By : tagDiv Published on Tuesday, September 03, 2013,09:46:03 in Wordpress Themes
Newspaper is a WordPress theme that lets you write articles and blog posts with ease. We offer great support and friendly help! The Newspaper template is excellent for a news, newspaper, magazine, publishing or review site. It also supports videos from YouTube and features a rating system. So far, we have the theme integrated with bbPress Forum, BuddyPress, Buddy Press, and WooCommerce. It uses the best clean SEO practices, and on top of that, it’s fast, simple, and easy to use. In addition, Newspaper supports responsive Google Ads and AdSense. Â
A word about speed:
This is the fastest newspaper theme available. We spent a considerable amount of time tweaking every aspect of the theme to perform at it’s absolute best. All the queries are hand inspected to be optimal, all the images and resources are carefully compress to make the site load blazing fast and all the scripts are profiled and modified to run at top speed.
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The full list of features:
Full documentationTemplate list:Homepage – We have a lot of homepages in the main menu of the demo Search – unique SEO optimized search template Blog index Author – post count, comments count and author widget Category – breadcrumbs, subcategories and category description. Tag – easy tagcloud navigation via widget 404 template – with latest posts Archives pageOther features:All the blocks – please select your block from the top. You can mix and match them. All of the content blocks support ajax pagination and subcategories (including slides)Live search with ajax and up down keysOne click demo install – NO MORE .XML files, with just one click you have the demo data installedPowered by Visual Composer – the best Drag and Drop page builderWoocommerce supportCustom bbpress styling + custom login system – you can now build a community with ease.Custom auto scaling content blocks – a block changes it’s structure to work perfectly (in sidebar, full width or pages with sidebar)Responsive Google AdSense support via our custom admin panel – the scripts loads a different google adsense spot for each screen size. Once it’s loaded it doesn’t modify it in order to be 100% compliant with Google adSense TOS.Responsive ads support – for ad networks that allow multiple ad spots on the same div or if you want to show your own ads on different devices. This option will change the ad spot on the fly, for example when a tablet is changed from landscape to portrait. (the header banner from the demo site is using this system)Inline Google AdSense or other ads after a predefined number of paragraphsAuto youtube, dailymotion and vimeo thumb downloader – just paste a youtube url and the site will download the largest image available from the clip automatically and it will set it as a featured image. Very easy to add videos to articles.Built in review system (stars, percents, points)SEO: Schema with rich snippet microdata for articles and reviewsBuilt in translation support from our admin panel. No more .po .mo files, you just get a form with all the strings from the theme and the corresponding translations.Multi Language site support via the free qTranslate plugin. All from wp-admin.Google fonts – change the fonts easy from the Theme panelSticky navigation menu – with option to enable, disable or enable only on big screens (not on phones) Each category has: category template category top posts style – each with 5 unique grid styles custom module style (loop style) custom colors custom sidebar Unlimited sidebars – each post, page, category can have it’s own sidebar. Also the author, search, tag, blog index templates all have custom sidebars Built in related posts based on tags, author or category Easy Google analytics support (just paste the code in our admin) 12 footer layouts Custom pagebuilder elements Big Grid slide 8 Big Grids 21 Blocks News ticker Video playlist Text with title Social counter Ad box Homepage post Popular category Slide Custom widgets Popular category widget – show most popular category Author box widget – show authors sorted by number of posts, or by name Social counter widget – a social counter that shows numbers of likes, followers or subscribers Ad box – allow you to select an ad zone (you define the responsive ad zones in our panel) 20 Blocks Slide Text with title We personally respond to all the request that we receive and we are trying to help everyone.
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support forum. Thanks for your interest in our theme!
