Some suggestions for the next update :)

Hello,

as the saying goes ‘If You Don’t Ask, You Won’t Get It’ so here is some suggestions for the next update 🙂

Full Layout control
– Simple Option Boxed/Full (not add a background to enable boxed layout…)
– Content/Sidebar ratio (right now fixed at 66%/33%) 33% for a sidebar it’s too much.
– Container width control.
– Gutter width control | left and right content gutter, left and right sidebar gutter.

Add padding and margin control for H1..H6 Post Title etc…

Add templates for Reviews.
When you have a thematic website you will used most of the time the same Reviews criterias for your posts
ex: Mobile reviews
– 1) Design
– 2) OS
– 3) Camera Quality
– 4) Average battery life
– 5) Performance
etc
ex: Restaurant reviews
– 1) Food quality
– 2) Service quality
– 3) Price
– 4) Accessibility
etc

So it’s will be great to not have to rebuild each time the same review for each post.

Be able to add custom image size.

Have a better control of some post templates
– Custom Featured Image size (if the Content/Sidebar ratio is changed the Featured Image width need to be changed too)
or build a formula to detect the good Featured Image size | (Container width) – ( (all gutter) + sidebar width) = content size so Featured Image size = XXXpx
or select the full image size as Featured Image if the Content/Sidebar ratio is changed.
It’s not the best solution but at least a CSS reduction will provide a better result than an increase.

Switch Theme support and Theme panel menu in the admin bar
The “theme support” is more easily accessible than the “theme panel”, which means that the user will need more support than customize the theme ? :*) Too complicate to use ? lol

A Favicon who replace all WordPress favicon setting. Right now the “Theme Panel” favicon replace only the Front End favicon not the Admin one
Or Better provide 2 favicons entries Front End / Admin 🙂

Add a Header and Footer builder. This really missing in Newspaper, most of the premium theme have one now.

Enable tagDiv composer for Post or build also all new blocks for WPBakery, even the custom possibilities are less.
A post need some custom blocks as well, not only the pages.

Add a vertical slider to tagDiv “Add element” left bar.
I using a Wacom tablet and I do not have a mouse wheel so I can navigate into the “Add element” left bar, or at least enable the arrows.
(PS the search box is cool but useless when you have no idea of what you’re looking for.)

Rebuild the Ads section, the way of working is to old and not effective.
Take a look at Better Ads from BetterStudio who is include in Publisher.
It’s not perfect but far more advanced than what provide Newspaper.
Better Ads > Normal Ad/ AMP Ads, AdSense Ads, DoubleClick for Publishers, Image Ad, HTML Ad, Campaign manager, Ad Blockers Fallback
Default Ads by categories/ sub categories, all default Ads can be overridden in each post/page.

Woocommerce is totally forgotten. Win money with some Ads it’s cool but sell products or goodies it’s a good income way too.
Some Product and Category templates will be welcome.

Best Regards
Nexus

• This topic was modified 7 years by NexusFred.
• This topic was modified 7 years by NexusFred.

Hello,

“– All rows and columns have width settings. So in page and cloud templates where you can use the tagDiv composer, you can have custom widths.”
Yes in PAGE, not in POST

“- Regarding this gutter, I don’t exactly understand what it is supposed to do.”

“– The post title in cloud templates has padding and margin settings, all elements in the tagDiv composer have this in the CSS tab”
Yes in PAGE, not in POST

“– Regarding the reviews, you could create a review … Most if not all the elements can be saved once configured and re-used.”
Yes in PAGE, not in POST

“– For what element would you like to chnage the image size? Maybe there is a way.”
If I change the Content/Sidebar ratio to 75%/25% and the container width like this

.td-container{width:1114px !important;}
.td-pb-span8{width:75% !important;}
.td-pb-span4{width:25% !important;}

like you take a pre-sized image as Featured Image, this one will not have the correct width so I will need a new Featured Image size to fit the new content div size.
And I cannot use a CSS resizing because the Featured Image selected is smaller than the new content width, so it’s will be an enlargement CSS resizing who always provide a blurry outcome

“There are plans to add a scrollbar to the composer element list in coming updates.”
Great !! Thanks a lot, that will be very appreciated 😉

“The theme has predefined ad spots …”
Really you need to make a little survey of your competitors about that, your Ads system is really outdated and inefficient.
-No shortcode ad
-No default ad per category
-No Post ad override
-No Campaigns manager
-No Banners manager
-No Ad Blockers Fallback

“While the theme is compatible with the Woocommerce plugin, it doesn’t have specific settings for it like other themes that are built with this in mind. If you want to set up a shop and have questions let me know.”
I do not ask to Newspaper to be like Porto or Flatsome but some templates for it will be welcome. Do not forget that not all Newspaper build a website for the glory, they want also make money. It’s a little annoying to add a lot of “add_action” and “add_filter” into the functions.php just for some Woocommerce customisation.

Newspaper is real good theme, I like the Demos, his stability, but in one year I do not notice a significative evolution of his functionalities.
-No Header builder.
-No Footer builder.
-A non interactive Reviews system (readers can’t write their own reviews).
-A outdated Ad system.
-No Social Media Auto Publish.
-A complicated way to add Custom Posts.
-No dissociation between Custom Posts and Taxonomies.
-No Featured Image thumbnail in the POST list.
-No Smart Thumbnail Generator (choose the point of interest of the image).

Ok we can do all that with external plugins, but as you know more external plugins you have, more bugs you get. All this functions build by the Theme builder will work better than external ones.

Your builder is great but we do not build a new PAGE everyday, but POSTS !

Best Regards
Nexus