LT BBQ is a barbecue smokehouse theme for Elementor (free): a home page that opens with the overnight pit schedule (every meat from the hour it went on the smoke to the 11:00 doors line), opening hours until sold out, the meat board by the pound, how the counter works, whole cuts to order ahead, catering packages, the smokers, wood and farms, and a pickup and catering request form. A Hello Elementor child theme with bundled fonts, one-page mode and a mobile menu.
Editions
| Edition | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | The child theme with its design, fonts, header and footer, the Our pit and Contact pages with the pickup and catering request form, blog and 404 templates, one-page mode and the mobile menu. Credit link stays. |
| Pro Standard | $29 a year | Every page, sample posts and one-click demo import, credit removal. Downloads, updates and ticket support for 1 year, 1 website. |
| Pro Unlimited | $49 once | Everything in Pro Standard plus the AI kit. Unlimited websites, lifetime updates and ticket support. |
Pages in Free (Appearance → Starter setup): Our pit, Contact, Pit notes. Pages in Pro (Appearance → Demo import): Home, Menu, By the pound, Brisket, Pork ribs, Sausage, Sides and desserts, Catering, Whole cuts to go, Events and weddings, Our pit, The smokers, Wood and farms, Contact, Pit notes.
Quick setup
- Install the free Elementor plugin and the Hello Elementor theme, then upload and activate LT BBQ (Install and update).
- Optional: activate WPForms Lite for the pickup and catering request form.
- Pro: Appearance → Demo import → Import (Demo import). Free: Appearance → Starter setup.
- Replace the demo content and pictures (below), set your logo and the header button.
Pages in the demo
| Page | Under | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Home | – | Pro |
| Menu | – | Pro |
| By the pound | Menu | Pro |
| Brisket | By the pound | Pro |
| Pork ribs | By the pound | Pro |
| Sausage | By the pound | Pro |
| Sides and desserts | Menu | Pro |
| Catering | – | Pro |
| Whole cuts to go | Catering | Pro |
| Events and weddings | Catering | Pro |
| Our pit | – | Free |
| The smokers | Our pit | Pro |
| Wood and farms | Our pit | Pro |
| Contact | – | Free |
| Pit notes (blog) | – | Free |
Home page sections
The home page sections, in order, with the name they have in Elementor’s Navigator and their CSS ID (the anchor used by one-page mode and by links such as /#pit).
| Section (Navigator name) | CSS ID |
|---|---|
| Tonight's pit | #pit |
| Opening hours | #hours |
| By the pound | #meats |
| How the counter works | #counter |
| Order ahead | #pickup |
| Catering | #catering |
| Who tends the fire | #pitmaster |
| Pit notes | #notes |
| Find us | #visit |
- The pit schedule: The home page opens with tonight's pit: every meat from the hour it went on the smoke to the 11:00 doors line, with wood, temperature and resting time.
- A board sold by the pound: Smoked meats with half-pound and pound prices, sides, desserts, plates and sandwiches, and an allergy section.
- Honest hours: Opening hours that say 'until sold out', a counter guide in five steps and pit notes that explain why the brisket goes first.
- Order ahead and catering: Whole cuts with lead times, catering packages per person, what you bring to an event and a pickup and catering request form made with the free WPForms Lite plugin.
- The smokers, the wood, the crew: Pages for the smokers, the pit log, the farms and wood yard, and the people who keep the fire going all night.
Menu
The demo import creates this main menu (Appearance → Menus):
- Home
- Menu → By the pound (Brisket, Pork ribs, Sausage), Sides and desserts
- Catering → Whole cuts to go, Events and weddings
- Our pit → The smokers, Wood and farms
- Pit notes
- Contact
Header button: Order ahead (link #pickup), changed in Appearance → Customize → LT BBQ options.
One-page mode (Pro)
With Pro Standard or Pro Unlimited, tick One-page mode on the home page in Appearance → Customize → LT BBQ options and the menu scrolls to these sections: Tonight's pit, Opening hours, By the pound, How the counter works, Order ahead, Catering, Who tends the fire, Pit notes, Find us. To change the labels or leave sections out, see One-page mode.
Used the old LT BBQ onepage WordPress theme? It is not sold any more: version 2.0 is one theme for both. Install its Pro edition and turn on one-page mode.
Colours and fonts
Change them in Elementor Site Settings → Global Colors and Global Fonts; the whole site follows.
| Name in Global Colors | Value |
|---|---|
| Thin blue smoke (buttons, links, smoke bars) | #284C68 |
| Hickory (soft text) | #68503F |
| Bark (text) | #2A1C16 |
| Ember (doors line and marks on the dark band only) | #F08A3C |
| Butcher paper (page) | #F2E3D7 |
| Wrapped paper (tinted sections) | #E8D3C3 |
| Fresh sheet (board and form panels) | #FBF4EE |
| Hairlines | #D3BBA8 |
| Pit at night (dark bands) | #2E1F19 |
| Text on dark | #F2E3D7 |
| Soft text on dark | #CDB7A8 |
| Smoke on dark (schedule bars on the dark band) | #9DB4C6 |
| Button hover | #1B3549 |
| Name in Global Fonts | Font |
|---|---|
| Display (headings, meat names) | Epilogue |
| Interface (menu, labels, hours) | Epilogue |
| Body text | Epilogue |
| Buttons | Epilogue |
Form
With WPForms Lite active, the demo import creates the form Pickup and catering request on the Contact page. Fields: Your name (required), Email (required), Phone number (required), What do you need? (required), Day and time (required), How many people?, Meats, Anything else. Email subject: “Pickup or catering request from the website”. After sending, visitors see: “Thank you. We call or email you within a day to confirm the meats, the price and the pickup time. Nothing is charged online.”
