Qalam – NewsPaper and Magazine WordPress Theme

**Clean and Modern NewsPaper Magazine theme with Customizer and 10+ Elementor Page Builder Templates **

Qalam encompasses clean and modern design, backed with host of customization options using Elementor Page Builder and Kirki Customizer. Built with semantic markup and organized code, the theme is optimized for SEO and Schema Microdata. Qalam supports advertisement spots in important locations of a web page to improve revenue from ads on your site.

The theme includes WP Post Modules plugin worth $29 for free. This multi tool posts plugin makes it easy to present posts in desired style and at any location of a page, including widget areas.

Full feature list

Design

100% Responsive, optimized for Retina display

Boxed / Stretched layout

Dynamic layout width

Theme options via WordPress Customizer using Kirki Customizer

Multiple Sidebars layout (1 sidebar, 2 sidebars or full width)

Unlimted Google Fonts for body text, headings, navigation, etc.

Customizable colors for header area, navogation, widget area headings, secondary area background, footer area, etc.

Pages

Drag and drop page builder support via Elementor Page Builder plugin

10 prebuilt Home page layouts included as Elementor JSON files and WordPress XML files

2 custom templates for full width and blank canvas page

Header

4 header layout styles

Sticky navigation bar

Site title and logo image via Customizer

Off canvas Mobile Menu

Multi-level WordPress menu

2 search panel styles * Full Screen Overlay and Inline

Social sharing links in header

WooCommerce cart count with products list dropdown

Archives

5 global archive styles (gird, list, classic, full post and Material card)

Image resize on-the-fly using BFI Thumb via customizer

Create any style archive page using WP Post Modules Plugin (Included for Free)

AJAX supported on archive posts created usingWP Post Modules

Post Module Features

Multiple Display styles

Grid

4 sub styles

Unlimited multiple columns

Custom Gutters

List

Custom split ratio for thumbnail + content

Create any sized list from small to large thumbnails

Circular images for list thumbnails

Content can be separated as full border, half border or no border

Multi Column lists

Tile

Multiple columns

Custom gutters

Overlay Content with custom background color and gradients

Custom overlay content margin/padding

Show overlay as always, on-hover or never

Image zoom and rotate effect on hover

Ticker

Custom ticker title length

Custom ticker animation duration

Custom ticker label text

Custom ticker label background and foreground with color picker

Bullet List

Plain list with bullets

Bullet size and color options

List spacing options

Responsive controls for typography, columns, grid sizes, gutters, etc. Advanced Typography options with complete Google Fonts library

Set font size, line height, font weight, letter spacing, etc.

Responsive controls for typography

Custom colors for titles, excerpt, category links, post meta, etc. Custom WP Query builder

Show posts from categories, tags, custom post types, taxonomies, post IDs, author IDs, etc.

Supports offset and post exclusion to prevent redundancy of posts

Order and Orderby parameters supported jQuery Owl Slider

Supported for Grid, List and Tile display styles and their sub styles

Change number of slides per view

Toggle animation loop

Toggle auto play

Set autoplay timeout

Set animation speed and animation types (slide, zoom and fade)

Toggle auto height

Toggle previous/next navigation

Toggle dots navigation

Stagepadding support

Image resize on-the-fly using BFI Thumb

Custom width, height and hard crop feature

Set image quality from 1 to 100 (Optimization Option)

Auto convert images to grayscale

Auto colorize image from color picker

Native Thumbnails with sourceset attributes supported

Text content options

Choose heading tag from h1 to h6 and p (SEO factor)

Choose main title font size and font weight

Set paragraph tag and font size

Auto trimming of post excerpt at desired word length

Toggle readmore link with custom readmore text

Show/hide post meta items like category, author, date, excerpt and comments

Auto conversion of category links into expandable dropdown if category links are more than a specifid number

Show author avatar in post meta

Built in style and function support for WP Review and Post Views Counter plugin Social sharing per post module. (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, GooglePlus, Pinterest, VK, Reddit, Email) Valid Schema microdata on generated post content

Schema properties can be changed from widget settings AJAX next/previous navigation and loadmore feature for grid, list and tile display styles Translation ready with RTL Support

Sample POT file included for translation

Supports languages with rtl orientation

Compatible with translation plugins like Loco Translate and qTranslate X

Single Posts

Multi Sidebar layouts for posts

3 Single post styles * Full width, Full Header and Inline Header

Automated featured images per post (can be disabled from customizer)

Video post format

Social sharing buttons (15+) with floating share button on single post

Inline advertisement areas per post (before and after main content)

Related posts based on category or tags

Author bio with avatar and description

Social follow buttons in author bio

Floating Next/Previous posts navigation with thumbnail and title

Multi level nested comments with gravatar support

Widget Areas

1 top widget area

1 header widget area (for logo + banner style layout)

2 global widget areas before and after main content

2 inline widget areas before and after single post content

2 sidebar widget areas

1 secondary widget area with 8 columns support (columns can be set via customizer)

1 footer widget area with 8 columns support (columns can be set via customizer)

SEO support

Optimized for SEO and schema microdata

Semantic and heirarchical markup

Internal links on single posts via related posts

Supports Yoast SEO plugin

Miscellaneous features

WooCommerce 3.6.x ready with built in style support and integration

Fontawesome 5.9.0 icon library included

Google fonts via Customizer

WordPress Custom background supported

WordPress site icon (favicon) supported

Valid HTML5 markup on theme generated data

Supported on all modern browsers, IE 9 and above

Pre configured Child theme included in main download

Step by step documentation guide and help manual for theme installation and setup

Filter and action hooks applied wherever possible and required

Sample site data included in XML format. Includes posts.xml, pages.xml and home layouts in JSON data for Elementor.

Performs above average with pagespeed tests. (Further depends upon how many modules are used on a page and with what size images.)

Theme developed on WordPress 5.2.2+, php 5.5.12 to 7.1.9 and MySQL 5.7.19

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