How to Start a News Magazine WordPress Site: An Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide

Are you into news and keen on telling people about some sides of our life? Are you fond of fashion, music, art or literature and want to launch your online magazine? Then, you’re right where you should be as today we’re going to tell you how to start a news magazine WordPress Site the right way. There’s no need to worry that you won’t handle it. Our ultimate step-by-step guide will help you build the website of your dreams with no need to code or run to a design studio.

Do you know what the secret of success is? Actually, that’s a website template. The competition on the market is tough, and there are hundreds of new news websites popping out every day. If you want to outshine them, you need to have a solid high-quality basis that stands for the visual awesomeness and truly impressive functionality of your website. Moreover, with quality templates, you also get all the SEO and performance optimization done for you by professionals. And, believe me, or not, you get all this without breaking the bank. For instance, the average price of a WordPress is $50 -70, which is approximately 10 times less than the average price for a custom design.

News Magazine WordPress Themes

However, let’s stop and figure out, why we’re talking about WordPress themes today. Any guesses? You’re right if you’re thinking about its popularity. WordPress CMS appears to be the best way to launch an informative online platform. It’s an ultimate winner among all the website engines available, with almost 60% of all the website owners going for it. The reasons for such popularity are by no means obscure.

  • First of all, WordPress CMS is free and open-source. You don’t have to pay for any kind of premium version of it and can enjoy all it brings without spending a penny.
  • Secondly, WordPress makes things simpler. It installs in three comprehensive steps within 10 minutes and is a perfect content management tool.
  • The simple admin panel of WordPress is worth admiration. As a result, you’ll be able to get through and find all you need without resorting to documentation (the CMS is well-documented though).
  • Moreover, WordPress is a good fit for any kind of a website. Its rich plugin market lets you find the extensions for different kinds of businesses, as well as for advanced stats display and website optimization.

As you can see, WordPress is optimal for news magazine website creation. You just need to know what things to pay attention to make your website successful. Next, check out the 10 news portal WordPress themes that best illustrate the points highlighted in the article. If you go for one of them, you’ll save your time on choosing a well-crafted theme. Why not?

Let’s get back to the point. Today, we want you to look at 10 important steps of creating a successful news magazine website. Read carefully and you’ll launch your news magazine website in next to no time.

Step 1: Design an Enthralling Homepage

 KingNews - Magazine News Portal & Blog WordPress Theme

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Needless to say, the homepage is a place of the first acquaintance with your website. Indeed, it can become either a beginning of a lasting love story, or signify the end of a short-lived relationship. I bet you strive to empower the first option. However, when designing a homepage for a news website, you should stick to an abundance of information, but make this abundance easily discoverable. If there are many articles on your homepage to choose from, site guests are more likely to find the ones to their taste and keep digging deeper into your website. At the same time, the information should be clearly structured and delivered in an accessible manner. Therefore, you don’t need a mess on your homepage, you should present yourself as an authoritative and rich source of information.

KingsNews is a news portal WordPress theme that accounts for the mentioned two factors. The theme creates a logically structured mosaic of your newest posts and presents them in an easily digestible way. Above the fold section is the place to showcase your most groundbreaking news. The larger box stands for the article of the day, the four smaller boxes are for alternative options. Go for the articles that cover different aspects of life there. Then, you’ll get the chance to immediately strike your website guests with the scope of information you cover (and make sure they find something that interests them). Below come the latest published posts for users to learn more.

A part of KingsNews homepage has integrated widgets to start boosting UX on your website right on the homepage. The widgets that come with the theme let you build such content blocks as Live Search, Post Carousel, social sharing block, newsletter subscription form, etc. What’s more, custom pre-built widgets let you display your bubbly feeds in popular social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Close to the end of the page come lists that encourage clients to explore more by checking out a category of posts or posts by a tag.

The KingsNews theme is proud not only of its homepage. All the pre-built pages of it are well-thought and carefully developed. Why don’t you learn more about it? Hit the ‘Details’ button to explore.

