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Newsmag Theme by tagDiv
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 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.

Newsmag Theme Review
Category: News
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Conclusion
Newsmag is a great, flexible WordPress theme, with elegant lines and pixel-perfection features. From demos, translations, layouts to custom widgets or intelligent ads, this template covers all. The Newsmag theme will make your website look professional and load faster. This template is built to deliver a seamless user experience, no matter if you’re designing a blog with few articles or a heavy news or magazine website.
Good for
  • Highly Flexible and customizable layouts
  • Multiple pre-made demos
  • Review and post views systems
  • Custom Social Counter
  • Ad system
Not so good for
  • Not RTL ready
  • No WPML compatibility
  • Narrow width 1021 px
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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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