YOOtheme The Line Gallery - Joomla Template

Guide to Setting Up and Using YOOtheme The Line Gallery for Joomla

YOOtheme The Line Gallery is a Joomla template for a gallery, museum, art space, or creative project website where the goal is not just to display images beautifully, but to connect exhibitions, artists, events, workshops, and editorial content in a clear structure. In this guide, we will walk through how to approach installation, which settings to check first, how to adapt the demo to real content, and how to preserve the template's strong visual identity when replacing images and text.

This guide is intended for a site owner, Joomla administrator, content editor, or developer who needs to quickly understand how the template works in practice. We will not repeat the short product description from the listing page. Instead, we will go from checking the package and demo data to configuring styles, menus, modules, dynamic fields, result validation, and troubleshooting common issues.

The main practical principle is simple: keep the demo structure intact as a learning reference first, then replace it with your own content step by step. If you immediately delete the demo content, swap every image, and disable modules, the site can easily lose the rhythm that makes this template worth choosing in the first place.

You will see exact YOOtheme Pro and Joomla interface labels throughout this guide. They are intentionally kept in English and wrapped in code, because those labels may appear exactly that way in the real admin panel. If parts of your interface are localized, use the panel structure and setting locations as your guide.

What This Template Actually Solves

YOOtheme The Line Gallery is built for creative websites where visual storytelling is the main value. On the official YOOtheme page, the template is presented as a solution for galleries, museums, and art related websites. The demo makes its intent obvious: a bold lemon-yellow hero section, sculptural imagery, graphic lines, exhibition cards, and dedicated artists, magazine, and workshop blocks. This is not a generic corporate starter theme - it is a design with a strong museum-style identity.

In practical terms, the template solves four tasks. First, it helps you build a striking homepage for current and upcoming exhibitions. Second, it provides dedicated pages for exhibitions, artists, and magazine posts. Third, it uses the YOOtheme Pro page builder and Joomla dynamic content so you do not have to assemble every block manually. Fourth, it keeps the site visually consistent through ready-made layouts, style variations, media fields, and template settings.

The official product page states that the package includes 13 ready-made page layouts, 6 style variations, and 129 curated images. Those numbers matter not as marketing stats, but as a workflow clue: the template is not just one homepage - it is a full set of building blocks for different types of content. If you only use the hero section and delete everything else, you get much less value than the package is designed to deliver.

Where It Fits Best

This template works especially well for websites where content can be organized into clear entities: exhibitions, artists, events, news, workshops, and contact information. For a gallery, that structure is natural: an exhibition has dates, a description, images, an artist, a ticket link, prices, and supporting materials. For a studio or art school, the same model can be adapted for courses, collections, portfolios, and events.

• A museum or private gallery can use it for current exhibitions, an event archive, and artist pages.
• An art space can showcase workshop schedules, news, and curated collections of works.
• A creative studio can replace exhibitions with case studies, artists with project contributors, and magazine with an editorial blog.
• A photographer or curator can use the template's visual rhythm for a personal portfolio, as long as the content types are configured carefully.

If you need a calm corporate website with dense service tables, a product catalog, or a complex client portal, The Line Gallery may feel too expressive. Its strength is emotional visual entry and editorial presentation, not the dry utility of a reference-style interface.

How It Differs from a Regular Image Gallery

A standard gallery usually does one thing: show a grid of photos and open a larger image. YOOtheme The Line Gallery is much broader than that. The official documentation describes custom fields for Exhibition, Artist, Post, and User. That means the site can store more than just images - it can also handle connected information such as dates, authors, ticket links, prices, quotes, additional images, and relationships to other content.

This approach is useful if you want your content to live longer than a single promo block. An exhibition can appear on the homepage, archive page, artist page, and in a related magazine article. When configured properly, an editor updates the data in one place, and the output templates pull it wherever it needs to appear.

