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Customer Support By zheive, 2017-07-15 via themeforest.net Waiting for reply 2 days, support doesn't reply. My slider doesn't show. Support is very bad.
Author response
Hi,
You have waited just 16 hours before rating us 1/5 on a weekend and with expired support pack after using it for 3 years. It's not been 2 days since you created your topic. That's a very unfair review.
Slider obviously works perfectly fine for all our buyers. It has to do with your customizations or plugins. You can try with deactivating your custom codes and plugins first. Your topic will be addressed in the queue within the normal 48 hours period of weekends.
Thanks.
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Description by Author

SmartMag is a modern, clean, responsive and retina-ready (HD) WordPress theme suitable for magazines, newspapers, review sites, or blogs.

SmartMag not only excels at front-end usability, the admin back-end is very easy to use. The drag & drop page builder makes it easy to create unique and creative homepages. Having built-in support for SEO using rich snippets and HTML5, your site will rank better in search engines. Make your content more appealing, engaging and usable. Get SmartMag today and be setup in minutes!


Most Popular WP Magazine, Newspaper, Blog WordPress Theme of 2017 with Lifetime Free Updates and Support News and Magazine Demos Great Features Drag and Drop Page Builder Responsive Layout, Retina Ready (HD), Mega Menus, and Boxed or Wide Layout Integrated Review System for Review Sites Easy Administration, Internalization, Translation, and Friendly Support

SmartMag WordPress Magazine Theme Reviews


More Features

  • SEO Optimized: Rich snippets for breadcrumbs and reviews are built-in. Further SEO enhancements available using WordPress SEO by Yoast.
  • Fully Responsive: All elements are responsive.
  • WooCommerce Fully Integrated: Create an Amazing Shop using the industry standard eCommerce platform for WordPress.
  • bbPress Fully Integrated: Get a beautiful Forum running on your newspaper, blog or magazine site.
  • Skins – Dark and Light: Two advanced skins are included by default. The extra light skin is perfect for fashion, beauty, and feminine sites while the dark skin looks stunning for style magazines, gaming news and so on.
  • Page Builder: Use any of the 11 page-builder widgets and 6 block styles to create your homepage or any other page.
  • Multiple Layouts: Posts, Pages, and Categories can be configured to use a full-width layout or have a right sidebar (Custom Sidebars are supported).
  • Flexible Customization: A light color scheme included! Use the pre-made style or change colors / typography in options panel to create your own style. Custom CSS also supported for advanced users.
  • Flexible Options: unlimited colors and typography customizations.
  • Retina Ready (HD): All the theme graphics scale beautifully on hi-def screens.
  • RTL (right-to-left) supported and auto-activated when WordPress is configured to use an RTL language. Translation ready and WPML supported.
  • Responsive Google Adsense is supported using the default Google Adsense smart sizing code without any modifications.
  • Unbranded Admin Panel that’s easy to use and have amazing number of options and settings.
  • Utilizes the power of HTML5 & CSS3.
  • Multiple Listing Layouts: (for categories or page-builder/homepage)
  • Multiple Homepage Blocks: News Focus, Highlights, 3 Column Higlights Variation (shown on demo homepage). You can also use the category listing layouts and 11 other widgets to further spice up the homepage.
  • Unique Mega Menus: There are two unique mega menus for different needs as can be seen on the demo homepage.
  • Integrated Review System: (GUI criteria/review creator)
  • 600+ Google Web Fonts are supported.
  • Multiple Post Formats: Standard, Image, Gallery, Audio, Video.
  • Cross-browser Compatible: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer 8+.
  • Custom Widgets: (default widgets well-supported)
    • Flickr Photos Widget
    • Recent Tabs – An advanced widget that let’s you add “Popular Posts”, “Recent Posts”, “Top Reviews”, or latest posts from specific category in tabs.
    • Recent Posts Widget
    • Popular Posts Widget
    • Latest Reviews Widget
    • Advertisement Widget
    • “About” Widget
    • Many more widgets for advanced users using simple shortcodes.
  • Advanced Category Features:
    • Set a category color that will be used in menu and category labels.
    • Set a background image to be used on a specific category (for boxed layout).
    • Use any of the 3 Listing Styles. Modern, Blog, or Timeline.
    • Enable a featured slider to be shown for a specific category.
    • Enable the right sidebar or select full-width layout.
    • Enable Infinite Scroll to replace the classic pagination.
  • GUI Shortcode Generator – all the commonly used shortcodes available via a visual interface.
  • Tons of Useful Shortcodes – tabs, accordions, typography, dropcaps, buttons, columns, lists, and many more layout related shortcodes.
  • A modern block-based Featured Slider that can also be used for categories.
  • Post Layouts:
  • Multiple Page Templates included:
    • Full-width Example
    • Site Map Page
    • 404 Error Page
    • Single Author Page
    • Contributors/Authors List Page
    • Pagebuilder
  • Ads Support – easily add ads in header, in between blocks on homepage (using page-builder), side-bar, or footer.
  • Built-in Trending News Ticker makes it a better news and wp magazine theme.
  • Child Themes supported for more advanced customizations.
  • And much more.

