#158 by installsChild theme

Blog Over News

by A WP LifeVersion 0.0.1

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Active installs: 300+; #158 of 1,000
Downloads, all time: 1.5K; 1,548
Downloads, 30 days: 189; 28 in the last 7
Rating: None; No reviews yet
Last updated: 3 months ago; Jul 23, 2026
Version: 0.0.1; 1 releases

Upkeep and compatibility

Last updated	July 23, 2026Updated in the last year
Needs WordPress	5.0 or newer
Needs PHP	7.4 or newer
First published	July 23, 2026
Parent theme	Blog Over
Paid version	None listed
Support	WordPress.org forum

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What the author says it does

Blog Over News is a bold, news-focused dark child theme for Blog Over. Designed specifically for news portals, online newspapers, breaking news sites, and media outlets, it delivers a powerful 5-column hero slider layout with all front-page sections enabled out of the box. With its dark skin, vibrant accent colors, announcement bar, trending news ticker, featured links, category showcase, and tabbed magazine section, Blog Over News provides a complete newsroom experience. Perfect for daily news websites, regional news portals, political news, sports news, entertainment news, technology news, world news, financial news, health news, science news, education news, crime news, weather news, investigative journalism, opinion columns, and editorial platforms. Built with SEO-friendly standards, fast performance, and mobile-first responsive design.

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Where this page's numbers come from

Read from the WordPress.org theme API on October 31, 2026. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this theme.