General News

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We make use of the WordPress Live Editing, which allows you to preview changes to your website live, in all of our themes. This is the future of website editing.
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Perfect support

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The support team has made full support on any problems faced on the themes. Appreciate for the customer service and timely response

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Works great and looks great!

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Was looking for a new theme for 2021 and picked this one. Love it. Fast, responsive, and clean. What more is there to say?.

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Good work by Cover News

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Well done Cover News Team for bringing out search an awesome Theme. Good work!

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Will be leading among the best theme

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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.

@rafiemy (WordPress User)

Reasons to choose General News

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.

One Click Demo Import

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

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

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

Integration with WooCommerce

The fastest, most customizable free and premium WordPress themes, intuitive and better integrated with WooCommerce.

SEO Friendly Markup

SEO Friendly Markup

With SEO codebase architecture and best practices in mind, we built our free and premium WordPress themes.

Translation Ready

Translation Ready

Our themes follow the best internalization practices and therefore are ready to be translated into your language.

Cross Browser Support

Cross Browser Support

We support the most popular modern web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE9, IE10, IE11, Edge and Opera.

Regular Updates

Regular Updates

We stay up to date with the latest version of WordPress, regularly release updates to add new features.

Outstanding Support

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

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