New features :
- RTL support
- Widgets at homepage featured content toggle area
- WooCommerce Ready
- Light Version
- German language available now
- New social media icons
Matrix is a responsive, intuitive tile-based theme which is inspired by Metro design. The tiles can be made ‘live’ to display more information on the screen without occupying more space.
This WordPress theme comes with 10 pre-defined colours and an advanced but easy-to-use admin panel. It is highly customizable to suit the needs of every user. Unlike conventional designs, each tile can be customized to create any design you can imagine!
All the files are coded with valid HTML5 tags and CSS3, and are Search Engine Optimized (SEO) using valid HTML5 semantic tags for each section and are written in decreasing order of importance down the page. For instance, the title and content of an article comes before the comments and sidebar within a HTML file, and titles are enclosed in h1 tags to signify their importance.
The theme is also optimized for speed. It is faster than most of the top-selling themes in the WordPress category here. With WooCommerce compatibility, you can sell your products to millions of website visitors with this blazingly fast theme.
Main Features
- Responsive
- ‘Live’ tiles
- iframe video embedding ready – A link is all you need to embed it
- Ability to define video aspect ratio – No ugly black borders for any video
- Supports major post formats
- Gallery
- Link
- Audio
- Video
- Quote
- 4 different tiles for archives
- List – currently used in the live preview
- Large
- Medium
- Small
- AJAX pagination at main page – Can be disabled
- More than 25 shortcodes – All inserted as buttons / dropdown in post editor
- Unlimited slider
- Unlimited layout options
- High customizability
- Advanced admin panel – See below for more information
- Working Contact form with jQuery validator
- Detailed documentation
- 10 default colours
- Unlimited colour settings
- 10 default social icons
- FlexSlider 2 ready
- Custom Twitter widget – uses API V1.1
- Coded using valid HTML5 and CSS3
- SEO and speed optimized
- Localization ready – Comes with .po / .mo files
- WooCommerce ready
Testimonials
WOW . I’m not easily impressed on Themeforest but this is very well done. Superb job! And it’s responsive! soichi, Matrix HTML Template
This is very beautiful work, so well designed and cool and trendy. Robbie2010, Matrix HTML Template
This looks so magnificent.nexorrr, Matrix HTML Template
You’re amazing. That worked perfectly. I love having both options. Thank you! Your template is going to put me way ahead of my writing peers. Harrietinthecity, Matrix HTML Template
Hi! Your theme is awesome! Best of the Metro like desing WP themes! When the Wordpress version would be avalible? I’m the first buyer of this theme!!!
Changelog
21/08/2015
Release of V2.2.1
scripts/new-mce4.js
-- Fixed a bug which causes the WordPress TinyMCE editor to stop working
19/08/2015
Release of V2.2
archive-large.php
archive-medium.php
archive-small.php
content-tile.php
---- Fixed an issue where audio post format lightbox template is not retrieved if post type is Portfolio
rtl.css
-- RTL support
/images/navitemrtl.png
-- Background for RTL menu
/css/style-{colour}.css
-- Added support for RTL menu
functions.php
-- Fixed WP_Widget error in WordPress V4.3
/plugins/social-bartender.zip
-- Fixed WP_Widget error in WordPress V4.3
/woocommerce
-- Updated template files
30/04/2015
Release of V2.1.1
style.css
-- Fixed a new visual bug at Twitter button in posts
-- Fixed visual bug at tabs and tables
/plugins/class-tgm-plugin-activation.php
-- Updated to version 2.4.2
25/04/2015
Release of V2.1
NEW feature : Support widgets at homepage Featured Content area
style.css
-- Modified to support WooCommerce update changes
functions.php
-- Added widget area at homepage, IE8 support removed as a result of this
-- Fixed no fullscreen bug for iframe embeds
-- Fixed query results for archives
-- Updated TGMPA code
index.php
-- Added widget area
-- Fixed a bug which causes toggles not to display correctly
/woocommerce
-- Modified / removed some files to support WooCommerce update changes
/plugins/class-tgm-plugin-activation.php
-- Updated to patch XSS security vulnerability
09/02/2015
Release of V2.0.2
style.css
-- Added new styles to support WooCommerce 2.3
-- Fixed issue with small font size for ordered list in posts and pages
scripts/wc-quantity-increment.min.js
functions.php
-- Add support for quantity buttons in WC2.3
header.php
All files in /css folder
-- Added new styles to support WooCommerce 2.3
06/01/2015
Release of V2.0.1
comments.php
-- Fixed a bug which occurs to visitors when comments can only be posted by logged in users.
19/12/2014
Release of V2.0
NEW feature : WooCommerce compatibility
functions.php
-- Fixed Twitter widget problem caused by Twitter OAuth plugin
-- Improved pagination
-- Changed query method for displaying custom post types in archives
-- Added auto-cropping for tile images. Featured image will be shown on tile if no tile image is set.
style.css
-- Fixed body overflow in mobile
-- Added styling for WooCommerce
scripts/javascript.js
-- Updated code to accommodate for WooCommerce
content-tile.php
-- Automatically show featured image as tile image if none specified
header.php
-- Added styling for WooCommerce
index.php
-- Added category filtering and custom number of tiles
lightbox-{post-format}.php
-- Fixed translation problem
search.php
-- Changed pagination function
sidebar.php
-- Updated code to accommodate for WooCommerce
footer.php
-- Fixed social_bartender
All files in /css folder
-- Added styling for WooCommerce
06/10/2014
Release of V1.5.5
functions.php
-- Fixed TinyMCE problem
style.css
-- #page-img modified to prevent image overflow
-- Fixed 3rd level nested dropdown
scripts/new-mce4.js
scripts/mce-style.css
-- Fixed a problem with switching between Visual and Text views in editor
-- New method to enter certain shortcodes (e.g. Buttons, Infobox etc.)
