Best news WordPress themes
The most popular news themes for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Twenty Twenty-Five leads with 1M+ active installs, ahead of Twenty Twenty-Four (500K+) and Twenty Twenty-Three (200K+). All 3,109 themes tagged “News” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 news themes
- 1.
Twenty Twenty-FiveThe most installed news theme, with 1M+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 14 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 2.
Twenty Twenty-Four500K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 39 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 3.
Twenty Twenty-Three200K+ active installs. Rated 3.4 from 61 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 4.
OceanWP400K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 5,721 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 5.
Twenty Twenty-Two100K+ active installs. Rated 3.2 from 70 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
BlogHash10K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 13 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 7.
Blogsy4K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 3 weeks ago.
- 8.
News Magazine X8K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 30 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 9.
Zakra30K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 600 reviews, updated 1 month ago.
- 10.
Blogsy News1K+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 4 months ago.
All 3,109 themes tagged “News”
Twenty Twenty-Five
#1by WordPress.org5 months ago
Twenty Twenty-Five emphasizes simplicity and adaptability. It offers flexible design options, supported by a variety of patterns for different page types, such as services and landing pages, making it ideal for building…
- Installs
- 1M+
- Rating
- 4.0(14)
- Downloads
- 13.5K/day
Twenty Twenty-Four
#4by WordPress.org2 months ago
Twenty Twenty-Four is designed to be flexible, versatile and applicable to any website. Its collection of templates and patterns tailor to different needs, such as presenting a business, blogging and writing or showcasi…
- Installs
- 500K+
- Rating
- 3.8(39)
- Downloads
- 13.3K/day
Twenty Twenty-Three
#6by WordPress.org2 months ago
Twenty Twenty-Three is designed to take advantage of the new design tools introduced in WordPress 6.1. With a clean, blank base as a starting point, this default theme includes ten diverse style variations created by me…
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 3.4(61)
- Downloads
- 11.1K/day
OceanWP
#9by oceanwp13 days ago
OceanWP is the perfect theme for your project. Lightweight and highly extendable, it will enable you to create almost any type of website such a blog, portfolio, business website and WooCommerce storefront with a beauti…
- Installs
- 400K+
- Rating
- 4.9(5.7K)
- Downloads
- 2.7K/day
Twenty Twenty-Two
#14by WordPress.org2 months ago
Built on a solidly designed foundation, Twenty Twenty-Two embraces the idea that everyone deserves a truly unique website. The theme’s subtle styles are inspired by the diversity and versatility of birds: its typography…
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 3.2(70)
- Downloads
- 8.9K/day
BlogHash
Down in the last 7 days:2#37by peregrinethemes1 month ago
BlogHash is the perfect pick for bloggers seeking a lightweight, customizable theme that suits them just right. With plenty of options to adjust colors and typography, making your site unique is a breeze. It's SEO frien…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.7(13)
- Downloads
- 91/day
Blogsy
#45by peregrinethemes25 days ago
Blogsy is a modern, high-performance WordPress theme designed for bloggers, news publishers, and content creators who demand style and flexibility. Effortlessly shape your site with built-in support for the powerful Gut…
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 72/day
News Magazine X
Down in the last 7 days:1#47by WP Royal1 month ago
Easy to use Personal and Multi-Author Free WordPress Blog Magazine Theme - Suitable for WordPress Beginners and for Professionals as Well. Perfect for bloggers, journalists, and online magazines, news, blogs, and magazi…
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(30)
- Downloads
- 77/day
Zakra
Down in the last 7 days:1#52by ThemeGrill1 month ago
Zakra is a powerful and versatile multipurpose theme that makes it easy to create beautiful and professional websites. With over free 40 pre-designed starter demo sites to choose from, you can quickly build a unique and…
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.9(600)
- Downloads
- 196/day
Blogsy News
Down in the last 7 days:2#54by peregrinethemes4 months ago
Blogsy News is a modern, high-performance WordPress theme designed for bloggers, news publishers, and content creators who demand style and flexibility. Effortlessly shape your site with built-in support for the powerfu…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 23/day
Twenty Fourteen
Down in the last 7 days:1#57by WordPress.org2 months ago
In 2014, our default theme lets you create a responsive magazine website with a sleek, modern design. Feature your favorite homepage content in either a grid or a slider. Use the three widget areas to customize your web…
- Installs
- 50K+
- Rating
- 4.4(97)
- Downloads
- 1.4K/day
HybridMag
Down in the last 7 days:2#61by ThemezHut26 days ago
HybridMag is a modern and stylish WordPress theme for blogs, newspapers, and magazine websites. The advanced options provided with HybridMag allow you to tailor every aspect of your website to match your brand, making i…
- Installs
- 6K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 34/day
NewsBlogger
Down in the last 7 days:3#63by spicethemes2 months ago
NewsBlogger is a dynamic and versatile child theme for the popular NewCrunch WordPress theme. Perfect for bloggers, journalists, and online magazines, it offers enhanced customization options, improved performance, and…
