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Do you remember the old papers? Delivered to your doorsteps every morning? Big format, difficult to hold and handle? I used to love the smell of fresh coffee and printed paper. But they all had one big flaw: by the time you read the newspaper, the news isn’t all that new. All printed editions are losing the war on the Internet because they can’t keep up with the dynamism of the online environment.

Over the time, WordPress has established itself as a great platform for any website. The biggest players in the publishing industry are using WordPress, sites like The Verge, TechCrunch, Forbes, Reuters, The New York Times and many others managed to gather millions of readers.

Today’s newspapers are defined by three primary components: design, page loading speed, and content. This collection of the best News WordPress templates can help you decide on a theme that will save you from the hassle of design, functionality and speed optimization. Choosing the right WordPress theme gives you the time to focus only on the content you want to publish.

All the templates from the “Best News WordPress Themes” top are premium, and they can help you build any blog and news niche such as fashion, tech, sports, politics, games, and everything in between. Highly customizable, powered by well-designed page builders, flexible, with dozens of fonts and custom widgets, each of these themes will help you create a professional news website with ease.

Best News WordPress Themes

1Newspaper Theme Review

Newspaper is a beautiful news theme created by tagDiv, an Envato Power Elite author, with the publishing industry in mind. Built to handle large amounts of content, Newspaper features a bold and elegant design combined with the power of versatility. Furthermore, dedicated to making the website look professional, Newspaper is a must-have template for both beginners and advanced WordPress users. Find all the essential details...

2Newsmag Theme Review

Last updated on February 6, 2018 If you want to create blog posts and articles with ease, the Newsmag premium WordPress theme will surely be your tool. It was built in November 2014 by tagDiv, an Envato Power Elite Author, for news, newspaper, magazines websites. The Newsmag creators have developed a very flexible template, with different layouts, elegant demos, dedicated elements and multiple choices to fine-tune...

3PenNews

PenNews is a premium magazine WordPress Theme recently developed by the  PenciDesign author. Bundled with the Visual Composer page builder that has the frontend functionality enabled, you can build pages or place advertisements on your websites. The PenNews theme includes header styles, custom video playlists, gallery layouts, built-in content blocks, big grids, widgets, and more features.

4CoverNews

CoverNews is the fastest WordPress magazine theme that AF themes have created. It has carefully created features, sleek design, and flexible design. In addition, it comes with added custom widgets, several sidebar sections, ready configuration for ads, etc. This theme looks beautiful on all screen sizes, from small to big screens, and is completely adaptive. CoverNews would be the best theme for the next...

5MagPlus

MagPlus is a blog, magazine, newspaper WordPress theme which gives you the tools you need to write and edit articles with ease. Use the easy-to-use one-click import feature to import any of the premade demos in seconds. This theme is compatible with the Visual Composer page builder plugin, and with it, you can build beautiful pages and customize everything from headers, footers, colors, and typography styles. MagPlus...

6BoomBox

Boombox is the most powerful and flexible viral and buzz style WordPress theme. Flexible and fully customizable magazine, this theme combined with a ton of snacks and exclusive features, all that packed with dozens of popular plugins and top-notch design. Want to create your own next Buzzfeed.com, Playbuzz.com, 9gag.com, Boredpanda.com or Mashable.com? Then this theme is right for you! Want to create your own...

7Publisher

Publisher is a blog WordPress theme created by the Better-Studio author. The template offers many customization options, starting with the 9 predefined demos ready to be installed with one click. It also comes with multiple pre-made homepages, so you don't have to start from scratch. Publisher lets you customize everything from layouts and headers to sidebars, galleries, and everything in between. You can change the...

8Jannah

Jannah is a magazine theme developed by the TieLabs, an Envato Power Elite Author. It is a template designed with a responsive and retina ready layout. You can choose from pre-defined demos, unlimited header styles, built-in Ajax Mega Menus, Block Layouts, Slider Styles, and more. The Jannah theme is AMP compatible, this option makes the page loading even faster on mobile, and improves the search engine...

9JNews

JNews is a theme designed to provide an “all-in-one” solution for almost every publishing need. With this template, you can explore endless possibilities in crafting the best fully-functional website. It also provides an automatic import feature to replicate one of the demos you like just by one click. Customizing your website with JNews is easy and fun since you can see live the change you made and...

10Gillion

Gillion is a brand new WordPress theme for blogs and magazine sites. It was developed by the Shufflehound author with a responsive layout so that your website will display the same on any screen size device. Gillion has twelve demos ready to be imported for a fast start of a fashion, food, tech, or lifestyle website. The Post layouts are a great way to add style...

