Scene - Magazine Theme for WordPress

Scene - Magazine Theme for WordPress

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A modern feature rich WordPress Magazine and Review theme that is Responsive, Retina Ready, SEO-Ready and Ad Ready. Scene is an amazingly powerful WordPress theme specifically designed for online magazines, blogs and news sites. Experience the way a Magazine theme for WordPress should be.

Scene by Theme Canon


Video Tutorials

Video Tutorial

  1. Video 1 – Installation And Demo Content Setup
  2. Video 2 – Working With The Visual Composer Page Builder
  3. Video 3 – Theme Settings


Full Feature List

Design Customization

  • 700+ Google Webfonts,
  • 585+ Font Awesome icons,
  • 240+ Flag icons makes it easy to set up a language menu to use on multilingual sites,
  • 2 Professional Skins,
  • 40+ colour options,
  • Boxed or full width layout,
  • Supports unlimited colour variations,
  • Final Call CSS, Add your own custom CSS straight from the admin menu,
  • Build your pages using the powerful and flexible Visual Composer (bundled with theme),
  • Add beautiful sliders to your theme using Royal Slider (bundled with theme),
  • 4 custom templates and 1 custom skin for Royal Slider,
  • 45+ standard Visual Composer elements,
  • 5 custom theme elements for Visual Composer,
  • 4 header variations,
  • Customize background (in boxed layout) using either tiles or full size images,
  • Add Font Awesome icons to the main menu to highlight specific menu items,
  • Make sure your menu stays visible even when you scroll down using the option for sticky header,
  • Optional Lazy Load Effect animation – make content fade in as you scroll down the page,
  • Single page scroll-to animation – add links to scroll to content on the same page,
  • HD/Retina Ready,
  • Responsive design,

Smart WordPress Features

  • 23 custom Shortcodes and 9 custom HTML snippets,
  • 16 custom widgets,
  • 6 plugins bundled with theme (including premium plugins Visual Composer and Royal Slider),
  • 4 different standard page templates,
  • Smart footer resizes to accomodate active widget areas,
  • Assign each page a unique sidebar,
  • Dedicated search results page, sitemap and 404 page,
  • Maintenance mode to prevent all non-logged-in users from viewing site content when editing site,
  • Custom widget area manager lets you create unlimited widget areas,
  • Search header with auto-suggest functionality,

Blog & Post Options

  • 2 different blog layouts (Classic or Masonry),
  • For Masonry style blog choose between 1 to 4 column layout,
  • Special featured layout for sticky posts in blog.
  • Supports 5 different post formats,
  • Amazing Multi-Post feature lets you group posts together in one parent post. Great for top lists and themed articles,
  • 4 different post layouts,
  • Great support for embeddable media (e.g. Vimeo, Youtube, Soundcloud etc),
  • Beautiful lightbox functionality to highlight your images,
  • Each post can be represented in blog with featured image, embeddable media or featured image that opens up media in a lightbox,
  • Optional tags, ratings, about the author box, related posts and post slider for each post,
  • Comprehensive ratings system with custom parameters can be added to any post,
  • User Ratings.

Full Ad Integration

  • Dedicated header ad spot,
  • Integrate ads easily in layout using Visual Composer or in widget areas,
  • Option to make background clickable – great for background “takeover” style ad campaigns,
  • Interweave ads in your blog and category streams using our super-flexible Archive Ads Manager.

Professional Support

  • Extensive documentation and tutorial videos,
  • Documentation can be accessed straight from dashboard,
  • Auto update checks and “One Click” theme updates,
  • Smart admin panel with contextual help,

SEO (Search Engine Optimized)

  • SEO optimized – built with best SEO practices in mind,
  • Theme SEO can be suppressed if 3rd party SEO software is preferred to minimize risk of conflicts,
  • Custom social widgets lets you add Twitter feed or Facebook like box to your site,
  • Open Graph integration for easy sharing to Facebook.