Step #2: Turn Your Website Into a Journey

Digezine - News Magazine WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Browsing your website is an experience. Why don’t you make this experience similar to traveling? Imagine that your homepage is the world map, and your articles are the gateways to different countries. Consequently, your website should work the way, that once visitors are attracted by this or that ‘country’, they land there in one click and start exploring. Once the first tour is over, they should see more tours below and keep traveling.

If this is too abstract for you, let me cast the metaphors aside. You should keep your website guests constantly engaged and not even ever thinking about leaving your website. Let’s say, they click on the post excerpt on the homepage and see a full article. Below it should come the list of related and similar posts for them to keep exploring. If all the pages and posts of your website are interconnected, your site becomes a web that no user wants to abandon.

If you want to check out an example of a template that incarnates the ‘journey’ concept, check out the Digezine responsive WordPress theme. It’s stunningly designed homepage enthralls with beautiful imagery and bold captions. Then, every single post of the theme comes with related posts. The category tree and tag cloud also come handy in form of widgets. Such a website keeps people browsing and coming back for a new portion of brain food.

There are a couple more words to say about the Digezine template. It comes with an advanced Live Customizer that brings you all the customization options needed. Moreover, the theme features a number of header and footer layouts to let you choose the ones that strike. What’s more, the Digezine is fully optimized for display on small and medium screens, so all the surfers on the go will be as absorbed by browsing your website as desktop users.

Step #3: Stay Minimal & Clean

Elena - blog WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Simplicity and minimalism are the cornerstones of modern web design. Notwithstanding the need to keep your website informative, you should keep it all clean and simple. Otherwise, your website will look kind of obsolete. Opt for the themes with an abundance of negative space. Be sure, such themes do a trick of adding weight and value to your content, as well as ensure perfect readability, which is by no means less important.

To begin with, Elena blog WordPress theme is the one that keeps it all ultimately clean and simple. No frills and trims, just the content you coin and breathtaking imagery. Elena sticks to a reserved black-n-white color palette that makes all the color accents 100% noticeable. Moreover, Elena theme makes use of a large, sans-serif font for captions, making them look solid and sound.

What’s great about this template is that it brings you twelve clean and polished layouts to choose from. What do you prefer: left sidebar, right sidebar, two sidebars, mosaic post grid, symmetric post grid? Luckily, it’s up to you to choose the best way to present the content of your online magazine. What’s more, you’re free to experiment with the website color scheme in Live Customizer and see changes in the twinkle of an eye. It’s hard not to fall in love with the minimal and clean Elena theme. Maybe it’s the best fit for your online magazine, isn’t it?

Step #4: Keep Pace With Web Design Trends

Motiovix - Video Streaming Responsive WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Needless to say, if you want to attract people, you should keep up with the times. Although, I’m not saying that you should go for every web design fad you come across, the major web design trends and tendencies are not the ones to neglect. Do you know the latest web design trends of 2017? Have you heard about card design, 360 views, cinemagraphs, microinteractions, neon colors and gradients, etc.? If not, you’d better learn about them before starting to work on your website. On the other side, if you launch an ultra-modern website, you ensure that it’ll appeal to the auditory for a longer period of time and save you from going for a redesign in the nearest future.

Motiovix video streaming WordPress theme is the one that incorporates top-notch gradients and neon colors. It’s charming, ultra-modern and ultimately speaking the same language with the younger audience. Rich video integration also comes handy. What about going for a video background or for a cinemagraph? In fact, this is the idea that can dramatically affect your bounce and conversion rates in a positive way. Keep in mind, that the theme retains its visual appeal on mobile screens, as the powerful Bootstrap framework rebuilds its design. Needless, to say, with Motovix, there’s no need to fear hiDPI screens as all the imagery of the template is Retina-ready.

