Ciola - Premium Responsive WordPress Magazine

Latest Version: 30 May – Ciola v1.5

Ciola: Premium Responsive Wordpress Magazine.

Ciola is a feature-rich Wordpress premium magazine and review theme. It has a sleek design with many unique features, including four blog styles, unlimited colors to customize everything and five styles to show featured images.

Homepage Features

• 7 different modules to build your own unique homepage


• 4 different modern grid modules (4, 5, 6 & 7 articles) to show featured or latest posts.


• Full-width slider to show featured or latest posts.


• 4 Blog styles for homepages set to latest posts


• Custom Background Image or color


• Custom general color (Borders, menu color, review boxes, etc)

Category Features

• Show posts in different styles (choice of 4 blog styles)


• Show a Grid Module (4, 5, 6 or 7 articles), a big slider or a normal sized slider above the posts


• Upload custom background


• Set the background to any color


• Set background to full-width stretch, repeat or no-repeat


• Set general color for category using a color picker (for menu hovers, review boxes, overlays, etc)


• Custom Sidebar

Post Features

• Full-Width Post Option (Added in v1.2 thanks to multiple user requests)


• Fully integrated review / rating system


• Reviews system options:
  
  
  
  • Three different styles: Stars, Percent or Out Of 10
  
  
  • Option to include a score subtitle
  
  
  • Option to include up to three pros and cons with custom titles
  
  
  • Option to turn on/off user ratings (user reviews)
  
  
  • Multiple shortcodes available for articles: Dropcaps, buttons, highlight text, toggle (Faqs), alert boxes, columns and tabs.
  
  
  
  


• Post Format: Video (Able to embed YouTube / Vimeo / Kickstarter / Viddler videos)


• Post Format: Audio (Able to embed Soundcloud)


• Upload custom background


• Change the featured Image style (five different styles) or turn off completely


• Set the background to any color


• Set background image to full-width stretch, repeat or no-repeat

Page Features

• Custom Sidebar


• Upload custom background


• Upload multiple custom backgrounds for background slideshow


• Set the background to any color


• Set background image to full-width stretch, repeat or no-repeat


• Set general color for page using a color picker (for menu hovers, borders, etc)

Page Templates Included

• Contact Page


• Meet The Team Page


• Individual Author Page


• Top Reviews Page


• 404 Page


• Full-Width


• Search: No Results


• Search: With Results

Widgets Included

• Ciola Social Media Icons


• Ciola Top Reviews (Can be set to show top X reviews from a category or global)


• Ciola Latest Posts (With thumbnails)


• Ciola Facebook Like Box


• Ciola 125px x 125px ads


• Ciola Tabs (Show multiple widgets in one)

General Features

• Clean, modern and dynamic design for a professional and engaging visitor experience


• Integrated “to top” button


• Access to the 600+ fonts from http://www.google.com/fonts + drop-down menus with recommended fonts (hand-picked for their quality).


• Option to turn off About The Author box in admin theme options


• Option to turn off “By Line” in admin theme options (“By x on 01/01/2013 in Category” This appears in posts/modules/blog styles).
  
• Three custom menu locations (Top, main and footer)


• Main menu navigation has drop down capabilities


• Top menu navigation has drop down capabilities


• Custom Sidebars for EVERY category


• Extensive documentation with images


• Integrated related posts with images


• Sample Dummy Content XML file included


• Integrated optimized Google Analytics integration


• Schema Rich Snippet Microdata


• Fully Responsive design


• Simple and intuitive Theme Options framework integrated


• Very sleek Lightbox integrated


• Custom Logo Upload


• Custom Favicon Upload


• Custom Footer Logo upload


• Custom footer copyright


• Custom footer social media links


• Custom CSS section (Best practice to avoid losing CSS changes on theme updates)


• In-built pagination


• Indented threaded comments


• Dynamic breaking news in top menu bar which pauses on mouse hover (Can be turned on/off)


• SEO-Ready – Everything is set as it should be. For example: Only one H1 per page and wrapped around the post title (NOT the logo – which is terrible SEO), images pull the alt text data, relevant Meta schema data, etc


• Translation Ready with .mo/.po files included (French & Spanish already translated and included)


• Set an Windows 8 Tile image in the option themes for Windows 8 users who bookmark your page


• Custom Global Sidebar Position (Left or Right)


• Designed with valid HTML5 + CCS3 code


• Extensively tested with ALL major browsers and versions, including IE7


• Multiple shortcodes included integrated straight into the TinyMCE (no more having to remember complicated code)


• Option of 468×60 Banner, 728×90 Banner or no banner at all


• Exclusive support system (through the excellent Ticksy)

Support System

Support is very important to me. I know what it is like to get bad customer service, which is why I will do my best to answer every single question as quickly and best as I can (Monday-Friday). I have set up an exclusive support system on ticksy.com where you will be able to leave tickets to ask questions, report bugs or make suggestions and also see answers to other people’s past questions.

Unfortunately, I am not able to provide individual customizations to customers, but I will still attempt to at the very least, provide advice about how to achieve whatever customization is sought after.

Suggestions for future updates?

Please let me know of any features that may be missing, I will be looking to add more features in future updates, and hearing from users directly will help me decide which ones to add.

Update History

30 May 2013 – Ciola V 1.5

    - Fixed rich snippet bug
    - Fixed page color bug
    - Fixed missing translation
    - Fixed a mispelt function call
    - Couple of other very minor issues

28 May 2013 – Ciola V 1.4

    - Added Option to Pages to have a custom Sidebar
    - Category Editor: Added option to show category description (Off/Before Posts/After Posts)     
    - Added Shortcode: Divider 
    - Added Shortcode: YouTube/Vimeo
    - Added Shortcode: Video Gallery
    - Added option to turn off related posts
    - Added option to turn off comments
    - Added shuffling effect on Footer Social Media Hover
    - Added ability to organise the order of the authors in the "About Us Page Template" 
    - Added Alignment (None/Center) option to Button Shortcode
    - Fixed a minor error in the Spanish translation files
    - Updated Documentation

22 May 2013 – Ciola v1.3

    - Added option to use any Google Font from http://www.google.com/fonts (625 fonts available)    
    - Added YouTube icon to the Ciola Social Media Widget
    - Updated Documentation

20 May 2013 – Ciola v1.2

    - Added option to have full-width posts (Checkbox in the post options)    
    - Added option to turn off author box in admin theme options
    - Added option to turn off "By Line" in admin theme options ("By x on 01/01/2013 in Category" This appears in posts/modules/blog styles) 
    - Improved some minor CSS details
    - Fixed a minor issue with the translation file
    - Fixed a minor issue with the Review Schema Markup for posts with reviews

20 May 2013 – Ciola v1.1

    - A handful of minor bug fixes

19 May 2013 – Ciola v1.0

    - Initial Release

Credits

I would like to thank the creators of the following excellent free plugins that Ciola makes use of:

• Valendesigns: Option Tree


• Woothemes: Flexslider


• Ben Plum’s Boxer


• Scott Robin’s Backstretch


• Bavotasan’s extremely useful articles and tutorials


• Deluxeblogtips: Custom Meta Boxes


• Pippin Williamson: User Friendly Shortcodes with TinyMCE


• Soundcloud’s Soundcloud Shortcode Plugin

Images Used In Demo

All the images used on the demo website are only for demonstration and licenses to use them were purchased on DepositPhotos.com and the copyrights belong to the creators of the images (except the Grass background used on the Lifestyle category background, which was obtained from Photodune.net during January’s Free File of the Month from Morning Dew). None of these images are included with the theme.