A front page that looks like a big news portal: dark top strip, your own logo, a red breaking-news bar, the hero story with side stories, curated modules and the latest news in an orderly grid. And it stays fast — one stylesheet, one small script, zero page builders.
Free the complete version — everything included
Install it from Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload. The demo runs this exact version with sample news.
| Feature | Included | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Breaking-news bar, one headline at a time | Yes | Rotates your latest headlines, no overlaps |
| Newspaper homepage (hero + side stories, category sections, latest news) | Yes | Three hero layouts: Classic, Magazine, Mosaic |
| Top of the week | Yes | Ranked by the theme's own view counter |
| Editor's choice band | Yes | Your sticky posts, presented on a dark band |
| Recent video | Yes | Video-format posts with play badges |
| Popular / Latest tabs | Yes | Numbered ranking with thumbnails |
| “Most read” rail | Yes | Big-number list, no external analytics |
| Newsletter band (“Stay up to date”) | Yes | Front-page subscribe box |
| Managed ad slots | Yes | Header, between sections, in-article, sidebar — own switch and code field each, AdSense-ready |
| Dark mode | Yes | Automatic by system, or a visitor toggle |
| Live clock & weather top bar | Yes | Site-time clock ticking every second plus current weather for your city (Open-Meteo, no API key) |
| Author profile photos | Yes | Every author uploads their own photo from their WordPress profile — no Gravatar; initials as fallback |
| Built-in SEO | Yes | Meta description, Open Graph, Twitter Card and NewsArticle + Breadcrumb JSON-LD (the canonical stays the WordPress core one); steps aside automatically when Yoast or Rank Math is active |
| Customizer | Yes | Logo, primary color (presets or any color), homepage categories, social links, footer-credit option |
| Own SVG icon set & favicon | Yes | Social, search, menu, comments, dates — no icon fonts, no emojis |
| English & Spanish | Yes | Full es_ES translation included; every string translation-ready |
| Live coverage timelines | Yes | Mark a story as live in the editor and add timed updates — rendered newest first with a LIVE badge |
| “Listen to this story” button | Yes | Reads the article with the reader's own browser voice (Web Speech API) — play, pause, stop, no external service |
| Reading time & progress bar | Yes | “X min read” in the header plus a thin progress bar in the primary colour while reading |
| Sticky share bar | Yes | X, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram and copy link — always visible while scrolling |
| Weather for the reader's city | Yes | Optional: with the reader's permission, the top bar shows their local weather (Open-Meteo); your city stays as fallback |
| Security, theme-style | Yes | Nonces on theme forms, capability-checked editor saves, escaped output everywhere, rel="noopener" share links |
| Speed | Yes | No jQuery, no frameworks, lazy-loaded images, Gutenberg & classic editor |
Free yours to keep · GPL
Questions or feedback: alex@a3qglobal.com.