Newspaper: News & WooCommerce WordPress Theme

The Newspaper theme, available on ThemeForest, is a popular choice for content-rich WordPress websites such as news portals, blogs, and magazines. Known for its flexibility and feature-rich interface, it allows users to create a professional-looking site without needing to write code. The theme is praised for its clean design, fast loading times, and a vast array of customization options. Additionally, the Newspaper is built to be SEO-friendly, ensuring that content ranks well in search engines. Its responsive design ensures that websites look great on all devices, from desktops to smartphones. In this review, we'll dive into the specifics of the Newspaper, covering its design, demos and customization, speed and performance, SEO capabilities, and documentation.

Speed and Performance Score

Loading speed: 1.9 seconds | Performance score: 97

Google Pagespeed Insights Result

GTmetrix Load Speed

The Newspaper theme is optimized for fast loading times, ensuring that visitors don't leave your site due to slow page loads. The largest contentful paint time is also very good (under 1 second).

SEO-Friendly Score

Rating: 1 star

The SEO setup of the Newspaper12 theme is designed to enhance the readability of your content for search engines. However, it lacks Schema Markup, which is crucial for generating rich results in Google searches. The only Schema Markup present appears to be for WebPage, likely originating from the WordPress SEO plugin.

The theme is using microformats which is great for showing rich content in social media platforms. So overall, the theme scored 0 stars for Schema Markup and 1 star for Microformats.

Design, Demos and Customizations

The Newspaper 12 theme has a total of 155+ different designs and demos which include multiple designs:

• Directory/Listing
• E-commerce
• Multipurpose
• Blog
• Magazine
• Newspaper

All of these demos are ready to install with a one-click import button.

You can customize each demo with the Theme Options Panel and also with the live Page-Builder.

Rating and Documentation

As of the time of writing this article, Newspaper 12 has received an impressive rating of 4.81 out of 5 stars from a total of 7.7k users.

Comprehensive documentation is provided with the Newspaper theme. This resource is invaluable, especially for new users, offering step-by-step guides, video tutorials, and FAQs. The documentation is also public. Here is the Newspaper 12 documentation link.