Updated 9/11/2012 (current version is 1.8) – Update Log – User Ratings Added!
Unlimited customized review mini-sites with 4 ways to rate (numbers, percentages, letters, stars), perfect for topics like:
Laptops, Smart Phones, Tablets, and Audio/Video products
Movies, Music, and Video Games
Restaurants, Beer, and Wine
Fashion Trends and Clothing
Travel Destinations and Vacation Getaways
Automobiles
Books, Magazines, Web Sites, and Comics
Casinos, Pinball Machines, Ice Cream, Puppies, WordPress Review Themes…Anything you want.
User ratings lets your readers submit their ratings and displays the average user rating below the review author’s rating (does not require any plugins)
Works for all kinds of sites from non-review personal blogs to huge content heavy sites like CNET and Good Magazine
Responsive design scales from HD to mobile and looks great on all devices
Tons of premium features such as beautiful TinyMCE shortcode buttons and custom meta fields so you don’t have to remember any shortcodes
Optimized, minified, compressed, validated, and fully WordPress 3.4+ compliant
5-star customer support and active theme development means Made will be relevant for a long time to come
Swagger customers: Easily upgrade from Swagger to Made
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50+ theme options for each review type you create so you can customize the heck out of them
User ratings – integrated user ratings in addition to the author’s rating criteria, automatically averages user ratings and displays in the review overview, including total number of ratings (without the use of a plugin). See item 30 of the Made FAQ for details on how user ratings work.
Google Rich snippets and schema.org markup so you can display your rating directly in Google’s search results.
Unique background images, logos, icons, layouts, content sliders, color schemes, skins, sidebars, and more for each review type
Choose one of four ways to rate your reviews, including:
Numbers between 0 and 10 (with increments of 0.1)
Percentages between 0 and 100 (with increments of 1)
Letter grades from A+ to F (with pluses + and minuses – for each letter grade)
Starsfrom 0 to 5 (with half-star increments) with 5 color options:
Yellow
Orange
Red
Green
Blue
Unlimited rating criteria, which is automatically averaged into a total score
Unlimited review meta fields (descriptive summary text about the review)
Unlimited review taxonomies (review-specific categories)
Unique animations for each of the 4 types of ratings
Featured videos in addition to or instead of featured images (works good for movie trailers, for example)
Customizable color ranges for ratings add visual cues to how good a particular rating is, just like how MetaCritic works
3 unique layouts available for each mini-site’s front page and category archive pages:
Create non-rated articles inside of each review type, which means you don’t have to give every article a rating if you don’t want to
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80+ shortcodes
16 custom widget panels (plus all of your review type unique widget panels)
11 custom widgets give you lots of styled widgets to showcase your content
4 custom menus including the top menu, main menu, sub menu, and a footer menu
Custom meta field panels so you don’t have to remember any shortcodes
Integrated randomized, sophisticated advertising network to display ads within your post listings
13 additional template position ad spots
Slick “About The Author” and jQuery tabbed Related Postspanel under each post/review
Two separate theme admin pages (Theme Options and Review Options), each tabbed, toggled, and organized into easy to use sets of options
150+ theme options and 50+ review options = over 200 total options
Unbranded theme options pages
Tons of social options including Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Google Analytics, Feedburner, and more
Threaded, paged, and styled comments
Featured videos in addition to (or instead of) featured images
Included, fixed Share Panel floats your social media buttons to the left of your main content
Author listing page template shows all of your contributors in a beautiful 2 panel grid layout
Review Directory page displays all of your reviews together on one page (2 different layout options available)
3 featured image sizes on single post pages (or hide image) using custom drop down menu
404 page nicely styled with instructions and a search box
3 unique layout optionsto choose from for home page, review mini-sites, and
Category Archive Pages:
Nivo jQuery “featured” slider with two sizes and fully responsive
Unlimited review-specific Nivo sliders on review mini-site front pages
Don’t Miss slider continuously loops your most important posts at the top of every page in a marquee fashion (can be enabled on a per-post, per-page, or per-review type basis in theme options)
jCarousel “latest” slider at the top of all pages (can be enabled on a per-post, per-page, or per-review type basis in theme options)
jCarousel “spotlight” slider under the featured slider on the front-page
Post tabs panel lets you tab between different categories of posts (or tags or review types)
jCarousel “trending” slider under the post tabs panel on the front page with arrow navigation, as well as just above the footer on all other pages (can be enabled on a per-post, per-page, or per-review type basis in theme options).
jCarousel slider shortcode included so you can put content sliders with unlimited panels directly in your posts and pages
Tabs (shortcodes, widgets, related articles panel)
Nivo slider
jCarouselLite slider
Image icon darken mouseover effect
Button darken mouseover effect
Rating animations
Superfish menus
Box toggles (shortcodes)
Color pickers (review options, demo options)
Easing (applies to any element that animates)
Colorbox image lightboxes
28 included transparent background textures which can be combined with any color
61 included background images (or upload your own)
@font-face fonts (not Cufon)
Optimized javascript, CSS , and images
TinyMCE buttons for all short codes
Extended user profile options for social media
Layered PNGs and PSDs included
Demo dummy content XML and raw SQL files included
Fully leverages WordPress 3.4+ features
Intuitive, semantic, and commented code
Valid XHTML
Compatible with all major browsers (including IE8 +)
Theme update auto-notification on your admin dashboard
Fully Localized
Awesome FAQ available including comprehensive screencasts explaining how to setup your site
Compressed and uncompressed versons of javascript files included
Awesome help file including a quick start section and full documentation including screenshots
Support Forum that is monitored 7 days a week