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(10)
- Downloads
- 43/day
ColorMag
#64by ThemeGrill6 days ago
ColorMag is a fast, flexible WordPress theme built for news portals, online magazines, personal blogs, and publishing sites. Trusted by 50,000+ publishers worldwide, it's the #1 news & magazine theme on WordPress.org. W…
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 4.9(1.6K)
- Downloads
- 495/day
NewsGoal
Down in the last 7 days:2#65by themeansar12 days ago
NewsGoal is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. NewsGoal is suitable for dynamic news…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 24/day
Newsmatic
Up in the last 7 days:1#66by blazethemes11 days ago
Newsmatic is complete solution for your news website with full Elementor compatibility. By integrating the News Kit Elementor Addons plugin on your site, you can now customize any part of the theme with the Elementor pa…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(87)
- Downloads
- 88/day
Sinatra
Down in the last 7 days:1#72by sinatrateam27 days ago
Sinatra is a lightweight and highly customizable multi-purpose theme that makes it easy for anyone to create their perfect website. You can use it for any type of website from blogs, businesses, online shops, creatives,…
- Installs
- 20K+
- Rating
- 5.0(41)
- Downloads
- 1.2K/day
BlogChrome
#74by AF themes5 days ago
BlogChrome is a customizable WordPress blog, news, and magazine theme built as a child theme of ChromeNews. Ideal for personal blogs, online newspapers, digital magazines, editorial websites, and news portals, it featur…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 18/day
Newsup
Down in the last 7 days:1#76by themeansar4 days ago
Newsup is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. Newsup is suitable for dynamic news, ne…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.8(188)
- Downloads
- 484/day
Prespa
#79by Atanas Yonkov26 days ago
Prespa is a next-generation multi-purpose WordPress theme. It is perfect for a blog, portfolio website, digital agency, marketing, seo, consulting, sass application website, e-commerce shop as well as any type of corpor…
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 5.0(9)
- Downloads
- 47/day
NewsCircuit
Down in the last 7 days:5#83by AF themes5 days ago
NewsCircuit is a powerful, feature-rich, and SEO-optimized WordPress theme designed for news, blogs, magazines, and online publishing platforms, offering a stunning responsive design, accessibile and blazing-fast perfor…
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 16/day
Ai Blog Plus
#87by Noor Alam19 days ago
Ai Blog Plus is a fast, SEO-friendly WordPress theme designed for AI bloggers, tech magazines, news portals, and digital publishers. It combines a modern responsive grid layout, clean typography, and Gutenberg block sup…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day
Oceanly Green
Down in the last 7 days:4#90by ScriptsTown2 days ago
Oceanly Green is a clean, fresh, and thoughtfully designed WordPress theme for blogging, news sites, educational platforms, and eco-focused businesses. Built with a nature-inspired color palette, dark green vibrant tone…
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 216/day
Rubik News
Down in the last 7 days:9#97by kantipurthemes2 months ago
Rubik News is a is a clean, modern, user-friendly, fast-loading, customizable, flexible, functional and fully responsive WordPress News, Magazine, Newspaper, and blog Theme.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
BlogBrute
Down in the last 7 days:4#105by themeansar3 months ago
Blogbrute is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. Blogbrute is suitable for dynamic ne…
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 10/day
Newstack
Down in the last 7 days:2#107by themeansar4 months ago
Newstack is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. Newstack is suitable for dynamic news…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day
Blogmate
Up in the last 7 days:1#108by peregrinethemes1 month ago
BlogMate, a child theme of Bloglo, features a boxed width design with an animated background pattern. With a horizontal blog list style, it offers extensive customization options for colors and typography. Lightweight a…
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 30/day
NewsCell
Down in the last 7 days:10#109by AF themes5 days ago
NewsCell is a fast, modern, and highly versatile WordPress child theme of the powerful MoreNews parent, perfect for gaming blogs, eSports magazines, tech news portals, and content-driven websites, featuring a fully drag…
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 13/day
Spexo
#110by Fast Themes2 months ago
Spexo is a lightweight Elementor Theme for WordPress. It is responsive, SEO optimized and optimized for speed. With over more than 100+ advanced Elementor widgets, and multiple pre-built demos that can be imported with…
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 41/day
Online Newspaper
Down in the last 7 days:6#114by blazethemes28 days ago
Online Newspaper is an exceptional news theme designed to satisfy all your requirements. It is customizer-based as well as fully compatible with Elementor builder. Online Newspaper theme offers extensive customization…
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 21/day
NewsCave
Down in the last 7 days:10#117by AF themes5 days ago
NewsCave is a fast, responsive, and SEO-friendly dark mode WordPress theme designed for modern news sites, online magazines, blogs, newspaper portals, and digital publishers. Powered by lightweight code and speed optimi…
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 10/day
Blogfull
Down in the last 7 days:6#121by themeansar12 days ago
Blogfull is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. Blogfull is suitable for dynamic news…
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 20/day
Page Builder Framework
Down in the last 7 days:3#122by David Vongries6 months ago
