Magazine homepage
A featured hero — one lead plus two stacked features — over a two-column post grid, driven entirely by native posts and categories.
Blog & Magazine
NewsPress
A fast, editorial WordPress theme for blogs and magazines — a featured hero, category tag pills, and a clean post grid with bylines and an optional right sidebar. No page builder required.
by StretchWP · 1.0.0 · Updated Jul 2026
BlogMagazineNewsEditorialWriterPublication
newspress.stretchwp.ca
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Screenshots
Every template, production-ready.
These are real pages from the live demo — not mockups.
Overview
NewsPress gives a writer or publication a site that reads as calm, confident, and editorial — a featured hero, category tag pills, and a comfortable long-form reading measure on a light editorial ground with bold system-font headlines. A classic, hybrid theme, not a page-builder starter.
The homepage is a proper magazine layout: a lead feature with two stacked features, then a two-column post grid with category tags, featured images, bylines, reading time, and excerpts — driven entirely by native WordPress posts and categories, with nothing to configure.
Every template is covered — single, archive, search, page, and 404 — with an optional right sidebar, a footer post strip, threaded comments, and a distraction-free article measure tuned for reading.
Editorial reading experience
A tuned reading measure, accent blockquotes, category tag pills, bylines with avatars, and estimated reading time.
Fast & lightweight
No page builder, no framework, no Google-CDN calls. A system font stack and lazy-loaded imagery keep it quick.
Every template covered
Home, single, archive, search, page, 404, threaded comments, and an optional right sidebar with widget areas.
Blocks & widgets ready
Custom logo, three menu locations, wide/align support, editor styles, and widget areas for the sidebar and footer.
Accessible & translation-ready
Skip links, visible focus, landmarks, reduced-motion support, and every string internationalized.
What’s included
Everything to launch
- Theme files — installable .zip, ready for any WordPress 6.4+ site
- Magazine homepage — featured hero, post grid, and footer strip out of the box
- Documentation — setup, menus, featured images, widgets, and the reading layout
- Six months support — from the StretchWP team
- Free lifetime updates — delivered through your StretchWP dashboard
- One-click install — push straight to your managed StretchWP site
Specifications
Technical details
| Version | 1.0.0 |
|---|---|
| Last update | Jul 2026 |
| Released | Jul 2026 |
| WordPress | 6.4 – 6.8 |
| Requires PHP | 8.1+ |
| Layout | Responsive |
| Page builder | Not required |
| WooCommerce | Compatible |
| Documentation | Included |
| License | Single / Extended |
Tags
BlogMagazineNewsEditorialWriterPublicationTwo columnsRight sidebarFeatured imagesCleanMinimalWordPressResponsive
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