Bimber – Viral Magazine WordPress Theme

Bimber is a viral magazine theme, that lets you launch a fully functional viral site in no more than 24 hours. It comes with powerful sharing buttons; popular, hot, trending listings and multiple ad locations. Everything in a lightweight and easy-to-use package. Just start today and go viral today!

Viral Content Optimization

• Create listicles with images, gifs, self-hosted videos and embeds
• Popular, hot and trending lists
• Fancy badges for popular, hot, and trending posts
• Paginated posts with big, bold navigation
• Share count visibility threshold – no more “0 shares” messages
• View count visibility threshold – no more “1 view” messages
• Comment count visibility threshold – no more “0 comments” messages
• NSFW posts (Not Safe For Work)
• Maximize Time on Page with “You may also like”, “More from category” and “Don’t miss” sections

Fake counters

• Fake shares
• Fake page views
• Fake votes
• Fake reactions

Powerful Social Sharing Buttons

• Powered by MashShare plugin
• Share count visibility threshold – no more “0 shares” messages
• Big buttons with clear call to action
• Big players first and secondary share buttons
• Display share buttons before and after post content
• Sticky sharebar
• Image sharing
• Fake share counts for viral newbies

Make Money with Ads

Various ad providers supported:

• Google AdSense ads
• Content delivery platforms like Taboola, RevContent, Outbrain, etc…
• and many more

Multiple ad slots

• ads automatically injected into post listings
• ads inside sidebars with sticky option
• ads inside the post content, before the first paragraph, etc…
• ad before the header theme area
• ad before the content theme area
• ad before the “You may also like” collection
• ad before the “More from” collection
• ad before the “Comments” section
• ad before the “Don’t miss” collection

*Powered by WP QUADS plugin

Start building your mailing list today

• Integration with free, highly popular MailChimp for WordPress plugin
• Custom styling
• Place subscribe form after post content, inside grid collection, inside list collection and inside sidebars

Front-end Submission

Bimber includes Snax – Viral Front-End Uploader plugin, our dedicated solution for submitting viral content:

Check Bimber + Snax in action

Well Thought Features

• 100% responsive design
• Retina ready
• Cross browser compatibility
• SEO optimized
• Compatible with SEO plugins
• Optimized for Google PageSpeed
• Microdata (schema.org), rich snippets support
• Translation ready
• Full RTL support (right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew)
• Support for multi page articles
• Compatible with caching plugins (WP Super Cache and W3 Total Cache)
• Custom Facebook Widget

Quickly customize it with WordPress Customizer

• Upload your logo and its retina version
• Five design styles: original, minimal (Minimal demo), cards (Gagster and Smiley demo), miami (Swagga demo), hardcore (BadBoy demo)
• Sticky header
• Boxed or full-width layout
• Tons of color options
• 7 different home page and archive layouts
  • Grid + sidebar, 3 featured
  • Grid + sidebar, 1 featured
  • Grid , 3 featured
  • List + sidebar, 3 featured
  • List + sidebar, 1 featured
  • Stream (like on 9GAG) + sidebar 3 featured
  • Stream (like on 9GaG) + skyscrappers 3 featured
• Hide/Show most elements
• Infinite scroll (optionally triggered with the Load more button) and standard pagination

Really Premium Product

• Created by ThemeForest Elite Author
• 1-click demo installation
• 5-star support
• Automatic, free theme updates
• Always up to date online documentation
• Comes with the child theme to allow you safe modifications

What’s Included

• All demos
• All necessary plugins
• FREE lifetime updates
• 6 months support – with the ability to extend it
• Documentation

Need support?

Support for all our products is conducted through our support forum , where you can submit your product related questions, bug-findings, etc.

