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.
Design
The theme’s design is very flexible. Your entire website can have a stylish look using the masonry layout, and patterned backgrounds. You can use the default page layouts choosing from boxed, framed or wide template, and you can also add a light/dark skin to it.
Sahifa WordPress News Theme comes with retina ready, SEO optimization, and six different skins for the Image lightbox effect. This news template is highly customizable allowing you create lovely home pages with the TieLabs Page Builder. Using predefined blocks, you can quickly build the page structure and promote exclusive content in a custom-made Post slider grid.
Functionality
Sahifa comes with a Theme Settings center and you can control the most important aspects of the theme from a single place. From this panel, you can manage various options like general settings, header & footer templates, archives, typography, translations, posts, sidebars, ads, social networking and rating status.
This template brings an ad system that helps to display advertisements in the desired areas of your website. Also, a custom widget will make ads visible on your footer area using ten predefined dimensions.
Sahifa News Theme is also social friendly. With a custom built Social Counter, Arqam Lite, you can synchronize the website using API keys, or Token Keys, directly with your social network accounts. It is available for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube, Vimeo, Dribble, Soundcloud, Behance, Github, and Instagram.
In addition, the theme is also compatible with the WooCommerce plugin.
| GENERAL | |
|---|---|
| Item name | Sahifa |
| Category | News / Blog / Magazine / Editorial |
| Type | Premium |
| Author | TieLabs |
| Envato elite author | Yes |
| Tested version | 5.6.5 |
| COMPATIBILITY | |
| Content width | 1045px |
| Browser compatibility | IE8+ / Chrome / FF / Opera / Safari / Edge |
| WooCommerce | Yes |
| bbPress | Yes |
| BuddyPress | Yes |
| WPML | Yes |
| FONTS AND TRANSLATION | |
| Integrated translation | - |
| Google fonts | Yes |
| Custom fonts | - |
| Typekit fonts | - |
| RTL support | Yes |
| POST FEATURES | |
| Video posts | Yes |
| Audio posts | Yes |
| Post templates | 9 |
| Review system | Yes |
| Post view counter | Yes |
| Smart lists | - |
| Social share | Yes |
| Custom image lightbox | Yes |
| Custom image galery | - |
| PAGE FEATURES | |
| Page templates | 10 |
| Blocks | 15 |
| Widgets | 27 |
| Header styles | 1 |
| Footer styles | 8 |
| Category layouts | 5 |
| Masonry layout | Yes |
| Mega menus | Yes |
| Sticky menu | Yes |
| Sticky sidebars | Yes |
| Social networks | Yes |
| Social counter | Yes |
| Video playlists | - |
| Instagram widget | Yes |
| Currency widget | - |
| Pinterest widget | - |
| Weather widget | Yes |
| OTHER FEATURES | |
| Mobile theme | - |
| Demos included | 1 |
| SEO optimized | Yes |
| ADS | |
| Ad system | Yes |
| Adsense support | Yes |
| Background image ad | Yes |
| Custom ads | Yes |
| PERFORMANCE | |
| CSS file size | 204kb |
| Overall speed | Very high |
| Performance documentation | Yes |
| USER EXPERIENCE | |
| Total ratings | 3644 |
| 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 | - |
| Extra documentation | Yes |
| PREMIUM PLUGINS | |
| Plugins | Taqyeem, Taqyeem Buttons Addon, Taqyeem Predefined Criteria Addon |
| VALUE | |
| Price | $59 |
| Value for the money | Excellent |
Performance
We have tested the Sahifa theme’s default demo on different page speed tests, and it loads the content at medium speed.
The theme documentation provides a page speed guide to help the users optimize their websites and achieve optimal performance.
Downsides
Sahifa theme can be a bit confusing for a WordPress beginner due to the relatively high number of options and settings available. Its documentation is not as consistent as expected, has no ‘Search’ button, it has no child theme support for now, and the theme’s design needs a facelift as the last major update was released in February 2015.
Hello! Thanks for the review. I’m a beginner and I think this theme is a little too complicated for me. Could you recommend another one without me having to search through all the inventory?
Thanks in advance.
Hi! We are very happy that you appreciate our work.
Considering you didn’t provide me with all the details about the type of website you want to create, I can’t tell you which one is the most suitable for your needs. I would recommend that once you have decided the purpose of your future website, you check out that certain category of themes, and read about them all. You also have the possibility to compare the themes among them. Good luck in choosing the best for you!
Good day!