Valenti v5.6+ is Compatible with: WordPress 5.8, all latest PHP (7.4 and 8.0), Gutenberg, WooCommerce 5.7+, etc.
Important: If upgrading from Valenti v5.5.4 or older, ensure to read the documentation ’s update section to learn how to smoothly update to v5.6
[h=2]Valenti – Wordpress HD Review Magazine Theme[/h]Valenti is a cutting-edge, feature-rich Wordpress premium HD (retina-ready) review magazine theme that is fully-responsive. Using the exclusive Valenti Drag & Drop Builder users can have fun creating a unique homepage and easily make modifications to it any time they wish. With Valenti ’s powerful and integrated reviews system and widget, you can use Valenti fully as a review theme too. Valenti also comes with a unique megamenu system for beautiful drop down menus and also the ability to set the featured image of a post to have a parallax effect. And of course, Valenti comes with WooCommerce, bbPress and BuddyPress integration for the complete experience. Valenti truly is a premium review WordPress magazine for 2021 and beyond. Blogs, foodies and even newspaper sites will love Valenti!
Valenti brings back the fun in building a website!
[h=2]Some examples of sites using Valenti[/h]Jonk Music – http://www.jonkmusic.com/
Rosanna Davison Nutrition – http://www.rosannadavisonnutrition.com/
Sounds Better With Reverb – http://www.soundsbetterwithreverb.com/
We Are Travellers – https://www.wearetravellers.nl/
Drefvet – http://www.drefvet.se/
My Baba – https://mybaba.com
Snatcher (RTL) – http://www.snatcher.co.il
Luxefair – http://luxefair.com/
Spirited Zine – http://spiritedzine.com/
Headfonics – https://headfonics.com/
[h=2]More comments from Valenti users[/h]
Have bought tons of themes here, and this is by far the easiest (yet most sophisticiated) I ’ve ever seen. Was up and running in two minutes, Great work! Cmtusa
Easiest Theme I ’ve ever used EVER. Thank you! 2 minutes to set up. THANK YOU!!! soulsis97
I must say that this theme is by far the most easiest theme to work with, extreme fluidity, beautiful and lots of options. I am also so amazed by the outstanding support by the author. 5 Stars! Salute! MyVixion
I bought and installed Valenti over a week ago and the results have been amazing! My page views, time on site and revenue have increased significantly. The navigation allows the readers to see the older articles which keeps them on the site longer. The organization of the categories is perfect if you have a lot of content. The coding is clean and the back-end is simple to use. On top of all that, the support is great! I highly recommend Valenti and I couldn ’t be more satisfied. CrystalMHL
I would like to say I love this theme, i ’ve buy it a few day ago. First is really esay to set up, even for people like me who ’s not speaking English very well. The support was fast and really kind. This theme has much possibilities, i continue to discover what he ’s offering. And the best of all my friends tell me that doesn ’t look anymore like a blog but like a true website. This theme is amazing and well coded. Lorelei66
[h=2]Homepage Features[/h]
- 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”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”
- 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) so users will never need to use or see the WordPress backend.
- 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”
- 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
- 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
- Custom Sidebar
- 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)
- Meet The Team Page
- Meet The Team Full-Width Page
- Individual Author Page
- 404 Page
- Search: With Results
- Valenti Social Media Icons Widget
- Valenti Top Reviews Widget (Can be set to show top X reviews from a category/global + Filter (All time/Last Month/Last 7 days/Only 2011/Only 2012/Only 2013)
- Valenti Latest Posts With Thumbnails (Big/Small image style) Widget
- Valenti Facebook Like Box Widget
- Valenti 125px x 125px ads Widget
- Valenti Multi-Widget (Show multiple widgets in one)
- Valenti Google+ Follow Badge Widget
- Valenti Latest Posts Slider Widget
- Valenti Recent Comments With Avatar Widget
- Valenti Popular Posts
- Valenti Retina Image Widget
- Valenti is 100% child-theme compatible and comes with a child-theme already setup for immediate use and customizations.
- Clean, ultra modern and dynamic design which is perfect 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. Spanish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Slovak and Norwegian are already translated & included.
- 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 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 (Main, secondary and footer)
- Secondary menu navigation has drop down capabilities
- Custom Sidebars for category and pages
- Extensive documentation with images and videos. Can also be seen online.