Step #5: Mind Readability And Contrast

Viral News Portal & Magazine WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Striving to reach for the skies, you shouldn’t forget the basics. Ensuring high readability is a must for a news/magazine website. People should feel comfortable reading your content, no matter what device they use for this. First of all, minimize the number of the fonts used to a couple to decrease visual noise. Secondly, go for sans serif fonts that not only look sleek and modern but are also better decipherable on digital screens. Thirdly, don’t try to save the place online: observe optimal font size, line length, paddings and line height. Finally, mind the contrast: go for dark grey, dark blue or black font on the white background; use white text over the dark imagery. If you stick to these rules, your website will be the one people read and don’t just check out and leave.

Viral News Portal WordPress theme is the one that takes care of the readers’ eyes and ensures good readability. The main text of the theme black and solid and provides for newspaper-reminiscent user experience. The captions that reside on the images and dark backgrounds are white to make sure they don’t mingle with graphic content. What’s more, the accent color is the saturated orange, which stands in contrast to both black and white and is both recognizable and readable.

At the same time, the Viral News Portal theme boasts not only of the good readability. Its fine-tuning is easy and intuitive thanks to Live Customizer, a template editor with Ajax functionality. The template is fully SEO-optimized and built in compliance with requirements of the leading search engines, such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. Moreover, the coding of the theme is as perfect as the readability it ensures. No bugs or glitches will ever get there, jeopardizing your website and its performance.

Step #6: Mind Neat and Clear Structure

BitNews - Blog Magazine & News Portal WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Structuring your website the right way is important for providing a quality browsing experience to your website readers. However, make sure all the sections of your website stand apart one from another and appear in an easy-to-follow the logical sequence. Go for noticeable paddings and dividers, organize the content the way it works best. What else? Furthermore, mind the hierarchy when creating your website navigation. Divide large chunks of information into smaller ones. Then, divide the smaller ones into sub-sections. Don’t neglect to polish your list of the categories and make sure that each article you post goes into one or into a couple of categories.

BitNews magazine template is the one that not only knocks it down with a stunning design but also sticks to the transparent and well-thought structure. Even more, every block of it is logically connected with the previous ones and forestalls the ones to come. What’s more the ready-made pages of it (News, Videos, Venues, Events, Advertise and Contacts) tell the story of you and what you do in a clear voice.

More than that, BitNews theme is also loaded with an impressive number of features. It comes with a number of pre-built plugins and extensions that you get for free with the theme. Moreover, you’ll also get a chance to work with modules, widgets and shortcodes. The latter feature gives you a chance to add different content types to posts and pages just in a couple of clicks. To learn more about the theme, check out its detailed video presentation below:

Step #7: Buckle Down To Social Integration

Financial News & Magazine WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Importantly, social integration is the thing that you should never dare to neglect when creating a modern competitive news website / online magazine. If you get more followers on social networks, you’ll get more opportunities to promote your content and have more users coming to your website. Social networking is the modern kingdom of word of mouth. So, let it work for you and make your content viral. What are the components of the properly done social integration of a website?

First of all, go for social buttons on the homepage of your website, on the Contacts page, as well as in website’s header and footer. Next, you must have the social sharing buttons on every post of your website. Make them appealing and noticeable, encourage people to share. Finally, it’s beneficial to go for widgets that display your feeds in the social networks you’re active in. Such widgets show people that they’ll keep their fingers on the pulse of your life if they subscribe to your updates in these networks.

Indeed, Weekly Journal is not a girly theme, but rather a great fit for an economics/politics news portal. Nonetheless, it pays the duly attention to social integration. Once you land upon the website built with Weekly Journal, you’ll see the social buttons right away. Furthermore, they reappear in the homepage’s sider. So, if you still haven’t attended to them, they remind about themselves in the website footer. Just perfect! What’s more, the choice of social networks integrated is also very wise. You’ll see the networks that are best for the promotion of newspaper/magazine websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and Reuter’s aggregator. No doubt, the theme’s creators haven’t forgotten about social sharing buttons. With Weekly Journal, it takes just a couple of clicks to share your posts in the reader’s favorite social network.

