Conall Creative is a multipurpose WordPress theme sold on ThemeForest for $79, built by the development studio Edge-Themes for agencies, creative studios, lifestyle magazines and fashion blogs. It bundles two premium plugins — WPBakery Page Builder and Slider Revolution — inside the purchase price, and ships with demo homepages, portfolio layouts, a WooCommerce-ready shop and a one-click demo importer. If you want a single theme that can cover a client site, a portfolio and a small online store without buying three separate products, this is the category of theme you would be comparing.
What Conall Actually Gives You Beyond a Standard Theme
The headline value here is not the design itself but the tooling that comes with it. WPBakery Page Builder normally sells for around $64 and Slider Revolution for around $19, so the two licences bundled into a $79 theme represent most of the purchase price back in third-party software. That matters if you build client sites, because you are not asking a client to fund a separate page builder licence on top of the theme.
The slider deserves a specific mention. Slider Revolution is doing the heavy lifting behind the Edge Slider, which supports image and video slides, zoom animations on images, parallax movement and a range of transition types. In practice this lets you build a full-width hero section with a video background and layered text without touching code.
Layout flexibility is handled through shortcodes rather than through a rigid template system. You get a product list shortcode, gallery block and gallery masonry blocks, a call-to-action slider, team carousel, infographic blocks, pricing tables, testimonials and an animation holder for scroll-triggered entrances. These are the building blocks you would use to assemble a services page, an about page or a landing page from scratch rather than being locked into one demo layout.
Header and navigation options are unusually deep for this price bracket. There are five header types, multiple header behaviours, a fullscreen menu mode, a customisable mega menu, anchor links for one-page sites, and separate logos for mobile, sticky and light/dark header variants. If you build one-page marketing sites, the anchor functionality plus the fullscreen menu covers a common brief that many themes handle poorly.
Portfolio handling is where the theme goes beyond the basics. You can choose from masonry, Pinterest-style and gallery list layouts, apply different hover treatments, and pick from several layouts for individual portfolio items. Portfolio entries support image and video lightboxes and a portfolio slider, which means a photographer or design studio can present mixed media without a separate plugin.
For content publishers, the blog side offers masonry, split-column and standard layouts, plus custom post formats for audio, video, gallery, link and quote. Social share buttons, a Twitter feed widget, an Instagram feed widget and a social icons widget round out the editorial toolkit. Note that Instagram support changed direction in the most recent release — more on that below.
Shop functionality runs through WooCommerce integration, and a dropdown cart widget is included so shoppers can review their basket from the header without leaving the page. Typography is controlled globally, with separate responsive settings, access to 600+ Google Fonts and five icon font packs. A child theme is included, which is the correct way to make customisations you intend to keep across updates.
Who This Theme Suits, and Where It Falls Short
Conall fits best with three types of buyer. The first is a freelancer or small agency who needs one theme in their toolkit that can be adapted across several client projects — a design studio site, a consultancy site, a restaurant or beauty brand. The second is a creative professional who wants a portfolio with real layout variety and video support out of the box. The third is a lifestyle or fashion publisher who wants a magazine-style blog with social feeds and a shop bolted on.
It is a poor fit if you want a block-based, full-site-editing workflow. Conall is built on WPBakery, a shortcode-driven page builder, not the native WordPress block editor. If your team has standardised on Gutenberg or a competing builder like Elementor, adopting this theme means maintaining a second editing paradigm. It is also the wrong choice if you need a highly specialised vertical theme — a booking-driven hotel site, a learning management system or a membership platform — because you would be rebuilding those features from plugins anyway.
One more scenario worth flagging: if you are building a site that depends heavily on live Instagram content, check the current state of the feed widget before you commit. The vendor removed the dedicated Instagram feed plugin in version 2.5, citing API changes at Instagram’s end, so any Instagram display now depends on what remains in the theme or on a third-party replacement.
