Templates Review
WordPress Corporate Bizstream - Creative HTML5/CSS3 WordPress Theme
Current theme version: v3.2.2 (June 2013)
Bizstream is a feature packed multi-purpose theme that is the ideal solution for your business. It is flexible & responsive (works on all devices, including mobile based) and focuses on attention to detail. It is built using the latest web technologies and gives you the option of using any of the two available layouts. A full width design or an elegant boxed design. With a design focus on usability and extend ability Bizstream is WPML Translation Ready & certified. Bizstream allows for the integration of the ever popular e-Commerce solution WooCommerce. Simply enable the WooCommerce integration setting, install the WooCommerce plugin and you can effortlessly streamline your WooCommerce shopping pages directly into the theme.
It comes with over 100+ Visual Shortcodes, 15 highly functional widgets, unlimited page and post sidebars. You will love the highly intuitive and flexible admin panel which makes customizing the theme fun as well as practical.
With the clever use of Custom Post types you can create pages to display pricing tables & display multi-layout interactive portfolio’s.
The latest version of the ever popular LayerSlider 3D Responsive WordPress Slider has been integrated directly into the theme. Create amazing multi-layered slideshows and display them easily by assigning them to a page or post or use them with the Slideshow Shortcodes.
Using the Bizstream Control Panel you can set the theme to use a full width page layout or opt for a narrow shadowed box layout. The choice is yours!
With a design focus on accessability & usability Bizstream looks great on large screens to the smaller mobile devices such as iPhones/Smarphones or Tablet-PC’s. Try it out! Resize your browser window when viewing the demo site.
Bizstream contains the most advanced sidebar management system you will find in any WordPress theme. You can set your global sidebar position(s) and select the sidebars for those positions in the Bizstream Control Panel. By default, your posts and pages will inherir these settings.
You also have the control to override the global sidebar settings on a per post, page setting and assign different sidebars and positions to each post or page.
With an abundance of style and design options in the Bizstream Control you can style the site to exactly how you want it to look. Change skins, colors, fonts and links with a user friendly design interface.
Translate Bizstream into any language. It is 100% translatable with .mo & .po files includes.
Bizstream Features:
- Clean, Modern & scalable design can be used for any type of website
- 100% Responsive Theme – Works great on all devices.
- Retina Ready, Ultra High Resolution Graphics
- Built with HTML5 and CSS3
- One Click Demo Import – Includes XML file for demo data
- WPML plugin ready & certified
- Child Theme Compatible – includes child theme!
- WooCommerce compatible with easy e-Commerce integration
- Includes the Awesome Parallax Layer Slider 3D Plugin – $15 Value
- Includes the jQuery Isotope plugin for interactive portfolio sorting – $25 Value
- Touch swipe enabled slideshows
- Unlimited color variations with 14 color skins included.
- Unlimited Portfolio pages
- Unlimited Sidebars
- Set global sidebar positions as well as single post sidebar positions or dual sidebar positions.
- Create custom sidebars for the various sections of the site
- Sidebars can be positioned on left or right side or on both sides.
- Use any of our custom or built in widgets in any sidebar
- Advanced Blog Options
- Set global blog options or individual post settings
- 2 image layouts to choose from; large, medium for each post, or set a global option
- 6 amazing post types (standard, audio, gallery, link, quote or video)
- Awesome image rollovers with PrettyPhoto and link icons!
- Set Custom Featured Image size per post
- Auto generated thumbnails
- Easily specify the number of items per page
- Pages can have left or right sidebar, or set a global option
- Tons of options to add or remove meta data, featured images, full or excerpt, etc
- Advanced Portfolio Options
- Set global portfolio options or individual post settings
- 1-4 column portfolio layouts to choose from
- Set up multiple Portfolio Pages with paging
- Select specific categories for each portfolio, fully customized!
- Awesome image rollovers with lightbox and link icons!
- Use Images, Slideshows, & Videos with ease!