Disclaimer

The photos used in our live preview are not a part of the demo content. All photos can be purchased from shutterstock.com

Emoji provided free by EmojiOne

Latest Updates

VERSION 5.6 – 24 May 2018, major update

# NEW - Music Demo
# NEW - GDPR compliance
# NEW - BuddyPress 3.0 compatibility
# NEW - Facebook SDK 3.0 compatibility

# Improved - Tracking code options
# Improved - Minor performance improvements
# Improved - Meme generator output file sizes
# Improved - YouTube player controls to remove suggested videos from a paused and ended video

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - PHP notices
# Fixed - Missing translations
# Fixed - RTL styles not loading
# Fixed - Canvas menu not opening in customizer
# Fixed - Can't disable Facebook Comments per post
# Fixed - Random ads don't work on widgets
# Fixed - No page reload after login in login popup
# Fixed - Unnecessary "See more" link in item comments

VERSION 5.5 – 8 May 2018, major update

# NEW - Typoghraphy Controls

# Improved - Option to set number of more from/you may also like/don't miss posts
# Improved - Froala editor translations upgraded

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - PHP notices and errors
# Fixed - Posts loaded while scrolling open FB and Twitter shares in new window instead of in popup
# Fixed - Issues with featured author widget
# Fixed - BuddyPress menu exceeds the viewport on mobile
# Fixed - HTML special chars are escaped in microshares
# Fixed - Missing translations

Please read this before you update to 5.4

If you have modifications in the child theme or you’re running a high traffic live site, please make a backup copy of the site. We also recommend testing the updates on a staging copy of the site. A significant number of templates were modified and incompatibilities with the old child themes might occur.

VERSION 5.4.2 – 20 April 2018, minor update

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - Collections in BuddyPress show full post content
# Fixed - MyCred bages tab in BuddyPress doesn't deactivate with badges addon
# Fixed - BuddyPress user cover image not working

VERSION 5.4.1 – 18 April 2018, minor update

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - Header Builder UI glitch

VERSION 5.4 – 17 April 2018, major update

# NEW - Header Builder
# NEW - Exit intent newsletter
# NEW - Archive header - new options
# NEW - Global featured entries - new options

# Improved - Option to disable microshares
# Improved - FB Comments plugin packaged with the theme

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - PHP notices
# Fixed - PHP errors on older PHP versions
# Fixed - AMP notices
# Fixed - Missing translations
# Fixed - Icons breaking after switch to HTTPs
# Fixed - AdAce align center issues
# Fixed - Sticky sidebar breaking on smaller screens
# Fixed - Reaction icons - missing alt attribute
# Fixed - Meme - minor UI glitches
# Fixed - Issues with login popup
# Fixed - All list drafts turn into open lists
# Fixed - MediaAce breaking upload for snax_authors
# Fixed - Share buttons always visible in polls

VERSION 5.3.5 – 26 February 2018, minor update

# Improved - Option to restrict polls to one vote per user
# Improved - Updated WooCommerce templates
# Improved - Secondary Menu submenu support
# Improved - reCaptcha on BuddyPress register form

# Fixed - RTL CSS fixes
# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - PHP notices
# Fixed - Missing translations
# Fixed - WooCommerce single product sidebar not working
# Fixed - Featured image in amp
# Fixed - Disqus not working
# Fixed - AMP breaks when Mailchimp is used with MashShare
# Fixed - MyCred badges import errors
# Fixed - AdAce - some units not visible on AMP
# Fixed - Custom post type archive title not showing
# Fixed - Duplicate sponsor after content
# Fixed - BP register issues on IE
# Fixed - Snax Login popup chrome dev tools warnings
# Fixed - AMP error with GIF featured images
# Fixed - Nested categories issues
# Fixed - Password reset not working on multisite
# Fixed - Snax poll character escaping issues
# Fixed - Meme creator UI glitches
# Fixed - BuddyPress user profile collection excerpt issues
# Fixed - Auto Featured Image issues
# Fixed - Multiple Category Assing on mobile UX glitches
# Fixed - Post limit blocking edition

VERSION 5.3.4 – 12 January 2018, minor update

# Fixed - Boxed backgroud color not working
# Fixed - Mailchimp form error

VERSION 5.3.3 – 11 January 2018, minor update

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - Icons not working after the update

VERSION 5.3.2 – 10 January 2018, minor update

# Improved - Author info box shows BP description if available
# Improved - Turn reactions on/off separately for collections and single posts

