#78 by installs
NewsCircuit
NewsCircuit is a powerful, feature-rich, and SEO-optimized WordPress theme designed for news, blogs, magazines, and online publishing platforms,…
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- No reviews
- Updated
- 6 days ago
ChromeNews
ChromeNews is a customizable WordPress news and magazine theme designed for online newspapers, news portals, blogs, editorial websites, and digital publishing platforms. Its classic widgetized layout, custom news widgets, and flexible widget areas make it…
- Active installs
- 5,000+
- #194 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 392.2K
- 392,160
- Downloads, 30 days
- 7.9K
- 2.9K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.9 / 5
- 88 reviews
- Last updated
- 2 days ago
- Oct 29, 2026
- Version
- 6.5.0
- 169 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 29, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Needs WordPress | 4.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.0 or newer |
| First published | February 15, 2022 |
| Paid version | Yes, the author also sells one |
| Support | The author's own support site |
Reviews
4.9 / 5 from 88 reviews
| 5 stars | 83 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 2 |
| 3 stars | 1 |
| 2 stars | 1 |
| 1 star | 1 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
ChromeNews is a customizable WordPress news and magazine theme designed for online newspapers, news portals, blogs, editorial websites, and digital publishing platforms. Its classic widgetized layout, custom news widgets, and flexible widget areas make it easy to create engaging homepages with featured stories and magazine-style content sections. Get started with ready-made starter sites and customize your website using the WordPress Customizer, live previews, Gutenberg blocks, block patterns, and the Elementor page builder. ChromeNews also integrates with the AF themes ecosystem, including BlockSpare for advanced Gutenberg blocks, AI-powered website building, dynamic content, ACF integration, advanced post queries, and AJAX content filtering; EleSpare for Elementor kits and templates; AF Companion for optimization tools; and WP Post Author for author-related features. With responsive layouts, light and dark color modes, WooCommerce compatibility, and RTL language support, ChromeNews adapts to a wide range of publishing needs. Whether you're building a breaking news website, technology blog, sports magazine, lifestyle publication, or product review website, ChromeNews provides a flexible foundation for your WordPress site.
The opening of the theme's own description. The rest is on its WordPress.org page.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org theme API on . WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this theme.