The Breaking News
Premium WordPress theme
$75
- 1 theme included
- 12 months download access
- 1 year of priority support
- 12 months updates
- 30% discount on renewals
- 14 days money-back guarantee
The Breaking News is clean and minimal theme specially created for magazines, newspapers or personal blogs. It provides uncluttered and straight-forward theme options combined with a simple design focused on readability to help you easily share your unique and interesting stories with the visitors of your site.
Theme standard features
Social links menu
Specially designed menu will make it easy for you to add and display social media links on your website.
Responsive design
Your website content will always look beautiful on smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop screens.
Simple customization
Using the Customizer, you will be able to customize your theme and preview all changes in real time.
Custom page templates
Choose from a selection of pre-made page templates to add variety to your site, and create an unique look.
Widgets ready
Using WordPress widgets, you can easily add additional sections to your website without coding it yourself.
SEO friendly
Each page is carefully build with search-engine-friendly code to ensure your website is noticed by search bots.
Author biography
Display author profile on single posts to build a personal brand and establish reputation among your readers.
White label theme
Customize a default branding text in the footer area and add your own credit links to fit the needs of your site.
Featured Content
Powerful, yet easy-to-use slider will allow you to highlight most important content in front of your readers.
Also includes:
- Custom background
- Custom menu
- Site logo
- Editor style
- Featured images
- Theme options
- Threaded comments
- Infinite scroll
- RTL support
- Left/Right sidebar
- Translation ready
Knowledgebase
Our efforts go into making installation as easy as possible for you. This is the reason why all our WordPress themes come with a detailed documentation, so you can have a step by step guide on how to set up your theme.
Plugins
While our themes should work fine with most plugins, there is no way for us to test and guarantee that all of these plugins will be compatible with our themes. If the plugin has been coded to WordPress’ standards then it should play nicely with our themes.
Updates
All our themes are compatible with the latest WordPress version. We perform tests and updates on a regular basis to keep them safe and stable. You can find all informations regarding to the theme updates by clicking the link below.
Support
We are serious about providing the best support to our customers. If you need help, our friendly support staff are ready to answer all your questions and aim to help you to solve the challenges you're having with the theme.
Blank child theme
Before making any heavy changes to the theme code, we recommend that you use a child theme. This ensures that your changes won’t be lost when updating to a new version of The Breaking News. We have this child theme for you, so you can save your valuable time and concentrate more on your business growth.
- Add: support for Weibo in the social menu section;
- Update: remove XFN link;
- Fix: remove remnants of microformats;
- Fix: indent issue in lists with background;
- Fix: alignment issue in the button block in the Editor;
- Fix: style issues in the Quote block;
- Fix: Telegram, Dropbox, Houzz, Tripadvisor support issues in the social menu section;
- Fix: minor structural issues in the author bio section;
- Fix: optimize styles of the author bio section;
- Important: This is a major update! Mostly all theme templates have been refactored to provide a better performance and accessibility. If you have modified a parent template in your child theme, and you are experiencing any spacing issues after the update, please make sure to check a parent theme templates to compare the changes. Also, you can always contact us and we will be happy to help you;
- Important: The Custom Colors functionality has been completely refactored. If you have used this option to change an accent color on your site, you will need to set it again after the update;
- Add: normalize styles for back-end editors;
- Add: support for Google Maps icon;
- Add: template for the page header shown in all views except singular view;
- Update: set a maximum width for the site container to avoid readability issues;
- Update: add better support for the Block editor and default blocks;
- Update: reduce amount of custom CSS used when custom colors are set;
- Update: refactor the Custom Color functionality;
- Update: reduce amount of custom CSS used when custom fonts are set;
- Update: refactor custom background styles using a mobile-first approach;
- Update: sub-menu indicator in the header menu;
- Update: theme icons;
- Update: improve consistency of the theme icons located in the search form;
- Update: improve spacing in the search form;
- Update: reduce style repetition in the search form;
