WordPress Versions 6+ and Versions 5+ Ready – RTL Languages Ready
PenNews is a powerful WordPress Theme from PenciDesign. This theme helps you create a new site in such short time by drag & drop with great designs. We also bring to you great support and friendly help. You can use this theme for every purpose – create things like the way you love.
SEE HOW PEOPLE USE PENNEWS
We spent a considerable amount of time tweaking every aspect of the theme to make it load faster and faster more. This makes your site friendly for any search engine and keep your site running smoothly with high traffic.
This theme have been already cached for queries running to make sure the speed is best. We optimized by hands with each query in the theme, all the resources come with the themes optimized from us. This theme is also compatible with all plugins for caching & build-in smart lazyload images. Everything makes the theme great for performance.
Click to run pagespeed for our theme.
Google AMP & Facebook Instant Article Supported & Validated
If you want your site focus on mobile – yeah, this is the best solution for you. By supports Google AMP & Facebook Instant Article from itself, this theme is powerful on mobile social media. It makes your site more load faster 5x on AMP & 10x on Facebook Instant Article and friendly more with Google & Facebook.
The Best Theme Optimized for SEO
The theme focus on validate schema markup for Google with fully supports for all types: Articles, Breadcrumbs, Posts Review, Posts Recipe, Tags… and compatible with all SEO plugins. Everything will make your site friendly with google and other search engines. Everything is validated automatically with Google and other search engines.
Unlimited Ads spaces, In-Feed ads & Affiliates supported
With drag & drop, you can place your ads to any places in this theme.With In-feed ads supports for all layouts, you can earn more money from your traffic.
100% Responsive – Look great on all devices
PenNews is 100% responsive and will look great for all devices: Desktop, Tablet, Mobile, iPad, iPhone, Android devices,...etc
Best & Rich Features Ever
PenNews comes with multiple options via edit each element & theme options – that helps you to change any section of your site without touch to any code. You will be amazed at the choices we provide you in this theme. We’re regular updates this theme also, this makes the features come more and more in the future updates. That’s the best deal ever for any theme.
Key Features
- One click install any demo.
- Google AMP & Facebook Instant Article Supported & Validated
- Multiple premium plugins included for free:
- Multiple Custom Widgets with great designs
- About Us
- Banner Box
- Authors Box
- Login/Register Form
- Popular Categories
- Video Playlist
- Instagram
- Pinterest
- Social Counter
- Weather
- Latest Tweets
- Facebook Page
- Widget Block 6
- Widget Block 7
- Widget Block 10
- Widget Block 11
- Widget Block 15
- Widget Block 16
- Widget Block 23
- Widget Block 25
- 600+ options from WordPress Customizer
- Drag & Drop page builder by WPBakery Page Builder.
- White Lable Tool
- EU GDRP Policy Compatible
- Unlimited Fonts: Upload your custom fonts & google fonts
- Advanced Social Counters & Sharing Buttons
- 10+ Post Styles for Different Stories
- 10+ header styles with each different container
- 28+ featured sliders style – check demos slider here
- 40+ Content Blocks – check demos here
- 10+ Big Grids – check demos here
- Supports 3 Types of review: Star, Percent and point.
- Multiple global Options for All VC elements, example:
- Custom heading styles & text & url
- Custom heading icon for each elements
- Custom fonts type, font size for each element
- Multiple Sidebar Layouts:
- 2 Sidebars + Content
- Sidebar Left + Content
- Content + Sidebar Right
- No Sidebar – Full 100% Width
- No Sidebar – Full Width 1400px Container
- No Sidebar – Full Width 1080px Container
- Multiple mega menu styles & menu items style: Mega Menu Columns & Category Mega Menu With 2 different styles
- Hide/show most elements on your site
- Sticky/Un-sticky Navigation
- Sticky Sidebar
- Ajax Live Search
- Unlimited Custom Sidebar – add any custom sidebar you want to your site without touching to the codes.
- Video Playlist for VC elements & Widgets
- Ajax Login & Register Form
- Multiple Portfolio Layouts:
- Masonry Text Over Image
- Masonry Text Bellow Image
- Masonry in 2 Columns
- Masonry in 3 Columns
- Grid Text Over Image
- Grid Text Bellow Image
- Grid in 2 Columns
- Grid in 3 Columns
- Woocommerce Compatible – easy to create a store/shop on your site.
