Hi people,

I sent you guys an email (in Dutch) last week, and you requested I submit this via your forum instead.

I purchased the Empress theme through Themeforest, and I have a couple of remarks and questions.

I love the back-end interface. Very well thought out and implemented. Ease of use is something your competitors could learn from as well. But there are a few things with this particular install that don’t seem to work quite right.

After upload and install and uploading the dummy content, there is precious little “default” markup and styling. Like with other themes I use, I was expecting the starting point to be visually similar to the demo. But it was not. I am trying to figure out if this is standard behaviour, or if something’s not right with the installation.

I am also experiencing multiple errors, due to non-existent sliders and footers

“WARNING: Sidebar with name “Footer 1″ not found, or has no widgets assigned to it.”

“WARNING: Could not find slider with slug name “mike-home”.”

Also, the main body background is not included with the theme, so it renders only the default background colour (which is black).

Again, I am trying to assess if this is a faulty install. I was hoping for some standard functionalities and sliders as a working example.

I am also using the woocommerce plugin. It seems to work properly, with the exception of the lightbox images. In product detail, the demo opens the images in a lightbox. After installation, my version opens the images in the parent window. That doesn’t seem like the intended functionality.

A pleasant surprise was that the display of multiple images (not shown in the demo) works well. It would be ideal if this also works in lightbox. Currently, these are also opened in the parent window.