- Update: refactor the site templates using the theme design system;
- Update: reduce style repetition in the site header section;
- Update: improve consistency of the theme icons located in the site header section;
- Update: improve layout of the mobile menu section;
- Update: reduce style repetition in the site footer section;
- Update: combine archive views template to avoid code repetition;
- Update: combine singular templates into one template to avoid code repetition;
- Update: organize singular templates;
- Update: improve spacing in singular templates;
- Update: optimize styles for the post navigation section;
- Update: load singular styles only when it is needed;
- Update: improve styles of the edit link shown in singular views;
- Update: improve styles of the breadcrumb section;
- Update: optimize styles of the page links section;
- Update: accessibility of the page links section;
- Update: optimize styles of media elements;
- Update: remove unnecessary logical condition in the comments template;
- Update: optimize styles of the comments section;
- Update: spacing in the header section shown in archive views;
- Update: load comments styles only when it is needed;
- Update: use SVG as an indicator of sub-menu section;
- Fix: spacing issues in the comments list;
- Fix: issues in default galleries;
- Fix: style inconsistency in the page links section;
- Fix: spacing issues in the site header section;
- Fix: style inconsistency in the mobile menu section;
- Fix: overflow issue in the social menu section;
- Fix: spacing issues in the site footer section;
- Fix: rotation issue in the Trending section;
- Fix: add support for `wp_body_open` action;
- Add: native support for responsive embeds;
- Fix: layout issue in the breadcrumbs section;
- Fix: typography control issues in the Customizer;
- Fix: JS issue in the Customizer caused by the footer widget class;
- Fix: theme update notice issue in dashboard;
- Add: support for WhatsApp link in the social menu;
- Add: option to display featured posts outside of the Featured Content area;
- Update: reduce changelog information stored in the `get_version` API calls;
- Update: domain in the documentation links;
- Add: new button to the documentation section in the Theme Info page;
- Update: documentation links in the Themes Info page;
- Fix: minor spacing issues in the Theme Info page;
- Fix: warning messages when performing an update;
- Fix: missing the `theme_slug` parameter from the API calls;
- Update: add a type attribute to buttons located in the site header and the Featured Content section;
- Fix: sidebar position issue when it is set to be displayed on the left hand side;
- Fix: layout issue in Safari when a sidebar is active;
- Fix: redundant WAI-ARIA attribute in navigation located in the site header;
- Update: improve performance of the theme;
- Update: design system classes in all templates to avoid any issues with a 3rd party plugins (Important: if you use a child theme with custom theme templates, make sure to check a parent template to compare the changes);
- Update: load the Trending section JS only when it is needed;
- Update: load the Featured Content section JS only when it is needed;
- Update: minor refactoring of the Featured Content styles;
- Update: improve and organize a structure of the theme by moving the theme JS files to the assets folder;
- Fix: spacing inconsistency in the theme design;
- Fix: RTL issues in the theme specific Jetpack styles;
- Add: better support for older browsers;
- Update: improve performance of the theme;
- Update: optimize the theme styles;
- Update: remove unused styles;
- Update: formatting of the 3rd party styles;
- Add: support for an option to hide Site Title and Tagline;
- Fix: page layout issue in Safari;
- Remove: unnecessary style file;
- Initial release of a theme version: 2.0
Frequently asked questions
Do I get free updates?
Yes, updates are free! Each Themes Harbor purchase includes a full year of support and on-click automatic updates that can be done via your WordPress dashboard.
Is my site secure with your theme?
At Themes Harbor we take security very seriously. We are completely committed to making and keeping our themes as secure as possible.
What will I need to use this theme?
Like any website, you’ll need to have your own domain and have self-hosted WordPress installed on a web hosting of your choice. Also, we recommend Jetpack for additional features.
Will you customize theme for me?
Although we don’t provide custom work services for any of our themes, we do have amazing partners who are ready to take your project and professionally customize it.
Can you help with minor CSS changes?
We are happy to provide basic CSS tweaks with regards to simple changes. For more advanced queries, please see our Customization page.
What’s your support policy?
Customer satisfaction is our top most priority. We take pride in providing our customers with professional and friendly support to ensure that our products suit their needs.