- BBPress & BuddyPress Compatible – easy to create a forum & community on your site.
- The Event Calendar Compatible – easy create & manage the events.
- Multilingual Supported: WPML & Polylang Compatible – easy to create multiple languages site.
- Quick Text Translation – Translation your site to your language in seconds.
- Free Updates Life Time.
- WordPress Multi-Site Supported
- Auto-Updates – Don’t worries about update. This theme can be update itself automatically.
- Detailed Documentation
- Dedicated & Fast Customers Support from PenciDesign
Update Changelog
Update: PenNews Version 6.6.9
* FEATURED ADDED: Options to manage the schema markup from the theme. You can disable all the schema markup from the theme and use only the schema markup from your SEO plugin via Customize > Manage Schema Markup.
* FIX: Some bugs in WPBakery Page Builder reported by customers
* IMPROVE: PHP 8.3 compatible / fixed all warning when use the theme with PHP 8.3
* UPDATE: Some issues with outdated Woocommerce templates
* UPDATE: All premium plugins in premium plugins package to latest version.
Update: PenNews Version 6.6.7
* FIX: Some issues with outdated Woocommerce templates
* UPDATE: All premium plugins in premium plugins package to latest version.
Update: PenNews Version 6.6.6
* UPDATE: Update new Twitter Icon
* FIX: Some issues with WPBakery Page Builder
* UPDATE: All premium plugins in premium plugins package to latest version.
Update: PenNews Version 6.6.5
* UPDATE: Compatible with PHP 8 & higher PHP version of PHP
* FIX: Some issues with WPBakery Page Builder
* IMPROVE: Instagram problems, now please connect to your instagram account first via Dashboard > PenNews > Connect Instagram
* IMPROVE: Twitter problems, now please connect to your Twitter account first via Dashboard > PenNews > Connect Twitter
* UPDATE: All premium plugins in premium plugins package to latest version.
Update: PenNews Version 6.6.4
* UPDATE: Compatible with WordPress version 6.0
* FIX: Some minor issues
* UPDATE: All premium plugins in premium plugins package to latest version.
Update: PenNews Version 6.6.3
* UPDATE: Compatible with WordPress version 5.9
* FIX: Some minor issues
* UPDATE: All premium plugins in premium plugins package to latest version.
Update: PenNews Version 6.6.1
* UPDATE: PenNews AMP plugin to the latest version - fix some minor issues with AMP plugin.
* FIX: Some minor issues with the icons & mega menu
* UPDATE: All premium plugins in premium plugins package to latest version.
Update: PenNews Version 6.6.0
*IMPROVE: Schema Markup for Penci Recipe, Penci Review, Penci AMP. Please update the theme & updates plugins come with the theme via Appearance > Install Plugins to get it.
* FIX: All issues between PenNews & latest version of WordPress
* FIX: Some minor issues
Update: PenNews Version 6.5.9
* QUICK FIX: The issues with WordPress version 5.5.
Please update the theme & Penci Framework & Vafpress Post Formats UI to the latest version to solve it.
After updated it to the latest version, if you see the issue still appears, go to edit a post > press Ctrl + F5 to clear the browser cache and check it again.
Update: PenNews Version 6.5.8
* FEATURE ADDED: Option for custom number of authors to display on author block.
* FEATURE ADDED: Sub-title for single posts.
* FEATURE ADDED: Add Discord for social media.
* FEATURE ADDED: Option for custom h1 on homepage
* FEATURE ADDED: Option for disable all post views count ( blocks, single, edit posts screen )
* IMPROVE: Issues with Instagram & Pinterest
Update: PenNews Version 6.5.7
* FEATURE ADDED: Compatible with WPForms and recommend WPForms to use in list plugins.
* IMPROVE: Some small bug issues
Update: PenNews Version 6.5.6
* FIXED: Issues with activate the theme.
Update: PenNews Version 6.5.5
* FEATURE ADDED: Options for change image size & image ratio for blocks.
* FEATURE ADDED: Option for change image size for blog, archive, category, tag, search.. layout
* FEATURE ADDED: Colors options for widgets
* FEATURE ADDED: Option for disable schema markup from the theme.
