Valenti is a premium news and magazine theme launched in October 2013, by Cubell Themes, an Envato Elite author. This theme was designed to suit magazine websites & blogs. It comes with a responsive and retina ready layout. The Valenti theme auto-detects RTL writing system, saving you from the hassle of adding the custom modification to your website.
Design
Valenti is an elegant blog format, crafted to impress your visitors with strong visual posts. Each post may have a unique look when using featured images, video or audio formats, enhanced with lightbox and parallax effect. The lightbox option can be applied globally. You can also include sliders and reviews in your featured post, to engage visitors even more. Valenti comes with ten predefined layouts you can combine with grids and sliders, to design your website so that your visitors will be even more engaged!
Using this template, you can display pages in standard, full-width, parallax or background mode. An interesting feature is the video gallery which can be generated in every post using a shortcode. A video gallery can have up to four Youtube and Vimeo videos, and you can style the way it displays the content by choosing a preview image and a caption to describe it.
Functionality
Valenti comes with a Theme Options panel, which was improved a few months ago. You can structure the website’s homepages with the custom drag and drop builder called Valenti Homepage Builder. This page composer allows you to split the page into sections and customize it with different modules, grids, sliders or ads. You can also sort the posts and add dark or light style to it.
Sticky menus and sidebars are great places to show your most valuable content because they get a fixed interface and emphasizes certain elements. With the dominant ‘Valenti Mega Menu Type’ each menu can be easily customized by choosing a standard, slider or text columns mega menu.
Valenti brings you an Ad system featuring a background image ad that ensures more views for your promoted ad. Woocommerce, bbPress forum and BuddyPress plugins are compatible with the Valenti theme.
| GENERAL | |
|---|---|
| Item name | Valenti |
| Category | News |
| Type | Premium |
| Author | Cubell |
| Envato elite author | Yes |
| Tested version | 5.2.2 |
| COMPATIBILITY | |
| Content width | 1200 px |
| Browser compatibility | IE8+ / Chrome / FF / Opera / Safari |
| WooCommerce | Yes |
| bbPress | Yes |
| BuddyPress | Yes |
| WPML | Yes |
| FONTS AND TRANSLATION | |
| Integrated translation | - |
| Google fonts | Yes |
| Custom fonts | Yes |
| Typekit fonts | - |
| RTL support | Yes |
| POST FEATURES | |
| Video posts | Yes |
| Audio posts | Yes |
| Post templates | 6 |
| Review system | Yes |
| Post view counter | Yes |
| Smart lists | - |
| Social share | Yes |
| Custom image lightbox | Yes |
| Custom image galery | - |
| PAGE FEATURES | |
| Page templates | 6 |
| Blocks | 9 |
| Widgets | 12 |
| Header styles | 1 |
| Footer styles | 6 |
| Category layouts | 4 |
| Masonry layout | Yes |
| Mega menus | Yes |
| Sticky menu | Yes |
| Sticky sidebars | Yes |
| Social networks | Yes |
| Social counter | Yes |
| Video playlists | - |
| Instagram widget | - |
| Currency widget | - |
| Pinterest widget | Yes |
| Weather widget | - |
| OTHER FEATURES | |
| Mobile theme | - |
| Demos included | 1 |
| SEO optimized | Yes |
| ADS | |
| Ad system | Yes |
| Adsense support | Yes |
| Background image ad | Yes |
| Custom ads | Yes |
| PERFORMANCE | |
| CSS file size | 200 kb |
| Overall speed | High |
| Performance documentation | - |
| USER EXPERIENCE | |
| Total ratings | 834 |
| User rating | |
| Learnability | Medium |
| DESIGN | |
| Responsive design | Yes |
| Retina ready | Yes |
| DOCUMENTATION | |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Explanations | Less Detailed |
| Explicit screen shots | - |
| Video tutorials | - |
| Search option | - |
| Extra documentation | - |
| PREMIUM PLUGINS | |
| Plugins | Cubell Themes - Functionality |
| VALUE | |
| Price | $59 |
| Value for the money | Good |
Performance
In our era, time has become a precious commodity. We value a product by the benefits it offers, but we also judge it by the speed delivered by its output. We have tested Valenti’s default demo on different page speed tests, and it loads the content with a high page speed.
Downsides
With the drag and drop Valenti Homepage Builder, you have a lot of options, but it still lacks the flexibility needed for a news theme. Maybe in the future, Cubell author will improve the page builder to make it more versatile. Also, a post views system and smart lists are not available. Valenti has no translation in the Theme Options panel. The theme’s documentation is not as detailed as expected.
This theme uses the ‘Cubell Themes Functionality’ plugin, but we couldn’t find a full description of this plugin, and we have no idea what specific functionality it brings.
Hi. I like this review. Can you make a review of the Woohoo theme? https://themeforest.net/item/woohoo-modish-news-magazine-and-blog-theme/13570398
Thanks you!
Hi, Francisco! Thank you for your suggestion. We’ll take a look at the mentioned theme :).
Thank you!!