Volt is really a responsive WordPress theme created for online magazine, news and editorial endeavors. With content and readability being primary goal, the theme was created with flexible layout pattern and decent space for ads. Volt includes layout changing option that enables you to move websites content in desirable location, and it is useful when you're experimentation with visual hierarchy and user eye pattern. Backed with custom icons, visual short codes, exclusive widget areas and custom page templates, the theme is imagined to supply you more versatility and ease-of-personalization for the online editorial projects.
Live Demo
Key Features
- Clean design, WordPress 3.5+ Ready
- Responsive layout for a number of mobile products. (Responsiveness could be switched off)
- RTL Language Support
- Multi columnar Layout
– Three Columnar: Content + Wide Sidebar A + Narrow Sidebar B
– Two Columnar: Content + Wide Sidebar A
– Two Columnar: Content + Narrow Sidebar B - WooCommerce 2.+ ready
- 6 Layout Changing choices for content and sidebars
- Posts Slider using jQuery FlexSlider
- Slider and Publish shortcodes supporting query from groups, tags, page/publish IDs, Custom Publish Types
- jQuery powered WordPress menus in 2 locations
- Built-in social discussing buttons for single posts (Facebook, Twitter, GooglePlus, Pinterest and LinkedIn)
- 7 widget areas (one out of header, two in sidebars and 4 in footer)
- Exclusive sidebar widget areas per page and publish
- WordPress custom background supported
- Shortcodes in visual editor with individual options
- Custom page templates for archive and page designs
- Unbranded Theme Options Panel
- Custom page and publish options panel
- 8 custom icons (flickr, twitter, social symbols, recent posts, popular posts, recent comments, custom groups, small folio)
- Built-in ajax/php contact page form template with validation
- Single publish features include author bio, related posts and multi-level threaded comments with gravatar support
- Inline advertisement blocks for single posts. Handled via publish options panel
- Style elements like tabs, accordion, lists, buttons, boxes, etc.
- Language localization using .po and .mo files. (Dummy file incorporated)
- Sample dummy data in text and XML format
- Step-by-step guide and detailed documentation for theme installation and configuration
- Supported on all major browsers
Update Log
June 04, 2013 – Version 5.5
- Fixed translation in theme options pages
- Fixed Sidebar-B changing bug for WooCommerce pages
Apr 02, 2013 – Version 5.4
- Theme made fully responsive
- Changed Cycle Slider with FlexSlider
- Added Custom Publish Type support on Slider and publish short-codes
- Slider and publish images associated with single posts rather than lightbox
- Fixed breadcrumbs code for attachment pages
- Enhanced RTL version with support for responsive design
- Up-to-date framework for up to date Wordpress version (3.5+) and plug ins
- Removed Timthumb version, content slider widget, and small slider widget
March 13, 2012 – Version 5.3
- Fixed Twitter widget API call
- Added ‘Group’ choice for Flickr Widget
March 01, 2012 – Version 5.2
- Fixed CSS for slider heading links (medium and enormous slider)
- Fixed CSS for 2 col publish titles
Sep 19, 2012 – Version 5.1
- Re-structured theme titles for Search engine optimization
- Enhanced publish meta section
- Fixed media query demand smartphone CSS
August 15, 2012 – Version 5.
- Theme upgraded to Wordpress 3.4.
- Added pagination support in single posts.
- Added comment count in thumb_list short code.
- Added 7 new page templates, including one list style blog template.
- Fixed markup bug in social links widget.
- Added Theme Options feature to cover category game titles on single publish and archives.
- Made theme functions pluggable.
- Added default sidebar.php file. (The theme uses two sidebars whereas a default sidebar is needed by a few plug ins).
- Added native support for WooCommerce Wordpress plugin. (Fundamental structure support. Styles is going to be inherited from wordpress plugin).
May 22, 2012 – Version 1.9
- Added “query from tags” choice to slider and publish short codes.
- Added Breadcrumbs. The feature could be enabled from theme options.
- Added pinterest, skype, yahoo, netvibes, and up-to-date google+ in social widget.
- Changed stumbledupon with pinterest on single publish social discussing.
- Conditional script loading on theme options along with other areas of the theme.
- Up-to-date timthumb.php apply for timthumb form of Volt.
Apr 19, 2012 – Version 1.8
- Integrated Facebook Open Graph Meta data for Facebook discussing on single posts. It was needed for correct content and image recognition by Facebook share.
March 02, 2012 – Version 1.7
- Fixed a webpage title bug on Search Engine Results Page.
- Added apple iphone specific viewport meta tag for 100% scaling.
- Added a choice for switching off automatic loading of mobile CSS.
February 01, 2012 – Version 1.6
- Added two more layout changing options. C-B-A along with a-B-C
- Date format modified from WordPress configurations.
- Added short-code for 2 columnar publish list with large pictures.
Jan 16, 2012 – Version 1.5
- Added LinkedIn social discussing for single posts.
- Added “Thumbnail + Title” style for Related Posts.
- Slider and Publish short codes modified to populate from category, selective pages or selective posts. These posts/pages could be sorted by title, author, random, or last modified. Check Options
- For particulars which files to includeOrsubstitute, kindly check version_particulars.txt file within your download zip.
Jan 06, 2012 – Version 1.4
- Added CSS for Languages with RTL orientation.
- Added Mobile version CSS for Mobile phones with portrait and landscape orientation.
- Added a brief code for posts with large pictures left aligned.
- Files to includeOrsubstitute:
rtl.css
smartphone.css
footer.php
includes/shortcodes/shortcodes.php
includes/shortcodes/js/posts_sc.js
12 , 23, 2011 – Version 1.3
- Added an optional theme without timthumb. You can now have native Wordpress Pictures.
- Added two more templates for default category/archive/tag/author pages.
- Single publish ads made global. You do not need to update all posts. Same ad could be proven on all posts. Each publish can override the worldwide ad, and may have it’s own ad too.
- Short codes enabled for advertisement areas in single publish. You may also hide advertisements per publish.
12 , 17, 2011 – Version 1.2
- Added multi columnar layout for blog. Now you can produce a two columnar layout with sidebar A or sidebar B.
- Added advertisement blocks above and below single publish content. Could be handled via publish options panel, per publish.
- Fixed a validation problem for prettyPhoto rel attribute.
12 , 13, 2011 – Version 1.1
- Added social discussing buttons for single posts.
- Added a navigation menu on the top section for pages.
- Added multiple sized slider mobile phones to be used on several layout pages.
- Added more publish list short codes to exhibit 4 columnar and 5 columnar list.
- Added visual short codes to place these slider mobile phones and posts.
Sources and Credits
I have tried personally images for live preview in the following artists, as listed:
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Some images from Fotolia with regular license purchase.
Above pointed out images are copyrighted for their particular proprietors, and therefore are Creative Commons-licensed for commercial use, adaptation, modification or building upon. The pictures can be used for demo purpose and aren't incorporated using the download. Thanks to any or all these artists/photography enthusiasts for supplying the information to be used under ‘Creative Commons’ for that community.
Social media symbols by KomodoMedia.
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