Newspaper Theme Review: The Real Art of Publishing?

A few days back, we have introduced you the Newsmag WordPress theme review. In that post, we have said that Newsmag is our #2nd favorite news and magazine WordPress theme. Then which one is #1?

It’s the Newspaper.

The Newspaper is also created by the same folks who developed the Newsmag – tagDiv.

Newspaper Theme Review 2019

tagDiv created the Newspaper theme back in September 2013. Yet, the theme generated more than 73,500 sales and 4.85 stars out of 5.

It’s based on 5482 ratings. This clearly tells that Newspaper is something that you need to try!

Here’s a video intro.

With The Newspaper…

Using this theme, you can create anything that you want. For example, you can start a

• Magazine blog.
• Fashion blog.
• Food blog.
• Product review website.
• Travel blog.
• Lifestyle blog.
• Showcase website.
• Image gallery.
• News blog.
• Gaming blog.

and much more…

You can see some live examples from here. Most folks are using the Newspaper WordPress theme for their magazine blog. There are so many big brands are using the Newspaper theme like the Uber Engineering Blog, BitCoin News, Rackspace Blog, US Government and more…!

Installation and Activation

You can install the Newspaper WordPress theme from the WordPress admin area or by using an FTP account. We recommend you using the WordPress admin area. It is pretty easy and will take only a few minutes.

First of all, go to the themes page and upload the theme from there.

After installing the theme, simply activate it.

You are done!

License Verification

We have seen that so many folks are using nulled WordPress themes on their blog. Because of piracy, tagDiv need you to verify your purchase. All you need to do is, simply enter your purchase code.

You can find your purchase code from the ThemeForest downloads section. Once you entered it and activated the theme, you will get lifetime updates.

Bundled Plugins

Inside the downloaded file, you will get some premium WordPress plugins for absolutely free! They are

• Slider Revolution – Slider Revolution Review.
• tagDiv AMP.
• Visual Composer.
• tagDiv Cloud Library.
• ” Newsletter.
• ” Social Counter.
• ” Mobile Theme Plugin.

The Social Counter plugin and tagDiv Composer plugins are required for using the theme. Rest are optional. You can activate them if you want or keep it deactivated.

Newspaper Theme Features

Now, let’s see the complete features of the Newspaper WordPress theme. They have released a new version (v9.5) which got some more features and customizability!

A Powerful Page Builder!

Normally we will rely on page builder plugins like Elementor, Visual Composer and Beaver Builder for designing our blog. In this Newspaper theme, we will get a completely custom WordPress page builder called tagDiv Composer.

You can customize your blog pages in a live preview!

You can start creating, customizing anything and everything that you need. Like headers, footers, templates (single post, page, search page, author archive, 404 error page etc…) and almost everything using the power of tagDiv Composer.

Simply add elements to your website and save changes.

The tagDiv Composer is optimized for speed. It will not slow your website down. Also, it won’t generate more requests and lightweight.

As a blogger or website owner, this will definitely help you to save a lot of time to customize the website without messing with codes.

New Header Builder!

Improve your website header using the new header builder feature! tagDiv just got released this feature and you will love it! Using the tagDiv Composer, you can create custom header menus from scratch!

You can build it on already constructed pages or on a blank page! For more, see this documentation.

Cloud Library!

Once the theme got activated, you will get access to the tagDiv Cloud Library. This will help you to unlock the WOW features of the theme! See the Cloud Library tutorials here.

On top of that, you will get 625+ pre-made templates, elements and blocks from the library. If you wish, you could take a look at the tagDiv’s all Cloud Library elements. You can simply import them to your website from here:

50+ Demos

Some folks don’t need to spend time on designing the website. If you don’t want, there are so many demos are available for importing. You can pick a demo from there.

Simply import the full demo if you want some sample content on the website.

The theme will start importing the content, settings to the website. It will take a few minutes. Once the system is done that, check your website from the front end. You will see the live effect.

If you don’t like the demo, you can uninstall it, install another one.

Everything done in some mouse clicks!

Speed Optimized

The Newspaper WordPress theme is 100% optimized for speed. tagDiv used a clean and secure code in the theme which makes the theme super fast.

We have run a speed test using the Pingdom tool and here are the results.

You can see the website loaded in 1.5 seconds. If you optimize the website well, it will load much faster.

We all love faster loading websites. As a website owner, we need to make sure that our website is faster and optimized. A caching plugin will help you to make the website faster. There are so many caching plugins are available.

• Configure WP Super Cache.
• Setup WP Fastest Cache.
• WP Rocket.

The WP Rocket is the plugin that we use here on our blog. On top that, we are also using the ShortPixel plugin for optimizing images.

