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This is such an exciting day!

The Newspaper theme is compatible with the WPML Plugin. Now all our customers have the power to go beyond the language limitation. Reach more people, touch more cultures, as you can write content and translate it into different languages!

We’re sure you can’t wait to gain access to the advanced translation management features and a professional content translation interface. The new compatibility will help you develop even more innovative websites without requiring any technical or coding skills.

Getting started with WPML is easy. Install it, download the .po and .mo files and build a multilingual website. For more information on how to use this plugin, please access the Newspaper Theme Documentation.

Last year we challenged you and ourselves to start this adventure and discover the most beautiful and inspiring websites built upon Newspaper and Newsmag themes. Your feedback took us by surprise as all the submitted sites fitted into one or both categories. We are amazed by all this proactive attitude and feeling you invested in our community.

Today, our joint project “Showcase your website!” just reached one year. You shared with us over 400 astounding websites. You have also given us your thoughts about using Newspaper and Newsmag themes and inspired us to create new features for you. Together we have discovered so many great websites and found out that there is no limit to creativity. Thank you for being part of such a creative portfolio! Without you and your work, our Showcase would be empty, without vivid colors and emotions!

As winter is here, we want to share with you 14 more wonderful traveling, news, personal blogs, tech, music websites designed using the Newspaper and Newsmag themes – to warm your hearts. Since every detail might be a source of inspiration, we bring you all these awesome solutions to double your persistence and ingenuity for highly functional websites.

“Showcase your website” will continue in 2017 to give our customers the opportunity to share their amazing work using Newspaper and Newsmag Themes with the community.

We are thrilled to reveal the latest handpicked websites created using Newsmag and Newspaper themes. In this fourth selection, we have decided to promote 20 new websites into the Showcase collections.

From hundreds of beautiful websites, the team assigned to this task carefully analyzed each site for the following criteria: design, usability, creativity, and, of course, content. The submitted websites are representative for various categories: sports, games, technology, traveling, fashion, and more. Check out the latest websites promoted in the Newspaper and Newsmag Showcase Collections.

Do you remember how it feels to be excited about your new project, the rush to skip everything just to get started? We believe this special energy is contagious and inspiring for everyone. To discover new creative ideas we propose a journey through the collections with websites powered by one of the strongest emotions that binds all creative people – enthusiasm.

The selection process took our team a while. Colored with plenty of passionate debates, we believe we managed to showcase that energy powerful enough to spark inspiration in an open mind.

We have launched the “Showcase Your Website” action, in October 2015, to bind the community members around their main interest: creating websites that merge together high functionality with elegant design. We believe that being part of a community helps you grow, shared ideas light up inspiration, creating a different way of looking at things.

“Showcase your website” will continue in 2016 to give our customers the opportunity to share their amazing work using Newspaper and Newsmag Themes with the community.

Newsmag 3 brings performance and design to a whole new level. We took the time to enhance the features you love and implement new stunning ones. Newsmag 3 comes with features that allow you to be more creative, to style your website in a pixel perfection environment and to create interactions that have never been possible before.

So, what’s new?

Newsmag 3 comes with specially designed new features that make your website even more attractive for your visitors. Discover the new Weather, Exchange, and Instagram widgets.

Weather Widget – Bring the weather to your website with this elegant, animated widget. You can use this Weather Widget on a sidebar as a widget, on a page as a block, or you can just set it “on” in the theme panel and display it in the top menu section of your website. See it live!

Exchange Widget – The power of information shapes the everyday lives of people as the modern economy is more dynamic than ever. You can also use it as a block inside the main content area. Give your users the joy of an immersive digital experience with the new Exchange widget. See it live!

Instagram Widget – Deliver all the spectacular images from Instagram, directly to your website. We designed this feature to be used as a widget on the sidebar, as a block and, for more flexibility, we crafted a special Instagram Footer for your website. Just add the ID and amaze your visitors with this effective and easy to use feature! See it live!

Brand new mobile features

As mobile traffic is more and more important, we have decided to open new opportunities through this technology. Newsmag 3 brings a new Mobile Menu and a new Search Menu that transforms the user’s experience with your website. With user Sign in / Join option, enable or disable Social icons, menu elements settings, background parallax image support, Newsmag 3 is changing the way your users interact with your website!  See it on demo.

