Flex Mag - Responsive WordPress News Theme

Last update: Version 3.5.2 – November 9, 2021

Flex Mag is the perfect combination of power and simplicity in a WordPress News & Magazine theme. Flex Mag does not require any coding knowledge and gives you the options and flexibility to put together the ultimate news site, but in a simple, straightforward way that doesn’t overwhelm you. Flex Mag comes with a custom Fly-Out Navigation, custom scoreboard, auto-load posts, 4 different pre-set skins, 9 different Featured Posts options, 8 different article templates, 800+ Google Fonts, and so much more!

Testimonials

More Key Features

One-Click Demo Import – Quickly set up the theme like the demo with the One Click Demo Import plugin!

Retina Ready – The theme and its images look sharp and crisp on retina-ready devices!

Unlimited Ad Units – Flex Mag takes full advantage of available ad space to give you a myriad of options to place your ads. The ad units include a main leaderboard area with adjustable height and width that can accommodate any size ad, a similar leaderboard ad unit displayed below each post, an Ad Widget that can accommodate 300px wide ads of any height in the sidebar as well as any size leaderboard ad in the homepage widget area. Flex Mag also comes with dyanamic ad units within the homepage widgets that can accommodate 300px wide ads of any height.

Unlimited Colors – Easily change the colors of the main background, navigation background/text, the primary theme color, and links to any color from within the Theme Options..

800+ Google Fonts – Use any of the over 800 Google Fonts to set the fonts for the general text, navigation menu text, Featured Posts & Headlines, article title, and headings.

Sticky Sidebars – Flex Mag comes with Theia Sticky Sidebar plugin ($24 value, free!) that allows your sidebar content to follow the visitor as they scroll down the page. This allows for longer visibility for ads and other important information that you want to keep in front of your visitors.

Drag-and-Drop Homepage – Create unlimited homepage layouts by dragging and dropping our custom widgets into the layout that gives your website the professional look and feel you are truly looking for.

RTL Ready – With access to over 800+ Google fonts and a built-in right-to-left feature that lets you switch the stylesheet to RTL with the click of a button, it has never been easier to set your site to RTL.

8 Custom Widgets – Flex Mag gives you the flexibility and ease of use to display your content the way you want it without altering any code with our custom widgets.

Complete List of Features

• Compatible with Wordpress 6.6+
• SEO Optimized
• RTL Ready
• HTML5 & CSS3
• Google AMP Ready
• Translation ready (contains .po/.mo files)
• Child Theme ready
• Comes with XML dummy data (posts, tags, categories, menus, dummy images)
• Easy implementation with Google Adsense ads
• Wordpress Featured Image support
• Wordpress Custom Background support
• Wordpress Custom Menu support
• Unlimited Colors
• Youtube, Vimeo, and Soundcloud integration
• Schema.org Rich Snippets
• Custom Fly-Out Navigation
• Woocommerce compatible
• bbPress compatible
• Infinite Scroll
• Custom Theme Options panel
• Custom CSS section in Theme Options so users will not lose custom changes to CSS when you update to a new version
• Full-Width Posts
• Megamenus
• Facebook comments support
• Built-In Disqus comments support
• Optional homepage blog layout
• Free lifetime updates
• Easy logo customization
• 700+ Google Fonts
• Threaded comments
• Ability to turn Featured Image on posts on/off
• Ability to turn social buttons on posts on/off
• Optional Caption/Photo Credit below Featured Images in posts
• Custom copyright/footer text
• Custom favicon
• In-depth documentation
• And much more!

Support

MVP Themes takes pride in its support! If you have any questions related to the setup of Flex Mag that are not covered by the theme documentation or if you run into any bugs with the theme, please submit a ticket at the MVP Themes Support Center.

Unfortunately, MVP Themes cannot perform customization work for each of our customers, so Flex Mag comes “as-is”. Any customization you would like to make to the theme outside of fixing bugs will need to be done by you or a third party.

Updates

• Expands footer to the full width of the screen
• Fixes bug with translations

Affected files:
footer.php
style.css

• Adds ability to use shortcodes in all ad areas
• Fixes Google AMP notification issue

Affected files:
/widgets/widget-ad.php
footer.php
functions.php
header.php
latest.php
popular.php
style.css

• Allows comments on AMP pages without clicking comment button
• Removes Google Plus from social links

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
amp-single.php
fly-menu.php
footer.php
functions.php
style.css

• Fixes bug with video embeds after WordPress 5.5 Update
• Fixed bug with comments caused by WordPress 5.5. update

Affected files:
functions.php
style.css

• Fixes bug with Google AMP Pages
• Updates Google AMP Plugin to latest version

Affected files:
amp-single.php
style.css

• Adds ability to remove the page views counter from within the Theme Options

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
style.css

• Updates Google Font delivery
• Updates Google AMP Plugin to its latest version

Affected files:
functions.php
style.css

• New Feature! – Adds Google AMP Compatibility

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/amp-style.css
/css/amp-media-queries.css
amp-fly-menu.php
amp-single.php
functions.php
style.css

• Adds One-Click Demo support
• Adds Child Theme

Affected files:
All files in /import/ folder
functions.php
style.css

• Fixes bug with blank space on articles without sidebar ad

Affected files:
functions.php
style.css

• Fixes bug related to previous update and RTL feature
• Fixes bug related to Theia Post Slider and Google Ads

