Grand Magazine Theme Overview

Grand Magazine is a clean and minimal WordPress theme for Blog and Magazine web site. Built with the latest WordPress technology. Grand Magazine support responsive layout so it looks great on all devices. It has predefined styling for blog posts which can be imported with one click.

Features

Make your website uniquely

• What’s’ hot & Trending To make your website more interesting and more uniquely, we offer the fabulous feature; What’s hot & Trending, to show your visitors which posts have the most number of sharing and comments and also which posts have the most views.
• Match your Brand Identity We offer various screen color of our theme to match your brand identity
• 20+ predesign layouts to choose for blog & post page As uniquely showing your blogs are very crucial, we focus on creating the various predesign layouts for blog & post page to match your styles. Moreover, simple steps are required to create with our pre-defined templates.
• The smoothest parallax scrolling ever Tell your stories with our provided smooth parallax scrolling with rendering performance of 60fps
• Video Parallax your website more attractive from your visitors by video parallax.

Various Options for getting started

• 20+ predesign layouts to choose for blog & post page As uniquely showing your blogs are very crucial, we focus on creating the various predesign layouts for blog & post page to match your styles. Moreover, simple steps are required to create with our pre-defined templates.
• 20+ predesign templates to choose for single post The styles of single post are also very important, so we prepare a variety of templates for single post.
• Only One Click for Importing Demo Contents Quickly and easily import our demo contents including pages, posts, sliders, widgets, theme options and other settings with only one click.

Other Features

• This theme supports both personal blogger and many authors writing articles.
• Easy install & setup Easily update from your existing blog. Just install our theme.
• Multiple images upload. This theme has advanced gallery editor which support bulks images uploader and drag&drop reorder
• Parallax Background Effect This theme easily creates parallax background effect by selecting images and height of parallax image. After finishing setting, background of images in sections will move at a different speed as the rest of the page for impressive visual effect.
• Infinite Scroll supports for blog posts For customers who would like to display a large number of blog posts, we created a simple solution for you. Now, you can display your blog posts in columns. Once your visitors scroll down to the end of page. It will automatically load new blog posts.
• Live Search With visitor focus, we’ve included the instance search to help visitors search for partial queries or provide some interactive feedback. Only one click is required to enable instance search and search form in header of side menu.
• Optimization for Google Mobile Compatibility Check Your site’s search by Google will more visible and have better performance for mobile users. Google updated their search algorithm to give preference to websites that are optimized for proper display on mobile/handheld devices.
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Theme has been built using semantic HTML code and CSS, allowing search engines crawl and index your web page easily.
• Sharp Font Icons Font icons are always crystal clear and look perfect on all devices’ screens and sizes. In addition, font icon helps to speed up your load times of your site.
• Retina Ready Ensure that your images and elements are sharp and gorgeous on Retina and high resolution displays.
• Custom Styles Custom your styles with custom CSS in theme options. Without changing core theme, no worry for upgrading the theme anymore
• Fully Customizable With our flexible framework, this theme is the powerful theme to display awesome and various options.
• Custom Sidebars Easily creating your own custom sidebars without touching any code. Moreover, simply set the different sidebars to perfectly match to each page.
• Unlimited sidebar Create and select sidebar for each of your page