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - Import issues
# Fixed - Ranks break author info box on AMP
# Fixed - Single group view broken when BP sidebar is disabled
# Fixed - Voting breaks on AMP
# Fixed - Snax item's comment being under moderation is visible for other members
# Fixed - Twitter login not working in WP Social Login

VERSION 5.3.1 – 22 December 2017, minor update

# Fixed - Featured author widget shows mutliple users
# Fixed - BP members counter show wrong value on multisite
# Fixed - Share badge/rank notification on FB not working
# Fixed - CSS fixes

VERSION 5.3 – 21 December 2017, major update

# NEW - myCRED integration (badges, ranks, hooks, points widget, BuddyPress integration)
# NEW - BuddyPress followers plugin integration
# NEW - Reactions BuddyPress page and widget
# NEW - Votes BuddyPress page and widget
# NEW - Featured Author widget
# NEW - Redesigned BuddyPress layouts
# NEW - BuddyPress profile widgetized Home page
# NEW - G1 socials for authors

# Improved - Redesigned author info box
# Improved - AdAce wraparound ads
# Improved - Option to add pagination URL waypoints in infinite scroll
# Improved - Visual Composer upgraded to the latest version

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - PHP Notices
# Fixed - Microshares don't expand on mobile
# Fixed - Fake views and shares visible on preview
# Fixed - Lazyload conflict with AMP
# Fixed - Missing icons
# Fixed - Auto Load Next Post breaks "Time ago" date format
# Fixed - Embed instead of featured image shown in collection for Snax Polls and Quizzes
# Fixed - Microshares break on autoload
# Fixed - YT video requires two clicks to start playing on iPad
# Fixed - Snax item comments - see more uses wrong post count
# Fixed - Snax Authors can't add images to a poll
# Fixed - Embed instead of featured image shown in collection for Snax Polls and Quizzes
# Fixed - Snax breaks 2nd level comments

VERSION 5.2.4 – 16 November 2017, minor update

# Improved - Load more/ infinite scroll UX

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - PHP notices
# Fixed - Archive does not show post when featured and collection has sidebar and there's only one post
# Fixed - Middle of the content ad displays in a wrong location
# Fixed - No featured images in the BuddyPress posts card
# Fixed - Video player issues on load more/auto load
# Fixed - Pinterest default domain
# Fixed - Snax breaks wp-admin post search
# Fixed - Image/item microshare shares wrong image
# Fixed - Mov videos not working

VERSION 5.2.3 – 8 November 2017, minor update

# Fixed - G1 Socials not automatically updating

VERSION 5.2.2 – 7 November 2017, minor update

# Improved - Autoplay UX
# Improved - Poll UX
# Improved - Autoload UX

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - PHP notices
# Fixed - Animated GIFs display issues
# Fixed - Items not clickable in featured entries if there's no featured image
# Fixed - Items are lost when saving list draft
# Fixed - Poll displays too many results
# Fixed - Clasic collection displays full content instead of excerpt
# Fixed - Users with lower roles can access Ads in dashboard
# Fixed - Sticky sharebar shows on Auto Loaded next post even if it's disabled
# Fixed - Wrong schema for AMP
# Fixed - Can't disable ads for search results
# Fixed - Ads not available for polls
# Fixed - Polls/quizzes conflict with YOAST link checker
# Fixed - Sticky sidebar glitches
# Fixed - Autoload analytics issues
# Fixed - Lazy load breaking RSS
# Fixed - Ads rendering in wrong places
# Fixed - Snax sanitizes embedly in story
# Fixed - Snax Lists widget shows closed for submissions lists when is set to show only open for submissions lists
# Fixed - Missing translations

VERSION 5.2.1 – 26 October 2017, minor update

# Improved - Visual Composer 5.4.2

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - Escaping characters in poll share
# Fixed - Only first poll share works
# Fixed - Polls require manual regeneration of permalinks to work

VERSION 5.2 – 24 October 2017, major update

# NEW - Classic poll
# NEW - Versus poll
# NEW - Hot or Not poll

# Improved - HDPi image field in custom ads
# Improved - Google Analytics and WPP counts views for auto loaded posts
# Improved - Snapchat in G1 Socials
# Improved - Up to date WooCommerce templates

