15Zine WordPress Magazine / Newspaper theme for 2015
15Zine is a cutting edge WordPress magazine theme created for 2015 and beyond. 15Zine is a ridiculously versatile Newspaper theme out of the box – For the homepage, you can use 15zine’s exclusive and powerful homepage drag and drop builder to create modern and layouts. You can use 15Zine’s exclusive Trending megamenu option to showcase your most popular posts of the moment/week/month. Posts can become beautiful stories, by using 15Zine’s powerful and featured image style system with multiple feature image styles, including a smooth parallax one. You can also turn your regular image embeds into full-screen image embeds, all done with no shortcodes or code required! Just some 15Zine magic 
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On top of that, you will find countless thoughtful options sprinkled throughout the theme, including the ability to turn off the header area inside a post to maximize your chosen featured image style output or beautiful gallery post type. This isn’t 1998 any more, modernize your website and make it look like it belongs in 2015.
Oh and this was all created by an established Elite author with an author rating of 4.82 stars out of 5 stars from 700 customer ratings. So you know you are getting quality code and functionality.
Homepage Features
- Build your own homepage using the powerful and exclusive 15Zine homepage drag and drop builder (no shortcodes or code required! Horrah to that)
- 4 different modern grid modules (3, 4 & 5 articles), 4 different slider options (1 image per slide, 1 image per slide and full-screen width, 2 images per slider, 3 images per slide) and a grid/slider hybrid (3 posts per slide) to show your posts in a modern way.
- Full-width slider to show featured or latest posts.
- Custom Background Images or colors
- Custom general colors (Menu hover colors, review boxes, etc)
- 9 very different blog style options for homepages that show the latest posts:
- Infinite Scroll Options: All blog styles can use “Normal pagination / Infinite Scroll / Infinite Scroll with Load More Button”
Post Features
- Give the featured image inside each post a photo/video credit line to credit sources
- Co-author Plus compatibility! With 15Zine, your posts will show all authors in the byline (if enabled)
- Optional dropcap on/off option
- Option to make image embeds full-screen width
- Sidebar can be left/right/off
- Option to select to use any sidebar
- Each post can use its own set of fonts for the article. Useful for special articles that need a particular font style
- Fully integrated review / rating system
- Reviews system options:
- Three different styles: Stars, Percent or points
- Option to include a score subtitle to appear under the final score
- Unlimited number of pros and cons
- Option to turn on/off user ratings (user reviews)
- Option to make review editor only/visitors only/both visitors and editor review
- Multiple shortcodes available for articles: buttons, highlight text, toggle (Faqs), alert boxes, columns, divider and tabs.
- Post Format: Gallery Post type lets you create a gallery and create a full-screen gallery. Both landscape and portrait images work beautifully, no cropping!
- Post Format: Video (Able to embed YouTube / Vimeo / Kickstarter / Viddler videos) and appearing in a overlay of the featured image
- Post Format: Video Option to replace featured image with video, or make video appear when user clicks the play button that is overlaid on top of the featured image
- Post Format: Audio Option to replace featured image with audio embed, or make audio appear when user clicks the play button that is overlaid on top of the featured image
- Post Format: Audio Able to embed Soundcloud or upload self-hosted mp3 using HTML5’s audio (You can upload a .mp3, .ogg or both)
- Upload custom background image
- Choose from seven featured Image styles: Standard, Standard no-crop, Full-width, Screen-width, Full-screen, Parallax or Slideshow
- Set the background to any color
- Set background image to full-width stretch, repeat or no-repeat
Category Features
- Show posts in different styles (choice of 9 blog styles)
- 4 different modern grid modules (3, 4 & 5 articles), 4 different slider options (1 image per slide, 1 image per slide and full-screen width, 2 images per slider, 3 images per slide) and a grid/slider hybrid (3 posts per slide) to show your posts in a modern way.
