MoreNews Pro – Professional WordPress Theme for News, Blog, and Magazine Websites

Your outbound links show who your outlet depends on

A newsroom reviews every headline and rarely looks at its links as a whole. With hundreds of stories published, those links draw a map: which agencies you quote, which sites you recommend without noticing, and where you send readers week after week.

If most of your links point to a few domains, you have an editorial dependency, and also a reason to talk to those sites. MoreNews Pro, by AF Themes, gathers that information in an analytics dashboard inside WordPress. It is a theme for news, magazines and blogs that also serves business sites and stores.

• Central tabbed dashboard: overview, content, engagement, appearance, and authors and links, with export-ready charts.
• Top external domains: a list and a chart, built by batched parsing.
• Per-post data: views, reactions, word count, read time and links, in a box inside the editor.

A story that shows where it came from and who paid for it

The free edition of MoreNews publishes posts. The Pro version adds fields that bring each one closer to the format of a news outlet:

• Source and sponsor fields, to show the origin of a story or who backs a piece of content.
• Taxonomy-based badges, such as Breaking or Premium.
• Animated reactions, translatable and with configurable color.
• Full author box, with all of the author's posts and a donation link.
• Trending posts on each article page.

A front page sorted by category, views or comments

The main banner has more than 30 layouts in Pro, against more than 5 in the free edition. You can choose the order of its parts and decide for each section whether content comes from a category, a tag, view count or comment count. You can also turn it off.

• Front page sections: featured videos, posts carousel, Express format and three columns.
• Archives: grid, tile, masonry, alternate list and mixed, with per-category control.
• Header and footer: drag-and-drop builder with responsive preview.
• Languages: multilingual and right-to-left support, with demo content in Spanish, English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic and others.

Advertising from one panel, with no paywall among its features

Advertising is managed from a central panel, and also from widgets. You pick the section, paste the code and the theme accepts HTML, JavaScript and shortcodes, with rotating ads and Google AdSense support. It works with Yoast SEO and Rank Math, and with WooCommerce to open a store.

Among its features there is no paywall and no reader subscriptions: the Premium badge is a label for the story. Co-authors, guest authors and post ratings belong to the WP Post Author plugin.

Uploading the theme and importing a front page

The process runs from the WordPress dashboard:

1. Under Appearance, Themes, Add New, upload the theme file, install it and activate it.
2. Install and activate AF Companion from Appearance, Install Plugins.
3. Open AF Companion, choose a MoreNews layout and run the import. There are more than 100 starter sites for Gutenberg and Elementor.
4. Enable the header builder in the Customizer and place the elements of your outlet.
5. Set up the ad placements and review the main banner with your own categories.

When your outlet needs paid access or section-based pages

If you want to sell access to your articles, JNews brings a paywall, subscriptions and content locking. Herald focuses on portals with several areas and section blocks. ColorMag Pro offers more than thirty demos and works with several editors.

Answers to decide whether it fits your newsroom

Can I see which domains my outlet links to most?

Yes. The Pro dashboard includes a list and a chart of the top external domains.

Does it need Elementor?

Starter sites are available for Gutenberg and for Elementor, so you can choose the one your project uses.

Can I mark a story as sponsored?

Pro includes a sponsor field and a source field for each post.