Hey Jeff,

Thanks for checking out 15Zine

You’ll be happy to know that I made it a priority to make the Valenti -> 15Zine transition as smooth as a Theme -> New theme transition can be. And yes, reviews will automatically load in 15Zine’s design, and so will other data such as the photo credit lines and a few other options like that. You will have to rebuild the homepage, as 15Zine uses new code and different modules, but as you have used Valenti’s system, it’ll be a piece of cake for you to set it up. Same with categories/tags/pages.

Cubell

Thanks Cubell. The million dollar question now is.. Whats gonna come with Valenti 4.0?!

No worries

Valenti 4.0 will fix some bugs, update to work with WooCommerce 2.3.x, and more goodies, full changelog will appear once it’s out

3. Are reviews just regular posts or are they categorize differently?

4. If i’m using only the “visitor only rating” does the rating appear over the thumbnail when using the reviews module?

4. The ‘top reviews’ and ‘popular views’ widgets can I filter by now, week, month?

5. In the trending widget on the menu does ‘now’ means latest 1 hour, 24 hour? or what?

Hey Oso33055,

Thanks for the kind words and interest in 15Zine

1- You can enter any code you want for the video post type, and if you have a plugin that can play videos, and it gives you some type of code (shortcode maybe?), then yeah, you can paste it in and it’ll appear just like YouTube/Vimeo videos do in the demo site. The only thing is that there is no option for HTML5 Video, as I explained to WanderLusters in a previous comment here, HTML5 Video is very buggy and has licensing issues (unlike HTML5 Audio which works much better),

2- Yes, you can have numbered pagination, infinite scroll or infinite scroll with load more button on a category with the grid blog styles

3- I’m a big believer in keeping things simple and the “WordPress way”, so the review system is an option inside normal posts, 15Zine does not use any custom posts. Custom posts only lead to headaches for users in the long term (if you ever change themes, it’s a nightmare to transfer it all over).

4- What reviews module are you referring to? Because if you look at the main demo homepage, you will see that the Visitor Only Rating post in the module underneath the first grid/slider shows the current user rating score on it.

4 (you put two questions number 4)- The 15Zine Popular Views widget has options to filter by “Past 7 Days/Month/All time”. And you can set it to also filter by “views or comments”, and you can also set it to show “small or big” thumbnails, if you go on the “All widgets and modules” demo page, you will see what the big style looks like.

The 15Zine Reviews widget has options to filter by “All time/Last month/7 days/2015 only/2014 only/2013 only/2012 only/2011 only”, and it has the option to sort by “Top reviews/Latest reviews/Lowest scores”, and you can make it show “Editor scores/Reader scores”.

And of course you can set the number of posts to show in them too.

5- Yeah, “now” in trending menu means last 24 hours.

Hope you find this useful

Cubell

Hey Noyearslost,

Thanks so much for the kind words, I have always done my best to try to push the current standards of WordPress magazine themes forwards, so i’m really happy you feel that way about 15Zine

And WooCommerce update will happen a lot sooner than that! If you look at my previous magazine theme (Valenti) changelog you will see it took me 2 weeks to update the theme to have bbPress integration, then another 2 weeks for BuddyPress, and then finally 4 weeks for WooCommerce, but that was only 4 weeks because it was over the Christmas period. In this theme, bbPress is already done, and I am going to integrate WooCommerce first, so it shouldn’t be long

Thanks again!

Cubell

Wonderful, you have a new customer. Excellent work. You set a new standard here.

Thanks very much once more, and if you run into any niggles setting up and the documentation doesn’t have the answer, feel free to submit a ticket at http://support.cubellthemes.com

Cubell

Thanks very much, I hope you enjoy using it

There is a bug with the button “views”. It doesn’t count and it’s impossible to translate it. Is it possible to hide it ?

Hey again,

The views count uses JetPack’s -> Stats module, which is a free and extremely powerful stats system, and much more accurate/powerful than anything a theme can do. Do you have it installed? If not, you can disable it from appearing in the Theme Options, in the by line option you can turn each individual part of the line (By author in Category on Date 0 Comments 0 Views) on/off.

Hope this helps.