Amazing Builder

• Fully integrated with WordPress Customizer Modify Appearance settings in a live preview. No matter what you change elements colors, background, typography, layout type, text or images, you will see the results instantly. Test drive
• Develop your website to be responsive easily. Just only one click in Live Customizer to show the results in responsive view including on laptops, tablet or mobile phone.
• Image Options Right Click and Image Dragging Protection can easily enable only one click.
• Styled Typography in Live Preview Over 500+ Google Fonts are included with all styles and Font changes will be shown in live preview via Customizer. You can change font size, style, color using without touching code.
• Amazing Backgrounds Easily applying images, patterns and colors in background of your site. Also, various repeat options are available.
• Unlimited Colors Easily control your elements colors of your website using color picker
• Responsive Design With users’ behavior focus, every pages are designed to look great on all devices no matter what devices users are on laptops, tablet or mobile phone. In case, you would like to deactivate responsive feature, only one click is required in your live customizer backend.
• Frame Frame can be enable for site layout by only one click. Also, you can choose easily the Frame Color by the color picker.
• Boxed & Wide Layout Effortlessly select the boxed and wide layout in live customizer which reflect the result back to you instantly.
• Navigation
• Sticky Menu & Smart Sticky Menu Only one click is required to display main menu fixed when scrolling and to make menu displays when scroll down and hide when scroll up.
• Top Bar Only one click is required for displaying Top Bar above main menu.
• Contact Info Contact Hours and Contact Phone Number can be set
• Side MenuOnly one click is required to enable Side Menu on Desktop
• Footer
• General
• Easily set Footer Sidebar Columns to Hide Footer Sidebar or 1-4 columns
• Only one click is required to set the option to open footer social icons link in new window and display categories browsing section in footer
• Copyright
• Easily enter your Copyright Text and also select Copyright Right Area Content (Social Icons, Footer Menu)
• Only one click is required to enable go to top button at the bottom of page when scrolling.
• Gallery
• Easily sort gallery images by selecting the various options; for instance, by drag&drop, by newest, by oldest, by random and by title.
• LightboxOnly one click is required to display image caption under the image in lightbox mode
• Blog
• Category Settings
• Featured Posts Category Easily select featured post category to display at the top of homepage.
• Editor Picks Post Category Easily select editor picks post category.
• Hot Posts Settings
• Easily change the hot posts highlight color, select hot posts in certain periods, and select the number of hot posts items.
• Trending Post Settings
• Easily change the trending posts highlight color, select trending posts in certain periods, and select the number of trending posts items.
• Other Settings
• Only one click is required to enable the display post full content in classic blog page.
• Layout Settings
• Easily adjust the page layout for displaying homepage, archive page, category page, tag page, search results page, and author page.
• Post Filter Setting
• Only one click is required to display post filterable options, advanced pagination which display new posts without refreshing page, and infinite scroll (*you need to enable advanced pagination).
• Single Post
• Post Attributes Only one click is required to display featured content (image or gallery) in single post page, post tags on single post page, and author on single post page.
• Related Posts Setting
• Only one click is required to display related posts on single post page, posts from the same post category on single post page, and posts from editor picks category on single post page.
• Easily change selecting related posts items, selecting more from post category items, and selecting editor picks posts items.
• Menus
• Menu Locations
• Theme supports 5 menus including Primary Menu, Secondary Menu, Top Bar Menu, Side (Mobile) Menu and Footer Menu. You can select which menu appears in each location and you can also place menus in widget areas with the custom menu widget.
• Easily order submenus by drag&drop as following menu.
• Features Menu
• Main Menu
• One Page Menu
• Side Mobile Menu
• Top Menu
• Widgets We provided a variety of custom widgets to make your life easier including Custom About Me, Custom Category Posts, Custom Flickr, Custom Instagram, Custom Map, Custom Menu, Custom Popular Posts, Custom Recent Posts, Custom Social Profiles, and Custom Twitter. Just drag and drop custom widgets to activate and configure in any sidebars you build.
• Static Front Page
• Easily select the options of the Front page to display your latest posts or a static page and also apply the front page and posts page to specific page.
• Awesome Page/Post Options
• Page options is in menu with the Theme Options. Page options is for configuring the value for individual page or post which affect the page or post you set them on. These will override theme options which allows you to have a unique page or post outside of your global settings. This various options work together to allow you to build incredible websites.
• Post Options
• Variously set layout of the single post page including
• Parallax Content + Right Sidebar
• Parallax Content + Left Sidebar
• Parallax Content + Fullwidth
• Static Content + Right Sidebar
• Static Content + Left Sidebar
• Static Content + Fullwidth
• Title Before Parallax Content + Right Sidebar
• Title Before Parallax Content + Left Sidebar
• Title Before Parallax Content + Fullwidth
• Minimal + Right Sidebar
• Minimal + Left Sidebar
• Minimal + Fullwidth
• Specify featured content type for the post including image, gallery, Youtube Video and Vimeo Video. Different content type will be display on single post page.
• Specify Categories including Photography, Lifestyle, Travel and Uncategorized
• Specify multiple tags, featured image, excerpt and shortcode
• Easily manage categories and tags.
• Page Options
• Only one click to make main menu in transparent and also hide default page header.
• Page Tagline is available under page title (HTML code also supports)
• Specify parent of the page, template of the page and ordering.
• Specify featured image and discussion
• Custom Page Templates
• Default (Fullwidth)
• Contact
• Page Left Sidebar
• Page Right Sidebar
• Awesome Gallery Options Theme comes with gallery templates layouts for different purposes.
• o Unlimited Photo Gallery Pages
• Specify the gallery template for the gallery
• Support Featured image and discussion.
• Manage and maintain Gallery Category (Group of Gallery) easily.
• Custom Gallery Template
• Gallery 2 columns
• Gallery 3 columns
• Gallery 4 columns
• Other
• Compatible with latest WordPress version
• Built with HTML5 and CSS3
• jQuery Enhancements
• Javascript files are automatically combined and minified for added performance
• WordPress Multisite (WPMU) Tested and Approved
• SEO Optimized, great SEO base already built-in (compatible with SEO Plugins like Yoast)
• Well organized, commented & clean code
• 100% Responsive Theme – and you can easily turn it on or off
• Automatic Theme Updater
• Social Icons and Theme Icons are Font Icons, no Images
• CSS3 animations enable or disable on desktop/mobile
• CSS and javascript compression support
• CSS3 Animations CSS3 animations help to attract the attention of your visitors towards your content by setting type, direction and speed of elements.
• Child Theme support for advanced customization which is not affected by theme future update
• Developed with WordPress best practices

