LT Lico is a theme for small crypto newsrooms, explainer sites and newsletters, built for Elementor (free): a home page that opens on a desk board where every story shows how many of its six checks are done, plain news, explainers in reading order with a three-level basics branch, claims still being checked, scam warnings, a glossary, a standards page with a corrections log, and an 'Ask the desk' form. A Hello Elementor child theme with bundled fonts, one-page mode and a mobile menu. No prices, no charts, no trading.
Editions
| Edition | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | The child theme with its design, fonts, header and footer, the About and Contact pages, 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): About the desk, Ask the desk, News. Pages in Pro (Appearance → Demo import): Home, Explainers, The basics, What a blockchain is, Wallets and keys, Fees and confirmations, Scams and safety, Glossary, How we confirm, Corrections, About the desk, The desk, Funding and disclosures, Ask the desk, News.
Quick setup
- Install the free Elementor plugin and the Hello Elementor theme, then upload and activate LT Lico (Install and update).
- Optional: activate WPForms Lite for the ask the desk 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 |
| Explainers | – | Pro |
| The basics | Explainers | Pro |
| What a blockchain is | The basics | Pro |
| Wallets and keys | The basics | Pro |
| Fees and confirmations | The basics | Pro |
| Scams and safety | Explainers | Pro |
| Glossary | Explainers | Pro |
| How we confirm | – | Pro |
| Corrections | How we confirm | Pro |
| About the desk | – | Free |
| The desk | About the desk | Pro |
| Funding and disclosures | About the desk | Pro |
| Ask the desk | – | Free |
| News (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 /#desk).
| Section (Navigator name) | CSS ID |
|---|---|
| Today's desk | #desk |
| Risk notice | #risk |
| News | #news |
| Explainers | #explainers |
| Claims we are checking | #checking |
| Six checks | #standards |
| Scams | #scams |
| Words you will meet | #words |
| Call to action | #ask-cta |
- Six confirmations on every story: The home page opens on a desk board: today's stories, each with a strip of six squares that shows how many of its checks are done, and a ring on the newest check.
- Explainers in reading order: Six explainers numbered in the order to read them, a topic list, a glossary and a three-level basics branch with a page for each explainer.
- Claims we are checking: A section for rumours and reader alerts that are not yet reported, each with its check count and what is known so far.
- Standards and corrections: A standards page with the six checks drawn large, one story traced check by check, label meanings and a corrections log.
- Safety and risk built in: Scams with their tells, what to do after a scam, what the desk never asks for, and a risk line wherever buying or holding is mentioned. No prices, tickers or charts.
- Free Elementor and a ready question form: Every page is built with free Elementor widgets on Hello Elementor, with an 'Ask the desk' form made with the free WPForms Lite plugin. Fonts are bundled: no Google Fonts requests.
Menu
The demo import creates this main menu (Appearance → Menus):
- Home
- News
- Explainers → The basics (What a blockchain is, Wallets and keys, Fees and confirmations), Scams and safety, Glossary
- How we confirm → Corrections
- About → The desk, Funding and disclosures
- Contact
Header button: Ask the desk (link /contact/#ask), changed in Appearance → Customize → LT Lico options.
One-page mode (Pro)
With Pro Standard or Pro Unlimited, tick One-page mode on the home page in Appearance → Customize → LT Lico options and the menu scrolls to these sections: Today's desk, Risk notice, News, Explainers, Claims we are checking, Six checks, Scams, Words you will meet, Call to action. To change the labels or leave sections out, see One-page mode.
Used the old LT Lico 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 |
|---|---|
| Ledger violet (buttons, links, filled checks) | #3E2F86 |
| Slate violet (soft text) | #57526E |
| Ink (text) | #1B1733 |
| New-block yellow (newest check ring; marks on dark only) | #F2C641 |
| Paper (page) | #F4F3F8 |
| Mist (tinted sections) | #E7E4F1 |
| Hairlines | #CBC6DC |
| Night violet (desk board, dark bands) | #241D4D |
| Text on night violet | #F3F1FA |
| Soft text on night violet | #BDB7DA |
| Button hover | #2B1F66 |
| Name in Global Fonts | Font |
|---|---|
| Display (h1, h2, brand) | Noto Serif Display |
| Interface (menu, h3, h4, status words) | K2D |
| Body text | K2D |
| Buttons | K2D |
Form
With WPForms Lite active, the demo import creates the form Ask the desk on the Ask the desk page. Fields: Your name (required), Email (required), What is it about? (required), Link or story title (optional), Your question or tip (required), May we quote your question, without your name?, Before you send (required). Email subject: “Question for the desk from the website”. After sending, visitors see: “Thank you. An editor reads every message and replies by email within three working days. We never ask for recovery words, passwords or payment.”