Step #8: Make It Content-centered

 BlazingNews - News Magazine Responsive WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

You’re probably aware of the adage that content is the king. It definitely holds true for a news website. If you don’t have a thick portion of well-written, unique content you’re doomed. Make sure that your content appears in the best light on every page of your website. Choose featured images as you choose gifts to your loved ones. Coin captions and excerpts that are just irresistible. Choose hero positions for the posts you capitalize on. Don’t save your effort to find the best imagery you can for the posts. By the way, go for authentic photography, i. e. the pictures that depict real people in real situations. Such pics make people relate to and be more impressed by your posts.

If you want your content to be really the king, go for BlazingNews theme. Its homepage is just supercharged with information. On the other hand, the post previews come in different sizes, but each of them has all you need to make people want to read it. Other pages come in the same vein. The imagery used in the template is realistic and suggests that you cast aside stock imagery forever. What’s more, the BlazingNews theme is a piece of cake in terms of installation and editing. The theme provides you with streamlined 5-minutes installation, smooth editing process and sound backup system. To learn more, check out the links below the theme’s screenshot.

Step #9: Go For Fresh Posts Daily

The Daily Post - Media & Latest News WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Posting on your website frequently is the thing, the power of which is frequently neglected by the newbies to the web. There are multiple benefits that you can harvest by posting every day. First of all, if this is a news website or a magazine, people expect that it’ll be updated frequently. If it isn’t, people will quickly start ignoring it and migrating to the sources that are updated on the daily basis. Secondly, posting on regular basis is one of the important components of the rankings you get from search engines. Search engines, such as Google, strive to bring their users the freshest content possible. Therefore, they would penalize you for not providing such content. The more you post, the higher you appear on the SERPs.

Indeed, The Daily Post is the template that makes posting in your news/magazine website addictive. The process of content creation is simplified to the minimum. Add the title and the body of the article, go for an excerpt, featured image, tags and categories, and – voila – here comes a fresh post by you. Also, social integration buttons are already there, so it’s bound to go viral. What’s more, this fully responsive and cross-browser compatible theme comes with a thick pack of custom widgets that let you showcase your latest post in a variety of appealing ways.

Step #10: Find Your Creativity Well

Creado - Art Gallery Responsive WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Indeed, it’s hardly possible to overestimate the role of creativeness in website creation process. For instanse, creativeness is the thing that (if applied properly) makes your website special in a number of ways. Think what the design elements are that would best reflect who you’re, what the value you deliver is, what the principles you live by are. Now, think about the small things that you can embody the particles of your passion in. Done? Great! Moreover, Creativity has a component of inspiration to it, so it’s hard to say what would work for you and your website. Let’s better see an example.

Creado theme is the true epitome of creativity. It casts limits and boundaries aside and goes for bright images, brave fonts and saturated backgrounds. At the same time, there’s the inspiration component to it, so the template is not dressed to kill. Creado template is powered by GridCSS technology that gives you a new level of freedom in creating and managing website layouts comprised of blocks with uncommon placing and size. This is definitely the peal that makes this template different and perfect for launching a creative magazine website. Do you agree with me?

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Step 1: Design an Enthralling Homepage

 KingNews - Magazine News Portal & Blog WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Needless to say, the homepage is a place of the first acquaintance with your website. Indeed, it can become either a beginning of a lasting love story, or signify the end of a short-lived relationship. I bet you strive to empower the first option. However, when designing a homepage for a news website, you should stick to an abundance of information, but make this abundance easily discoverable. If there are many articles on your homepage to choose from, site guests are more likely to find the ones to their taste and keep digging deeper into your website. At the same time, the information should be clearly structured and delivered in an accessible manner. Therefore, you don’t need a mess on your homepage, you should present yourself as an authoritative and rich source of information.

KingsNews is a news portal WordPress theme that accounts for the mentioned two factors. The theme creates a logically structured mosaic of your newest posts and presents them in an easily digestible way. Above the fold section is the place to showcase your most groundbreaking news. The larger box stands for the article of the day, the four smaller boxes are for alternative options. Go for the articles that cover different aspects of life there. Then, you’ll get the chance to immediately strike your website guests with the scope of information you cover (and make sure they find something that interests them). Below come the latest published posts for users to learn more.