Need Assistance? Get In Touch!

If you ever get stuck with setting up SmartMag with your WordPress installation, you can get in touch with our friendly and dedicated support via our Support Forums.

Support is available between 12:00pm – 11:00pm GMT +0:00 / UTC.

Attribution

Note: The images used in the demo are for demo purposes only. They are NOT included in the theme or the sample XML data.

New Features, Updates & Changelog

Read before updating: Update Instructions

 Version 3.1.1 - 17 November, 2017 --------  * Improved: Packaged plugins can be updated without TGMPA. * Improved: AMP menus focus effect. * Fixed: Automatic amp-ad conversion for Adsense. * Fixed: Long AMP menus background cut-off. * Fixed: Author page pagination. * Fixed: Header social icons missing in importer on v4.8+. * Fixed: WooCommerce latest deprecated functions. * Fixed: TGMPA update/install warning. * Updated Revolution Slider to latest. * Updated FontAwesome to latest version.  Version 3.1.0 - 27 April, 2017 --------  * Added: Google AMP Posts support with custom styles. * Added: Ads support in AMP. * Added: AMP Navigation Menu for AMP posts. * Added: WooCommerce 3.0 support. * Added: WooCommerce Image Zoom Feature. * Added: New Lightbox for Product Images. * Updated Revolution Slider.  Version 3.0.2 - 17 February, 2017 --------   * Fixed: Typography settings not applying for some installs.  * Fixed: Nav full width not applying on some headers.  * Fixed: Few colors on Dark Skin.  Version 3.0.0 - 31 January, 2017 --------   * New Skin & Demo for Lifestyle magazines - Trendy.  * New Demo: TheZine for sleek magazines.  * Upto 200% Faster Retina Images. Great for Mobile and MacBook users.  * Feature: New Header Styles: Trendy and Dark  * Feature: New "Highlights B" block.  * Feature: New Nav Styles: Dark Alt, Light Alt  * Feature: New Featured Area Grid B.  * Feature: 2 New Post Styles - Modern and Modern Simple.  * Feature: Alternate heading styles for home blocks.  * Feature: Filters for all home blocks (no more on just new focus).  * Feature: More blocks added to sidebar widget Post Listing Blocks.  * Feature: Social Widget with social counters.  * Feature: Support for "WP Instagram Widget".  * Feature: Bottom Pagination for Multipage Content.  * Feature: Social Icons in footer about widget.  * Feature: Easily update Bunyad Plugins - no more delete/reinstall.  * Feature: Limit by tag for latest posts widget.  * Feature: JSON+LD Article Schemas with option to disable.  * Added: New Skins to Importer and "Settings Only" option.  * Added: Option to disable on-scroll effects for images.  * Added: Auto-add organization schema with social info from widget.  * Added: Compatibility with WP User Avatar plugin.  * Added: Skin post styling to post editor in backend.  * Improved: On-scroll image effects trigger more smoothly.  * Improved: RTL and responsive support in all skins.  * Improved: Use primary category for breadcrumbs.  * Improved: Article schemas with latest Google guidelines.  * Improved: Smart Sticky Navigation is more snappy now.  * Improved: Review schema updated to use JSON-LD.  * Improved: Editor styling for advanced skins.  * Improved: Pagination for custom query variables in CPTs.  * Improved: Breadcrumbs for full-width header layouts.  * Improved: "Responsive Images" for Retina - deprecated Retina.js. (old users switch)  * Improved: Featured video custom code markup support.  * Improved: Color picker in theme settings.  * Improved: Latest Google Fonts available.  * Improved: Added sub-menu arrows for dark nav.  * Fixed: Menu Import on PHP 7.  * Fixed: WPML using front-page on second language search.  * Fixed: WooCommerce 2.6+ add to cart.  * Fixed: Focus grid collapse on varied title lengths.  * Fixed: Sticky sidebar ads.   * Fixed: Ad widgets sometimes blocked by AdBlock.  * Fixed: Custom CSS blocked by AdBlock in some cases.  * Fixed: WPML search second language result listing.  * Updated FontAwesome, Revolution Slider, JS libs, TGMPA.  * Several backend UI improvements such as review box, options.  * Code refactoring and 50+ minor styling improvements. 

