WordPress Magazine

The Conceditor WP NewsMag is my fith free theme for the WordPress Community to use as see fit (it´s the same theme that we use for WP Magazine). Modify it, change it, colorize it — do what you like, but keep the copyright information in the footer intact. Other than that — enjoy!

PS! An extended commercial version will be available in the near future.

A Few Words About WP NewsMag

You do not have to use any plugins in order to get WP NewsMag up and running. On the other hand, you may want to enhance the theme further by the use of plugins. Feel free to experiment.

Features

WP NewsMag is not just another WordPress theme — it´s more to it than meet the eye. Read here:

• Fully widgetized with five custom sidebars
• 100% CSS — easy to customize the look and feel to suite your needs
• Hybrid blog/portfolio/photo/magazine style theme
• 5 different front page category loops
• Slider function for bottombar and featured articles
• Three level CSS/JS dropdown menu
• Utilization of Custom Fields for neat image display on the front page
• Built in image transparency for linked images
• Lot more…

Enjoy!

Installation

1. Get yourself a copy of WordPress 2.5.1 (or later) and install it.

2. Change the category id:s for the front page to reflect your categories (it´s done in the index-php file).

You´re finished.

Using Custom Fields

For the front page loop images in the five featured sections (categories) WP NewsMag uses Custom Fields. The key should be set to “Image” (without the citation characters and with a capital “I”) for the larger images and “Small” for the smaller images and the value is simply the name of your image.

Like this: Key: Image and Value: name-of-image.jpg. (Key: “Small” for the smaller ones.)

The pictures should be uploaded to the folder “featured” in the WP NewsMag template folder. If you want your images elsewhere you need to change the paths in each of the five featured boxes in the index.php file. Find this:

bloginfo(’template_url’); ?>/featured/

and change to whatever place you like on your server.

Different browsers

The WP NewsMag theme has been developed for Firefox. It should work just fine on Opera, Netscape and Safari. Explorer has no known issues so the theme should work just fine even on IE 6. But, feel free to report bugs as well as solutions here. Creds will go into the stylesheet file.

Good luck and enjoy!

Demo & Download

Download WP NewsMag here | Demo WP NewsMag here

Want this theme as a PREMIUM version?

The PREMIUM version is IE 8 savvy and has been tested on WP 2.7. The PREMIUM version also includes a FULL translation into SWEDISH or GERMAN and we support you via email until you have it up and running on your domain, as well as changing the header to include your logotype. Updates will be FREE forever and we will also hand over the Photoshop files where applicable. The PREMIUM version also includes features that are not implemented in the free version.

The price? USD 99 for the full kit.

Drop a mail to support [at] conceditor.se and we’ll get back to you.

Theme variations

There is an improved version of WP NewsMag available at Jerico Systems called “The Dark Side of WP NewsMag”. The man with the magic is of course Eric Hamby. Just look at this:

Download The Dark Side of WP NewsMag on Eric’s homepage (link above). Support and questions on his version of my theme may be asked in his support forums.

Also take a look at the Indiepix weblog – a nice variaton of the NewsMag Theme.

Changelog

June 2, 2008: Uploaded the WP NewsMag V1.0 theme to the server.

Bugs

None reported thus far.

Other Stuff

Please comment on all issues concerning WP NewsMag here.

If you choose to use the WP NewsMag theme in any shape or form, let me know and I´ll post a link to it on the WP NewsMag page.

Need More?

There will soon be a commercial heavily extended version of WP NewsMag available. The price tag? $79 flat. Keep yourself informed through our RSS Feed.