Newsource - Multi-Concept Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme

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Content management and page building

Content Management

Take advance of the native WordPress functions and features to manage your content easily.

Elementor

The most advanced front-end drag & drop page builder. Create high-end, pixel perfect websites at record speeds. Any page, any design.

Pre-Made Magazine blocks

We have lots of experience with WordPress magazine and blog-sphere. Based on these, we included the most popular news, magazine blocks (layouts) you can use now in Elementor which is part of this premium theme.

Redux Framework

Redux is a simple, truly extensible, and fully responsive options framework for WordPress. Functions like countless Google web-fonts or the possibility to create your own color schemes are obvious for this premium product.

Quality and SEO

Valid Code

Solid and experienced coding, best practices used, well tested! You’ll get a safe and secure product.

Built-in SEO markup

Pages and posts include basic SEO markup for better search ranking.

SEO and standards

HTML5 & CSS3 & latest WP standards, SEO Optimized markup, Structured Data markup.

Ease of use and customization

Easy To Use

Themes are built out of a real need, that’s why we focus on user-friendliness. Newsource theme is suited for common individuals and for non-tech savvy users they manage a personal blog or simple magazine website.

Main features

• WordPress 5+ (Gutenberg) compatible
• Easy-to-use (Drag & Drop) Page Builder
• Advanced theme admin panel
• Modular (home)page – Countless layouts
• Featured main sliders
• Featured sections (magazine blocks)
• 3 main blog and archives layouts
• 6 main posts layouts: no sidebar, left sidebar, right sidebar with combination with classic titles + image or “hero” titles + image
• Main menu (custom menu)
• Footer menu (custom menu)
• Responsive layout
• Unlimited color schemes
• Google Fonts selector / custom typography with numerous font families
• 5 Posts formats: standard, video, audio, gallery, link
• Hide / show most post elements
• Custom background images
• Related posts
• HTML5 & CSS3 & latest WP standards
• SEO Optimized markup
• Structured Data markup
• Clean source code
• Very good site performance
• Archive templates
• Translation ready
• latest WordPress ready
• Smooth tabless design

Layouts, templates and compatibility

Layouts & Templates

• 6 post layouts (left, right and without sidebar + 2 post headers)
• Blog template
• Full-Width template
• Error 404
• Archive templates
• Search template

Plugin Compatibility

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/autoptimize/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/add-to-any/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-featherlight/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/regenerate-thumbnails/
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-review/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/mailchimp-for-wp/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/recent-tweets-widget/
• and more..

Changelog

// 13 August 2025 //

Version 2.1

• fixed: portrait/landscape selection for blog layout

Version 2.0

• added: new 'Newspaper' demo
• added: dimension settings (theme.json)
• added: setup Elementor automatically
• added: new social icons
• added: better demo import
• added: main menu description
• added: automatic year change
• improved: Redux Framework inclusion inside the theme_setup function
• improved: mobile header layout
• improved: mobile menu
• updated: Newsource Addons plugin
• updated: TGM activation
• updated: FontAwesome 6
• updated: language/translation file
• fixed: admin panel translation
• fixed: iframes on some post layouts

Version 1.7

• updated: demo import files (XML)

Version 1.6

• updated: Newsource Addons plugin (compatible with PHP 8.2+)

Version 1.5

• added: post views counter
• fixed: Instagram icon (open in new window)

Version 1.4

• updated: demo import file

Version 1.3

• updated: docs + XML

Version 1.2

• added: new demo (Modern)
• fixed: few minor bugs

Version 1.1

• added: tag based filter for posts widgets
• added: new demo (Fashion)

Version 1.0

• initial release