Features Overview
A standard assortment of features are available with Photon. The Gantry 5 Framework provides for the foundation for the template's feature set, some of which are documented below:
  • Menu
  • Dropdown
  • A Dropdown Menu system, with inline icons, multiple columns and more.
  • Navigation
  • Positions
  • Unlimited
  • Unlimited positions, with drag and drop add, delete, move and resize capabilities.
  • Layout
  • Blocks
  • Variations
  • Enhance positions and particles with stylistic and structural block variations.
  • Style
  • Multiple
  • Presets
  • Choose from six preset style variations, easily customizable from the admin.
  • Style
  • Layout
  • Responsive
  • Responsive layout that adapts to the viewing device, such as laptop or mobile.
  • Layout
  • Custom
  • Typography
  • Enhance site content with rich typography and FontAwesome icons.
  • Style
  • Menu
  • Editor
  • Advanced Menu Editor with drag and drop, multiple columns and more.
  • Menu
  • Manager
  • Layout
  • The Layout Manager is an intuitive interface for managing blocks.
  • Layout
  • Settings
  • Settings
  • Unique, and intuitive interface for colors and fonts, with live previews.
  • Style

Gantry 5 Core Features

Powerful Particles System
Particles are simple user interface blocks that hook seamlessly into Gantry 5
Visual Menu Editor
Configure and structure your menu hierarchy with our new Menu editor
Layout Manager
Easy-to-use drag-n-drop layout manager makes layouts a breeze to create
Unlimited Undo/Redo
Made a mistake in the layout manager? No problem, you can easily undo it
Sophisticated Built-in Fields
Icon Picker, Image Picker, Font Picker, Collections, and much, much more!
SCSS LESS Support
Dynamic compilation of multiple CSS preprocessors is supported in Gantry 5
Off-Canvas Panel
Easily add Gantry 5 particles to a location-configurable off-canvas panel
Twig-based Templating
Gantry 5 uses the super-powerful Twig templating system to build your themes
YAML-based Configuration
Easily configure Gantry 5 with simple-to-use YAML syntax

System Requirements

Browsers
Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Edge
Server Requirements
PHP 7.1+ with Curl, OpenSSL Libraries and Multibyte String Support
Platforms
Joomla 3.9, WordPress 5.x, Grav 1.6+