Everything NewsOn can do, and how to use it.

Getting started#

NewsOn is two parts: the NewsOn theme (layout, Theme Options, Header and Footer Builder, single-post designs) and the NewsOn Core plugin (the Elementor elements, the demo importer, ads, paywall, newsletter, podcast and accounts). Your content lives in WordPress and the plugin, so it stays when you change themes.

01.1Requirements

01.2Install the theme

1. Go to Appearance›Themes›Add New›Upload Theme, choose newson.zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
2. The NewsOn Setup screen opens by itself once (you can reopen it at Appearance›NewsOn Setup). It has two short steps.
3. Step 1 · Plugins — install and activate Elementor and NewsOn Core with the buttons on that screen. The theme also lists both under Appearance›Install Plugins.
4. Step 2 · Your homepage — click Browse homepages. It opens NewsOn Core›Homepages, where the one-click import lives (see Full Website import).

01.3Child theme

NewsOn has a child theme, “NewsOn Child” (folder newson-child). Install and activate it the same way if you plan to edit PHP templates or add code. Theme Options are kept per theme, so set the child theme up before you import the demo. See Child theme & developer hooks.

01.4Licence and updates

NewsOn has no purchase-code screen and no license lock: every feature works right after activation. To update, install the new newson.zip and newson-core.zip from your download over the old ones (WordPress offers Replace current with uploaded when you upload a newer version). Your content and settings are kept.

Full Website import#

One screen does it all: NewsOn Core›Homepages. Import the complete demo in one click, choose which homepage is your front page, bring in a single page, or remove everything again.

02.1Import the Full Website

The Full Website card (marked “Recommended”) imports the whole demo: the main homepage and its 23 pages (About, Contact, All News, Authors, Subscribe …), all 50 homepages with their footers and menus, the demo stories, authors, categories, series, polls, podcast and ads, the photos, the header with the mega menu, the sidebar widgets and Theme Options.

1. Open NewsOn Core›Homepages and click Import Full Website.
2. Confirm the dialog “Import the Full Website?”. It tells you that Theme Options, widgets and the front page are replaced — and that they come back if you remove the demo later.
3. Keep the tab open while the progress list runs: “Checking your site”, “Photos …”, “Authors, categories and series”, “Stories …”, “Header and mega menu”, “Main homepage and its 23 pages”, one line per homepage, “Theme Options, widgets and front page”, “Finishing”.
4. When it is done, the main homepage is your front page. Visit the site.

02.2Progress, pause and resume

• The import runs in small steps (a few seconds each), so it works on modest hosting. You can Pause and Resume.
• If the server needs a moment, the screen says “The server needed a moment — trying again…” and retries by itself.
• If the tab closes, or the computer sleeps, open the screen again: “An import is still unfinished.” offers Resume or Cancel import. It continues exactly where it stopped.
• Running it again never makes duplicates. The button then reads Import again (adds anything missing).

02.3Choose your front page

The second card shows every homepage as a thumbnail with tabs for All and each of the 10 categories. Click Set as front page on one you have imported, or Import & set as front page on one you have not — it is imported first, then set.

02.4Import a single page

Want only one homepage, or only the Contact page? Use Import a single page. Switch between Homepages and Pages, search (for example “sports”, “contact” or “#12”), and turn on Set as front page after import if you want it on the front. The stories and the header it needs come along the first time.

02.5Remove imported demo content

Remove demo content… deletes only what the importer created (pages, stories, photos, menus, templates) and then restores your previous front page, Theme Options and widgets. Tick “I understand this cannot be undone…” to confirm.

02.6Hosting tips

• Permalinks: the demo looks best with “Post name”. The screen shows a tip when yours are “Plain” — change them under Settings›Permalinks.
• Time limits: each step asks for 120 seconds and raises the memory limit for the request, but most steps finish in about four seconds. A slow host just means more steps.
• Memory: 256 MB (WP_MEMORY_LIMIT) is comfortable for Elementor and the import.
• Session expired? Reload the page and sign in again — the import continues where it stopped.
• Downloads: if a package is not bundled with the plugin, it is downloaded from the NewsOn download server into uploads/newson-kits. If that fails, check that your server may make outgoing HTTPS requests.

