NewsCard is a modern and clean multipurpose WordPress template having minimal design. It’s a perfect theme to create magazine, shopping, news or personal blogs and other type of websites. It comes with a front-page template, sidebar page layout, top bar, social profile, banner slider and header image. The best part about this theme is that it has been optimized for speed and is highly customizable.
The responsiveness of the theme makes the website look elegant and makes it work fine on different screen resolutions. Apart from all this, NewsCard is compatible with most of the WordPress plugins including bbPress, WooCommerce, Contact Form 7 and many more.
Top Features
One can easily download this theme from WP repository. It’s available for free. Though the premium version is also available, most of the handy features can be utilized in its free version itself.
- Bootstrap Framework: NewsCard has been developed by ‘Theme Horse’ using Bootstrap 4 framework which is also one of the most popular frameworks in the world. The bootstrap elements can be used inside your content.
- bbPress Compatible: NewsCard support bbPress. This means that you can easily turn your site into a social forum or setup a discussion forum inside your site.
- Child Theme Compatible: Without editing the parent code, you can create your own child theme without the fear of losing the changes on update.
- Built-in Customizer: You can easily modify the design from ‘Appearance’ by using the customizer and view live changes.
- Theme Options: You can change the website layout without editing the code. The built-in theme options make this happen. You can even add your custom CSS while playing with different elements.
- Featured Slider: Highlight the most important posts along with the post title and banner using this option. All you have to do is select the posts by category to display them in the slider.
- Multiple Layouts: NewsCard comes with multiple layouts namely right sidebar, left sidebar, no sidebar and no width. Specific layouts can also be chosen for individual page/post(s) as well.
There are many more features that you will love to use once you install this theme on your WordPress website. It has got incredible support and they are very responsive on the support forum. Your queries get solved in real quick time.
The Setup
You can download and install NewsCard on your WordPress site and start customizing it using the built-in customizer.
- Install the template on your website.
- Once the theme has been installed, go to ‘Appearance’ and click on ‘Customize’ option.
- There are a number of options that can be customized as per your requirements. You can change the entire look of your webpage.
- You can change the look of your website header by clicking on ‘Header Media’. You can either choose to upload a video or an image. The video can directly by uploaded from YouTube by just entering the YouTube URL.
- Similarly, you can play with site logo, change background, change the site colors, menus, site layout and do a lot more stuff.
- You can go to ‘Widgets’ to add/delete the widgets from the sidebar or footer area. The sidebar of the site can be removed from the ‘Layout’ option.
- By going to ‘Header’ option you have choose the navigation, overlays, hide breadcrumbs and do a lot more things.
There are a number of options to choose from. You can easily customize your website in a way you want. Once you have installed this theme, just go to the customizer and plug-and-play with the customization settings. You can preview the change live and decide whether to go with them or not.
The Bottom Line
NewsCard is an awesome multipurpose theme that is best suited for magazine, news sites, blogs, photography or shopping type of websites. Though the users can create any sort of website using this theme. NewsCard is available for free. But if you want to utilize its premium features, you need to buy it from their store. The actual price of the theme is around $55. Go for it!
