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Ciola by Themeforest

Kedokato | Sep 13, 2013 | Comments 0

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Ciola is a very nice WordPress Magazine Theme with an integrated review system, which enables you to start a review website or simply use the review options to enhance your website. Ciola is a fully responsive WordPress theme with a lot of possibilities. For instance, you have different styles for the featured images, which makes it easy for you to give your website its own style, just by playing around with these possibilities alone. But there is more: you can create unique categories. You can give every category of your website a different layout, which make this WordPress magazine theme very versatile.

Ciola WordPress Theme Features

Homepage Features
7 different modules to build your own unique homepage
4 different modern grid modules (4, 5, 6 & 7 articles) to show featured or latest posts.
Full-width slider to show featured or latest posts.
Custom Background Image or color
Custom general color (Borders, menu color, review boxes, etc)
5 Blog styles for homepages set to latest posts:
Blog Style A
Blog Style B
Blog Style B2 (Full-width/No sidebar)
Blog Style C
Blog Style D
Category Features
Show posts in different styles (choice of 5 blog styles)
Show a Grid Module (4, 5, 6 or 7 articles), a big slider or a normal sized slider above the posts
Upload custom background
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, overlays, etc)
Custom Sidebar
Post Features
Full-Width Post Option (Added in v1.2 thanks to multiple user requests)
Fully integrated review / rating system
Reviews system options:
Three different styles: Stars, Percent or Out Of 10
Option to include a score subtitle
Option to include up to three pros and cons with custom titles
Option to turn on/off user ratings (user reviews)
Multiple shortcodes available for articles: Dropcaps, buttons, highlight text, toggle (Faqs), alert boxes, columns and tabs.
Post Format: Video (Able to embed YouTube / Vimeo / Kickstarter / Viddler videos)
Post Format: Audio (Able to embed Soundcloud)
Upload custom background
Change the featured Image style (five different styles) or turn off completely
Set the background to any color
Set background image to full-width stretch, repeat or no-repeat
Page Features
Custom Sidebar
Upload custom background
Upload multiple custom backgrounds for background 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
Contact Page
Meet The Team Page
Individual Author Page
Top Reviews Page
404 Page
Full-Width
Search: No Results
Search: With Results
Widgets Included
Ciola Social Media Icons
Ciola Top Reviews (Can be set to show top X reviews from a category or global + Filter (All time/Last Month/Last 7 days/Only 2011/Only 2012/Only 2013)
Ciola Latest Posts (With thumbnails)
Ciola Facebook Like Box
Ciola 125px x 125px ads
Ciola Tabs (Show multiple widgets in one)
General Features
Clean, modern and dynamic design for a professional and engaging visitor experience
Integrated “to top” button
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).
Three custom menu locations (Top, main and footer)
Main menu navigation has drop down capabilities
Top menu navigation has drop down capabilities
Custom Sidebars for EVERY category
Extensive documentation with images
Integrated related posts with images
Sample Dummy Content XML file included (does not include images from the demo)
Integrated optimized Google Analytics integration
Schema Rich Snippet Microdata
Fully Responsive design
Simple and intuitive Theme Options framework integrated
Very sleek Lightbox integrated
Custom Logo Upload
Custom Favicon Upload
Custom Footer Logo upload
Custom footer copyright
Custom footer social media links
Custom CSS section (Best practice to avoid losing CSS changes on theme updates)
In-built pagination
Indented threaded comments
Dynamic breaking news in top menu bar which pauses on mouse hover (Can be turned on/off)
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 (French & Spanish already translated and included)
Set an Windows 8 Tile image in the option themes for Windows 8 users who bookmark your page
Custom Global Sidebar Position (Left or Right)
Designed with valid HTML5 + CCS3 code
Extensively tested with ALL major browsers and versions, including IE7
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
Exclusive support system (through the excellent Ticksy)