Cubell

No problem and thanks so much for the support, I hope you enjoy using it

When BuddyPress/WooCommerce are included with the theme, Themeforest will automatically increase the price of the theme (they control prices), so I’m happy you get to save a bit

Cubell

haha glad i bought today then

Haha and i’m glad you’re glad

Hey Baddewil,

Thanks very much for the kind words

15Zine (and all my other themes) uses the official social network icons for the sharing block, and I can explain why – Despite what you see on other themes, you are not legally allowed to modify or create your own versions of the social network logos and then hack their “like count API” to show them, they are quite strict with it, just read here: http://www.facebookbrand.com and editing the colors/design of social network logos is actually copyright/trademark infringement, so I don’t want to encourage buyers of my themes to potentially be breaking the law, but of course it is your site so you have the option to install your own social sharing plugin, and I made it easy to turn 15Zine’s one off (a simple on/off option in the theme options).

I hope this makes sense and you understand why those icons are used

Cubell

Hey Ajfenwick,

Thanks so much for checking out 15zine and for choosing it

I’m not sure if you already figured it out, but apart from all Google fonts, you can easily use your own. I will write a section on this in the documentation for the next update, but until then here they are:

1- Go to Theme Options -> Typography. Then in the Headings and Body text font options select “Other Google Font” from the dropdown options. A new override option will appear.

2- Enter the font-family name of the font you want to use, in the same format as explained in the description next to the option.

3- Copy the script code that you get from Adobe, and paste it into the Theme Options -> Custom Code -> Custom Head code.

Done

This can be done with self-hosted fonts too, and instead of entering script code, you’d enter this into the Theme Options -> Custom Code -> Custom CSS box:

@font-face {
    font-family: myfontfamilyname;
    src: url(the_url_of_the_font.woff);
}

Hope this helps!

Cubell

Great, thanks!

No problem

Hey Themezkitchen,

Thanks very much! And I really like your logo, cool stuff

Cubell

Hey again,

I’m a bit confused though, did you have Valenti installed previously? If you did, all you’d do with 15Zine is install the theme, then a message will appear if you have the old Cubell themes Functionaliy pugin installed, like you saw before: “15Zine requires Cubell Themes Functionality 4.0, please delete your existing installation of Cubell Themes Functionality plugin and install the latest version in Appearance -> Install Plugins.” and if you delete the old plugin, and then activate 15Zine + plugin it will work fine.

Although I notice it says the theme you are using is called “ThrillB”, what theme is that?

Cubell

Hey hi!

The first message I dropped in here which said that “15Zine requires Cubell Themes Functionality 4.0” was on a test blog on which Valenti was installed before! But this time I uploaded the theme on my main blog and had renamed the 15Zine theme folder as ThrillB. And when I activated the cubell plugin on my main blog, it went completely white screen! What should be done now to avoid the same situation?

Ah I see, you can rename the folder with no problems, issues in themes will start if you changed the “theme name” line on the 15zine/style.css file, which I’m guessing you did. If so, you need to change it back to say 15zine, as that line is important and shouldn’t be changed. If you are trying to hide the theme name from the main style.css, that is located in 15zine/library/css/style.css. The 15zine/style.css is a special file that shouldn’t be modified

Cubell

Hey Ninzio,

Thanks very much, those were the main goals for the theme from the start

Cubell

Hey VBN,

Thank you very much

Cubell

No worries, you know I help where I can

And I see the flash, it’s definitely a CSS animation quirk, and I’m going to start exploring it now, hopefully I’ll be able to fix it quickly, thanks again for letting me know about this!

I actually thought of a sweet solution that may make it load a bit faster, I need to test it, but I’m sure I’ll be able to improve it. On my connection it’s almost instant transitions between the submenus, so it’s hard for me to know how it will work around the world, but I think I can improve it even more, i’ll let you know if/when I do.

Thanks for the hoverIntent report, look forward to investigating that!

And I think the current best solution to add parallax embeds inside a post content area would be to give the image a class when using the Add Media button, I will explore this after I complete the WooCommerce/BuddyPress updates, but I think there’s a good chance I’ll be able to add an option for that (although obviously I can’t promise it 100% yet!)

Thanks again

Cheers Cubell

No problem

Hi Usman134,

Thanks for checking out 15Zine.

