Vanguard: Business & Portfolio WordPress Theme - WordPress

Whether youre a beginner or an experienced WordPress professional, Vanguard was built with you in mind. Powerful and at the same time easy to use tools, make it easy for everyone to build a website. The build-in custom admin panel has all the options youll ever need to customize your website in a few minutes, be it changing colors, adding a background image, fonts or setting image sizes, Vanguard has got you covered.

The theme also includes an XML file that you can use to import the data seen in the theme demo so that you have a solid base to work with and start with the right foot. Also, the sliders you see on the theme demo that were built using the LayerSlider plugin are also capable of being imported.

Some of the themes on this site are so complicated to use that you would be quicker hand coding a site. This theme, however, is a joy to use. A great admin area thats not over-complicated, features that are actually useful and a good set of integrated short-codes.

All in all, great work, I hope it does really well for you. lordmackay

This theme stands out, in that it actually delivers on all promises made in advertizing it something very few others can claim. More than that, this theme is built with thoughtfulness to needs of the the end-user building a website, including features that make the process EASY AND ENJOYABLE! Wordpress has the phrase Just another Wordpress blog as the slogan of any new install of WP, and for most themes its true. Not so for Vanguard. With Vanguard, you can build a fully-fledged website with many layers of complexity and depth. Not just another blog.

We hope so see many more such thoughtfully-designed and well-executed themes! schillerinstitut

Just voted 5 stars on this theme! Its brilliant. Love how well options work and how good it looks! Thank You for a wonderful theme, bought two themes for my website before, but those wasnt so good, so I will use Yours! Thanks! SBDomains

This is one of the best themes I have come across, highly recommended. The admin interface, sliders and shortcodes are top shelf and very easy use. Had a couple of questions that support answered quickly and the documentation is very useful as well. Andrew

I recommend Vanguard for the best theme on mobile phone in particular. There is no unwanted both-side margins on large over 4inches phone. And zooming is possible on mobile mode. It means browsing with bigger characters on mobile phone. aalaw38

Fantastic theme! Its very robust, organized, and clean. No problems so far and the authors support is great! VinhSonNguyen

I would like to mention again that this is a Must Have theme for anyone who is looking for simplicity & good quality! handrei

