Magazine Premium is Ready and I Want to Give Away 5 Copies
I’m almost finished Magazine Premium and I thought it would be a good idea to open up a discussion to see what features people would like to see available. Now don’t go crazy, and please don’t repeat the same requests. I’ll take the top 5 best requests (that aren’t a part of the theme already) and I’ll add them to Magazine Premium. I’ll also give a free copy to those who suggested the top 5.
Add your suggestions in the comments below. If someone already suggested a feature you wanted, don’t fret, just think of something else you might want to see in Magazine Premium.
Here is a quick list of features that I have already added:
- widgetized footer bar
- custom footer text
- optional “Powered by WordPress” link
- checkboxes for cats and pages to include in nav menu
- optional secondary nav menu
- optional search bar or home link in main nav menu
- 4 front page section with selectable category feed
- variable site and sidebar width
- featured slideshow with selectable category feed
- optional images for each front page section
- font selection
- color selection
- sidebar ads widget
- sidebar tabs widget (recent comments, popular posts and subscribe)
- simple mailing list/subscribe to our mailing list function
- custom CSS editor
- full width page template (no sidebars)
- new single page options panel with Ajax save function (no more page reloading to save)
- drop-down login panel
Those are all of the features I can think of right now.
Here is a sneak peak of the new options panel:
Here is sample of the new design layout:
It still has a little ways to go so don’t be too judgmental.
WINNER #1: Matt – a more elaborate author page
WINNER #2: tinym – presets and @font-face kits
WINNER #3: Marcus – more control of the Read More link
WINNER #4: Boris – choose the post’s thumbnail image
WINNER #5: Scott – easily add links to the nav and sub-nav menus
Hi,
I already use Magazine Basic on my site, I would like to see a gallery of images.
Regards
Catalina
I’d like to see some lightbox implementation for galleries or images. Otherwise, it looks very solid
Have you thought about making it GPL? Not only would that make you an awesome, super cool person, you could still make money from it.
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/
All of my themes are GPL. I’m actually listed in the WordPress commercial page. Look for Themes by bavotasan.com.
Awesome, you really are a super cool person!
I have been blown away by how great magazine basic is, and Premium looks superb.
I have multiple contributors on my site and when you click their name is takes you to a page containing all of their posts. It would be great to have their picture and profile at the head of that page.
Can’t wait for the final!
It would be great if we could have pre-defined layouts per magazine style : geeky, photos, economy, etc…
If premium let you change layout for front and post pages and have the grid layout for posts in front page then it will be a great theme on its own.
I have an idea i dont know if you will like it or if it is doable. For each category or subcategory you get a tickbox that let you add an small icon or favicon and the option of showing it left or right to the category name. Then category menu woud be a dropdown menu where categories show that icon next to their name and when hovering with with mouse all subcategories under that one are shown also in dropdown manner with their small icons next to their names.
And i dont know how its done but it would be great if header is make in such a way you can change it in size, image, and add a banner if you like using ad-sense.
as i seen on preview picture at this post, i look this themes will have rich feature as it’s preview. As i just a new in blogging world, n still confused about choosing wordpress themes
ill follow your blog update.
hope i’ll get test ride for this “HOT” Themes.
So, it will be my First Themes at my website.
I would like to see expandable posts. Say on the extreme left, two posts are currently being shown. There should be a + button and every time user clicks it, a recent post (say post title and 180 characters of text) would be added to that area. This would give perfect look to the magazine theme you are designing.
This is just me throwing out my ultimate wish (I’m currently organizing my new site!), but I would love, love, love to have some sort of “recipe box” feature of any kind.
Just my 2 cents:
1. Maybe an option to change the highlight color in the sidebars (from the screenshot it’s gray)
2. An option to image-less and image-full layout.
3. List of posts in the form of titles-only (somewhere in the middle below the main features)
Anywho.. I think it’s a great theme. Good job, bavota
Interesting. What plugin are you using for featured content?
About new features I can only think about two things.
1) Make it easy to replace your header with a image.
2) Style widget for Flickr-images in your sidebar.
I would like to see additional stylesheets available. I always edit by hand but it would still be nice to have different choices to start from. It would be neat too if some of these already included fonts from http://www.fontsquirrel.com (using @font-face kits).
Examples:
Minimal – few images and lots of whitespace
Newsie – similar to the current default stylesheet
Colorful – a few different colors options applied to a specific design (not one already mentioned)
Portfolio – dark & light versions for designers/writers to showcase recent work
Textured – grunge theme with loads of well-placed texture in all the right places
Each of these stylesheets could even use different layout settings in your demos to showcase the flexibility of the theme. (Layout setup instructions would only be available with purchase of the theme)
1 more suggestion:
Reverse default menu contents in #navigation & #subnavigation in the header. I think pages should be in the main navigation, categories in the sub navigation.
