Previously titled the “WPE Video Gallery Theme“, “Video Elements” is now ready for purchase. This theme has been on my back for at least 2 months now, and I finally just had to sit down and finish it. You will notice that a few things have changed from the concept design to the final product, but I think you will be happy with the end result.
A Video Gallery Style WordPress Theme
Video Elements was designed with the video blogger in mind featuring traditional and gallery style layout options, a fully wigitized and customizable sidebar, “Instant View” for viewing videos on the fly and much more.
Just like my VideoFlick theme, Video Elements comes with a fully integrated and customized version of “mediabox” developed by Iaian7. Click a thumbnail and the video of your choice is launched in a full screen “ajax” window. Currently, this feature supports several video formats including Flickr Video, MySpace Video, Revver, Veoh, Viddler and Vimeo, YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, FLV (Flash) Video, Quicktime and Windows Media Video.
It’s All About The Video
Video Elements allows you to embed your videos in two different ways, including the “Instant View” which allows users to instantly view any video on your site by selecting the video thumbnail, and within the single post page where the video is featured right above your post description.
I have included optional theme files that allows you to eliminate the “Instant View” feature entirely. If you choose to disable “Instant View”, post thumbnails will link directly to your single video post pages.
Featured Videos in Two Places
The Video Elements theme allows you to feature your best videos in 2 different places including at the top of the page within the coverflow, as well as within the featured video list on the sidebar. The top coverflow list can be controlled directly through the theme options page. Just add your thumbnail, description and link, and the theme takes care of the rest. For the sideblog list, simply create a category called “Featured”. Any post that is part of the “Featured” category will be displayed within the sideblog video list.
Two Different Layout Styles
GalleryVideo Elements includes two ways of displaying videos including the traditional linear layout as well as an optional gallery layout. You can choose one or the other, or even both together. I have created a live demo so that you can see exactly what the theme can do. Click here to view the live demo for “Video Elements”.
Installation and Usage
Upon purchase and download, you will most likely will want some direction on how to install and use the Video Elements theme. Please refer to the “Installation and Usage” pdf document included with your theme package. I have linked a live version of this document here for your reference.
Requirements, Limitations and Unknowns
The star ratings feature of the Video Elements theme requires that you download and activate the WP-PostRatings plugin by Lester Chan. Once activated, please refer to the ratings configuration instructions found within the Video Elements user guide.
The Video Elements theme has been tested on WordPress versions 2.3 and 2.5 ONLY. Any limitations or problems with using this theme on anything below 2.3 are unknown and unsupported.
The Video Elements theme has been tested and is fully compatible with the more popular web browsers including FireFox, IE6.0, IE7.0, Safari and Opera. Any limitations or problems caused by other browsers are unknown and unsupported.
Please leave credit where credit is due. Please DO NOT remove the WPelements.com reference found within the theme footer.
Video Elements Theme - Single Site License ($25.00) Video Elements Theme - Multi Site License ($75.00)
UPDATE:
For those that purchased the Video Elements theme before April 11th, I have released an update that fixes two bugs found in the initial release including the “clearing of coverflow settings” as well as the “pagination issue” found within the gallery.php page template. I have sent all of you re-download links via e-junkie, or you can download the patched files here.
DESIGN NOTES:
The first thing you might notice is that I eliminated the 3 column footer shown in the original theme concept. The reason behind this is that there was just too much information on one screen which made the theme much too cluttered. Also, I played with several “coverflow” options for the featured video bar at the top, but there were so many issues (browser compatibility, integration problems, etc.) with most of them that I stuck with my original implementation.
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