Scene - Magazine Theme for WordPress

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A modern feature rich WordPress Magazine and Review theme that is Responsive, Retina Ready, SEO-Ready and Ad Ready. Scene is an amazingly powerful WordPress theme specifically designed for online magazines, blogs and news sites. Experience the way a Magazine theme for WordPress should be.

Scene by Theme Canon

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Full Feature List

Design Customization

700+ Google Webfonts,
585+ Font Awesome icons,
240+ Flag icons makes it easy to set up a language menu to use on multilingual sites,
2 Professional Skins,
40+ colour options,
Boxed or full width layout,
Supports unlimited colour variations,
Final Call CSS, Add your own custom CSS straight from the admin menu,
Build your pages using the powerful and flexible Visual Composer (bundled with theme),
Add beautiful sliders to your theme using Royal Slider (bundled with theme),
4 custom templates and 1 custom skin for Royal Slider,
45+ standard Visual Composer elements,
5 custom theme elements for Visual Composer,
4 header variations,
Customize background (in boxed layout) using either tiles or full size images,
Add Font Awesome icons to the main menu to highlight specific menu items,
Make sure your menu stays visible even when you scroll down using the option for sticky header,
Optional Lazy Load Effect animation – make content fade in as you scroll down the page,
Single page scroll-to animation – add links to scroll to content on the same page,
HD/Retina Ready,
Responsive design,

Smart WordPress Features

23 custom Shortcodes and 9 custom HTML snippets,
16 custom widgets,
6 plugins bundled with theme (including premium plugins Visual Composer and Royal Slider),
4 different standard page templates,
Smart footer resizes to accomodate active widget areas,
Assign each page a unique sidebar,
Dedicated search results page, sitemap and 404 page,
Maintenance mode to prevent all non-logged-in users from viewing site content when editing site,
Custom widget area manager lets you create unlimited widget areas,
Search header with auto-suggest functionality,

Blog & Post Options

2 different blog layouts (Classic or Masonry),
For Masonry style blog choose between 1 to 4 column layout,
Special featured layout for sticky posts in blog.
Supports 5 different post formats,
Amazing Multi-Post feature lets you group posts together in one parent post. Great for top lists and themed articles,
4 different post layouts,
Great support for embeddable media (e.g. Vimeo, Youtube, Soundcloud etc),
Beautiful lightbox functionality to highlight your images,
Each post can be represented in blog with featured image, embeddable media or featured image that opens up media in a lightbox,
Optional tags, ratings, about the author box, related posts and post slider for each post,
Comprehensive ratings system with custom parameters can be added to any post,
User Ratings.

Full Ad Integration

Dedicated header ad spot,
Integrate ads easily in layout using Visual Composer or in widget areas,
Option to make background clickable – great for background “takeover” style ad campaigns,
Interweave ads in your blog and category streams using our super-flexible Archive Ads Manager.

Professional Support

Extensive documentation and tutorial videos,
Documentation can be accessed straight from dashboard,
Auto update checks and “One Click” theme updates,
Smart admin panel with contextual help,

SEO (Search Engine Optimized)

SEO optimized – built with best SEO practices in mind,
Theme SEO can be suppressed if 3rd party SEO software is preferred to minimize risk of conflicts,
Custom social widgets lets you add Twitter feed or Facebook like box to your site,
Open Graph integration for easy sharing to Facebook.

Multiple Language Support

Translation/localization ready with ready-to-go .po file,
Multilingual ready using WPML,
Multilingual ready using multisite structure and free plugins like e.g Multisite Language Switcher or Multilingual Press,

Quick Setup

Demo content files included,
Child theme included,
Export/import your settings,

Free Plugins

CleanTabs bundled with theme (value $6),
Royal Slider bundled with theme (value $22)
Visual Composer bundled with theme (value $28)
WooCommerce compatible (free plugin) – add your own online store with this great eCommerce plugin,
Contact Form 7 compatible (free plugin) – add powerful and flexible contact forms to your site.

Note: Images are for display purposes only and are not supplied with the download package.

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Change Log

April 15, 2016 – Version 1.8

- UPDATED: Visual Composer Plugin 4.11.2

March 09, 2016 – Version 2.1

- UPDATED: Visual Composer- FIXED: Missing indexes notice for uninitialized options with WP_DEBUG turned on.- FIXED: Issue where Twitter widget set to theme design would not display tweets.- FIXED: Issue where Single Event widget would show a max of 10 events to choose from. Now shows all upcoming events.

February 05, 2016 – Version 1.9

- UPDATED: ScrollUp script to version 2.4.1 (removes junk title on back-to-top button hover)- FIXED: Tweet text overflow issue on long URL's

January 13, 2016 – Version 1.8

- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.9.2- FIXED: Issue where insert image button would return blank.

December 17, 2015 – Version 1.7

- FIXED: Search button in mobile menu

December 16, 2015 – Version 1.6

- UPDATED: Google Web Fonts now detects server protocol and applies automatically allowing for Google Web Fonts over https connections.- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.9- UPDATED: Royal Slider Plugin v3.3.0- FIXED: issue that prevented native WordPress audio embeds (would show download link instead of player)- FIXED: Comment form layout for non-logged in users in WP4.4- REMOVED: Obsolete TGM notice modification regarding bundled plugins.

November 07, 2015 – Version 1.5

- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.7.4

September 12, 2015 – Version 1.4

- UPDATED: Font Awesome to version 4.4.0.- UPDATED: TGM library to version 2.5.2.- UPDATED: Bundled plugin RoyalSlider to version 3.2.8.- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.7- UPDATED: Widgets construct method for compatibility with WP 4.3+ (removes debug notice).- FIXED: Bundled plugins can now be installed/updated when child theme is active.- FIXED: Issue where widget titles would not show on initial load in customizer.- UPDATED: Facebook widget now supports new facebook page plugin instead of old Facebook like box plugin.- UPDATED: WPML related updates to widgets and search function.- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Envato WordPress Toolkit updated to v1.7.3

June 22, 2015 – Version 1.3

- UPDATED: Envato WordPress Toolkit bundled plugin updated to version 1.7.2- UPDATED: Visual Composer bundled plugin updated to version 4.5.3- UPDATED: Excerpts created using the more-tag now executes shortcodes- ADDED: Support for Visual Composer front end editing

April 26, 2015 – Version 1.2

- FIXED: Conflict between Revolution Slider / WP4.2 / Theme that would render Revolution Slider editing controls non-functional.- FIXED: Responsive menu click issue- UPDATE: TGM Plugin Activation library updated.- UPDATE: Security patch (http://marketblog.envato.com/news/wordpress-item-security-vulnerability/)

November 11, 2014 – Version 1.1

- Update: Font Awesome updated to version 4.2,- Update: Google Webfonts updated,- Update: Demo Content Files,- Update: Responsive Layout Styles- Fixed: Statistics widget code updated. NB: Statistics widget icons may have to be reassigned.- Fixed: "Comment awaiting approval" notice caused error on servers with older versions of PHP. Changed to increase compatibility across PHP versions.

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