Homepages#

NewsOn comes with the main homepage plus 50 homepages in 10 categories of five. Each one is a complete front page built from NewsOn Core elements, and any of them can be your front page.

03.1Set a homepage as the front page

1. Open NewsOn Core›Homepages and scroll to Choose your front page.
2. Pick a category tab, or Show all.
3. Click Set as front page (or Import & set as front page).

You can also do it the WordPress way: Settings›Reading›Your homepage displays›A static page and choose the page.

03.2Each homepage keeps its own fonts

The site itself uses Source Serif 4 for headings and IBM Plex Sans for text (Theme Options → General → Typography). Every homepage brings its own font pair, which is printed only on that homepage (and on the stories and pages that belong to it), so one homepage never changes the look of the rest of the site. The shared header always keeps the site fonts.

03.3One shared header

All homepages use the same header with the mega menu, imported once. The name in the header follows the homepage being viewed. Each homepage has its own footer and menu.

Header & mega menu#

There are two ways to build a header: the shared mega-menu header that the demo uses (an Elementor template with the Mega Menu Builder element), or the theme’s drag-and-drop Header Builder with 20 news presets.

04.1The mega-menu header

It is the Elementor template “Header (mega menu)”, set under Theme Options›Header›Header design. To change it, open that template from Elementor’s Saved Templates list and edit the Mega Menu Builder element. Its menu:

Panels load only when they are opened (“Load Every Panel When Opened”), so the page stays light. While a panel loads, a small loader shows — Panel Loader: Square grid (3 × 3), Single square or None, with a Minimum Loader Time of 400 ms so it never flickers.

04.2Top bar with world clocks

The dark bar above the menu is the News Top Bar element: the date, a live clock (New York) and world clocks (London, Dubai, Tokyo, Sydney …), the weather, a “Most read” ticker and trending tags. Turn World clocks on and add cities in the Cities list (City + Time zone). On desktop four clocks fit; on phones the bar is shortened.

04.3Header tools

Pick the tools under the element’s Header Tools (search, accessibility, dark mode) section, and the look under Icon style (Outline, Squares with a 1px border, Solid black squares, One bordered group, Circle buttons, Icon with a small label, Text labels).

04.4Header Builder (20 presets)

Open Appearance›Header Builder. Drag elements into the Top bar, Main row, Bottom row and Off-canvas panel (each with Left / Center / Right zones), separately for Desktop and Mobile.

1. Click Presets, filter (With ticker, Masthead, Search bar, Email sign-up, Dark, Floating, Minimal) or search, and click Use this preset.
2. Adjust anything: logo, menus, search, account, buttons, social icons, subscribe, the Mega menu, Header tools and the News top bar (world clocks) block.
3. Set row options: Sticky (Not sticky / Always visible / Hide on scroll down, show on scroll up), Transparent over the hero, Shape (Edge to edge / Floating capsule / Floating card).
4. Tick Use this header on my site and click Save.

• Daily Classic
• Broadsheet Masthead
• Wire Desk
• Search Portal
• Centered Nameplate
• Morning Briefing
• Minimal Desk
• Night Desk
• Frosted Capsule
• Metro Three-Tier
• Split Masthead
• Stacked Masthead
• Breaking News
• Sections Overlay
• Search Strip
• Tabloid Front
• Compact Line
• City Desk
• Opinion Capsule
• Live Desk

Footer Builder#

Build the footer in Appearance›Footer Builder with four bands — Top band, Main row, Brand band and Bottom bar — or start from one of 12 presets.

• Newsroom Columns
• Tip Line Desk
• Most Read
• Daily Masthead
• Minimal Center
• Broadsheet Wordmark
• Morning Briefing
• Headline Ticker
• Night Edition
• Editions Bar
• Columnist Journal
• Send a Tip

1. Open Appearance›Footer Builder and click Presets.
2. Edit the blocks: link columns (from the footer menu, a menu you choose, pages or categories), Custom links (one per line, Label | link), logo, about text, newsletter, most read, headline ticker, giant wordmark, social icons, legal links, copyright and Back to top.
3. Tick Use this footer on my site and Save.

