Newspaper 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 in a comprehensive Newspaper WordPress Theme Review.

Design

Newspaper by tagDiv is the best-selling WordPress news theme of all time on the Envato ThemeForest Market. Why? Because you don’t have to be a web designer to create a beautiful news website.

With a clean, and stylish architecture, Newspaper is an impressive and one-of-a-kind theme for magazine sites. Designed with your audience in mind, this responsive & retina ready template offers you a multitude of options for small screen devices. Newspaper allows you to choose how your content displays on the desktop, mobile, and tablets.

Whether you want to take the time to enjoy building your new site from scratch or redesign the website with the speed of light, the Newspaper template is an excellent choice. It comes with over 80 amazing pre-made demo designs, and a gallery of 810+ already built design templates, called tagDiv Cloud Library.

Click to import fully-designed websites

The Newspaper WordPress Theme saves you from the hassle of searching and testing to find the right design. It comes with dozens of pre-built sites you can choose from. Newspaper brings you a custom importing system, so you can preview a demo and install it with a simple click. You can also load the demo with content or just the design. Furthermore, the Newspaper X version comes with a new default PRO demo design, which is lighter and faster.

If you decide to uninstall it, the import system clears the website of any demo elements, leaving your pages just like they were before.

Customize everything on the frontend

Newspaper theme gives you the perfect balance between the elements used on a page. It brings you a frontend page builder, called tagDiv Composer. Light and fast, this tool helps you edit your pages just by dragging and dropping elements where your heart desires. To make everything even easier, you can create complex CSS customization with only a few clicks.

Arranging and styling each element is now a piece of cake. You don’t need any coding skills to make your dream come true. With this powerful tool, you can build astonishing pages. Newspaper WordPress Theme comes with 22 multipurpose shortcodes you can use to create landing pages, presentation and business websites. tagDiv Composer makes your site an infinite playground where you can test your ideas, challenging your creativity.

Create layouts that fit your content like a glove

The latest version of the Newspaper theme brings you a new way to create your websites. Faster and easier! The tagDiv developers also offer you a quick way to create content using elements designed by the professionals such as the frontend tagDiv Composer page builder and drag and drop functionality.

Over 810 elements, layouts, sections, headers, footers, and homepages are waiting for you in the tagDiv Cloud Library. Just click a single post, 404, author, category, fancy footer or search page, then import the ones you like from the tagDiv servers. To access this section, you, first, need to register your theme license.

I’ve written at the beginning of this Newspaper WordPress theme review that it’s designed with the publishing industry in mind. However, what does this mean? With Newspaper theme, you have no constraints on creating your content.

In the tagDiv Cloud Library, you have 68 single templates. For those who don’t know, a single template refers to the post layouts. So, you have 68 designs created by professionals and an additional blank one you can use to build your own from the ground up. Each template is fully customizable as you can edit it with tagDiv Composer page builder to add or remove elements.

Even more, Newspaper theme comes with a neat header builder, packed inside the tagDiv Composer. I would only tell that you can create different headers and menus for mobile and small screens devices.

Newspaper WordPress Theme Review: Pages and Categories

The theme gives you a myriad of elements and shortcodes, countless big grid style combinations, ready-made category page templates, and 25 predefined blocks. There are also five Flex Block elements that bring extra flexibility and lets you publish articles without constraints, and can be highly customized.

You can emphasize the Above the fold area by using Big Grids displayed in full-width size. Custom built features like the image slider gallery, images lightbox effect, social counter, news ticker, video playlists, weather and exchange widgets, give your website a professional touch.

Be social and make friends

The Newspaper template is social-friendly. Specifically, it allows you to keep the visitors engaged with your website through different networks. You can choose from a list of 37 social networks, like Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, Vimeo, VKontakte, YouTube, and so on

A great way to attract visitors is to harness the power of typography on your pages. Newspaper opens new perspectives with Google, Adobe Typekit or Custom Fonts, giving you the tools to enchant the visitor’s attention.

The tagDiv Composer has recently introduced a Fonts Style tab that lets you create custom typography for every block or element present. You can combine beautiful fonts, size, or line height. Thus, the process is natural, without involving code knowledge, or additional font customization plugins to slow down your website’s performance.

Another helpful tool is the Translation Panel, which helps you load one of the dozens of translations available and automatically convert a list of strings.

Monetize with intelligent ads

tagDiv also implemented a modern ad system that allows you to generate revenue from advertisements without downgrading the reader’s experience. You can easily monetize your website with 18 ad spots, ready to be used in the header, footer, article, smart list, and sidebar areas.

Moreover, the Newspaper theme comes with an option to show ads on individual posts or pages, using the tagDiv Composer page builder and the Single Post Content or Ad Box elements. You can use AdSense or HTML code.

Newspaper WordPress Theme Review: Functionality

Above all, the options, settings, plugins, demos, and website monitoring systems are gathered in a single place, the Newspaper Theme Panel. Neatly, clear and intuitively organized, all the theme’s options are straightforward to use.

With this in mind, I’ll write a few thoughts on the tagDiv’s page builder – tagDiv Composer. It is crafted for blogs, news, and magazine websites, giving you a unique way to build pages, posts, and headers. Moreover, you can see the results in real time, and that makes it a powerful tool. The tagDiv Composer is a highly optimized plugin that gives you performance and reliability.

Starting with Newspaper 10 version, the tagDiv Composer has a new look and new options to ease your work. For instance, you can use a search function on the blocks to get to the wanted option much faster.

Even more flexible and versatile, Newspaper incorporates multi-purpose elements that let you build creative landing pages for your business. There’s a section into the tagDiv Composer page builder where you can find the new multipurpose shortcodes.

Moreover, you can mix rows and get the visual appeal you’re seeking for.  From custom and reusable templates, one-page functionality, to image & video parallax, gradient colors, and everything in between, Newspaper has got you covered.

Premium plugin and widgets for free

The theme brings you eight premium plugins: tagDiv Composer, tagDiv Cloud Library, Social Counter, tagDiv Mobile Theme, and tagDiv Newsletter. Also, the theme is bundled with the Revolution Slider and Visual Composer plugins.

With the Newsletter Plugin, you can keep your audience up to date. It comes with over eight beautiful designs so that you can adapt it to your website appearance. The tagDiv Newsletter plugin is compatible with MailChimp, Mailerlite, and Feedburner campaign providers.

Furthermore, the theme was tested with the WP Super Cache, Contact Form 7, bbPress, BuddyPress, Font Awesome 4 Menus, Jetpack, WooCommerce, SEO by Yoast and WP User Avatar plugins.

Newspaper also comes with a custom plugin to help you show off your social networks stats – the tagDiv Social Counter plugin. You also have two unique social image widgets (Instagram and Pinterest). Besides, the tagDiv author created 35+ custom widgets, which you can easily drag into your website to highlight the essential.

Newspaper is AMP ready for faster results so that you can benefit from all of the mobile theme functionality on your pages. In addition to this, the theme raises the standards on page loading speed and mobile optimization.

Performance

We have tested the Newspaper default demo on different page speed tests, and it loads the content at high speed. Furthermore, this theme has extensive documentation with a search option and video tutorials. It helps you achieve performance and optimize your website.

Downsides

This Newspaper theme WordPress review shows you that the template has a multitude of available settings allowing users to customize almost every element and section of the template. However, this diversity can be overwhelming for WordPress beginners. It may take you a bit to get used to the theme’s way of giving you access to customization settings. But, once you do… Well, you’ll know what I mean.

Newspaper Theme has no RTL support.