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A modern feature rich WordPress Magazine and Review theme that is Responsive, Retina Ready, SEO-Ready and Ad Ready. Scene is an amazingly powerful WordPress theme specifically designed for online magazines, blogs and news sites. Experience the way a Magazine theme for WordPress should be.

Video Tutorials

1. Video 1 – Installation And Demo Content Setup
2. Video 2 – Working With The Visual Composer Page Builder
3. Video 3 – Theme Settings

Full Feature List

Design Customization

• 700+ Google Webfonts,
• 675+ Font Awesome icons,
• 240+ Flag icons makes it easy to set up a language menu to use on multilingual sites,
• 2 Professional Skins,
• 40+ colour options,
• Boxed or full width layout,
• Supports unlimited colour variations,
• Final Call CSS, Add your own custom CSS straight from the admin menu,
• Build your pages using the powerful and flexible Visual Composer (bundled with theme),
• Add beautiful sliders to your theme using Royal Slider (bundled with theme),
• 4 custom templates and 1 custom skin for Royal Slider,
• 45+ standard Visual Composer elements,
• 5 custom theme elements for Visual Composer,
• 4 header variations,
• Customize background (in boxed layout) using either tiles or full size images,
• Add Font Awesome icons to the main menu to highlight specific menu items,
• Make sure your menu stays visible even when you scroll down using the option for sticky header,
• Optional Lazy Load Effect animation – make content fade in as you scroll down the page,
• Single page scroll-to animation – add links to scroll to content on the same page,
• HD/Retina Ready,
• Responsive design,

Smart WordPress Features

• 23 custom Shortcodes and 9 custom HTML snippets,
• 16 custom widgets,
• 6 plugins bundled with theme (including premium plugins Visual Composer and Royal Slider),
• 4 different standard page templates,
• Smart footer resizes to accomodate active widget areas,
• Assign each page a unique sidebar,
• Dedicated search results page, sitemap and 404 page,
• Maintenance mode to prevent all non-logged-in users from viewing site content when editing site,
• Custom widget area manager lets you create unlimited widget areas,
• Search header with auto-suggest functionality,

Blog & Post Options

• 2 different blog layouts (Classic or Masonry),
• For Masonry style blog choose between 1 to 4 column layout,
• Special featured layout for sticky posts in blog.
• Supports 5 different post formats,
• Amazing Multi-Post feature lets you group posts together in one parent post. Great for top lists and themed articles,
• 4 different post layouts,
• Great support for embeddable media (e.g. Vimeo, Youtube, Soundcloud etc),
• Beautiful lightbox functionality to highlight your images,
• Each post can be represented in blog with featured image, embeddable media or featured image that opens up media in a lightbox,
• Optional tags, ratings, about the author box, related posts and post slider for each post,
• Comprehensive ratings system with custom parameters can be added to any post,
• User Ratings.

Full Ad Integration

• Dedicated header ad spot,
• Integrate ads easily in layout using Visual Composer or in widget areas,
• Option to make background clickable – great for background “takeover” style ad campaigns,
• Interweave ads in your blog and category streams using our super-flexible Archive Ads Manager.

Professional Support

• Extensive documentation and tutorial videos,
• Documentation can be accessed straight from dashboard,
• Auto update checks and “One Click” theme updates,
• Smart admin panel with contextual help,

SEO (Search Engine Optimized)

• SEO optimized – built with best SEO practices in mind,
• Theme SEO can be suppressed if 3rd party SEO software is preferred to minimize risk of conflicts,
• Custom social widgets lets you add Twitter feed or Facebook like box to your site,
• Open Graph integration for easy sharing to Facebook.

Multiple Language Support

• Translation/localization ready with ready-to-go .po file,
• Multilingual ready using WPML,
• Multilingual ready using multisite structure and free plugins like e.g Multisite Language Switcher or Multilingual Press,

Quick Setup

• Demo content files included,
• Child theme included,
• Export/import your settings,

Free Plugins

• CleanTabs bundled with theme (value $6),
• Royal Slider bundled with theme (value $22)
• Visual Composer bundled with theme (value $28)
• WooCommerce compatible (free plugin) – add your own online store with this great eCommerce plugin,
• Contact Form 7 compatible (free plugin) – add powerful and flexible contact forms to your site.

Note: Images are for display purposes only and are not supplied with the download package.