For full changelog: Complete Changelog

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  • Documentation Quality By uphichet, 2017-01-20 via themeforest.net
  • Customizability By brunoanastasi, 2017-01-12 via themeforest.net
  • Feature Availability By Tereloom, 2017-01-08 via themeforest.net
  • Customizability By eveto, 2017-01-07 via themeforest.net
  • Bugs By noyo, 2017-01-03 via themeforest.net Theme looks great but after a length of time the images have just stopped showing. I've tried all the usual WP and hosting related things to remedy this but to no avail. I suspect I need to 'upgrade' to the pro version of some of the plugins required for the theme. When I buy something I expect it to work and not be a trial version. I spent a lot of time setting this up and getting it right in the first place. Having to debug serious issues like this is time consuming and stretching my technical abilities. I don't have time for that any more so I consider this theme to have failed. Next....
    Author response
    Hey,
    Just to clarify, image issues are never caused by any theme. It's always a 3rd party plugin conflict or a webhosting issue. The "recommended" and included plugins are guaranteed to work with the theme and they do not cause the conflict.
    As you haven't signed up for support, we would encourage you to do so. If you would create a topic at our Support Forums our support team can help you identify the issue.
    Best Wishes,
    ThemeSphere
  • Code Quality By dariaperrone, 2017-01-02 via themeforest.net
  • Other By xarabithan, 2016-12-29 via themeforest.net Perfect theme for small or medium magazines
  • Code Quality By manbayfc, 2016-12-19 via themeforest.net Theme is slow, not good enough.
    Author response
    Hey,
    SmartMag is one of the light-weight themes around and if you compare it to other top magazine themes on the market, it has lowest page load time. You can check here - our demo is faster than almost 90% of the sites: https://tools.pingdom.com/#!/ebZDii/http://theme-sphere.com/smart-mag/
    There might be an issue with configs or conflict with a plugin if it's slow on your site. If you wish for our support team to have a look at your site, please create a topic at our Support Forums.
    Best Wishes,
    ThemeSphere
  • Design Quality By soner34, 2016-12-16 via themeforest.net
  • Other By Nattaphong, 2016-12-12 via themeforest.net This is a good theme for news or article website but this theme needs to improve structure for SEO.
    Author response
    Hey,
    We have websites with millions of visitors per day and are very well ranked in Google. Many of our customer sites also appear in Google News feed. The structure is already optimal for SEO but you do need to use a plugin named Yoast SEO (the gold standard WordPress plugin for SEO) with the theme to optimize your descriptions and titles.
    If you have any particular concerns/suggestions or would like some assistance with improvements, please create a topic at our Support Forums.
    Best Wishes,
    ThemeSphere
  • Flexibility By tman47, 2016-12-11 via themeforest.net Main reason selection for review does not provide multiple choice... if I could I would pick all good features as reason for rating. I have used a lot of themes and SmartMag is the best by a long shot! Easy to setup, easy to modify and customize and great support. Of the hundreds of themes I have worked with, this is my favorite. I have yet to find anything wrong with the theme, admin panel or customer support - awesome theme. If the layout works for you don't hesitate to get it - you won't regret it!!!
  • Feature Availability By jlgarnier, 2016-11-15 via themeforest.net Nice theme with flexible features. However, got an issue with menus right after support expiration... :-( No way to ask a single question when no support was required in the normal period?

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