Newspaper is a premium theme that is selling well on Themeforest marketplace.
Up to the time of this article, the theme has sold over 34,000 sales.
In Vietnam, the theme is also loved by many people.
When it comes to WordPress themes for magazine news websites, the name Newspaper has become the leading brand.
Especially with Newspaper 8, this theme has added a lot of attractive features. Including a brand new page builder called tagDiv Composer.
Experience shows that the page builder is very easy to use. Much lighter than Visual Composer.
In today’s article, I will go through the features that can convince you to choose Newspaper 8.
Contents
- 1 Large number of demo pages with attractive design
- 2 Theme panel is intuitive and very easy to use
- 3 Newspaper displays optimally on mobile devices
- 4 Supports multiple ad placements.
- 5 Provide many useful Widgets
- 6 Lots of header styles to choose from.
- 7 Easy to design beautiful and stunning website
- 8 Create beautiful posts with Post Template
- 9 Beautiful Category Templates
- 10 Increase pageview with smart lists
- 11 The theme has precompiled in many languages including Vietnamese.
- 12 Delay loading effect
- 13 Post Views with caching plugin
- 14 Live Search with Ajax
- 15 Built-in review system
- 16 Full documentation
- 17 About speed
- 18 Epilogue
Large number of demo pages with attractive design
Certainly, the demo site is always the first thing you look at when choosing a WordPress theme. Why?
Simply, through the demo page, you will initially determine whether the theme is suitable for the website you are planning to build or not?
Regarding this, I bet that Newspaper’s 20+ demo pages will satisfy those who are planning to build a news site or blog.
Newspaper’s demo pages have a trendy design and features for news sites. Obviously, they will help you quickly get a website with a beautiful, modern design.
Most importantly, you can install any demo site you love with just one click.
In addition, you can easily delete the entire demo site content with just one click. Many themes only support you to install demo data but do not have the feature to delete this data.
In addition, the author also makes demos for many different niches. So it can be easier for you to choose a demo that’s right for your business.
How to install Newspaper as demo page
1. First you need to install the theme. How to install a paid theme you see in this guide. After installing the main theme, remember to install and use the child theme provided when you buy the theme.
You don’t need to do anything. In older versions you must install Visual Composer. But with Newspaper 8 this is optional.
By: New builder, tagDiv Composer will already be activated. It is an alternative to Visual Composer. You should not use 2 page builders at the same time.
Depending on your needs, you can install a few other plugins. These plugins are all located in the Newspaper-tfplugins folder
- tag Div Social Counter : displays the number of followers as well as allows readers to follow your social networking sites
- Revolution Slider : some demo sites use this plugin’s slider. Demo slider you can find in Newspaper-tfdemo_sliders
- Td mobile plugin : helps you to customize the theme interface when displayed on mobile devices
- Visual Composer: Newspaper’s old page builder is now optional
2. Next, you go to Newspaper -> Install demos click Instal the demo page you want
It’s done. If you want to go back to the state when you installed the theme, just click on Uninstall,
Theme panel is intuitive and very easy to use
The Newspaper theme panel is beautifully designed. The options are all well explained making it easy to know how to configure the theme.
However, Newspaper is a paid theme, so it has a lot of features. So you definitely need some time to get used to the options in the theme’s settings.
Newspaper displays optimally on mobile devices
Newspaper is developed to give the best performance to users when browsing on mobile devices. Besides, the theme provides you with a plugin that helps you customize the look and feel of your website on handheld devices.
Instructions for using mobile themes
To know how to customize and optimize the theme for mobile devices, be sure to read this guide .
Supports multiple ad placements.
Specifically, you will have as many as 18 ad wallet values. In addition, the theme also has the ability to display ads well on mobile devices.
With Newspaper, it is not necessary to install a plugin to insert ads in the website.
Details of advertising positions
Visit this page for more placement details
Provide many useful Widgets
Newspager gives you many premium widgets like: weather widget, exchange widget, instagram widget, social counter widget, popular widget, author widget, ad box widget
Lots of header styles to choose from.