Tested With These Popular Plugins

• WooCommerce
• Envato Toolkit
• WPML
• Contact Form 7
• Share Buttons by AddToAny
• Visual Composer
• Mailchimp for WordPress
• Royal Slider
• Yoast SEO
• Gravity Forms
• Regenerate Thumbnails
• WooCommerce Product Archive Customiser
• TablePress
• And More…

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Change Log

July 19, 2017 – Version 1.16

- UPDATED: Visual Composer plugin to version 5.2
- UPDATED: Core plugin to version 1.3
- FIXED: Related posts featured image now links correctly to related post.
- FIXED: Added failsafe for bug in Visual Composer 5.2 that prevented access to settings of custom elements.

June 05, 2017 – Version 1.15

- UPDATED: Visual Composer plugin 5.1.1
- UPDATED: WooCommerce Compatibility Styles

February 20, 2017 – Version 1.14

- UPDATED: Visual Composer 5.0.1 rebundled.
- UPDATED: Minor compatibility update in Core plugin that removes a notice in debug mode. Has no effect on functionality but ensures future compatibility.

November 27, 2016 – Version 1.13

- UPDATED: Visual Composer Plugin 5.0.1
- UPDATED: Font Awesome to version 4.7.0

June 22, 2016 – Version 1.12

- UPDATED: Visual Composer Plugin 4.12

April 15, 2016 – Version 1.11

- UPDATED: Visual Composer Plugin 4.11.2

March 09, 2016 – Version 1.10

- UPDATED: Visual Composer
- FIXED: Missing indexes notice for uninitialized options with WP_DEBUG turned on.
- FIXED: Issue where Twitter widget set to theme design would not display tweets.
- FIXED: Issue where Single Event widget would show a max of 10 events to choose from. Now shows all upcoming events.

February 05, 2016 – Version 1.9

- UPDATED: ScrollUp script to version 2.4.1 (removes junk title on back-to-top button hover)
- FIXED: Tweet text overflow issue on long URL's

January 13, 2016 – Version 1.8

- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.9.2
- FIXED: Issue where insert image button would return blank.

December 17, 2015 – Version 1.7

- FIXED: Search button in mobile menu

December 16, 2015 – Version 1.6

- UPDATED: Google Web Fonts now detects server protocol and applies automatically allowing for Google Web Fonts over https connections.
- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.9
- UPDATED: Royal Slider Plugin v3.3.0
- FIXED: issue that prevented native WordPress audio embeds (would show download link instead of player)
- FIXED: Comment form layout for non-logged in users in WP4.4
- REMOVED: Obsolete TGM notice modification regarding bundled plugins.

November 07, 2015 – Version 1.5

- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.7.4

September 12, 2015 – Version 1.4

- UPDATED: Font Awesome to version 4.4.0.
- UPDATED: TGM library to version 2.5.2.
- UPDATED: Bundled plugin RoyalSlider to version 3.2.8.
- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.7
- UPDATED: Widgets construct method for compatibility with WP 4.3+ (removes debug notice).
- FIXED: Bundled plugins can now be installed/updated when child theme is active.
- FIXED: Issue where widget titles would not show on initial load in customizer.
- UPDATED: Facebook widget now supports new facebook page plugin instead of old Facebook like box plugin.
- UPDATED: WPML related updates to widgets and search function.
- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Envato WordPress Toolkit updated to v1.7.3

June 22, 2015 – Version 1.3

- UPDATED: Envato WordPress Toolkit bundled plugin updated to version 1.7.2
- UPDATED: Visual Composer bundled plugin updated to version 4.5.3
- UPDATED: Excerpts created using the more-tag now executes shortcodes
- ADDED: Support for Visual Composer front end editing

April 26, 2015 – Version 1.2

- FIXED: Conflict between Revolution Slider / WP4.2 / Theme that would render Revolution Slider editing controls non-functional.
- FIXED: Responsive menu click issue
- UPDATE: TGM Plugin Activation library updated.
- UPDATE: Security patch (http://marketblog.envato.com/news/wordpress-item-security-vulnerability/)

November 11, 2014 – Version 1.1

- Update: Font Awesome updated to version 4.2,
- Update: Google Webfonts updated,
- Update: Demo Content Files,
- Update: Responsive Layout Styles
- Fixed: Statistics widget code updated. NB: Statistics widget icons may have to be reassigned.
- Fixed: "Comment awaiting approval" notice caused error on servers with older versions of PHP. Changed to increase compatibility across PHP versions.

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