Description
Maggz is a theme tailored for news portals, editorial blogs, and digital magazines, featuring a star rating system, social sharing buttons, and layouts designed to drive viral content. It brings together varied post-listing grids, editorial typography, and blocks focused on reader retention, serving teams that publish high volumes of stories and rely on social traffic to scale their audience.
Key Features of Maggz
- Varied magazine layouts
Combines grids, lists, and highlights in columns to organize stories on the home page and in categories. - Star rating system
Allows assigning scores to posts and displaying rankings of the most highly rated content by readers. - Social sharing buttons
Includes integrated buttons for social networks, enabling the viral spread of every published story. - Editorial typography
Provides a hierarchy of titles, subtitles, and body text designed for long-form article reading. - Responsive layout
Adjusts grids, header, and typography for comfortable reading on desktop, tablet, and mobile.
Benefits of Maggz
- More reader engagement
The combination of rating and sharing encourages interaction and amplifies organic reach. - Fast content publishing
Ready editorial structure reduces the time between writing a story and publishing online. - Professional magazine identity
Visual hierarchy and spotlight blocks give new projects the look of an established portal. - Growth through social traffic
Focus on virality helps boost audience without relying solely on SEO or paid ads.
Who is Maggz for?
- Those who publish editorial content in high volume and need a category-organized magazine layout.
- If you run a blog focused on entertainment, pop culture, or viral news and want to maximize shares.
- Those who want to build a reviews portal with a rating and ranking system for the best-scoring stories.
How to Download Maggz
Maggz is available for download here on Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it in Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the file and activate the theme. Then import one of the demos in the panel to start publishing stories quickly.
Designed for editorial projects that thrive on social audience, Maggz brings together rating, sharing, and magazine layout tools in a single package. For those working with news, pop culture, or niche content with strong viral appeal, it offers a ready skeleton to scale reading, interaction, and growth of a loyal reader base.
Frequently asked questions
Is Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme GPL-licensed?
Yes. Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme on as many sites as you want. Only automatic updates through Ultrapack Auto Updater have a limit: from 3 to 80 sites, depending on the plan.
How much does Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme cost at Ultrapack?
Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme include updates?
Yes. The current version of Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme is 1.3.1, published at Ultrapack on May 21, 2019. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Maggz – Viral Magazine Theme goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
How to install
Automatic updates: this item is updated by the Ultrapack Auto Updater. With it installed, the new version shows up in your dashboard like any other WordPress update (how to set it up).
The file on this page is the developer’s full package, with documentation, demos and plugins. Do not upload that file to WordPress. The theme comes ready inside it, as a ZIP of its own, and that is the one you upload.
- Download the file
themeforest-21072194-maggz-a-creative-viral-magazine-and-blog-theme.zipand extract it on your computer. - Look inside the extracted files for the file
maggz.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
- Select that file and click Install Now.
- Click Activate.
- There is nothing to zip. The ZIP inside the package is already in the format WordPress accepts.
- Uploading the whole package is the most common mistake when installing a theme: WordPress answers that no valid theme was found, and nothing is installed.
- The rest of the package belongs to the author: documentation, demo files and, in some themes, the plugins it asks for during setup.
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