Just a note – the very popular AMPforWP plugin has released what it calls an ‘AMP Newspaper theme’ – it is in fact what appears to be TagDiv’s Newspaper theme edited for AMP; all very good, except it’s selling for $49 PER YEAR
They have often recommended Newspaper as a good theme, but I wanted to let you know about the use of your theme name and the fact that it is being sold
The sales details: ‘AMP Newspaper theme was created specially for the users who are using the Newspaper 8 theme by tagdiv and wants the same look and similar looking functionality on the AMP.
This theme was created with Drag & Drop AMP Page builder which allows you to create a dynamic homepage on AMP with News ticker, several types of category block designs with options like category selection, post counts, colour pickers & many other options.’
1. Is this authorised by TagDiv?
2. Why can’t we have one anyway as part of NP8 if it’s possible 🙂
Best wishes
Pat
Yes, I also noticed this and also use their AMP plugin otherwise. They are good developers with very good AMP products but yes, their prices are usually high including that of Newspaper theme extension.
Would love to know TagDiv’s take on this.
Agreed it’s a good solution – as are their other AMP solutions, also agree a lot of their extensions aren’t worth the very high charges, this one is if you want a nice AMP look without building your own.
As a Tagdiv fan though I would rather have paid Tagdiv for their own version if available…
At the moment, I believe there are no plans to implements something like this. It could be available in future updates, but I could not say exactly if or when it will happen.
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/newspaper-amp-theme-2/#post-191089
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¡Good notice!
Yes but it’s too late in the future – AMP is already way over one year old…appreciate development takes time, but many features (like native video as featured image; and native AMP) are already commonplace on news sites…Newspaper 8+ must keep up with these features as publishers like us (usually ‘small’ and independent) have to be different to the larger national/regional operators who can’t react to tech progress as quick as we can…we have to keep reacting or leading the online game
Being a publisher on Google News it is a hard hit on us that Newspaper does not come with AMP I would genuinely pay good money for it to have it. The plugins that give you AMP are simply too simple and the Newspaper theme AMP version by other publishers is okay but very basic and has no review feature, tho they said they will add it if I buy it which seems rather dodgy as I could buy it and they could never do it (Plus I spend $20+ on AMP Ads from them and it does not work!!!)
We’ve been using the Automattic AMP plugin with TagDiv themes for almost 2 years now, since AMP was in beta, and works perfectly for us. Yes, you have to RTFM to modify the template, but that’s true of any custom post format, really. Simple to add adverts, and related posts, etc. — anything which can be done as a function, or added as a shortcode, will work. Worth playing with. Beauty of the ‘official’ plugin is that it’s built by same folks as WordPress and used for the VIP customers.
And not everybody is choosing to use AMP. If you have a lean fast mobile theme or responsive layout, it can work as well. AMP is an interim form until WiFi hits the next speed grade. So, in areas with slow mobile, AMP is useful, in major metro areas, not as much.
Anyway – sorry to butt in…. waiting for crap to download off my server. 🙂
Hi Chris
Not at all, thanks for your view, to be honest I think there are many that can get carried away with the next big web thing, I agree completely about the site speed/responsive argument. The only reason I use AMP is because when the news carousel is working – a small independent brand can get the same visibility here in the UK as a National does. But to be honest I don’t know if ‘the man in the street’ cares about AMP at all…or even notices the difference that much. Content is still king and so they’ll click if the quality is there and the story is what they want. Plus currently it’s only search results that bring AMP results.
Many publishers are turning their backs on it apparently- one reason being that the URL is prepended Google rather than your own brand URL. Interesting times.
Did anyone purchase the AMP Newspaper theme? If yes, can the link be shared?
