General News is a high-quality WordPress theme designed for news, blog, and magazine websites. The theme includes several free demo sites that can be imported with a single click to build a wonderful news portal. The theme is entirely widgetized, allowing users to manage site content through the use of 9+ custom widgets and widget sections. It also has a variety of main banner choices, as well as a light and dark site mode for reading articles and blog entries in style. It also comes with a number of essential customizer options for constructing a visually appealing news site. You can configure it as you see fit before publishing any changes with the live customizer. The RTL supported theme is compatible with Elementor, Gutenberg blocks, and the WooCommerce plugin, allowing you to combine an online store with our newspaper theme. The theme is suitable for use on a news, journal, magazine, publication, or review website, as well as for blogging. It’s well-designed to help the website rank better in search engines, and visitors will receive fantastic support from the team if they have any problems utilizing it.
General News
Get awesome starter sites with One Click Demo Import
Thousands of people and businesses all over the world love it
Perfect support
The support team has made full support on any problems faced on the themes. Appreciate for the customer service and timely response
Works great and looks great!
Was looking for a new theme for 2021 and picked this one. Love it. Fast, responsive, and clean. What more is there to say?.
Good work by Cover News
Well done Cover News Team for bringing out search an awesome Theme. Good work!
Will be leading among the best theme
Great design, love it. But it’ll be the best if you let user put their logo for the website as part of the theme too.
Reasons to choose General News
One Click Demo Import
We have 365+ ready to import demo sites with single click setup facility. We make our products as easy to setup as possible with live Customizer, Widgets with useful options.
Fully Responsive
Our all products are mobile friendly and well tested for responsiveness to auto adapt the size of different desktops, tablets and other small hand-held devices.
Gutenberg Compatible
We are providing a more visible editing environment. The powerful Gutenberg editor is supported by this theme, so you will have a drastically different experience than with the Classic Editor.
Integration with WooCommerce
The fastest, most customizable free and premium WordPress themes, intuitive and better integrated with WooCommerce.
SEO Friendly Markup
With SEO codebase architecture and best practices in mind, we built our free and premium WordPress themes.
Translation Ready
Our themes follow the best internalization practices and therefore are ready to be translated into your language.
Cross Browser Support
We support the most popular modern web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE9, IE10, IE11, Edge and Opera.
Regular Updates
We stay up to date with the latest version of WordPress, regularly release updates to add new features.
Outstanding Support
Our products are simple and easy to use, but if you need any help, we are always ready with lots of patience!.
Free vs Pro
| Features | General News | MoreNews Pro |
|---|---|---|
| One Click Demo Import Support | ||
| Live editing in Customizer | ||
| Typography Style | Basic | Advanced |
| Color Controls | Basic | Advanced |
| Dark/Light Mode | ||
| Preloader Option | ||
| Custom Menu for Online Link | Basic | Advanced |
| Multiple Header Options | Default | Default, Centered and Compressed |
| Header Image Mode | Set as Background, Show Full Image | Set as Background, Show Full Image |
| Logo and title customization | ||
| Image Banner Advertisements | ||
| Widgetized Banner Advertisements | ||
| Popular Tags Section | ||
| Breaking News Section | ||
| Multiple Frontpage Banner Options | ||
| Frontpage Banner Layouts | 2+ Available | 7+ Available |
| Frontpage Banner Order Combinations | 6 Available | 25 Available |
| Banner Background Image | ||
| Banner Slider Posts Filter | Category, Tag | Category, Tag, Comments, Views |
| Banner Trending Posts Filter | Tag, Comments | Category, Tag, Comments, Views |
| Banner Editor’s Picks Posts Filter | Category, Tag | Category, Tag, Comments, Views |
| Banner Latest Posts Filter | Category, Tag | Category, Tag, Comments, Views |
| Banner Popular Posts Filter | Category, Comments | Category, Tag, Comments, Views |
| Featured Posts Section | ||
| Featured Videos Section | ||
| Express Posts Section | ||
| 3 Col Posts List Section | ||
| Posts Carousel Section | ||
| Site Layouts Mode | Wide | Boxed, Wide |
| Multiple Breadcrumbs Options | ||
| Single Title Layout | Default | Default, Full |
| Single Featured Image Toggle | ||
| Jetpack Social Share Position | ||
| MailChimp Box in Single Post | ||
| Trending Posts List in Single Post | ||
| Single Related Posts | ||
| Archive Posts Layout | List, Full | List, List Alternate, List Right, Grid, Grid Alternate, Grid Alternate with List, Tile, Full, Masonry |
| Category-wise Posts Layout | Global | List, List Alternate, List Right, Grid, Grid Alternate, Grid Alternate with List, Tile, Full, Masonry |
| Pagination | Numeric | Numeric, Ajax Load More, Infinite Scroll |
| Sticky Sidebar Option | ||
| Posts View Count | ||
| Posts Categories Toggle | ||
| No. of Categories Display | Show all, Top 1 | Show all, Top 1 and Custom Control |
| Comments Count Toggle | ||
| Minutes Read Toggle | ||
| Date and Author Options | Basic | Advanced |
| Author Gravatar Option | ||
| Posts Date format Options | ||
| Category Color Options | 3 Color Options | 7 Color Options |
| Different Widgets/Section Title Design | ||
| Custom Widgets | ||
| No. of Custom Widgets | 9+ Available | 16+ Available |
| Custom Widgets Controls | Basic | Advanced |
| Author Biography Widget | ||
| Post Carousel Widget | ||
| Post Image Slider Widget | ||
| Popular Posts Carousel Widget | ||
| Post Double Column/Categories Widget | ||
| Post Single Column Widget | ||
| Post Grid Widget | ||
| Post Express Grid Widget | ||
| Post List Widget | ||
| Post Express List Widget | ||
| Post Tabbed Widget | ||
| Social Contact Widget | ||
| Trending Posts Carousel Widget (Category) | ||
| Trending Posts Carousel Widget (Tag) | ||
| Trending Posts Carousel Widget (Views) | ||
| YouTube Video Slider Widget | ||
| No. of Custom Widgets Area | 9 Available | 14 Available |
| Off Canvas Widget Area | ||
| Banner Advertisements Widget Area | ||
| Above Main Banner Section Widget Area | ||
| Below Main Banner Section Widget Area | ||
| Frontpage Content Section Widget Area | ||
| Frontpage Sidebar Section Widget Area | ||
| Featured Section Widget Area | ||
| Main Sidebar Sections | ||
| Posts Title Advertisements Widget Area | ||
| Posts Content Advertisements Widget Area | ||
| Footer Widgets Section | ||
| Footer Mailchimp Subscription Supports | ||
| Footer Latest Posts Section | ||
| Gutenberg Compatibility | ||
| RTL Compatibility | ||
| WooCommerce Compatibility | ||
| Hide Theme Credit Link | ||
| Responsive Layout | ||
| Translations Ready | ||
| SEO | Optimized | Optimized |
| Support | Yes | High Priority Dedicated Support |
