| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Theme Name | Bimber |
| Type | Viral Magazine |
| Launch Time | 24 hours |
| Sharing Buttons | Powerful sharing buttons |
| Listings | Popular, hot, trending |
| Ad Locations | Multiple ad locations |
| Usage | Easy-to-use |
| Demos | Many viral content |
| Content Types | Lists, polls, quizzes |
| Inspired by | BuzzFeed, 9GAG, Reddit |
| Main Demo | BuzzFeed inspired |
| Relink Demo | Reddit inspired |
| Gagster Demo | 9GAG inspired |
| Freebie Demo | Latest freebies |
| Affiliate Demo | Affiliate sites inspired |
| Bunchy Demo | Bored Panda inspired |
| Celebrities Demo | Celebrity news |
| Optimization | Listicles, paginated posts |
| Social Media | Big share buttons 📢 |
| Comments | Facebook, Disqus |
| Ad Providers | Google AdSense, others |
| Ad Slots | Multiple slots |
| Monetization | Affiliate links, donations |
| Mailing List | MailChimp integration |
| Frontend Submission | Snax plugin included |
| Unique Features | Quizzes, polls, lists |
| Responsive Design | 100% responsive 📱 |
| SEO | SEO optimized |
| Translation | Translation ready 🌐 |
| Documentation | Well documented |
| Support | 5-star support ★ |
| Updates | Automatic, free updates |
Bimber is a WordPress theme that will help you quickly and efficiently set up a viral site that works. The system is lightweight, user-friendly and offers powerful sharing tools, various content types as well as multiple ad locations to create engaging and shareable content.
Incredible Viral Magazine Demos
Bimber has got several demos based on top viral content sites like: BuzzFeed, Reddit, YouTube, 9GAG etc. Each of these demos have been designed in such a way as to address different kinds of contents:
Main: A combination of all the viral features found at BuzzFeed.
Relink: Suitable for social news aggregators like Reddit and Hacker News.
Gagster: Favoring funny memes and GIFs and inspired by 9GAG.
Freebie: Showcasing freebies and design resources.
Affiliate: Selling items from Amazon, eBay, ThisIsWhyImBroke.com etc.
Bunchy: List-based articles – somewhat like Bored Panda’s forte.
Celebrities: Discusses about celebrity gossip or entertainment news generally.
Viral Content Optimization
It enables creation of interactive lists with listicles, quizzes, polls etc. such as popular lists, hot lists, trending lists with fancy badges; minimum shares/views/votes thresholds; “You may also like”, “More from category” & “Don’t miss” sections to increase user engagement.
Social Media Profits
The theme is purposely built to improve on the social media engagement through big share buttons plus sticky sharebars; it is integrated with Facebook or Disqus for social comments too. On various elements including headers sidebars footers you can display site social links. For new websites looking more popular there are fake counters for shares views and votes.
Monetization Options
With Bimber comes support for many ad providers including Google AdSense and other platforms like Taboola/Outbrain (content delivery). Ads can be placed in post listings, sidebars and some sections within posts. Furthermore, this theme supports affiliate links, coupons, donations, paid content as well as sponsored articles.
Mailing List Integration
Bimber seamlessly integrates with the popular MailChimp for WordPress plugin to build mailing lists. The most common places where you put subscribe forms are in the header area , widgets and footers among others.
Front-end Submission
The Snax plugin is part of Bimber which allows users to submit their own viral content including stories, memes open lists polls quizzes etc. Community engagement and user-generated content are highly promoted through this feature.
Unique Features and Plugins
Bimber has some unique features built-in and several exclusive plugins like:
Frontend Uploader Viral Image Editor Video Playlist Lightbox Gallery Quizzes and Polls Reactions & Badges Header Builder Auto-injected ads/newsletters/products Fake Counters NSFW content support
Easy to Use and Customize
For both beginning and experienced WordPress users Bimber is designed as an intuitive easy-to-use platform. In order to customize layouts, headers or footers you just need to drag-and-drop; there’s no need of any coding knowledge since the theme comes with a comprehensive documentation.
It’s possible to modify many different aspects that match your site design needs or functionality requirements because Bimber is highly customizable; Visual Page Builder plus Drag & Drop Header Builder allow you to create any layout you need while the theme also has multiple designs styles with color options and layout templates.
Plug in Additions
Besides, Bimber supports a multitude of plug ins such as:
AMP for WordPress
bbPress
BuddyPress
WooCommerce
Yoast WP SEO
WPML
Summary
Bimber is an adaptable and multifunctional WordPress theme that aims at viral content sites. As a result of its intuitiveness, the ability to change it greatly and money-making instruments, Bimber is a fantastic selection for anyone who wants to create an appealing and lucrative viral site.
Some much for lifetime updates. It’s currently full of bugs and lack of updates create security issues. Don’t waste your money.
The package cannot be installed. The template is missing the style.css file. Template installation failed.
In this Theme you buy demo because the demo was made to amaze you with the many images, icons, and movements, but when you put your content it looks like rubbish.
The developer of this theme no longer works for Bimber or he has left the project. So that not many buyers are disappointed by this, help Envato review this item, whether it is worth selling here. The more people who speak up for this item’s harm, the quicker Envato will act.
