Valenti - WordPress HD Review Magazine News Theme
Valenti v5.6+ is a WordPress HD Review Magazine theme with extensive homepage building, integrated review features, and broad plugin compatibility. It includes multiple homepage layouts, e-commerce, community, and forum integrations, plus a comprehensive update history.
Compatibility and Update Guidance
- Valenti v5.6+ is compatible with WordPress 6.1, all latest PHP (7.4 and 8.0), Gutenberg, WooCommerce 5.7+, and more.
- Important: If upgrading from Valenti v5.5.4 or older, read the documentation’s update section to learn how to smoothly update to v5.6.
Homepage Features
- Build your own unique homepage using the exclusive Valenti homepage drag and drop builder (no shortcodes or code required!)
- 4 different modern grid modules (4, 5 & 6 articles + a variation of the 5 grid) to show featured or latest posts
- Full-width slider to show featured or latest posts
- Slider to show featured or latest posts above posts loop
- Offset Option for posts lists to not have duplicate posts appear on the same page
- Custom Background Images or colors
- Custom general colors (Borders, menu hover colors, review boxes, etc)
- 4 Blog styles for homepages to show the latest posts: Layout 1, Layout 2, Layout 3, Layout 4, Layout 5, Layout 6, Layout 7, Layout 8
- Infinite Scroll Options: All blog styles can use “Normal pagination / Infinite Scroll / Infinite Scroll with Load More Button”
Review Theme Options
- Three different review styles: Stars, Percent or points
- Option to include a score subtitle to appear in the thumbnails throughout the site
- Option to include up to three pros and cons with custom titles
- Option to turn on/off user ratings (user reviews). When a user leaves a rating, a cookie is left on the visitor’s computer with the relevant post ID, to minimize chance of visitors voting multiple times on the same post
Post Features
- Full-Width Post Option
- Post Format: Video (Able to embed YouTube / Vimeo / Kickstarter / Viddler videos) and appearing in a unique overlay of the featured image
- Fully integrated review / rating system
- Post Format: Audio (Able to embed Soundcloud) and appearing in a unique overlay of the featured image
- Upload custom background or background slideshow
- Change the featured Image style (four different styles) or turn off completely
- Set the background to any color
- Set background image to full-width stretch, repeat or no-repeat
- Multiple shortcodes available for articles: Dropcaps, buttons, highlight text, toggle (Faqs), alert boxes, columns, video gallery, responsive video, divider and tabs
WooCommerce Integration
- Full re-design and integration of WooCommerce to match the look and feel of the theme
- WooCommerce options tab added to theme options with several options, including:
- WooCommerce global color (similar to category global color)
- Left sidebar / Right sidebar / No sidebar (full-width WooCommerce)
- Background image for WooCommerce pages
- Background color for WooCommerce pages
- Unique sidebar for WooCommerce in “Appearance -> Widgets”
BuddyPress Integration
- Full re-design and integration of BuddyPress to match the look and feel of the theme
- Login With Ajax modals/widgets integrate seamlessly with BuddyPress, and if BuddyPress is installed, Login With Ajax will show logged in users multiple of their own quicklinks (profile, activity, memberships, messages, subscription, topics started, log out)
- BuddyPress tab added to theme options with several options, including:
- BuddyPress global color (similar to category global color)
- Left sidebar / Right sidebar / No sidebar (full-width BuddyPress)
- Background image for BuddyPress pages
- Background color for BuddyPress pages
- Unique sidebar for BuddyPress in “Appearance -> Widgets”
bbPress Integration
- Full re-design and integration of bbPress to match the look and feel of the theme
- Login With Ajax modals/widgets integrate seamlessly with bbPress, and if bbPress is installed, Login With Ajax will show logged in users multiple of their own quicklinks (edit profile, logout, subscriptions, favorites, replies, topics started) so users will never need to use or see the WordPress backend
- bbPress tab added to theme options with several options, including:
- bbPress global color (similar to category global color)
- Left sidebar / Right sidebar / No sidebar (full-width forums)
- Background image for bbPress pages
- Background color for bbPress pages
- Change the background color of the sticky posts
- Unique sidebar for bbPress in “Appearance -> Widgets”
- 2 new Valenti widgets for bbPress
Category Features
- Show posts in different styles (choice of 4 blog styles)
- Show a Grid Module (4, 5 or 6 articles), a big slider or a normal sized slider above the latest posts
- Offset Option for posts lists to not have duplicate posts appear on the same page (grid shows posts #1-#5 and the posts list below shows from post #6 and onwards)
- Infinite Scroll Options: All blog styles can use Normal pagination / Infinite Scroll / Infinite Scroll with Load More Button
- Feature specific posts exclusively in the category grid/sliders
- Upload custom backgrounds
- 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, etc)
- Option to use a unique sidebar
Page Features
- Featured image can be set to output as Parallax / Full-background / Full-Width / Standard / Full-background slideshow
- 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
- Meet The Team Page
- Meet The Team Full-Width Page
- Individual Author Page
- 404 Page
- Search: With Results
Child Theme Compatible
Valenti is 100% child-theme compatible and comes with a child-theme already setup for immediate use and customizations.
