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Templates Review Media Consult - Business Wordpress Theme

Themeforest Review WordPress Business Media Consult - Business Wordpress Theme



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Even if presented as a consultancy theme, Media Consult Wordpress theme can be used for a wide variety of business & portfolio sites or just a personal blog.

Features:

  • 8 different skins
  • 6 layout templates
  • Powerful backend option panels: 35 admin options for content management, site design and layout.
  • flexible homepage where you can enable or disable the sidebar
  • 2 types of portfolios pages and 1 news page with custom post types: for easy management and organization.
  • unlimited portfolios and services
  • Simple, clean and beautiful blog layout.
  • Comments: nested four levels deep. Support for comments pagination and avatars.
  • 5 custom widgets: GW Blog Categories, GW Brochure, GW News(shows latest news posts), GW Blog(shows latest blog posts), GW Flickr
  • 404 error page
  • WP 3.0 Menus: with dropdown capability up to 3 levels enhanced with superfish
  • Shortcodes: more than 25 shortcodes available for content management and lots of custom styled elements
  • 2 different portfolio sections
  • Working jQuery contact form
  • Custom styled lightbox: for single image, or video using prettyPhoto.
  • Easy and intuitive setup
  • Translation ready(.po and .mo files included)
  • @Font face
  • PSD files: all psd layouts are included with easy skin switch via layer comps.
  • Detailed documentation.
  • Demo xml file included.


Updates:

Version 3.4 – July 11th, 2013

  • Fixed a bug where instead of portfolio page title, the portfolio page slug was displayed in both portfolio sections.
  • Fixed all php notices that were appearing when custom widgets were added to the sidebar with wp_debug set to true.
  • Fixed a translation domain related string that was not included in .po / .mo files and regenerated the dictionary.
  • Removed wp-pagenavi plugin from the theme. Now you have to manually install wp-pagenavi plugin from wordpress repository to have numbered pagination links.
  • Updated the theme options panel to the latest version.
  • Updated superfish jquery plugin to the latest version.
  • Updated all the theme functions so that they can be re-written inside a child theme.
  • Added a starting child theme for easy theme customization.
  • Updated the documentation with information about how to use the newly added child theme.

Version 3.3 – June 22nd, 2013

  • Updated superfish menu to the latest version.
  • Moved the js scripts inclusion from header to footer to assure better plugin compatibility and faster content loading.
  • The flexslider is now called only when it’s used.
  • Removed scripts.php from lib/custom/ that contained the external files(js, css) calls. Now these files are called from functions.php
  • Changed the way style.css is included by respecting the themeforest standards.
  • Now the portfolio sections list the posts by category slugs, not category names. Listing portfolio posts by category names was causing issues with categories that contained special characters such as e acute etc.
  • Fixed the error notices that were displayed when wp_debug was set to true.

Version 3.2 – April 15th, 2013

  • The theme is now fully responsive.
  • Fixed a couple of css glitches for sidebar widgets.
  • Fixed a bug that was introduced in version 3.0 where the contact form wasn’t sending the email to the designated email address.
  • Fixed a bug that was introduced in version 3.0 where the custom css box functionality wasn’t working at all.

Version 3.1 – March 25th, 2013

  • Fixed a bug where the localization text domain wasn’t loaded properly
  • Fixed a bug where the tracking code wasn’t working

Version 3.0 – March 11th 2013

  • updated theme options panel to the latest version
  • replaced cufon with @font-face
  • properly enqueued all external css / js files in theme’s header.php
  • cleaned and reworked all the theme’s css styles – about 40% of css code from style.css was removed
  • overall the theme now has 20-30% less code without losing any functionality
  • blog, news, portfolios and slider section have been all re-worked and their setup greatly simplified
  • removed timthumb
  • for image resize in portfolios, blog, news and slider posts, now the theme uses the built in post thumbnails via Wordpress Media Uploader
  • improved the widgets functionality
  • restyled the flickr widget
  • updated theme’s translatable dictionary(.po and .mo files)
  • reworked, improved and updated the whole theme documentation

Version 2.2 – May 23rd 2012

  • changed the way the homepage works – instead of creating a post that populates the homepage content, now you just have to create a homepage template
  • reworked and improved the news section css and overall structure
  • now the theme supports unlimited sidebars for any page / post / category via custom sidebars plugin
  • fixed a couple of text domain problems and regenerated the language dictionary

Version 2.1 – June 2011

  • fixed an invalid non existent reference to a cufon js file
  • fixed a couple of notices that were displaying in the theme’s admin if debug mode was turned on
  • fixed an issue with the height of the menu dropdown items
  • fixed a couple of css issues

Version 2.0 – April 2011

  • reworked core, using the options framework by DEVIN
  • added localization support
  • portfolios and news page now use wordpress 3.0 custom posts
  • added a new portfolio template
  • now you can have unlimited portfolios and services pages
  • drastically increased the number of shortcodes: from less than 10, now there are more than 35 to use
  • added flickr widget
  • replaced the slimbox plugin with prettyPhoto, in order add video support for lightbox
  • servives page is no longer a page template, it’s a static page created via shortcodes
  • included the option to add a different slide entry, with full width image and text above the image
  • changed the old jquery dropdown on main menu with superfish
  • added the ability to remove the sidebar on homepage via options panel
  • fixed lots of css bugs, cleaned and updated the css code

Version 1.3 update

  • added 2 new shortcodes: read more button for slider and bullet lists
  • added custom menu area for footer too. Now you have 2 custom menu areas, both for header and footer
  • changed the way the javascript is included in the theme in order to improve compatibility with plugins – the file that does this is scripts.php found in lib folder
  • slider posts can now link to a page chosen by the user, not just to the post detail
  • general_styles.css and index.css don’t exist anymore, now all the main styles are in style.css found in the theme’s root
  • widgets and sidebar code is now in widgets.php found in lib folder
  • reworked the toggle content css styles
  • fixed a couple of css glitches and added more styles
  • updated the cufon file Liberation_Sans_400.font.js to contain all glyphs

Version 1.2 update

  • assured compatibility with wordpress 3.0
  • now you must use the new menu manager that comes with wordpress 3.0
  • added fullwidth page template – now you can create and populate pages that don’t have sidebar
  • added toggle content functionality
  • added shortcodes for left align and image in text, right align an image in text and toggle content
  • added shortcodes for left align and image in text, right align an image in text and toggle content
  • fixed a handful of css bugs

Version 1.1 update:

  • fixed a major bug where the sidebar for homepage was working only if the slider was populated with a unique category.
  • 2 new options are available: now you can add seo meta keywords and seo meta description directly from General Options panel
  • the javascript for homepage slider has been compressed so it will load faster
  • added jquery no conflict to make sure the javascript code that comes with this theme does not interfere with other plugins.
  • after sending a message via contact form, when the succes box is displayed, the contact form is no longer shown
  • fixed a bug where the sidebar for 404 page was not displayed properly.
  • fixed a bug where the tables were not displayed properly when the cell information was displayed on more than 1 row
  • fixed a typo in the admin custom panel General Options

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