Radu O., Marius, Nicu, Alin, Luci, Alina and Emil G. from tagDiv
Version 6.2.1 – July 6th, 2015
Fixed incompatibility with WordPress SEO by Yoast. The title of the homepage was unchangeable via wp seo
Version 6.1 – June 20th, 2015
added global colour for block headers in General theme colors section
now you can change the fonts on Lists in post content from Theme panel
added .screen-reader-text class for better usability
visual composer updated to the latest version
better documentation + first video tutorials
UI improvements, key images now have a specified height, this prevents repaints and it makes the page appear that it loads faster
unique articles work now as expected
better review import from version 4
speed booster 4.1 works better now + bbPress fix
big grids on iOS where missing titles until touch
block 20 css fix + speed booster
content bottom and top content ads css fix for safari, firefox and IE
various css fixes
social counter instagram
main menu z-index
missing Ajax filter option for IOS slider
visual composer single image block alignment issues
space issue when turn off the top menu on header style 12
the ajax dropdown filter sometimes disappeared when the mouse was moved down to select ca category
ajax filter – was deselecting all the selected filters from the page on click
better alignment on reviews
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The list of modified filesVersion 6.0 – June 16th, 2015
UPDATE NOTICE: This is a major update of the theme. We recommend that you do a full backup before updating form the previous version. In the package we also ship the old version.
If you update over an existing V4 theme – please make sure to remove the old files:
page-homepage-bg.php
page-homepage-bg-loop.php
page-homepage-blank.php
page-homepage-loop.php
page-homepage-timeline.php
(we recommend that you remove the old theme and upload the new one to avoid any problems)
tagDiv’s WP Booster API System is the new amazing tool designed to let you customize your theme even more
smart lists support was added. You have 5 built in smart lists to create multipages articles with style
12 different website headers were added. Each style comes with a logo spot which powers up your web identity, and a custom ad spot to maximize your income.
4 top bar templates (the black one) are now available. Now you can display the calendar date, an additional menu, the log in/register section and the social icons in 4 different ways.
21 fully styled content blocks were added to show regular article loops
8 posts grids (called big grids in our theme) are ready to use for highlighting the latest posts or featured ones
5 big grid styles, each with unique animation and feeling. All of the big grid styles work on each of the 8 post grids. This provides grate flexibility.
12 footer styles and a new footer info bar are now available. Customize the footer adding text, widgets or social icons and maximize your website’s impact on its audience.
16 modules that are used for displaying posts in loops.
5 new ad spots added to the theme to maximize your income. Each ad spot has one box where you can insert your ad code and the theme makes it responsive automatically.
11 post templates. We designed them paying attention to the smallest details. Now you can use a featured image or video, a custom WYSIWYG article editor and dozens of options to style your articles.
thumb selection system. The new systems allows you to customize what thumbs are needed to be cut, this keeps the number of generated thumbs low and the site faster.
completely rewritten slide block – We’ve rebuilt this tool that let you create the perfect page for your website.
custom made parallax library. Made by us, it’s optimized to perform way better than off the shelf / open source solutions.
custom made lazy loading library. Coded from scratch, it’s fast and works very well
custom made animation stack library. This in house built library will bring a lot of cool stuff to the articles
custom made events library – all the javascript events are handled by our code
custom made pull down menu – when there is not enough space for the categories in the block, this library builts a dropdown and starts to move items there
custom made smart sidebar. Again, we decided to build our own solution and integrate it with our existing code to achieve extraordinary performance and flexibility. The smart sidebar library supports multiple sidebars, menus, full ajax support in and out of the sidebar, viewport resizing and more..
the ‘Trending now’ block allows you have a ticker on the top of the main content area of your website showing the latest posts.
the translation panel was completely rebuilt and the theme comes already translated in a lot of languages. The user can also correct the translations and share them with other users of the theme.
rgba color support for all the configurable colours (a lot more colours than in V4)
top bar menus now support sub menus
font awesome is now supported and styled to work in the main menu and in the top bar menu via a plugin (Font Awesome 4 Menus)
setting to disable smooth scroll
block settings added to theme panel
8 Category templates – the header of each category is fully customizable
Each category can use another post grid if needed
Each category can use another post grid style if needed
optional category tag on almost all the modules
the grid system was rebuilt and it’s much more leaner
.po/.mo translation support
vectorial social icons
welcome and support wp-admin panels
plugin installer – with way better usability
one click installer that actually works as expected – built from scratch, it’s made to provide a starting point for your site.