General Features
- Clean, ultra modern and dynamic design suitable for newspaper, reviews and modern websites
- Optional separate logo to appear in main navigation bar
- Option to turn on/off hover zoom effects on sliders/grids
- Option to turn off By Line completely, or just disable specific parts of the By Line (Author, Date, Category, Comments)
- Takeover Background Ads (clickable backgrounds) system with 2 Templates included (2x .psd + 2 .png)
- Retina Ready (HD)
- Valenti is WPML-Ready, RTL-Ready and comes with .mo/.po files to easily translate into any language (several languages already translated)
- Boxed Or Full-Width site option
- Unique mega menu system
- Login With Ajax Integrated
- Unique homepage drag and drop builder
- Integrated “to top” button with option to turn on/off
- Access to 600+ fonts from Google Fonts with drop-down fonts
- 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
- Three custom menu locations (Main, secondary and footer)
- Secondary menu navigation supports multiple levels
- Custom Sidebars for category and pages
- Extensive documentation with images and videos
- Integrated related posts with images (can be turned on/off in theme options)
- Sample Dummy Content XML file included (images replaced with placeholders)
- Schema Rich Snippet: Review, Author, Breadcrumbs
- Fully Responsive design
- SEO-Ready: One H1 per page, alt text optimization, meta schema data, etc.
- Translation Ready with .mo/.po files included (multiple languages)
- Valid HTML5 + CSS3 code
- Extensively tested across major browsers including IE8
- Multiple shortcodes integrated into TinyMCE
- Ad banner options: 468x60, 728x90, or none next to logo
Developer Note on Customizations
For all theme customizations (i.e., add or change the theme’s code to make it do something it doesn’t do or add specific functionality) you will need to hire a developer to help you out. It is recommended to look for one on studio.envato.com as that site is run by the same people who run Themeforest.
Suggestions for Future Updates?
If you have a suggestion that you think would improve the theme, please leave a comment with the details and it will be considered.
Images Used In Demo
All the images used on the demo website are for demonstration and licenses to use them were purchased on DepositPhotos.com. Most of the food images are from Scatter Jar – Free Food Photographs. None of these images are included with the theme nor are they available to import with the dummy XML file.
Update History
Version 5.6.3.6 – 5th June 2021
- New: Theme Options > General: Only Show One Category in ByLINES option
- Improved: CSS total size: 15% reduction
- Improved: Theme Options > Custom Code > Code For Head and Footer: Options have been removed. If you have added custom code there, you need to move it to the child theme’s functions.php file. See documentation for guidance.
