| Theme | Vikinger |
|---|---|
| Platform | WordPress |
| Community Plugin | BuddyPress |
| Gamification Plugin | GamiPress |
| Features | Profiles, Reactions, Groups |
| Gamification | Badges, Quests, Ranks |
| Design | Detailed Elements, Pages |
| Profile Page | Complete, Sleek Design |
| Status Updates | Photos, GIFs, Videos |
| Post Reactions | Like, Love, Dislike |
| Share Function | Quickly Share Posts |
| Badges | Unlock, Earn Credits |
| Quests | Complete, Earn Credits |
| Credits | Gold, Gems, Emeralds |
| Ranks | 6 Levels, Progress Bar |
| Blog Page | List, Grid Views |
| Illustrations | SVG Icons, Avatars |
| Groups | Easy Management |
| Author Hub | Stylish Management |
| React Elements | Dynamic, No Reload |
| Customization | Videos, Documentation |
Creating Engaging Social Communities
Vikinger is a powerful WordPress theme for creating thriving social communities. It uses BuddyPress and GamiPress to provide a rich, interactive experience. Whether it’s detailed profiles, reactions, groups, badges, quests or ranks, Vikinger has got your back.
BuddyPress Powered Social Features
Vikinger extends the BuddyPress plugin with more goodies for your social community. Users get to enjoy enhanced features like reactions, media sharing and seamless interactions. The theme transforms the usual BuddyPress into something dynamic and interesting.
Gamification with GamiPress
Vikinger comes integrated with GamiPress thus delivering an amazing gamification experience. Badges can be earned by users completing quests while credits and ranks can also be accumulated. In this way, the platform becomes more active and funny prompting users to engage it frequently.
Detailed Design and User Experience
Every page in Vikinger is carefully designed to ensure a smooth user journey. This theme incorporates different illustrations and design elements that enhance its outlook. Particularly well-crafted are profile pages coupled with newsfeed ones thus giving easy access to images as well as posts together with badges in addition to missions among others.
Revamped Status Updates
Users of Vikinger have access to an improved status update box where they can upload pictures, GIFs, post updates or even share YouTube videos without any hassle. Moreover, there are differing types of activity posts supported by the theme thereby making users easily interact and share content on the site.
Expressive Post Reactions
Different reactions: Like; Love; Dislike; Happy; Funny; Wow; Angry; Sad can be used by Vikinger users for reacting towards posts other than only liking them which functionality is seamlessly integrated within BuddyPress so that comments and replies also attract reactions.
Effortless Post Sharing
Users can quickly share posts on their profile streams through the new sharing functionality in Vikinger. They could add their thoughts by simply pressing the “Share” button, or even share their own previous posts thus making it simple to keep the community engaged.
Gamipress Badges, Quests, Credits and Ranks
All powered by GamiPress, Vikinger’s gamification features extend to badges, quests, credits and ranks. Users can unlock badges, complete quests and earn credits to level up and achieve higher ranks. These features make the platform competitive while giving sense of achievement.
Comprehensive Blog Page
The blog in Vikinger is a full-featured one with various view options like list, small grid and big grid. The theme supports different post formats including standard, video, audio and gallery among others. Additionally, users can react to blog posts which brings about interactive reading.
Illustrations and Icons
Vikinger comes equipped with plenty of illustrations from PS vectors as well as SVG icons plus avatars that are easy to customize. This ensures that the theme is not only functional but also attractive visually.
Group and Author Management
Managing groups has never been easier with Vikinger. For example, it includes an author hub where users can change avatars or cover photos without going through WordPress panel as well as social networks or other personal information too. Consequently group management becomes more user-friendly and efficient.
React Elements for Dynamic Interaction
Incorporating React elements makes Vikinger have a more dynamic user experience. Through this feature users are able to filter activities react and comment without any page reloads whatsoever; thereby improving on site response rate generally.
The Conclusion
Vikinger has a lots of features that can help you create an interesting and active social media platform. The best elements in Vikinger include making BuddyPress better, ornate designing aspects and a sense of user experience integration which makes it a favorite WordPress theme for social communities.
It does what it does very well. But if you need to customize anything outside of colors, you will find it very frustrating. For example, there is no way to remove the border radius that is prevalent on everything. Something so simple yet it’s hardcoded in the stylesheet.
We use this for a children’s all age website. Users can post but there is no spam prevention. There is no way to filter spam or people who can come and post pornography or any illegal content. It is irresponsible of you to not provide a solution. The easiest would be to make all posts be “Pending” like WordPress does by default. And then we can approve the posts. And a “Report” button that notifies the admin. I feel very abandoned by you not providing a solution for this problem. Please, be responsible and take action and provide a solution as soon as possible.
The customer support did reach out to me and is helping me with resolving the issues I have been having with the template. Please keep up the great work.
An amazing and easy to manage theme. A big thank you also to the support which is present and responsive to all your requests. I recommend!
Excellent design hands down! Very beautiful theme and worth every penny. All plugins needed are 100% free and support is always there to help. They quickly answered a question I had and helped me figure out what I was doing wrong. If you can’t find your answers in the documentation, they also provide video docs that are incredibly helpful. I would highly recommend this to anyone needing a community theme regardless of size.
Vikinger is surprisingly fast behind the clean and optimized code which makes customizing your site an absolute breeze. Support is quick, responsive, and open to suggestions as well as willingly diving into solving your problems directly. I personally have never experienced any bugs, although I know they have existed as per their very detailed changelog. Contrary to what others may say, I find this theme to be far more flexible than anticipated, generally only requiring CSS edits. The documentation is perfectly suitable in helping everyone get started with the added FAQs there to answer your most likely questions. I can’t wait to see what Odin Designs has in store with future releases of Vikinger as well as future WordPress themes. I am definitely buying from Odin in the foreseeable future. This theme rates 5-stars across all sections of quality development.