A part of KingsNews homepage has integrated widgets to start boosting UX on your website right on the homepage. The widgets that come with the theme let you build such content blocks as Live Search, Post Carousel, social sharing block, newsletter subscription form, etc. What’s more, custom pre-built widgets let you display your bubbly feeds in popular social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Close to the end of the page come lists that encourage clients to explore more by checking out a category of posts or posts by a tag.

The KingsNews theme is proud not only of its homepage. All the pre-built pages of it are well-thought and carefully developed. Why don’t you learn more about it? Hit the ‘Details’ button to explore.

Step #2: Turn Your Website Into a Journey

Digezine - News Magazine WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Browsing your website is an experience. Why don’t you make this experience similar to traveling? Imagine that your homepage is the world map, and your articles are the gateways to different countries. Consequently, your website should work the way, that once visitors are attracted by this or that ‘country’, they land there in one click and start exploring. Once the first tour is over, they should see more tours below and keep traveling.

If this is too abstract for you, let me cast the metaphors aside. You should keep your website guests constantly engaged and not even ever thinking about leaving your website. Let’s say, they click on the post excerpt on the homepage and see a full article. Below it should come the list of related and similar posts for them to keep exploring. If all the pages and posts of your website are interconnected, your site becomes a web that no user wants to abandon.

If you want to check out an example of a template that incarnates the ‘journey’ concept, check out the Digezine responsive WordPress theme. It’s stunningly designed homepage enthralls with beautiful imagery and bold captions. Then, every single post of the theme comes with related posts. The category tree and tag cloud also come handy in form of widgets. Such a website keeps people browsing and coming back for a new portion of brain food.

There are a couple more words to say about the Digezine template. It comes with an advanced Live Customizer that brings you all the customization options needed. Moreover, the theme features a number of header and footer layouts to let you choose the ones that strike. What’s more, the Digezine is fully optimized for display on small and medium screens, so all the surfers on the go will be as absorbed by browsing your website as desktop users.

Step #3: Stay Minimal & Clean

Elena - blog WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Simplicity and minimalism are the cornerstones of modern web design. Notwithstanding the need to keep your website informative, you should keep it all clean and simple. Otherwise, your website will look kind of obsolete. Opt for the themes with an abundance of negative space. Be sure, such themes do a trick of adding weight and value to your content, as well as ensure perfect readability, which is by no means less important.

To begin with, Elena blog WordPress theme is the one that keeps it all ultimately clean and simple. No frills and trims, just the content you coin and breathtaking imagery. Elena sticks to a reserved black-n-white color palette that makes all the color accents 100% noticeable. Moreover, Elena theme makes use of a large, sans-serif font for captions, making them look solid and sound.

What’s great about this template is that it brings you twelve clean and polished layouts to choose from. What do you prefer: left sidebar, right sidebar, two sidebars, mosaic post grid, symmetric post grid? Luckily, it’s up to you to choose the best way to present the content of your online magazine. What’s more, you’re free to experiment with the website color scheme in Live Customizer and see changes in the twinkle of an eye. It’s hard not to fall in love with the minimal and clean Elena theme. Maybe it’s the best fit for your online magazine, isn’t it?

Step #4: Keep Pace With Web Design Trends

Motiovix - Video Streaming Responsive WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Needless to say, if you want to attract people, you should keep up with the times. Although, I’m not saying that you should go for every web design fad you come across, the major web design trends and tendencies are not the ones to neglect. Do you know the latest web design trends of 2017https://www.wpfreeware.com/new/tutorial/10-hottest-wordpress-web-design-trends-follow-autumn/? Have you heard about card design, 360 views, cinemagraphs, microinteractions, neon colors and gradients, etc.? If not, you’d better learn about them before starting to work on your website. On the other side, if you launch an ultra-modern website, you ensure that it’ll appeal to the auditory for a longer period of time and save you from going for a redesign in the nearest future.

