Start a News Blog with News theme

A couple of months ago, we started looking for a new sleek theme that we could use for one of our gadget sites in our blog network. Gadget news sites are tricky to pull off. A nice, clean layout is a must for those sites that post more than a couple of stories each day. News Theme is an elegant theme that is more than capable of handling all your content. It keeps it all organized and provides a user friendly experience to your visitors.

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Assignment Desk: Editorial Tool for WordPress News Sites

Have you ever wanted to start your very own professional news portal? Maybe you are just tired of going solo and want to expand your portal by getting your community members involved. Assignment Desk is just the tool for that. It’s a powerful editorial tool for news sites that enables portal owners, community members, and news contributors to better communicate with one another. Assignment Desk can be used to gather ideas and assign stories to contributors.

Assignment Desk has plenty of options you can optimize to take your news website to the next level. The default assignment status is new. You do have the option to define new workflow statuses. Portal owners can use this system to easily assign stories to their writers. If you need to have multiple authors on your website, Co-Authors Plus plugin is a must-have. (more…)

8 Ways To Start a News Site with WordPress

Are you a freelance journalist hoping to start your very own news service? These days people spend a lot of time online consuming content. That means if you have got something to say, you should setup a news portal to get your work in front of your targeted audience. Thanks to news portal themes for WordPress, you can start a professional news site and not go broke in the process. Here are 8 news themes for journalists that can get the job done:

News time: a classic news theme for journalists. It is dynamic and has a fully customizable front page. It has 8 color schemes. It can be localized too.

Newscast: it works for magazines and news blogs alike. It has 3 beautiful image and news slideshows. Many aspects of it can be customized from its settings page.

Tribune Themes: a SEO friendly news portal theme by WPZoom. It is ad friendly and easy to customize. Grabs your thumbnails for you. Gives you multiple ways to promote your content (includes a breaking news section).

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Get Started As a News Blogger with NewsTime Theme

There is no better time to start covering the news than today. There are so many complicated issues going on at the same time in our world that no matter what you are passionate about, you should have no problem starting a news site to cover your favorite topic (technology, hard-core news, …). The good news is you won’t have to spend a fortune on a website-design to get started. All you need is WordPress and a decent news theme such as NewsTime theme. It’s a theme designed specifically for those interested in running a news site (similar to Times or CNN).

NewsTime has a very clean interface and comes in 7 color schemes. The front-page is quite dynamic and has a featured section for you to push your latest/more-important stories. This theme is ready to be localized too, so you can technically use it to host an international news website.

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Start a News WordPress Site with TerranTribune

What makes a great news website? A site that keeps people informed of the latest news and provides them with plenty of content to consume. Today’s top news websites offer videos and other dynamic content to their visitors to keep them coming back for more. You can do the same with TerranTribune for WordPress. It’s a top notch WordPress news theme that targets those who intend to start a highly professional news website with WordPress.

The theme’s design is quite attractive and very clean. It comes with RokNewsRotator Widget that helps rotate the news on your website in a dynamic fashion. TerranTribune is image and video friendly as well, so you can add your latest video posts or other information to your website easily. What’s impressive about this theme is the fact that it gives you 32 widget locations to work with. That means you are going to have the flexibility to change things around on your website and test new locations for your widgets without changing your code.

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Start a News Blog with Tribune for WordPress

News blogs are much different from opinion or personal blogs. Depending on your niche, you may have to cover various topics on your blog, which means you are going to need a WordPress theme that is very well organized and presents your information in an attractive fashion. Tribune for WordPress is a clean theme that lets you start your news blog fast. It’s designed to handle all types of content, so you’ll have an easy time integrating your videos and photos into your website.

Tribune has an easy-to-customize slider that you can use to display your top stories. You can define which category you want to use for your slider. Custom menus are nice to have too. The video widget comes handy if you want to add more videos to your news site. Multiple layouts offered with this theme are a plus.

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Build Your News Portal with News WordPress Theme

One thing that we don’t need these days is another mainstream media news site that doesn’t cover the news items that do matter. That’s probably why more and more people are starting their own news services to provide their take on what’s going on all around us. A few years ago, you would have to spend a fortune to get that done. But thanks to the power of WordPress and all the cool news themes available on the market, you can get your news blog up and running in a flash.

News WordPress Theme is another clean cut theme by StudioPress that is designed for that very purpose. You can easily get your own news website up and running in a matter of minutes. The theme has a very light look and feel to it. At the same time, it’s dynamic enough to allow your visitors to go through your content more effectively.

The theme is SEO friendly and comes with a clean code to give you the best chance to maximize profits from search engines. You get 3 columns that you can use to present your information as you see fit. The theme is also ad ready as well. So you can add your AdSense code or banners to the theme easily.

What I like about this theme is the fact that it’s translation ready. So it’s perfectly suitable for a foreign language portal. You also have like the fact that you can easily upload your images to this theme easily. The back-end does provide you with a few features to help you avoid writing code to customize your theme.

Overall, News Theme is a clean cut, SEO friendly WordPress theme that lets you start your own news portal fast. It’s very easy to use and customize and gets the job done.