05.1Which footer is shown

In this order: the page’s own choice (Page Options → Footer), then an Elementor footer design (Theme Options›Footer›Footer design), then the Footer Builder, then the theme’s default footer. The demo homepages use their own Elementor footers.

05.2One back-to-top button

A page never shows two “back to top” buttons. The theme’s button (Theme Options›General›“Back to top” button, on by default) is the one used site-wide; footer blocks with their own button step back while it is on, and a Scroll to Top element on a page hides it. Developers can switch it with the filters newson_global_totop and newson_footer_totop (see hooks).

Page Composer#

Make unlimited pages without starting from zero. On every page edit screen, the box “Page Composer — header, page, footer” walks you through three steps.

1. Header Builder — pick one of the 20 header presets for this page, or “Site default”.
2. Page Builder — choose Full pages (any homepage design, filter by category, search) or Sections (single sections from the homepages, grouped as Lead stories, Story blocks, Live & scores, Video & audio, Opinion & polls, Newsletter & follow). Click sections in order to stack them, choose Replace the page content or Add below the current content, then Add to page.
3. Footer Builder — pick a footer preset, or “Site default”.
4. Click Update / Publish, then Edit with Elementor to change texts and stories.

Theme Options#

All site-wide settings are on one screen: NewsOn Core›Theme Options (or Appearance›Theme Options when the plugin is off). Changes show in the live preview on the right before you click Save changes; the search box finds any setting.

07.1Site width, colors and fonts

“Content width” sets the width of headers, footers and pages (the demo uses the same edge everywhere). NewsOn is black and white with one accent color; the accent is used for fills, lines and markers, and text placed on it is dark so it stays readable. Pick a font pair under Font pairings or set the body and heading fonts yourself.

07.2Blog and archive layouts

Choose one of the 16 post-list layouts: Card grid, List, Zig-zag, Masonry, Magazine, Hero first, Two featured, Overlay cards, Bento grid, Classic big image, Compact cards, Timeline, Newspaper, Headlines, Minimal text and Photo tiles. “Per page type” lets the blog page, categories, tags, authors, search and date archives each use their own page header.

07.3Single post settings

• Single post design — 20 cards (default Classic). A post can override it.
• Previous / next design — “Different on every post” (default) gives each post one of the 10 navigation layouts; or choose one layout, or “Theme style”.
• Read next pop-up — “Read next card” (on), “Slides in from” (Changes per post / Left / Right), “After the reader closes it” (This post only / Hide for 30 minutes / Hide for the visit).
• Article extras — Drop cap, Reading progress line, Contents box on long posts, Listen & text size, Newsletter sign-up in the story, “More from” the category (all on).

07.4Sticky sidebar and animations

Sticky sidebar (Blog & Archives, on by default) keeps the sidebar in view while the story scrolls; a page can change it under Page Options›Sidebar›Sticky sidebar. Animations are soft and short, and they honour the visitor’s reduced-motion setting.

Single posts#

Every story can look different: 20 designs, 10 previous / next layouts, a Read next card and six article extras that are added automatically — no editing of posts needed.

08.120 designs, per post

• Classic
• Editorial
• Big picture
• Photo overlay
• Split screen
• Magazine
• Minimal
• Boxed card
• Newspaper
• Long read
• Side rail
• Video first
• Dark reading
• Photo essay
• Developer
• Lifestyle
• Bold
• Parallax
• Framed photo
• Side by side

1. Set the site-wide design in Theme Options›Single Post›Single post design.
2. To give one story its own design, open the post and use the Post Options box → Layout → Theme design. “Use the global setting” follows Theme Options.
3. An Elementor single-post design (Post Options → Layout → “Single post design”) wins over both.

08.2Previous / next navigation

Ten layouts: Cards, Image tiles, Split banner, Minimal text, Arrows with hover preview, Edge tabs, Up next, Series (previous · current · next), Pills and Magazine. With “Different on every post” neighboring stories never look the same. To fix one post, add the custom field _newson_post_nav with a layout key (cards, image, split, minimal, arrows, edge, upnext, series, pills, magazine) or theme.