* IMPROVE: Smooth Scroll
* IMPROVE: Template for latest version of Woocommerce
* IMPROVE: Custom color for tags display inside single post via Customize > Single Post Options.
* IMPROVE: Some issues with Penci Portfolio & Penci Review plugins.
Demos & plugins update
* FEATURE ADDED: New 20 demos focus on Vertical Navigation.
* FEATURE ADDED: Show AMP for Mobile Visitors - All mobile visitor will be redirected to AMP version of site automatically. Works with all cache plugins.
* FEATURE ADDED: AMP URL Format
Start Point: yoursite.com/amp/post/
End Point: yoursite.com/post/amp/
* FEATURE ADDED: Fix some block styles display on AMP
* FEATURE ADDED: AMP plugin work with all permalink settings ( except use post_id on the urls ).
Please update the AMP plugin to get this feature.
Update: PenNews Version 6.5.1
* FEATURE ADDED: Add option for add YouTube API Key via Customize > General Options. That's requirement from Youtube to make the playlist video doesn't limit.
* FEATURE ADDED: Fix issues with video playlist shortcode
* FEATURE ADDED: Add support video url at current time - when you fill a youtube URL with query for time ( example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQHsXMglC9A&t=40s ), it will load exactly where do you want it load.
* FEATURE ADDED: update layout loadmore post cho block 23
* IMPROVE: Fix issues with display social counter shortcode.
Update: PenNews Version 6.5
* FEATURE ADDED: Add new 20 demos:
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-enterprise-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-delivery-service
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-interactive-agency-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-human-resources-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-business-consultancy-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-coworking-space-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-web-hosting-service-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-virtual-reality-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-laundry-service-mulitpurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-digital-studio-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-renewable-energy-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-smoothie-bar-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-cryptocurrency-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-chocolate-business-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-wine-business-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-tea-business-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-internet-service-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-pizza-business-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-fast-food-business-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-science-lab-multipurpose
* FEATURE ADDED: Add Option for use Vertical Navigation via Customize
* FEATURE ADDED: Add Patreon to social media icon
* FEATURE ADDED: Option for make the default link of author point to woocommerce author page.
* IMPROVE: Some minor issues.
Update: PenNews Version 6.48
* FEATURE ADDED: Compatible with Wordpress 5+ and elements from Gutenberg plugin.
* IMPROVE: Some minor issues.
Update: PenNews Version 6.3
* FEATURE ADDED: Add supports for Smart Lists now with 20 styles for Smart Lists
* FEATURE ADDED: Options for Select Block Title Align, Turn off Uppercase Block Title for Penci Image Box
* FEATURE ADDED: Options for show all categories ( NOT one like previous versions ) for Blocks + Featured Slider + Big Grids
* FEATURE ADDED: Options for manage image sizes from the theme via Customize > General Options
* FEATURE ADDED: Display breadcrumbs for single styles 5, 6 & 7
* FEATURE ADDED: Add supports for display author avatar replace with featured images on "Block 6"
* FEATURE ADDED: Options for custom maximum excerpt length via Customize > General Options
* FEATURE ADDED: Options for disable post viewed count & post meta on inline related posts.
* FEATURE ADDED: Option for disable AMP for special Posts/Pages on edit Posts/Pages screen.
* IMPROVE: Some minor issues
Update: PenNews Version 6.2
* FEATURE ADDED: Support for Gutenberg
* FEATURE ADDED: Option to disable parallax images for single posts ( Customize > Single Post Options )
* FEATURE ADDED: Custom Aspect Ratio for Featured Image when you disable parallax images
* FEATURE ADDED: Support for display author name, post viewed count for blocks & featured slider
* FEATURE ADDED: Compability with AdSense Integration WP QUADS
* IMPROVE: Some minor issues
Update: PenNews Version 6.1
* FEATURE ADDED: 5 New Demos:
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-repairing-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-ristorante-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-dentist-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-star-magazine
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-crypterio-news
* FEATURE ADDED: Add element Register Form
* FEATURE ADDED: Add shortcodes management via Dashboard > PenNews > Shortcodes Management - you can deactivate all elements you don't need for use - it will make your site performance better.
* FEATURE ADDED: Update more translate for review plugins
* FEATURE ADDED: Add Line social media
* IMPROVE: Makrup for sticky sidebar
* IMPROVE: Some issues with RTL Languages
* IMPROVE: Some issues with AMP plugin - let's re-download and update the plugin to get it.
