Grand News is a news & editorial focus design tool. It provides responsive clean and minimal Wordpress theme for news editorial and blogger. Using the latest Wordpress technology and support various of popular WordPress plugins. Grand News support responsive layout so it looks great on all devices. It has predefined unique demos which are design specially for news & editorial and many more which can be imported with one click.

Features

Theme built especially for news & editorial focus website so it has various tools to built your awesome news or blog web site
Responsive Design which adapts to mobile devices (iPhone, iPad)
Deactivate responsive features with one click in your backend
4 Handcraft Demos
Multiple Menu Layouts Combinations
One Click Demo Import
Premium plugins included valued $15 of iLightbox plugin
Fully integrated with Wordpress Customizer. Customise every elements of theme and see preview instantly
Drag&Drop Content Builder comes with various content modules for example advertisement, posts.
Over 40+ pre design templates and content blocks for news & editorial web site
Image Lightbox support gesture on touch screen devices
Support various content including photo, gallery, video, soundcloud etc.
Woocommerce plugin support for shopping cart feature. Works great for magazine, publishing and various shop
Footer support sidebar & widgets
Optimise for Google Mobile Friendly Check
Import/Export content builder
Instant AJAX Search
Retina Ready, Ultra-sharp High Resolution Graphics
Sticky Main Menu Navigation
Category Posts Mega Menu support design specially to displays category posts on mouseover
Off-Canvas Side Menu Navigation
Unlimited Posts, Pages and Photo Gallery Pages
Predefined Demo Page Layouts which can be imported in one click
Video content support Vimeo, Youtube and Self-hosted video
Custom Background Header Image
Translation Ready with mo/po files
WPML plugin support for Multi-language
Extensive photo gallery admin. Support multiple images upload
Social sharing counter Support
Single Post view counter Support
Social media Profiles Support
Instagram & Flickr photostream integration
Ready to use Google Web Fonts
Custom typography. You can change font size, style, colour using without touching code
CSS and javascript compression support
Easily customise elements colors using color picker
Styled typography and flexible page columns
Built-in Many Shortcodes
Style shortcodes ex. dropcap etc.
Column shortcodes ex. 2, 3, 4, 5 columns
Built-in Shortcode Generator plugin
Wordpress custom menu support
Instagram, Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Google+ integration
Unlimited sidebar. Create and select sidebar for each of your page
Extensive Theme Documentation
Free Theme Updates
Child Theme support for advanced customisation which is not affected by theme future updates
WP Supercache plugin support
W3 Total Cache plugin support
Yoast SEO plugin support

Changelog

= V3.4.6 – 06.06.2025 =
* Add WordPress 6.8.1

= V3.4.5 – 04.04.2025 =
* Add post author and date to "5 Blog Posts Grid Classic" block
* Add support PHP8.3+
* Add description support on tag archive page

= V3.4.4 – 20.08.2022 =
* Improve theme loading speed & performance

= V3.4.3 – 29.04.2022 =
* Fix category widget title translation issue
* Fix top bar date translation issue
* Fix license validation process issue

= V3.4.2 – 23.02.2022 =
* Fix PHP8+ errors

= V3.4.1 – 16.12.2020 =
* Fix content builder issue with WordPress 5.8
* Fix blog homepage layout issue for some customers

= V3.4 – 16.12.2020 =
* Fix content builder issue with WordPress 5.6

= V3.3.1 – 13.11.2020 =
* Fix duplicated post excerpt issue

= V3.3 – 28.10.2020 =
* Fix Instagram API issue
* Remove Google+ options
* Add support HTTPS website

= V3.2.1 – 13.08.2020 =
* Fix theme customiser's color picker input issue with WordPress 5.5

= V3.2 – 12.08.2020 =
* Fix content builder saving issue with WordPress 5.5
* Add support for WordPress 5.5

= V3.1 - 05.08.2020 =
* Fix post excerpt display issue on all post widgets

= V3.0 - 11.12.2019 =
* Fix error for some customers using WordPress 5.3
* Fix Blog Half Content Slider font color display issue
* Remove Google+ social media option

