Aloft
Built to catch the first light — a theme for a hot air balloon flight operator, opened at dawn with a real Three.js scene of a balloon catching the day's first light. GSAP, ScrollTrigger and SplitText choreograph the ascent as you scroll, staging text and imagery in sequence rather than dropping it in all at once. Custom post types organise flights and routes, with AJAX powering the booking browse.
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Highlights
- Signature scroll-scrubbed 3D “envelope” — a real Three.js balloon inflates gore by gore from a heaped pile of fabric into full flight shape, burner igniting, rig lifting off
- Four real switchable liveries reskin the gore stripe pattern live
- Balloon CPT with real commission attributes: volume, capacity, price, lead time & burner system
- Self-hosted GSAP + ScrollTrigger + SplitText driving reveals; AJAX build-slot & dawn-flight enquiry form
Overview
Aloft is built for a real envelope shop, not a stock travel-agency page — every fleet listing carries a real commission price, lead time, and passenger capacity, and the copy reads like a flight desk’s own quote sheet.
The signature is the Envelope: a real Three.js balloon that inflates gore by gore, sweeping around the circumference from a crumpled pile on the ground into a fully round teardrop shape, the burner igniting and the whole rig lifting off at the very end — pinned in place for one viewport’s worth of scroll so the payoff actually lands. Drag to orbit; switch between four real liveries. Below the fold, the fleet, the build process, and dawn flight bookings all reuse the same AJAX enquiry dialog.
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 |
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| 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.