This theme is abandoned. Creators don’t ever update it and they are not updating the plugins they use. Stay away from this theme.
Unfortunately, this theme appears to have lost its original designer/coder in the past year or so (2022/2023). It was excellent originally, but I currently wouldn’t recommend purchasing it due to a lack of updates required for the theme to function properly on WordPress.
Good theme but very poor customer support! I repaid the support licence for 6 months 3 weeks ago and I’m getting no response to my tickets. Why pay for a service you can’t use? Their support has never responded once.
The whole system they managed to integrate is just too good to miss! There are not many Blog / Magazine themes which come with built-in Leaderboard and MyCredPoint Rank system, Buddypress Membership plugin and of course Snax Plugin. I hope one day they still use the same system and come up with a new theme.
I asked the template support a question. There is no answer for 2 days. Very negative attitude.
Bimber is dead. Too many bugs and no fixes or updates. The makers are just pretending to care. Stay away!
I am having many problems with the theme in terms of SEO, the pages are heavy. There are many plugins installed on the theme and you do not really need them. I have a redirection issue that apparently is linked to the theme. When I had the Support License I asked for help and the answer they gave me was not helpful, they just told me to install more plugins. It is a pretty theme, but the code has poor quality.
The theme is unusable. The author is not responding for more than a week to the ticket. You will not be able to use this theme. They don’t want to provide refund!
The theme was once the best on Themeforest, but now it’s dead with no updates. It has numerous bugs and doesn’t support the latest versions of WordPress and PHP. The developer is not fixing any issues, and some necessary plugins need to be purchased separately. The theme was removed from Themeforest twice but restored with minimal changes. I don’t recommend buying it until it gets an update, and I will ask for a full refund.
Not maintained anymore. The main developer has left the company and this theme should not be sold anymore!
I bought the theme in 2021 and I currently use it on webzeb.re and everything works perfectly. I have a perfect Google page speed insights score on mobile and desktop. Yes, the updates are not regular but maybe it’s not worth doing one every 4 mornings if everything works fine with the latest versions of WP and plugins.
Unfortunately, the project was abandoned by the creator about 2 years ago. I bought it hoping that everything would work. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. Over a week ago, I requested a refund but still haven’t received it.
Zero support, No updates since one year and outdated plugins are causing Fatal Errors after updating WordPress. This item should not be listed anymore. It is misleading people into buying it even after the project seems to have been dead.
Dead theme. Lots of bugs and CLS issues. Don’t waste your money.
I just bought this theme, but its demo website and docs website can’t be accessed. I submitted the work order 16 hours ago, but I still haven’t received any reply. I think the experience is very poor. Pls improve your customer service. Thanks.
It is good to get an update! Bimber has lots of great features but keeping it up to date with the latest wordpress and php versions is so important so I was very pleased to see this happen. Above everything, this is the most important thing to help keep our websites secure and running properly!
The theme has a lot of SEO issues and the author doesn’t respond to tickets. Not recommended.
One of the worst themes ever used. THEME IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH AMP, ATTENTION REALLY HARMFUL. We had to step in with a senior support team to fix the theme, caching which is totally useless, buggy builder, and incompatibility with amp. The documentation is rambling and incorrect, the necessary themes make unnecessarily heavy mysql calls, and support is absent.
So many great options you can turn off or on, which gives you so many options to customize. Even if there were many bad comments I bought the theme and I have no problem with it, works well.
The product will not upload to my WordPress. It is missing the CSS stylesheet. I have attempted multiple times. I entered a support ticket directly to the developer at their website. It says response is usually within 1 business day. It has now been 3 days.
The 6 months technical support that comes with the regular license is useless. Theme is good, design is brilliant, but after-sales support or the so-called technical support is horrible. They’ll ghost you, no matter how many tickets you raise. Your doubts, be it technical or normal, won’t matter to them. From the past 15 days, I’m trying to get an answer to these basic questions, and they don’t seem to care.
It’s a great theme. I use it for all my websites, and it’s easy to use.
Worst support I have ever seen. The support never responds to queries and tickets. After purchasing, the 6 months of support has no value. Hence, whoever purchases the item, never expects support from the author.
This theme has been outdated for more than a year. On June 1, 2023, it had a minimal update to continue selling it, but it didn’t fix anything. The demo sites no longer work, it has compatibility issues with recent versions of WordPress and Woocommerce and most new plugins. The technical support does not work, it takes days and even weeks, that is if you are lucky enough to get a response. It was a good theme but with the semi-abandonment of its creators, it’s better not to waste your money and look for other options. Many of us wonder how Themeforest and Envato still keep it listed, since they continue to make money and commissions with a product that doesn’t work. I’ve sent a support ticket and am awaiting a response to fix the many issues I’m having with this theme. Will happily change my review if they can fix it, seeing these other comments in the reviews I am very worried though. I really like the design of Bimber and am hoping the dev will reach out with a solution to fix it. ‘Customize’ page in WordPress just shows a blank page. Getting lots of website crashes only when I use Bimber. The theme is abandoned, doesn’t work anymore, and is lacking licenses and updates for plugins used. There is no support at all. I have created four tickets, all unanswered. They just replied in review and comments so that Envato can’t get this.