SEO Optimized

By starting a blog, all we need to do is, make money online, increase sales or generate more leads. For those, you need to rank your contents higher on Google and other search engines.

An SEO ready WordPress theme will definitely help you to rank your contents higher in search engines. Well, the Newspaper is fit for you!

On top of that, make sure that your content is better than your competitors. Proper keyword research using tools like SEMrush and KWFinder will help you to find low-competition keywords.

WooCommerce Optimized

Do you want to integrate your website with the WooCommerce plugin? WooCommerce is the #1 and a famous plugin for creating an online store in WordPress.

The Newspaper theme is 100% optimized for WooCommerce. You will not get any issues using the theme. Also, the theme is 100% compatible with Easy Digital Downloads.

Gutenberg Optimized

WordPress 5.0 is already out and most theme and plugin developers are making their product compatible with the Gutenberg.

The Newspaper WordPress theme is optimized for Gutenberg. You will not get any issues using the theme!

Theme Panel

Newspaper theme got an awesome, simple to use and elegant looking theme panel.

You can customize your entire blog from there.

Header Customization

Customize your entire website header.

You have control over

• Header Template.
• Top Bar Template.
• Main Menu.
• Logo & Favicon.
• Mobile Logo.
• Header Background.
• iOS Bookmarklet.

Footer Customization

You have complete control of your website’s footer. The footer can be created as a page using the tagDiv Composer. You can do it by creating it from scratch or by using any pre-made one. Once you created it, start adding elements you want!

In normal WordPress themes, you will get only 3 or 4 footer widget areas to customize. In this Newspaper theme, you will be able to customize the:

• Footer Templates.

You can start with the 14 templates available for the website footer. You can select any template that you want and use it all over your site.

• Instagram Gallery
• Footer Background.
• Sub Footer Settings.

As we said, you have got complete control of your website footer.

Ads Optimized

By using an ad optimized WordPress theme, you can increase your overall display ads revenue. We have seen that most bloggers are using Google AdSense and Media.net ads for monetizing their website.

For adding ads in your blog, you might want to use a WordPress ad management plugin. In this case, you don’t need to use additional plugins.

Under the theme panel, you can see a dedicated section for display ads.

By using those ad spots, you can add ads inside your blog. To almost every areas. On top of that, you will get advanced settings over the ads.

Just expand an area to see the configuration options.

You can enable/ disable the ads on desktops, tablets or mobile phones. Also, you can specify custom ad sizes. There are no WordPress themes offers such configuration!

Single Post Settings

You have got full control of your single post page.

From the section, you will be able to customize these settings.

• Single Post Template.

You can pick a site-wide template for your single post entries. There are over 50 templates available.

Select a template and save settings.

• Featured Image.

Here, you will get complete customization of the featured image. You can enable/ disable it or use a placeholder image.

• Sharing Buttons.

Social sharing buttons are must these days. If a user likes your post, he will probably share it to his Facebook wall or Twitter profile. The theme comes with custom made social sharing buttons.

The buttons are optimized for speed and won’t slow down the website.

• Related Posts.

By adding related posts inside your theme, you can simply increase the page views. Also, it will help you to reduce the bounce rate. Once you got enabled this feature, the theme will show related articles according to the current post category.

• More Articles Box.

This will be only available on desktops. In single entries, when they scroll down, a small box will appear on the right side of the website. The box contains more articles. It will increase page views and reduce the bounce rate.

• View Count.

If you like to show the total post views, enable this option. It will work well with caching plugins.

On top of that, you can do more with the tagDiv Composer plugin! By using it, you will be able to

• Create Different Templates.
• Use Different Templates for Different Posts.
• Making Changes Without Writing CSS.
• Choose Where To Use It.

and more…

You can import custom templates from the Cloud Library. Here’s a video presentation from them.

Templates Settings

Like the name says, you can choose the template style for different pages.

Also, you will be able to customize these settings.

• Smart Sidebar.

Simple.

Sticky Widget. Enable this feature if you want to make your website sidebar sticky. If you are using Google AdSense ads in your sidebar, this is not recommended. No additional plugin needed.

You may want to see our guide how to make WordPress sidebar sticky for more.

• Breadcrumbs.

Show visitor’s current path. You don’t need to use additional codes for showing breadcrumbs. You can do it in just a mouse click. It will also show the category wise URL in the search results.

• LazyLoad.

LazyLoad is for images. If you have a blog post with lots of images, it will load slowly on a browser. When lazyload is enabled, it will optimize the image serving. We are also using this feature by a free plugin called BJ LazyLoad.

It’s an awesome feature. In this case, you will get this feature without using any additional plugins.

Category Settings

You can customize your category template using this Newspaper theme.

There you have 2 options.

• Global Settings.
• Single Category Settings.