11Zox News

Zox News is a WordPress theme that can help you create your own blog. The Zox News template comes with a responsive design, that allows users to navigate through your website from any screen device. Some of the important features this theme includes are the article layouts, featured posts layouts, parallax leaderboard ad, Theia Post Slider, Theia Sticky Sidebar, Reviewer Plugin, Woocommerce-ready, and more. Moreover,...

12Sahifa Theme Review

Last updated on August 1, 2017 Sahifa is a premium news, blog and magazine theme developed by TieLabs, an Egyptian Envato power elite author. Specialized in WordPress, the developers have enhanced Sahifa with a variety of homepage sliders and post features, specially designed for a news website. Being the sixth theme of TieLabs, Sahifa is their best selling product. The theme’s design is very flexible. Your...

13The Voux Theme Review

Last updated on August 29, 2017 The Voux is a premium news and magazine theme launched in May 2015 by the Fuel Themes, an Envato Elite author. This template comes packed with custom widgets, predefined templates, sliders and a lot of different styles, all combined in a beautiful WordPress theme. Every WordPress user can manage The Voux with ease, and the author developed a lightweight...

14Vlog Magazine

Vlog is a beautifully crafted WordPress theme with a strong focus on videography. It also perfectly complements the needs of complex magazine websites with sophisticated layouts and dynamic ways to present your videos and articles in any way you can imagine. Whether you need a website for video-blogging, video tutorials or any sort of viral video sharing, Vlog is a perfect choice. Fully compatible with...

15Ebullient

Recently released, Ebullient WordPress theme is a trendy magazine, blog, or news product you can use to build a beautiful website. With its responsive layout and various styling options, you can make your site visually appealing. Some interesting features that you will find in this template are the large collection of custom shortcodes for building engaging pages, pagination types, beautiful widgets, advanced typography, and...

16SmartMag Theme Review

Last updated on: March 3, 2017 SmartMag is an elegant premium WordPress theme developed in February 2014 by Themesphere, an Envato Elite author. The template is built with care for details to suit any news, blog, or magazine website. SmartMag comes with a well-structured settings hierarchy and brings all the necessary tools to help you create a beautiful site. This theme has some dedicated features...

17Nerubian

Nerubian is a beautiful WordPress theme innovative created, cleverly coded and feature-rich. It's well suited to help you customize with ease all kinds of blog, news, newspaper, magazine, publishing or review websites. You can build nice layouts for featured posts, add useful widgets on your site, drag and drop elements to create unique pages. If your language is Arabic, you'll be happy to learn that this...

18StuffPost

This is a beautiful news dedicated WordPress theme, freshly created by the Weartstudio author. StuffPost features a minimal and responsive design along with various options to help you change the layout of your website. It includes a post builder, live options customizer, a sticky sidebar, menu styles, and has support for ads. StuffPost is compatible with the popular WooCommerce plugin, so you can easily create an online...

19Hygge

Developed this March by the Korra author, Hygge is an elegant editorial WordPress theme that can easily fit your magazine or blog site. You can start using your creativity along with six blog layouts, featured carousels, banners, ads and add sticky sidenotes or image galleries. Full-Width section Content-Width section Demo Content included Category/Tag Featured Images Dedicated Category Colors Featured Posts Featured Banners (page, post, tag,...

20Flex Mag Theme Review

Flex Mag is a beautiful blog, magazine and news template created in September 2015, by the American Envato Power Elite author, MVP Themes. This elegant item is available on Themeforest, a market that uses different templates and styles to create a highly stimulating news, blog, portfolios, and journal website. Flex Mag is loaded with features and pre-built layouts designed to help you create an...

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Lisa Jones
Editor-in-chief of WPion. 100% passionate about WordPress, Lisa is part time web developer and part time front-end designer. With a master's degree in computer science, she is specialized in CSS, HTML, JavaScript, MySQL and PHP. Lisa uses her knowledge and experience to offer you a complete analysis of WordPress most popular themes and plugins.

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    • Hi, Jen! Thank you for your appreciation! We want to provide valuable information to our visitors, and we analyze each template with great attention to details :).

  1. Hello..Thanks for such a nice article!!
    It helps me. I have just tried out Ybrant theme for my website and that is really good.
    It is the modern premium theme created for a magazine, news and newspaper related website, designed with a completely responsive layout and available as fully widgetized pages
    I hope it’s useful to you.

  2. Avoid Publisher theme at any cost because it is not being developed anymore. It was developed by single person and he is no more responding to any tickets.
    Please remove publisher theme

  3. PLEASE note that publisher theme is shonky. They have left many, many people out of pocket. They do not refund money. If you look at their facebook page (the only place you can comment on them) in comments. You will find many, many people chasing refunds that never come. They are a shonky company with poor business practices, avoid.

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