tinyMCE – two columns support
tinyMCE – text highlighting support (with multiple colors)
tinyMCE – text background color support
system status page – the theme will atempt to self diagnosticate the most common problems that show up
added arrow list style format in post editor
the theme panel text are now much more helpfull. We took the time to explain each setting as best as we could.
better excerpt support
way better color selection panel
the typography selection panel was improved a lot
we made all the panels related to the typography / theme fonts accessible from one panel
all the social networks that appear in the header and footer of the theme are now configured from a single panel located in the main theme panel
the header panel was reorganized to follow a more logical order (top bar, main menu, logo etc)
Ad box shortcode support title
titles with big fonts now have a better readability (added letter-spacing)
responsive go to top arrow (it doesn’t cover the footer text on tablets)
dynamic loading of blocks and modules ( ~15% lower ram usage )
video play list is more compatible with different hosts/servers. If your video play list was not downloading the video details, please update the theme.
when the user disables the post view, the theme will stop keeping track of them in the background -> faster loading time
the panel loads and saves faster. The total size of the panel was reduced by ~ 40%, we load the rest via ajax
most of the controls from the panel are now animated via css
faster category page, the system that pulls the subcategories uses two less queries
(metadata) all the pages from the theme pass the new google metadata validation tool
now on category pages the theme only gets child categories for the top level ones. Otherwise it will show the siblings
we refactor the live ajax search box, it now provides a better user experience and it’s prepared for major improvements
better paint (on screen drawing) performance on iOS
better font loading system – it now loads by default only the selected characters
better visual composer support (the theme supports the design tab from visual composer on rows and columns as expected
better support for ie8 and ie9 (we keep track of the css selector limit that ie8 and ie9 have)
rich snippets reviews
click on home link and on logo adds a trailing backslash as expected, preventing one redirect
disqus comments css
social sharing from Jetpack css
comments pagination bug
speed booster – font loading and speed booster font optimizations. The speed booster uses collections to load fonts now
php notice when source or via have no url
author meta data was a bit broken in google meta data testing tool
author meta data is present even when SHOW AUTHOR BOX is set to disabled in theme panel
tagDiv modal window is now translated as well (1 of 2 etc)
video playlist title encoding issue with double “
https issue on backend. TinyMCE font was loaded via HTTP
astpect ration for vimeo videos
missing translations
webmaster tools error caused by two search queries that go to the same page /search/ and ?s=
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V 4.6.2 – 4 March
updated visual composer to the latest version updated revolution slider to the latest version better: woo commerce support (css fixes) better: the video playlist now uses native wordpress functions to fatch video information better: embeded videos now try to load at 720p by default better: the site wide background is now top centered when strach is on. This allows to more easly find images that work well with the layout. fix: the gallery shortcode was emitinig errors sometimesThe list of modified files V 4.6.1 – 20 December
updated visual composer to V 4.3.5 (this version of the plugin is compatible with WordPress 4.1) V 4.6 – 25 November
fixed rendering bug of menu on ie 9, 10 and 11 better header aligment on ios and android (mobile menu) fixed roboto condensed not loading if the user set roboto as font ( thanks ZTWP ) fixed video playlist issue with youtube clips that contain strange characters in titles fixed post count was not getting disable even when set to disable from theme panel fixed text with title link warning fixed https issues (we had some http links / metadata hardcoded) fixed social counter plugin + twitter issue. For example instead of 2000 followers it showed 2 fixed issue when menu dissapears on IE11 when a user clicks on the pagination of the megamenu The list of modified files V 4.5 – 9 October
