SmartMag is a moderncleanresponsive and retina-ready (HD) WordPress theme suitable for magazines, newspapers, review sites, or blogs.

SmartMag not only excels at front-end usability, the admin back-end is very easy to use. The drag & drop page builder makes it easy to create unique and creative homepages. Having built-in support for SEO using rich snippets and HTML5, your site will rank better in search engines. Make your content more appealing,engaging and usable.

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Intro and Page BuilderResponsive Layout, Mega Menus, and Boxed or Wide LayoutIntegrated Review SystemEasy Admin, Internalization, and Friendly Support

Key Features

  • SEO Optimized: Rich snippets for breadcrumbs and reviews are built-in. Further SEO enhancements available using WordPress SEO by Yoast.
  • Fully Responsive: All elements are responsive.
  • Page Builder: Use any of the 11 page-builder widgets and 6 block styles to create your homepage or any other page.
  • Multiple Layouts: Posts, Pages, and Categories can be configured to use a full-width layout or have a right sidebar (Custom Sidebars are supported).
  • Flexible Customization: A light color scheme included! Use the pre-made style or change colors / typography in options panel to create your own style. Custom CSS also supported for advanced users.
  • Flexible Options: unlimited colors and typography customizations.
  • Retina Ready (HD): All the theme graphics scale beautifully on hi-def screens.
  • RTL (right-to-left) supported and auto-activated when WordPress is configured to use an RTL language. Translation ready and WPML supported.
  • Responsive Google Adsense is supported using the default Google Adsense smart sizing code without any modifications.
  • Unbranded Admin Panel that’s easy to use and have amazing number of options and settings.
  • Utilizes the power of HTML5 & CSS3.
  • Multiple Listing Layouts: (for categories or page-builder/homepage)
    • Modern Layout
    • Blog Layout
    • Timeline Layout
  • Multiple Homepage Blocks: News Focus, Highlights, 3 Column Higlights Variation (shown on demo homepage). You can also use the category listing layouts and 11 other widgets to further spice up the homepage.
  • Unique Mega Menus: There are two unique mega menus for different needs as can be seen on the demo homepage.
  • Integrated Review System: (GUI criteria/review creator)
    • Percent Rating Example
    • Point Rating Example
  • 600+ Google Web Fonts are supported.
  • Multiple Post Formats: Standard, Image, Gallery, Audio, Video.
  • Cross-browser Compatible: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer 8+.
  • Custom Widgets: (default widgets well-supported)
    • Flickr Photos Widget
    • Recent Tabs – An advanced widget that let’s you add “Popular Posts”, “Recent Posts”, “Top Reviews”, or latest posts from specific category in tabs.
    • Recent Posts Widget
    • Popular Posts Widget
    • Latest Reviews Widget
    • Advertisement Widget
    • “About” Widget
    • Many more widgets for advanced users using simple shortcodes.
  • Advanced Category Features:
    • Set a category color that will be used in menu and category labels.
    • Set a background image to be used on a specific category (for boxed layout).
    • Use any of the 3 Listing Styles. Modern, Blog, or Timeline.
    • Enable a featured slider to be shown for a specific category.
    • Enable the right sidebar or select full-width layout.
  • GUI Shortcode Generator – all the commonly used shortcodes available via a visual interface.
  • Tons of Useful Shortcodes – tabs, accordions, typography, dropcaps, buttons, columns, lists, and many more layout related shortcodes.
  • A modern block-based Featured Slider that can also be used for categories.
  • Post Layouts:
    • Default Single Post
    • Full Width Post
    • Gallery Format
    • Video Post Format
    • Audio Post Format
    • Tiled Gallery Example (Jetpacks/Slim Jetpacks).
    • Comments Example
  • Multiple Page Templates included:
    • Full-width Example
    • Site Map Page
    • 404 Error Page
    • Single Author Page
    • Contributors/Authors List Page
    • Pagebuilder
  • Ads Support – easily add ads in header, in between blocks on homepage (using page-builder), side-bar, or footer.
  • Child Themes supported for more advanced customizations.
  • And much more.

Attribution

  • Demo Images (Not Included): (flickr CC-BY-2.0) Yasser Alghofily, Daniel Zedda, Jonathan Kos-Read, Alejandro Pinto, Jim H., Luis Hernandez, William Cho, Lucas Zallio, Mark Sebastian, Lies Thru a Lens.
  • FitVids
  • FlexSlider
  • jQuery Tipsy
  • prettyPhoto
  • jQuery Easing
  • FontAwesome

Note: The images used in the demo are for demo purposes only. They are NOT included in the theme or the sample XML data.

Changelog

Feb 5, 2014 – 1.0.2

- NEW FEATURE: Google Responsive Ads fully supported now.
- Fixed: An issue with using Custom Menus prior to navigation menu.
- Fixed: Mosaic tiled gallery width.
- Fixed: Category Mega Menu featured post not working properly.
- Fixed: Retina logo is no longer required when using image based logo.
- Fixed: Media Library search broken in admin area.
- Fixed: Styling issue for google-plus social icon in top bar.
- Fixed: 728x90 ad vertical alignment issue in right side of header.
- Documentation improvements and fixes.

Files Changed:
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style.css, functions.php, blocks/mega-menu-category.php, lib/menus.php, css/rtl.css

 

Feb 3, 2014 – 1.0.1

* Fixed Slider Issue with demo import content taking priority.

Files Changed:
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partial-sliders.php, style.css