You now have the option to select pages and categories in both nav menus. All you need to do is place a check next to the items you want to include in your nav.
sweet!
Personally, I do not like the vertical admin panel. I have a small monitor, and therefore prefer the horizontal layout of the menu.
It would also be a good idea to make this theme has already had a ‘lightbox’, without installing plugins.
BTW, this theme is beautiful.
Sticky/ordered posts! The ability to manually determine what post goes where could really help with special packages and the like or to rotate features if you’re publishing more of a weekly format. I use a plug-in for it not, which is a little clunky but okay.
I’d love the ability to input that rank/position number right on the “edit posts” page. Anything without a number would default to reverse date, of course.
Thanks for all you do!
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Built-in support for social media…
i.e. lifestream type block where multiple service updates will post/be visible in this section
If not multiple services, maybe one or two (twitter’s use of OAuth for api is pretty snazzy).
I use the Magazine Basic at my site and Magazine Premium seems really nice.
Some features I think will be nice:
- Template pages for links and archives;
- Option for “Read more >>” as text, not a button;
- Option to for Ads widget (in the header) just with a
script (for Adsense or Amazon Associates).
How about an additional “Under Construction” page ?? So, when the user want to edit/change/tweak/whatever your theme, they could activate this page first.
The “Under Construction” page includes “RSS Feed” and “Feed via Email” link, or anything interesting.
Oh well, it just an opinion
I’m excited about this magazine premium theme. The first chosen suggestion was actually the main thing I wanted to see, so that’s awesome. Here’s a few more minor things I’d like to see, personally speaking…
* The ability to easily change font post/page title colours and link colours
* The ability to hide the Page sub-menu that appears underneath the category menu – I have no need for two horizontal menus (maybe this is what you meant by optional secondary nav menu?)
* The option to easily change the background colour of a certain element (like side bar or the header) – I’m a WP newbie and have no idea how to code this manually
* An option to include the flashy-style revolving new-content slider thing (no idea what else to call it) that is at the top of the Stationery premium theme. To have stuff like this available in Magazine Premium would be cool
1. Adding a hyperlink to figure caption is a pain in the back (see this hack: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208122?replies=11#post-998866). Can you please make this easier.
2. Let the user chose which tags are getting stripped during creation of the home page (by theme_content, theme_excerpt and the like function). Don’t strip headings ( etc) by default
3. Let the user decide which image should be used as post thumbnail. Sometimes it a post contains several images and the user may want to specify one of them. Even more advanced user will like to crop an image in a custom way and use that cropped version as a thumbnail.
I use your Magazine Basic and looking forward to your Premium version.
Currently we are building the http://WebHelpNetwork and looking for a perfect theme like the one your building.
Would be great to have a sidebar widget that pulls in blogs posts titles from other blogs. Being a network we want to show our other blogs and what’s going on at their blogs (possibly adding a feature that would allow the admin to set to show either title or title and first 15 words of that post from other blog).
Looking forward to the finished product!
- Annette
Hi,
I have been using your Magazine basic for about a year (I have donated money to you through Paypal), and the latest version is great.
One thing I would like to see is a place in the nav bar that I can link to my forum.
A customizable link that I can name Forum.
Also a way to control what time zone the date displays…mine is always 7 hours ahead even though I have my time zone set correctly in my WP dash board.
I would love to see what kind of designs you have that would work for the relationship break up theme.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Scott
Dear Bavotasan,
I will buy anyway the theme, but because I use and I love it I would like to leave my comments always as possible options in the theme:
1)Freedom to uplaod always an image in the header, but can be possible to upload different images that randomly changes?)
2) A world clock widget already inside the theme
3) Gallery Image already in the theme.
4) Choice of double colum in the post
5) Facebook and Youtube channel in a widget already in the theme
6) Because I’m a writer I would like to have the chance to have a slide under the category and before the front page of the most important post.
7 And do you think that is possible to add a signature att the end of the post? I mean, would be nice to have my own signature at the end of a post, always as option.
Thank you for your work and as I said, I will buy it anyway because your is the best theme around.
Grazie
Sergio
Not all bloggers want to be compensated for blogging, but as far as compensation goes…
The 125 X 125 block ads are literally everywhere.
Why not replace it with a 300 X 250 block instead and code a preset adsense ad into the header of every post, since Feedburner automaticaly places Adsense ads in the footer.
This should maximise revenue for bloggers who do blog for money.. and simultaneously get rid of that “so 2009″ 125 X 125 blocks on the top right hand side of the theme..
In all my premium themes, the 125×125 ad space is just a placeholder. You can put any size ad in that space with either a script or straightforward HTML.