08.3Read next

When a reader is about 60% through a story, a small card with up to three stories from the same category slides in from the left or right. The × hides it only for that story by default, so it is there again on the next one.

08.4Article extras

08.5Turn extras off on one post

Switch an extra off everywhere in Theme Options›Single Post›Article extras. For a single post, open Custom Fields (block editor: ⋮ → Preferences → Panels → Custom fields) and add:

Name:  _newson_si_off
Value: newsletter, toc      (or: all)

Sidebar widgets#

NewsOn Core adds eleven sidebar widgets, all named “NewsOn · …”. The demo import places nine of them in the Blog sidebar.

1. Go to Appearance›Widgets and open Blog sidebar.
2. Add a block, search “NewsOn” and pick the widget. Set its options and click Update.
3. More sidebars: add names (one per line) under Theme Options›Blog & Archives›Sidebars.

Elements#

NewsOn Core adds 106 elements to Elementor, in the panel category “NewsOn Core”. Every one has a live demo page — browse them all at the Elements index.

Turn elements you do not use off in NewsOn Core›Elements (filter All / Active / Inactive, search, one switch per element, and a Demo link). Turned-off elements load nothing.

Posts & news 40

• Loop Grid
• Post Grid
• Post Masonry
• Post List
• Post Classic
• Post Minimal
• Post Carousel
• Post Ticker
• Magazine Blocks
• Trending Posts
• Hero Slider
• Overlay Blog Layout
• News Top Bar
• Live Blog
• Reader Poll
• Web Stories
• Read Next
• Post Series
• Authors Grid
• Author Box
• Paywall / Content Lock
• Ad Manager
• Newsletter
• Category List / Grid
• Breadcrumbs
• Table of Contents
• Post Navigation
• Post Comments
• Post Parts
• Archive Posts
• Search Box Advanced
• Social Share Icons
• Social Follow
• Social Media Feed
• Podcast Episodes
• Bento Grid
• Hover Reveal List
• Scrollytelling
• GSAP Scroll Scenes
• Motion Effects (Motion JS)

Editorial & type 9

• Text Reveal on Scroll
• Gradient Text Marquee
• Highlighted Text
• Animated Text Pro
• Drop Cap
• Advanced Heading
• Section Heading
• Page Header
• Divider & Spacer

Data journalism 8

• Data Table
• Pie Chart
• Bar Chart
• Timeline Vertical
• Timeline Horizontal
• Countdown Timer
• Comparison Table
• Code Snippet Block

Media 9

• Advanced Gallery
• Image Carousel w/ Thumbnail
• Image Comparison
• Image Hotspot
• Video Popup / Modal
• Sticky Video Window
• Video Playlist
• Audio Player Pro
• Image Accordion

Content, money & forms 23

• Dual Button
• Advanced Button
• Call to Action
• Info Box
• Icon Box
• Advanced Tabs
• Advanced Accordion
• Toggle Content
• Unfold / Read More
• Counter Up
• Team Member Grid
• Banner / Promo Box
• Pricing Table
• Affiliate Product Card
• Recipe Card
• Donation / Fundraising Box
• Form Builder
• CF7 Styler
• WPForms Styler
• Mailchimp Styler
• User Login Form
• User Registration Form
• Modal Popup Box

Site parts 17

• Site Header
• Site Footer
• Saved Template
• Mega Menu Builder
• Off-Canvas Content
• Notification Bar
• Cookie Consent Banner
• Language Switcher
• Dark Mode Toggle
• Accessibility Toolbar
• Page Scroll Progress Bar
• Scroll to Top
• Preloader
• Interactive Cursor
• Custom Scrollbar
• Weather Widget
• Sports Scores

10.1Key news elements

Section Heading#

The title above a block of stories — number, title, kicker, right-side text and a “View all →” link — as one element you edit in the Elementor panel. Every section title of the demo (main homepage, the 50 homepages, the Pages, the footer) uses it. Demo: Section Heading.