- Set Custom Featured Image size per post
- Auto generated thumbnails
- Easily specify the number of items per page
- Automatic pagination
- Sortable/filterable categories
- Gallery & Full detail layouts
- Includes entire Font Awesome 3.0 icon set, fully integrated
- Advanced Theme Control Panel using customized version of the popular Slightly Modified Options Framework by Syamil MJ
- jQuery enabled Contact page and widget
- 8 separate page templates to choose from
- Side Navigation Page Template for Easy Page Navigation
- Custom Sitemap template for better SEO
- Built-in SEO options in the Bizstream Control Panel
- SEO Optimized, Great SEO base built-in (compatible with SEO Plugins like Yoast)
- Built-In 404 Page
- 15 highly useful interactive widgets
- Custom Typography Options
- Use Standard or Google Fonts
- Delegate your fonts from the Bizstream Control Panel
- Set different font sizes for all H1-H6 headings and body text
- Set different colors for your fonts
- Wide & Boxed Layout Versions
- Upload custom background images for boxed layouts
- Translation Ready, Includes the .po and .mo files
- Post sharing options with social icons
- Lots of Useful Shortcodes with an easy to use Shortcode Generator
- Accordians, Buttons, Columns, Tabs, Typography, Google Maps, Media, Message Boxes, Pricing Table and much, much more…
- Easily Create Stunning Pages within minutes using Shortcodes
- Slider shortcodes are even Touch Optimized & swipe-enabled
- Amazingly Cool jQuery Enhancements
- 15 Highly Useful Built-in Custom Widgets
- 125px Advertisement Widget
- Contact Form (jQuery enabled)
- Contact Info
- Facebook Widget
- Feedburner Widget
- Flickr Photo Widget
- Google Maps Widget
- Popular Posts Widget
- Random Posts Widget
- Recent Posts Widget
- Recent Portfolio
- Social Widget
- Tabbed Widget
- Twitter Widget &
- Video Widget
- Threaded Comments
- Layered PSD’s included for customization
- Strong focus on typography, usability and overall user-experience
- Well organized, commented & clean code
- Cross-Browser Compatibility FireFox, Safari, Chrome, IE8, IE9, IE10
- Fully Tested for WordPress 3.5, and compatible with WP 3.1+
- Detailed theme documentation
Changelog
Version 3.2.2 - 24 Jun 2013 Fixed a bug with the wrong version number in the styles.css file. Version 3.2.1 - 19 Jun 2013 Removed the demo switcher from the package. Version 3.1 - 3 Jun 2013 Updated the page templates and added the homepage template which allows for widgets on the homepage. New Feature - Added an Advanced Sidebar Management system. You can set a global position for your sidebars in the Bizstream Control Panel or overwrite the sidebars in each page or post you create. You can assign no sidebar, left sidebar, right sidebar or dual sidebars to all posts and pages. New Feature - Added the option to display or hide an "Edit" link on the blog pages. If enabled, will only be displayed to logged in Administrators. New Feature - Prefixed the "link" post type entries with a link icon. New Feature - Add a new custom post type "Team". Allows you to add profiles and showcase your staff members or individual users. New page template of "Team" avaiable to display team profiles. Removed the "Blog - Fullwidth" page templates. Now uses the new sidebar management meta boxes. Fixed an issue with the portfolio template not paging correctly if displayed as front page. Version 3.0 - 16 May 2013 Fixed an issue with the caption not displaying correctly on fixed width slideshows. Updated Fixed Width Slider (Anything Slider) to latest version. Updated all the shortcodes. Updated the Color Skins. Added 4 new skins. Updated the post pagination to either display page number or previous/next links. Updated fitvids.js script to make SoundCloud video's responsive. Updated the pricing table shortcode making them responsive. Updated Flex Slider script to latest version. Updated the content slider shortcode code. Updated the blog and portfolio sliders making them responsive and adding new image overlay effects. Updated jQuery Quicksand plugin to latest version. Updated the icon for the Feedburner subscribe widget. Updated the styling on the tag cloud section of the tabs widget. Replace the QuickSand portfolio filter with the Isotope jQuery filter. Replace the Twitter widget with more stable code. Added the option to select a background colour for the speech bubbles. Removed Digg icon from single blog pages. Removed the top search bar functionality. Removed option "How to Link blog images". New overlay effects allow for opening image in Lightbox as well as linking to blog image. Remove the jQuery UI dependancy for tabs. New Feature: Added WooCommerce support. New Feature: Added Retina, iPhone & iPad logo's. New Feature: Added ability to have unlimited Sidebars. New Feature: Added option to select between page numbers & links for paging. New Feature: Added ability to enable/disable breadcrumbs. New Feature: Added ability to change footer font colour. New Feature: Added ability to select between excerpt or full content on blog category pages. New Feature: Added ability to enable/disable red more link on blog category pages. New Feature: Added ability to display author bio on blog pages. New Feature: Added ability to enable/disable post navigation on single blog pages. New Feature: Added new Social networking icons to single blog pages. New Feature: Added ability to enable/disable view of blog comments. New Feature: Added option to select the amount of columns on the portfolio category page. New Feature: Can now enable/disable client name, category, date & website on single portfolio pages. New Feature: New related portfolio slider added to single portfolio pages.