Who The Line Gallery Is For - and When Another Approach Makes More Sense

Before installing it, take an honest look at whether the template matches your content model. The Line Gallery has a strong visual personality: oversized typography, generous spacing, bold color fields, art-driven imagery, and unconventional compositions. That works well when the brand is willing to be visually bold. But if your site needs to stay highly neutral, the template's visual energy may start to compete with the actual goal.

This template is a good fit for teams ready to treat the demo as a system. Installing the package and swapping a couple of logos is not enough. You need to think through the menu structure, prepare images, fill in custom fields, review exhibition and artist pages, choose a style variation, and adapt the text. If the project does not have strong visual assets, the result will feel noticeably weaker than the demo.

Also review your expectations around the builder itself. The Line Gallery is built on YOOtheme Pro. If your team already works in another builder ecosystem, switching will require some retraining. But if you want one unified tool for the Joomla template, visual editor, modules, menus, and styles, YOOtheme Pro is designed to provide exactly that.

What to Check Before Installation

Preparation matters more for a Joomla template than for a small module. A template affects the site's appearance, menus, module positions, styles, and sometimes even the page editing workflow. Mistakes at this stage usually do not show up as one broken button - they show up as issues like "the demo does not look like the demo," "positions are empty," "pages look inconsistent," or "the editor cannot tell where a block should be changed."

Start by deciding which installation scenario you actually need. The official YOOtheme documentation clearly separates installing the theme into an existing site from installing the Joomla demo package as a complete site with demo content. Those are fundamentally different things. The template ZIP is installed through the standard Joomla mechanism. The demo package is a full Joomla distribution and is not meant to be installed on top of an existing site.

Existing Site or Clean Demo Start

If you already have a working site, the safer path is to deploy a copy to a staging domain or local environment first. In an existing project, you need to check whether content depends on old module positions, custom overrides, a third-party page builder, or a previous template. After switching templates, some modules may simply stop appearing because the position name is different or the new layout does not use that area.

If the project is new, the demo package is usually the easier starting point: you get a fully assembled structure, ready-made pages, and built-in relationships. But it is a complete site, so do not upload it through the Extension Manager as if it were a regular template. The workflow is straightforward: launch a clean installation from the demo package, study how everything is built, then gradually replace the demo data with your own.

Hosting and PHP Limits

In its installation issues documentation, YOOtheme explicitly notes that installation problems are often tied to limited resources on shared hosting. Before uploading a large package, check post_max_size, upload_max_filesize, max_execution_time, and memory_limit. There is no need to blindly raise everything to extreme values, but if the ZIP will not upload or the installation stops midway, these are the first settings to inspect.

Safe check: if the installer hangs or returns an archive upload error, first verify the ZIP size and PHP limits, then repeat the installation on a staging copy. Do not try to fix the problem by editing Joomla core files or template files.

Permissions for Template Settings

YOOtheme Pro Customizer gives access to layout, style, pages, templates, menus, modules, and settings. That is convenient for an administrator, but risky for an editor who should only update exhibitions and text. The official documentation specifically recommends paying close attention to the Edit Templates permission, because it can expose the template settings to the user.

Before launch, define a practical role model for the project: who updates exhibition content, who edits menus, who owns the style variation, and who is allowed to open YOOtheme Pro. For a small team, it often makes sense to keep full access with one administrator and let editors work only with articles, media, and preconfigured fields.

Installation and the First Validation After Activation

The installation workflow depends on what you received: a standard template archive or a demo package. For an existing site, use the regular Joomla template installation flow, assign it as the site style, and then open YOOtheme Pro. For a new site built from the demo package, the process is different: upload the full package to the server, complete the standard Joomla installer, and only then begin exploring the assembled demo site.

After installation, do not rush into redesigning things. The first 20 to 30 minutes are better spent documenting the starting state: open the homepage, exhibition pages, artist pages, magazine, contact page, menus, and responsive views. That will help you understand which elements belong to the template, which come from demo content, and which depend on modules or custom fields.

