NewsPlus 4.4.0 - News and Magazine WordPress theme

Design and core capabilities

• Fully responsive, optimized for retina display
• WordPress 6.4.x 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 navigation menu
• Customizable colors for post shortcode headings, text and links

Pages and layouts

• Drag and drop page layouts using Elementor website builder plugin
• 40 prebuilt Home page layouts included for page builder in XML format (20 layouts each for the Travel and the Food demo)
• 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 and navigation

• 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 and post presentation

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

Post modules and shortcodes

• Powerful and easy to use post shortcodes
• 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 multi site blog
• Image resize per shortcode instance
• Built in style support for Post Views Counter and WP Review

RTL and multilingual support

• 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
• 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

Advertisement posts – NEW

• 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 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 hierarchical 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 backgrounds 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 compatible with WordPress 5.9.0+, PHP 7.4.9 and MySQL 5.7.31

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