NewsPlus News and Magazine WordPress Theme GPL Overview:

NewsPlus Theme GPL is an excellent choice for an e-magazine, an 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 page speed scores, schema microdata and well-optimized code. This all-purpose magazine WordPress theme supports advertisement spots in the best locations of pages and posts which helps you make good revenue from Google AdSense and similar services.

NewsPlus WordPress Theme GPL Features:

Design

• Fully responsive, optimized for retina display
• WordPress 5.6+ ready
• Boxed / Stretched layout
• Dynamic layout width (choose between 800px to 1600px)
• WordPress customizer integration for theme colours and accents
• Global sidebar placement as left or right
• Unlimited Google Fonts for headings, site body and the navigation menu
• Customizable colours 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 in XML format
• 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

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

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

RTL and Multilingual

• 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

• Set any post as a “Sponsored” advertisement post
• 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 on the left and right side
• 1 header widget area (for logo + banner style layout)
• 3 header widget areas (for three columnar header layouts)
• 2 global widget areas before and after the 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)

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 colour 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 the 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 page speed 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