SwagMag – Magazine/Review Theme

Updated 2/28/2012: pure HTML version of the entire theme added!

This is the HTML version of the very popular SwagMag – WordPress Review/Magazine Theme. With SwagMag, you can load up your site with tons of content and then present it to your users in an organized way using one of the many page templates and layouts. SwagMag’s front page has a content-rich design to give your users the best user experience possible, and it’s guaranteed to increase both the average length of time that your users spend on your site and the average number of pages that they view.

• Designed to create customized review mini-sites with 4 ways to rate (numbers, percentages, letters, stars), perfect for topics like:
  • Laptops, Smart Phones, Tablets, and Audio/Video products
  • Movies, Music, and Video Games
  • Restaurants, Beer, and Wine
  • Fashion Trends and Clothing
  • Travel Destinations and Vacation Getaways
  • Automobiles
  • Books, Magazines, Web Sites, and Comics
  • Casinos, Pinball Machines, Ice Cream, Puppies, WordPress Review Themes…Anything you want.
• PHP and HTML versions both included with your download
• Works for both review and non-review sites from personal blogs to huge content heavy sites like VentureBeat, CNET, and Good Magazine
• All of the latest jQuery enhancements and user interface upgrades to provide a rich user experience
• Tons of layouts and page templates including 14 total page templates, 2 front page layouts, 5 post listing layouts, and 2 single post layouts, and 4 unique rating box designs.
• Optimized, minified, compressed, validated, spaced/indented/commented code, and architected intuitively.
• 5-star customer support monitored 7 days a week with a smile.

• Designed for review or non-review mini-sites so you can present your content however you want
• Choose one of four ways to rate your reviews, including:
  1. Numbers between 0 and 10 (with increments of 0.1)
  2. Percentages between 0 and 100 (with increments of 1)
  3. Letter grades from A+ to F (with pluses + and minuses – for each letter grade)
  4. Stars from 0 to 5 (with half-star increments) with 5 color options:
     1. Yellow
     2. Orange
     3. Red
     4. Green
     5. Blue
• Review Overview box (descriptive summary text about the review)
• Unique animations for each of the 4 types of ratings (stars, numbers, percentages, letter grades)
• Pre-defined color ranges for ratings add visual cues to how good a particular rating is, just like how MetaCritic works
• 5 unique layouts available for each mini-site’s front page and category archive pages:
  1. 2 panel grid with sidebar
  2. Vertical post listing with sidebar
  3. 3 panel grid with sidebar
  4. 3 panel full-width grid
  5. 4 panel full-width grid

• 80 pre-defined CSS formatting elements
• 10 custom-designed sidebar widgets:
  1. 2×2 ad block
  2. Email subscribe form
  3. Flickr feed
  4. Latest tweets
  5. Page & Archive tabs
  6. Post & Comment tabs
  7. Latest Reviews
  8. Latest Review tabs (from multiple review types)
  9. Review Category tabs
  10. Unwrapped text/HTML
• 3 drop-down menus, each styled 3 levels deep
• Slick About The Author and jQuery tabbed Related Posts panel under each post/review

   

  

   

• Lots of places to put ads, including leaderboards, skyscrapers, and post listing sizes.
• Random article button – a sweet little treat to give your site that extra professional touch.
• Reviews are not required. Swagger works great as a non-review blog too (or mix-n-match)
• Threaded, paged, and styled comments
• Included, fixed Share Panel floats your social media buttons to the left of your main content
• Author listing page template shows all of your contributors in a beautiful 2 panel grid layout
• 404 page nicely styled with instructions and a search box
• 5 unique layout options to choose from for home page, review mini-sites, and category archive pages:
  1. 2 panel grid with sidebar
  2. Vertical post listing with sidebar
  3. 3 panel grid with sidebar
  4. 3 panel full-width grid
  5. 4 panel full-width grid

• Nivo jQuery “featured” slider with thumbnails on front page and all the post listing layout pages
• jCarousel “latest” slider at the top of all pages
• jCarousel “spotlight” slider under the featured slider on the front-page
• jCarousel “article” slider under the “spotlight” slider on the front page with arrow navigation, as well as just above the footer on all other pages.
• jQuery Mosaic effect applied to posts in the jCarousel “latest” slider
• jCarousel slider CSS formatted element so you can put content sliders with unlimited panels directly in the post/page content

• Tabs (shortcodes, widgets, related articles panel)
• Nivo slider
• jCarouselLite slider
• Image icon darken mouseover effect
• Button darken mouseover effect
• Rating animations
• Superfish menus
• Box toggles (shortcodes)
• Color picker (demo options)
• Mosaic image slide effects
• Easing (applies to any element that animates)
• Colorbox image lightboxes

• 28 included transparent background textures which can be combined with any color
• 48 included background images
• @font-face fonts (not Cufon)
• Optimized javascript, CSS, and images
• Layered PNGs and PSDs included

• Intuitive, indented, spaced, and commented code
• Valid XHTML
• Compatible with all major browsers (including IE7+)
• Compressed and uncompressed versons of javascript files included
• Awesome documentation included
• Support Forum that is monitored 7 days a week