Minimum Sequence for an Existing Site

1. Create a backup of the files and database.
2. Install the YOOtheme Pro archive for Joomla using the standard installer.
3. Open System or the Joomla template management area and confirm that the new template style is available.
4. Assign the style to a test menu item or a copy of a page instead of applying it to the whole site immediately, if the project is already live.
5. Open YOOtheme Pro Customizer and make sure the left sidebar and the live preview on the right both load without errors.
6. Save the initial state only after confirming that the frontend has not lost any critical modules.

In this scenario, you will not automatically get the full The Line Gallery demo structure. The official documentation makes it clear that the demo package is a complete Joomla installation with demo content. For learning purposes, it is useful to set up that demo separately and compare it with the existing site.

Minimum Sequence for the Demo Package

1. Deploy the demo in a clean environment that does not contain important user data.
2. After installation, open the homepage and several internal layouts.
3. Go into the Joomla admin panel and identify the articles, custom fields, menus, and modules that make up the demo.
4. Open YOOtheme Pro and review the Pages, Templates, Menus, Modules, and Style panels.
5. Create a copy of the template style or a settings snapshot before making major changes.

A good first result is not a fully configured site - it is a clear map of where the exhibition content lives, which fields control images and dates, where menus are assigned, which modules appear in header/top/bottom areas, and which style variation is active.

How the Demo Data Is Structured: Exhibitions, Artists, and Magazine Content

The most useful part of The Line Gallery is its ready-made art site model. The official page lists custom fields for Exhibition, Artist, Post, and User. It is better to treat that as a data model, not as a random set of fields. If you fill those fields in correctly, the template can render cards, images, relationships, and detail sections without forcing you to manually duplicate the same text across multiple blocks.

Exhibition as the Central Entity

For Exhibition, the source material lists 20 custom fields. These include a description, image variants for teaser blocks, an image list for the content area, an artist relationship, a ticket link, ticket prices, a start date, an end date, calendar links, and a quote. That tells you the exhibition page is intended to function as a full event profile, not just a basic article with a single image.

In practice, it is best to enter the data in this order. Start with the title, short description, and main image. Then add the dates, artist relationship, and images for teaser placements. Only after that should you move on to the ticket link, prices, and quote. If you begin with decorative teaser images, you may end up with a visually attractive card that still lacks useful visitor information.

What to Check for Each Exhibition

• Each exhibition has a clear excerpt that does not simply repeat the title.
• Images include alt text and work well across different crops: wide, square, teaser left, and teaser square.
• The artist relationship is filled in if the site includes an artist page.
• The ticket link goes to a current page or remains empty if tickets are not used.
• The dates match the logic of current, upcoming, and archived exhibitions.

Artist as the Connecting Layer

Artist fields include exhibitions, description, links, press links, related posts, videos, and teaser images. That is especially useful on a gallery site: a visitor can move from an exhibition to the artist, and from the artist to other exhibitions and magazine content. If you leave those relationships empty, artist pages become isolated profiles and lose much of their navigational value.

For editors, a simple rule works well: every new exhibition should have a linked artist, and every artist page should include at least one image, a short description, and a link to related content. That minimum gives the template enough structure to show more than just pretty blocks - it creates a real content map.

Post and User as the Editorial Support Layer

In the demo, Post includes a Website field, while User includes image, description, and socials. This is not the main part of the template, but it helps magazine and author content feel more alive. If the site is going to publish magazine content, do not leave user pages empty. An author photo, short bio, and social links create more trust and help distinguish editorial content from exhibition pages.

Configuring the Style Without Losing the Template's Identity

With The Line Gallery, it is very easy to weaken the first impression by replacing colors and fonts the wrong way. The original visual reference relies on bright color surfaces, large bold typography, white sculptural forms, high-contrast art imagery, and fine graphic lines. If you replace that with random pastel colors and small text, the site stops feeling like "Line Gallery."