New Demos

We added three unique built-in designs, carefully crafted down to the smallest details. You can easily install the demo you like with just one click. Each creative design is here to help you shape your website with style. To make everything easier for you, we have built a new panel for one click demos. See all the beautiful designs

New design elements and templates

Newsmag 3 gives you countless unique ways to highlight your website content. It comes with 5 new category templates, 4 smart lists, and 4 top bar layouts. We also added new structure elements: a new footer template and 4 new ad spots. Now it’s so easy to shape your website’s look to perfection! See the demo

New Social Counter skins

We added 10 new skins for the Social Counter plugin to help you display all of your social network activity in more than one beautiful way and be ready to go viral! The widget design is now flexible, allowing you to try out each layout and choose the one you love!

With a fresh design mobile menu, integrated big grids, blocks and modules, unique Social Counter styles, spectacular new widgets, intelligent ads and unlimited possibilities for homepage and sidebar structure, this is the Best Magazine Theme we have built!

Join our community!

Changelog

Version 3.0 – June 7th, 2016

UPDATE NOTICE: Please update tagDiv Social Counter to the latest version that comes with the theme.

• new: Grid system – with this we eliminate all the # in URL bugs
• new: Instagram block and widget
• new: Footer Instagram
• new: Weather block and widget
• new: Weather option in top bar
• new: Exchange block and widget
• new: Mobile menu
• new: Search menu on mobiles
• new: Background support for mobile search and menu with parallax
• new: 1 new footer styles
• new: 5 new category templates
• new: 3 one click demos
• new: 10 Social counter styles
• new: Login/register option for mobiles
• new: Custom post types now support a global sidebar that can be set from the theme panel
• new: Logo in H1 tags
• new: Reset button in theme panel. This will bring the theme to the original state
• new: Panel for one click demos
• new: Enable/disable category pull-down filter option in theme panel
• new: Display order for category tags on post pages option in theme panel
• new: Social Counter – version 4.1 – please update your plugin to the latest version
• new: Whatsapp share for article on mobile devices
• new: 4 new smart lists ( smart list 5, 6, 7 and 8 )
• new: 3 new ad spots used for smart lists ( smart list 6, 7 and 8 )
• new: 1 new ad spot (Footer top)
• new: 4 new top bar layouts
• new: We removed the Smooth scroll option from panel
• new: New look for the main menu sub-menus
• misc: The theme settings are now only saved once per page load and only if needed. We use the shutdown action to save them.
• misc: Video playlist block now works with multiple playlists of the same type on one page
• misc: We audited all the metadata produced by the theme and we improved every aspect of it
• misc: Updated the google fonts list
• misc: Better SEO on smart lists
• misc: The categories that are listed on post pages can now be shown using the WordPress default order. This can be enabled from theme panel.
• misc: We optimized the queries for all the blocks and widgets that don’t show posts (popular categories, social counter etc…)
• fix: Panel got stuck while saving in specific cases, mostly related to categories
• fix: Contributor users cannot change the post template now, this is more in line with WordPress
• fix: Security issues
• fix: Infinite pagination on categories did not work with speed booster
• fix: Removed no comments message with comments disabled
• fix: Infinite loading on categories issue with latest posts when the rest is fewer than the “Blog pages show at most” setting
• fix: Footer logo title attribute
• fix: TinyMCE issues with the shortcodes menu (multiple options were selected in specific cases)

The list of modified files

We are thrilled to reveal the latest handpicked websites created using the Newsmag theme.

For this fourth selection session we’ve received dozens of beautiful websites. The team assigned to this task handpicked each website analyzing it for the following criteria: design, usability, creativity, and, of course, content.

Check out the latest websites promoted in the Newsmag Showcase Collection!

We have launched the “Showcase your website” action, in October 2015, to bind the community members around their main interest: creating websites that merge together high functionality with elegant design. We believe that being part of a community helps you grow, shared ideas light up inspiration, creating a different way of looking at things.

“Showcase your website” will continue in 2016 to give our customers the opportunity to share their amazing work using Newspaper and Newsmag Theme with the community.

Newspaper 7 brings performance and reliability to a whole new level. It comes with new features that allow you to be more creative and efficient than ever. Newspaper gives you the power to create interactions that have never been possible before.