Motiovix video streaming WordPress theme is the one that incorporates top-notch gradients and neon colors. It’s charming, ultra-modern and ultimately speaking the same language with the younger audience. Rich video integration also comes handy. What about going for a video background or for a cinemagraph? In fact, this is the idea that can dramatically affect your bounce and conversion rates in a positive way. Keep in mind, that the theme retains its visual appeal on mobile screens, as the powerful Bootstrap framework rebuilds its design. Needless, to say, with Motovix, there’s no need to fear hiDPI screens as all the imagery of the template is Retina-ready.

Step #5: Mind Readability And Contrast

Viral News Portal & Magazine WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Striving to reach for the skies, you shouldn’t forget the basics. Ensuring high readability is a must for a news/magazine website. People should feel comfortable reading your content, no matter what device they use for this. First of all, minimize the number of the fonts used to a couple to decrease visual noise. Secondly, go for sans serif fonts that not only look sleek and modern but are also better decipherable on digital screens. Thirdly, don’t try to save the place online: observe optimal font size, line length, paddings and line height. Finally, mind the contrast: go for dark grey, dark blue or black font on the white background; use white text over the dark imagery. If you stick to these rules, your website will be the one people read and don’t just check out and leave.

Viral News Portal WordPress theme is the one that takes care of the readers’ eyes and ensures good readability. The main text of the theme black and solid and provides for newspaper-reminiscent user experience. The captions that reside on the images and dark backgrounds are white to make sure they don’t mingle with graphic content. What’s more, the accent color is the saturated orange, which stands in contrast to both black and white and is both recognizable and readable.

At the same time, the Viral News Portal theme boasts not only of the good readability. Its fine-tuning is easy and intuitive thanks to Live Customizer, a template editor with Ajax functionality. The template is fully SEO-optimized and built in compliance with requirements of the leading search engines, such as Google, Bing and Yahoo. Moreover, the coding of the theme is as perfect as the readability it ensures. No bugs or glitches will ever get there, jeopardizing your website and its performance.

Step #6: Mind Neat and Clear Structure

BitNews - Blog Magazine & News Portal WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Structuring your website the right way is important for providing a quality browsing experience to your website readers. However, make sure all the sections of your website stand apart one from another and appear in an easy-to-follow the logical sequence. Go for noticeable paddings and dividers, organize the content the way it works best. What else? Furthermore, mind the hierarchy when creating your website navigation. Divide large chunks of information into smaller ones. Then, divide the smaller ones into sub-sections. Don’t neglect to polish your list of the categories and make sure that each article you post goes into one or into a couple of categories.

BitNews magazine template is the one that not only knocks it down with a stunning design but also sticks to the transparent and well-thought structure. Even more, every block of it is logically connected with the previous ones and forestalls the ones to come. What’s more the ready-made pages of it (News, Videos, Venues, Events, Advertise and Contacts) tell the story of you and what you do in a clear voice.

More than that, BitNews theme is also loaded with an impressive number of features. It comes with a number of pre-built plugins and extensions that you get for free with the theme. Moreover, you’ll also get a chance to work with modules, widgets and shortcodes. The latter feature gives you a chance to add different content types to posts and pages just in a couple of clicks. To learn more about the theme, check out its detailed video presentation below:

Step #7: Buckle Down To Social Integration

Financial News & Magazine WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Importantly, social integration is the thing that you should never dare to neglect when creating a modern competitive news website / online magazine. If you get more followers on social networks, you’ll get more opportunities to promote your content and have more users coming to your website. Social networking is the modern kingdom of word of mouth. So, let it work for you and make your content viral. What are the components of the properly done social integration of a website?

First of all, go for social buttons on the homepage of your website, on the Contacts page, as well as in website’s header and footer. Next, you must have the social sharing buttons on every post of your website. Make them appealing and noticeable, encourage people to share. Finally, it’s beneficial to go for widgets that display your feeds in the social networks you’re active in. Such widgets show people that they’ll keep their fingers on the pulse of your life if they subscribe to your updates in these networks.