Multiple Language Support

  • Translation/localization ready with ready-to-go .po file,
  • Multilingual ready using WPML,
  • Multilingual ready using multisite structure and free plugins like e.g Multisite Language Switcher or Multilingual Press,

Quick Setup

  • Demo content files included,
  • Child theme included,
  • Export/import your settings,

Free Plugins

  • CleanTabs bundled with theme (value $6),
  • Royal Slider bundled with theme (value $22)
  • Visual Composer bundled with theme (value $28)
  • WooCommerce compatible (free plugin) – add your own online store with this great eCommerce plugin,
  • Contact Form 7 compatible (free plugin) – add powerful and flexible contact forms to your site.

Note: Images are for display purposes only and are not supplied with the download package.


  • WooCommerce
  • Envato Toolkit
  • WPML
  • Contact Form 7
  • Share Buttons by AddToAny
  • Visual Composer
  • Mailchimp for WordPress
  • Royal Slider
  • Yoast SEO
  • Gravity Forms
  • Regenerate Thumbnails
  • WooCommerce Product Archive Customiser
  • TablePress
  • And More…


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Change Log

April 15, 2016 – Version 1.8

- UPDATED: Visual Composer Plugin 4.11.2

March 09, 2016 – Version 2.1

- UPDATED: Visual Composer- FIXED: Missing indexes notice for uninitialized options with WP_DEBUG turned on.- FIXED: Issue where Twitter widget set to theme design would not display tweets.- FIXED: Issue where Single Event widget would show a max of 10 events to choose from. Now shows all upcoming events.

February 05, 2016 – Version 1.9

- UPDATED: ScrollUp script to version 2.4.1 (removes junk title on back-to-top button hover)- FIXED: Tweet text overflow issue on long URL's

January 13, 2016 – Version 1.8

- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.9.2- FIXED: Issue where insert image button would return blank.

December 17, 2015 – Version 1.7

- FIXED: Search button in mobile menu

December 16, 2015 – Version 1.6

- UPDATED: Google Web Fonts now detects server protocol and applies automatically allowing for Google Web Fonts over https connections.- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.9- UPDATED: Royal Slider Plugin v3.3.0- FIXED: issue that prevented native WordPress audio embeds (would show download link instead of player)- FIXED: Comment form layout for non-logged in users in WP4.4- REMOVED: Obsolete TGM notice modification regarding bundled plugins.

November 07, 2015 – Version 1.5

- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.7.4

September 12, 2015 – Version 1.4

- UPDATED: Font Awesome to version 4.4.0.- UPDATED: TGM library to version 2.5.2.- UPDATED: Bundled plugin RoyalSlider to version 3.2.8.- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Visual Composer to version 4.7- UPDATED: Widgets construct method for compatibility with WP 4.3+ (removes debug notice).- FIXED: Bundled plugins can now be installed/updated when child theme is active.- FIXED: Issue where widget titles would not show on initial load in customizer.- UPDATED: Facebook widget now supports new facebook page plugin instead of old Facebook like box plugin.- UPDATED: WPML related updates to widgets and search function.- UPDATED: Bundled plugin Envato WordPress Toolkit updated to v1.7.3

June 22, 2015 – Version 1.3

- UPDATED: Envato WordPress Toolkit bundled plugin updated to version 1.7.2- UPDATED: Visual Composer bundled plugin updated to version 4.5.3- UPDATED: Excerpts created using the more-tag now executes shortcodes- ADDED: Support for Visual Composer front end editing

April 26, 2015 – Version 1.2

- FIXED: Conflict between Revolution Slider / WP4.2 / Theme that would render Revolution Slider editing controls non-functional.- FIXED: Responsive menu click issue- UPDATE: TGM Plugin Activation library updated.- UPDATE: Security patch (http://marketblog.envato.com/news/wordpress-item-security-vulnerability/)

November 11, 2014 – Version 1.1

- Update: Font Awesome updated to version 4.2,- Update: Google Webfonts updated,- Update: Demo Content Files,- Update: Responsive Layout Styles- Fixed: Statistics widget code updated. NB: Statistics widget icons may have to be reassigned.- Fixed: "Comment awaiting approval" notice caused error on servers with older versions of PHP. Changed to increase compatibility across PHP versions.

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