Bitz - News & Publishing Theme
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Feature Recap
Intelligent Article Blocks
Our smart article block element can display posts in 10 different styles, inside any layout. It won’t duplicate posts already shown on the page, if you choose so. You can also choose what information it will display, for example show or hide post excerpt. You can order posts by all available parameters, like date, title, post views and others. Powerful filtering options with result fine tuning are available, for example you can display posts from category “Food”, in the same time excluding all posts with tag “Meat”. There is even more to find out once you start working with Bitz.
Category Layouts
Categories can be fully customized with option to apply styles to the posts under the category. No more boring archive-like category pages.
Single Article Styles
Creating beautiful articles with Bitz is breeze. Choose from various styles to make your content stand out.
Frond End Builder
Instantly see changes you make, add, remove, modify blocks and elements, and check how your website looks on desktop and mobile screen sizes with Front End page builder.
Custom Headers
We have prepared 6 header structures and options to modify each of them to create header that you want easily.
Structured Data Markup
We worked hard to implement proper and complete structured data markup. Whole website, all pages and elements have valid structured markup and are prepared for any usage case. Let’s say you choose not to display standard text title for the article, does that mean your post won’t have title? Not really. Theme performs checks on what is displayed and prepares meta tags in case you decide to hide some of the post information. Meta tags are printed only, if respective element is not displayed to avoid duplicate information passed to the search engines. If you want search engines to love your website, Bitz theme is the way to go.
Theme Options
Powerful and smart built theme options allow to modify design and features of your website in few easy clicks without any coding knowledge.
Reviews
Built in review functionality with enabled rich snippets. Ratings breakdown with dynamic fields, automatic average rating calculation, good, bad and baseline commentaries, we have it all.
Smart Sticky Header
Enjoy distraction free reading with smart sticky header – it hides when you scroll down to read the article and appears when you scroll up. Always sticky and fixed headers are available.
Post Time Format
Bitz theme has a custom timing function, that lets your visitors know, if an article was posted “Just Now”, “5 minutes ago” or “3 days ago”; after one week time defaults to your selected time format in WordPress settings.
Sticky Sidebar
If an article is longer than the sidebar, it will always stay in viewport. You can scroll up or down from any position on the page, once all widgets have been scrolled by, sidebar will stick until you change scrolling direction.
Header Builder
Unique feature allows you to build own custom headers. Choose header structure, modify size, colors or even set custom logos only for one specific header. Created headers can be applied to any page, post or category to override default header.
Image Filters
Now you can apply various popular image effects right in your media library or just before inserting image. Choose effect, preview and save – it’s that simple.
All for Advertising.
Bitz theme offers unlimited advertisement spaces. Our sidebars and widget areas are made for use with all popular ad sizes. Unique ad builder functionality with powerful options allows you to create advertisements and use them with our advertisement display element.
Article Labels
Make your article stand out and deliver important bits of information to your reader. Now it is easy to notify reader that your article has been updated or that article is sponsored with our dynamic post labels.
SEO Ready
We have put a lot of work to make sure our theme is ready for search engine optimization. Semantic HTML structure, proper tags, taxonomy descriptions, structured data and many more details that count. Bitz works with all popular SEO plugins, so you can fine tune your website SEO to the limits.
Schema.org Implementation
We worked hard to implement proper and complete structured data markup. All elements from article title to post update date are properly printed into your website html.
Social Integration powered by Easy Social Sharing
Complete social integration – this is what describes included Easy Social Share Buttons plugin. There are really no limits of what this plugin can do and we have prepared our theme to work great with it. Social sharing, social following, after share actions, social profiles, analytics, sharing optimization and much more.
Post Sliders and Social Media feeds powered by Slider Revolution
When it comes to creating sliders, there is no match for Slider Revolution. The #1 WordPress slider plugin is included and extends Bitz theme with some unique features. Now you can display social media feeds right on your website. Do you want to stream twitter feed from tech presentation? Show coolest stories from Facebook? New videos from YouTube channel? Now you can do all this and even more. And yes, you can create awesome post based sliders too.
Galleries powered by Master Slider
We love Master Slider for its simple and user friendly interface with powerful features. Once you enable the slider, you can turn standard WordPress gallery into slider with no effort at all. No need to add slides one by one, just use default Add Media button, bulk select the images and choose to display as the slider, that’s it, nice.
Visual Composer
Needless to say that Visual Composer is one of the most loved and popular page builders. We extend it with even more features. You will love it.
Submenu Styles
Bitz has multiple submenu styles including mega menu, tabs and full width styles that can be used within the single menu and can be combined. Hover menu items in our live demo to check it out.
Related Articles
Make your readers stay by offering them relevant content. Our special related articles display more posts to readers based on the categories or tags they are currently reading.
Commenting Engine Support
Our theme supports popular commenting systems like Facebook, Disqus, Google+ and more.
One Click Demo
Replicate our live demo with just one click. All menus, widgets content and settings will be set up automatically.
Translation & RTL Ready
Publish with Bitz in your language or maybe multiple languages at once? We have prepared translation files and complete RTL stylesheet for you.
Support Forum
If you ever need help we will be there to answer all your questions.