- Fix: Search Results: Styling when no results found
- Updated Plugin: Valenti Engine 1.0.4
- Updated Plugin: Let’s Review 3.3.6
- Updated Documentation
Version 5.6.3.5 – 8th May 2021
- Improved: Full Rank Math compatibility added
- Improved: SEO: noopener for social share buttons
- Fix: Missing Category Filter option from Blog Homepage Featured Block
- Updated Plugin: Let’s Review 3.3.5
- Updated Plugin: Let’s Social Count 1.2.0
Version 5.6.3.4 – 2nd May 2021
- Improved: Let’s Review score box styling
- Improved: Sliders show review scores
- Fix: PHP warning notice
- Fix: Author Page: “Go Back Home” button if no posts published was not linking to homepage
- Fix: Author Page: Wrong author name if no posts published by author
- Updated Plugin: Let’s Review 3.3.2
Version 5.6.3.3 – 30th April 2021
- New: Theme Options > Header & Logo: Make Logo An H1 On Homepage
- New: Theme Options > Block Designs > Classic: Option to turn excerpts on/off
- Fix: Theme Options > Element background image positions weren’t applying
- Fix: Theme Options > Block Designs > Classic: Custom Read More text wasn’t working
- Fix: Theme Options > Typography > Inside Posts: Some Heading font sizes options weren’t applying properly
- Fix: Specific Featured Posts option for blog style homepage wasn’t working
- Fix: WordPress Sticky Post feature on category/tag/latest post blog pages
- Fix: Show Pages In Search Results option wasn’t working properly
- Fix: Quirk with Gallery images not migrating from v5.4
- Bugfix: RTL issues, authors, and related items
- Updated Plugin: Let’s Review 3.3.2
Version 5.6.3.2 – 8th January 2020
- Fix: Inside Post By line options not applying
- Fix: Breadcrumbs being overlapped by site background ad
- Fix: Secondary Menu Width option wasn’t applying
- Fix: Footer Widgets system not fully processed for new one
- Fix: Search results page not showing correct sidebar
Version 5.6.3.1 – 7th January 2021
- Improved: WooCommerce styling details
- Fix: Secondary Menu overlapping in certain header styles
- Fix: WooCommerce: Related products layout
Version 5.6.3 – 7th January 2020
- New: Valenti Stylish Posts Widget: Sort by: Most Commented
- Improved: Secondary navigation and typography styling
- Fix: Various typography and link color issues
- Bugfix: Various minor issues and general cleanup
- Updated Plugin: Valenti Engine 1.0.2
Version 5.6.2 – 30th December 2020
- New: Valenti Builder: Block Order: Trending Now (Jetpack Stats active)
- New: Valenti Builder: Block Order: Trending Last 30 Days (Jetpack Stats active)
- New: Valenti Builder: Block Order: Latest Reviews
- New: Valenti Builder: Block Order: Top Editor Review Scores
- New: Valenti Builder: Block Order: Top User Rating Scores
- Improved: Builder: Order by specific post IDs preserves input order
- Improved: Let’s Review Integration: Stars and icons now available
- Improved: Related Posts block behavior for single-related post
- Improved: Performance and loading of background ads
- Bugfix: Various styling and compatibility fixes
Version 5.6.1 – 18th December 2020
- Fix: Trending option in Breaking Bar wasn’t working as expected
- Fix: Facebook Share URL had unneeded http:// in url
Version 5.6.0 – 18th December 2020
- New: Let’s Review plugin (Premium plugin worth $29). Replaces Valenti’s built-in review system.
- New: Compatibility for WordPress 5.5 and 5.6
- New: Compatibility with Gutenberg
- New: Compatibility with latest WooCommerce (v4)
- New: PHP 7.0+ compatibility
- New: Valenti Admin section
- New: Valenti > Update Migration tool
- New: Valenti Builder with many new options and post order controls
- New: Theme Options > Headers, logos, footers and mobile designs
- New: Theme Options > WooCommerce: shop layouts and styling
- New: Theme Options > Performance: Lazy Load
- New: Theme Options > Typography: font loading controls and Google Fonts
- New: Numerous other enhancements and performance improvements
- Bugfix: Numerous fixes across features and widgets
Version 5.5.3 – 17 May 2017
- Improved mobile usability and accessibility
- Bugfixes across theme options and widgets
- Updated translations and assets
Earlier Versions (highlights)
- Version 5.5.x (2017-2018): various improvements to mobile, compatibility, and performance
- Version 5.4 (2016): Lets Review plugin integration and design refinements
- Version 5.3 (2016): Performance enhancements and updated assets
- Version 5.2 (2016): Taxonomies and theme options enhancements
- Version 5.0 (2015): Major feature additions including new featured image styles and pagebuilder modules
- Version 4.x (2014): Core framework updates and new modules for pagebuilder
Version 5.6.0–5.6.3 Summary
Recent updates focus on compatibility with modern WordPress versions, improved SEO and social sharing behavior, enhanced builder and grid options, and continued refinements to WooCommerce, BuddyPress, and bbPress integrations.
Conclusion
Valenti really is the ultimate WordPress Newspaper Magazine theme of 2021.
The information on this website is sourced from the
ThemeForest product page
.
