DarkNews WordPress Theme
DarkNews is an advanced dark WordPress theme that's appropriate for a news, blog and magazine website. The theme includes a range of free starting pages that can be imported with a single click to create a great news portal. With 9+ custom widgets and widget areas, the theme is fully widgetized, allowing users to control site content. It also has a light and dark color mode, so you can view articles and blog posts in a trendy way. It also contains a number of helpful customizer options for building a visually appealing news site. You can configure it as you like to see how it looks before making any improvements using the live customizer. It's compatible with Elementor, Gutenberg blocks and RTL, as well as the WooCommerce plugin, which enables you to blend an online shop with our newspaper theme. The theme is ideal for a news, journal, magazine, publishing, or review site, as well as blogging. It's well-designed to bring the website to the top of search engines, and people will get outstanding support from the team if they have any problems when using it.
blog
custom-background
custom-colors
custom-header
custom-menu
entertainment
featured-images
flexible-header
footer-widgets
full-width-template
grid-layout
left-sidebar
news
one-column
post-formats
right-sidebar
rtl-language-support
sticky-post
theme-options
threaded-comments
translation-ready
two-columns
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Usage of DarkNews over time
May 2023 — July 2024Between May 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites using this theme went from 8 to 50 — up 42 (+525%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 50 | +2 |
| June 2024 | 48 | +2 |
| May 2024 | 46 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 46 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 46 | +6 |
| February 2024 | 40 | +7 |
| January 2024 | 33 | +1 |
| December 2023 | 32 | +32 |
| November 2023 | 0 | -29 |
| October 2023 | 29 | +5 |
| September 2023 | 24 | +6 |
| August 2023 | 18 | +8 |
| July 2023 | 10 | +2 |
| June 2023 | 8 | +0 |
| May 2023 | 8 | — |
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