Big day for us at WPZOOM! We’re very excited to announce the release of our new theme. Meet VideoBox, a video theme for WordPress, perfect to showcase your video content on any device.
Theme Features
- Supports Video Embeds from 99% Video Sites
- Automatic Video Thumbnails
- Widgetized Homepage
- Carousel Widget
- WooCommerce Support
- More features can be found on the theme’s page
Responsive Layout
VideoBox features a fluid, responsive layout, so your pages will display perfectly across mobile and tablet devices. Videos and images scale seamlessly when resizing the browser window. Every detail of your website will look perfect and professional, regardless of what resolution or screen size visitors have.
Supports Video Embeds from 99% Video Sites
VideoBox theme was designed to support videos from almost any video site. We’ve tested it with videos from numerous popular video platforms, including: YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, Instagram Video, DailyMotion, Brightcove, Amazon S3, and many others.
Automatic Video Thumbnails
When you embed videos from YouTube, Vimeo or DailyMotion the theme will automatically generate a thumbnail for your post, so you don’t have to add manually a Featured Image.
Automatic Video Thumbnails
Popular Videos Tab
On the front page you can display a tab with the most popular videos along with recent posts. The popular tab can be customized, so you can choose the method to determine which posts to display: the ones with the most views or the most commented. You can also choose the period of which posts should be displayed. For example: most popular posts from all time, from this year or from this week.
Widgetized Homepage
The front page includes multiple widget areas in which you can add any widgets you want, including the built-in ones in the theme with carousels or featured categories.
Carousel Widget
Videobox theme comes packaged with different custom widgets, including Carousel Widget, a highly customizable widget that can be placed in different locations, and it’s great to display posts from one or more categories.
This widget includes an option to select the aspect ratio of thumbnails, which makes it to work great with movie posters.
Multiple Header Layouts
Using the Theme Customizer you can easily change the position of elements in the the header, including the direction from which opens the Sidebar Panel. If you’re not a fan of the hamburger menu icon, you can easily disable it and display the menu in the header directly.
Personalize to Match Your Style
The Live Customizer allows you to make changes to the theme and get an immediate preview. Customize Colors, Fonts, Background, Logo, Menu, Widgets and more, all with a live preview.
WooCommerce Ready
Selling through your website? Videobox is fully compatible with the popular free eCommerce plugin WooCommerce.
Build your own shop and start selling easily!
Other Features
VideoBox is packed full of features that will take your website to the next level:
Infinite Scrolling – use regular paginated navigation to show off your videos or switch to infinite scroll to automatically load new posts as you scroll down the page. You can also have more posts load on click.
Featured Image for Categories – you can customize each category page by adding a short description and a featured image. See here an example.
For more information about VideoBox theme see theme page or take a look at the live demo.
Let us know what you think about new theme in the comments below!
August 3, 2016 5:40 pm
Hi! I left you awhile back and am using a theme from another provider, but it is not as responsive as I would like it to be. This could be user error on my part, of course, but…
I love the new Videobox theme!
Question: I will have postings that have NO videos. Will these still work? I am thinking I can set a featured image and proceed as usual with the posting. Is this a correct assumption?
Thanks for your help and I’m seriously considering coming back to you!
August 3, 2016 5:42 pm
Hey Leah,
You’re right, the theme works great with non-video content as well.
Here’s an example of post without video at the top:
http://demo.wpzoom.com/videobox/2016/07/09/testing-the-elements/
August 3, 2016 6:07 pm
I knew it! I should have read more of the documentation. Sorry.
Thanks for the quick response!
August 4, 2016 12:13 pm
Hi Pavel
This template looks great for an interactive transmedia VOD venture. I love the responsive scaling. Am I right in thinking you can use it to create a varied media site with plenty of text and still photographic elements as well as a mix of movies – not just in terms of genre or topic – but curated free content and paid for content accessed through a paywall hosted elsewhere (like Vimeo Pro)? In this way annotated trailers play on the non-curated i.e. paid for section of the site which if they prove of interest to a browser easily and seamlessly link through to the paywall. I’d really like the paid for content to play through my site rather than take the viewer to another site, so ideally the link from the trailer would open a window on my site and serve its content from off it. Does this all look feasible in this template? Your comments would be appreciated.
August 4, 2016 4:26 pm
Hello Steve,
Sure, you can mix different types of content in this theme: text, images, videos.
Using popular WordPress plugins like Restrict Content Pro or s2Member you can easily make specific content available only to paid users.