Page Builder Framework is a super fast, lightweight (less than 50kb on the frontend) and highly customizible WordPress theme made to work with all page builders such as Elementor, Beaver Builder, Visual Composer, SiteOr…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.9(131)
- Downloads
- 34/day
ConsultingGrove Dark
Down in the last 7 days:1#125by Themegrovewp5 months ago
Welcome to ConsultingGrove, a sophisticated full-site editing theme perfect for businesses, consulting services, law firms, and educational institutions. Combining modern aesthetics with versatile functionality, Consult…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 7/day
Crio
Up in the last 7 days:4#128by BoldGrid2 months ago
Crio is a WordPress SuperTheme that allows front-end designers, developers and other web professionals to create without bounds or restrictions. Crio's advanced customization options are completely integrated with the…
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 10/day
Free Press Newspaper
Down in the last 7 days:1#132by SuperbThemes4 months ago
Free Press Newspaper is a clean, classic newspaper style theme. It is made for publishers who want a simple, structured layout for a news site, magazine, or editorial blog. The front page uses a scannable press-style fe…
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 8/day
News Host
Down in the last 7 days:5#133by themeansar12 days ago
News Host is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. News Host is suitable for dynamic ne…
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 13/day
Idea Flow
#135by Superb5 months ago
Idea Flow is the perfect WordPress theme for you, if you're a company, agency, or business, it's also versatile enough for landing pages, one pages and bloggers. Create with Gutenberg Block Editor, Brizy Page Builder, E…
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 27/day
Newscrunch
Up in the last 7 days:2#136by spicethemes2 months ago
Newscrunch is a magazine and blog theme. It is a lightweight, elegant, and fully responsive theme specifically designed for creating magazines, newspapers, editors, blogs, and dynamic news websites. It seamlessly integr…
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.3(12)
- Downloads
- 58/day
Newscraft Blog
#138by SuperbThemes14 days ago
Newscraft Blog is a responsive WordPress theme designed for bloggers and newspapers. Its elegant and minimalist look makes it suitable for affiliate marketers and writers who wish to write about their interests in socce…
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 12/day
Blogier
Up in the last 7 days:1#142by themeansar5 months ago
Blogier is a fast, clean, modern-looking Best Responsive News Magazine WordPress theme. The theme is fully widgetized, so users can manage the content by using easy to use widgets. Blogier is suitable for dynamic news,…
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Bosa
Up in the last 7 days:1#144by Bosa Themes26 days ago
Bosa is a fast, lightweight multipurpose WordPress theme built for Elementor and WooCommerce. Design any type of site visually — business, portfolio, blog, or store — no code required. Built with SEO, speed, and usabili…
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.6(9)
- Downloads
- 108/day
ReviewNews
Down in the last 7 days:4#145by AF themes2 days ago
ReviewNews is a flexible WordPress theme designed for news websites, online magazines, blogs, business sites, and eCommerce projects. It includes a customizable header and footer builder compatible with the Block Editor…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 49/day
The Pink Blogger
Down in the last 7 days:16#146by SuperbThemes1 month ago
It does not matter if you want to create a classic news website, online editorial magazine, a personal modern lifestyle blog, or an affiliate review website. Blog Feedly offers limitless customization. The theme is a pe…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Online Newspaper Plus
Down in the last 7 days:26#147by blazethemes24 days ago
Online Newspaper Plus is a child theme it is an exceptional news theme designed to satisfy all your requirements. It is customizer-based as well as fully compatible with Elementor builder. Online Newspaper theme offers…
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 10/day
Blogsum
Down in the last 7 days:14#150by WPMatcha11 days ago
Blogsum is an authoritative, editorial blog and broadsheet news magazine WordPress theme designed for writers, independent journalists, storytelling bloggers, and modern publications. As an optimized child theme of News…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 9/day
Oasis Wellness and Spa
Down in the last 7 days:6#155by SuperbThemes5 months ago
Oasis Wellness & Spa is a modern WordPress theme created for wellness centers, luxury spas, massage studios, beauty salons, medical spa clinics, and holistic wellbeing businesses. Designed with calm aesthetics and perfo…
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 9/day
NewsNova
Down in the last 7 days:17#157by Mystery Themes1 month ago
NewsNova is a modern, responsive, and feature-rich news and magazine WordPress theme built as a child theme of News Portal. It offers a clean and engaging design with flexible layouts powered by News Portal Blocks, allo…
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 13/day
Blog Over
Down in the last 7 days:8#160by A WP Life1 month ago
Blog Over is a fast, modern, and highly customizable WordPress theme crafted for news websites, blogs, online magazines, and all types of content-driven platforms. Designed with performance, readability, and SEO in mind…
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 35/day
Beiged
Down in the last 7 days:6#163by Superb9 months ago
Beiged is the perfect beige WordPress theme for you, if you’re a company, agency, blogger, writer or business, it’s also versatile enough for landing pages, one pages and bloggers. Create with Gutenberg Block Editor, Br…
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day