Chill News - Magazine Theme

Good news! We have a perfect theme for every news agency and online magazine. Meet Chill News – a modern theme made with care for everyone in the news industry. This theme is packed with 9 homepages, 11 simple post templates and breaking news widget, so you can make sure your website will look great in all its aspects. But, that’s not all! Chill News allows you to share your posts across all social media networks and to let you users easily access the post they are most interested in with awesome category filter function.

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Theme Features

• Highly Customizable
• Extensive Admin Interface
• Simple One-Click Import of Demo Content
• No coding knowledge required
• 600+ Google Fonts
• Extensive control of typography
• Split Slider shortcode for displaying blog posts
• Classic Slider shortcode for displaying blog posts
• Fixed header
• Styling options for elements
• Fully responsive
• Retina Ready
• Unlimited layout combinations
• 9 homepage examples
• 11 single post examples
• Additional page collection
• Powerful post layout options
• 8 post layout shortcodes
• Content block shortcodes
• Expanding Video shortcode
• Section Title shortcode
• Breaking News widget
• Date Widget
• Social Icons widget
• Weather widget
• Instagram feed widget
• Twitter feed widget
• Image widget
• Multiple post layout widgets
• Header Banner widget area
• Choose a different layout for each category page
• 3 pagination types
• Standard pagination
• Load More pagination
• Infinite Scroll
• Extremely customizable single posts
• Sticky Sidebar
• Optional multiple sidebars on one page
• Optional separate logo for Mobile Header
• Separate styling options for mobile header
• Optional separate logo for Fixed header
• Header Top and Header Bottom Widget Areas
• Customizable Mega Menu
• Anchor functionality for One Page sites
• Video and image backgrounds in sections
• WPBakery Page Builder Plugin for WordPress included ($46 value)
• Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin included ($26 value)
• Customizable Google Maps
• Choose between six font icon sets
• Social Share functionality
• AccessPress Social Counter Integration
• Customizable Footer Layout up to 4 columns
• Separate Footer Bottom area
• “Back to top” button functionality
• Smooth Scroll
• Child Theme Ready
• Custom Widget Areas
• Translation ready
• WPML Multilingual plugin integration
• WooCommerce Integration
• Contact Form 7 Integration

We do not own the copyright for the images featured in this theme. The images in question are only used for presentational purposes on our demos. These images cannot be used on your website, unless you purchase the license from a stock image website yourself.

Change Log

Version 2.2 – February 26th, 2026

- Added WPML config file
- Added WooCommerce 10.x compatibility
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.41
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 8.7.2
- Updated Mikado CPT to 1.4
- Updated TGMPA class file
- Updated Google Fonts list
- Updated jquery.prettyPhoto.js library
- Updated Social Share links
- Improved theme security
- Improved framework UI/dashboard scripts calls
- Improved chillnews_mikado_get_attachment_id_from_url helper function
- Improved PHP 8.3 compatibility
- Updated theme assets Grunt configuration to use sass compiler
- Removed Mikado Twitter Feed plugin due Twitter API changes
- Removed Mikado Instagram Feed plugin due Instagram API changes
- Removed twitter-connect script and enqueue
- Minor fixes

Version 2.1 – September 15th, 2021

- Added WordPress 5.8 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 5.6.0 compatibility
- Updated Mikado Core plugin to 1.3
- Updated Mikado Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0.1
- Updated Mikado Twitter Feed plugin to 1.1.2
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder plugin to 6.7.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.5.8
- Updated Child theme to 1.0.1
- Fixed issue with the Custom Sidebars in new Widgets layout
- Fixed Instagram API Connection
- Fixed the issue with Hover box button and custom font options
- Improved PHP 8 compatibility
- Removed Google plus share option
- Removed unnecessary profile link from the head tag

Version 2.0 – December 9th, 2020

- Added WordPress 5.6 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 4.8 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.4.2
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.3.2
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.2.1
- Updated Mikado Instagram Feed to 2.0
- Updated Mikado Twitter Feed to 1.1.1
- Removed unused file instagram-redirect.php from Mikado Instagram Feed plugin
- Removed unused file twitter-redirect.php from Mikado Twitter Feed plugin

Version 1.10 – July 9th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.5 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.0.3

Version 1.9 – April 22th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.1 compatibility

Version 1.8.1 – April 16th, 2019

- Fixed buttons fallback when Core not installed
- Fixed share conditions when Core not installed

Version 1.8 (Major update) – April 12th, 2019

- Added compatibility with Gutenberg plugin
- Added widget areas description where missing
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 5.7
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8.3
- Updated Core Plugin to 1.2
- Updated Mikado Instagram feed to 1.1
- Updated Mikado Twitter feed to 1.1
- Updated pot files in theme & plugins
- Fixed Mikado Core text domain
- Fixed Mikado Instagram feed text domain
- Fixed Mikado Twitter feed text domain
- Fixed setcookie warning
- Fixed Smooth Scroll JS console error
- Fixed audio post volume current time rail
- Improved Demo import
- Improved JS with .on()
- Improved sanitized data
- Improved child theme function
- Improved templates (.inc templates changed to .php)
- Improved theme functions
- Improved theme security
- Improved setSkin function
- Improved Custom JS function
- Increased theme screenshot to 1200x900
- Escaped all variables, text domains etc.
- Moved Widgets and Shortcodes to Core Plugin

Version 1.7 – July 11th, 2018

- Added WooCommerce 3.4.3 compatibility
- Added Envato Market plugin as required
- Added recommended plugins (WooCommerce and Contact Form 7)
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.5.2
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8
- Updated Mikado CPT plugin to 1.1.1
- Improved menu import functionality

Version 1.6.1 – August 8th, 2017

- Updated Visual Composer to 5.2.1
- Fixed potential security issue when saving theme options

Version 1.6 – July 12th, 2017

- Added WooCommerce 3.1.1 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.2
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.5.1
- Fixed the issue with YouTube and Vimeo on HTTPS websites

Version 1.5 – December 15th, 2016

- Added WooCommerce 2.6.9 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.0.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.3.1.5
- Updated translation files
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.1
- Updated Font Awesome to 4.7.0
- Fixed dynamic styles script loading

Version 1.4 – October 20th, 2016

- Added Woocommerce 2.6.5 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to 4.12.1
- Updated FontAwesome Icons Pack to 4.6.3
- Updated TGM Plugin Activation to 2.6.1

Version 1.3.1 – August 29th, 2016

- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.2.6
- Updated Mikado Instagram Plugin to 1.0.1
- Fixed Author archive page
- Fixed author filtering in block and layout shortcodes

Version 1.3 – June 22nd, 2016

- Added Woocommerce 2.6.1 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to 4.12
- Updated Revoultion Slider to 5.2.5.4
- Fixed Social Share functionality
- Fixed duplicating posts on 'load more' pagination

Version 1.2.1 – April 25th, 2016

- Updated Visual Composer to 4.11.2.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.2.5

Version 1.2 – April 13th, 2016

- Updated Wordpress 4.5 update. JS fix for conflict with wp 4.5
- Updated Visual Composer to 4.11.1

Version 1.1 – February 11th, 2016

- Added WooCommerce 2.5.2 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to 4.10
- Fixed demo import issue with posts not found
- Fixed menu position when search form is disabled in menu and header is in grid
- Fixed button text option for Post Layouts
- Fixed Post Info Slider issue when Display Date is set to No
- Fixed Post Layout Tabs Widget Link
- Fixed Woocommerce Quantity Functionality
- Fixed Woocommerce Ratings on Single Product
- Fixed Disable Featured Image option in Mikado Post Format Standard area