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 your site. This theme is also a great choice if you plan to monetize your site with responsive Google Ads and AdSense.
Design Tools and Usability
Newsmag is a well-crafted theme, that seamlessly combines performance with fine design. If you don’t know where to start, take a look at these styling features and let your creativity lead you:
- Responsive Interface
- Retina Ready Layout
- 1021 pixels width
- A special compact grid
- 14 amazing premade demos
- One click demo install
The theme is powered by tagDiv Composer, the only frontend page builder designed for blogs, news and magazine websites, so you never have to face incompatibilities and conflicts between your theme and the page builder. With Newsmag, you can easily create pages:
- Drag and Drop functionality
- Frontend Customization
- Over 100 Elements
- Instant Results
- Fast page loading Speed
- No Coding Skills required
Drag, drop, and arrange!
The newbies can build pages just by dragging the blocks into pages and customizing the CSS without any coding skills, while the advanced users can change everything in a few minutes and develop elaborate page architecture with ease.
Everyone loves engaging stories! Now, you can create new posts and make individual style modifications. Your content will always be displayed in visually appealing formats:
- 8 premade post style layouts
- Articles – transformed into Smart Lists
- 8 Smart List Templates
- Product/Post Reviews
- Product/Post Ratings: ☆ , %, or points
- Custom, Typekit and Google Fonts
If creativity is your favorite word, Newsmag lets you customize everything from the top to the bottom area of your website:
- 7 Category Templates
- 4 Top Bar Layouts
- Big Grids Styles
- 10 Header and Footer Styles
Visually integration always delights visitors
Moreover, the template includes a built-in Slider Gallery that can display images with distinct widths aspect ratios, and lets you write a description and copyright information for each picture. Another way to visually attract your visitors is to showcase your work with style. Newsmag comes with a custom-built lightbox and provides a beautiful experience for your users. You can also share YouTube or Vimeo videos into your articles. The theme lets you set a video as a featured one, and it automatically downloads the video image thumbnail from YouTube, Vimeo, and DailyMotion.
Even More Functionality
Newsmag comes with multiple features that will make your site beautiful and distinct. You can customize everything since all the settings gathered in the Newsmag Theme panel:
- Header
- Ads
- Categories
- Layouts
- Backgrounds
- Colors
- Fonts
- Content
- Translation Panel
- Social Networks
Monetizing is easy: Fully compatible with Google AdSense
With the automatically size adjust system and the 10 predefined ad spots you can include AdSense and non-AdSense advertisements on your website to raise your income.
Also, you’ll be happy to know that the Translation Panel really works! It comes packaged with over 90 translations which you can load with a single click.
Show off your best content with slick widgets
Who doesn’t enjoy shortcuts? With Newsmag, you can choose your favorite widgets from a list of 26 custom ones: Weather, Exchange, Social Counter, Instagram widgets – display them on sidebar, content area, and even on the footer. Another interesting feature that comes bundled with the Newsmag Theme is the Social Counter plugin that allows you to show the visitors’ likes and appreciations. Furthermore, you can fine tune it with over ten skins and show it in beautiful layouts.
Newsmag was tested and works seamlessly with the following plugins:
- WP Super Cache
- Contact Form 7
- bbPress
- Font Awesome 4 Menus
- Jetpack
- WooCommerce
- WordPress SEO
- WP User Avatar
| GENERAL | |
|---|---|
| Item name | Newsmag |
| Category | News / Blog / Magazine / Editorial |
| Type | Premium |
| Author | tagDiv |
| Envato elite author | Yes |
| Tested version | 4 |
| COMPATIBILITY | |
| Content width | 1021 |
| Browser compatibility | IE9+ / Chrome / FF / Opera / Safari / Edge |
| WooCommerce | Yes |
| bbPress | Yes |
| BuddyPress | Yes |
| WPML | - |
| FONTS AND TRANSLATION | |
| Integrated translation | Yes |
| Google fonts | Yes |
| Custom fonts | Yes |
| Typekit fonts | Yes |
| RTL support | - |
| POST FEATURES | |
| Video posts | Yes |
| Audio posts | - |
| Post templates | 9 |
| Review system | Yes |
| Post view counter | Yes |
| Smart lists | Yes |
| Social share | Yes |
| Custom image lightbox | Yes |
| Custom image galery | Yes |
| PAGE FEATURES | |
| Page templates | 3 |
| Blocks | 23 |
| Widgets | 26 |
| Header styles | 10 |
| Footer styles | 10 |
| Category layouts | 7 |
| Masonry layout | - |
| Mega menus | Yes |
| Sticky menu | Yes |
| Sticky sidebars | Yes |
| Social networks | Yes |
| Social counter | Yes |
| Video playlists | Yes |
| Instagram widget | Yes |
| Currency widget | Yes |
| Pinterest widget | Yes |
| Weather widget | Yes |
| OTHER FEATURES | |
| Mobile theme | - |
| Demos included | 14 |
| SEO optimized | Yes |
| ADS | |
| Ad system | Yes |
| Adsense support | Yes |
| Background image ad | Yes |
| Custom ads | Yes |
| PERFORMANCE | |
| CSS file size | 711 kb |
| Overall speed | High |
| Performance documentation | Yes |
| USER EXPERIENCE | |
| Total ratings | 892 |
| User rating | |
| Learnability | Easy |
| DESIGN | |
| Responsive design | Yes |
| Retina ready | Yes |
| DOCUMENTATION | |
| Difficulty | Beginner |
| Explanations | Explicit |
| Explicit screen shots | Yes |
| Video tutorials | Yes |
| Search option | Yes |
| Extra documentation | Yes |
| PREMIUM PLUGINS | |
| Plugins | tagDiv Composer - Frontend Page Builder, tagDiv Social Counter, Slider Revolution, Visual Composer |
| VALUE | |
| Price | $49 |
| Value for the money | Excellent |
Performance
We have tested Newsmag default demo on different page speed tests, and the content loads fast and clean.
With so many qualities, it’s hard to identify a missing feature
The theme was developed with a narrow, boxed version. Though, a wider version will sure make the user’s delight.
The theme doesn’t support RTL.
How can I buy it, sir? I really like to buy it and change the theme I am using.
Hi, David! On the page review, there is a button which takes you to the Official Page of Newsmag on Themeforest. In case you have missed it, this is the page where you can buy the Newsmag WordPress Theme: https://themeforest.net/item/newsmag-news-magazine-newspaper/9512331 .
Is there a step-by-step tutorial that I can follow to install and setup a site using this theme?
Tnx
Hi, John! You can check out the Newsmag Theme Documentation here: http://forum.tagdiv.com/newsmag-newsmag-documentation/ and also the video tutorials section: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6CsDkMaejhpWFcFNOIDfdp5nIT0NbUbj.