The Breaking News

Premium WordPress theme for professionals

$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
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The theme comes with the license key which provides 12 months of support and updates.

This theme is under active development

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.

Simple

As a professional, you want your WordPress site to be simple in order to create a seamless user experience for your site visitors and gain a competitive advantage by making it easy for visitors to find the information they need quickly and easily.

The The Breaking News theme is built with simplicity in mind to provide you a clutter-free WordPress theme which mitigates negative emotions, such as overwhelm and confusion, and puts the focus back on the more important elements of your site.

Beautiful

As a professional, you want your WordPress site to have a beautiful and eye catching layout to make a great first impression to your site visitors. It takes about 50 milliseconds for users to form an opinion about a site and these first impressions are 94% influenced by the visual design.

The The Breaking News theme is packed with a beautiful and eye catching layout designed for all types of blogs and minimal magazines to allow you create a modern WordPress site that will surely be a sight to behold!

Performant

As a professional, you want your WordPress site to load fast and to be secure because performance and security are two essential metrics for online success.

The The Breaking News theme is based on WordPress coding standards, and regularly updated in order to provide you a reliable solution that is optimized for speed, highly secure and always compatible with the latest WordPress version.

Readable

As a professional, you want to have a readable WordPress site to easily convey idea and message of the site to your visitors and build trustful and accessible site for your needs.

The The Breaking News theme is developed with a goal to give your visitors the best reading experience. Beautiful typography made for readability to reach the broadest audience possible. Fully responsive and retina ready makes it look beautiful and optimized on various devices.

Theme standard features

Through stable, secure code and world-class design, we carefully craft professional WordPress themes to help you to stand out from the crowd of competitors and thrive in your market.

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
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Additionally, we have created a child theme and a demo content for you, so you can save your valuable time and concentrate more on your business growth.

Blank child theme

Before making any heavy changes to the theme code, we highly 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.

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Demo content

To get started quickly with The Breaking News, you can use a demo content as a starting point for your site and then edit the content to fit your needs. You’ll be able to delete everything at any time and only keep what you need.

