Newsy - Viral News & Magazine WordPress Theme

Key Features and Capabilities

Frontend Post Submission

Frontend post submission tool which helps you and your users to create personality and trivia quizzes, checklist, poll, versus poll, list, convo, flipcard, before&after, video, audio, image, and Gif post types immediately from the frontend.

One-click Installation

Install Newsy with our powerful one click installer. Get your site up and running in no time! Quick, easy and rocket fast!

Demo Content Included

Newsy is ready to use from the box. Quickly install it via FTP or WordPress and after you activate it you can load demo content. Then you can add your own content on already designed pages.

50+ Element Shortcodes

Our pre-built shortcodes allows you to add functionality and visual elements in web pages, posts & widgets without writing any code.

Drag and Drop Page Builders

Fast, intuitive and smart page builders will make your customization fast and easy. You layout will be ready for publishing in a minute!

Header & Footer Builder

Customize your header and footer the way you like. We provide 3 row to add your header and footer elements. You can set your rows as full-width, boxed for each row. Each element has their on config which is let you more control over your header & footer area.

Responsive & Retina Ready

Look of your website on mobile devices is very important these days. So we made sure Newsy looks great both on mobile, desktop and retina screens!

Advanced Typography Options

Choose any of the Google web fonts library through powerful theme options panel! Now you can set a unique style for your site!

Autoload Next Post

Reduce bounce rate and earn more! Keep your visitor on your site while increasing views with continuous scrolling through articles.

View Counter & Popular

We branch most popular view counter plugin so we can put these features inside our theme. You can use popular view by week, month, or year.

Social Community by BuddyPress

BuddyPress is the best & easiest way to build a social community for your WordPress site. The theme is compatible with the BuddyPress plugin to start an online community.

Community Forum by bbPress

Live up your community! bbPress is just the right plugin to help you on it. While you’re working on your content, people can discuss your article on the website’s forum.

WooCommerce Shopping Cart

Open a store inside your website by WooCommerce, a popular shopping cart plugin for WordPress. In addition, we even created custom skin for WooCommerce, so its feature can blend into Newsy design smoothly.

WPML & Translation Ready

Newsy is compatible with most popular WordPress plugin that supports creation of multilingual layouts. Translate your website to any language with WPML!

Advanced Theme Options

With our easy use option panel you can fully control your site easily and quickly. Theme options has advanced options on your archive pages, posts etc… You can set layout settings for each page.

Detailed documentation

Detailed documentation on how to setup and customize Newsy will make your customizations super easy and fast!

Theme Features List

• +15 Homepage Demo layouts
• +50 Blocks & Widgets
• Unlimited Header layouts
• Unlimited Footer layouts
• Unlimited Sidebar
• One-click demo content import
• WPBakery Page Builder
• Elementor Page Builder
• Header Builder
• Footer Builder
• Frontend Post Submission
• Trivia Quizzes
• Personality Quizzes
• Checklist Quizzes
• Polls
• Versus Polls
• Viral Lists (Ascended List, Descended List, Classic)
• Convo
• FlipCard
• BeforeAfter
• Review (Percentage, Point, Star)
• GIF
• Top Lists (Hot, Trending, Popular)
• Custom Post Formats
• Fake Counters
• Guest Voting
• Mega Menu
• Sticky Menu When Scrolling Down
• Off-Canvas Menu (Hamburger Menu)
• Points, Badges and Ranks
• Infinite scroll, Next & Previous, Load More and Standard pagination
• Lazy Load
• Google fonts
• Custom fonts
• Unlimited Color Options
• Powerful theme options panel
• Reactions
• Post Voting
• Facebook & Disqus Comment
• Dark Skin
• Masonry Posts
• Slider Posts
• FontAwesome Icons
• High Speed Performance
• Sticky Header
• Sticky Sidebar
• Left/Right Sidebar
• AMP ready
• Gutenberg ready
• Multi-site ready
• RTL language support
• Built In Custom Widgets
• BuddyPress integration
• bbPress integration
• WooCommerce integration
• Contact Form 7 plugin
• WPML localization support
• Clean & Modern design
• Responsive and Retina ready
• Cross Browser Optimization.
• Clean SEO Friendly Coding
• Detailed Documentation Included
• No coding knowledge required
• Five Star Support Team
• Lifetime Free Updates

What’s Included

• All demos
• All necessary plugins (WPBakery Page Builder included)
• FREE lifetime updates
• 6 months support – with the ability to extend it
• Documentation

Need support?

Support for all our products is conducted through our support center where you can submit your product related questions, bug-findings, etc.

Disclaimer

The photos used in our live preview may not be part of the demo content.

