Newsmag is a modern WordPress theme that lets you write articles and blog posts with ease. We offer great support and friendly help!

The Newsmag template is excellent for a news, newspaper, magazine, publishing or review site. It also supports videos from YouTube and features a rating system. It uses the best clean SEO practices, and on top of that, it’s fast, simple, and easy to use. In addition, News mag supports responsive Google Ads and AdSense.

 

 

 

 

 

A word about speed:

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.

Run pagespeed on our demo

 

The full list of features:

Full documentation

Template 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

Other features:

• Live search with ajax and up down keys
• One click demo install – NO MORE .XML files, with just one click you have the demo data installed
• Powered by Visual Composer – the best Drag and Drop page builder
• 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 paragraphs
• Auto 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 reviews
• Built 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. We hate po mo files
• Multi Language site support via the free qTranslate plugin. All from wp-admin.
• All the global settings are available in the wordpress theme customizer with live preview
• gif animation support – this is a beta feature.
• Google fonts – change the fonts easy from the admin panel

• Sticky navigation menu – with option to enable, disable or enable only on big screens (not on phones)
• Each category has:
• custom layout (no sidebar, sidebar left, sidebar right)
• big grid with latest posts (optional)
• custom colors
• custom module style (loop style)
• 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)
• 4 footer layouts
• 16 custom content blocks (ajax enabled with subcategories and pagination)
• Block 1
• Block 2
• Block 3
• Block 4
• Block 5
• Block 6
• Block 7
• Block 8
• Block 9
• Block 10
• Block 11
• Block 12
• Block 13
• Block 14
• Block 15
• Block 16
• 11 extra content blocks

• Custom widgets
• All the 16 content blocks are also available as 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)

We personally respond to all the request that we receive and we are trying to help everyone.
Please visit our support forum.

Thanks for your interest in our theme!
Radu, Marius, Luci, Emil and Nicu from tagDiv

 

 

 

Version 1.7.1 – April 23rd, 2015

UPDATE DESCRIPTION: This update brings a better compatibility with WordPress 4.2, Youtube V3 api support and also some hot fixes
UPDATE NOTICE: Please update your social counter plugin to V 2.10. The plugin was changed to work with YouTube’s API V3
WordPress 4.2 compatibility – in some instances the old version of the theme may loose the settings for specific categories due to this WordPress bug that was fixed in 4.2
security update – the TGM Plugin Activation class that is recommended by Envato and used by most of the themes here has a security vulnerability that allows cross site script execution. We patched it in this version. Read more here and here
visual composer updated to the latest version. It fixes a small issue with WordPress 4.2
option to disable the image lazy loading animation
option to disable the smooth scroll on browsers that do not have smooth scrolling support
the lazy loading animation waits a predefined time until it show all the images. This prevents situations when a missing image prevented all the other images to appear
better pagination system (sometimes it was adding … between consecutive numbers)
trending now block is now animated and looks more nice
general animation tweaks (subcategories, lazy loading, load more)
the theme and social counter now uses YouTube API V3
the featured video now works with https hosts
the comment list is now visible even when the comments are closed (the same behavior as the default wordpress themes)
https for video format posts
video playlist on https sites
Load more button now fades out when there are no more posts to display
issue with title of post text encoding
When using block 14 after block 11 now its showing properly
the background ad url field from our panel was not working properly sometimes
vimeo video player shortcode now works as expected

fix    better    new

The list of modified files

Version 1.7 – March 20th, 2015

animation stack – all the animations form the theme are now faster
custom made lazy loading effect on images. We took the time to create the best lazy loading effect from scratch. All the scripts that we use for it are custom made and are design to work as fast as possible with our themes.
two additional ad spots
BuddyPress support
(metadata) all the pages from the theme pass the new google metadata validation tool
better custom ads support in panel
better excerpts panel with more information
we moved the ‘disable comments on pages’ setting to the Page template section
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 preapared for major improvements
better scrolling experience on google chrome
updated visual composer plugin to the latest version
rss + excerpts issue, if wordpress was set to show rss excerpts, it was showing only 4 words
android chrome css issues (the small font icons where not aligned properly)