Technical Details at a Glance
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Price | $79.00 (ThemeForest, Creative category) |
| Developer | Edge-Themes |
| Latest version | 2.5, released 23 September 2025 |
| Bundled plugins | WPBakery Page Builder, Slider Revolution |
| E-commerce | WooCommerce integration, dropdown cart widget |
| Page builder | WPBakery (shortcode-based) |
| Translation | Translation ready with po/mo files; WPML config file added in v2.5 |
| Forms | Contact Form 7 integration |
| Typography | 600+ Google Fonts, separate responsive typography settings |
| Included files | Child theme, custom widget areas, custom shortcode library |
| Compatibility noted | PHP 8.3, WooCommerce 10.x, WordPress 6.3 |
| Sales to date | 1,473 |
Strengths and Limitations
Strengths
- Two commercial plugins — WPBakery and Slider Revolution — are included, which offsets most of the $79 asking price if you would otherwise licence them separately.
- The header system is genuinely configurable: five header types, sticky and mobile variants, separate logos and a fullscreen menu mode.
- Portfolio options are broad, covering masonry, Pinterest and gallery lists with multiple hover styles and video lightbox support.
- An active update history reaching PHP 8.3, WooCommerce 10.x and WordPress 6.3 compatibility, with security improvements noted in the latest release.
- A child theme ships with the package, so customisations survive theme updates.
- 1,473 sales on ThemeForest gives you a reasonable installed base to draw on when troubleshooting.
Limitations
- The dedicated Instagram feed plugin was removed in version 2.5 because of Instagram API changes, so live Instagram display is no longer guaranteed out of the box.
- Twitter feed support was dropped in version 2.4 for the same reason. The social widget ecosystem has narrowed over time.
- WPBakery is a shortcode-based builder. Content you build with it is tied to that plugin, which makes migrating away later more work than with block-based content.
- The demo images are licensed for presentation only and cannot be reused on your own site — you must source and licence your own stock photography.
- The gap between version 2.4 (August 2023) and 2.5 (September 2025) was over two years, which is worth weighing if you need predictable release cadence.
- Multipurpose themes carry more code than single-purpose ones, so page weight and performance tuning are your responsibility.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Conall include WPBakery and Slider Revolution for free?
Yes. Both plugins are bundled with the theme at no extra cost, which the vendor values at $64 and $19 respectively. You receive them as part of your $79 purchase rather than paying separately. Keep in mind that bundled plugin licences typically update through the theme rather than through your own plugin accounts.
Can I use Conall for an online shop?
Yes, the theme integrates with WooCommerce and includes a dropdown cart widget for the header. Version 2.5 added compatibility with WooCommerce 10.x, so it tracks recent releases of the plugin. You will still need to install and configure WooCommerce itself, along with payment and shipping extensions.
Is Conall compatible with the WordPress block editor?
Not as its primary editing method. The theme is built around WPBakery Page Builder, which uses shortcodes rather than native blocks. You can still write posts in the block editor, but page layouts are assembled through WPBakery. If block-based editing is a requirement, this theme will not meet it.
Does the Instagram feed still work in Conall?
The vendor removed the dedicated Edge Instagram Feed plugin in version 2.5, citing Instagram API changes. That means Instagram display is no longer guaranteed through the theme alone. If Instagram content is central to your site, plan to use a maintained third-party plugin instead and verify it works before launch.
The Verdict
Buy Conall if you are a freelancer, small agency or creative professional who wants one flexible theme covering portfolio, blog and shop needs, and you are comfortable working inside WPBakery. The bundled plugin value is real, the header and portfolio options are deeper than most themes at this price, and the recent 2.5 release shows the developer is still maintaining compatibility with current WordPress, PHP and WooCommerce versions.
Skip it if you have standardised on the block editor or Elementor, if you need a specialist vertical solution, or if live Instagram and Twitter feeds are non-negotiable parts of your design. In those cases the shortcode-based workflow and the trimmed social integrations will cost you more time than the theme saves.
View the live demo and full feature list on the ThemeForest page to see whether the demo layouts match the kind of site you have in mind before you buy.