11.1Add one

1. Edit the page with Elementor and search the panel for Section Heading (category “NewsOn Core”).
2. Drag it above the block it introduces (Magazine Blocks, Post Grid, a carousel …).
3. Type the Title. Put { curly braces } around a word to highlight it.
4. Optional: Kicker / subtitle, Right-side text (e.g. “This week”), Link text + Link (the arrow is on by default), HTML Tag (H2, H3, H4 or p).

11.2Numbers

Number has three choices: None, Auto and Custom. Auto counts the auto-numbered headings of the page from the top — 01, 02, 03 … — so when you move a section up, or delete one, the others renumber themselves. Custom prints exactly what you type. The Black bar style shows its number in yellow on black.

11.3Styles

Look›Style offers 18 styles — the ones the demo uses:

Site default follows NewsOn›Theme Options›General›Section headings. Change it there and every Section Heading set to “Site default” changes with it; a heading with its own style keeps it.

11.4Options

• Background: “Dark section” for black bands — the title turns white and numbers stay yellow (yellow is never text on a light background).
• Alignment: left, center or right.
• Rule / divider line: switch the line off for a quieter look.
• Soft entrance: the heading fades up very gently as it scrolls into view; visitors who ask their device for less motion never see it move.

Page Header#

The top of a page — breadcrumbs, kicker, the H1 title, a deck, buttons and an optional side panel — as one element. The About, Contact, FAQ, Careers, Masthead, Subscribe, Search, 404 and Visual Stories pages all start with it. Demo: Page Header.

12.1Add one

1. Edit the page with Elementor and search the panel for Page Header (category “NewsOn Core”). Put it in the first section of the page.
2. Pick a Layout: Plain, Split with side panel, Stacked, Centered, Centered compact (above a search box), Masthead or Error page.
3. Type the Kicker, the Title (H1) and the Deck. Put { curly braces } around words to highlight them; press Enter for a line break.
4. Add Buttons (Solid ink, Outline or Yellow) and, if you like, Chips — small labels, one per line.

12.2Breadcrumbs

Auto builds Home › parent pages › this page from the page hierarchy (Page Attributes → Parent). Custom lets you name one parent, its link and the current label. None hides them.

12.3Side panel

12.4Look

• Title tag: keep H1 for the page title (one per page); choose H2 when the header sits lower on a page.
• Background: “Dark section” for black bands — white text, yellow highlights.
• Soft rise animation: kicker, title, deck and panel rise in one after another; visitors who ask their device for less motion see them at once.

Ads, paywall & newsletter#

Sell ad space, lock premium stories and grow an email list — all built in, no extra plugins.

13.1Ad Manager

1. Create ads in NewsOn Core›Ads›All ads. Types: Designed banner, Image banner, Sponsored card, Ad network code (administrators only). Sizes from 728×90 Leaderboard and 970×250 Billboard to 300×250, 300×600 and 320×50, or “Fits the space”.
2. Per ad: Show on Desktop / Tablet / Phone, Runs from / until, and Share in its group (1–10) for weighted rotation.
3. Put ads that should take turns in one slot into the same group (Ads›Groups).
4. Choose where ads appear automatically in Ads›Placements.

Anywhere else: the Ad Manager element, the NewsOn · Banner / Ad widget, or the shortcode [newson_ad id="123"] (also group, rotate). Per story, tick No automatic ads on this story. Views (“Seen”: half visible for one second) and clicks are counted for the last 30 days; bots and editors are not.

13.2Paywall and membership

1. Open NewsOn Core›Paywall and turn on Lock premium posts.
2. Which posts: the ones you mark (default), some categories, or all. Mark a story in its Paywall box: “Follow the site rule”, “Premium — lock it” or “Always free”.
3. Who can read: logged-in readers and/or readers who leave their email, or certain roles. Optional Free articles per month with a meter.
4. Pick the Teaser (3 paragraphs by default), a Box design (Card, Split with plans, Magazine, Email wall, Glass, Banner, Minimal, Bottom sheet) and a skin, and write the headline, perks and plans.