See Contact form for where messages go and how to change the fields.
Demo content to replace
Everything marked with one of these in the demo is sample content: names, numbers, prices and addresses that you replace with your own (or delete):
(sample)Example pricesexample.com(555)Low Creek SmokehouseRailyard RoadSpringfield
- Keep the pit schedule for meats on the smoke: every row's four track values must add up to 18 hours (18:00 to 12:00), and the bar lengths must be the real hours.
- Do not add buttons that suggest online payment or instant ordering: orders go through the phone number or the request form.
- Keep ember for the doors line and marks on the dark band; it never carries text on light backgrounds.
Only publish facts that are true for your business: real prices, opening hours, reviews and qualifications. Pro Unlimited’s launch checker lists every sample marker left on the site.
Photo guide
The demo uses placeholder pictures. Replace each one in Elementor (click it → Choose image) with a photo of about this size; save photos as JPEG or WebP under about 300 KB.
| Picture | Upload size |
|---|---|
| A cutter slicing smoked brisket with a dark bark and a pink smoke ring on a wooden board | 1600 × 1200 px |
| A smoked brisket, partly sliced, on a cutting board beside a long slicing knife | 1600 × 1200 px |
| A cook in an apron tending meat on a pit over glowing coals | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Racks of pork ribs with a dark glaze on a smoker grate | 1600 × 1200 px |
| A tray of mixed barbecue with sliced brisket, sausage and pulled pork | 1600 × 1200 px |
| A stack of split oak logs for the firebox | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Coiled sausages browning on a smoker grate | 1600 × 1200 px |
| A buffet tray of meatballs in sauce beside a stack of plates at an outdoor party | 1600 × 1200 px |
| Smoke rising from a barbecue pit outdoors | 1600 × 1000 px |
| Slices of brisket fanned out on a wooden board next to a knife | 1600 × 1000 px |
| Hands holding a cooked brisket over a wooden board | 1600 × 1000 px |
AI kit (Pro Unlimited)
The AI kit’s AGENTS.md tells an assistant how LT BBQ is built. The CSS classes it relies on (keep them when you edit):
| CSS class | What it is |
|---|---|
lt-hero | home hero on the dark band (headline, lead and the pit schedule) |
lt-pit | the pit schedule (18:00 to 12:00); lt-pit–live on the hero animates the bars once. Children: lt-pit__axis row, then lt-pit__row rows |
lt-pit__row | one meat: lt-pit__label (meat name lt-pit__meat, wood and times lt-pit__how) and lt-pit__track |
lt-pit__track | grid of four tracks whose fr values add up to 18 hours: before, lt-pit__smoke (hours on smoke), lt-pit__rest (resting in paper), after; the doors line sits at 11:00 |
lt-pit__legend | the schedule's key (lt-key–smoke, lt-key–rest, lt-key–doors swatches) |
lt-board | meat board: rows lt-cut (name, note, half pound and pound prices); lt-board__head is the column heading row |
lt-sides | sides list rows (lt-side: name and price) |
lt-hours | opening hours band (label + time cells) |
lt-steps | a real sequence (the counter, catering orders, the cook); each lt-step with its number |
lt-price | label + value row |
lt-panel | fresh-sheet panel next to a price list |
lt-pagehead | inner page heading band |
lt-desk | contact desk block |
lt-person | crew member (name + role) |
See AI kit for the prompts, the safe edit tool and the launch checker.
Questions about LT BBQ
Do I need Elementor Pro?
No. LT BBQ uses only the free Elementor plugin and the free Hello Elementor theme. The header and footer are part of the theme, so you do not need Theme Builder.
Can I change the pit schedule to my own cook times?
Yes. Each meat is a row with four widths that add up to the 18 hours from 18:00 to 12:00: before, on the smoke, resting and after. Change the numbers in Elementor's grid settings, or ask an AI assistant to do it with the AI kit's safe edit tool.
Does the theme take online orders and payments?
No. Orders and catering requests come in by phone or through the request form (free WPForms Lite), and customers pay when they collect. If you add an ordering service later, link the buttons to it.
Will my site look like the demo?
Yes, with Pro: Appearance > Demo import creates every page, the colours, fonts, menu, header and footer. The demo photos are replaced by placeholders you swap for your own.
What is the difference between Free and Pro?
Free has the design, header and footer, the Our pit and Contact pages with the request form, and the blog. Pro adds the home page, the menu, meat, catering and smoker pages, sample posts, one-click demo import, credit removal, updates and support. Pro Unlimited adds the AI kit.
I have the old LT BBQ. Is this an update?
It is a new version 2.0 with a new design, built for free Elementor. Your current site keeps working; install 2.0 on a new site or a staging copy and import the demo there.
Also for Joomla
LT BBQ also exists as a Joomla template: see the LT BBQ Joomla docs.
Ask AI about LT BBQ
Ask in your own words. The assistant answers from these docs and links the sections it used.
AI answers can be wrong; check the linked section. Never share passwords or licence keys. Open a ticket