WordPress is among the best blogging platforms, which promises a number of features, tools and themes for different blogging and online newspaper publication purposes. The best part about this platform is you hardly require any working knowledge of writing programming codes. There are countless plugins and themes, which help you to customize the performance and look of your WordPress blog or site. This makes this platform an ideal place for different online newspaper sites to come out with some of the most incredible designs. Or if you want to make your community newspaper live over the web, using different WordPress newspaper themes, you could finally make it digital. Let’s get ready to check some of the greatest five newspaper themes of 2013 as discussed below:
Reportage
It is the most sophisticated, clean and nifty kind of newspaper WordPress theme best for news sites, journalists, writers and even professional bloggers. Using Reportage, you could easily manage your new website with good pace and without any hassle. This theme incorporates all the themes, which any newspaper style site requires thus making it very simple and effective for managing loads of web pages or posts. Reportage has a grid based layout, which blends with some of the best typography styling and selection that creates sharp look and feel. It therefore gives a very pleasing kind experience to your eyes.
It uses adaptive layouts that come from responsive design to cater elegant and readable site regardless of the end user screen size. Sticky post is an important feature of Reportage, which is a same as the featured post. The best part of sticky post is that it reduces the sliding effects when your site is opened in any mobile phone. You could also add carousel effects to your top news items or videos. Reportage has couple of page templates, which help the novices to make gallery, contact or sitemap pages quickly. The 2013 version of Reportage is 1.2.6 comes at a cost of 49 dollars for single pack and 99 dollars for the mega bundle.
HotNews
It’s a premium WordPress theme for newspaper, magazine or blog owners, which works with a clean and responsive design. HotNews comes with built in review systems with four different rating types (letter, percentage, number and star) and countless other parameters. HotNews is very much flexible theme wherein you could customize different things like changing color scheme, main or header background, navigation footer and bar, which comes with integrated background uploader and color picker.
This theme is found in two layout types – the stretched and boxed along with the three content layout style (left, right or center) and of course with responsive design. The important feature of HotNews include built in HTML5 and CSS3 support, built in review system, Powerful Theme options, unlimited sidebars backed by sidebar manager, the one click shortcodes, 3 post formats, 2 WordPress Nav menu and 9 different custom widgets. The latest version or HotNews for 2013 is 1.0.2, which could be purchased at 45 dollars for a regular license.
Monentum
The other best WordPress newspaper theme is Momentum, which happens to be clean, contemporary and responsive theme carrying three minimalist layouts backed by simple to style structure. Monentum is often used by newspaper, magazine and blog owners without any hassle and to get things in quick time. It has several features including Zoom framework, homepage featured posts that helps in making your post intuitive and beautiful. It comes with Responsive Layout, which means that your newspaper site opens up easily over smartphone devices. It has three different custom templates for different posts and pages. You also could see social integration element over Momentum, which includes several social sharing buttons. It has a Dynamic Homepage Builder, which is backed by custom WPZOOM widgets and many other features. The standard license comes for around 69 dollars, while for developers it comes for around 149 dollars.
Zenko
It is a colorful and stylish kind of newspaper theme, which is regarded as the most flexible ones. It is backed with several widget based layout, which allows you easily adapt any theme as per your needs and requirements. Using Zenko, you could showcase your articles in two different ways- one comes from the feature categories and feature slider. The best part of Zenko is that you will get to see all the custom widgets with different themes. Unlike any other modern theme, Zenko comes with an options panel for the startups. You could carry out a number of changes like favicon, logo, ads and social network connections.
Tribune
This theme has everything, which a newspaper would demand for. The designers are successful in bringing out the classic news layout in the 21st century by adding a modern touches and excellent widget positioning. Over its header, you could see featured articles. You could see a large area, which is reserved for the top most stories that are too spacious to catch the attention of readers. The main content area is seen in two columns, where different categories and widgets could be arranged. The different custom widgets are also included with Tribune.
Final word
All of these newspaper themes will help you in transforming your WordPress blog or online newspaper or magazine in some of the best formats. In this way, you could make your newspaper more popular among your readers and followers.
About The Author: Diana is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and reading books. She contributes in Sam Mustafa Charleston
