A Few Suggestions For the Upcoming Version of Newspaper

Hi,

First off, let me thank everyone in the Newspaper support for being ever so kind and helpful with me ever since I made my purchase, this is actually one of the best ater-sales services I ever encountered! I am even doiung an article on my blog with the theme installed, where I will be thanking TagDiv for such a wonderful theme!

The theme is fully responsive, even non-javascript user-friendly, and I’d really recommend it to anyone. I recently heard something about a new version of newspaper coming, so I thought maybe I’d chip in a few of my own ideas for the next version, please let me know if they are workable:

1. I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the new “Stacks” and pre-defined styles.
2. I’d really appreciate it if you could modify the tagDiv social counter to be more customizable, probably something like Arquam here: http://codecanyon.net/item/arqam-retina-responsive-wp-social-counter-plugin/5085289?WT.oss_phrase=facebook&WT.oss_rank=26&WT.z_author=TieLabs&WT.ac=search_list
Also, a few more social media options, like Tumblr and Feedburner, wouldn’t hurt.
3. A featured news ticker, like the ones offerred by Jarida and Hot Topix, will be awesome:
http://themes.tielabs.com/demo.php?theme=jarida
http://themeforest.net/item/hot-topix-modern-wordpress-magazine-theme/full_screen_preview/4641602
4. If you could add some more customization options as to the style of the Featured Big Slider, it’ll be really appreciated.
5. A few more customization options for the main menu, with different hover effects, styles, etc.
6. A little more customization options in the Theme Panel.

That’ll be all. Thanks a lot for bearing with me, hope I am not imposing. Please let me know if these are possible.

And Oh! Please also include a sidebar that scrolls once you reach bottom, like Newsmag, if that is possible.

Thanks a lot Alin. It’s great to know that you like my suggestions.

Also, if you could add the functionality to use Visual composer in the sidebar and a lightbox for all images, not just the featured one, it would be very great!

Thanks again!

You have a very high competitive

like Sahifa
http://themeforest.net/item/sahifa-responsive-wordpress-news-magazine-blog-theme/2819356

l love newsmag theme and i hope newspaper be better than newsmag in all ways becouse the theme now in danger of very high competitive .

I think if you give the newspaper good update in Version 5 it will be Will jump to the best theme in News / Editorial category .

Waitting for better don’t let us down .

I think Newsmag looks much nicer than Sahifa, personally. 🙂

They have lots of issues, too, like their menu falls behind the video on video demo pages.

I also tested a random demo page of theirs
http://gtmetrix.com/reports/themes.tielabs.com/WopIx52v

It got an 86/73 on GTMetrix.

I think Newspaper 5.0 will R O C K ! 🙂

(yeah, rah rah! I’m a fan!)

Hi Chris,

I think so too. Sahifa has issues, especially when viewing it with javascript disabled. None of the images appear if javascript is disabled!

I was initially planning to go for Newsmag, but I found that if the resolution is very, very high, the demo version of the theme goes haywire. In the sense, the second row of the main section organizes itself at the end of the first row, instead of beside it. So I decided to go for Newspaper instead. It costs about $10 more, but it is worth the price, especially with Newspaper 5 due in just a month or two.

I can say that I am actually happy with the theme I purchased, thanks to Tagdiv.

Sahifa, in itself, is a very decorative theme, though. I’d really love to see Newspaper 5 bring in some of the features that Sahifa has, without the lags or the issues, you know. I’d love to see the Tagdiv social counter more beautiful, like the Arqam social counter. Also, the smart sidebar and news ticker sound very promising.

Another feature I’d like added is a multitude of Big slideshows to choose from, each with its own features and stuff.