- Integrated related posts with images that can be turned on/off from within the theme options
- Sample Dummy Content XML file included (Note: does not include images from the demo, all images are replaced with a dummy placeholder image)
- Schema Review Rich Snippet Microdata
- Schema Author Rich Snippet Microdata
- Schema Breadcrumbs Rich Snippet Microdata
- Fully Responsive design
- Simple and powerful Theme Options framework built-in
- Very sleek Lightbox integrated
- Custom Logo Upload
- Custom Favicon Upload
- Custom footer copyright
- Custom CSS section (Best practice to avoid losing CSS changes on theme updates)
- In-built pagination
- Indented threaded comments
- Dynamic breaking news in secondaru menu bar which pauses on mouse hover (Can be turned on/off from the theme options and filtered to show specific categories)
- 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, Dutch & Spanish already translated and included)
- Designed with valid HTML5 + CCS3 code
- Extensively tested with ALL major browsers and versions, including IE8
- 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 next to logo
[h=2]Suggestions for future updates?[/h] If you have a suggestion that you think would improve the theme, please leave a comment with the details and it will be considered.
[h=2]Images Used In Demo[/h] All the images used on the demo website are only for demonstration and licenses to use them were purchased on DepositPhotos.com and the copyrights belong to the creators of the images. Most of the food images are from Scatter Jar – Free Food Photographs, who are lovely people – thanks guys and keep it up the delicious work! None of these images are included with the theme nor are they available to import with the dummy XML file.
[h=2]Update History[/h][h=4]Version 5.6.3.6 – 5th June 2021[/h]
- 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 hav 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 > 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
- Improved: WooCommerce styling details
- Updated Plugin: Let ’s Review 3.3.1
- Updated Plugin: Valenti Engine 1.0.3
- 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
- Improved: WooCommerce styling details
- Fix: Secondary Menu overlapping in certain header styles
- Fix: WooCommerce: Related products layout
- New: Valenti Stylish Posts Widget: Sory by: Most Commented
- Improved: Secondary Menu Styling details
- Fix: Theme Options > Typography > Text Colors: Standard link color option wasn ’t applying
- Fix: Likes: Not calculating properly
- Fix: Article Hero: Turning off all meta elements still showed them
- Fix: Few styling quirks
- Updated Plugin: Valenti Engine 1.0.2
- New: Valenti Builder: Block Order: Trending Now (Requires Jetpack Stats active)
- New: Valenti Builder: Block Order: Trending Last 30 Days (Requires 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: If entering specific post IDs for block, order you input them is order they will appear
- Improved: Let ’s Review Integration: Valenti has stars/cart icons now. Meaning Font Awesome font can be disabled in Let ’s Review options for better performance if desired
- Improved: Related Posts Block: If slider design selected and only 1 related post found, then design will change to grid
- Improved: Header Ad space sizing for responsive ads
- Improved: Performance boost
- Improved: Styling details
- Fix: bbPress Layout: No Sidebar option wasn ’t working
- Fix: Header not visible on portrait tablet view
- Fix: Likes counter feature not working
- Fix: Category/Tags: Custom sidebar option was still loading global sidebar
- Fix: To Top Arrow not using category accent color
- Fix: Current post ’s parent category not highlted in menu
- Updated Plugin: Valenti Engine 1.0.1
- Fix: Trending option in Breaking Bar wasn ’t working as expected
- Fix: Facebook Share url had unneeded http:// in url
- 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 + 7.1 + 7.2 + 7.3 + 7.4 compatibility
- New: Valenti Admin section
- New: Valenti > Update Migration: Tool to migrate old Valenti data from v5.5.6 older to v5.6+
- New: Valenti Builder: New option: No Duplicate Posts (Skip duplicates throughout blocks)
- New: Valenti Builder: New option: Section order
- New: Valenti Builder: New option for blocks: Responsive Margins
- New: Valenti Builder: New option for blocks: Show/Hide on Mobile Devices
- New: Valenti Builder: New option for blocks: Mobile Edge To Edge
- New: Valenti Builder: Pagination now works on non-homepage pages
- New: Valenti Builder: New post order options (A – Z, Z – A)
- New: Valenti Builder: Excerpt per block option (Default/Custom Length/Off)
- New: Valenti Post Options: Sponsored Post options
- New: Valenti Post Options: Lots of new hero designs
- New: Valenti Post Options: Lots of new content layout designs