So, what’s new?

Mobile theme with a brand new mobile menu

We took Newspaper back to the design board and added an entirely new architecture for mobile devices. For the first time, Newspaper comes with a built-in structure dedicated to small screen users. Just one click and the automatic optimization will boost your page loading speed creating a seamless, almost immersive experience for your mobile users. Newspaper takes you to another level, opening up endless new opportunities through this technology. The new mobile menu transforms the way your users access and engage with your website. Light, fast and stunning, the mobile theme is the most exciting thing we have crafted since we launched Newspaper theme! Watch the video

15 New Demos

With people using the theme in many different ways, we decided to enhance its flexibility. So we added dozens of unique built-in designs, carefully crafted down to the smallest details. You can easily install the demo you like with just one click. Each creative design is here to help you shape the website of your dreams in a heartbeat. To make everything easier for you we have rebuilt the panel for one click demos. Watch the video

New widgets

Newspaper 7 lets you do and see more. It comes with specially designed new features that make your website even more attractive for your visitors. Discover the Weather, Exchange, and Instagram widgets.

Weather Widget – Bring the weather to your website with this elegant, animated widget. You can use this Weather Widget on a sidebar as a widget, or you can just set it “on” in the theme panel and display it in the top menu section of your website. Watch the video

Exchange Widget – The power of information shapes the everyday lives of people as the modern economy is more dynamic than ever. Give your users the joy of an immersive digital experience diving into the center of international markets with the new Exchange widget.

Instagram Widget – Deliver all the spectacular images from Instagram, directly to your website. Just add the id and amaze your visitors with this effective and easy to use widget!

New blocks, modules and styles

Mix spectacular post grid layouts with fantastic styles to get countless unique ways to highlight your website content. Newspaper 7 comes with four new big grids and two different ways to style them. We also added new structure elements: 3 modules, 4 blocks and 2 footer templates. Now it’s so easy to build wonderful pages for your website. Our handcrafted smart blocks are designed to automatically adjust their size in columns. Impress your visitors with every post and page! Watch the video

New skins

Newspaper 7 brings you Light and Dark Skin Version. Get ready for the real power of contrast and accents with the new Black Version Demo. Black is the new white!

We also added 10 new skins for the Social Counter plugin. Display all of your social network activity in more than one beautiful way and be ready to go viral! The widget design is now flexible, allowing you to try out each layout and choose the one that fits your website best!

This is the most complete news theme we have ever built. With a freshly designed mobile menu, integrated big grids, blocks and modules, unique Social Counter styles, and unlimited possibilities for homepage and sidebar structure – every option, every setting, every section is right where you need it to be. This is why engaging with the theme feels natural, like you already know how to use it.

Capture the perfect combination of pages, post, and categories layouts with Newspaper 7; It’s so easy to make each website unique. The elegant design, clean coding, responsive layouts, intelligent ads and spectacular grid system will make your digital experience smooth and rewarding.

Version 7.0 – May 9th, 2016

UPDATE NOTICE: Please update tagDiv Social Counter to the latest version that comes with the theme.

