The Daily Headlines theme offers a quick way to get a newspaper site up and running. The homepage can be changed around very easily. The way the space on the homepage is divided up makes it possible to include a great deal of content or to scale back the amount of information to a few featured articles. This makes the theme something that large and small papers alike may want to take a look at.

While actual newspapers may have become somewhat outdated in recent years, many of their conventions live on at newspaper sites. The columnar layouts of newspapers work very well on newspaper sites and, on a WordPress theme, lend themselves naturally to the use of side bars. Daily headlines does a nice job of taking advantage of this. The page can be laid out so that an image slider and a few featured articles are presented to the viewer right away. The section below them is effectively below the fold, and can be arranged in any way the user likes. The default arrangement of several different types of grids is functional and attractive.

A smaller paper could easily reduce the number of articles on the front page. This makes it a good solution for small town and community papers that might not need the very large amount of article text that this design can accommodate.

WPZOOM advertises all of its themes as being free of clutter. This theme does a very good job of that. Even though there are a lot of different sections on the homepage, they’re separated from one another enough that it’s easy to see where one starts and where the next begins. The text is black and easy on the eyes.

If you need to customize the theme, you can do just about everything from the admin panel. The layout, widgets and other options are all controlled here. The code is entirely accessible if it needs to be changed manually for some reason. This theme can be used on as many sites as you like under any of the licenses available. The developer license allows you to access fully-layered copies of the PSD files for the site. If you’re having a graphic designer make major changes, this is the license you’ll need. The standard and developer’s licenses both come with unlimited support from WPZOOM.

For more information, or to see their complete collection of wordpress themes, please visit wpzoom.com.

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