News.
Install, design and run a news or magazine site with the News. theme and News. Core.
Thank you for choosing News. This guide takes you from installation to a finished, earning news site. If something is unclear, contact support and include your licence key and the report from News. → System Status.
Setup
- Getting started Requirements, installing the theme and News. Core, and the child theme.
- Licence, updates & demo Under News. → Licence enter your licence key (from your purchase e-mail or your account on our site).
- The News. admin panel All theme settings are under News. in the admin menu.
- Import / export settings News. → Import / Export saves all changed theme settings, the category colors and the panel options into…
Design
- Style, width, colors & logos Pick the design style, page width, colors and logos under News. → Theme & Colors and News. →…
- Fonts & custom fonts News. → Typography: fonts for body text, headlines and article text, loaded from Google Fonts, self-hosted (copied to…
- Front page There are two ways to build the front page.
- Elementor Elementor is optional.
- Menus Where each menu appears — main navigation, section bar, footer and the mobile drawer.
- Categories & colors Every category can have its own color: edit a category (Posts → Categories) or set all at once…
Newsroom
- Writing stories Everything the Story settings box adds to the post editor: credits, listicles, video, related stories and more.
- Live blog Turn any story into a live blog in the Live blog box below the editor.
- Polls Add the Poll block to any story: a question, 2–8 answers, an optional closing date.
- Reviews Any story can be a review: fill in the Review box below the editor (item name and type,…
- Podcast player Add the Podcast episode block (also an Elementor widget): an MP3/M4A from the Media Library or your podcast…
- Views, Most read & Trending News. Core counts story views (once per reader per session, bots excluded, works with page caching).
- Page templates The page templates News. adds and what each one is for.
Readers & money
- Premium & paywall Mark a story as Premium and readers without access see the first paragraphs, then the paywall with your…
- Reader accounts News. Core adds front-end accounts: a Login page (sign in, create account with e-mail confirmation, password reset, social…
- Newsletter News. → Newsletter — where sign-ups go: the built-in WordPress list (double opt-in, unsubscribe link, CSV export, privacy…
- Push notifications Send breaking news as browser notifications through OneSignal.
- Ads Ad sizes, placements, Google AdSense / Ad Manager, your own campaigns and wallpaper ads.
System
- Search & sharing Breadcrumbs on articles, pages, sections, tags, dates, search, authors and the shop — plus BreadcrumbList structured data for…
- AI News. → AI (News. Core): enter the API keys of the AI services you want to use —…
- Performance & privacy Speed and privacy switches under News. → Performance — all on by default.
- Translation & multilingual sites The theme (text domain news) and News. Core (news-core) are fully translatable.
- Moving from another theme Move your stories and settings over from another news theme without losing data.
- Companion products The products that work with News. — News. Core, JobCore and what is next.
- For developers Working with the child theme and extending News.
- FAQ & troubleshooting Fixes for the problems people hit most — empty front page, missing demo import, ads, paywall, e-mails and…
- Credits Third-party code and assets bundled with News., and their licences.
- Changelog What changed in each version of News.