SmartMag – Newspaper Magazine & News WordPress

Extremely Flexible and Powerful WordPress theme empowering Modern & Successful Magazines, Newspapers, and Blogs.

SmartMag is battle-tested on sites with millions of visitors, powering 45k+ websites since 2014, built with extensive research and feedback. It’s easy-to-use, top performance, strong SEO, yet extremely flexible to build the website of your imagination.

Make your best magazine, news, blog or review site. Get SmartMag and launch in minutes!

Examples: tech blog, RTL, finance, cryptocurrency, lifestyle magazines, technology news, gaming, gadgets, review, affiliate, adsense sites. Unlimited possibilities.

Top Features: Dark Mode, SEO optimized, Google AMP, Elementor Page Builder, Mega Menus, bbPress, WooCommerce, Reviews System, Gutenberg, Speed & Optimized Performance, One click Demo Import, RTL.

Highlighted Features

• 37+ Professionally Designed demos with One-click Demo Import.
• SEO Optimized: Rich snippets for breadcrumbs, article schema, and reviews are built-in. Further SEO enhancements via full compatibility with WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin.
• Supercharged Elementor Page Builder for amazing pages with our unique magic.
• Smart Studio: One click pre-made blocks, sections and layouts ready to be imported for a powerful homepage.
• Smart AdBlocker Detection – detect and show a message, optionally with delay, dismissible and recurring.
• Unique Mega Menus with 3+ styles to choose from.
• Login / Register Modal via trigger link in header with Social
• Extremely Flexible Live Customizer. Instant changes, and thousands of options.
• Fully Responsive: All elements are responsive on all devices.
• Custom Archive Layouts: For power users, use the archive builder to build custom layouts for your categories, tags, and archives.
• WooCommerce Fully Integrated: Create an Amazing Shop using the industry standard eCommerce platform for WordPress.
• bbPress Fully Integrated: Get a beautiful Forum running on your newspaper, blog or magazine site.
• Unique Dark Mode done right. Add a scheme switcher in header or enable it by default. Customize colors exclusively for dark mode. Works perfectly for sports and gaming news magazines.
• Multiple Layouts: Posts, Pages, and Categories can be configured to use a full-width layout or have a right sidebar (Custom Sidebars plugins also supported).
• Flexible Customization: Unlimited colors and typography customizations.
• 900+ Google Web Fonts, and thousands of Adobe Fonts supported.
• Retina Ready (HD): All the theme graphics scale beautifully on hi-res screens.
• RTL (right-to-left) Supported and auto-activated when WordPress is configured to use an RTL language.
• Translation ready and WPML supported.
• Advertisements and Custom Codes can be added on many pre-defined locations such as header above/below, footer above/below, single post before/after, after X paragraphs. Or use widgets and pagebuilder for custom locations.
• 7+ Categories & Archives Listing Layouts. Or use our exclusive Archive Builder for unlimited custom layouts.
• Multiple Homepage Blocks: Several blocks with countless variations, with the most flexible and powerful blocks system than any WordPress theme.
• Powerful Header Customizer to build your own header:
  • 9+ Elements to build your header.
  • Smart Sticky Header to show header bar of your choice, with scroll top intent detection.
  • 31+ Premade headers with one-click.
  • Colors, typography, and layout customizations.
  • Build your own mobile header as well.
• Exclusive Footer Builder for unlimited custom footer layouts.
• Social Media Integrations:
  • Sticky/Floating Social Share.
  • Social Share above article.
  • Social Share bar below article.
  • Add social icons in header, footer, sidebar.
  • Social Followers with Counters Widget.
  • Official widgets like Facebook Like box supported.
• Integrated Review System: (GUI criteria/review creator)
  • Percent Rating Example
  • Point Rating Example
  • Star Rating Example
  • User Rating Support
• Multiple Post Formats: Standard, Image, Gallery, Audio, Video.
• Cross-browser Compatible: Chrome, Safari, Firefox.
• Newsletter Widgets and Blocks:
  • Integrated with Mailchimp.
  • Custom code for other providers may also be used with their official code.
  • Countless styling options and variations.
  • Available for sidebar and footer widgets and also in pagebuilder.
• 12+ Premium Custom Widgets with many variations. And default widgets are also well-supported.
• Google AMP support with fully functional look like main site and off-canvas menu.
• Advanced Category Features: (in Customizer and per-category)
  • Set a category color that will be used in menu and category labels.
  • Set a background image to be used on a specific category (for boxed layout).
  • Use any of the 7 Listing Styles.
  • Enable featured area grids to highlight posts.
  • Enable the right sidebar or select full-width layout.
  • Infinite Scroll, Load More or numbers pagination.
  • Or build your custom layout using the archive builder.
• Gutenberg (new WordPress editor) fully supported with our unique styling. Unique style variations for Gutenberg blocks such as quotes, pullquotes, separators.
• Images Aspect Ratio control over all blocks and listings to show images as you like 4:3 Standard, 16:9 Wide, Ultrawide, Tall, or your own custom ratio.
• Pagination Types: Infinite Scroll, Load More button, or Numbers. Blocks use AJAX on numbered pagination to show without reload.
• Customizable Off-canvas Menu for mobile that can also be activated on desktop.
• Flexible Footer Styles with many layout and style customizations.
• Beautiful search overlay for frontend with Live Search to show results instantly while typing.
• Uses latest improvements in Javascript and CSS for performance.
• Unique Performance Features with free performance guide included.
  • Builtin Lazyload images.
  • Highly optimized code.
  • Our proprietary optimizations such as preload and conditional loads.
• Multi-page Post Slides is our unique post style that supports AJAX or normal load of next page.
• Auto-load Next Post on Single post page that’s compatible Google Ads and Google Analytics.
• 6 Premade Post Layouts with countless variations.
• Multiple Page Templates included.
• Built-in trending news ticker for header.
• Child Themes supported for more advanced customizations.
• And much more.