= V2.9 - 07.05.2019 =
* Fix video viewer module initial video load display issue
* Fix image caption issue on single post with gallery as featured content

= V2.8 - 08.12.2018 =
* Fix content builder disappear issue with WordPress v5.0

= V2.7 - 17.09.2018 =
* Fix social icon link not opening in new tab

= V2.6 - 22.07.2018 =
* Fix Yoast SEO plugin script conflict

= V2.5 - 09.04.2018 =
* Fix Instagram photo stream and widget issue due to API change

= V2.4 - 16.01.2018 =
* Fix Instagram photo stream and widget issue

= V2.3 - 06.12.2017 =
* Fix import demo issue on some server setting

= V2.2.1 - 17.11.2017 =
* Fix Instagram widget issue in WordPress 4.9
* Fix author info display p tags issue in WordPress 4.9

= V2.2 - 16.11.2017 =
* Fix theme customizer issue in WordPress 4.9
* Fix theme setting import styling issue in WordPress 4.9

= V2.1 * 22.09.2017 =
* Improve import demo feature

= V2.0 * 23.05.2017 =
* Fix custom content builder load more feature issue for customers who updated from old themes

= V1.9 * 24.04.2017 =
* Fix Woocommerce shop page, product font size issue
* Fix Woocommerce product gallery lightobox issue

= V1.8 * 29.01.2017 =
* Fix video posts display issue when has posts less than 2
* Fix popular posts widget order posts issue
* Fix hide featured content post option not working on single post page

= V1.7 * 03.11.2016 =
* Fix popular posts issue for all content builder modules

= V1.6 * 31.10.2016 =
* Add help tooltip to all content edit pages
* Add get started and support sections to theme setting
* Add option to set popular posts by duration

* Fix image caption issue on gallery templates

= V1.5 * 27.09.2016 =
* Fix theme setting layout issue on WordPress 4.6+
* Fix default post featured image not display when update from old blog site content

= V1.4.3 * 01.09.2016 =
* Fix post view counter issue for all blog templates

= V1.4.2 * 10.08.2016 =
* Fix post view counter issue when have more than 1,000 views

= V1.4.1 * 08.08.2016 =
* Fix content builder visual editor issue when using Firefox

= V1.4 * 28.06.2016 =
* Add New Design Magazine demo
* Add option to disable breadcrumb
* Add post icon indicator to related posts and next post on single post page
* Add new header video background module to content builder
* Add option to display fullwidth slider in fullscreen layout
* Fix filter list post AJAX no thumbnail display issue
* Fix sidebar check for page sidebar issue
* Update font awesome v4.6.3
* Update TGM Plugin Activation v2.6.1

= V1.3 - 19.06.2016 =
* Add post title when tweet post
* Fix page title with background image display issue in page with sidebar template
* Fix fullwidth slider title not clickable
* Fix incorrect post author URL on single post page with fullwidth image as content type
* Fix Youtube social profile issue when using shortcode
* Fix Youtube video post icon issue
* Fix post list modules display wrong post featured image when featured image is not set
* Fix Google Font not loading for some customer server setting

= V1.2 - 07.06.2016 =
* Add new demo option “Sport News”
* Add social profiles options to author contact info
* Add new video viewer module to content builder

= V1.1.4 - 02.06.2016 =
* Add retina ready support for Instagram photostream
* Fix Instagram API error from new Instagram API

= V1.1.3 - 20.05.2016 =
* Fix update error from v1.1.2

= V1.1.2 - 17.05.2016 =
* Fix post view counter issue

= V1.1.1 - 16.05.2016 =
* Fix warning message for some customer when using social share counter plugin
* Fix import demo issue for some customer server settings

= V1.1 - 07.05.2016 =
* Fix issue displaying text contained module in content builder
* Fix missing translation strings
* Fix Youtube Video post display issue

= V1.0 - 25.04.2016 =
* Initial Release

GrandNews WordPress Theme