1- 15Zine is very flexible, you can see some of the options using the “demo styler” tool, which appears on the right of the screen on the demo site. The homepage is very easy to setup, check out this video to see how you would build one (no code or shortcodes needed!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he4wA2l0a6o

And the posts are also a breeze to setup, watch this video to get an idea how to set a featured image style (a 15zine exclusive system, in normal themes, you are only able to output the featured image inside a post in one way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcTbF5qCQls

2- The theme is 100% valid HTML5, if you go here, you will see it has zero validation errors: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2F15zine.cubellthemes.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&ss=1&outline=1&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.3+http%3A%2F%2Fvalidator.w3.org%2Fservices

And I have a lot of experience with SEO, I have ranked lots of sites to number one on Google for the relevant keyword, so the theme is written following best SEO practises, if you set the site up well, the internal SEO juice will flow really nicely. The only thing I will say that the effect a theme can have on SEO is quite minimal. The most important thing for ranking is still having multiple high quality/relevant backlinks and that your site’s actual content is unique, high quality and well-written for SEO (intelligent placement of keywords).

Check this page out for some more information on the subject: http://moz.com/learn/seo/on-page-factors

3- The theme doesn’t have any paid membership system, as WordPress doesn’t have anything like this. You would deifnitley need to get a plugin to help you achieve this, and depending on how the plugin works/integrates, you may need to hire a developer to help you integrate it. I’d recommend looking on http://studio.envato.com for one, as that site is run by the same people who run Themeforest.

4- There are loads of plugins out there for this, I’d recommend looking on CodeCanyon for a premium one: http://codecanyon.net/category/wordpress/newsletters

5- With the featured image styles, ability to give each post its own unique font, you can achieve story-like results, such as this post: http://15zine.cubellthemes.com/design/post-with-unique-fonts/ Check out the “features” dropdown in the main menu for lots of different examples of post, and you’ll quickly be able to see how flexible and powerful 15zine is.

I hope this helps

Cubell

Hey Joomlastars,

Thank you very much

Cubell

Hi Carrie,

Long time no speak Hope you are really well! And thanks so much for getting 15Zine, I hope you enjoy using it!

I can’t promise a set ETA at this moment, but just like it happened in Valenti, they will come very early on

Thanks again!

Cubell

Hey HeedMag,

Thanks for checking out 15Zine

Yeah, that is done via CSS, so it’s really easy to remove. If you choose 15Zine, you can open a ticket at http://support.cubellthemes.com and I can give you the CSS to turn them off, you would simply copy/paste it into the Theme Options -> Custom Code -> Custom CSS box.

Cubell

Thanks for the prompt reply Cubell!

Just one more question. Is there only one setting for the homepage logo placement? Can we do center or right placements for it? I hope to purchase it soon. Somehow I feel I’ll have the same template as 5k other people when the sales are all said and done ;-/

No worries, happy to help!

There is an option to set the logo either on the left or centered. Or you could also simply not use the main logo, and set a logo to the main navigation menu and set the option for that logo to “always be visible”. And 5k isn’t that much when you talk internet terms! If you think about Avada theme having sold 100k+ licenses, yet I don’t think i’ve ever run into a real website using it

Thanks again for the interest!

Cubell

Hey Fieldthemes,

Thanks bud, much appreciated

Cubell

No problem

After playing around with this theme for the last few hours I’m highly impressed with the quality and ease of customization. However, there’s one menu-related change/option I would like to see (if you’re open to suggestions for future updates): an option to move the search and login feature to the main menu for people (like me) who won’t be using the top menu. And perhaps also a few different header/menu variations beyond what’s included. I understand that due to time it’s not possible for all suggestion to be implemented, but I thought I would throw that out there anyway. Thanks for reading. LOVE this theme so far!

Hey again,

That’s so nice to hear! Really happy you’re enjoying it. I always make a big effort to make the backend experience of my themes as logical and easy to use as possible, no coding or shortcodes required, just simple options in the relevant places.

And I’m always open to suggestions! And I think that’s a great one, I’ll definitely try to add an option to be able to choose which menu to put the login/search buttons in. I’ll probably add an option to only use the icons too, so you could have all 3 at the right side of the main nav menu if you wanted (search icon, login icon, trending icon).

And what kind of header variation are you thinking of? Because you can pretty much set it up any way you want – logo left/center, dark/light, or no logo at all and show a logo in the navigation menu only, top menu on/off, etc.

Thanks again!

Cubell

Hey Withemes,

Thanks so much

Cubell

Hey Westkast,

Haha thanks so much bud, really appreciate the kind words

Ahhh thanks for pointing that out! I forgot to upload the final documentation files to be available online, but I will definitely do it soon (by tomorrow in any case). However, the documentation is included with the theme files already

Thanks again!

Cubell