Herald is a modern WordPress theme designed specifically for online newspapers and news portals, prioritizing the needs of magazines. With a fully responsive design, your content will look stunning across various devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobiles.
Using our customizable Advanced Theme Options panel, you can easily achieve the desired look for your website within minutes, with no coding required! With over 500 layout options for articles, unlimited sidebars (including sticky sidebars), flexible branding choices, unlimited color combinations, four pagination styles, custom widgets, and more, Herald offers extensive customization possibilities.
Herald Features:
- Performance options – It is possible to load all JS and CSS files combined into a single compressed file for high speed.
- Multiple Layouts for Single Post – With nine different layouts for single post view to suit your taste and needs.
- Intelligent Categories – Each category on your website may have its specific layout and color.
- More than 500 home page layouts – Herald offers a highly flexible yet easy-to-setup module system where you can combine and display your articles in various ways. From classic newspaper to modern magazine style.
- Modular header – Herald has a header builder with three header areas (top, middle, bottom) + sticky header, where you can display any elements. Possibilities are almost limitless! Plus, the mega menu is also supported.
- Simple Ads Manager – Predefined ad slots to embed your banner ads and monetize your website easily. Useful for AdSense advertising or affiliate marketing websites.
- Responsive Design – Our Responsive design means your content will scale seamlessly on almost every device, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile phones.
- Advanced Theme Options Panel – Herald comes with an advanced, easy-to-use Theme Options Panel. Set up your website in as little as 5 minutes!
- Support for custom post types in modules – If any public custom post type is registered, it will be automatically detected in modules
- Author and category modules – You can display your authors or categories in modules like posts or text.
- Support for Co-Authors Plus WordPress Plugin – Now, you can easily set multiple authors for a single post.
- 4 Pagination Types (including infinite scroll) – You can have a classic “older posts / newer posts” navigation, numeric pagination, load posts with a “more” button, or apply infinite scrolling to your pages.
- Additional Custom Widgets – Besides standard WordPress widgets, we provide several custom widgets for more cool features.
- Branding – Unlimited Fonts & Colors – Herald provides options for unlimited fonts and colors as well as options to upload your logo and icons, depending on your taste. Add your personal touch to this theme!
- Unlimited Sidebars + Sticky Sidebar – You can add as many sidebars as you want, whether it’s the left sidebar or suitable. Then you can assign a specific sidebar to any Post, Page, or Category. Apply a fixed sidebar to each template, meaning those widgets will always be visible while you scroll through the website content.
- Built-in Theme Translator – If you want to modify or translate the text on your website, you can do it very quickly in the theme options panel. Note that .po and .mo language files are provided. Standard WordPress translation or Multilingual Website (WPML) is also supported.
- Shortcodes – Add stylish elements to your content with 12 flexible shortcodes. Columns, separators, highlights, and drop caps… to name just a few.
- Paginated/multi-page posts – We have created a very intuitive design for posts split into multiple pages for those who use website ads. Boost your page views with ease!
- Post formats support – This theme supports video, audio, image, and gallery post formats besides standard posts. Also, most WordPress standard embedding features are supported so that you can embed Facebook statuses, tweets, Instagram, SoundCloud, YouTube, Vimeo…
- RTL Support – If you are using your website for right-to-left oriented reading, there is a simple option to get RTL news website.
- Support for post views number – We provide support for the Entry Views WordPress plugin, which is used to count views for each post. We also provide innovative options, so your posts can be selected and ordered by the number of views.
- Related posts – You could use one of many Related Post plugins. Instead, Herald includes a simple yet powerful solution for displaying Related Posts within any particular Post with no additional plugin required!
- Complete Documentation – Learn how to set up this theme step by step and use its options and features quickly and easily with comprehensive documentation.
- Social Sharing Integrated – Allow visitors to share your posts on the most popular social networks quickly.