Thank you for creating such an awesome theme! This is the best theme ever! And thanks for the support!
The documentation is good, the theme is good but the support is awesome. I had an issue and it was fixed asap. I was waiting for a reply in order for me to take the necessary steps but they took initiative and fixed it themselves, and provided me with the solution. Small things show what kind of support this team has. Keep it up!
Probably the best community integration available for WordPress. It works fast and smooth!
This theme is just perfect. From the development (modern, beautiful and responsive) to the support that is the best I have experienced in theme forest. They helped me so much that I know for sure in any other similar theme, it would have entered as a “customizing request” and would have asked me for extra money. Odin did not. They just simply help, solve and respond.
This is an awesome theme. Really cool, functional, and with exceptional support. They always found a solution to any problem. I love that there are new features all the time. At the moment, it is already my favorite theme!
Its design speaks for itself, it is also really fast and not laggy or bulky like other themes (even on shared hosting) and the BuddyPress features also set this theme apart. Vikinger keeps getting better and better with new features that get rid of the “WordPressy” feel of your site and make your site feel like a proper social network. They also include simple but needed things such as when a user admin deletes a photo, it also deletes it from the server to stop your server from getting clogged up by unused or bad content over time. They also listen to their customer suggestions to improve the theme. For example, I suggested rounded avatars and a couple of updates later they were added!
Congratulations for this magnificent theme, its functionality, and for the availability to help Vikinger users! Can’t wait to see what you can bring to this theme. For small bugs, I’ll use the support!
This is by FAR the best BuddyPress theme out there. It also comes with the best support ever! They did the extra steps to make sure it works perfectly well. It takes a second to install with their amazing auto installer. They are HIGHLY Recommended! A+++++++++
The incredible part of this theme is how the term and concept of “gamification” is applied to it. The theme is so beautiful and has a lot of potential. I truly believe this has the potential to be the number 1 BuddyPress theme around here. The React and BuddyPress function is one of a kind. I look forward to more implements and features. Also, the support is really good! Please continue the good job and upcomings 🙂 Good job guys. Cheers
I’ve bought from Odin_Design before and have had great products from them. I got Vikinger as HTML and I just bought Vikinger as WordPress. I won’t have time to use it for a few weeks, but that’s ok, as I know the work will be top quality and a quick read through the documentation tells me that this will be the same great quality as always.
This is a unique design with seamless functionalities, thanks for everyone who worked on this Designers and developers, such great and original work! Keep up the good work! 5 stars hands down.
Probably the best theme I’ve purchased in all these years. Amazing updates, cannot wait for next releases.
I own and have tried all of the most popular WordPress community themes on Envato, and Vikinger is easily the most complete one I’ve ever used. The theme still lacks in some areas, such as customizability and I hope changes come in that regard, such as changing from hexagon avatars to circles or squares, and small tweak settings – but the design and ease of use more than make up for those sorts of improvements that I have no doubt they’ll add in the future. It is truly amazing that they have such a well integrated theme in such a short amount of time – and on the lower end of the price scale. Bravo.
Really good, keep up the good work.
I always scout for new themes and for all these years, I never really was impressed with any of them. When I found out that Odin_Design created this awesome community theme, this was simply unbelievable. Everything about the theme is just perfect, quality is top notch, customer service is A+, not a single bug was found. I have to say, I am beyond impressed and I can finally say that they really are the best company to deal with. Extremely happy with the purchase!
Best theme ever. YouTube tutorial video helped me a lot. Thanks, keep updating the theme.
Overall rating: One of the eye-catching, detailed themed forum plugins to use by far. User-friendly, easy-to-use theme for your website as I’ve decided to use for my website (inkmarkings.com).
Request feature: One thing I would really love for this theme to add is a “shoutbox” feature where users can join into the shoutbox at any time.
Just want to say thank you for your hard work putting this theme together. No other theme out there I’ve seen is so complex and interesting with so many admin/user options to choose from.
It doesn’t support a lot of plugins, and support documentation is very thin.
I really like the theme; I can’t really find anything to complain about. The customizability of this theme is great (changing colors, etc.). Tons of features and has been friendly and fast.
Brilliant theme, as well as brilliant support. Although it is not compatible with plugins that would normally work on other BuddyPress themes, this is due to the theme being way better than other BuddyPress themes as well as being built using React. This has actually led to us having more fun with our developer because we are building plugins from scratch, so it can be built around the theme as well as how you want it. In the end, it makes your website different from just a normal BuddyPress website.
I look forward to future projects from Odin Design.
The theme is nice, but the big problem is the customization, which is greatly blocked. Plugin support is very limited without a lot of customization. Even basic community plugins like a report function for user/posts are missing. Furthermore, there are even some core BuddyPress functions that are still not supported (e.g., hidden groups). At the moment we can’t use it at all because of those missing functions/integrations.
It’s a really nice, good quality theme and for most people this will do pretty much what they need. However, developers be aware that there are practically no hooks available to do any real customization. You have to copy template files to the child theme and compile the React app to make significant changes. This makes updating the theme later very difficult. I have requested filters and actions to be added but only told they will take it into account for future updates. Without the hooks, you can’t customize the news feed; for example, every member sees every other member’s posts.
Overall the theme is beautiful and the support is great!