UpVote 2.2.3 - Social Bookmarking WordPress Theme

How UpVote works

• Users submit a URL (referred to as a story) to the site.
• The theme can automatically fetch the post title, featured image, and description from the linked page, provided the URL supports Open Graph.
• Users can register via the WordPress default registration form or log in using Facebook and Twitter OAuth.
• After registration, users can submit new stories or vote on existing stories.

Demo and access

Test the Demo Site

https://demo2.themewarrior.com/upvote/

Username: upvotedemo

Password: tigana182

Technical note

The theme stores the story post inside a new custom post type called “story”. The vote button will only work on ‘story’ post type.

Key features

UpVote Features

• Enable registered users to submit url to the site
• Unlimited colors and typography
• Powerful theme options panel
• Facebook and Twitter login
• Support Google ReCaptcha
• User can edit their profile, password or request new password right from the front-end
• User dashboard
• Voting system
• Facebook Comment support
• Report Story feature
• Trending Stories bar
• Recommended Stories
• Trending Tags
• Auto-complete tags in Submit Story page
• Custom page templates and widgets
• Popular, Trending and Recent stories shortcodes
• Responsive layout
• Translation support
• XML demo data

Social and user features

• Facebook and Twitter login
• Front-end profile management
• OAuth-based authentication

Theme ecosystem

• XML demo data
• Other Themes From Us: Gags, Senate, Hospital+, Neeeqah, Qaween, inFashion, Grateful

Changelog

November 8th, 2023 - Version 2.2.3

• UPDATED: UpVote plugin to version 1.4.6 to fix compatibility issues with PHP 8.x

December 28, 2021 - Version 2.2.2

• UPDATED: UpVote plugin to version 1.4.5
• --- FIXED: Fix comment not showing up

April 21, 2021 - Version 2.2.1

• Update upvote-plugin to v1.4.4
• --- FIXED: Issue with story featured image not displaying

January 25, 2021 - Version 2.2.0

• FIXED: Fix comment not showing up
• UPDATED: Featured image on single post will not be displayed as background image anymore
• FIXED: Post meta position on single post
• FIXED: Post title typography on single post
• UPDATED: Modify .container width from 980px to 1140px for larger viewport

July 27th, 2020 - Version 2.1.0

• ADDED: Add RTL support for UpVote
• FIXED: Fix warning + add wp_body_open tags()

June 23, 2020 - Version 2.0.0

• UPDATED: Update Upvote plugin version 1.4.3
• --- ADDED: Option to use file_get_content or wp_remote_get to crawl data.
• --- FIXED: Add sidebar on author page.
• --- ADDED: Add login from Linkedin feature
• --- ADDED: Default thumbnail from theme option
• --- ADDED: Add default avatar on theme option

February 18, 2019 - Version 1.8.0

• ADDED: Add custom footer copyright text
• ADDED: Add author link on each post
• UPDATED: Remove Google+ share button
• UPDATED: Update upvote plugin version 1.4.1
• UPDATED: Change Redux_Framework_sample_config() class name to Upvote_Options()

December 17th, 2019 - Version 1.7.2

• FIXED: Fix show code for ads

October 14th, 2019 - Version 1.7.1

• UPDATED: UpVote plugin update to 1.4.0
• FIXED: Default values for recommended story date range
• UPDATED: Remove multiple date range option field from "Display Recommended Stories" in theme options
• UPDATED: Move custom widgets from theme to plugin
• UPDATED: Remove template files from "upvote-templates" directory since the file is identical with the one in the plugin
• UPDATED: Add several WordPress default CSS class name
• UPDATED: Remove recaptchalib.php file that was never used

February 21st, 2019 — Version 1.7.0

• ADDED: Add story toolbar view
• UPDATED: Update UpVote plugin to v1.3.0
• * Add story toolbar functionality
• * Fix non-latin character in Open Graph text
• UPDATED: Adjust not found story message container

July 9th 2018 — Version 1.6.1

• FIXED: Close menu on mobile

January 23rd 2018 — Version 1.6.0

• FIXED: Minor fixes here and there
• ADDED: Built-in custom avatar
• UPDATED: Improve Facebook & Twitter login functionality
• UPDATED: Replace YARPP plugin with our own related stories code

June 9th, 2017 — Version 1.5.1

• Fix open graph meta tags not fetch on submit page

February 19th, 2017 — Version 1.5.0

• Rename “Suggest Title” text in Submit page
• Add function_exist() checking to OAuth
• Add Facebook comment support
• Add Trending Now feature
• Add Recommended Stories feature
• Add Trending Tags feature
• Add report story feature
• Add feature to get user’s IP number when submitting a story
• Fix post date issue in story
• Fix WordPress Quick Edit feature when Publishing Option is set to “Requires Approval”
• Add auto complete feature on Tags field in Submit story page
• Fix issue with redirection when user is submitting a post and the Publishing Option is set to “Requires Approval”
• Fix captcha issue

September 26th, 2016 — Version 1.0.6

• Add requires approval submission, all stories submitted will be set as “draft”.
• Rename “Suggest Title” text in Submit page
• Add function_exist() checking to OAuth
• Fix various minor bugs

September 6th, 2016 — Version 1.0.5

• Update TGM-Plugin-Activation
• Make user redirected to the login popup again when entered wrong username or password
• Fix detail story feed content

June 19th, 2016 — Version 1.0.4

• Fix widget Story Categories CSS issue.
• Move Exit ad settings to Advertisement tab.
• Add Header ad in theme options.
• Remove Zilla Shortcodes plugin.
• Add Most Active Users shortcode using [upvote_most_active_users]
• Load videos, audio directly for sites that are supported by WordPress oEmbed such as Youtube, Vimeo, Vine, Soundcloud and imgur.
• Fix some issues with grabbing image from og:image meta tags in target url.
• Update sorting method on Popular and Trending Stories to be more reliable.
• Display list of users who have voted on a story on story details, only last 20 voters are displayed.
• Fix social media login AJAX issue.

May 31st, 2016 — Version 1.0.3

• Update Related Stories layout
• Fix bugs with Cyrillic text
• Fix other minor issues
• Add 6 months and 1 year post date range
• Fix widget layout issue with no featured image
• Fix issue with open graph
• Simplify single story template code
• Fix no thumbnail code in single story
• Fix popular and trending algorithm
• Add exit page feature

May 21st, 2016 — Version 1.0.2

• Fix voting button and entry meta layout issues
• Update UpVote plugin

May 20st, 2016 — Version 1.0.1

• Minor bug fixes on layout

March 21st, 2016 — Version 1.0.0

• Theme is released

Other Themes From Us

• Gags
• Senate
• Hospital+
• Neeqah
• Qaween
• inFashion
• Grateful