More of Bitz
- Lead paragraphs or content fields for posts.
- Captions for featured images.
- Output is filtered and escaped to maximize security.
- Ability to display articles in the menu.
- Links for next and previous articles after visitor has finished reading.
- Category and Tag descriptions are displayed when using default page title.
- Numbered pagination for posts, pages and archives.
- Multiple pre-styled block quote styles.
- Author Biography field is extended to allow html formatting.
- Special formatting for displaying breaking news.
- Special element to display current article information, useful for custom designed posts.
- Post views counter with popularity indicator.
- Full and boxed layouts with website width choice.
- Flexible footer column width with column count choice.
- Dynamic google font collection allows to embed only required font weights and character sets.
- and more…
Updates:
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I’m trying to remove or hide the social share icons but they are not despairing for some reason.
ReplyDelete1. I’ve changed the where to display to empty thing
2. Removed the check box from the CHOOSE POST TYPES TO DISPLAY BUTTONS
but not hidden is there any other way I can hide this or it’s a bug?
Hi,
ReplyDeleteYou have probably imported demo content? Then demo sharing buttons are located in widgets in Appearance/Widgets, you can remove them there.
This all is covered in documentation: http://www.mnkystudio.com/bitz-documentation/social-buttons/
Thanks!
Yes I did, Actually the documentation you sent shows how it’s included but there is nothing about how I can remove them. can you please share with me how may I remove them?
ReplyDeleteJust remove the text widget containing the shortcode from the sidebar
ReplyDeleteThanks!
I’m using your guide to add the html code inside where needed but I’m getting blank banner instead of the google banner
ReplyDeleteHere is the code I have and the link where I’ve embilmed it
Main Page header: http://arabgear.net/
<script async src=”//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js”></script>
<!- ArabGear ->
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>
I’m insderting the code in, ads/custom html
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteIs your code itself working? Try inserting it in default text widget to test.
Thanks!
I think no it’s not working
ReplyDeleteThen you would need to create working advertisement first in order to use it on the website.
ReplyDeleteThanks!
In this last update the Bitz Theme Core Extend in evversion 1.2.0.1 is not activating, it is updated but in the end shows Plugin not activated. A higher version of Bitz | Theme Core Extend is needed for this theme. Please update the plugin.
ReplyDeleteI am sorry, this is our bug with wrong version numbering. We already uploaded fixed version, it should be available soon.
ReplyDeleteFor immediate fix, please open bitz/inc/tgm-register-plugins.php and change Core Extend version to 1.2.0 and Slider Revolution to 5.4.5.
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I have installed the theme and Activated ReVendor demo, but it shows this line “The active theme is broken. Reverting to the default theme.” I need to build a marketplace and for that I need ReVendor. How can that be fixed? I did not purchased the theme to just have a broken one! Please visit the site http://workforce-projects.com/
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteSorry, but I did not understand the question. It does not seem to be about our theme, we don’t have any ReVendor demo, and also there is no purchase badge. Maybe you posted in wrong theme comments?
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How can we have the “PROS” & “CONS” to match the actual PROS & CONS on each review? The homepage is showing default pros and cons. visit the site recommendedvpn.com
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteThat does not seem to be our theme that you have active on your website, our theme does not have such options and the design different.
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Dear developers, there is a bug in mnky_blog_config resulting in breaking filtering posts by category and tags in the dashboard. This helps:
ReplyDeleteif (is_admin()) {
return $query;
}
Hi,
ReplyDeleteCould you please specify what filtering exactly is not working for you? I am not able to replicate the issue.
Thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnQ2MuCcFvk
ReplyDeleteAt least it did not work for us. If it’s fine, it’s fine:)
ReplyDeleteI really sorry, but I did not understand it yet, maybe I am slow today
ReplyDeleteSo you selected draft posts and then filtered them by category, it seems to work correctly on video, isn’t it?
Thanks!
It does work, because it’s not our video, but only the exemplary one illustrating what filtering was not working in our case. In other words: when we tried to go to All posts and show all posts published under the X category using a standard WP filtering menu, it did not work. The above code fixes the problem. It could have something to do with other solutions we are using, so this is only for other users of this forum in case some else encounters a similar problem in the future:)
ReplyDeleteHmm.. I’ve just tried the same and filtering works for us, removing the code does not change anything.
ReplyDeleteI’ve had similar issue on one installation (not Bitz theme) where I had to press filter button twice, but it worked well on other installation. Maybe you have the same trouble?
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Hi There, I’m trying to create the single video post. You can see this here: https://www.galaxymonitor.com/asgardia-first-space-nation/
ReplyDeleteI’m having spacing issues on the post as you can see, perhaps you can help?
Thanks.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteJust add spacer elements above and below your pre-content area content:
[vc_empty_space height="60"]
like in these examples: http://www.mnkystudio.com/bitz-documentation/custom-header/
Thanks!
Thank you so much! As you can see it seems to be working just fine
ReplyDeleteI have another inquiry while I am here: Visual Editor seems to no longer work. I have trouble editing pages like my home page.
