The NewsPlus WordPress theme is a multi-purpose magazine WordPress theme for an online newspaper, news, blog, and editorial ventures.
NewsPlus is an excellent choice for e-magazines, online newspapers, travel blogs, food recipe blogs, fashion magazines, personal blogs, or editorial and review websites. It comes with built-in style support for plugins like BuddyPress, bbPress forum, WooCommerce, TablePress, WPML, and many more.
I have covered a full tutorial on how to completely upload the NewsPlus Magazine WordPress theme. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to activate the theme with its license key to stay updated with future updates.
NewsPlus – News and Magazine WordPress theme
Here are some features of the NewsPlus theme that will make you want to buy and apply:
- Post Modules
- Powerful and easy to use post shortcodes
- All post shortcodes shipped as King Composer Addon
- Insert posts in 10+ different styles. (Featured grid, 1 columnar, 2 columnar, 3 columnar, 4 columnar, vertical big list, small list, tiled grid, material card, etc.)
- Show posts as jQuery slideshow or carousel
- Query posts from category, tags, selective page or post IDs, custom post types, custom taxonomy, etc.
- Enable/disable post meta or post excerpt per shortcode
- Control excerpt length by characters or words
- Order posts by date, random, title, author, most commented, etc.
- Use anywhere within pages or text widgets
- Supports showing posts from the multi-site blog
- Image resize per shortcode instance
- Built-in style support for Post Views Counter and WP Review
- Single Posts
- Sidebar-enabled or full-width posts
- Full-width header title – New
- Automated featured images per post (can be disabled from theme options)
- Video and gallery post formats
- Social sharing counters per post (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, vKontakte, yandex, reddit)
- Inline advertisement areas per post (before and after main content)
- Related posts based on category or tags (can be disabled per post)
- Author bio with avatar and description
- Multi-level nested comments with gravatar support
- SEO support
- Optimized for SEO and schema microdata
- Semantic and hierarchical markup
- Dynamic heading tags for site title/logo
- Internal links on single posts via related posts
- Supports Yoast SEO plugin
- Design
- Fully responsive, optimized for retina display
- WordPress 5.6+ ready
- Boxed / Stretched layout
- Dynamic layout width (choose between 800px to 1600px)
- WordPress customizer integration for theme colors and accents
- Global sidebar placement as left or right
- Unlimited Google Fonts for headings, site body, and the navigation menu
- Customizable colors for post-shortcode headings, text, and links
- Pages
- Drag and drop page builder by King Composer page builder plugin
- 20 prebuilt Home page layouts included for page builder in XML format
- Custom page options panel per page
- Sidebar placement as left, right, or none per page (using page templates)
- Two sidebars layout option
- Exclusive widget areas for header and sidebar per page
- Header
- 4 header layout styles (default, three col, full width, and slim menu)
- Sticky navbar for the main menu and top menu (Sticky option can be disabled from theme options)
- The custom site title and the logo image (show logo as text or image)
- Collapsible responsive menu
Simple and easy-to-use megamenu using class names (Supports up to 6 columns) - jQuery-powered multi-level WordPress menu
- jQuery News Ticker (Can be added via theme options or shortcode)
- Miscellaneous features
- Recipe Generator Addon worth $16 included with the theme
- ajax/PHP contact page template with form validation
- Built-in style support for contact form 7 plugin
- Flexslider and carousel for posts and HTML content
- prettyPhoto lightbox
- Fontawesome 4.7 icon library included
- Easy addition of Google fonts via theme options
- Social icons widget with built-in brand color styles for 25+ icons
- WordPress Custom background supported
- WordPress site icon (favicon) supported
- Valid HTML5 markup on theme-generated data
- Supported on all modern browsers, IE 9 and above
- Pre-configured Child theme included in the main download
- Step-by-step documentation guide and help manual for theme installation and setup
- Filter and action hooks are applied wherever possible and required
- Sample site data included in XML format
- Performs well in page speed tests. Performance can be further improved by serving resized images
- Theme compatible with WordPress 5.9.0+, PHP 7.4.9 and MySQL 5.7.31
- Advertisement Posts – NEW
- Set any post as a “Sponsored” advertisement post
- Custom advertisement label per post
- Global advertisement label for all ad posts in archives
- Custom content background per post or page
- Widget Areas
- 1 top widget area
- 2 fixed/floating widget areas on the left and right side
- 1 header widget area (for logo + banner style layout)
- 3 header widget areas (for three columnar header layout)
- 2 global widget areas before and after the main content
- 1 sidebar widget area
- Up to 6 secondary widget columns before the footer (Number of columns can be set from theme options)
- 6 custom widgets (Flickr, social icons, recent posts, popular posts, custom categories, and mini folio)