Here comes Newsflash, our modern news theme that is perfectly suitable for newspaper and magazine websites! Its vast collection of predesigned homepages, stunning elements and features, enable every news agency, magazine, publishers, and alike to create a stunning online publication with utmost ease. Whether you want to publish a text, image gallery, video, audio, and more, our news theme has you covered, as you can easily create multiple post types. Choose Newsflash and make a newsworthy website with our help!

Here is a link if you want to check out the Newsflash Documentation

Newsflash Features

Highly Customizable
Extensive Admin Interface
Simple One-Click Import of Demo Content
6 homepage examples
No coding knowledge required
800+ Google Fonts
Extensive control of typography
WPBakery page builder for WordPress included ($46 value)
Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin included ($26 value)
Powerful post layout options
4 Post Layout shortcodes
3 Post Block shortcodes
2 Post Carousel shortcodes
3 Post Slider shortcodes
Video Block shortcode
3 Video Layout shortcodes
Masonry Layout shortcode
Reactions functionality
Post Reviews
Mark posts as trending
Mark posts as featured
Mark posts as “Hot”
Post Layout widgets
Post Categories/Reaction widget
Post Tabs widget
Social Share widget
Weather widget
Latest Posts widget
Instagram feed widget
Twitter feed widget
Sticky Sidebar functionality
4 header types
3 header behavior types
Fully responsive
Retina Ready
Unlimited layout combinations
Section Title shortcode
Custom Font shortcode
Social Share shortcode
Video Button shortcode
Call to Action shortcode
Image Gallery shortcode
Integrated search functionality
3 blog list templates
Blog Masonry template
Blog Standard template
Blog Centered template
3 pagination types
Standard (numerical) pagination
Load More pagination
Infinite Scroll
Extremely customizable single posts
Optional separate logo for Mobile Header
Separate styling options for mobile header
Optional separate logo for sticky header
Header Top and Header Bottom Widget Areas
Customizable Mega Menu
Anchor functionality for One Page sites
Video and image backgrounds in sections
Customizable Google Maps
Choose between 6 font icon sets
Customizable Footer Top Layout – up to 4 columns
Customizable Footer Bottom Layout – up to 3 columns
“Back to top” button functionality
Side Area
Smooth Scroll
Smooth Page Transitions
Child Theme Included
Custom Widget Areas
Translation ready
WPML compatible
WooCommerce compatible
Contact Form 7 compatible

We do not own the copyright for the images featured in this theme. The images in question are only used for presentational purposes on our demos. These images cannot be used on your website, unless you purchase the license from a stock image website yourself.

Change Log

Version 1.8 – July 30th, 2025

- Added WPML config file
- Added WooCommerce 10.x compatibility
- Added Enable Google Fonts global option
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.35
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 8.5
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.2
- Updated Mikado News Feed to 1.2
- Improved social sharing links
- Improved newsflash_mikado_get_attachment_id_from_url helper function
- Improved Google Map API compatibility
- Improved PHP 8.3 compatibility
- Improved theme's security
- Removed Mikado Instagram Plugin due to Instagram API changes
- Removed Mikado Twitter Plugin due to Twitter API changes
- Minor fixes

Version 1.7 – January 24th, 2022

- Added WordPress 5.8.3 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 6.1.1 compatibility
- Added PHP 8 compatibility
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.5.14
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.8
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.1.4
- Updated Newsflash Child Theme to 1.0.1
- Updated Mikado Instagram Feed to 2.0.1
- Updated Mikado Twitter Feed to 1.1.2
- Updated Mikado News Feed to 1.1.3
- Updated Envato Market to 2.0.7
- Fixed issue with mobile menu
- Fixed FullScreen second level menu
- Fixed og description rendering for pages
- Fixed Simple Line Icons version
- Fixed countdown calculation
- Fixed creation of the Custom Sidebars in new Widgets layout
- Fixed cart widgets in WordPress 5.8
- Fixed 'Bulk Select' functionality with Menus
- Fixed potential security issue
- Twitter Social Share feature
- Improved Pinterest Social Share feature
- Improved newsflash_mikado_get_attachment_id_from_url function

Version 1.6 – December 3rd, 2020

- Added WordPress 5.5 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 4.7.1 compatibility
- Updated Mikado Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.1.3
- Updated Mikado News to 1.1.2
- Updated Mikado Twitter Feed plugin to 1.1.1
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.4.2
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.3.2
- Fixed translation of Mikado Weather Widget
- Removed unused file instagram-redirect.php from Mikado Instagram Feed plugin
- Removed unused file twitter-redirect.php from Mikado Twitter Feed plugin

Version 1.5 – September 3rd, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.7.0 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.0.5
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.1.0
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.1.2
- Updated Mikado News to 1.1.1
- Minor improvements

Version 1.4.1 – April 24th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.1 compatibility
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.1.1
- Improved import functionality

Version 1.4 – April 10th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.5.6 compatibility
- Added compatibility with Gutenberg plugin
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 5.7
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8.3
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.1
- Updated Mikado News to 1.1
- Updated Instagram Feed to 1.1
- Updated Twitter Feed to 1.1
- Updated pot files
- Improved theme functions
- Improved theme security
- Improved included plugins text domains
- Escaped all variables, text domains etc.
- Moved Widgets to Core Plugin

Version 1.3 – August 31st, 2018

- Added WooCommerce 3.4.5 compatibility
- Added compatibility with Gutenberg plugin
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 5.5.2
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8
- Updated Envato Market to 2.0.1
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.0.1
- Fixed issue with http/https links
- Fixed news reaction archive page
- Improved menu import functionality

Version 1.2 – March 15th, 2018

- Added compatibility with PHP 7.2 
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.4.7
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.7
- Updated Envato Market to 2.0.0

Version 1.1 – August 17th, 2017

- Added WooCommerce 3.1.2 compatibility
- Added sidebar inheriting option for category archives
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.2.1
- Updated Mikado News plugin to 1.0.1
- Fixed issue with layouts display in IE
- Fixed issue with pagination and excerpt on category archives
- Fixed author filtering in shortcodes
- Fixed potential security issue when saving theme options

Version 1.0.1 – July 21st, 2017

- Fixed child theme issue

Newsflash WordPress Theme