Documentation, FAQ and Video Guides:

  • Here is the full documentation
  • All the blocks – please select your block from the top. You can mix and match them. All of the content blocks support ajax pagination and subcategories (including slides)
  • The shortcodes – added in v1.2
  • V1.2 is out! – 15 september – the changelog is at the bottom

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A word about speed:

This is the fastest newspaper theme available. We spent a considerable amount of time tweaking every aspect of the theme to perform at it’s absolute best.

All the queries are hand inspected to be optimal, all the images and resources are carefully compress to make the site load blazing fast and all the scripts are profiled and modified to run at top speed.

Run pagespeed on our demo

The full list of features:

Template list:

  • Homepage – pagebuilder + article loop – This is a unique feature of this theme. You can customize the top part how you want via drag and drop and still keep the latest articles and full pagination.
  • Homepage – just pagebuilder + ajax – Want a more magazine look with no pagination on homepage? You can build that with the awesome ajax enabled blocks.
  • Homepage – with background – the theme is too clean? Try this template
  • Search – unique SEO optimized search template
  • Blog index
  • Author – post count, comments count and author widget
  • Category – breadcrumbs, subcategories and category description. Also a simple category page here
  • Tag – easy tagcloud navigation via widget
  • 404 template – with latest posts

Other features:

  • All the blocks – please select your block from the top. You can mix and match them. All of the content blocks support ajax pagination and subcategories (including slides)
  • Live search with ajax and up down keys
  • Mobile swipe menu – open the menu with a swipe to the right on mobiles
  • One click demo install – NO MORE .XML files, with just one click you have the demo data installed
  • Drag and Drop page builder
  • Custom auto scaling content blocks – a block changes it’s structure to work perfectly (in sidebar, full width or pages with sidebar)
  • Responsive Google AdSense support via our custom admin panel – the scripts loads a different google adsense spot for each screen size. Once it’s loaded it doesn’t modify it in order to be 100% compliant with Google adSense TOS.
  • Responsive ads support – for ad networks that allow multiple ad spots on the same div or if you want to show your own ads on different devices. This option will change the ad spot on the fly, for example when a tablet is changed from landscape to portrait. (the header banner from the demo site is using this system)
  • Inline Google AdSense or other ads after a predefined number of paragraphs
  • Auto youtube and vimeo thumb downloader – just paste a youtube url and the site will download the largest image available from the clip automatically and it will set it as a featured image. Very easy to add videos to articles.
  • Built in review system (stars, percents, points)
  • SEO: Schema with rich snippet microdata for articles and reviews
  • SEO: Authorship support integrated in theme
  • Built in translation support from our admin panel. No more .po .mo files, you just get a form with all the strings from the theme and the corresponding translations. We hate po mo files :)
  • All the global settings are available in the wordpress theme customizer with live preview
  • gif animation support – this is a beta feature.
  • icons in menu If you like icons you can use them in the menu. We deliver a category, menu, video, contact and social icon that you can use with just one click in wp-admin
  • Google fonts – change the fonts easy from the admin panel
  • Sticky navigation menu – with option to enable, disable or enable only on big screens (not on phones)
  • Each category has:
    • custom layout (no sidebar, sidebar left, sidebar right)
    • featured slide (optional)
    • custom colors
    • custom module style (loop style)
    • custom sidebar
  • Unlimited sidebars – each post, page, category can have it’s own sidebar. Also the author, search, tag, blog index templates all have custom sidebars
  • Built in related posts based on tags, author or category
  • Easy Google analytics support (just paste the code in our admin)
  • Unlimited colors with live preview from wordpress theme customizer
  • 4 footer layouts
  • Custom block widgets (ajax enabled with subcategories and pagination)
    • Big slide
    • Slide widget
    • Block 1
    • Block 2
    • Block 3
    • Block 4
    • Block 5
  • Custom widgets
    • Popular category widget – show most popular category
    • Author box widget – show authors sorted by number of posts, or by name
    • Social counter widget – a social counter that shows numbers of likes, followers or subscribers
    • Ad box – allow you to select an ad zone (you define the responsive ad zones in our panel)
    • Responsive facebook box
    • Tab widget – you can add other widgets in the tabs
    • Gravatar profile
    • Image widget
    • Social icons widget
    • Footer logo widget
    • Rss links

Lifetime updates and support

The theme comes with lifetime updates and support via a direct email address. We personally respond to all the request that we receive and we are trying to help everyone with what we can. contact@tagdiv.com

For the next release of this theme, we’re already working to improve the api and the documentation – especially the one for developers.

Thanks for your interest in our theme!
Radu and Marius from tagDiv

V1.2 update – 15 september – List of modified files

  • added shortcodes(buttons, columns, dropcaps, blockquotes, pullquotes)
  • added shortcode menu to the editor
  • better typography
  • default template – sidebar position and custom sidebar support per individual page
  • boxed layout
  • support for backgrounds and colors
  • better demo
  • always on sticky menu option
  • fixed an issue with the social icons not hiding
  • new header style for all the blocks
  • better customizer expirience, now if you click on customize it will preserver your current url in the preview window
  • option to filter the featured posts from the loops (you already have them on the main slide)
  • public issue tracker :) see what’s next

v 1.1 – 6 september

  • fix child theme issue
  • added font color setting for block header
  • fixed menu, disables itself on mobile touch devices only nou
  • uncompress javascrpt on deploy theme
  • fixed review panel missing from the posts
  • you can select header colors for widgets with a color picker now
  • fixed post settings metabox (primary category, custom sidebar per post)
  • added per post layout settings (full width, sidebar right, sidebar left)
  • added slider with background and pagebuilder template
  • added background color option for the slider template
  • added titles to rows

 

 

 

More info about Newspaper

  • Built for newspaper sites, article sites and review sites
  • Custom colors, selectable for each category
  • Fast loading newspaper section
  • Responsive design
  • Simple to use – basically all the newspaper sections are customizable from the admin. You can have different layouts for each newspaper category.
  • Ideal for article sites, review sites, news, newspaper and more

Newspaper is fast 
The theme is blazing fast. It’s really incredible how fast the pages built with Newspaper load. As you know, speed is very important when building a site so we’ve spent a huge amount of time optimizing this theme for Newspaper to load extremely fast.

Long time support and development 
We can easily send updates to themeforest each time we make an improvement so with each purchase you will fund the further development of this newspaper theme.

Small number of external scripts
You can easily add your own javascripts without worrying about incompatibilities between the theme and your scripts. Newspaper uses a very small number of external libraries so it’s very easy to add new features to this theme.

Good coding practice and naming conventions
All the html used is HTML 5 valid and it’s incredibly easy to work with.