Change Log (selected highlights)

v2.7.1 – Dec 6, 2025

• [IMPROVEMENT] WordPress 6.9 compatibility.
• [PLUGIN] Elements – Added support for Elementor Flexbox Container.
• [PLUGIN] Elements – Prevented module icon images from being accidentally dragged in Elementor editor.
• [PLUGIN] Elements – Auto block-width detection now works correctly on both Elementor and WPBakery editors.
• [PLUGIN] Framework – Fixed an issue where block filter auto-load data was not functioning correctly.
• [PLUGIN] Framework – Improved security for AJAX callbacks.
• [PLUGIN] WooCommerce – Updated templates for compatibility with WooCommerce 10.3.0.
• [FIX] Refactored CSS output logic and resolved taxonomy-related CSS issues.
• [FIX] Removed deprecated IE conditional comments and the html5shiv dependency.
• [IMPROVEMENT] General performance optimizations.

v2.7.0 – Nov 7, 2025

• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 8.7.2.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - WooCommerce/Blocks compatibility.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Changed Twitter to X.com branding updates for poll sharing.
• [PLUGIN] Framework - Licensing and update system overhaul; new API endpoint and more robust update system.
• [PLUGIN] BuddyPress Followers - Improved activation, ensures DB table creation and AJAX/pagination enhancements.
• [IMPROVEMENT] BuddyPress - Improved theme compatibility and template structure.
• [FIX] PHP compatibility and general code improvements.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.6.5 – Jul 18, 2025

• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 8.6.1.
• [FIX] Child theme bundling.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.6.1 – Jul 8, 2025

• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 8.5.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Fixed an issue where Autoptimize bundling was breaking the frontend editor.
• [PLUGIN] Reactions - Theme compatibility.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.6.0 – Apr 19, 2025

• [IMPROVEMENT] WordPress 6.8 compatibility
• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 8.4.1.
• [PLUGIN] Social Counter - Added BlueSky and Threads social providers.
• [PLUGIN] Social Share - Added BlueSky and Threads share buttons.
• [PLUGIN] Social Login - Added BlueSky and Threads login buttons.
• [PLUGIN] Elements - Updated options for MailChimp Newsletter and Instagram blocks.
• [PLUGIN] JSON-LD - Added compatibility with popular SEO plugins.
• [PLUGIN] JSON-LD - Added support for our post blocks (review, poll, list).
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - compatibility improvements.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.5.8 – Mar 19, 2025

• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 8.3.
• [PLUGIN] Framework - WooCommerce compatibility.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Fixed an issue with mobile view.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.5.7 – Feb 12, 2025

• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 8.2.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.5.6 – Jan 16, 2025

• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 8.1.
• [PLUGIN] Framework - WPBakery options compatibility.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Fixed an issue with block options rendering.
• [PLUGIN] Elements - Fixed an issue where element images were not displayed.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.5.5 – Nov 18, 2024

• [IMPROVEMENT] WordPress 6.7 compatibility
• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 8.0.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Fixed an issue with tags input.
• [PLUGIN] Elements - Fixed an issue affecting the order of tabs.
• [FIX] Fixed an issue with script code ads.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.5.4 – Oct 15, 2024

• [IMPROVEMENT] WordPress 6.6.2 compatibility
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Fixed an issue causing errors on the frontend editor with Elementor experimental features.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Fixed text coloring issues in blocks.
• [FIX] Fixed WooCommerce template warnings.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.5.3 – Sep 2, 2024

• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 7.9.
• [FIX] Fixed an issue with dark mode logo switch on header bar
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.5.2 – Jul 28, 2024

• [IMPROVEMENT] WordPress 6.6 compatibility
• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 7.8.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Fixed an issue with Gif block issue
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.5.1 – Jul 2, 2024

• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 7.7.2.
• [PLUGIN] Elements - Nav menu element supports horizontal layout.
• [PLUGIN] Framework - WPForms plugin conflict issue.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Style issues.
• [FIX] Fixed issue with search page infinity pagination support
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.5.0 – May 14, 2024

• [IMPROVEMENT] PHP 8.x compatibility fixes
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Compatibility issues.
• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 7.6.
• [PLUGIN] Elements - Fixed an issue with block post excerpt.
• [PLUGIN] BuddyPress Follow - BuddyPress 12 compatibility.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.4.5 – Apr 3, 2024

• [IMPROVEMENT] WordPress 6.5 compatibility
• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 7.5.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.

v2.4.2 – Jan 18, 2024

• [PLUGIN] WPBakery Page Builder - Updated to version 7.4.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - Added option to disable auto-scrolling in quizzes.
• [PLUGIN] BuzzEditor - WordPress 6.4.2 compatibility.
• [PLUGIN] Social Counter - Fixed an issue with TikTok button.
• [FIX] BuddyPress 12 compatibility issues.
• [FIX] Fixed number of minor issues.