Deadline - Premium WordPress News / Magazine Theme

Deadline is a Powerful, Professional, Premium WordPress News or Magazine theme. It comes packed with an impressive array of custom options and widgets allowing you to control the look and feel.

Whether you’re an occasional personal blogger or have a full-scale content-heavy magazine site or newspaper, Deadline has you covered. Using the theme options and widgets you can control content layout, manage your own advertising, pull in your latest tweets, show your latest video, display your latest photos and much, much more.

Deadline looks great out of the box but also acts as the perfect black canvas for those looking to customise and develop their own content-focused site.

Theme Features

• Valid XHTML Strict 1.0 Tableless Design
• 5 Colour Schemes (orange, red, green, blue, purple)
• Full Localisation Support (contains .po/.mo files)
• Optional latest posts slider on Homepage
• 10 Widget Areas
• 9 Custom Widgets
  • Latest Tweets
  • Tabbed Content
  • 125×125 Ads
  • 300×250 Ad
  • 300×600 Ad
  • 120×240 Ad
  • 120×60 Ad
  • Flickr Photos
  • Video Widget
• Extensive Theme Options
  • Mimics WordPress UI / no branding
  • Custom Logo Upload
  • Plain Text Logo Support
  • Custom Favicon Upload
  • Google Analytics Tracking
  • FeedBurner RSS Support
  • FeedBurner RSS to Email Support
  • Author Bios on Post Pages
  • Much More…
• Content Configuration
  • Latest posts slider on Homepage
  • Configurable Homepage Content Blocks
  • Inbuilt Related Posts (same category)
  • Featured Post Selection & Display
• WordPress 3.1 Ready
  • 2 Custom Menu Locations with pre-3.0 fallback
  • Post Thumbnail/Featured Image Support
• jQuery Support
  • jQuery Improved Drop-down Menus
  • jQuery Powered “News in Pictures” Section
• Social Networking
  • Enable/disable sharing
  • Select which individual networks to show
• Page Templates
  • Archives Template
  • Full WIdth (no sidebar)
  • jQuery improved Contact Form with Goolge reCaptcha
• Custom Default Images
  • Custom default Gravatar support
  • Custom admin login logo support
• Optional 468×60 Banner support
• Pull-quote Shortcodes
• Layered PSDs for customisation
• Extensive Documentation

Version History

• v1.2.2 – 30 April 2012
  • Added Facebook Like button to single post
  • Mailchimp Newsletter plugin styling
• v1.2.1 – 17 April 2012
  • Added new blog-style template
  • Updated documentation
  • Updated sample XML file
• v1.2 – 11 April 2012
  • Added Pinterest and Google +1 to Social Sharing sidebar. Removed Google Buzz and Yahoo Buzz
  • Added Popular posts ordering to the Tabbed Widget (requires Post Views Plugin)
  • Improved ad widgets to allow for custom text ads
  • Added 120×240 and 300×600 ad widgets
  • Fixed ajax_loader.gif image which had the wrong path
  • Fix to ReCaptcha on contact form
  • Amendment to footer to allow multiple widgets per widget area
  • Hover effect on tables using jQuery
  • Updated jQuery version to 1.7.1
  • Added Reset theme options confirmation prompt

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