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- BuddyPress & bbPress (BuddyPress Template Pack plugin required)
- Unlimited customized review mini-sites with 4 ways to rate (numbers, percentages, letters, stars), perfect for topics like:
- Laptops, Smart Phones, Tablets, and Audio/Video products
- Movies, Music, and Video Games
- Restaurants, Beer, and Wine
- Fashion Trends and Clothing
- Travel Destinations and Vacation Getaways
- Automobiles
- Books, Magazines, Web Sites, and Comics
- Casinos, Pinball Machines, Ice Cream, Puppies, WordPress Review Themes…Anything you want.
- User ratings lets your readers submit their ratings and displays the average user rating below the review author’s rating (does not require any plugins)
- Works for all kinds of sites from non-review personal blogs to huge content heavy sites like CNET and Good Magazine
- Responsive design scales from HD to mobile and looks great on all devices
- Tons of premium features such as beautiful TinyMCE shortcode buttons and custom meta fields so you don’t have to remember any shortcodes
- Optimized, minified, compressed, validated, and fully WordPress 3.4+ compliant
- 5-star customer support and active theme development means Made will be relevant for a long time to come
- Swagger customers: Easily upgrade from Swagger to Made
- 50+ theme options for each review type you create so you can customize the heck out of them
- User ratings – integrated user ratings in addition to the author’s rating criteria, automatically averages user ratings and displays in the review overview, including total number of ratings (without the use of a plugin). See item 30 of the Made FAQ for details on how user ratings work.
- Google Rich snippets and schema.org markup so you can display your rating directly in Google’s search results.
- Unique background images, logos, icons, layouts, content sliders, color schemes, skins, sidebars, and more for each review type
- Choose one of four ways to rate your reviews, including:
- Numbers between 0 and 10 (with increments of 0.1)
- Percentages between 0 and 100 (with increments of 1)
- Letter grades from A+ to F (with pluses + and minuses – for each letter grade)
- Starsfrom 0 to 5 (with half-star increments) with 5 color options:
- Yellow
- Orange
- Red
- Green
- Blue
- Unlimited rating criteria, which is automatically averaged into a total score
- Unlimited review meta fields (descriptive summary text about the review)
- Unlimited review taxonomies (review-specific categories)
- Unique animations for each of the 4 types of ratings
- Featured videos in addition to or instead of featured images (works good for movie trailers, for example)
- Customizable color ranges for ratings add visual cues to how good a particular rating is, just like how MetaCritic works
- 3 unique layouts available for each mini-site’s front page and category archive pages:
- Create non-rated articles inside of each review type, which means you don’t have to give every article a rating if you don’t want to
- 80+ shortcodes
- 16 custom widget panels (plus all of your review type unique widget panels)
- 11 custom widgets give you lots of styled widgets to showcase your content
- 4 custom menus including the top menu, main menu, sub menu, and a footer menu
- Custom meta field panels so you don’t have to remember any shortcodes
- Integrated randomized, sophisticated advertising network to display ads within your post listings
- 13 additional template position ad spots
- Slick “About The Author” and jQuery tabbed Related Postspanel under each post/review
- Two separate theme admin pages (Theme Options and Review Options), each tabbed, toggled, and organized into easy to use sets of options
- 150+ theme options and 50+ review options = over 200 total options
- Unbranded theme options pages
- Tons of social options including Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Google Analytics, Feedburner, and more
- Threaded, paged, and styled comments
- Featured videos in addition to (or instead of) featured images
- Included, fixed Share Panel floats your social media buttons to the left of your main content
- Author listing page template shows all of your contributors in a beautiful 2 panel grid layout
- Review Directory page displays all of your reviews together on one page (2 different layout options available)
- 3 featured image sizes on single post pages (or hide image) using custom drop down menu
- 404 page nicely styled with instructions and a search box
- 3 unique layout optionsto choose from for home page, review mini-sites, and category archive pages:
- Nivo jQuery “featured” slider with two sizes and fully responsive
- Unlimited review-specific Nivo sliders on review mini-site front pages
- Don’t Miss slider continuously loops your most important posts at the top of every page in a marquee fashion (can be enabled on a per-post, per-page, or per-review type basis in theme options)
- jCarousel “latest” slider at the top of all pages (can be enabled on a per-post, per-page, or per-review type basis in theme options)
- jCarousel “spotlight” slider under the featured slider on the front-page
- Post tabs panel lets you tab between different categories of posts (or tags or review types)
- jCarousel “trending” slider under the post tabs panel on the front page with arrow navigation, as well as just above the footer on all other pages (can be enabled on a per-post, per-page, or per-review type basis in theme options).
- jCarousel slider shortcode included so you can put content sliders with unlimited panels directly in your posts and pages
- Tabs (shortcodes, widgets, related articles panel)
- Nivo slider
- jCarouselLite slider
- Image icon darken mouseover effect
- Button darken mouseover effect
- Rating animations
- Superfish menus
- Box toggles (shortcodes)
- Color pickers (review options, demo options)
- Easing (applies to any element that animates)
- Colorbox image lightboxes
- 28 included transparent background textures which can be combined with any color
- 61 included background images (or upload your own)
- @font-face fonts (not Cufon)
- Optimized javascript, CSS, and images
- TinyMCE buttons for all short codes
- Extended user profile options for social media
- Layered PNGs and PSDs included
- Demo dummy content XML and raw SQL files included
- Fully leverages WordPress 3.4+ features
- Intuitive, semantic, and commented code
- Valid XHTML
- Compatible with all major browsers (including IE8+)
- Theme update auto-notification on your admin dashboard
- Fully Localized
- Awesome FAQ available including comprehensive screencasts explaining how to setup your site
- Compressed and uncompressed versons of javascript files included
- Awesome help file including a quick start section and full documentation including screenshots
- Support Forum that is monitored 7 days a week