Key Features

Gantry is packed full of features to empower the development of designs into fully functional layouts with the absolute minimum of effort and fuss.

• Responsive grid system

  Based on Twitter Bootstrap ¹

• WordPress 3.2+ support

  Gantry Framework version 4 is compatible with WordPress 3.2+ versions.

• Stunning new administrator interface

  Gantry provides a fast and uniquely intuitive interface to control all aspects of the design.

• XML driven with overrides for unprecedented levels of customization

  Gantry is easy to configure, customize, and extend.

• Powerful built-in fields

  Extended fields such as toggles, color-chooser, image-chooser, sliders, google fonts, textplus with suffix and prefix labels, and many more!

• Per override level control over any configuration parameter

  Layouts, colors, features, etc can all be different for any override.

• Preset any combination of configuration parameters, and save custom presets

  Creating custom presets allows you to easily save any combination of configuration settings for later use.

• Built-in extensible AJAX communication layer

  Our powerful AJAX system allows dynamic functionality in features as well as opening up AJAX to 3rd party plugins.

• RTL language support

  Gantry makes it easier than ever to develop Right-to-Left (RTL) based designs for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Farsi ¹.

• More with LESS

  Built-in LESS CSS compilation powered by lessphp reduces overall requests while making CSS development more powerful and intuitive thanks to the advanced powers of LESS.

• Flexible grid layout system for unparalleled control over block sizes

  Control the sizes of your blocks with our simple grid layout controls.

• Optimized codebase with speed, size, and reuse core tenets of the framework design

  Gantry is more than just unparalleled flexibility and control, it also provides a powerful basis to build professional quality designs.

• Growl-style event notifications

  AJAX-powered non-intrusive growl-style notifications for events such as save, cache clearing etc.

• Responsive HTML5 base template

  Fully-functional base template that shows off many Gantry framework features and typography. This is a great place to start building your own design.

• 65 base widget positions

  To get you started, we've included plenty of widgets. Adding more is a quick and easy process.

• 38 possible layout combinations for mainbody and sidebars

  The mainbody and sidebars now have an unprecedented level of control. Gantry provides support for all kinds of layout options.

• 4 Column Mainbody

  With up to 3 total sidebars, Gantry allows you to achieve highly complex mainbody layout scenarios.

• Many built-in widgets and gizmos such as font-sizer, Google PrettyPrint, Google Analytics, to-top smooth slider, etc.

  Easily add your own unique functionality with Gantry's feature support.

• Ability to force 'blank' widget positions for even more advanced layout customization

  Create layouts with blank spaces, or complex alignment requirements with this functionality.

• Flexible parameter system with ability to set parameters via URL, Cookie, Session, Presets, etc.

  Any parameter can be configured via XML to be settable from a variety of mechanisms for complete customization.

• Advanced typography

  Powerful typography from Bootstrap provides styling for tables, forms, buttons, and other standard interface elements.

• WordPress base styling

  Great typographical features right out of the box.

• Automatic per-browser-level CSS and JS control

  Advanced control of CSS and JS for any specific browser version allows browser bugs and issues to be isolated and patched with a minimum of fuss.