Responsive design

Balance has a completely responsive design, which means that it looks great on all devices. Whether your visitors are viewing your site on an iPad, iPhone or any other mobile device, your site will look great. Even your BuddyPress pages will be responsive which lets your community members share their thoughts from anywhere.

BuddyPress 1.5/1.6 and BBPress 2.0

Loaded with BuddyPress options, this is truly the most powerful BuddyPress Theme available. We’ve gone the extra mile and included lots of useful features that make setting up your BuddyPress community a snap.

• Works out of the box with ALL BuddyPress 1.5/1.6 Compatible Plugins!
• Activity Stream Tour: Give your new members a guided tour (watch the video!)
• BP Component Introductions: Easily insert a introduction text, advertisements or notifications on all the BuddyPress directory pages!
• Private Community: Turn your community into a private community with the tick of a box.
• Facebook Connect Integration – We’ve integrated support for the awesome WP-FB Autoconnect plugin for one-click Facebook sign-ups.
• Social Sharing – Easily enable social sharing buttons for BuddyPress Group and Profile pages.
• BuddyPress Specific Sidebars: With a unique sidebar for every BuddyPress component you put the right content at the right place easily.

You’ll be happy to know that all your BuddyPress pages are responsive as well, which means your members can engage in your community from their mobile device or tablet! BBPress 2.0 is not forgotten! Since BuddyPress and BBPress will be working closely together in the near future we’ve gone ahead and spend a considerable time on making your BBPress 2 forums look prettier then ever. It blends in perfectly with the rest of your community really tying your community together like a forum should.

Multisite Blogging Networks

Multisite support often seems an afterthought for themes. With Balance we’ve created a theme that can be easily used by the bloggers in your Multisite network. create a cohesive network of blogs all powered by Balance. Just take a look at our Theme Playground to see how Balance is used to power the main BuddyPress community AND the blogs in our network. Your bloggers can change color schemes (or choose a custom color), upload their logo, background images and customize the entire look of their blog through our powerful control panel. Just look at our example member blog to see how easy it is! Want to dive in even deeper? Learn everything about the powerful Infinity Dashboard builder, and customize the Control Panel to fit the needs of your bloggers. Without writing complicated code! We can honestly say Balance sets the bar for when it comes to Multisite usage!

Full Feature List

Unique Features

• Responsive Design including all BuddyPress pages
• Widgetized Homepage with Responsive Slider can also display posts from a certain category
• 100+ Theme Options logo, background and background uploads. extensive CSS options (with colorpicker)
• Five Color Presets orange, blue, purple, teal and red. custom colors also possible
• Flexible Sidebar Choose it's size, position (left/right) and color (dark/light)
• BuddyPress 1.5/1.6 Support including support for all 3rd party BuddyPress plugins
• BBPress 2 Support
• WooCommerce Support
• Extensive built-in Documentation
• Dashboard Customization easily enable/disable dashboard pages/options for your client or Multisite bloggers
• Easyhooks Quickly insert custom content anywhere in the theme through the Theme Options panel

WordPress Features

• WordPress Menus Top, Main and Sub Menu up to three levels deep. Simple footer menu.
• Widgetized sidebars
• Featured Images (or Videos)
• Post Format Support
• Threaded Comments
• Custom Page Templates Full width, Sidebar Left, Sidebar Right, Homepage, Archives

BuddyPress Features

• Works out of the box with ALL BuddyPress 1.5 Compatible Plugins!
• Activity Tour Gives your users a guided tour when they first visit the Activity Stream
• Unique sidebars for every BuddyPress component
• Upload default Group and Profile Avatars
• Customizable Introduction texts for all BuddyPress Areas
• Facebook Connect Integration needs WP-FB-Autoconnect Plugin
• Private Community Make your community private with the switch of a button
• Social Sharing for Profiles and Groups Lets users quickly share groups and profiles to social networks
• Custom Profile Widget Lets user quickly navigate across your community using a widget