Last update: Version 1.08 – March 17, 2015

Top News is the complete Wordpress theme for a news or magazine site with the focus of attracting and keeping visitors on their site. With a focus on reducing bounce rates, while increasing ad exposure, this theme will keep your visitors scrolling with more content all while maximizing your ad revenue!

More Key Features

Responsive design – Top News adjusts its layout based on the device it is being viewed on. This means the theme’s content will be easy to read and easy to navigate whether it is being viewed on a desktop computer, a tablet, or a mobile device.

Retina Ready – The theme and its images look sharp and crisp on retina-ready devices!

5 Different Ad Units – Top News takes full advantage of available ad space to give you 5 different ad units, including a rare wallpaper ad! The ad units include a two 970×90 leaderboard ad areas (which can also be used as a 728×90 ad banner), a wallpaper ad, a static 300×250 sidebar ad that will always be visible, no mater where you are on the site, and an ad widget that can accommodate 300×250 ads in the sidebar or leaderboard ads in the homepage widget area.

Drag-and-Drop Homepage – Create unlimited homepage layouts by dragging and dropping our custom widgets into the layout that gives your website the professional look and feel you are truly looking for.

11 Custom Widgets – Top News gives you the flexibility and ease of use to display your content the way you want it without altering any code with our custom widgets.

Complete List of Features

• Compatible with Wordpress 4.2
• SEO Optimized
• HTML5 & CSS3
• Translation ready (contains .po/.mo files)
• Child Theme ready
• Comes with XML dummy data (posts, tags, categories, menus, dummy images)
• Easy implementation with Google Adsense ads
• Wordpress Featured Image support
• Wordpress Custom Background support
• Wordpress Custom Menu support
• Megamenus for Category menu items
• Unlimited Colors
• Youtube, Vimeo, and Soundcloud integration
• Schema.org Rich Snippets
• Fly-Out Mobile Navigation
• Post/Page Slideshows
• Woocommerce compatible
• bbPress compatible
• Infinite Scroll
• No need for any additional plugins
• Custom Theme Options panel
• Custom CSS section in Theme Options so users will not lose custom changes to CSS when you update to a new version
• Built in Google Analytics support
• Full-Width Posts
• Facebook comments support
• Disqus comments support
• Optional homepage blog layout
• Free lifetime updates
• Easy logo customization
• Threaded comments
• Ability to turn Featured Image on posts on/off
• Ability to turn social buttons on posts on/off
• Optional Author Info at the bottom of posts
• Optional Caption/Photo Credit below Featured Images in posts
• Custom copyright/footer text
• Custom favicon
• In-depth documentation
• And much more!

Support

MVP Themes takes pride in its support! If you have any questions related to the setup of Top News that are not covered by the theme documentation or if you run into any bugs with the theme, please submit a ticket at the MVP Themes Support Center.

Unfortunately, MVP Themes cannot perform customization work for each of our customers, so Top News comes “as-is”. Any customization you would like to make to the theme outside of fixing bugs will need to be done by you or a third party.

Updates

v1.08 – March 17, 2015

• New Feature! – Adds Responsive Ad Unit below articles
• Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to the latest version (1.8.3)

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
single.php
style.css

v1.07 – March 12, 2015

• Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to the latest version (1.8.2)
• Fixes bug with Facebook like count for small number of customers
• Fixes bug with social profile links on some author pages
• Fixes bug with attachment pages related to last update
• Fixes bug with comment button on hover

Affected files:
attachment.php
author.php
functions.php
style.css
/widgets/widget-catfeat.php
/widgets/widget-catposts.php
/widgets/widget-tagfeat.php
/widgets/widget-tagposts.php

v1.06 – February 14, 2015

• Improves display of pagination on homepage when Infinite Scroll is disabled
• Adds display of post Tags below content on posts in Boxed Layout
• Fixes minor bug with display of icons
• Fixes bug with Full-Width pages
• Fixes bug with social count on post pages

Affected files:
functions.php
page.php
page-fullwidth.php
page-home.php
single.php
style.css

v1.05 – January 15, 2015

• Adds optional layout for “More Posts” section on post pages
• Improves display of information on posts
• Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (1.8.1)
• Fixes bug with structured data for wide-image posts
• Fixes bug with author name on posts
• Fixes bug with disabling comment button option on pages
• Fixes small bug with headings in posts

Affected files:
/admin/theme-settings.php
/css/media-queries.css
functions.php
page.php
page-fullwidth.php
single.php
style.css

v1.04.1 – January 8, 2015

• Fixes bug with Google Adsense ads that was caused by the previous update

Affected files:
functions.php

v1.04 – January 6, 2015

• Fixes bug with menus appearing behind video embeds in certain version of IE
• Fixes twitter link and author image on author pages
• Fixes bug with Google description for post pages
• Fixes bug with comment link on Tabber widget
• Fixes bug with main Featured Post image on category pages
• Fixes bug with searching Media files
• Fixes bug with Menufication scrolling
• Fixes bug with display of title on full-width video posts

Affected files:
/css/media-queries.css
/widgets/widget-tabs.php
author.php
functions.php
header.php
single.php
style.css

v1.03 – December 10, 2014

• Added ability to set number of “More” posts displayed under article from within the Theme Options
• Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.8.0)
• Improves Disqus compatibility
• Fixes issue with display of sidebar on boxed layout when Sticky Sidebar feature is disabled
• Fixes minor display issue of Grid Widget on mobile devices
• Fixes issue with pagination on category pages when using column layout
• Fixes bug with author page
• Fixes other minor bugs

Affected files:
All

v1.02 – December 2, 2014

• Fixes various display issues with boxed layout
• Fixes issue with social share count related to Facebook
• Fixes other minor bugs

Affected files:
All

v1.01 – November 26, 2014

• Fixes bug some were experiencing with saving Theme Options
• Updates XML data
• Fixes other minor bugs

Affected files:
/admin/admin-interface.php
functions.php
style.css