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News, Magazine and Blog Elements

by aThemeArt · WordPress.org page · Website

v1.3 Tested up to WP 4.9.31

News, Magazine and Blog Elements has 60+ active installs on WordPress.org and 9,679 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on April 4, 2018, tested up to WordPress 4.9.31.

News, Magazine and Blog Elements at a glance

Active installs
60+
Total downloads
9,679
Downloads, last 30 days
–
available after 30 days of tracking
30-day growth
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tracking since September 4, 2026

Is News, Magazine and Blog Elements well maintained?

Support threads resolved
No open threads
nothing waiting on the WordPress.org forum
WordPress compatibility
Behind
tested up to WordPress 4.9.31, not yet with the current 7.1

Features

The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.

  • 100% responsive design, optimized for retina display
  • 20 Pre built Home page layouts (shipped as Visual Composer templates)
  • Supports languages with right-to-left orientation (RTL)
  • 7 Display styles
  • Grid – – 4 sub styles – Upto 6 columns grid supported – Custom gutter width from 2px to 70px
  • Card (New) – – Upto 6 columns grid supported – Custom gutter width from 2px to 70px – Material Design Style appearance
  • List – – Custom split ratio for thumbnail + content – Create any sized list from small to large thumbnails – Circular images for list thumbnails – Content can…
  • Portfolio – – Upto 6 columns grid supported – Custom gutter width from 2px to 70px – Overlay Content position as top-let or bottom-left – Custom overlay…
  • Tile – – 4 sub styles – Custom gutter width from 2px to 70px – Tile viewport width for auto calculation of image dimensions – Auto resize and cropping for…
  • Ticker – – Custom ticker title length – Custom ticker label text
  • Custom Styling per post module (New) – – Select Google Fonts for post heading and text contents separately – Choose colors for heading, post categories and…
  • WP Query builder – Show posts from categories, tags, custom post types, taxonomies, post IDs, author IDs, etc. – Supports offset and post exclusion to prevent…

News, Magazine and Blog Elements reviews and ratings

4 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.

All reviews
2.5 out of 5

4 reviews

5★
1
4★
0
3★
1
2★
0
1★
2

  • Good theme and bad realisation

    If you show shortcodes - can not you show examples? Why, instead of creating a site, I have to experiment and try to understand what to mean "Option 1", "Option 2" and "Option 3". Make a normal guide - put 5 stars.

    contengo

  • Pointless

    Nothing worth your time as you need to buy the full version in order to do anything useful. Dont waste your time with this install.

    Twinky9

  • Free version is locked down, this is only promo for paid version

    Free version sets up shortcodes on the page/post editor - but almost EVERY option in each shortcode is ONLY available with the paid version - so limited as to make them useless. Also sets up widgets but only for sidebar, footer, header. No use of Customizer to see how they work No templates or sample pages. No documentation, no FAQs. The really amateur Youtube videos are apparently only the Pro version - and apparently very theme-dependent. Nowhere is there even any hint about how to use the limited shortcodes provided in the free version. The description here is all about the Pro version and NOTHING in the description is possible with the free version (well the options are there, but locked down). Seriously, just go sell this on a paid site, it is not appropriate here.

    wppatron

  • Good one

    Thanks for share a good new plugins ...

    aThemeArt Translations

Details

News, Magazine and Blog Elements is shipped as Visual Composer addon , Page builder Widgets, Widgets & Shortcode.

The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.

Tags

  • main news page scrolling
  • news website
  • wordpress horizontal news plugin widget
  • wordpress news plugin
  • wordpress vertical news plugin widget

More from aThemeArt

Version
1.3
Last updated
Apr 4, 2018
First published
Sep 18, 2017
Requires WordPress
3.5
Tested up to
4.9.31
Requires PHP
–
Pricing
Free on WordPress.org

News, Magazine and Blog Elements FAQ

What does News, Magazine and Blog Elements do?

According to its WordPress.org readme, News, Magazine and Blog Elements offers 100% responsive design, optimized for retina display, 20 Pre built Home page layouts (shipped as Visual Composer templates), Supports languages with right-to-left orientation (RTL), 7 Display styles and Grid – – 4 sub styles – Upto 6 columns grid supported – Custom gutter width from 2px to 70px.

How many active installs does News, Magazine and Blog Elements have?

WordPress.org reports 60+ active installs for News, Magazine and Blog Elements as of September 7, 2026.

Is News, Magazine and Blog Elements still maintained?

The last release was on April 4, 2018, more than a year ago. WordPress.org shows a warning on plugins that go this long without an update.

Is News, Magazine and Blog Elements free?

News, Magazine and Blog Elements is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.