First of all I would like to say that I am a user of the item Newspaper, very happy.
I would like to know what the intention of the developers with the new theme “NewsMag”, ie, is it the future? ¿Replaced the theme Newspaper ?.
I bought and researched NewsMag and I think most complete and modern than “newspaper” and am considering migrating, but first I want to know the opinion and intention of the developers.
Do you understand me ?, My blog takes a long time with a great community and changes have to think them very well
A greeting.
That would be interesting for me too.
Newsmag does not replace Newspaper.
Newspaper 5.0 will be out in a month or so, and will have many of the features of Newsmag, but keep the best of Newspaper. (This according to past posts from 2015 on this topic.)
Good Morning,
Chris I understand perfectly, but then what is the purpose of the new NewsMag ?.
If a “newspaper” will put the functions of “newsmag” the only difference between the appearance of the menu will and little else.
Glad you tell me that in a month will be released version 5 with improvements, we see that brings. For example one thing that I love about NewsMag is the block “News Ticker” and sets the sidebar.
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you know when they launch the update?
Good to hear that they aren’t baiting us to purchase newsmag to get a supported theme. Looking forward to the Newspaper v5 and perhaps I will purchase newsmag for my other website.
Main differences (my impressions on this topic only, not ‘official’ in any way)
Newspaper — wider layout for those doing things like 3 column newspaper pages, or where a wider post area needed to do 2 columns of text with photo wraps, for presentation “like a newspaper,” or for those who want a larger playing field. Support for wider ad units in post area.
NewsMag — more compact layout with keylines, like a magazine or older TIME magazine print layout where everything is boxed. NO “wide screen” layout (fixed more narrow grid).
“Bells and whistles” may end up being same between the two at some point, both may lose any R-T-L support, both may support the new TagDiv “API” to hook in extra functions and features.
Main difference is the “width/layout” area and hence slightly different layouts and modules with visual composer, and slightly different default and custom layouts on “category/archive” pages.
In our case, we chose to go with Newsmag as it was more what we wanted when Newspaper was first launched and did have a narrow layout. We wanted to migrate from our in-house responsive (grid 960 custom layout, pre bootstrap) theme, and/or Woo Canvas to seomthing more “shiny and cool” … with “some sense of pagespeed optimization” which most foundries were clueless about in Fall of 2013, but Tagdiv was trumpeting (as we had been doing so here).
I think some folks might end up buying both and trying them out with your specific content and images then choosing the right one for your needs, knowing you’ll have similar workflow, plugins, and “bells and whistles.”
My two cents anyway 🙂