YOOtheme Pro Style Customizer lets you change the look without writing CSS. The documentation covers the style library, color settings, fonts, spacing, UIkit components, resetting customizations, and recompiling the style. For The Line Gallery, that means you can adapt the branding, but you need to do it in a controlled way: change one layer at a time and watch the live preview.

Choose the Style Variation First

The product page lists six style variations: Default, White Green, Light Green, Black Orange, Colored Blue, and Colored Green. Do not begin by manually editing dozens of variables. First switch between the built-in variations and see which one is closest to your brand. That is faster and safer because each variation already includes a coordinated base of colors and component settings.

Once you choose a variation, save that state and only then start adjusting individual components. If you change button colors, heading colors, and the background all at once and the result gets worse, it becomes hard to tell which change caused the problem. In Style Customizer, modified components show indicators, and the documentation describes how to reset individual customizations. Use that as a safety net.

Treat Images as Part of the Design

The official page mentions 129 curated images prepared for the theme. That does not mean you have to keep them. But it does mean the original imagery sets the tone: art, sculptural form, texture, portraits, and exhibition details. When replacing photos, keep the contrast and compositional role intact. If a block is designed around a sculptural object on a bold background, dropping in a random horizontal interior photo can break the layout.

In YOOtheme Pro Files & Images, you can control width, height, and focal point. On a gallery site, that matters a lot. An artist portrait, a vertical sculpture, and a wide exhibition hall photo all need different focal points. If a face or object is being cropped incorrectly, do not change the whole layout right away. Check the focal point and image dimensions first.

Practical Image Check

1. Open the page where the image is used in a teaser or hero block.
2. Check the desktop preview and the mobile preview using the device buttons in Customizer.
3. If the subject is cropped badly, adjust the focal point or prepare a separate crop for that block.
4. If the block becomes too heavy, check the actual file size and avoid uploading original files without optimization.
5. After replacing the image, clear the YOOtheme image cache if the old crop still appears.

Menus, Modules, and Positions: How to Preserve the Demo Structure

In a Joomla template, menus and modules are not secondary - they are how you manage navigation and page regions. YOOtheme Pro documentation describes integration with the Joomla Menu Manager and Module Manager directly inside Customizer. That is convenient because you can edit menu items and modules without leaving the live preview. But it also creates the risk of changing structure without understanding exactly where an element is being rendered.

The Line Gallery uses visible menu items such as Exhibitions, Artists, Graffiti Workshop, About, Contact, and Magazine. Those labels shape visitor expectations: the site promises more than a simple image gallery - it suggests a complete art program. If your project does not include a workshop or magazine section, it is better to replace those menu items with real sections than to leave empty pages just to mimic the demo.

What to Check in the Menu

In the Menus panel of YOOtheme Pro, you can view menus, open menu items, add an image or subtitle, configure a dropdown, and use the page builder for more advanced dropdown menus. For The Line Gallery, the menu should stay short and confident. Too many items will break the breathing room in the header and can weaken the hero composition.

• Make sure every menu item leads to a real, populated page rather than a demo placeholder.
• Avoid long section names in the top navigation - use a short menu label and a clear page heading instead.
• If you need a dropdown, test it first in both the desktop and mobile header.
• For a multilingual site, decide early which items are shared and which should vary by language.

How to Work with Modules and Positions

The YOOtheme Pro documentation lists positions such as toolbar-left, toolbar-right, navbar, header, dialog, sidebar, top, bottom, and builder-1 through builder-6. One important nuance: positions without modules or output content collapse automatically, and the layout adapts. That is helpful, but it can sometimes look like "the position disappeared."

If a module is not visible, do not start with CSS. Check four things first: whether the module is published, whether it is assigned to the current menu item, whether the correct position is selected, and whether the page builder layout prevents a standard sidebar from rendering. For top and bottom positions, also keep in mind the documentation warning: if a Builder Module is published there, some position settings are ignored because the layout is controlled by the sections inside the builder module itself.

