WanderLuxe
A black-and-gold luxury expedition travel theme with a persistent hand-written Canvas2D particle background (gold dust / snowfall / sakura / stars, real mouse-force physics), a fully live no-reload style customizer (5 palettes, 3 fonts, 5 particle effects), a Web-Audio-synthesized ambient soundscape engine, and real structured journal articles — EXIF-captioned photography, a draggable before/after slider, itinerary timelines, and budget breakdowns.
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Overview
WanderLuxe is a black-and-gold luxury expedition travel blog theme — for National-Geographic-caliber photographers, travel writers, and high-end tour operators, built as a faithful hand-port of a client-approved React prototype rather than a from-scratch design. A persistent GPU particle canvas (4 hand-written Canvas2D systems — gold dust, snowfall, sakura petals, twinkling stars with shooting-star events, each with real mouse force-field physics) sits behind a fully live, no-reload style customizer and real structured journal content, not decorative filler.
1. A fully live style customizer. 5 color palettes, 3 font pairings, 5 particle effects, a 3D card-tilt toggle, and a reading-progress-bar toggle — every change applies instantly with zero page reload and persists to localStorage, verified end-to-end with scripted browser interaction testing (not just visually present).
2. A Web-Audio-synthesized soundscape engine. Pink noise shaped through real biome-specific filters (ocean/mountain/forest/desert) plus short synthesized UI tones — everything generated live via oscillators and noise buffers, zero audio files shipped.
3. Real structured journal articles. EXIF-captioned inline photography, a draggable before/after light-contrast comparison slider (genuine pointer-events drag, no library), a day-by-day itinerary timeline, and a full budget breakdown, all rendered from real postmeta — plus a genuine deterministic rule-based multi-day itinerary composer and a currency reference-rate converter, both honestly labeled rather than dressed up as live AI or real-time data.
The persistent particle background, the ambient soundscape engine, and every interactive tool (AJAX search, localStorage bookmarks, a server-side like counter, the packing checklist with a small vanilla confetti burst) are hand-written vanilla JavaScript with zero third-party libraries. A dedicated photography audit individually visually vetted all 27 source images against their captions — 16 didn’t actually match (wrong country, wrong terrain, one with real competitor branding visible) and were replaced with verified Wikimedia Commons photography before shipping, documented in full in the theme’s credits file. 8 destinations and 6 full-length journal articles ship as demo content, built on a real `wl_destination` custom post type plus native WordPress posts/categories.
What's included
- Full theme source — every template, style sheet & script
- One-click demo importer (idempotent, no page builder)
- Live Customizer controls for copy, colours & content
- Translation-ready .pot file + RTL stylesheet
- HTML documentation + a CHANGELOG file
- Lifetime updates + 6 months support (renewable)
Specifications
| WordPress | 5.6 – 7.0 |
|---|---|
| PHP | 8.0 – 8.3 |
| Browsers | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge (latest) |
| Layout | Fully responsive, mobile → desktop |
| Localization | Translation-ready · RTL included |
| Accessibility | Keyboard-navigable · prefers-reduced-motion |
| Page builder | Not required — native Customizer |
| License | GNU GPL v2 · single-site commercial |
Release
The complete, dated version history ships in the theme’s CHANGELOG file. Every purchase includes lifetime access to future updates.
