Weekly Theme Compatibility Bulletin – Issue 2

WPML keeps adding new members to its Theme Compatibility list and today we are about to include several themes and an extra plugin as a great surprise from our guest.

Jason Bobich is a ThemeForest (opens in a new tab) and MOJO Themes (opens in a new tab) author from Alaska and a ThemeBlvd lead.  5 out of the 13 items published on ThemeForest got over 1000 sales each.  He is an experienced Front-End and Back-End developer and contacted us regarding his updates in the multilingual direction.

Jason’s Themes

Jason indicates that these themes are working with WPML:

1. Swagger (opens in a new tab)


2. Alyeska (opens in a new tab)


3. Breakout (opens in a new tab)


4. Akita (opens in a new tab)


5. Arcadian (opens in a new tab)


6. Barely Corporate (opens in a new tab)


7. Prime Time  (opens in a new tab)


8. Jump Start (opens in a new tab)

The themes offer various features for your website such as: sliders, boxes, custom widgets, shortcode generators, extra add-ons. Latest themes are HTML5-based and responsive, being light and fully compatible with all mobile devices.

Glue Plugin – Tying Things Together

Jason took an innovative approach to making his themes WPML-compatible. He created the WPML Bridge Plugin, which handles all language related issues. This way, the theme code remains clean and minimal, for everyone who needs to run a single-language site, and people who run multilingual sites get to enjoy full functionality with WPML.

We’re doing a similar thing with e-commerce plugins and when integrating with other major frameworks. Kudos to Jason for choosing this solution!

Jason’s themes are written in accordance to the standards and being WPML-compatible, In addition to that he announced the WPML Bridge Plugin (opens in a new tab). You can download it from the WordPress.org repository (opens in a new tab) and test the extra functionality added to the themes in order to improve the overall user experience.

• The WPML Bridge plugin enhances the Theme Options of your theme administration panel turning it into a multilingual-ready solution – you could define unique backend settings per language.


• It adds extra hooks for WPML integration (adding flags from within the admin panel to several theme blocks).


• Breadcrumbs with multilingual support are also available – adjust ThemeBlvd breadcrumbs to WPML-compatible and supported ones.

Visit JasonBobich.com (opens in a new tab) to find more about Jason or contact him on Twitter (opens in a new tab).