NewsPlus - Magazine/Editorial WordPress Theme

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A multi purpose magazine WordPress theme for online newspaper, news, blog and editorial ventures.

NewsPlus is an excellent choice for e magazine, online newspaper, travel blog, food recipe blog, fashion magazine, personal blog or editorial and review websites. It comes with built in style support for plugins like BuddyPress, bbPress forum, WooCommerce, TablePress, WPML and many more.

NewsPlus encompasses clean and modern design, backed with best SEO practices, fast pagespeed scores, schema microdata and well optimized code. This all purpose magazine WordPress theme supports advertisement spots in best locations of page and posts which helps you make good revenue from Google AdSense and similar services.

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Full feature list of NewsPlus magazine WordPress theme

Design

• Fully responsive, optimized for retina display
• 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
• Unlimted Google Fonts for headings, site body and 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
• 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 sideber per page

Header

• 4 header layout styles (default, three col, full width and slim menu)
• Sticky navbar for main menu and top menu (Sticky option can be disabled from theme options)
• Custom site title and 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)

Archives

• 5 global archive styles (gird, list, classic, full post and Material card)
• 3 grid style archive templates
• 4 page templates for blog
• Image resize on-the-fly using BFI Thumb via theme options
• Image quality can be set from theme options(useful for serving scaled images at optimized quality)

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 any where within pages or text widgets
• Supports showing posts from multi site blog
• Image resize per shrotcode instance
• Built in style support for Post Views Counter and WP Review

RTL and Multi lingual

• Translation ready with .pot template file and sample .po and .mo files included
• Supports languages with rtl orientation
• Fully compatible with WPML, WCML and qTranslate-x

Single Posts

• Sidebar enabled or full width posts
• 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

Widget Areas

• 1 top widget area
• 2 fixed/floating widget areas in 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 main content
• 1 sidebar widget area
• Up to 6 secondary widget columns before 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)

SEO support

• Optimized for SEO and schema microdata
• Semantic and heirarchical markup
• Dynamic heading tags for site title/logo
• Internal links on single posts via related posts
• Supports Yoast SEO plugin

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 main download
• Step by step documentation guide and help manual for theme installation and setup
• Filter and action hooks applied wherever possible and required
• Sample site data included in XML format
• Performs well in pagespeed tests. Performance can be further improved by serving resized images
• Theme developed on WordPress 4.5+, php 5.5.12 to 7.0 and MySQL 5.6.17

Update log

Dec 01, 2017 - v3.1.6 = * Change the modified date format to ISO 8601 format in NewsPlus Shortcodes

Nov 29, 2017 - v3.1.5 = * Fixed: Backward compatibility on some functions for php versions less than 5.5

Nov 21, 2017 - v3.1.4 = * Fixed: php error in recipe template file * Fixed: Recipe method heading not changing when text changed in King Composer UI

= Nov 14, 2017 - v3.1.3 = * Fixed: Replaced hard coded http protocol with SSL checked protocol

= Nov 07, 2017 - v3.1.2 = * Changed dateModified Schema value to ISO 8601 format * Fixed: php notice in single post sharing buttons when no sharing buttons selected

= Oct 23, 2017 - v3.1.1 = * Fixed: Empty customizer.css call when customizer is chosen for color scheme * Fixed: https protocol for schema * Fixed: Deprecated WooCommerce cart functions updated with latest ones

July 27, 2017 - v3.1.0 = * Added Google fonts select menu for site body, headings and main menu (See Theme Options > Custom Fonts) * Added Social Sharing per post in archives (See Theme Options > Archives > Social Sharing ) * Added new Title element with different styles like Flag, bar, button, etc. (See "NewsPlus Title" element inside King Composer elements library) * Added Google fonts and font styling options for post modules (See "Styling" tab in post module elements) * Added color options for post headings, category links, excerpt and meta. (See "Styling" tab in post module elements) * Added 'overlay' display style for main post module element (See "Display" tab's "Display Style" field in post module element) * Fixed: Added number restriction 999 in get_terms to prevent memory limit issues * Fixed: Whatsapp sharing button shows 404 error

Apr 07, 2017 - v3.0.2 = * Added compatibility for WooCommerce 3.0+ * Added single product gallery slider, swipe and zoom features

Full changelog and credits can be found here.

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