the css generated by theme is now saved in the database for a faster loading page the panels Categories, Translations and Custom Typography are now loaded via AJAX fixed issue fixed small incompatibility with other plugins that use wpalchemy metabox fixed author vcard meta tag fixed missing author vcard bug when the author box was hidden fixed issue with the 7 days popular sorting fixed google plus sharing image new mobile menu with smoother animation smoother loader animation fixed mega menu subcategories on mobile The list of modified files V 4.4 – 25 September
added new custom made infinite scrolling script with support for a ‘load more’ button after x number of pages fixed the load more and infinite scroll animation added option in panel to show the author under the title of the post added rel=”nofollow” to all the social profile links fixed mega menu selected style when one of the subcategories from the menu is selected added help text to all the page templates we renamed the bbpress template (please select it again if you are using the bbpress forum) the loding animation now gets the theme color insted of black as default The list of modified files V 4.3 – 13 September
fixed bug with spaces between blocks + other UI problems New youtube video player widget + shortcode + pagebuilder block New vimeo video player widget + shortcode + pagebuilder block tagDiv Speed Booster plugin update: jquery version bump to match the one from WordPress 4 new grid system: the 980px grid is deprecated fixed an issue with the white menu sprite fix for header style 8, now this header support any color in block – Text with title – you can now add a link as title new tab in Theme Panel for adding custom javascript on Default Template the page title, content, H1-6 and quotes can now be individually set from Theme panel -> Custom Typography new block (Block 10), displays a list of post titles with no feature image add import Default Style, to be used when rolling back to Default Style after ussing a predifinied style updated visual composer plugin updated revolution slider plugin removed authorship support because it’s deprecated by google The list of modified files V 4.2.2 – 2 September
NEW: Visual composer updated to the latest version (if you update the theme, please update this plugin!) NEW: Revolution slider updated to the latest version (please update this plugin if you are using it) NEW: Full Wordpress 4 RC1 compatible Visual composer UI fixes fixed pagination issue on homepage + loop fix bug in uniques articles: not working when sidebar was on left side fix bug in uniques articles: when ajax post view counter is enabled and uniques articles is disabled, ajax post view was activating uniques articles The list of modified files V 4.2.1 – 29 August
fix categories display in Theme panel -> Categories fix Revolution Slider z-index issue with menu behind fixed footer copyright text problem with some characters fixed social counter + twitter social counter – added no follow on links classic blog – text logo fix classic blog – menu colors fix classic blog – boxed version fix fixed sidebar bug on template + loop The list of modified files V 4.2 – 8 August
added ajax post views count – the view counter now works with all the caching plugins (the system can be enabled via the panel) added header style 8 remove caption from content added excerpt for big slides in panel various code fixes The list of modified files V 4.1 – 29 July
Tested and better compatibility with WordPress 4 beta 2 visual editor is now accurate, the article that you are editing in tinymce will look the same on the front end new post template added (style 5) Added option in Theme Panel to show/hide the footer and sub-footer better style for the default wordpress one column gallery fixed the page template with parallax background added `default site post template` (Theme Panel -> Post Settings -> Default site post template), this option is used to display a post page using a preseted post template. this option is owerwritten by `Post template` from backend add/ edit post page added Homepages shorcodes to Visual Composer The list of modified files V 4.0.1 – 18 July