Affected files:
functions.php
sidebar.php
sidebar-woo.php
style.css

• NEW FEATURE! – Theme is now RTL ready
• Theme is now PHP7 compatible
• Fixes bug with retina function by updating retina.js file

Affected files:
All files

• Fixes bug with WooCommerce due to retina function

Affected files:
/js/retina.js
functions.php
style.css

• Adds compatibility with WooCommerce 3.0
• Updates Font Awesome icons

Affected files:
functions.php
style.css

• Enables shortcodes and PHP in WordPress Text Widget
• Updates Theia Sticky Sidebar to latest version (1.6.3)
• Fixes bug with Disqus plugin on SSL servers
• Fixes bug on attachment pages

Affected files:
attachment.php
functions.php
style.css

• Updates retina.js version
• Fixes bug on mobile when Popular Posts are in left column
• Fixes bug with Disqus comment button on auto loaded posts
• Removes shared count number due to Facebook’s API change

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
/js/retina.min.js
/js/scripts.js
content-partial.php
functions.php
header.php
single.php
style.css

• Fixes bug with email link on author pages
• Fixes bug with Popular Posts widget
• Fixes bug with Rich Snippets for images when featured image is hidden
• Updates Theia Sticky Sidebar plugin to latest version (1.6.2)

Affected files:
/widgets/widget-pop.php
author.php
single.php
style.css

• Increases speed and efficiency of theme by removing Tag arrays in Theme Options and Widgets by adding input fields
• Updates Theia Sticky Sidebar plugin to latest version (1.6.1)

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/widgets/widget-tagfeat.php
/widgets/widget-taglist.php
/widgets/widget-tagrow.php
functions.php
style.css

• Improves Auto Load Posts feature function to prevent posts from loading before reaching the bottom of the page
• Improves loading of Facebook Widget
• Updates Theia Sticky Sidebar plugin to latest version (1.5.0)

Affected files:
/js/autoloadposts.js
/widgets/widget-facebook.php
functions.php
style.css

• Fixes bug with hatom entry errors in posts and H1 tag on homepage
• Fixes responsiveness of embedded videos in posts
• Fixes bug with logo meta data in posts

Affected files:
functions.php
header.php
single.php
style.css

• Includes latest version of Theia Sticky Sidebar (1.4.0)
• Adds notification when search does not return any results
• Fixes bug with comment button on pages
• Fixes bug with last score in scoreboard disappearing
• Fixes bug with reviews displayed on Woocommerce pages
• Fixes structured data errors in posts

Affected files:
Scoreboard Plugin
functions.php
header.php
page.php
page-fullwidth.php
search.php
single.php
style.css

• Includes latest version of Theia Sticky Sidebar
• Fixes bug with Theme Options due to Wordpress 4.4
• Fixes bug with static homepage title tag due to Wordpress 4.4

Affected files:
/admin/admin-style.css
functions.php
style.css

• Adds ability to use HTML in author description
• Improves responsiveness of embedded YouTube videos
• Changes authors list to only allow authors with published posts on the Authors List template
• Removes “More Posts” button if there are no more posts in Infinite Scroll
• Fixes bug with posts on high-resolution monitors
• Fixes bug with responsiveness and set colors of skins

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
/css/style-entertainment.css
/css/style-fashion.css
/css/style-sports.css
/css/style-tech.css
author.php
authors-list.php
functions.php
style.css

• Adds Popular Posts widget
• Adds option to remove author email from top of posts
• Fixes bug with links below article when Auto Load feature is disabled
• Fixes bug with third-level dropdowns
• Fixes bug with css for fashion skin
• Fixes bug with Disqus on Auto Load posts

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/style-fashion.css
/widgets/widget-pop.php
comments-popup.php
content-partial.php
functions.php
single.php
style.css

• Adds ability to set universal default Post Template
• Adds ability to widgetize left sidebar on homepage
• Adds WhatsApp sharing button for tablet and mobile devices
• Improves efficiency by combining javascript and css files
• Removes gray background of leaderboard ad area when used next to logo in header

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/js/autoloadposts.js
/js/scripts.js
content-partial.php
functions.php
page-home.php
single.php
style.css

• Adds Related Posts to bottom of articles
• Adds Featured Gallery Widget
• Fixes bug with navigation logo on iOS devices
• Fixes bug with Disqus popup window

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/media-queries.css
/widgets/widget-gallery.php
comments-popup.php
content-partial.php
functions.php
single.php
style.css

• Adds option to place leaderboard above or below navigation
• Allows HTML in Photo Credit box in posts
• Fixes bug with navigation logo when scrolling up

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/media-queries.css
/js/scripts.js
content-partial.php
header.php
single.php
style.css

• Adds standard comments when Auto Load feature is enabled
• Adds 2 more logo locations
• Fixes Schema bug with headline and images on some articles
• Fixes bug with auto loaded posts on some devices
• Removes spacing in margins of Auto Loaded posts

Affected files:
All

• Fixes bug with built-in Disqus feature
• Fixes bug with Auto-Load feature in Firefox
• Fixes bug with post header on articles
• Fixes bug with mobile menu selection
• Fixes bug with Instagram link in footer
• Fixes bug with Google Analytics tracking of Auto Load Posts

Affected files:
All