About the Traverse Child Theme
Design/Development: by iThemes, Cody Smith and Justin Kopepasah. Cody and Justin are on a team of WordPress child theme developers working for iThemes and in support of iThemes Builder Theme.
Theme Concept: Traverse features a high contrast design and bold styling intended to showcase content for travel blogs. Stories and photos from your adventures will be framed perfectly by Traverse.
Traverse Child Theme is a WordPress child theme designed specifically to work with the framework core iThemes Builder.
Traverse Child Theme Features
Primary Color Pallet: warm grays and tan with a green hue
Colors and Font:
Page and Post Title Color: Dark Brown (#433319) with a milk chocolatey brown hover color (#846531)
Title Font: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
Widget Title Color: White on a solid dark gray (#373737)
Widget Title Font: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
Navigation Menu Bar Color: Medium Gray stone texture with a textured dark chocolate hover color
Menu Labels Font: white; Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
Body Text: Dark chocolate brown (#4a3f2d)
Body Font: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
Button Color: Light solid gray (#cccccc) and a textured darker gray hover
Background Colors, Patterns and Texture:
Site: textured background image
Container: transparent
Content Area: transparent
Sidebars: off-white (#f3f2eb)
Widget-bars: off-white (#f3f2eb)
Footer Area: brown (#65563E) with opacity over the textured background image
Traverse Child Theme Features Inherited from iThemes Builder
- Builder’s powerful layout editor:
Header Modules – Offer an easy-to-configure header for your site using basic WordPress general title and tagline settings.
Image Modules – Add an image to your layout as a static header or other image just to spice up your layout.
Navigation Modules- Add a horizontal navigation bar. Category and Page navigation controlled within Builder or choose WordPress Pages. Use of the WordPress custom menus are also available.
Content Modules – Add a place for your content to render. You can choose 1 or 2 right, 1 or 2 left, split or no sidebars in the content module of your layout.
HTML Modules – Add freeform HTML to your layout. HTML Modules support the use of shortcodes and execution of PHP code.
Widget Bar Modules – A widget area to contain one to five widget locations.
Footer Modules – Add a place for the footer to render.
- Built-in Google Analytics tracking
- Built-in Woopra tracking
- Built-in text area inputs to manually add JavaScript code either inside the head tag or in the site’s footer.
- Favicon options:
Choose from a set of provided images
Upload your own favicon
Use the active child theme’s Favicon image
Don’t use a Favicon image
- Ability to create and manage widget areas
- Customize comments settings
- Duplicate Sidebar Widget allows for easy duplication of another sidebar’s widgets
- Custom Post type called Widget Content that allows for easy creation of content that can be added to a widget area using the Widget Content widget.
- Built in custom coding, styling and JavaScript to enhance specific plugins.
- Extensions – mini-themes that can be applied to any one or combination of Layouts or Views.
- A “Builder” entry to the WordPress Admin Bar
- Builder Style Manager Plugin
- Builder SEO Plugin
The Child Theme Store offers WordPress child themes for many frameworks, including Traverse Child Theme for Builder.