the theme now cuts separate thumbs for mega menu – this greatly improves the loading time with multiple mega menus. Please regenerate the thumbnails Read here fixed new post error when user is not admin fixed css issues with full width posts fixed demo style selector fixed speed booster plugin (when opening up the site, it was appearing for a moment with no style) fixed loading gif appearing at the end of the post fixed self hosted video support (better style) fixed self hosted audio style fixed footer socials on mobile style fixed spelling errors added new sections in Theme Panel -> Custom Typography (h1-6 tags, blockquotes, the titles for post template 1-4, title for pages with title) The list of modified files V 4.0 – 17 July
five new post templates new drag and drop gallery (slider) with details and caption support new modal window that is available on post images new affix menu – smart snap (the sticky menu auto hides on mobiles and appears only on swipe down) new affix menu – fixed incompatibilities with some plugins new interface on posts and pages (metaboxes) – based on icons instead of text for better usability new option to use a different logo on mobiles new javascript architecture javascript switched to “use strict” smooth scrolling on chrome css3 animations on block transitions social counter plugin 2.1 – newspaper 4 + new wp booster framework compatibility speed booster 2.5 – most of the javascripts use defer parsing now (this makes the site render faster) switched to HTML5 galleries, image + captions, comments lists and featured images photo gallery on IOS Slider fixed td text with title block fixed the font loader – it was loading the same google font twice in specific cases added print.css for post page The list of modified files V 3.9.2 – 30 June
added ‘Authors’ word in translation panel fixed the translation issue that appeared sometimes for strings that contained ‘ speedbooster 2.4 – updated jquery version from google cdn speedbooster 2.4 – support for https updated visual composer version fixed inline ad (it now works with styled paragraphs) The list of modified files V 3.9 – 12 June
visual composer plugin – updated chage from htmlentities to str_replece php funtion to fix the replace the `”` in the jsvascript code better pagination – better compatibility with custom post types and plugins SEO – better metadata for slides (all the slides from pagebuilder and widgets) SEO – better metadata on category listings SEO – better metadata for reviews in big slider SEO – fixed metadata for reviews in listings (on blocks and on pages) SEO – better author google plus metadata SEO – fixed breadcrumbs metadata (single post, category, author, tags, archives etc..) SEO – fixed aythor metadata when the author box is disabled new breadcrumb system – support for subpages new breadcrumb system – support for custom post types speed booster plugin v2.3 – fixed warnings with wp_debug on The list of modified files V 3.8.4 – 29 May
fixed view counter + yoast incompatibility removed legacy code for backward compatibility added text title support to the row shortcode from the pagebuilder fixed missing animations from visual composer social counter plugin update visual composer plugin update The list of modified files V 3.8.2 – 20 May
fixed missing image from facebook shares on video post formats usability improvements in the fonts selection panel fixed pagebuilder icons style posts with pagination register only one view per page (more accurate page view counter) we updated the revolution slider plugin to the latest version speed booster plugin – revolution slider is now compatible speed booster plugin – improved compatibility with jetpack fixed text and title widget issue when visual composer plugin is not installed fixed bbPress freshness date/username tagDiv social counter – fixed twitter issue again (please update the plugin) The list of modified filesV 3.8.1 – 13 May
we updated the visual composer plugin to the latest version (the plugin has to be updated via ftp) change the include of the modal login widgit from locate_template to require_once to fix some issues videos post format doesn’t hide the video if the hide featured image option is enabled from theme panel social counter fixes (the plugin has to be updated via ftp) The list of modified filesV 3.8
fixed the pagebuilder tabs fixed the shortcodes button the login/register form supports child themes better https support. All the schema information will change to https if needed fixed compatibility with some plugins (the ones that used media upload dialogs sometimes had problems) fixed visual editor bug when the theme is used without the visual composer plugin The list of modified filesV 3.7 – 25 April
the new version of the pagebuilder has to be manually installed as a plugin now!