Template Styles for Different Sections

The Template Styles documentation explains how to create multiple template styles and assign them to different menu items. That is useful in The Line Gallery if the homepage should be as bold as possible while internal artist pages need a calmer treatment. But do not create extra styles without a real reason. Every additional style is another configuration set you have to maintain.

A safe approach is to duplicate the default style, assign the copy to one test menu item, open it through Open Website Builder, change the style or layout, and compare the result. If the experiment does not work, remove the menu assignment or delete the style copy. That lets you test without breaking the main site.

Dynamic Content and Output Templates for Exhibitions

YOOtheme Pro Templates and Dynamic Content let you build site-wide templates for page types and inject Joomla data into the layout. In The Line Gallery, this is a core mechanism: exhibitions, artists, and posts should not turn into a collection of manually duplicated blocks. The output template should pull the title, image, dates, artist relationship, excerpt, and other fields directly from the article.

The Dynamic Content documentation explains that the source can be a single or multiple item source, and that builder elements can load data from Joomla. For an exhibition page, that means one template can apply to multiple exhibitions while the content changes based on the current article. For exhibition lists, a multiple source can render a set of cards.

How to Tell Whether the Output Template Is Configured Correctly

Open one demo exhibition and watch which blocks change when you switch to another exhibition. If only the title changes while the images and descriptions stay the same, part of the page is probably filled with static content. If the dates, artist, teaser images, quote, and image list change as well, then dynamic content is working more deeply.

1. Create a copy of a demo exhibition so you do not damage the original reference.
2. Change the title, excerpt, start date, end date, and one image.
3. Open the page in the frontend preview.
4. Check which areas updated automatically.
5. If a block did not change, open the builder element and see whether it contains static text or a static image.

The goal of this check is to find the boundary between article data and layout design. Editors should update data, while administrators should control template structure. If those roles get mixed together, the site quickly becomes hard to maintain.

When to Use a Separate Template

You do not need a separate template for every page. It makes sense when a group of pages should share the same structure but display different data: a single exhibition, an artist profile, an exhibition category, a magazine post, a search page, or an error page. The official Templates documentation lists page types that can be assigned templates, including single article, category blog, featured articles, tagged items, contact, search, and others.

If you have a special format for a "past exhibitions archive," you can create a separate category or menu path and assign a dedicated template only to that set. But if you only need to change one text block on a single page, editing the page builder layout is enough - there is no need to create another global structure.

Practical Example: Launching a New Exhibition Page

Let us walk through the scenario a gallery will need most often: adding a new exhibition and publishing it on the site so it feels like part of The Line Gallery, not just a standard Joomla article. This example does not depend on any specific demo dates or names, because your live site will have its own events.

The goal is to create an exhibition page with a description, images, artist, dates, and a link to a ticket or registration page, then verify that the card appears in the correct places across the site and looks right on both desktop and mobile.

Preparation

Before creating the exhibition, prepare at least three types of material: a short description, a set of images, and information about the artist. If the artist does not exist in the system yet, it is better to create that page or article first so you can fill in the relation field immediately. Also prepare different image crops: one strong teaser, one wide hero or background image, and several additional images for the content area.

Setup Steps

1. Open the Joomla article section where exhibitions are stored in the demo and create a new article based on a working example.
2. Fill in the title and excerpt. The excerpt should explain what the exhibition is about, not just repeat the title.
3. Add the main images and teaser images. For every important image, fill in the alt text.
4. Enter the start date and end date if the site uses sections for current and upcoming exhibitions.
5. Select the artist relation or create the related artist entry.
6. If the site uses a ticket page, fill in the ticket link and prices. If not, leave those fields empty and make sure the layout does not output empty labels.
7. Save the article and open it on the frontend through the appropriate menu item or preview.
8. Check whether the exhibition appears in the places where it should be displayed: homepage, index, category page, or related block.

