Milky Way combines the beauty of a Translucent Design, with a well thought User Interface. Designed from the ground up to be Robust, Fully Featured, Sexy and easy to use.
The Features & Design speak for themselves. Enjoy!
Note: Version 1.0.44 is Available!.
Theme Features
- Full Screen Web Application like Interface
- Full Screen Image Slideshow
- Unique Background Switcher: You choose which backgrounds to display, your visitors decide which background to use on your site
- Background Override: Every post/page can have its own background image (overriding the defaults)
- Post Images Lightbox: Images in your posts/pages open in a lightbox automatically
- Translucent Interface: Absorbs the color of your backgrounds
- Collapse/Expand Sidebar: Allows your users to hide the sidebar and expand it on demand, enhancing readability
- Adaptable User Interface depending of resolution
- Built-in Unlimited Sidebars (native algorithm, no plugins)
- Positional Cropping & Resizing of Thumbnails: You decide exactly how you want your images to be cropped (no more cropping heads and bodies in thumbnails)
- Built-in Redirection: no need for plugins
- Built-in Pagination: no need for plugins
- Typography support: using the Google Fonts Directory (118+ Fonts at your disposal. More to be added on the future by Google)
- Social Links display, supporting 70+ social networks
- Editor Styles: See how your content is going to look when published, without exiting the editor
- Threaded Comments: 10 levels deep
- Adaptable Branding for the WordPress Admin: Replace a few files and you’re set!
- 100% Multilingual & Translation Support: directly from the Admin
- 100% Automated Image Upload using AJAX & Drag/Drop/Sortable Interface
- Full Blown Lightbox Support: powered by PrettyPhoto
- Browser Support: Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera, Internet Explorer 7,8 & 9
- Dynamic Popups: Secondary navigation enhances your content
- HTML5 & CSS3 technology, boosting performance on modern browsers
- Add/Arrange/Remove/Sort Images & Galleries, using an intuitive Drag/Drop/Sortable Interface
- Drag/Drop/Sortable interface used in several places to manage your content & Images
- Enhanced Admin Theme Options using AJAX . Built-in Import/Export/Restore functionality
- Theme Update Notification: Be notified when a new update is released
- AJAX Contact Form w/Validation
- Youtube/Vimeo Video Support Everywhere: Portfolio, Blog, Posts, Pages, Sidebar (Widgets)
- Google Analytics support
- Multiple Portfolio Layouts (All Supporting Video):
- — One Column w/Slideshow (powered by Nivo Slider)
- — Two Columns
- — Three Columns
- Nested Galleries in Portfolio: Each entry can have its own Lightbox Gallery. This means you can make a gallery of galleries!
- Several Shortcodes:
- — Info Box
- — Buttons
- — Collapsable/Expandable Content
- — Tabbed Content (using proximity algorithm)
- — Galleries w/Lightbox Support: 1, 2 & 3 Columns. Each w/Lightbox Gallery
- Several Widgets:
- — Enhanced Posts w/Popup
- — Slideshow Gallery (powered by Nivo Slider)
- — Youtube/Vimeo Videos
- — Insane Gallery Widgets: 3-in-1. Each w/Lightbox Gallery
- PSD & Slices included
- Dedicated Support Forums, with lots of love from our Team
Training Screencasts
- Installing Milky Way on your Server
- Configuring your Site’s Navigation in Milky Way
- Using the Positional Cropping Feature
- Using the Unlimited Sidebars Feature
- Adding Background Images to your Site
- Configuring your Portfolio using Milky Way
- Using Milky Way’s Posts Widget
- Using Milky Way’s Slideshow Widget
- Using Milky Way’s Gallery Widget
- Adjusting Milky Way’s Typography
- Milky Way’s Editor Styles
Version 1.0.4
- Added compatibility with WordPress 3.2 (1.0.40)
- Bugfix: Fixed bug that prevented google fonts from being applied (1.0.40)
- Timthumb patch, fixes vulnerability issue (1.0.41)
- Updated timthumb to v2.1 (1.0.42)
- Updated timthumb to v2.8.2 (1.0.43)
- Updated timthumb to v2.8.4 (1.0.44)
Version 1.0.3
- New Feature → Full Screen Image Slider: A Background Image Slideshow can now be enabled
- New Feature → Preloading: Background Images are now loaded behind the scenes
- Bugfix: Fixed admin issue that affected Microsoft IIS Server users when saving settings
- Bugfix: Fixed bug in Firefox that prevented users to upload images (1.0.31)
- Bugfix: Fixed bug that prevented sidebar background from appearing when zooming in/out (1.0.32)
- Removed limit of 10 images in Portfolio Image Collections (1.0.32)
- Bugfix: Fixed issue with galleries when zooming in/out in the browser (1.0.33)
- Dropped PHPMailer, now using WordPress built-in mail functions (1.0.33)
- Added support for shortcodes inside Info & Tabbed Content shortcodes (1.0.34)
- Bugfix: Fixed gallery layout CSS on some browsers (1.0.35)
- Fixed some user interface details (1.0.36)
- Bugfix: Fixed bug with the ‘Add Image URL ’ feature (1.0.36)
- Bugfix: Fixed background images resizing algorithm (1.0.37)
- Bugfix: Fixed 2 & 3 Columns Portfolio layout, was breaking in certain circumstances (1.0.37)
Version 1.0.2
- New Feature → Better Customization: you are now able to customize the theme with ease. Milky Way now uses PNG images instead of rgba colors. Replace the images and you’re all set!
- Bugfix: Added some translation strings that were missing
- Wrote a whole new section of the documentation, which covers Theme Customization in depth. You’ll find the code and background images needed to modify every corner of the theme.
- Minor bug fixes
Version 1.0.1
- New Feature → Background Override: Every post/page can have its own background (overriding the defaults)
- New Feature → Posts Lightbox Feature: Adds a lightbox to the images in your posts automatically
- Bugfix: Fixed a bug that included unwanted content into Image Collections
- Minor CSS Adjustments




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