FYI I have never updated the theme.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteThis is most probably the reason. You should update theme and bundled plugin to ensure everything works as expected.
You can probably just go with updating the required plugins manually – Visual Composer and Core Extend – if you do not want to update the whole theme. You can simply delete old plugin version and upload new ones that can be found in bitz/inc/plugin folder, once you download latest version from Theme Forest.
Thanks!
Is there no simple option to update the theme and plugins themselves?
ReplyDeleteIf not, what is the process to update the theme. Do I need to delete the current instance of Bitz, and upload the newest provided download?
And if I do this, will we lose all settings, data, etc, associated with the theme?
Sure, there is, please see this: http://www.mnkystudio.com/bitz-documentation/updating-theme/
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mnkystudio.com/bitz-documentation/updating-bundled-plugins/
All your settings and data will remain. Only direct code changes to files will be lost, since fresh files will be installed.
Thanks!
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI’ve got one more for you: How can I replicate the ‘most popular right now’ widget you see on the right hand side of the home page: galaxymonitor.com
When I copy the shortcode for this, and paste it into a widget slot for a single post, it appears misaligned ;(
This is a correct way – copy shortcode into a text widget inside a single post sidebar. There should be no visual difference. You can see post element inside a single post text widget here under “What’s trending”: http://mnkythemes.com/bitz/2015/10/08/healthy-breakfast-ideas-to-eat-at-work/
ReplyDeleteThanks!
This is what I am using, however it is turning up misaligned.
ReplyDeleteThe settings I’d like are built in here:
Is there something I’m doing wrong?
Most Popular Right Now
height=”40px”]mnky_posts layout=”6” allow_dublicate=”yes” rating_hide=”off” author_hide=”off” date_hide=”off” comments_hide=”off” views_hide=”off” posts_per_page=”8” orderby=”meta_value_num”
You can see the misalignment here: https://www.galaxymonitor.com/new-powerful-telescopes-allow-direct-imaging-nascent-galaxies-12-billion-light-years-away/
ReplyDeleteMake sure you are posting shortcode without rows and columns, this is how it should look like this example (number 1): http://www.mnkystudio.com/bitz-documentation/widget-areas/
ReplyDeleteThanks!
I’ve changed to that exact code and you can still see there’s an issue. It seems to be creating a second floating video icon too?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.galaxymonitor.com/asgardia-first-space-nation/
It seems the issue lays in new text widget in WP 4.8 that comes with visual editor and always adds p tags, which break the shortcode output.
ReplyDeleteYou can install a shortcode widget plugin and add shortcode inside its text widget, it will work fine. https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-widget/
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Hey there, thanks again for those suggestions.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any suggestions with regards to high traffic and PHP processes. It seems the theme (and associated plugins) are not killing processes efficiently. Do you know of any way to combat this?
Thanks!
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI’d like to open megamenu onclick instead of on hover, do you think it’d be fairly easy to implement?
Thanks!
Hi,
ReplyDeleteProbably it can be done with javascript, but pure css is not possible. Unfortunately, such modification is out of the support scope, however there are few discussions on the web about similar topic that you can read.
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hello, With the new update I’m getting the error:
ReplyDeleteA higher version of WPBakery Visual Composer is needed for this theme. Please update the plugin.
Shows that it is in version 5.1.1 and that it is necessary to upgrade to version 5.2.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteThis is our mistake, we will upload correct plugin version asap. I am sorry for the trouble it may have caused.
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Update: The correct version is now available for download. Please re-download and install new theme version or just install Visual Composer manually by deleting old version and installing a new one from bitz/inc/plugins/js-composer.zip
ReplyDeleteThank you!
I’ve updated the theme, plugins and wordpress and everything. But after the update my mobile menu appears on the bottom of the desktop page. Can you tell me what’s going on? I tried a lot of things but it won’t disappear.
ReplyDeleteWebsite: http://sims-online.com/blog/
Hi,
ReplyDeletePlease try clearing any cache you may have, it should fix it for you.
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I feel stupid now Thanks it worked! Still love the theme
ReplyDeleteHi there,
ReplyDeleteIn my homepage the post grid hover effect has a bug, when I hover the mouse the effect seems out of place. Please see the screenshot https://snag.gy/ejUuZA.jpg
This happened to me after the recent update I received from Bitz.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteWe did not make any changes to post grid in the update, so this most from somewhere else. Do you have a live url to share, so I can see what may cause this? Also please make sure to clear all the caches after the update.
Thank you!
Thanks for your reply, here is the live link: http://www.7s.pw/MBl0W
ReplyDeleteI have cleared all caches but its still the same.
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteI can see empty p tags in the source code after every grid item, this is why there is an extra space. You also have these p tags in other elements.
Do you have a plugin or custom code that may be adding extra p tags everywhere?
Also please make sure you have updated both Visual Composer and Core Extend plugins, just in case, though there should be no extra p tags in previous versions too.
Thanks!
Hi Bitz team,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your awesome support, I really appreciate your help.
This problem was caused due to a plugin called “Easy Prism Syntax Highlighter”, I removed the plugin and everything is fine.
Thanks for the assistance.
Glad you solved it.
ReplyDeleteThanks!