fix    better    new

The list of modified files

Version 1.6 – February 26th, 2015

when you have background color on site, the color disappear on post style 6
the two strings that where not translated properly
arrow list shortcode
issue with page template options on sites that did not use the english language
featured image placeholders now work as expected again
hide and show category label panel setting
search icon click on affix was going back to top
excerpt not working for trending now
excerpt missing for mega menu title
links that contained only #_and_something did not work
https issue on backend. TinyMCE font was loaded via HTTP
astpect ration for vimeo videos
missing translation
better top bar settings
social icons moved in their own panel in backend
better footer panel with better text and better organization
better woocommerce 2.3 compatibility
faster category page, the system that pulls the subcategories uses two less queries
removed width of the top bar for better spacing
removed the texture from parallax templates (prevent flickering)
footer template system
category template system + category top post style template. Currently we do not deliver any new templates but this system paves the way for easy user customizations via plugins and it also allows us to add new styles.
when subcategories don’t fit in the category page, the theme will make a drop down with the excess categories
RGBA color picker in panel. You can now use colors with alpha blending (transparency) on all the elements of the theme that support colors

fix    better    new

The list of modified files

Version 1.5 – January 29th, 2015

UPDATE DESCRIPTION: This update brings another round of performance improvements, all the renamed shortcodes are now loaded on demand a lot of small and medium fixes and the new translation panel.
UPDATE NOTICE: Please update the social counter. The following shortcodes and widgets have been renamed
– td_ad_box -> td_block_ad_box
– td_authors -> td_block_authors
– td_homepage_full_1 -> td_block_homepage_full_1
– td_popular_categories -> td_block_popular_categories
– td_video_vimeo -> td_block_video_vimeo
– td_video_youtube -> td_block_video_youtube
– td_text_with_title -> td_block_text_with_title
– td_slide -> td_block_slide
– td_social_counter -> td_block_social_counter
– Rename the short codes via SQL
– Please note that the renamed widgets have to be re added to each sidebar after this update. Make sure that you backup your database and if possible get the widget list from your sidebars.

theme translation panel that allows the community to send and receive translations and corrections
the theme comes already translated in 17 languages (via theme panel, .po .mo are also provided in the /translation folder)
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
missing excerpt length in the panel for related posts
top menu css fix (second level menu in the top bar is now hidden)
missing bullets list
tagDiv modal window is now translated as well (1 of 2 etc)
bug with external urls that contain #hash not working
Pagebuilder + page title template – when a sidebar position was selected on page, all the widgets from the sidebar stopped working
Pagebuilder + page title template – pagebuilder elements got confused about the number of columns with or without sidebar
video playlist title encoding issue with double “
footer text backslashes on single quoate characters
slider view counter now obeys the panel vide counter setting
speed booster 3.2 now works as expected with bbPress (the bbpress css is no longer moved after the theme css)
gradient hover transition from Big Grid Firefox fix
we have regenerated the font icons
woocommerce product list css bug on responsive iPad portrait
speed booster 3.2 – google fonts are no longer moved to the footer of the page. Faster apparent loading time
visual composer plugin updated to the latest version
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
you can now customize the number of related articles (3, 6, 9, 12) or if the sidebar is used (5, 10, 15, 20)
added related posts title excerpt in theme panel. You can now cut the title on related posts if needed
9 more shortcodes are loaded on demand, meaning that if the shortcode is not used, the theme doesn’t even opens the file.
now you can Login/Register from bbPress to post a new topic or post a reply via our modal login window
On posts with pagination, template 4 and 5 now show the featured image on all the pages of the post

