Kudos theme
Edition: CS-Cart & Multi-Vendor · Latest version: 1.0.0 · Compatible with: CS-Cart & Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 – 4.21.x, PHP 7.4 – 8.3 · Changelog: view
Kudos is the social-proof flagship theme for CS-Cart and Multi-Vendor. It sells with your customers’ own words: the most helpful (or newest) review of each product sits in a speech bubble on its card, the homepage carries a review wall and a proof bar with your real average and review count, a Top rated row shows your best-rated products, and the product page opens with a rating card (5-bar histogram) and the most helpful positive and critical review. All of it comes from the approved reviews of the core Product Reviews add-on: nothing is invented, and every element stays hidden until your first review. One design for every kind of store; the demo is a technology store.
What you get
Section titled “What you get”- The Kudos theme, a child of the standard Responsive theme: no core files are changed and add-on hooks keep working.
- Eight colour schemes on a warm cream ground with star gold as the second colour: Applause (indigo, default), Clover, Terracotta, Bluebell, Fig, Toffee and the dark schemes Encore and Cinder. Text contrast is 4.5:1 or more in every scheme.
- Young Serif display type with Lexend for text, oversized quotation marks, speech-bubble shapes, initials avatars.
- Three home layouts: Main (Proof) (category rail and hero, proof bar, Top rated, review wall high on the page), Showcase home (full-width hero, review wall right after the promos) and Market home (no hero, dense rows for large catalogues).
- Homepage sections: proof bar, review wall, Top rated, hero slider, service strip, category tiles, tabbed product rows, offers grid, deals with real promotion timers, trending, brands, journal, about text and newsletter card.
- Multi-Vendor: seller line on cards, styled vendor pages.
- Sticky header, mobile bottom bar, swipe gallery, filter sheet and sticky buy bar on phones.
Compatibility
Section titled “Compatibility”- CS-Cart, CS-Cart Ultimate, Multi-Vendor and Multi-Vendor Ultimate 4.17.2 – 4.21.x, with the core Product Reviews add-on (part of CS-Cart since 4.16) for the review elements.
- Tested on CS-Cart 4.17.2 (Ultimate) and Multi-Vendor 4.17.2 on PHP 8.1; templates compiled with Smarty 5 against 4.21.2.
- PHP 7.4 to 8.3, depending on your CS-Cart version. Safe for the 4.21 full page cache (no visitor data in the page).