13.3Newsletter

• Every sign-up form (Newsletter element, sidebar widget, in-story line, paywall) saves to NewsOn Core›Newsletter›Subscribers, sorted into Lists.
• Double opt-in is on by default (Newsletter›Settings): a confirmation email, then a welcome email. Also: “Send emails as”, “After confirming”, “Notify me”, a Webhook for your email service, and the email color.
• Export CSV (email, name, status, lists, dates, consent) and Import subscribers (one “email, name” per line).

Reader accounts#

The person icon in the header opens a Sign in / Create account window without leaving the page. On phones it is a bottom sheet.

• Sign in: email or username, password, “Keep me signed in”, and “Forgot password?” (WordPress’s own reset page). After signing in the icon shows the reader’s initials with a menu: Dashboard (editors only), My account, Sign out.
• Create account: works when Settings›General›Membership›Anyone can register is ticked. New accounts get the Subscriber role. When it is off, the tab says “New accounts are closed right now”.
• The window is keyboard friendly: arrow keys switch tabs, Esc closes it and focus goes back to the icon.

14.1Security

• Five failed sign-ins per account and address (20 per address) lock sign-in for 15 minutes; the error never says which part was wrong.
• The sign-up answer is the same whether or not the email is already registered, and there is no automatic sign-in — so nobody can find out who has an account. Five sign-ups per address per hour.
• New accounts can never get a role that publishes or manages the site. Anti-spam plugins that hook into registration keep working.

All News & archives#

The demo’s All News page is one Archive Posts element with its filter bar turned on: readers filter by section, sort and search without a full page reload.

In the Archive Posts element, open Filter, Sort & Search Bar and turn on Show the bar. Options:

• Category filters with an “All” label.
• Sort menu: Latest · Most read · Most discussed.
• Grid / list switch and a Search box (with “Highlight the searched words”).
• Keep the bar visible while scrolling, Date dividers (Today, Yesterday …) and a Loader.

Results load in place and the address bar updates (for example ?topic=politics&sort=read), so every filtered view can be shared and works with the back button.

15.1Category, tag, author and search pages

These use Theme Options›Blog & Archives: the post-list layout, columns, “More posts” (page numbers, Load more button or infinite scroll) and one of 9 page-header designs, per page type. For full control, choose an Elementor design under “Elementor designs”.

Dark mode, accessibility, RTL & translation#

Readers choose light or dark and adjust the page to their needs; the theme mirrors itself for right-to-left languages and is ready to translate.

16.1Dark mode

The header’s day / night switch (or the Dark Mode Toggle element, seven designs) switches the site and remembers the choice. “How it goes dark”: Smart invert (works on any site) by default, a dark color palette, or just a class (.nwdm-dark) for your own CSS. “First visit” can be Light, Dark or Auto (with a sunset schedule).

16.2Accessibility panel

From the header or the Accessibility Toolbar element: bigger text, line height, text spacing, readable and dyslexia-friendly fonts, contrast (more / dark / light), saturation, highlight links and headings, big cursor, reading guide, keyboard focus, read aloud, page outline, stop animations, hide images — plus one-click profiles (Low vision, Dyslexia, Focus, Seizure safe, Keyboard, Older adults). Shortcut: Alt + Shift + A.

16.3Right-to-left (RTL)

Choose an RTL language in Settings›General›Site Language. NewsOn serves mirrored copies of its stylesheets (cached in uploads/newson-cache/rtl) and mirrors Elementor’s inline styles too — nothing to set up. Developers can preview any page right-to-left with ?rtl=1 once the newson_rtl_preview filter returns true.

16.4Translation

Translate with Loco Translate or Poedit and save the files as newson-xx_XX.po/.mo (theme) and newson-core-xx_XX.po/.mo (plugin) in wp-content/languages/themes/ and wp-content/languages/plugins/. Both packages include a wpml-config.xml for multilingual plugins.

Performance#

NewsOn loads only what a page uses. Most of it is automatic; a few switches in Theme Options go further.

17.1Built in

• Per-page CSS: only the styles of the elements on a page are loaded, minified and cached in uploads/newson-cache/css/. The cache rebuilds by itself when something changes — there is nothing to clear. (Developers: ?nwcss=all loads everything for testing.)
• Lazy panels: mega-menu panels, overlay tabs and ad code load when they are needed.
• The main image of a page is preloaded, so the top of the page paints sooner.