The theme provides you with many header styles for you to choose from. So you will have a unique design and do not worry about clashing.
Especially the menu supports the mega menu feature. So you don’t even need to add a mega menu plugin if you love this feature.
Details of header styles
Visit this page to explore theme header styles
Easy to design beautiful and stunning website
With the new page builder, Newspaper gives you a powerful tool to design a news website with a stunning layout.
You don’t need to know coding to still design an eye-catching website. With big grid and block , building and designing a website is simply a logo puzzle game.
Especially page builder with drag and drop style, you will have a pleasant experience when building a news site.
Create beautiful posts with Post Template
Newspaper provides you with a lot of post templates that make it easy for you to have a post with an attractive interface.
Currently you can choose 14 post templates as instructed here
Beautiful Category Templates
Newspage gives you many options to help you get a beautiful category page. You can choose 8 styles for your category page . In the category page you can display featured posts as a post grid with 12 different display styles . Newspaper provides 8 styles for post grid
Increase pageview with smart lists
You can turn your articles into a list, a fairly common display on magazine sites these days. This display definitely makes the article more attractive to readers. You can see the demo here .
The theme has precompiled in many languages including Vietnamese.
You can find the language you want in Newspaper -> Theme panel -> Translations.
Select the language you want from the drop-down menu. Next click on the Load translation button. Finally click on the Save Settings button .
With the above way, the translation will be downloaded from the theme provider’s server. If you can’t connect to the server you have another way to localize the theme:
Also in the Translations menu of the Theme Panel, click on the Translations section and translate the text you want here. Don’t forget to click the Save Settings button after editing.
Delay loading effect
Newspaper has built-in lazy loading feature to reduce page size and improve page speed. This saves you from having to install additional plugins with similar functionality.
Customize lazy load effect
You can customize the delay loading effect in Newspaper -> Template Settings -> Image loading – animations(LazyLoad)
Post Views with caching plugin
Post view often doesn’t work properly when you use cache plugin. But with Newspaper, you no longer bother with this problem.
If you use the cache plugin, just go to Newspaper -> Post Settings -> Ajax view count and Enable Ajax Post View Count . Next, clear the cache. Now Post views will work fine with cache plugins.
Live Search with Ajax
This is my favorite feature in Newspaper. Usually to have the feature you will need to install more and tweak it to display well on your interface. In general, this job is quite difficult.
Live Search will encourage users to search for your site’s content. Because they will see the results as soon as they type and select the search results with the up and down keys or use. Searching will be less tedious and more enjoyable.
Built-in review system
Newspaper also provides a review feature to help you have a beautiful review. You can find the feature in post settings. Once again you no longer have to install a plugin with a review feature.
Full documentation
As I mentioned, Newspaper can overwhelm you with so many features and options in the Themes Panel. But don’t worry too much.
I see that the author of the theme has created extremely detailed, complete and very meticulous documentation. Any options you don’t understand can be found in the documentation .
About speed
Speed is also an important factor when choosing a theme. The author of Newspaper has stated they have created the theme with outstanding performance. I don’t think this is just an advertisement.
I am really impressed with the speed of Newspaper. This is the test result using the Pingdom tool when I only installed the default theme and demo page without doing any optimization techniques.
Epilogue
Newspaper is one of the best WordPress themes for news magazine sites.
If you are planning to create a magazine news website, this theme is worth your investment.
Borrowing from Mr. Quang, this theme is “quality” to every penny.
The theme provides you with a lot of powerful features for a news site. For me, here are the points that impressed me the most:
- The tagDiv Composer builder makes it easy to design a news site just the way you want it.
- The theme speed is relatively good compared to a feature packed theme like Newspaper.
- Full and detailed documentation
With this theme, you will no longer have to install a bunch of other plugins like ad plugin, image delay plugin and so on.
What is your opinion about Newspaper theme? Or if you have problems using this theme, please leave a comment below.
