#78 by installs
NewsCircuit
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- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- No reviews
- Updated
- 6 days ago
CoverNews
CoverNews is a clean and elegant free WordPress theme that is perfect for online blog and magazine. With the help of block patterns, live customizer options and custom widgets, you can design your website as you like and preview the changes live. This theme…
- Active installs
- 7,000+
- #249 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 1.3M
- 1,290,853
- Downloads, 30 days
- 15.1K
- 3.8K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5
- 200 reviews
- Last updated
- 3 days ago
- Oct 28, 2026
- Version
- 7.5.7
- 199 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | October 28, 2026Updated in the last 3 months |
|---|---|
| Needs WordPress | 4.0 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.0 or newer |
| First published | August 8, 2018 |
| Paid version | Yes, the author also sells one |
| Support | The author's own support site |
Reviews
4.8 / 5 from 200 reviews
| 5 stars | 186 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 6 |
| 3 stars | 3 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 5 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
CoverNews is a clean and elegant free WordPress theme that is perfect for online blog and magazine. With the help of block patterns, live customizer options and custom widgets, you can design your website as you like and preview the changes live. This theme is fully responsive that looks beautiful on all the screen sizes from small to large devices. As it includes many useful features that require to build an awesome looking website, you can implement the layout as a personal blog, modern news journals, fashion magazine, travel blogging & magazine, vibrant news sites and more. It is also compatible with Elementor, Gutenberg along with WooCommerce plugin that helps you to integrate an online business with your blog easily. The RTL language supported theme is well optimized that helps to rank your website in the top of search engines and users will get an outstanding support from the team if there will be any difficulties while using the theme. There are a number demos available for this theme so import the one you like and start to build a website. See our demos: https://afthemes.com/products/covernews/#aft-view-starter-sites Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@wpafthemes/ Docs: https://docs.afthemes.com/covernews/
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.