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- PenNews v6.7.2
PenNews Introduction
Product Overview
PenNews is a versatile all-in-one WordPress theme designed for creating high content, frequently updated websites such as news media, magazines, self-publishing, corporate presentations and blogs. It integrates WPBakery drag & drop page builder, one-click import of 150+ demo sites, support for Google AMP, Facebook Instant Articles, SEO schema markup, and comes pre-installed with several Premium plugins (such as Slider Revolution, LayerSlider, ConvertPlug, etc.) to help websites improve loading speed and user experience while more conveniently inserting ads, content submission forms, community discussions and e-commerce features to fully meet the needs of visual performance and commercial realization.
Key Features
- Massive customization options: Offers over 600 theme customization options, making it easy to adjust the look of your website without coding.
- Intuitive drag-and-drop page builder: Integrate with WPBakery Page Builder to easily create customized layouts through a drag-and-drop interface.
- 150+ pre-built demo sites: Import over 150 professionally designed demo sites with one click for quick website launch.
- Extreme Performance Optimization: Optimized for speed and performance, and fully compatible with Google AMP and Facebook Instant Articles to improve mobile user experience and search engine rankings.
- Full SEO Optimization: Follow SEO best practices to help your website rank higher in search engines.
- responsive design: Ensure that the website looks great on all devices such as desktops, tablets and cell phones.
- Multilingual support: Fully compatible with WPML and Polylang plugins for easy creation of multilingual websites.
- Flexible advertising space: Supports unlimited ad space and built-in ads, easy integration of ads through drag-and-drop functionality to effectively realize website cash.
- Diverse Content Layout: Offers 10+ post styles, rich Gird layouts and content blocks to present content in an engaging way.
- Enhanced user navigation: Supports sticky navigation for a better user browsing experience.
- Instant Search: Ajax real-time search function, users can quickly find the content they need.
- Intelligent loading of the next article: Infinite scrolling within an article, automatically loading the next article, increasing page views and user dwell time.
- Media Support: Supports GIF images and includes weather and Pinterest elements and widgets.
- Convenient user management: Built-in Ajax login/registration forms, no additional plug-ins required.
Target audience and usage scenarios
- News media websites: For news portals, online magazines, publishing the latest news and in-depth reports.
- Personal/Professional Blogs: For content creators, bloggers, sharing articles, opinions and multimedia content.
- Corporate/commercial websites: Build a professional official corporate website, product showcase page or service presentation.
- Portfolio website: Designers, photographers, and creative professionals showcasing their personal work and projects.
- Commentary sites: Create product reviews, service reviews, and other types of websites.
- Educational/cultural platforms: Publishing learning materials, knowledge sharing and cultural content.
- Websites looking to enhance their mobile experience: Benefit from its excellent AMP compatibility.
- Websites that emphasize SEO performance: Use its built-in SEO optimization features to improve search visibility.
Comparison of similar topics
| Core functional items | Current Product: PenNews | Alternatives: Newspaper Theme | Alternatives: Newsmag Theme |
| Drag-and-drop page builder | ✅ (WPBakery) | ✅ (tagDiv Composer) | ✅ (tagDiv Composer) |
| AMP Compatible | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Number of pre-built demo sites | 150+ | 95+ | 20+ |
| SEO optimization | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Height customization options | ✅ (600+) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Multilingual support | ✅ (WPML, Polylang) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Flexible ad space settings | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Automatically loads the next article | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Built-in Ajax login/registration | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Weather/Pinterest Widget | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Pay Writer System | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Floating video (page scrolling) | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Unique Mega Menu | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
Unique feature highlights of current products:
PenNews is known for its amazing 150+ pre-built demo sites greater than 600 customization options stands out, providing users with unrivaled design freedom and the ability to build sites quickly. Its built-in Ajax Login/Register Functionality simplifies user management, while Automatically loads the next article Significantly improves the reading experience and page dwell time. In addition, the theme also integrates Weather and Pinterest WidgetsIt enriches the content presentation of the website.
Description of features specific to alternatives:
Newspaper Theme has been created specifically for the publishing industry with its tagDiv Composer Page builder is known for and offers a unique Pay Writer System 和 Floating Video features, as well as highly customizable Mega Menu, more suitable for large news media organizations.
User Feedback Highlights
Real feedback compiled from forums & user communities:
- “PenNews still loads quickly in a high-traffic environment, and AMP and Instant Articles perform very well.”
- “Support for WPBakery allows for no code writing at all and more flexibility in customizing pages.”
Suggestions for pairing with other plugins/themes
PenNews themes work with the following types of plugins or services to further extend site functionality and user experience:
- Page Builder: Themes have been integrated WPBakery Page Builder, which can be used with other extension plugins compatible with this builder.
- e-commerce plugin:and WooCommerce Highly compatible, you can easily set up an online store to realize the product sales function.
- Multi-language plug-ins:and WPML 和 Polylang Collaborate perfectly to help you create truly multilingual websites for a global audience.
- Community & Events Plugin:compatible BBPress(Forum),BuddyPress(social networks) and The Event Calendar(Events Calendar) and other plugins to help you build active communities or post event information.
- Caching and Performance Optimization Plugin: While PenNews itself is optimized, pairing it with the W3 Total Cache 或 WP Super Cache Caching plugins such as this one can further improve the loading speed of your website.
- Image Optimization Plugin: Use Optimus - WordPress Image Optimizer Plugins such as can automatically optimize images, reduce file size and improve site performance.