\ New Feature: Added ability to manage all aspects of the sitemap page template through the Bizstream Control Panel. New Feature: Added new blog post formats - Standard, Audio, Gallery, Link, Quote & Video. New Feature: Added new jQuery hover effects to blog images. New Feature: Added option to specify the width of the navigation menu sub-menu width. New Feature: Added SoundCloud Audio shortcodes. New Feature: Added new heading shortcodes. h1 - h6 headings. New Feature: Added author attribute to quote shortcode. New Feature: Added new responsive tabs and verticle tab shortcodes. New Feature: Added ability to hide/display address section on contact page template. New Feature: Added option to manage heading text on contact page template. New Feature: Added a site navigation page template. New Feature: Added 2 extra columns to the column shortcodes. Now can use up to 6 columns. New Feature: Added ability to add a custom colour to the highlight shortcode. New Feature: Added social media icon shortcode with links to 18 Social Networking sites. New Feature: Added a Facebook Widget Shortcode. New Feature: Introduction if a side template. Great to display links to pages in the sidebars. New Feature: Introduced a styled gallery shortcode. New Feature: Added a Google Maps shortcode. New Feature: Added option to display title above or below blog images on single blog pages. New Feature: Added option to display or hide the blog signature section on single blog pages. New Feature: Added Font Awesome icons and functionality. Can now use Font Awesome shortcodes. New Feature: Added ability to select the layout for the single page blog posts. Can now have a sidebar page or full width page. New Feature: Added the option to enable / disable a grey border and gradient background to each widget. New Feature: Added 4 new CSS Skins. New Feature: Add a Facebook widget. Version 2.1.1 - 29 Jan 2013 Corrected version numbering in stylesheets where one file was reflecting an older version. Version 2.1 - 12 Dec 2012 Removed the hashtag that displays in the URL address bar when using the fixed width slider. Added the option to disable the display of the Social Networking icons in the theme header. Fixed a bug where the fixed width slider was not displaying the fade effect if choosen. Version 2.0 - 14 Oct 2012 Extended logo width to be of any size. Option to display or hide 'Home" icon in navigation menu. Redesigned of main navigation menu and ability to select menu skins. Greater options to style the navigation menu. Skins, colors, fonts and sizes. Removed Cufon fonts. Added new image overlay effects. Replaced fancy checkboxes with more stable code. Added ability to place widgets in homepage. Added option to either link images to blog details page or open in ColorBox on blog pages. Added option to select between a fixed 'Back to Top' link or a floating link. Fixed a bug when displaying html in footer copyright. Improved the theme update notification script Added a 1 click installer to install demo theme data. Replicate exactly what you see in the demo theme. Version 1.3 - 8 Sept 2012 Replaced the Bizstream Twitter widget with a more reliable JavaScript version. Version 1.2 - 28 Aug 2012 Added a built-in theme update notifier. You will now be notified through the WordPress Dashboard of future theme updates and instructions on how to download the latest version. Fixed an issue where the blog slider was not selecting the correct category when limiting the blog category in the shortcode. Version 1.1.1 - 1 Aug 2012 Fixed a bug where dual sidebars were not rendering correctly when selecting them under the page attributes meta box. Version 1.1 - 24 July 2012 Added more spacing on comments tab in tabbed widget to accomodate for comment replies. Changed the color of the Full Width slider link color in image caption. Modified the header link logo so that link covers full logo width. Shortened the titles of the slideshow items in demo data so that titles do not overrun textfield in Bizstream Admin. Added a selected state to the responsive select menu. Changed the jQuery controlling the URL's and the click events for the reponsive menu. Fixed the prettyPhoto issue where prettyPhoto wasn't displaying properly when filtering portfolio items. Version 1.0 - 19 July 2012 Initial Release
