A bit too similar…

Is it me or does this new theme at TF look remarkably similar to NewsMag? http://themes.bdayh.com/magic-mag/

Wow, aside from the similarity of the use of Visual Composer, it’s awfully close. I’d even be tempted to suspect the dev is a former TagDiv staffer, or just very nicely “inspired” by Tagdiv’s work. But I see a LOT of that on ThemeForest … still, it’s a fairly common layout in the basic sense. (Kind of nice, actually.)

But … yeah.

I am wondering this myself. Their logos are very similar. Bdayh’s first theme was in 2012. I would like an explanation from tagDiv if possible, please.

You can often spot the copycat/cloners, as they will put out 10 themes in a month, never any prior to that, and all the themes look very much like other MAJOR “best selling” commercial themes.

Alright, don’t kill me, but I really like three of the modifications they made to the theme.

The centered, high focus title text makes that grid looks a lot better than it already does.

The white overlay behind the title is a nice block option and compliments Block 13 well with a smaller version.

Having the title above the image and excerpt is a nice touch.

Shame on the dude for stealing the work, but I’ll be damned if he didn’t have a couple of good ideas though 😉

Since those are really must mods to the visual composer modules, you could certainly do those yourself, also. 🙂

Of course. I haven’t really gotten the hang of adding new blocks and modules to that yet. I meant what I said, they’re good ideas, not better ideas. So I’d like to add those blocks to the theme, not modify the blocks already in the theme.

I’ve done a bit of research on it, too. Unless you purchase VC independently, it’s not easy finding info on adding modules to it. This theme and Newspaper only further complicate reverse engineering it with added code, styles and functions.