Rhye – AJAX Portfolio WordPress Theme - Techariens

Rhye is a high-end WordPress theme powered by AJAX and built around the Elementor 3 page builder, ideal for creatives such as photographers, designers, studios, and digital agencies. Its polished aesthetic, interactive design, and immersive transitions make it an exceptional choice for showcasing portfolios with a sophisticated and cutting-edge vibe.

This theme aims to captivate your audience with seamless navigation, refined visual effects, and smooth performance. Rhye includes a wide selection of portfolio grids, sliders, and layout elements designed to bring your work to life in a compelling and immersive way.

The theme features effortless AJAX-powered infinite scrolling, enabling users to browse through portfolio items without clicking—simply scroll to explore more. This results in a fluid, uninterrupted experience that keeps viewers engaged.

Rhye enhances your content with advanced visual techniques using WebGL and GSAP 3 animations. These include parallax backgrounds, on-scroll text reveals, distortion sliders, and motion-based cursor interactions, all designed to bring a modern, dynamic feel to every page.

With Elementor as its backbone, Rhye allows for real-time, front-end editing with no coding required. You can create as many custom layouts as you want and aren’t limited to default templates. The theme comes with 27 custom widgets tailored for creative work, helping you build a standout site effortlessly.

Notable interaction and transition features include:

• Image transitions that don’t require page reloads

• Smooth infinite scrolling for portfolios

• Support for tracking integrations like Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel

• Developer access to advanced AJAX initialization options

Motion design capabilities built into the theme include:

• WebGL-driven visual distortion effects

• Sliders that respond to cursor direction

• Animated text that reveals on scroll

• Cursor effects and parallax elements for added depth

• Support for smooth page scrolling plugins

Typography in Rhye is responsive and flexible, scaling smoothly across all devices. You can adjust font sizes and styles for individual headings from the customizer. The theme supports Google Fonts, Adobe Typekit, and even self-hosted font files for full branding control.

Consistent spacing is maintained across the design, with customizable spacing presets and layout controls available directly in Elementor. You can create stylish overlaps, padding adjustments, and dynamic section layouts without custom code.

Color management is flexible and intuitive. Choose from predefined color palettes for different sections, tweak accent colors from the theme customizer, and enable color changes triggered by scrolling.

The full-screen navigation menu brings a dramatic touch to your site. It includes options like a curtain-style open animation, customizable submenus, optional widget content, and the ability to switch between full-screen and traditional menu formats.

Additional core features include:

• Custom loading animations for site entry

• Lazy load for faster image delivery

• Dual logo options for light/dark backgrounds

• Gallery blocks supporting YouTube and Vimeo videos

• Support for custom SVG files

• Google Maps with multi-location markers

• Ready for translation and multilingual websites

Designed for non-technical users, Rhye is intuitive and easy to set up. Use the Elementor builder to create pages live, import demo content in one click, and follow a built-in theme setup wizard. Updates are automatic, and detailed documentation is included for guidance.

Compatibility with popular plugins includes:

• Elementor (with partial AJAX compatibility)

• Contact Form 7 for building contact forms

• WP Super Cache and Autoptimize for performance

• WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress for multilingual support

To use Rhye, your setup should meet the following:

• A fresh WordPress installation version 5.5 or newer

• Hosting that supports PHP 7.0 or higher

• A MySQL database version 5.0 or above

• FTP access or hosting panel credentials for theme upload and configuration