Indeed, Weekly Journal is not a girly theme, but rather a great fit for an economics/politics news portal. Nonetheless, it pays the duly attention to social integration. Once you land upon the website built with Weekly Journal, you’ll see the social buttons right away. Furthermore, they reappear in the homepage’s sider. So, if you still haven’t attended to them, they remind about themselves in the website footer. Just perfect! What’s more, the choice of social networks integrated is also very wise. You’ll see the networks that are best for the promotion of newspaper/magazine websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube and Reuter’s aggregator. No doubt, the theme’s creators haven’t forgotten about social sharing buttons. With Weekly Journal, it takes just a couple of clicks to share your posts in the reader’s favorite social network.

Step #8: Make It Content-centered

 BlazingNews - News Magazine Responsive WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

You’re probably aware of the adage that content is the king. It definitely holds true for a news website. If you don’t have a thick portion of well-written, unique content you’re doomed. Make sure that your content appears in the best light on every page of your website. Choose featured images as you choose gifts to your loved ones. Coin captions and excerpts that are just irresistible. Choose hero positions for the posts you capitalize on. Don’t save your effort to find the best imagery you can for the posts. By the way, go for authentic photography, i. e. the pictures that depict real people in real situations. Such pics make people relate to and be more impressed by your posts.

If you want your content to be really the king, go for BlazingNews theme. Its homepage is just supercharged with information. On the other hand, the post previews come in different sizes, but each of them has all you need to make people want to read it. Other pages come in the same vein. The imagery used in the template is realistic and suggests that you cast aside stock imagery forever. What’s more, the BlazingNews theme is a piece of cake in terms of installation and editing. The theme provides you with streamlined 5-minutes installation, smooth editing process and sound backup system. To learn more, check out the links below the theme’s screenshot.

Step #9: Go For Fresh Posts Daily

The Daily Post - Media & Latest News WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Posting on your website frequently is the thing, the power of which is frequently neglected by the newbies to the web. There are multiple benefits that you can harvest by posting every day. First of all, if this is a news website or a magazine, people expect that it’ll be updated frequently. If it isn’t, people will quickly start ignoring it and migrating to the sources that are updated on the daily basis. Secondly, posting on regular basis is one of the important components of the rankings you get from search engines. Search engines, such as Google, strive to bring their users the freshest content possible. Therefore, they would penalize you for not providing such content. The more you post, the higher you appear on the SERPs.

Indeed, The Daily Post is the template that makes posting in your news/magazine website addictive. The process of content creation is simplified to the minimum. Add the title and the body of the article, go for an excerpt, featured image, tags and categories, and – voila – here comes a fresh post by you. Also, social integration buttons are already there, so it’s bound to go viral. What’s more, this fully responsive and cross-browser compatible theme comes with a thick pack of custom widgets that let you showcase your latest post in a variety of appealing ways.

Step #10: Find Your Creativity Well

Creado - Art Gallery Responsive WordPress Theme

Details | Demo

Indeed, it’s hardly possible to overestimate the role of creativeness in website creation process. For instanse, creativeness is the thing that (if applied properly) makes your website special in a number of ways. Think what the design elements are that would best reflect who you’re, what the value you deliver is, what the principles you live by are. Now, think about the small things that you can embody the particles of your passion in. Done? Great! Moreover, Creativity has a component of inspiration to it, so it’s hard to say what would work for you and your website. Let’s better see an example.

Creado theme is the true epitome of creativity. It casts limits and boundaries aside and goes for bright images, brave fonts and saturated backgrounds. At the same time, there’s the inspiration component to it, so the template is not dressed to kill. Creado template is powered by GridCSS technology that gives you a new level of freedom in creating and managing website layouts comprised of blocks with uncommon placing and size. This is definitely the peal that makes this template different and perfect for launching a creative magazine website. Do you agree with me?

 Free ebook

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