Newspaper theme

I recommend you need to just choose a theme you like the look of it, and then customize the Loop in the Main Template (index.php). You will need to learn Multiple Loops on the Codex, or, ask here for someone to write your Multiple Loops code for you.

The section that you’re concerned about (top headlines from each category), could go into any theme, really. For practice you can put it in the default theme. First get The Loop(s) you want, then apply the CSS to style it.

I’m not sure you can get it to magically pull the latest headline from ANY category (anticipating categories you haven’t added yet), but you can say specific categories. Example,
Loop to get Category 1 headline: NEWS
Loop to get Category 5 headline: FEATURE
Loop to get Category 3 headline: SPORTS
Loop to get Category 8 headline: CLASSIFIED

Good luck & please post back here when you get something working. By the way there are other custom WP sites, newspapers and online magazines, like you want.

thank you… for sure i’ll post the code if it’ll works ??
Do you have any example of newspapers and online magazine? I’ld like to see some possibles results ??

Here is a Google search for magazine OR newspaper “powered by WordPress”

There are many results. Enjoy the possibilities! You can also search this Forum and look in the My WordPress section for more examples.

In my view WordPress can be much more than personal blogging software. It is appropriate for any database-driven web representation of text. It is great for an online newspaper, or the website of a real newspaper.

https://www.mudsugar.com/ looks really cool and seems to have the structure with categories….

Ehi! It’s possible to take this wonderful mudsugar.com theme?

actually there’s a page about it.. they’ll change theme every 6 months and then they’re going to relase the old one (at tleast i understood that from that page)

hi,
I have a similar request. I am trying to use WP as the CMS for a small online magazine with sections like stories, essays, poetry, translations, book reviews etc., I really like WP, because WP liberates me from designing individual pages but allow me to concentrate on the structure of the
data.

My categories are organized as follows:
1 category i
2 — child i1
3 — child i2
4 — child i3
5 — child i4
6 category f
7 — child f1
8 — child f2
9 — child f3
10 –child f4

Each post belongs to only one of the child categories i1 or i2, or i3 or i4. It also belongs to one
or more child categories f1, f2, f3 and f4.

Example of posts.
post categories
——————–
post1 i1, f3
post2 i1, f1
post3 i1, f1, f4
post4 i1, f2
post5 i1, f1
…

I want to create a category template for the children i1, i2, i3 and i4.
However, the standard category template sorts the posts by
id and the categories f1, f2 and f3 are all mixed up.
I would like to be able to sort the posts in the category i1 so all posts are also sorted by categories f1, f2, f3 and f4. this is what I have in mind:

Archive for Category: i1
f1
post2
post3
post5
f2
post4
f3
post1
f4
post3
….

I know I need to loop on each of the child categories of
category f. (id = 6)
Is it possible to get posts that belong to categories (i1, f1), (i1, f2) etc. in the category template?

I am just gettig started with WP and any help or pointers
is greatly appreciated. thanks

I do something similar on https://www.student-direct.co.uk which is our student paper. I’m currently redesigning it to make it pretier but the loops work in that way.

lellie: your student-direct theme looks great! It would be great if that was available for others to use–I’d like to test it out ??

lillie- I too as well would love it if you shared your theme. It really is great. Good job

Nicely done lillie, I like your category archives pages with the large featured story, then 2 “boxcars” (teasers), and then under that a list of just-plain-headlines for older stories in the cat.

This may be a cultural thing, but why do you write “Latest Sport” instead of “Latest Sports Story”? Latest Sport does not make sense to me. Midnight Basketball would be the latest sport I can think of.

Good, Lillie!! Now we wants this wonderful THEME!! ??