GREAT THEME FOR ANY NEWS WEBSITE

The newspaper theme gets its name more from the default style in which it was programmed. Truthfully, this theme would work great for any news website that uses WordPress due to its ability to publish a large amount of sub-categorized content and organize it in a way that is easy on your readers’ eyes.

Its unique layout features a “Headline” at the very top of your homepage that includes the publication date and title of various “breaking news” posts that your visitors can instantly click on to go through and see the full story. The logo is centered at the top of the homepage, plus there is room for dual images on either side that will give you a chance to insert customized screenshots along with brief descriptions.

Newspaper does not have a featured content slider, but rather relies on a “main headline” layout to grab the reader’s attention through a large screenshot that comes with a title, publication date and number of comments. This one story will in many cases make or break the impression first-time visitors have of your website, so webmasters should make sure they have high-quality photographic content to insert within the headline module before publishing a story.

The categorized feeds are displayed below the featured story and are laid out in a single column with thumbnails, titles, publication date, author name and comments. By default, newspaper is a theme that will allow you to focus highly on quality photographic material in order to get your visitors interested in a story. Those who want to focus more on text excerpts may want to download a different theme from Theme Junkie or take the time to alter the code within the Editor.

OPTIONS PANEL

The Newspaper Options Panel is similar in nature to other Theme Junkie downloads in that it requires zero code manipulation in order to work properly right out of the box.

Control Panel tabs are self-explanatory and allow even beginning webmasters to easily publish content and arrange layouts with just a few clicks of a mouse. The advantage to having this type of format for running a website is that owners can spend more of their time and budget on actual content generation rather than programming and back-end maintenance.

SIDEBAR AND FOOTER

The Newspaper theme has plenty of sidebar slots and footer regions for inserting the widgets of your choice.

This is perfect for those who have taken the time to publish their posts on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and others.

You can easily configure your social media feeds to appear within the widgetized areas, plus you can place ad banners, recent post links, Flickr photos, etc. alongside other important page links.

• 3 Colour Schemes
• Advanced Theme Control Panel
• Custom Homepage Layout
• Large Featured Story on Homepage
• Headline News Ticker
• Auto-sized Thumbnail Management
• Text/Image Logo Switcher
• Fully Widgetized Sidebars
• Advertisement Management
• Localization Ready
• Analytics/Stat Management
• Built-in FeedBurner Support
• Threaded Comments
• Gravatar Ready
• Custom Page Templates
• 7 Custom Widgets
• Dropdown Menu Navigation
• Smooth Tableless design
• WordPress 3.2+ Compatible
• Cross-Browsers Compatibility
• Forum Support
• Lifetime Upgrades

Standard pricing of the Newspaper theme from Theme-Junkie is as follows :
Standard Package: $29.95
Theme Junkie Club Membership: $49.95/year (all themes)