# Fixed - PHP notices and errors
# Fixed - Most viewed collections not working
# Fixed - Ads don't work on author archives
# Fixed - Snax call to action widget has wrong link

VERSION 5.1 – 4 October 2017, major update

# NEW - Auto load next post rewritten
# NEW - Auto play videos on stream collection
# NEW - Visual Composer upgraded to the latest version

# Fixed - PHP notices
# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - Multisite issues
# Fixed - Loco Translate default file location
# Fixed - Lazy load breaks cropping in BuddyPress
# Fixed - Lazy load breaks Instant Articles
# Fixed - bbPress breaks manual excerpts
# Fixed - Repeating middle of the content ads
# Fixed - AdAce breaks instant articles
# Fixed - Blurred images with big height
# Fixed - Watermarks break animated GIFs
# Fixed - Auto load next post breaks various post elements
# Fixed - List description is not saved
# Fixed - Fake views, votes, reactions settings available for author role
# Fixed - Ads are not displayed on tag archive
# Fixed - MashShare placeholder descriptions for Facebook share
# Fixed - Ads render is RSS feeds
# Fixed - AdAce AMP issues
# Fixed - AdAce activation error
# Fixed - Embeds do not work in auto load next post/ load more
# Fixed - Counter for list shows wrong number after removing/adding items
# Fixed - Guest voting UX glitches

VERSION 5.0.2 – 12 September 2017, minor update

# NEW - Ad groups

# Improved - Ad slot settings

# Fixed - PHP notices
# Fixed - Ads not working on Bunchy collection template
# Fixed - Ad align setting not working
# Fixed - Ad links attributes
# Fixed - Posts per page setting not taking effect
# Fixed - Cross-conflict with YOAST and Visual Composer
# Fixed - Reply button on AMP pages not workign
# Fixed - 1 with sidebar template not working
# Fixed - AdAce breaking Instant Articles
# Fixed - Embeds not working in auto loaded posts
# Fixed - Video format does not show grabbed featured image when using embed video
# Fixed - Snax login URL glitch

VERSION 5.0.1 – 6 September 2017, minor update

# Improved - AdAce AdSense format setting

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - Lazy Load breaks Slider Revolution
# Fixed - Lazy Load breaks embed provision
# Fixed - AdAce escapes characters in the codes
# Fixed - AdAce AdSense units not working correctly
# Fixed - PhotoMix fatal error
# Fixed - Auto load next post display issues
# Fixed - Auto featured media for video format embeds not working
# Fixed - Video format form not working when video items are disabled
# Fixed - Images/GIF's from url overwrite issue

VERSION 5.0 – 4 September 2017, major update

# NEW - PhotoMix plugin
# NEW - AdAce plugin (WP QUADS replacement)
# NEW - Manage Image Sizes
# NEW - Lazy Load Images
# NEW - Lazy Load Embeds
# NEW - Watermarks
# NEW - Hotlink Protection
# NEW - Auto Featured Images
# NEW - Regenerate Thumbnails
# NEW - Auto Load Next Post
# NEW - Load and play embeds directly on archive view
# NEW - Sponsored article
# NEW - Video format
# NEW - Audio format
# NEW - Video list item
# NEW - Audio list item
# NEW - Text list item (now you can create text based list)
# NEW - Embed.ly integration, 400+ social channels supported
# NEW - Full control over each format (upload size, allowed mime types)
# NEW - AMP for all Snax formats
# NEW - Compatibility with most popular compressing services
# NEW - Visual Composer upgraded to the latest version

# Improved - Frontend UX
# Improved - Admin UX
# Improved - Performance

# Fixed - CSS fixes
# Fixed - Missing translations
# Fixed - PHP notices
# Fixed - Search Everything conflicts
# Fixed - Minimal demo not working
# Fixed - Injections setting not working for single categories
# Fixed - bbPress display errors
# Fixed - Missing microdata
# Fixed - Guest reaction votes error
# Fixed - Missing thumbnails on attachement pages
# Fixed - Meme format not marked on backend post list
# Fixed - Meme creation issues
# Fixed - Broken call to action widget for plain permalinks

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