft with button shortcodes, optional attributes, and safe new-tab links without JavaScript.

Category Layouts

Choose Feed, FAQ, or Portal category roles in HoverCraft's Customizer to change post listings, FAQ layouts, scoped search, and archive visibility.

Child Themes

Use a HoverCraft child theme for site-specific PHP, template, or CSS changes that should survive parent theme updates.

Cloudflare

HoverCraft works with Cloudflare without special theme settings and includes a narrow compatibility fix for WordPress comment replies.

Code Styling

HoverCraft styles code snippets and related content such as tables, lists, blockquotes, and captions for readable technical pages.

Colors

Customize HoverCraft colors for text, links, headers, heroes, content areas, widget bands, footers, search, and WooCommerce.

Comments

HoverCraft keeps WordPress comments simple by removing the website field and preserving core reply and threading behavior.

CSS Customization

Customize HoverCraft with WordPress Additional CSS for small overrides or a child theme for larger site-specific CSS changes.

Custom Post Types

HoverCraft can work with normal WordPress custom post types, but does not register any itself and generally recommends using native content types when practical.

Customizer Settings

Use the WordPress Customizer to control HoverCraft's global layout, design, and presentation settings.

Fonts

HoverCraft lets you load and assign Google Fonts through the WordPress Customizer, including an optional multilingual font family.

Footer

HoverCraft supports optional prefooter areas, configurable footer widgets, a footer callout, copyright content, and back-to-top controls.

Forms

HoverCraft uses one consistent form control system across WordPress, WooCommerce, bbPress, comments, search, and widgets.

Git Updater

Use Git Updater to receive HoverCraft theme updates from its public GitHub repository through WordPress.

Gutenberg

HoverCraft does not currently target or test Gutenberg layout workflows, blocks, the Block Editor, or Full Site Editing (FSE).

Header Layouts

HoverCraft page templates combine Basic, Mini Hero, Half Hero, and Full Hero headers with Inline or Stacked navigation layouts.

Headings

Configure HoverCraft heading typography and divider behavior across WordPress, WooCommerce, and bbPress content.

Hero Sections

HoverCraft supports Mini, Half, and Full Hero layouts with images, gradients, positioning, CTA menus, and optional Full Hero video.

Homepage

Arrange four optional homepage widget bands before or after main content in HoverCraft, adjust desktop columns, or hide the central homepage section.

Icon Libraries

Optionally load Material Icons or Font Awesome libraries for site content while HoverCraft keeps most interface icons local.

Image Sizes

HoverCraft recommends WordPress image widths of 1200, 768, and 480 pixels, using Medium Large or Large featured images depending on the page layout.

Images

HoverCraft supports WordPress featured images, exposes the Medium Large image size, and uses a simplified image output model.

JavaScript

HoverCraft keeps frontend JavaScript small and focused, using native browser APIs for navigation, search, overlays, and simple interface controls.

License

HoverCraft is licensed under GPLv3 and does not require registration, an API key, or a license key to install or use.

Link Styling

Control HoverCraft link underlines and text decoration across major theme areas from the WordPress Customizer.

Markup

HoverCraft uses clear semantic HTML, stable WordPress-compatible hooks, and native interactive elements while avoiding unnecessary theme-specific markup.

Menus

HoverCraft includes primary, mobile, and focused CTA menu locations for site navigation and theme actions.

Meta Boxes

HoverCraft uses focused page-specific meta boxes for title visibility and the Mini Hero ZigZag layout.

Metadata

HoverCraft outputs lightweight social-sharing metadata for singular WordPress content while leaving broader SEO and schema systems to plugins.

Navigation

HoverCraft supports accessible desktop dropdown navigation and two mobile menu styles with an optional dedicated mobile menu.

Page Builders

HoverCraft does not use or target page builders, instead relying on explicit page templates, widget areas, Customizer settings, and normal WordPress content.

Page Layout Options

Configure HoverCraft Columns, Gallery, Tiles, and related page-template display options from the WordPress Customizer.

Page Templates

HoverCraft includes WordPress page templates for Basic, Mini Hero, Half Hero, and Full Hero layouts with several content variations.

Pagination

Understand how HoverCraft shows numbered pagination, Previous and Next links, ellipses, and first or last pages across archives and search results.

Preheader

Use the HoverCraft preheader for compact utility links and other positional content above the main header.

Requirements

Check HoverCraft's WordPress and PHP compatibility minimums, current WordPress testing, and how to choose a supported PHP version for a live site.

RSS Feeds

HoverCraft keeps normal WordPress feed endpoints available while removing automatic feed-discovery links from page head markup.

Search

HoverCraft uses standard WordPress search with configurable header and mobile entry points, themed results, pagination, and optional sidebars.

SEO Settings

Set HoverCraft's homepage HTML title format in the WordPress Customizer, with notes on metadata, structured data, and a pending FAQ noindex option.

Sidebar

Configure where the HoverCraft sidebar appears, how wide the main content becomes, and how sidebar callout content is displayed.

Structured Data

HoverCraft keeps structured data intentionally limited and leaves durable SEO, schema, business, review, FAQ, and location data to plugins.

Theme CSS

HoverCraft organizes theme CSS into focused modules, generates Customizer-driven styles directly, and keeps shared WordPress and plugin styling predictable.

Theme Layout

HoverCraft uses a consistent responsive layout with Floating Islands or Classic Clean styling, a 1200px desktop container, readable content widths, and optional sidebars.

Theme Updates

Keep HoverCraft updated from its public GitHub repository using Git Updater or the current theme ZIP.

Topbar

Use the HoverCraft topbar for short announcements, notices, and other compact content above the main header.

Translations

HoverCraft follows normal WordPress translation standards and keeps user-facing theme strings translation-ready.

Typography

Configure HoverCraft text sizes and typography for major theme areas across desktop and mobile layouts.

Widget Areas

Use HoverCraft widget areas for reusable content in headers, sidebars, footers, homepage sections, posts, and other theme locations.

WooCommerce

HoverCraft includes built-in WooCommerce support for store navigation, product pages, purchase controls, and related product content.

WooCommerce Cart

HoverCraft provides a responsive WooCommerce cart with quantity controls, coupons, shipping, cart totals, checkout access, and cross-sells.

WooCommerce Checkout

HoverCraft provides a focused WooCommerce checkout with streamlined page chrome, consistent form styling, order review, shipping, and payment controls.

WooCommerce My Account

HoverCraft provides a responsive WooCommerce My Account area for account navigation, orders, addresses, payment methods, and customer forms.

WooCommerce Product Pages

HoverCraft provides responsive WooCommerce product-page layouts with controlled galleries, purchase controls, product tabs, and related products.

WooCommerce Shop

HoverCraft provides responsive WooCommerce shop and product archive grids with consistent product cards, ordering controls, and category listings.