Stellar is a premium theme. It cost $52 including a service charge by Evato. There are many good features. Once you get the hang of it, you can make a nice looking site. And, there are some things that happen that are quite frustrating. There’s no clear explanation and little useful documentation. Support is via a message board and the author does appear to answer quickly, but due to language differences, often asks for clarification. This back and forth for simple questions can become exhausting.
I have been adding galleries and pages. The Gallery Archive page type automatically assembles an index page to a set of galleries. Each gallery included in the set has the same gallery category value. The neat thing on the index page is the display of a descriptive label when the mouse hovers over one of the index thumbnails. Clicking on the thumbnail switches to the selected galley.
November 27, 2018
After sometime working with the Steller theme, my biggest gripe is have to manually update the theme files on the server when the author issues a new version. This takes at least 30 min. There are loader plug-ins however the site this theme comes from discourages their use. What’s up with that?
I found a plug-in on WordPress.org site that fixes this issue. An update took less than a minute and seemed to work. Thankful this works for the time being.
That said, I still may look for a more elegant theme.