Hello,
As you know, the Newspaper theme is -by its very name- a newspaper/magazine theme. Even though the developers sometimes seem to treat it as an e-commerce or product showcase theme, its core should be journalism and publishing (I felt the need to repeat this since it seems overlooked).
Here are some features I still don’t see in the theme or its companion plugins:
– Dark Mode
– Advanced Author Dashboard (with collective read/view stats for writers)
– Polls and rating system
– Author following
– More advanced front-end writing experience
– Content listing / recommendation / curation system
These are the kinds of features that should be built into a theme we purchase called Newspaper. Will there be any dedicated development in this direction, or should we expect updates to continue focusing on things like Real Estate or Protein Powder websites?
Hi,
The theme is more of a multipurpose theme, to fit more roles. While it can be said that the theme focus has shifted from a true Newspaper theme, we added features that were requested by many of our users. There are many theme users that needed better woocommerce features, or frontend submission, or better CPT support, or better RTL support, or a membership/paywall system, better support for a multilingual website using WPML, etc. We tried to add something for everyone.
When we added new major features we created new demos to showcase them, the themes/names of the demos were mostly random. It doesn’t mean that if a demo is called real estate or anything else, it can only be used for that purpose.
Believe it or not, we are a small team, it takes a bit of time to develop new features, fix issues and make improvements. We’ll see what we add next, your suggestions are noted and appreciated. The next update will be a maintenance update mostly, with a few new useful options. If all goes well it should be released next week.
Thanks.