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)Halden Crypto DeskHaldenSpringfield
- Never add prices, tickers, charts, returns, predictions, 'buy now' or sign-up-to-trade links, exchange names or coin logos; keep the risk line (`lt-risk`) wherever buying or holding is mentioned.
- A confirmation strip always has six squares, filled only for checks really done and in order, with the count written beside it; never use strips as decoration or as section numbers.
- Use new-block yellow only for the newest-check ring and rules on night violet; never for 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 |
|---|---|
| Two colleagues working on laptops and notes at a café table, with others talking behind them | 1600 × 1066 px |
| Two people working side by side on laptops at a white desk by a window | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A person reading a phone in a dark room, the screen lighting their hand | 1600 × 1067 px |
| An editor marking corrections on a printed manuscript with a green pen | 1600 × 1067 px |
| Two old iron keys lying on crumpled handwritten paper | 1600 × 1013 px |
| A person writing notes on paper beside an open laptop in an office | 1600 × 1067 px |
| Network cables plugged into a switch panel in a data centre | 1600 × 989 px |
| A hand reaching for a phone beside a cup of coffee on a table | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A historic county courthouse with white columns under a blue sky | 1600 × 1065 px |
| A person typing on a laptop at a desk with papers and books | 1600 × 1067 px |
AI kit (Pro Unlimited)
The AI kit’s AGENTS.md tells an assistant how LT Lico is built. The CSS classes it relies on (keep them when you edit):
| CSS class | What it is |
|---|---|
lt-hero | home hero band (headline + the desk board) |
lt-board | the desk board (Text Editor HTML, night violet): lt-board__list of lt-story items, each with a title link, an lt-strip and an lt-story__s status line |
lt-strip | the confirmation strip: six lt-b squares; is-on = check done (fill in order), is-new = yellow ring on the newest check of the board; always followed by the count in words |
lt-board-note | caption under the board (what the squares mean) |
lt-check | one of the six checks drawn large (Standards band): lt-check__n square with its number, title, text |
lt-claim | one claim we are checking and have not reported (claim, where it came from, strip, what we know) |
lt-trace | one row of a story traced check by check (time, strip, what happened) |
lt-read | one explainer in reading order (number, title, what you learn, minutes) |
lt-risk | the risk warning strip or line (keep it wherever buying or holding is mentioned) |
lt-scam | one kind of scam (name, how it works, the tell) |
lt-step | one step of a real sequence (after a scam) |
lt-term | glossary row (term + plain meaning) |
lt-fix | corrections log row (date, story, what was wrong, what changed) |
lt-price | fact row (label + value) |
lt-pagehead | inner page heading band |
lt-desk | contact desk block |
lt-person | editor or writer (name, role, disclosure) |
See AI kit for the prompts, the safe edit tool and the launch checker.
Questions about LT Lico
Do I need Elementor Pro?
No. LT Lico 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.
Does the theme show crypto prices or charts?
No, on purpose. It is built for news and explainers, not trading: there are no tickers, charts or exchange widgets. If you add any, keep the risk warning next to them.
How do I change a story's check count?
The desk board and the claims are Text Editor widgets: each strip is six squares, and adding the class is-on to the next square fills it. Change the words beside it to match.
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 About and Contact pages and the blog. Pro adds the home page, the Explainers and Standards pages with their sub-pages, sample posts, one-click demo import, credit removal, updates and support. Pro Unlimited adds the AI kit.
I have the old LT Lico. Is this an update?
It is a new version 2.0 with a new design, built for free Elementor, and it is now a crypto news and explainers theme rather than an exchange site. 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 Lico also exists as a Joomla template: see the LT Lico Joomla docs.
Ask AI about LT Lico
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