Result Validation

The result is working if the page opens without empty blocks, the image does not crop the main subject, the dates appear in a clear place, the artist link leads to a populated page, and the card in the list looks consistent with the other exhibitions. Be sure to review the mobile preview as well. Visually rich templates often look perfect on desktop but need extra attention for vertical images on narrow screens.

If the new exhibition does not appear in the list, do not start with CSS. Check the data source instead: category, publication status, featured state, date filters, menu assignment, and the dynamic content source in the builder element.

A Common Detail That Gets in the Way

Demo pages may use preconfigured filters or category sources. If you created the article in a different category, the builder element may not see it. That is not a template bug. Open the element that outputs the exhibition list and inspect the source: which category is selected, whether there are tag or featured article restrictions, and whether it uses a page source or a custom source.

Practical Use Cases for Different Art Projects

The Line Gallery is not limited to a museum website in the literal sense. Its structure works for any project where visual storytelling, an event calendar, and relationships between creators, works, and editorial content matter. Below are several scenarios based on the template's confirmed capabilities: layouts, custom fields, dynamic content, modules, menus, and style variations.

Online Showcase for a Private Gallery

Use exhibitions for current and archived shows, artists for creator pages, and magazine for news and interviews. The key is not to turn every exhibition into a manually assembled landing page. Fill in the custom fields so the template can maintain a repeatable structure on its own. Result check: a new exhibition should appear in the cards and lead to a page with a full description.

Website for an Art School or Workshop

Replace the exhibition model with programs, workshops, or open classes. The dates, images, ticket link, and prices fields can be used for scheduling and registration if that fits your version and content structure. The Graffiti Workshop menu item in the demo shows that the template vocabulary already supports an educational scenario. Validation goal: the visitor should immediately understand what is happening, when it takes place, and where to sign up.

Creative Studio Portfolio

Use exhibition pages as case studies, artist pages as team member or project contributor profiles, and magazine posts as process notes. In this scenario, it is especially important to rewrite the menu labels and headings carefully so visitors do not feel like they landed on a museum website. You can keep a bold style variation, but rename and fill the custom fields around the new content model.

Editorial Art Magazine

If articles, interviews, and reviews are the site's main value, magazine becomes the leading section, while exhibitions and artists support the context. Do not overload the homepage with exhibition blocks if events are limited. A stronger approach is to build a solid editorial index and use The Line Gallery as a visual system for authors, collections, and related content.

Performance, SEO, and Accessibility: What to Check Without Overpromising

A visual gallery template always has to work with a large number of images. That means performance and accessibility depend not only on YOOtheme Pro code, but also on disciplined content handling: file sizes, alt text, lazy loading, caching, the number of third-party scripts, media cache management, and heading structure. It is not realistic to promise that one template will automatically improve search rankings. What you can promise is that you will run the right checks.

The Files & Images documentation covers responsive images, auto-generated resized images, lazy loading, and media cache. That is a useful baseline, but it does not replace manual content preparation. If you upload dozens of original files at 8 to 12 MB each and place them in hero blocks, automatic processing alone will not fully protect the user experience.

Image Review

• Every meaningful image should have alt text, especially exhibition and artist images.
• Hero and teaser images should be prepared for the actual proportions of the block.
• After bulk image replacement, check media/yootheme/cache if you still see old crop variants.
• Do not use decorative photography where the visitor actually needs event information.

Page Structure Review

YOOtheme Pro gives you flexibility, but headings and content logic are still your responsibility. An exhibition page should have one clear main heading, followed by the description, dates, artist, images, ticket or registration information, and related content. If the builder layout looks visually impressive but the headings appear in a random order, accessibility suffers and search engines may have a harder time understanding the page.

Cache and Post-Edit Validation

After changing styles, images, or modules, check the page in a normal browser and in incognito mode. If the administrator sees one thing and the visitor sees another, the cause is often caching, access permissions, menu assignment, or unsaved customizer settings. YOOtheme Pro live preview is excellent for quick feedback, but the final check should always happen on the public page.