Customer Support

• Once you purchase, you can use our advanced support ticket system to receive professional support that we provided experienced and dedicated support team to ensure you always have the help you and your business needs, right when it needs it most
• The most extensive offline documentation are included
• Free Theme Updates – We are endeavoring to improve the quality of our themes by adding new features and removing bugs
• Customer feedback are always welcomed for new features

Integration & Plugin

• Social Media Profiles Support Social Media will help you to promote your online brand, therefore, theme provided the social media channels including
• facebook
• Twitter
• Google Plus
• Flickr
• Youtube
• Vimeo
• Tumblr
• Dribbble
• Linkedin
• Pinterest
• Instagram
• Behance
• Photo Stream Theme provided the channel to display photo stream before footer area including
• Instagram Photostream
• Flickr Photostream
• Compatible Plugins
• WPML Plugin Compatibility, allowing you to translate your site to any language or multiple languages.
• Contact Form 7 compatible with full design integration
• Apply Google Maps above contact page form
• Custom Google Map Styling
• Change custom sizes of your map
• Set sidebar or full width of your contact page
• MAILCHIMP for newsletter
• W3 Total Cache plugin support
• Yoast SEO plugin support
• WP Supercache plugin support

Changelog

= V3.5.5 – 21.08.2022 =
* Remove Google+ from sharing options
* Fix comment form label display issue

= V3.5.4 – 20.08.2022 =
* Improve theme loading speed & performance

= V3.5.3 – 29.04.2022 =
* Fix PHP8 warning message error

= V3.5.2 – 19.09.2021 =
* Fix product registration issue for some customers

= V3.5.1 – 05.09.2021 =
* Fix input text and textarea typing issue on iPhone

= V3.5 – 04.06.2021 =
* Change to the new product registration system

= V3.4 – 05.03.2021 =
* Fix PHP error in PHP8
* Fix homepage featured article link issue

= V3.3 – 14.10.2020 =
* Fix video and image background parallax issue with Safari 14

= V3.2 – 14.08.2020 =
* Fix Instagram photo stream and widget issue

= V3.1 – 13.08.2020 =
* Fix theme customiser's color picker input issue with WordPress 5.5
* Fix javascript error issue with WordPress 5.5
* Add support for WordPress 5.5

= V3.0 - 10.08.2020 =
* Add automatically setup main and mobile menus after importing demo

= V2.9 - 07.06.2020 =
* Remove import demo link from appearance options for better UX

= V2.8 - 11.12.2019 =
* Fix Youtube icon display issue when using custom social widget
* Fix error for some customers using WordPress 5.3

= V2.7 - 01.04.2019 =
* Improve demo importer reliability
* Fix WordPress menu tutorial video issue in theme documentation

= V2.6 - 21.07.2018 =
* Add option to turn off theme default Facebook open graph option
* Fix auto play video on iPhone

= V2.5 - 09.04.2018 =
* Fix Instagram photo stream and widget issue due to API change

= V2.4 - 02.02.2018 =
* Fix Instagram photo stream & widget issue

= V2.3 - 06.12.2017 =
* Fix import demo issue on some server setting

= V2.2.1 - 17.11.2017 =
* Fix Instagram widget issue in WordPress 4.9

= V2.2 - 16.11.2017 =
* Fix theme customizer issue in WordPress 4.9
* Fix theme setting import styling issue in WordPress 4.9

= V2.1.1 * 24.09.2017 =
* Fix product registration issue

= V2.1 * 21.09.2017 =
* Improve import demo feature

= V2.0 * 27.08.2017 =
* Fix header font weight display issue

= V1.9 * 23.04.2017 =
* Fix Instagram widget and photo stream issue for some server settings
* Fix Woocommerce shop page, product font size issue
* Fix Woocommerce product gallery lightobox issue

= V1.8 * 02.04.2017 =
* Fix Flickr widget issue for some customers settings
* Fix social icon line height issue on iPad portrait mode

= V1.7 * 15.02.2017 =
* Fix responsive layout issue for youtube, vimeo embed video
* Fix photostream issue for some customers settings

= V1.6 * 29.01.2017 =
* Add option to display selected user roles in browse > editors section
* Fix hot posts incorrect order issue
* Fix error message on related posts for some server setting

= V1.5 * 21.01.2017 =
* Fix sidebar not display issue on all blog pages when page side is activated
* Fix unpublished posts display on hot, editor picks section
* Fix Woocommerce checkout issue
* Fix hot posts wrong order by share count issue

= V1.4 * 08.01.2017 =
* Add Woocommerce plugin support for shop
* Add option to display featured category title for featured posts section
* Add author social profiles options
* Fix Shortcode generator issue
* Fix ads responsive layout issue

= V1.3 * 17.12.2016 =
* Add more advertisement position option for homepage after featured posts
* Fix homepage date translation issue
* Fix post excerpt display issue for some customers setting
* Fix hot and trending icon issue for some customers setting

= V1.2 * 05.12.2016 =
* Add enable/disable sticky sidebar option
* Add option to remove browse and search button

= V1.1 * 05.12.2016 =
* Add option to set default single post layout

= V1.0 * 02.12.2016 =
* Initial Release