updated the pagebuilder to the latest version – it has to be installed as a plugin now – read more added new sort order for Blocks: Random posts Today added new sort order for Blocks: Random posts from last 7 Day added half and quarter stars to the Reviews feature fix Google plus social counter proble, when number bigger then 999 only first digit was displayed in some cases fixing color of the search string in the search page fixed social counter for Vimeo fixed the last 7 days popular counter fixed speed booster plugin issue with themes that are not made by us fixed panel issue with multiple subcategories (3 levels deep) fixed customizer issues on wp 3.9 The list of modified filesadded new font system added support for custom font files added support for typekit.com fonts added Most Commented sort order option for widgets ( thanks luizsobral ) added support for font stacks better support for google fonts (it optimizes font delivery) fixed the breadcrumbs for the bbpress forum (no more 404 file missing error) fixed mega menu font issue slides work now with only one postadded 4 predefined style: SPORT, CAFE, FASHION, TECH – screenshot added option to uppercase the font for the Header Menu – screenshot added Alphabetical A -> Z sorting option added option to change the typography of the default Blockquote in Theme panel – screenshot added COLOR option for default Blockquote – screenshot added old sharing back – screenshot fixed Ad overlapping on Header Style 4 fixed translation for Home breadcrumb fixed issue with video thumb downloader (sometimes it did not download the thumb) better megamenu handling on touch devices added comments on pages ( with option in theme panel – default it’s disabled ) post views counter alternative for W3 Total Cache (with WP-PostViewer and Ajax_the_view plugins) – http://forum.tagdiv.com/wp-postviews-post-view-counter-alternative-for-w3-total-cache/V 3.4 – 07 March
major improvements to the mega menu. Works with hover on sub-categories major improvements to the ajax system. It’s really fast now added more source and via added transparent header option in Theme Panel – screenshot added option to switch icons color for Header Menu from Black to White – screenshot added option to switch off the uppercase font on Big Slider/Sliders screenshot fixed sharing style fixed sharing post to open in new window fixed Mega Menu font fixed wp-admin upload file issue on small screensNew sharing icons better design for tags at the end of posts better one click import script. Now our demo that is installed locally is more compleate Fixed translation ‘Home’ in the breadcrumbs Added Sub-menu font in Theme Panel -> Custom Typography Fixed MegaMenu color issue Added new pages and categories to demo install fixed some random appearing issue with the menu and category selection on posts we switched the h3 tags to h4 in the mega menunew mega menu new and improved single.php template (it is now easy to modify for DIY folks) new and improved modules (the modules are very easy to modify now for DIY projects) – also work well with child themes fixed bottom ad issue floating inline ads can now appear at the top of the article fixed more stories appering on pages time line template fixed draft posts appearing in ajax search added support for import and exportfixed the child theme again – to the person who rated us 3 stars for this, please update the theme and child theme, it should work fine now. added 4 new content blocks and 4 new widgets added 3 new adspots (you can use them in sidebars and in shortcodes) added home template from the demo to the pagebuilder In Theme panel-> Ads tab added option for custom adsense ads sizes for each device fixed style 3 ad (full logo + menu + add) now works as expected fixed style 3 + background issue moved the analytics code to the header section fixed sticky menu on mobiles fixed speed booster plugin + google adsense issue (please update the plugin) updated .po .mo files the option: Swipe menu on mobile is back added option: More Articles on post pages; Theme panel: POST SETINGS -> More Articles Box section added option: Disable Comments site wide ; Theme panel: POST SETINGS -> Post Settings sections fixed the content ad problem fixed social counter twitter coung issue – please update your plugin if you are experiencing issues with it  Â
More info about Newspaper
Built for newspaper sites, article sites and review sites Custom colors, selectable for each category Fast loading newspaper section Responsive design Simple to use – basically all the newspaper sections are customizable from the admin. You can have different layouts for each newspaper category. Ideal for article sites, review sites, news, newspaper and moreNewspaper is fast The theme is blazing fast. It’s really incredible how fast the pages built with Newspaper load. As you know, speed is very important when building a site so we’ve spent a huge amount of time optimizing this theme for Newspaper to load extremely fast.
Long time support and development We can easily send updates to themeforest each time we make an improvement so with each purchase you will fund the further development of this newspaper theme.
Small number of external scripts You can easily add your own javascripts without worrying about incompatibilities between the theme and your scripts. Newspaper uses a very small number of external libraries so it’s very easy to add new features to this theme.
Good coding practice and naming conventions All the html used is HTML 5 valid and it’s incredibly easy to work with.
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