Newspaper/Magazine themes stormed the Internet for a while and have seemed to have died off a little as of late – My opinion is that they don’t work for most people who don’t have a lot of experience.
Never-the-less, perhaps with themes like WP Advanced Newspaper Theme, we’ll see a revival?
Check out this rich feature list:
- Translation template which makes it possible to translate into any language easily.
- Theme Settings page (screenshot)
- Automatic image resizer, which is used to dynamically resize photos for main page thumbnailing.
- Integrated theme settings page to tweak the layout through WordPress admin dashboard.
- Unique newspaper layout
- 2 different available header layout
- A nice ajax support for featured entries
- Built in Banner Management
- Built in Photo Gallery
- Built in Video Gallery
- Archives Tab
- Ajax tabs
- Search engine optimized
- Fully widgetized mainpage, sidebar and footer (29 widgetized sections)
- Ad Optimized
Must admit, after playing around with it for a while, I did wonder whether I should convert! Only thing is that last time I tried a newspaper/magazine layout it didn’t work out very well and I saw a large traffic decrease.
Take a look here.
http://www.techcentral.co.za is using this theme, doesnt look too bad, just seems a bit too busy.
I wanted to use this when I used WordPress but just didnt get to the point of installing it and all.
Really nice theme, one of the best wp themes i’ve seen actually.
Hey whats your opinion on .co.za vs .com ,why do you run your blog on co.za? I’m thinking of moving to .co.za
Ye, newspaper and magazine layouts are really busy and in my opinion, they’re not ideal for blogs.
@evl – That’s a question for my forum please mate..