WPBakery

The builder bundled with Kalium, and the 27 elements the theme adds to it.

WPBakery Page Builder is bundled with Kalium. It's included with your theme license, so there's nothing extra to buy and no separate key to enter.

Most of Kalium's starter sites are built with WPBakery, so if you imported one, this is very likely the builder your pages already use.

Install it from Kalium -> Plugins.

You don't need to activate WPBakery separately. It's licensed through Kalium. If you see a prompt asking for a WPBakery purchase code, you can ignore it, the theme handles the licensing.

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Kalium's elements

Kalium adds 27 elements to WPBakery. They appear alongside the standard ones when you add an element to a row.

Content

Element	What it does
Heading	A styled heading with size and alignment control
Button	A button using your theme's button styles
Alert Box	A colored message box
Divider	A horizontal separator
Auto Type	Text that types itself out, cycling through phrases
Scroll Box	A scrollable area within the page

Listings

Element	What it does
Portfolio	A grid of projects
Masonry Portfolio	A masonry-style project grid
Portfolio Item	One project within a Masonry Portfolio
Blog Posts	A listing of posts
Products Carousel	A sliding row of WooCommerce products
Dribbble Gallery	Shots pulled from a Dribbble account

People and services

Element	What it does
Team Members / Team Member	A team grid, and one person within it
Placeholder	An empty slot inside a Team Members grid
Clients / Client Logo	A logo strip, and one logo within it
Service Box / Service Content	Service listings
Pricing Table	A pricing plan column

Site pieces

Element	What it does
Content Section	Places a Kalium Template Part of type Section
Contact Form	A contact form
Map / Map Location	A Google map, and a pin within it
Social Networks	Your social icons
Like + Share	Like and share buttons
Breadcrumb	The breadcrumb trail

Several elements only go inside a container. Team Member and Placeholder belong in Team Members, Portfolio Item in Masonry Portfolio, Client Logo in Clients, Service Content in Service Box, and Map Location in Map. Add the container first, then the items inside it.

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Google Maps needs an API key

The Map element needs a Google Maps API key before it will display anything. Add yours under Appearance -> Customize -> General -> Integrations.

Without a key, Google shows a gray box with a warning instead of your map.

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Building Template Parts with WPBakery

Template Parts of type Section, Header, Footer, Page and Popup can all be built with WPBakery.

Creating a Section with WPBakery

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Common questions

The Portfolio elements are missing. The portfolio module is off under Kalium -> Settings -> Portfolio.

Content Section is missing. Template Parts is off under Kalium -> Settings -> Template Parts.

WPBakery is asking for a purchase code. Ignore it, the theme licenses it for you.

My page shows shortcodes as plain text like [vc_row]. WPBakery has been deactivated. Reinstall it from Kalium -> Plugins and the page renders again, the content is safe, it just needs the plugin to display it.

The map is a gray box. Add a Google Maps API key under Appearance -> Customize -> General -> Integrations.