- Upload custom backgrounds
- 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, etc)
- Option to use a sidebar
Page Features
- Custom Sidebar or select from existing sidebar
- Upload custom background
- Choose from seven featured Image styles: Standard, Standard no-crop, Full-width, Screen-width, Full-screen, Parallax or 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
bbPress Compatibility
Some highlights:
- Login With Ajax modals/widgets integrate seamlessly with bbPress, and if bbPress is installed, Login With Ajax will show logged in users multiple of their own quicklinks (profile, logout, subscriptions, favorites, replies) so users will never need to use or see the WordPress backend.
- bbPress tab added to theme options with several options, including:
- bbPress global color (similar to category global color)
- left sidebar/right sidebar/no sidebar (full-width forums)
- Background image for bbPress pages
- Background color for bbPress pages
- Change the background color of the sticky posts
- Sidebar for bbPress in “Appearance -> Widgets”
- 15Zine Social Media Icons Widget
- 15Zine Top Reviews Widget (Can be set to show top/latest/oldest X reviews from a category/global + Filter (All time/Last Month/Last 7 days/Only 2011/Only 2012/Only 2013)
- 15Zine Latest Posts With Thumbnails (Big/Small image style) Widget
- 15Zine Popular Posts With Thumbnails (Big/Small image style) Widget, can be set to show most popular by comments/views
- 15Zine Facebook Like Box Widget
- 15Zine 125px x 125px ads Widget
- 15Zine Multi-Widget (Show multiple widgets in one)
- 15Zine Google+ Follow Badge Widget
- 15Zine Latest Posts Slider Widget
- 15Zine Retina Image Widget
Child Theme Compatible
- 15Zine is 100% child-theme compatible and comes with a child-theme already set up for immediate use and customizations. Nice little time saver, huh?
General Features
- Breadcrumbs
- Trending megamenu option (Needs and uses the accurate stats from Jetpack’s stats module)
- Post view count (Needs and uses the accurate stats from Jetpack’s stats module)
- Clean, ultra modern and dynamic design for a professional and engaging visitor experience
- Retina Ready (HD)
- RTL & WPML ready
- Sticky sidebar
- Every major element can be Boxed Or Full-Width Option (Top menu, Header area, Navigation menu, Sticky menu and Footer)
- Mega menu system
- Trending mega menu system
- Login With Ajax Integrated
- Homepage drag and drop builder
- Integrated “to top” button with option to turn on/off
- 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 Lightbox in admin theme options
- Option to turn off “Next/Previous” 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).
- Four custom menu locations (Main, Mobile devices main, secondary and footer)
- Secondary menu navigation has drop down capabilities
- Custom Sidebars for category and pages
- Extensive documentation. Can also be seen online.
- Integrated related posts with images that can be turned on/off from within the theme options
- Sample Dummy Content XML file included (Note: does not include images from the demo, all images are replaced with a dummy placeholder image)
- Schema Rich Snippet Microdata
- Fully Responsive design
- Simple and powerful Theme Options framework built-in
- Very sleek Lightbox integrated
- Custom Logo Upload
- Custom Favicon Upload
- Custom footer copyright
- Custom CSS section (Best practice to avoid losing CSS changes on theme updates)
- In-built pagination
- Indented threaded comments
- 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 (Spanish already translated and included and more will come in future updates)
- Designed with valid HTML5 + CCS3 code
- Extensively tested with all major browsers and versions, including IE9
- 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 next to logo
- Exclusive support system
Professional Support System
Support is very important! 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 (monitored all week, including some weekends). I have set up an exclusive support system at http://support.cubellthemes.com where you will be able to leave tickets to ask questions, report bugs or make suggestions and also see answers to other past questions.
Unfortunately, I am not able to provide individual customizations to customers (paid or otherwise), but depending on my existing workload I may still be able to at the very least, provide some basic 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.
Images Used In Demo
All the images used on the demo website are only for demonstration purposes only. Some of the images used are from Bigstockphoto.com and licenses to use them were purchased. The copyrights of all images belong to the creators of the images. None of these images are included with the theme nor are they available to import with the dummy XML file.
Credits
I would like to thank the creators of the following excellent plugins that 15Zine makes use of:
17 March 2015 – 15Zine v 1.0
- Initial Release