General Features

• Includes an XML file that enables you to import dummy data and placeholder images with examples of slider images, portfolio items, blog posts and all the shortcodes examples. Start your new website with the right foot
• Complete documentation with screenshots to help you through the installation and customization process.
• Powerful and easy to use custom admin panel (CMS) for setting the theme options.
• Fully responsive from Desktop to Mobile.
• Unobtrusive JavaScript that gracefully degrades when its disabled.
• Wordpress built in automatic thumbnail generation and image resizing.
• Translation ready, theme comes with a .PO file with English localization.
• WPML ready.
• SublimeVideo player fully integrated with the Slider allowing HTML5 video playback as well as integration with the [video] shortcode.
• CSS and jQuery Drop Down Menu.
• Full page backgrounds: every page, post and portfolio item can have a full page background image that centers itself and fills the entire browser screen even when the browser is resized (when using narrow boxed layout).
• Customizable Sub-headers: every page, post and portfolio item can have a sub-header bar that is capable of displaying a title and description, as well as setting a particular sub-header height and background image.
• Includes a free license for the awesome LayerSlider plugin (15$ value).
• 4 Sliders: Normal Slider and Full Width Slider, Normal LayerSlider and Full Width LayerSlider supporting images up to 1920px width and have Video support. Every page, post and portfolio item can have a sub-header slider that is capable of displaying images and/or videos of a specific slider item category or categories. This enables you to add a slider pretty much anywhere you want, be it for showcasing an item of your portfolio, your home page, or even a blog post.
• Multiple Blogs: create completely independent blog pages that display different categories in each page, and the theme includes 2 different blog page templates.
• Multiple Portfolios: create completely independent portfolio pages that display different portfolio categories in each page, and the theme includes 7 different portfolio page templates.
• Full Width page template.
• Left and Right Sidebar page templates.
• Sitemap template.
• Contact page with validation and fully functional Ajax contact form (3 layers of SPAM protection)
• Customizable Image Sizes: the Image sizes section of the admin panel is a very powerful tool because it lets you set the image height of pretty much any image you see in the theme. For example, you can easily set the height of the images in a portfolio template with 4 columns, or the blog detail page, all of this without touching a single line of code or asking for support.
• Skin Manager: change colors, background images and fonts.
• Fonts Manager: quickly update the Google Web Fonts list of available fonts that the Google Web Font Directory keeps adding and updating, select which font subsets will be included if the current skin is using any Google Web Font and upload new Cufon fonts that you generate.
• Lots of different shortcodes for you to use: Call-to-action, Titles, Column Layouts, Slider, Buttons, Info Boxes, Dropcaps, List Styles, Price Tables, Lightbox, Video, Testimonials, Maps and more.
• Shortcode Manager: the theme includes an incredibly easy to use shortcode manager in the rich text editor inside WordPress, you just need to click on the Vanguard logo and select which shortcode you want to add to your content.
• Awesome page examples to get you started.
• Wordpress Gallery with Lightbox.
• 9 widgetized areas that can be hidden or replaced with your own custom created sidebars. This is possible for every page, post and portfolio item.
• Complete separation from the portfolio and blog.
• Custom widgets for displaying Popular Posts, Recent Posts, Popular Portfolio Items, Recent Portfolio Items, Twitter, Flickr, Contact Form, Social Icons and a Sub-pages menu of top parent page.
• Seamless out of the box Twitter, Google+, Facebook and other social media sharing (requires a free AddThis account).
• Works in all major browsers (not IE 6 and 7 compatible).
• Styled and built in wp-pagenavi plugin used for pagination.
• Valid HTML and CSS code

NOTE: the skin switcher that you see in the preview is not included in your purchased file.

  

Changelog

1.6.2 18/04/2014

• Fix Fixed shortcodes button in WordPress 3.9+ while maintaining backwards compatibility with earlier versions of WordPress
• Fix Fixed hashtag links in the Twitter widget

1.6.1 21/03/2014

• Fix Fixed a bug preventing access to the Fonts Manager

1.6 20/03/2014

• Tweak Theme Options panel and Custom Fields styling for WP 3.8+
• Tweak Updated the Media Uploader in the Theme Options panel to reflect the currently used in WP 3.6+
• Fix Updated the FitVids script which was causing the invisible text in Chrome 33

1.5.1 05/08/2013

• Tweak Updated LayerSlider to version 4.6.0 (fixing all jQuery issues with WordPress 3.6)
• Fix Fixed a custom WordPress menu warning in WordPress 3.6
• Fix Fixed the response content type of the skin.php file (it now outputs text/css as expected)

1.5 27/06/2013

• Feature Added the option to open Call To Action buttons in an iframed lightbox.
• Feature Added option to include portfolio_category in portfolio item detail slug.
• Feature Updated LayerSlider to version 4.5.5 (new 3d transitions)
• Feature The [image] shortcode now has a parameter labeled newWindow in order to open the image/url in a new window or tab.
• Tweak Added visual parent/child relationship in slider, blog and portfolio categories in admin panel.
• Tweak Independent WP [gallery] now display in independent lightbox groups.
• Fix Fixed a bug where the top dropdown menu would stay behind YouTube videos.
• Fix Included First and Last strings in the theme translation.
• Fix Updated the Twitter widget and shortcode in order to use the v1.1 API with OAuth.