fix    better    new

The list of modified files

V 1.4 – 10 January

IMPORTANT!!! – Please update the tagDiv Social Counter plugin with this update

• new: internal api
• new: bbPress support
• improvement: this version of the theme requires the new tagdiv social counter plugin. You can find it in the /plugins folder
• improvement: dynamic loading of blocks and modules ( ~15% lower ram usage )
• improvement: 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.
• improvement: support for overwriting of blocks via child theme and via plugins
• improvement: support for new blocks, headers, modules, smart lists, thumbnail sizes via our plugin api
• improvement: admin panel help text (Template settings panel)
• improvement: when the user disables the post view, the theme will stop keeping track of them in the background -> faster loading time
• improvement: added option to have a border on the text with title widget + page builder block
• improvement: now you can login to post a comment directly from the comment section
• improvement: added in Theme Panel -> Translations: SHARE
• fix: the [tagDiv] Text with title widget and shortcode. It now works properly with HTML content but please rebuilt the widget and hit save again to see the changes.
• fix: print css background issue
• fix: video title encoding issue on the tagdiv play list (sometimes the title of the video was rendered with strange characters)
• fix: issue with “&” encoding as strange characters in block titles
• fix: pagination issue on categories that don’t have child categories and when the category big grid is disabled
• fix: rich snippets reviews
• fix: missing image for two placeholders
• The list of modified files

V 1.3.1 – 20 December

• updated visual composer to V 4.3.5 (this version of the plugin is compatible with WordPress 4.1)

V 1.3 – 17 December

• improvement: added translation for EVEN MORE NEWS widget from footer
• improvement: added in Theme Panel -> Custom Typography: Footer text under logo
• improvement: added in Theme Panel -> Post settings: Show/Hide categories tags on single post page
• improvement: added in Theme Panel -> Custom Typography: Subtitle for post
• fix: slider height when the screen size is smaller then 320px
• fix: removed image captions that appears in post excerpt
• fix: reviews stars number display
• fix: added break-word for comments text
• fix: php notice when source or via have no url
• fix: sharing show/hide issue
• fix: twitter share strange characters in title
• fix: facebook like button show on https
• fix: load default style stack was not working
• fix: module 14 css bug
• fix: added module MX 4 to the excerpt panel
• The list of modified files

V 1.2 – 8 December

• NEW: woocommerce support
• NEW: added buttons shortcodes in post editor
• NEW: included Slider Revolution plugin
• improvement: added arrow list style format in post editor
• fix: fixed Child theme
• The list of modified files

V 1.1 – 28 November

• NEW: 17 Predefined Page Templates in Visual Composer Builder.
• NEW: article print css
• NEW: text with title block is now also available as a widget
• NEW: .po/.mo translation support
• improvement: added slider auto play feature
• improvement: wp_booster v3.0 – stability improvements, better compatibility with other plugins
• improvement: new style format for the text editor
• improvement: new elements that can be customized from theme panel -> custom typography
• improvement: responsive go to top arrow (it doesn’t cover the footer text on tablets) (thanks Chris)
• improvement: titles with big fonts now have a better readability (added letter-spacing) (thanks Chris)
• improvement: Ad box shortcode support title (thanks Chris)
• fix: smart sidebar issue on chrome – it was flickering sometimes
• fix: smart sidebar was not positioned properly when ajax content was loaded in the main area of the theme
• fix: missing font when roboto is used as font in the theme panel ( thanks ZTWP / newspaper theme )
• fix: speed booster 3.1 – font loading and speed booster font optimizations. The speed booster uses collections to load fonts now
• fix: homepage full post featured – bug when you were unable to press scroll down arrow.
• fix: homepage full post featured – bug when you were unable to select the dropdown under the featured image.
• fix: extra pixels from bottom body on mobile versions.
• fix: bug images strange position in smart list 2 on safari.
• fix: removed extra closing tag from comments pages.
• fix: video icon on slider to stay centred on resize.
• fix: IOS slider style and functionality
• fix: smart list 3 css fix
• fix: block 14 in footer css bug
• fix: grid 2 columns css bug
• fix: comments pagination bug
• fix: footer search css bug in IE11
• fix: rich snippets reviews
• fix: click on home link and on logo adds a trailing backslash as expected, preventing one redirect
• fix: disqus comments css
• fix: social sharing from Jetpack css
• The list of modified files