Safe Improvements Without Editing Core Files

For The Line Gallery, it is better not to start customization by editing template files. YOOtheme Pro already gives you Style Customizer, template styles, custom fields, modules, menus, and dynamic content. If you need a small visual adjustment, choose reversible methods: style customizer settings, a separate template style, a Joomla language override, carefully placed CSS in the intended location, or a child theme if you are developing it as a separate project.

Below is an example of a safe CSS adjustment for a case where exhibition teaser cards on your site end up with captions that are too long and visually compete with the template's bold design. This is not a hidden product feature - it is a cautious frontend presentation tweak. Before using it, inspect the actual CSS classes in the browser, because your setup may use different classes depending on the builder configuration.

/* Add this to YOOtheme Pro custom CSS or to a child theme.
   Use it only after checking the classes in the browser inspector. */
.uk-card .line-gallery-exhibition-title {
  max-width: 18ch;
  line-height: 1.05;
  text-wrap: balance;
}

.uk-card .line-gallery-exhibition-meta {
  font-size: 0.875rem;
  letter-spacing: 0;
}

The validation is simple: open the exhibition list, make sure the titles do not overlap the image or break the card, then check the mobile preview. To roll it back, remove this CSS and clear the cache. If the classes do not match, do not invent selectors blindly. Open the specific block in the browser and choose the class that belongs to the exact element you want to target.

For deeper customization, it is better to use the documented YOOtheme Pro child theme workflow or a Joomla template override, but only once you clearly understand which template file or component you are changing. Do not edit Joomla core, do not modify YOOtheme Pro vendor files directly, and do not copy old forum snippets without checking them first.

Common Problems and Troubleshooting

Issues with a Joomla template should almost always be diagnosed in layers: installation, permissions, template style, menu, module position, dynamic content, images, and cache. If you jump straight into CSS fixes or start rebuilding the page, you may hide the symptom without solving the real cause.

The Demo Does Not Look Like the Official Page

Symptom: after installation, the site looks empty, without the bold hero section, exhibition blocks, or expected images. A likely cause is that you installed the standard template archive into an existing site and expected the demo content to appear automatically. The official documentation clearly separates template installation from the demo package as a full Joomla installation.

What to check: which archive you used, whether demo content is present, whether YOOtheme Pro Customizer opens, and whether the required layouts are loaded. Fix: for learning purposes, deploy the demo package in a clean environment or manually import the necessary layouts and content if your workflow supports that. Rollback: restore the previous template style on the existing site and continue working on a copy.

A Module Is Published but Does Not Appear on the Page

Symptom: the module exists in Joomla but does not show up in the header, sidebar, top, or bottom. Possible causes include the wrong position, missing assignment to the current menu item, a collapsed position due to lack of content, a sidebar that is not rendered on a page builder page, or a Builder Module in top/bottom overriding the position settings.

What to check: published status, menu assignment, position name, whether the module appears in the Modules panel in YOOtheme Pro, and the live preview. Fix: assign the correct position, verify the menu item, or use a Position element inside the builder if the layout is built with full-width sections. Rollback: move the module back to its previous position or remove it from the test menu item.

Images Are Cropped in the Wrong Place

Symptom: an important part of a sculpture, portrait, or artwork is cut off. A likely cause is that the block uses width/height cropping and the focal point does not match the subject. The Files & Images documentation describes focal point as the proper way to control crop focus.

What to check: the dimensions set in the image field, whether a responsive image is used, and which focal point is configured. Fix: change the focal point, prepare a dedicated crop for the teaser or hero, and clear the media cache if needed. Rollback: restore the original image or the previous dimensions.

Style Customizer Stops Saving or Shows a Less Error

Symptom: after changing a value in Style Customizer, you get an error, the style does not compile, or the result looks unpredictable. YOOtheme documentation explains that Less errors can happen when values are invalid, such as typos in measurement units or unsupported characters.