Like the name says, Global settings will affect the entire category archives. If you wish to style your categories differently, you may want to choose the single category styling.

Newspaper Theme lets you customize category pages directly on the front page. You can import a design from the tagDiv Cloud Library, or simply Edit the page with the page builder and drag & drop the components in the page. From there, customize each one as you like to get spectacular results.

Change the options and save changes.

Background Settings

Do you want to set an image as the website background? By using this setting, you will be able to do it.

You can upload an image from your local storage to the media library.

Translation Ready

By making your blog multilingual, you can increase your overall website traffic, leads, and revenue. In our case, we are using a free translation plugin called Polylang for making our blog multilingual.

In this case, you don’t need to use a plugin. You can call the translations from tagDiv’s servers. Choose language and load translations.

You are good to go. If you still prefer a plugin, you may want to try Weglot.

Color Customization

Normally for customizing the website colors, we need to add custom CSS codes or use a dedicated plugin like CSS Hero. Well, in this Newspaper theme, you will be able to customize your entire blog colors in some mouse clicks.

When you’re editing a section, the tagDiv Composer brings you infinite colors and the ability to create and use gradients.

That’s all!

Font Settings

Typography matters.

We highly recommend you choose a good looking font which will help users to easily understand the text. In our case, we are using Proxima-Nova font via Typekit.

Without coding, you can change the font settings if you have the Newspaper theme. Here are the settings.

There you can

• Use a Custom Font.
• Call Typekit Font.
• Use a Google Font.

While adding custom fonts, make sure that you are adding the .woff file. For using the Typekit font, simply paste the JS code and name your font family.

Google fonts are pre-installed. You can enable/ disable it whenever you need.

Customizing fonts are also easy.

Select a block that you need to configure, change the size, font weight, line height, style, and everything. Normally, we need to add additional CSS for doing it. tagDiv made things simple!

Code Editor

By using this feature, you will be able to add

• additional CSS.
• Custom JavaScript.
• HTML code.

to your website.

After adding custom codes, make sure that you have saved the settings.

Head and Body Editor

Without using any additional plugins or editing the theme’s core files, you can add custom codes to your website’s head or body section.

You can add your Google Analytics code or the Typekit code in this field.

Social Profiles

Almost every blog got dedicated social media profiles and pages. When a user lands on your website, try to subscribe to your social media profile.

It will help you to build a more healthy conversation and helps you to get those visitors back when a new post is live. In the Newspaper theme, you will get so many social media integration.

You can also set a real attribute value to the social media links. They can be

• Nofollow.
• Noopener.
• Noreferrer.

Or, you can disable it.

Alright. What about the pricing?

Import/ Export Settings

In some cases, you may want to import or export your theme settings. Let’s say one of your friends got the Newspaper theme with advanced customizations and you need to get the exact customizations in your website.

By importing some code, you will be able to do it. Simply go to the import and export section, copy the code, paste it on the client website, import.

If you wish to reset the theme settings, you can also do it.

Just enter “reset” and reset the complete theme settings.

Pricing

Like almost every Envato products, there are 2 pricing plans are available.

• Regular License – $59.
• Extended License – $1200.

If you just need to use the theme on your own website or on a client’s website, the regular license is the right option. When you need to bundle the theme with your own product, you need the extended license.

You can pick a plan according to your use.

Support and Documentation

When you purchase the theme, you will receive 6 months of free support from the author team. All you need to do is, simply contact them via their official ThemeForest profile.

If you have any pre-sale question, you can also use that form.

Now let’s move to the documentation.

They have a wide range of tutorials for setting up the theme and customizing it. They are well assigned and categorized. The main categories are

• General docs.
• Installation docs.
• Tutorials.
• Demo docs.
• Using the theme panel.
• page options.

You may want to see the tagDiv Newspaper docs.

Updates

We highly recommend you keep your WordPress theme updated with the latest version of WordPress. It will help us to stay away from hackers and conflicts. Once you purchased the theme, you will get lifetime updates from the author team.

You don’t need to spend a single penny more for updates. Most WordPress theme shops are not offering these type offer. They are only providing updates just for 1 year. For receiving more updates, we may want to renew the key.

Thanks, tagDiv!

Purchase Newspaper WordPress Theme

You can purchase the latest version of the Newspaper WordPress theme from below.

Get Started With Newspaper

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Product Name: Newspaper WordPress Theme

Product Description: The Newspaper is the #1 selling WordPress theme for magazine and blogs! The theme is highly optimized for SEO, speed and come with so many pre-made designs!

Price: 59

Currency: USD

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Summary

In this post, we are going to share the Newspaper WordPress theme review. Is it the right choice for all? Well, let’s find out!

Pros

SEO Ready

Faster Loading

Clean Design

Awesome Support

Cool Features

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