• new: Mobile Theme – version 1.0
• new: Instagram block and widget
• new: Footer Instagram
• new: Weather block and widget
• new: Weather option in top bar
• new: Exchange block and widget
• new: Mobile menu on the responsive version of the theme
• new: +4 big grids
• new: +2 big grids styles
• new: 3 new modules
• new: 4 new blocks
• new: 2 new footer styles
• new: 15 one click demos
• new: Black version of the theme
• new: 10 Social counter styles
• new: search menu on mobiles
• new: background support for mobile search and menu
• new: the mobile theme and the responsive theme on mobiles now offer a login/register option
• new: custom post types now support a global sidebar that can be set from the theme panel
• new: logo in H1 tags
• new: reset button in theme panel. This will bring the theme to the original state
• new: panel for one click demos
• new: enable/disable category pull-down filter option in theme panel
• new: display order for category tags on post pages option in theme panel
• new: Social Counter – version 4.0 – please update your plugin to the latest version
• misc: the theme settings are now only saved once per page load and only if needed. We use the shutdown action to save them
• misc: video playlist block now works with multiple playlists of the same type on one page
• misc: we audited all the metadata produced by the theme and we improved every aspect of it
• misc: each demo, now loads it’s separate CSS file
• misc: updated the Google fonts list
• misc: better SEO on Smart lists
• misc: the featured image from the smart lists now supports custom
• misc: the categories that are listed on post pages can now be shown using the WordPress default order. This can be enabled from theme panel
• misc: all blocks can now sort by older first
• misc: The responsive Youtube player now has a better aspect ratio
• misc: All font options are now included on a single page, Theme Fonts, documentation was also updated to match the new configuration
• misc: We optimized the queries for all the blocks and widgets that don’t show posts (popular categories, social counter etc…)
• fix: on blocks the by category filter now returns all the categories again if no ids are selected
• fix: the theme works better with the default WordPress excerpts. It does not remove the … now from the excerpts
• fix: we added the import script from version 4.x of the theme again. We realized that it was a mistake to remove it from the theme because there are still customers using 4.x
• fix: removed no comments message with comments disabled
• fix: layout issue with images that had tagDiv image style set and no link
• fix: infinite loading on categories issue with latest posts when the rest is fewer than the “Blog pages show at most” setting
• fix: footer logo title attribute
• fix: tinyMCE issues with the shortcodes menu (multiple options where selected in specific cases)
• fix: thumb wp_booster API error. Our framework was not recognizing the default “thumb” image size that is registered by WordPress
• fix: clean up and optimized all the demos
• fix: custom fonts buffer was not saving in certain cases
• fix: custom fonts documentation link in theme panel was linking to the old documentation
• fix: smart lists first image link target parameter was ignored
• fix: smart lists Javascript issue where links with target _blank were opened twice: in a new tab and in the current tab
• fix: sticky main menu logo didn’t show up when Smart snap (mobile) was enabled

We are thrilled to reveal the latest handpicked websites created using Newsmag and Newspaper themes. We promoted 24 new sites into the Newspaper and Newsmag Showcase collections.

For this third selection session we’ve received hundreds of beautiful websites. The team assigned to this task handpicked each website analyzing it for the following criteria: design, usability, creativity, and, of course, content. The submitted websites are representative for various categories: travelling, beauty & fashion, politics, sports, games, technology, and more.

Spotting and sparking inspiration in open minds

Have you ever tried to spark your inspiration in one of those days when it seems you left it home? 🙂 Well, we know how that feels. The enthusiastic response of the community to our Showcase Your Website – Call for entries put us in that kind of situation. We had to choose from hundreds of websites. Check out the latest websites promoted in the Newspaper and Newsmag Showcase Collections.

The pickup process took us a while, a lot of coffee cups and plenty of passionate debates, but in the end we believe that we managed to choose exactly those sites that can inspire, spark conversations and open new perspectives.

We have launched the “Showcase Your Website” action, in October 2015, to bind the community members around their main interest: creating websites that merge together high functionality with elegant design. We believe that being part of a community helps you grow, shared ideas light up inspiration, creating a different way of looking at things.

“Showcase your website” will continue in 2016 to give our customers the opportunity to share their amazing work using Newspaper and Newsmag Theme with the community.

Newspaper just become the best selling Blog and Magazine theme of all time. This is an amazing moment for us! We give YOU – our customers and Envato workforce – a big ‘Thank you’ for all the support and confidence you gave us in the last 2 wonderful years.

This journey started with a dream and our decision to pursue it. We dared to challenge our knowledge, our skills to offer you, our clients, the most powerful, easy to use publishing solution on the market.

Each problem was a pretext for us to discover new solutions and test the limits of creativity. We are constantly changing the perspective to improve this great theme and the community gathered around this project, is a constant source of inspiration and motivation.

We truly appreciate the love and trust you gave us, and we are determined to keep challenging things and offer the best theme you have ever worked with.

Thank you for taking this journey with us!

We are taking this moment to give YOU – our customers, Envato workforce and visitors – a big ‘Thank you’ for all the support and confidence you gave us in the last 2 wonderful years.

We truly appreciate the love and trust you gave us and we are determined to keep challenging things to give the best Newspaper theme you have ever worked with. After working so long and hard, you praise our efforts. We’re so delighted to discover our theme behind your amazingly beautiful websites.

Thank you for taking this journey with us!