-- Minor style changes
index.php
-- Fixed a problem with Highlighted Text area not disappearing when there's no content
13/05/2014
Release of V1.5.4
Removed support for WordPress 3.4 and older versions
functions.php
-- Fixed bug of Matrix Latest Posts where only 'Posts' are shown in single posts
-- Fixed a bug of other post types not shown in categories / tags pages (under function query_post_type)
-- Fixed TinyMCE dropdown missing in WP3.9 problem
archive-list.php
-- Fixed an issue where the archive list image might not display under certain conditions
style.css
-- .mainpage modified to fix homepage toggle jump issue
scripts/customcodes-mce4.js
-- To fix TinyMCE dropdown missing in WP3.9 problem
12/08/2013
Release of V1.5.1
/admin/assets/js/smof.js
-- Fixed a bug with adding person in Theme Options
11/08/2013
Release of V1.5
NEW for WP 3.5 and above :
archive.php,author.php,category.php,footer.php,header.php,index.php,search.php,tag.php,template-about.php,template-contact.php
-- Changed $data to $smof_data
jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.js
-- Fixed possible lightbox problem when opening for second time
/admin/
-- Updated Theme Options admin panel
functions.php
-- Uses new Media Uploader in Post Editor
header.php, /admin/functions/functions.options.php
-- Added more settings for logo and site name in Theme Options
For all versions :
index.php
-- No 'foreach' error when there is no slides
style.css
-- Fixed table width not showing at 100% problem
-- Fixed Facebook 'Like' button not showing up problem
header.php
-- Fixed viewport meta syntax
content-tile.php
-- Default to 'small' when new posts are imported
04/03/2013
Release of V1.3.2
functions.php, style.css
-- Upgraded Twitter Widget to use API Version 1.1
25/02/2013
Release of V1.3.1
functions.php (Light Version)
-- Fixed a bug which will crash the website
21/02/2013
Release of V1.3
New Features :
style.css
-- Added 3rd level drop-down menu
-- Added styling for new widget
functions.php
-- New 'Random Posts' widget
Fixes :
-style.css
---- Fixed about page excerpt size on small screen
---- Fixed author page font size problem
---- Fixed wrong fonts appearing on Mac
---- Fixed lightbox problem in search.php
---- Added blockquote tag support in post content
-functions.php
---- Accordion, Table, Tabs shortcode fix
---- Edited pagination size
---- Fixed errors when adding / editing posts
---- Fixed some bugs in search pagination
-index.php
---- Fixed errors when there is no slider / featured content at homepage
-search.php
---- Fixed some bugs in pagination
-scripts/javascript.js
---- Changed Facebook like count retrieval method
-archive-small.php, archive-medium.php, archive-large.php
---- Fixed bugs causing tiles not to link to lightbox / destination link properly
16/11/2012
Release of V1.1.2
-update_notifier.php
---- Fixed 'Undefined' error (both versions)
---- Fixed 'Insufficient Permission' bug (light version)
-index.php
---- Lower toggle will now disappear when there is no featured content
15/11/2012
Release of V1.1
New Feature : Light Theme
New Feature : New social media icons
New Feature : German language .po/.mo - Thanks to Holger Kelm for translation!
File Changes :
-scripts/javascript.js
---- Fixed FB incorrect count
---- Fixed archives masonry width
-functions.php
---- Fixed matrix_slider order problem
---- Load translation fix
-archive-large.php
-archive-list.php
-archive-medium.php
---- Date now show according to checkbox
-style.css
---- Made lightbox to be more compatible
---- Fixed menu cut-off
---- Fixed video poster image gap
-social-bartender
---- Added YouTube and G+
18/10/2012
Release of V1.0
Known Limitations
Due to certain browsers’ incompatibility, there are some minor features altered in these browsers :- IE8 / IE9 – Like and Tweet buttons in single item page are made shown permanently without hovering
- IE8 / IE9 – No transition effects on hover
- IE8 – Tile fading effect on hover has been disabled
- Safari 5 for Windows – Flipping tiles might flicker on hover. The fix to the problem is mentioned in the documentation
- AJAX Pagination has been disabled in IE8 and self-hosted audio / video will not work when using this feature.
Credits
Thanks to all these great individuals :- Preview theme dark version background image by bulliver
- Preview theme light version background image by Charles Henry
- Preview theme tile images by Mads Berg
- Preview theme about page image by || UggBoy?UggGirl || PHOTO || WORLD || TRAVEL ||
- Preview theme about page images by mac_filko
- Preview theme contact page image by Rev Dan Catt
- Icons by dakirby309
- Icons at windowswiki.info
- Tutorials at net tuts+
- Tutorials at CSS Tricks
- Community at Stack Overflow
- Social Bartender plugin by Sawyer Hollenshead
- Update notification script at wplift
- SMOF by sy4mil
- css3-mediaqueries by Wouter van der Graaf
- hoverintent by Brian Cherne
- jquery.easing by George Smith
- jquery.fancybox by Janis Skarnelis
- FlexSlider by WooThemes
- jPlayer by Mark J Panaghiston
- jquery.validate by Jörn Zaefferer
- jquery.masonry by David DeSandro
- MetroJs by Drew Greenwell
Once again, thanks for checking out this theme. I hope you like it and I appreciate any feedback regarding this theme, even if it is a criticism 