- New: Theme Options > Header & Logo Section
- New: Theme Options > Header & Logo: Initial batch of different header designs to choose from
- New: Theme Options > Header & Logo > Main Menu: Social network icons options
- New: Theme Options > Header & Logo > Secondary Menu: Social network icons options
- New: Theme Options > Mobile Devices section
- New: Theme Options > Mobile Devices: 3 Mobile Header Designs
- New: Theme Options > Mobile Devices: Header icon options
- New: Theme Options > Mobile Devices > Slide In Menu: Lots of options to customize slide in mobile menu
- New: Theme Options > Sidebars: Hide Sidebars on Mobile
- New: Theme Options > Typography: Section split into sub tabs
- New: Theme Options > Typography: New options to control font size, letter spacing, font weight, font family, font style, line height, text transform of various elements
- New: Theme Options > Typography: New options for Font Source: Google Fonts/Typekit/Custom Font
- New: Theme Options > Typography: Added all Google Fonts as direct options
- New: Theme Options > Performance section
- New: Theme Options > Block Designs > Grids/Sliders: Hover animation effects (Zoom in, slide right, rotate left, rotate right)
- New: Theme Options > Block Designs > Grids/Sliders: Tile separation
- New: New Sticky option: Become sticky after scrolling a bit
- New: Theme Options > WooCommerce: New shop layouts
- New: Theme Options > WooCommerce: Stylish Quickview feature
- New: Theme Options > Site Width: “Edge to edge” option for all major elements
- New: Theme Options > GDPR section
- New: Edit Page for Category/Tags: Added new default option for layouts called “Use Theme Options setting”. Allows you to easily control the layouts from the theme options if desired.
- New: Spacing options for desktop and mobile headers
- New: Social Network Icons: VK, TikTok, Telegram, Apple Music, Spotify, QQ, Dribbble, Mixcloud, Tumblr, Medium, Patreon, Steam & Discord.
- New: User Profile: Patreon URL Option
- New: User Profile: Facebook URL Option
- New: User Profile: LinkedIn URL Option
- New: User Profile: Twitch URL Option
- New: User Profile: YouTube URL Option
- New: User Profile: Patreon URL Option
- New: Premium plugin: Let ’s Social Count
- New: Theme Options > Performance: Lazy Load
- New: Share Button: LinkedIn option
- New: Share Button: Reddit option
- New: Share Button: VK option
- New: Share Button: Email option
- New: New Plugin: Valenti Engine (Replaces for Cubell Themes Functionality plugin)
- New: New Sticky option: Show after scrolling a bit
- New: New a handful of thumbnail sizes to always look crisp on retina screens
- Improved: Valenti Layout Builder: Sections with sidebar but no custom sidebar set will load global default sidebar
- Improved: Post Format media data (video/audio/gallery) moved to Valenti Options metabox > Post Formats
- Improved: Gallery Post Format: Performance, touchability, design, etc
- Improved: Video Post Format: Lightbox animation, video autoplay, design, etc
- Improved: Audio Post Format: Lightbox animation, audio autoplay, design, etc
- Improved: Major code refactoring and framework re-write
- Improved: Significant improvements for web vitals
- Improved: All hero designs (Formerly Featured image styles) can now use parallax option
- Improved: Valenti Popular Posts Widget: Removed and replaced with Valenti Stylish Posts widget
- Improved: Valenti Recent Posts Widget: Removed and replaced with Valenti Stylish Posts widget
- Improved: Valenti Slider Widget: Removed and replaced with Valenti Stylish Posts widget
- Improved: Valenti Top Reviews Widget: Removed and replaced with Let ’s Review widget
- Improved: Parallax performance smoother than ever
- Improved: Styling refactored, improved and is now optimized + smaller
- Improved: Valenti Social Media Icons Widget: Loads of social networks added + size, design, tooltip, position, nofollow, open new tab options.
- Improved: Font Awesome separated and disabled by default for performance (Can be activated in Theme options)
- Improved: Folder and filename structure
- Improved: Slider changed to modern slider script
- Improved: Modernised share buttons
- Improved: Sidebar/Menus Sticky performance
- Improved: Updated Schema to JSON-LD
- Improved: Valenti Builder: Sliders: You can now control number of posts to show
- Improved: Breadcrumbs improved and schema updated
- Improved: Retina image loading/speed
- Improved: Overall styling details
- Improved: Overall performance
- Improved: Page template: Blank
- Improved: Minor notices fixed
- Improved: All translations
- Improved: Removed: Google+ as it has shut down
- Improved: Removed: StumbleUpon as it has shut down
- Improved: Removed: Sidekick
- Updated: Documentation
- Updated: Font Awesome 4.7 upgraded to 5.9
- Fix: Author Page layout