What to check: the most recently changed components, the gray indicators for modified variables, and any fields that include measurement units. Fix: go back to the affected component and reset the specific customization through the indicator or reset control. If you are using custom Less in a child theme, run recompile style after correcting it. Rollback: restore the previous style or remove the problematic variable.

A New Exhibition Does Not Appear in the List

Symptom: the article has been created and published, but it does not appear on the homepage or in the archive/index. Possible causes: the article is in a different category, the source filter does not match it, the status is not published, the date or featured state does not match the query, or the template is rendering a static set.

What to check: category, tags, featured, menu assignment, and the dynamic content source in the list element. Fix: match the article to the same conditions as the demo exhibition, or update the source in the builder element. Rollback: restore the demo source settings and test with a copy of the article.

An Editor Accidentally Changes the Look of the Entire Site

Symptom: after editing content, the style, layout, or global settings change. A likely cause is overly broad access permissions, including Edit Templates. The YOOtheme Pro installation documentation specifically notes the importance of restricting access to the customizer.

What to check: Joomla user groups, template editing permissions, and access to YOOtheme frontend editing. Fix: restrict template permissions, leave the editor with content-only tasks, and provide clear instructions for filling in fields. Rollback: restore the template settings from backup or undo the latest changes in the customizer.

How to Review the Finished Site Before Launch

The final review should follow the visitor journey, not a checklist that stops at "the page opens." A visitor lands on the homepage, understands the current exhibition, moves to the details, looks at the artist, opens other exhibitions or magazine content, and finds the contact or ticket link. If that path does not work, the site is not ready yet, even if each page looks attractive on its own.

Start on desktop, then review tablet and phone using the device preview buttons in YOOtheme Pro, and after that open the public URL in a normal browser. Live preview does not replace real browsing, because permissions, cache, menu assignment, and publication state can differ.

• The homepage has a clear hero section, does not show empty demo text, and keeps navigation intact.
• The exhibition list leads to populated pages, not placeholders.
• Artist pages are connected to exhibitions and include images or a description.
• Menu items match the real sections of the project.
• Modules in the header, top, bottom, and footer do not disappear on key pages.
• Images do not crop important subjects and include alt text.
• The cache has been cleared after style, image, and layout changes.
• Editor permissions do not allow accidental changes to global template settings.

Once that review is complete, you can move on to the product archive and test it in your own environment. Closer to launch, it makes sense to download YOOtheme The Line Gallery, deploy it in a staging environment first, and only move a validated configuration into the live site afterward.

YOOtheme Presentation: What Is Worth Watching in the Video

The official Line Gallery page includes a template presentation with an approximately 11-minute walkthrough. It is most useful after reading the sections about the demo structure: you will see how the visual style, page layouts, styles, and demo content come together as a single product. It is not a substitute for setup work, but it is a good way to quickly absorb the template's rhythm before practical implementation.

In the context of this guide, the video supports the core point that The Line Gallery should be understood as a ready-made art site built on YOOtheme Pro, not just as a single hero design. As you watch it, focus on three things: which pages are shown, how the visual style changes, and which blocks are tied to exhibitions, artists, and magazine content.

When YOOtheme The Line Gallery Is the Right Choice

YOOtheme The Line Gallery is worth using if you need a visually expressive Joomla site for art-focused content and you are ready to work with it as a system: demo package, layouts, custom fields, dynamic content, style variations, menus, and module positions. Its value is not just one striking hero block, but the fact that it gives you a complete language for exhibitions, artists, editorial content, and events.

If the project needs strong images, a flexible editorial structure, and a visually bold presentation, this template can noticeably speed up launch. But if you need a neutral corporate site, an online store, or a simple catalog without relationships between content types, it is better to consider an alternative. The safest path is to deploy the demo on a staging copy, walk through the practical scenario with one new exhibition, verify mobile behavior, menus, modules, and permissions, and only then move the solution into production.