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= 3.3.0, November 22, 2022 =
  • Update: optimize base styles;
  • Update: improve support for Block editor;
  • Update: refactor base styles;
  • Update: refactor theme styles used by 3rd party plugins;
  • Update: prepare for pre-made layouts for theme;
  • Update: optimize theme styles used by 3rd party plugins;
  • Update: refactor templates to replace old spacing CSS classes;
  • Update: formatting in Theme Updater;
  • Update: improve notification output in Theme Updater;
  • Fix: potential notice duplicates in Theme Updater;
= 3.2.0, June 27, 2022 =
  • Important: This version of the theme requires at least WordPress 5.9. It is very crucial to keep your WordPress installation up to date for security reasons. If some of your plugins do not support the latest WordPress version then contact the author of the plugin and ask for update;
  • Important: Some theme templates have been refactored to provide a better support for latest WordPress releases. 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: This version of the theme comes with a refactored color scheme to reduce complexity of theme colors and provide better accessibility;
  • Update: refactor theme default colors;
  • Update: reduce complexity of theme colors;
  • Update: prepare theme colors for Full Site Editing functionality;
  • Update: formatting of the Icons functionality;
  • Update: list of svg icons;
  • Update: refactor typography functionality;
  • Update: prepare the theme fonts for Full Site Editing functionality;
  • Update: refactor the Trending section using block-based output;
  • Update: refactor the site header area, and its sections;
  • Update: refactor footer area;
  • Update: refactor singular template;
  • Update: refactor header area in singular template;
  • Update: refactor footer area in singular template;
  • Update: refactor sidebar section;
  • Update: refactor styles used for default blocks;
  • Update: optimize styles used for Jetpack;
  • Update: refactor styles used in archive views;
  • Update: refactor Featured Content section;
  • Fix: alignment issues in archive views;
  • Fix: issue with custom fonts in the editor;
= 3.1.0, September 21, 2021 =
  • Important: This version of the theme requires at least WordPress 5.4. It is very crucial to keep your WordPress installation up to date for security reasons. If some of your plugins do not support the latest WordPress version then contact the author of the plugin and ask for update. We will be increasing minimum requirements for a WordPress installation up to a version 5.8 in upcoming theme releases;
  • Update: display a notice if the site cannot connect to Themes Harbor when checking for the theme updates;
  • Update: improve hints on the Themes Info page when the site has an outdated version of the theme;
  • Update: display a hint on the Themes Info page when the license is expired;
  • Update: layout of all sections shown on the Themes Info page;
  • Update: formatting of the functionality used for the Theme Update;
  • Update: refactor the License key form used on the Theme Info page;
  • Update: help links used on the Themes Info page;
  • Update: optimize styles of the Themes Info page;
  • Update: prepare for PHP version and WP version checks before updating the theme;
  • Fix: potential critical issues in WordPress dashboard when the site cannot connect to Themes Harbor;
  • Fix: spacing issues in the Columns block when a custom background is set;
= 3.0.3, May 4, 2021 =
  • Add: support for Facebook Messenger icon the social menu section;
  • Update: CSS variables provided by the theme design system to use the theme prefix in order to avoid potential issues in the Editor;
  • Update: display icon in the Load More button provided by Jetpack and Infinite Scroll module;
  • Fix: potential style issues in the Load More button provided by Jetpack and Infinite Scroll module by avoiding overriding the base styles;
  • Fix: spacing issue in the button with an outline style;
  • Fix: add missing support for MySpace link provided by Yoast SEO author links functionality;
= 3.0.2, January 26, 2021 =
  • Add: full support for Yoast author links in the author bio section;
  • Update: optimize styles of the author bio section;
  • Update: optimize the structure of the author bio section;
  • Update: improve layout of the author bio section in smaller screens;
  • Update: improve Pinterest support in the social menu section;
  • Update: improve support for the Google Map icon in the social menu;
  • Update: theme screenshot;
  • Fix: alignment issue of blocks with a full width or wide width added to the columns block;
  • Fix: spacing issue in the select element;
  • Fix: layout issues in the Infinite Scroll loader section provided by Jetpack;
  • Fix: spacing issues in the author bio section;
= 3.0.1, November 24, 2020 =
  • 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;
== 3.0.0, November 5, 2020 ==
  • 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;
= 2.1.4, September 25, 2020 =
  • 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;
= 2.1.3, May 19, 2020 =
  • 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;
== 2.1.2, April 22, 2020 ==
  • 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;
== 2.1.1, Apr 4, 2020 ==
  • 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;
== 2.1.0, Oct 30, 2019 ==
  • 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;
== 2.0.2, Aug 8, 2019 ==
  • 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;
== 2.0.1, Jun 23, 2019 ==
  • Add: support for an option to hide Site Title and Tagline;
  • Fix: page layout issue in Safari;
  • Remove: unnecessary style file;
== 2.0.0, May 12 2015 ==
  • Initial release of a theme version: 2.0

Frequently asked questions

Ready to get The Breaking News to create a professional site but have a few question about the theme? Use our frequently asked questions to find answers.

Do I get free updates?

Yes, product updates are totally free! Each Themes Harbor purchase includes a full year of support and on-click automatic updates that can be done using a WordPress dashboard.

What is included in these updates?

Updates include general maintenance, security patches, performance and accessibility improvements, new features, bug fixes, and compatibility with new versions of WordPress and some third-party products.

What happens when my license expires?

Your theme will continue to work after your license expires. You are free to continue using the theme for as long as you like, but you will need to renew the license in order to receive support and updates.

Is license only valid for one site?

Yes, it is only valid for one domain and one WordPress site. You can install and use a theme on more than one site, but you won’t be getting any update notifications, supports and theme updates on them.

Is my site secure with your theme?

At Themes Harbor we take security very seriously. While security of your website depends on various factors, 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 to fit your needs.

Can you help with minor CSS changes?

Of course! We are happy to provide basic CSS tweaks with regards to simple changes on your WordPress site. However, 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.

I still have questions. What to do?

If you haven’t found the answer to your question here, feel free to read our frequently asked questions or contact us, and we will do our best to answer your questions.