* IMPROVE: Some minor issues
Big Update: PenNews Version 6.0
* FEATURE ADDED: 34 New Demos:
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-web-agency
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-hairdressing-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-coffee-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-travel-magazine
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-fashion-magazine
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-business-magazine
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-times-magazine
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-book-news
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-minimal-portfolio
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-photography-portfolio
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-game-magazine
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-finance-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-wedding-studio
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-freelancer
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-product-showcase
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-sport-club
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-technology-news
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-transport-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-yoga-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-online-shop
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-food-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-seo-digital-agency
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-musician-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-startup-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-game-intro
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-pet-care-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-kids-fashion
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-golf-club
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-sport-news2
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-fashion-stylist
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-bar-club
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-tattoo-multipurpose
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-factory
https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-modern-shop-multipurpose
* FEATURE ADDED: Add Options for custom site width & size for content & sidebar by drag & drop via Dashboard > PenNews > Site Width
* FEATURE ADDED: Add Users Review features for Penci Review plugin - you can create posts and allow your users can review your posts/products...
* FEATURE ADDED: Ads Manage Shortcodes - easy to put your ads to content by use Ads Manage Shortcodes ( Dashboard > PenNews > Ads Manage )
* FEATURE ADDED: Custom Font Size for Count Down shortcode on mobile
* FEATURE ADDED: Custom Font Size for Titles for Fancy Heading Elements
* FEATURE ADDED: Optimize rel nofollow for banners elements.
* FEATURE ADDED: Apply custom fonts for AMP plugins & add cookie notice popup for AMP pages - please update AMP to latest version to get that features.
* FEATURE ADDED: Option for change the size for mega menu: Square, Vertical...
* IMPROVE: Some minor issues.
PenNews Version 5.1
* FEATURE ADDED: Travel Multipurpose demo - https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-travel-multipurpose/
* FEATURE ADDED: Travel Guide demo - https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-travel-guide/
* FEATURE ADDED: Video News 2 demo - https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-video2-news/
* FEATURE ADDED: Farm Multi-Purpose demo - https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-farm-multipurpose/
* FEATURE ADDED: Add more options for Penci Review plugin - It's allow for user ratings, add more review points & change order of review points by drag & drop - please update Penci Review plugin to latest version to get this feature.
* FEATURE ADDED: Supports for Yoast SEO Breadcrumbs - replace with default breadcrumb from this theme. ( via Customize > General Options )
* FEATURE ADDED: Custom URL when you click on the logo image on Header & Footer.
* FEATURE ADDED: Add support for highlight button on main navigation - please use custom class 'highlight-button' for menu items you want to highlight.
* FEATURE ADDED: Option for disable infinite load more previous posts for special posts on edit posts screen.
* FEATURE ADDED: Add more options for social sharing ( Line & VK & Viber )
* FEATURE ADDED: Add more Line social media option
* FEATURE ADDED: Add more options for social sharing for AMP ( Line & VK & Viber ) and fix some issues on AMP - please update PenNews AMP plugin to get this features.
* IMPROVE: Weather element/widget need to fill API key to get it work. That's needed because all weather API has changed the policy now.
* IMPROVE: Theme speed & some minor issues.
PenNews Version 5.0
* FEATURE ADDED: Lawyer - Attorneys demo - https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-lawyer-attorneys/
* FEATURE ADDED: Cosmetic Multi-Purpose demo - https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-cosmetic-multipurpose/
* FEATURE ADDED: Business Multi-Purpose 2 demo - https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-business-multipurpose2/
* FEATURE ADDED: Garden Multi-Purpose demo - https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-garden-multipurpose/
* FEATURE ADDED: Frontend Submission - check documentation for this here: https://pennews.pencidesign.net/pennews-document/#frontend
* FEATURE ADDED: Support for Custom Post Type for Build Query on Widgets
* FEATURE ADDED: Featured Slider Style 28
* FEATURE ADDED: Responsive Tab for all elements of WPBakery Page Builder
* FEATURE ADDED: Hide/show WPBakery Page Builder elements on desktop, table & mobile for each elements
* FEATURE ADDED: Options for display selected categories on build query on filter ( in the past, just supports display child categories of selected categories )
* IMPROVE: Some minor issues
