Qalam - NewsPaper and Magazine WordPress Theme 2.4.0
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Qalam is a WordPress theme built for news and magazine sites, with a clean look that puts the content first. The design is driven by the Elementor page builder and the Kirki Customizer, so almost every visual detail can be adjusted without touching code. The layout is fully responsive and retina-ready, and you can switch between boxed and stretched widths, choose from multiple sidebar arrangements, load unlimited Google Fonts, and set custom colors for headers, navigation, widget headings, and footer areas. Four header layout styles, a sticky navigation bar, and an off-canvas mobile menu are part of the package. The theme also reserves strategic spots for advertisements throughout the page, which helps publishers generate revenue from their traffic. Behind the scenes, the markup is semantic and organized, with SEO and Schema Microdata built in, so search engines can read the site structure properly. The whole package was developed on recent WordPress and PHP versions and tested in all modern browsers.
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One of the strongest features is the WP Post Modules plugin, which is included with the theme. This tool lets you display posts anywhere on the page, including widget areas, in five main styles: grid, list, tile, ticker, and bullet list. Each style comes with sub-options for columns, gutters, thumbnail sizes, hover effects, and image cropping via BFI Thumb. The ticker module has its own label text, animation duration, and background colors. A custom query builder pulls content from categories, tags, custom post types, taxonomies, or specific post and author IDs, complete with offset and exclusion controls to avoid duplicates. Slider support with autoplay, animation types, zoom and fade effects, and navigation toggles works across grid, list, and tile displays. Typography reaches into the full Google Fonts library with responsive settings for titles, excerpts, category links, and readmore buttons. Social sharing, AJAX paging, and Schema markup can be enabled per module, which makes this plugin genuinely useful on its own.
Single post pages receive the same level of attention. You get three post layouts, multiple sidebar arrangements, automated featured images, video post format support, and more than fifteen social sharing buttons, including a floating share button. Image resizing happens on the fly with BFI Thumb, so thumbnail dimensions, hard crops, and quality levels are fully adjustable, and a Customizer option can disable automated featured images when you want control over each post. Inline advertisement areas sit above and below the content, and related posts can be pulled from the same category or shared tags. The author bio shows avatar, description, and social follow buttons, while floating next/previous navigation includes thumbnails and titles. Nested comments work with gravatar support. Widget areas are generous: a top widget area, header widget space for logo and banner combinations, two global widget areas around the main content, inline spots inside single posts, twin sidebars, and secondary and footer zones with eight columns each, all adjustable from the Customizer.
E-commerce stores can use the theme with WooCommerce 3.6.x, which gets built-in styling and integration. Valid HTML5 markup is used throughout, and browser support goes back to Internet Explorer 9. The bundled FontAwesome 5.9 icon library and Google Fonts via the Customizer cover most visual needs, while WordPress custom backgrounds and site icons work as expected. Translation is ready with RTL support, a sample POT file, and compatibility with Loco Translate and qTranslate X. The download includes a pre-configured child theme, step-by-step documentation, and sample site data in XML format, plus Elementor JSON files for ten prebuilt homepage layouts. Filter and action hooks appear wherever practical, so developers can extend the theme without breaking child theme updates. Page speed performance is above average, though that depends on how many modules you load and what image sizes you use. The theme was developed on WordPress 5.2.2 and works across PHP 5.5.12 to 7.1.9, with MySQL 5.7.19.
- Last updated
- August 12, 2026
- Delivery
- Digital
- Availability
- In stock
- Version
- 1.5.4
- Category
- Wordpress Themes
- Item type
- theme
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