17.2Optional switches

17.3Caching tips

• Any page cache works (host cache, a caching plugin or a CDN). NewsOn already sends paywalled pages as not cacheable.
• If you combine or defer scripts in a caching plugin, exclude Elementor’s and NewsOn’s scripts if something stops working, and test the mega menu, search and sign-in window.
• After changing Theme Options, clear your page cache so visitors see the new look.

Child theme & developer hooks#

Put custom code in the NewsOn Child theme (it only loads its own style.css after the parent’s), so updates never overwrite it.

18.1Examples

<?php
// functions.php of newson-child

// No site-wide back-to-top button (let the footer show its own).
add_filter( 'newson_global_totop', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'newson_footer_totop', '__return_true' );

// No in-story newsletter line on the Opinion category.
add_filter( 'newson_single_inject', function ( $on, $key, $post_id ) {
	return ( 'newsletter' === $key && has_category( 'opinion', $post_id ) ) ? false : $on;
}, 10, 3 );

// Shorter demo-import steps on a slow host (seconds per request, default 4).
add_filter( 'newson_demo_step_budget', fn() => 2.0 );

18.2Useful filters and actions

18.3Shortcodes

FAQ & troubleshooting#

Quick answers to the questions buyers ask most.

The import stopped half way.

Open NewsOn Core›Homepages again and click Resume. Every step is safe to repeat. If it keeps stopping at the same step, ask your host to raise the PHP time limit and memory, or make the steps shorter with the newson_demo_step_budget filter (batch sizes: newson_demo_chunk).

My front page changed after importing.

The Full Website import sets the main homepage as the front page. Pick another under Choose your front page, or in Settings›Reading.

I chose a Header Builder preset but the site still shows the mega-menu header.

An Elementor header design wins. Set Theme Options›Header›Header design to none and make sure “Use this header on my site” is ticked in the Header Builder.

Pages show “404 Not Found”.

Visit Settings›Permalinks, choose “Post name” and click Save Changes.

The Read next card does not appear.

Check Theme Options›Single Post›Read next pop-up›Read next card. It shows at about 60% of a story that has other stories in its category. If you closed it, it returns on the next story (with “This post only”).

How do I remove the demo?

NewsOn Core›Homepages → Remove demo content…. Your previous front page, Theme Options and widgets come back.

Do I need Elementor Pro?

No. Everything works with the free Elementor plugin.

A page looks unstyled after an update.

Clear your caching plugin or host cache. NewsOn’s own CSS cache rebuilds by itself.

Where is the changelog?

In the Changelog topic below, and in readme.txt of the theme and of NewsOn Core. Version 1.0.0 is the first release.

19.1Support

Every purchase includes 6 months of support from the NewsOn team (extendable on ThemeForest). Support covers questions about the theme’s features, help with the demo import and fixes for bugs. It does not cover custom code or third-party plugins.

1. Read the topic above that matches your question; most answers are here.
2. Note your WordPress, PHP and Elementor versions, what you did and what you see (a screenshot helps).
3. Open the NewsOn item page on ThemeForest and use the Support tab to contact us.

Changelog#

What changed in each version of the NewsOn theme and the NewsOn Core plugin.

20.1Version 1.0.0 — October 2026

Initial release. Theme NewsOn 1.0.0 and NewsOn Core 1.0.0.

• 50 homepages in 10 categories, plus the main demo.
• One-click Full Website import with a front page picker, single page import and a clean remove.
• 106 Elementor elements made for news: Magazine Blocks, Bento Grid, Live Blog, Reader Poll, Web Stories, Podcast, Paywall, Ad Manager and more.
• Header Builder with mega menu, Footer Builder, Page Composer and Theme Options with live preview.
• 20 single post designs, 16 blog and archive layouts, sticky sidebar widgets and a Read Next panel.
• Ads, paywall, newsletter and reader accounts.
• Dark mode, accessibility toolbar, RTL support and translation files.