1.4 04/03/2013 (Version Diff)

• Feature You can now display a sidebar in portfolio item detail pages (first enable this feature in the Theme Options » Portfolio tab).
• Feature Option to toggle opening a portfolio item in a new window/tab.
• Tweak Added backwards support to jQuery.browser and several other minor tweaks for future compatibility with jQuery 1.9+
• Tweak Prevented the lightbox from appending #prettyPhoto to the URL when clicking a lightbox thumbnail.
• Fix Fixed compatibility with the new version of the SublimeVideo player (unfortunately the FLV file format was dropped so references to this format were removed from the admin panel).
• Fix Added the Other Work and Other Posts strings to the default.po language file.
• Fix Current page link color on the superior-header right area should now be visible.
• Fix Fixed a bug on the sub-header title not being properly aligned to the left when using an image background.
• Fix Fixed a bug that prevented blog posts from being properly rendered if the WordPress resize function failed.
• Fix Fixed a bug that deleted all custom sidebars when deleting a single custom sidebar in Webkit browsers.
• Fix Fixed a bug that prevented upload field from working properly in the pages, posts, slider items and portfolio items custom settings.
• Fix Tabs should no longer overlap if there isnt enough horizontal space, they should stack instead.
• Fix Prevented errors in Google Rich Snippets.
• Fix Theme normal sliders with one element only should now hide the slider navigation.

1.3 17/01/2013 (Version Diff)

• Feature Added a new [testimonial_scroller] shortcode in order to rotate testimonials inside the same container. (demo)
• Feature Added a new [logo_scroller] shortcode in order to display a scrolling list of client logos. (demo)
• Feature Added a new [accordion] shortcode. Visually its the same as the [toggle] shortcode, only adds a mutually exclusive behavior to toggles inside the accordion. (demo)
• Feature You can now individually assign a global custom background color to the sub-header bar with solid background.
• Feature Theres a new admin option where you can hide the breadcrumbs.
• Tweak Removed the appending hash code to the URL when viewing pages with the AddThis social share buttons.
• Tweak When creating new pages or posts, the sub-header bar with solid background is selected by default.
• Tweak Updated the LayerSlider plugin to the latest 3.6.2 version.
• Fix Fixed a bug that prevented the mobile dropdown menu from being clickable in certain situations.
• Fix Fixed displaying [gallery] shortcodes in WordPress 3.5 when the images werent attached to the page or post.
• Fix Fixed the styling of portfolio items and post widgets shortcode inside the [wide_bar] shortcode.
• Fix Fixed a bug that prevented blog and portfolio post widget shortcodes from displaying columns correctly inside pages with sidebar.
• Fix Fixed styling issues in the footer widgets are where some elements add the text color equal to the background color.
• Fix Fixed shortcodes not being parsed in the LayerSlider custom content.
• Fix Fixed [tab] shortcode styling in small screen sizes.
• Fix Fixed a bug preventing page content from displaying in the blog page templates.

1.2 20/12/2012 (Version Diff)

• Feature Added an option to the Twitter widget and shortcode to use JavaScript in order to retrieve tweets in the client side. This is useful when your site is on a shared hosting environment and the Twitter API is limited resulting in no tweets.
• Tweak Removed the defined position in which the Vanguard admin panel appears on the WordPress admin area, which was preventing some plugin menus from appearing.
• Fix Made the breadcrumbs You are here string available for translation.
• Fix Fixed the styling of WPML language changer widget in dropdown menu mode when added to the superior-header or the footer bar.

1.1 13/12/2012 (Version Diff)

• Feature Added the option of adding single post previous and next navigation below the post content (also available on the portfolio items).
• Feature You now have the option in a per post basis of not displaying the title and meta info overlayed on the image in the wide blog template and single post page.
• Feature Added a PSD file containing some pages of the theme design.
• Tweak Some admin panel buttons and select fields were displaying incorrectly after the WordPress 3.5 update.
• Tweak If you manually set a post excerpt it will now properly override the post summary on the blog list pages.
• Fix Fixed the Update Google Web Fonts button in the Fonts Manager.
• Fix The YouTube and Vimeo videos were not properly resizing to their parent content area.
• Fix Sub-headers with image backgrounds now properly resize according to the devices width.

Credits

The images you see in the theme preview are not included in the downloadable file and were kindly provided for demo purposes by Michael Schmid: www.workdiary.de. Their use outside the theme preview is strictly forbidden without the authors permission.

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