Discussion - News Portal Theme

Have you heard the news? The latest issue of Discussion has just arrived! This sensational news theme with its distinct homepages and a large collection of news-specific shortcodes ensures an easy news portal creation! Stand out from the crowd and make a well-organized newspaper or magazine website using a wide array of Discussion’s layouts and post types. You can display your posts in an attractive manner with a variety of sliders, carousels and with a set of useful widgets, such as the multiple Post Layout Widgets, a Date Widget, a Breaking News Widget, and many others. Get the theme and make the headlines with Discussion!

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Theme Features

• Highly Customizable
• Extensive Admin Interface
• Simple One-Click Import of Demo Content
• No coding knowledge required
• 10 homepage examples
• Additional page collection
• Unlimited layout combinations
• 9 post layout shortcodes
• 7 content block shortcodes
• Powerful post layout options
• Post Slider Shortcode
• Post Slider with Thumbnails shortcode
• Interactive Post Slider shortcode
• Post Carousel shortcode
• Swipe Carousel shortcode
• Sticky header behavior
• Fully responsive
• Retina Ready
• Section Title shortcode
• Breaking News widget
• Date Widget
• Social Icons widget
• Instagram feed widget
• Twitter feed widget
• Image widget
• Multiple post layout widgets
• Choose a different layout for each category page
• Choose a different sidebar for each category page
• 3 pagination types
• Standard pagination
• Load More pagination
• Infinite Scroll
• Extremely customizable single posts
• Sticky Sidebar
• Parallax sections
• Optional separate logo for Mobile Header
• Separate styling options for mobile header
• Optional separate logo for Sticky 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 four font icon sets
• Social Share functionality
• AccessPress Social Counter Integration
• Theme styles for AccessPress Social Counters
• Customizable Footer Layout – up to 4 columns
• Separate Footer Bottom area
• “Back to top” button functionality
• Content Top area
• Smooth Scroll
• Child Theme Ready
• Custom Widget Areas
• Translation ready
• WPML Multilingual plugin integration
• WooCommerce Integration
• Contact Form 7 Integration
• Find out more about Discussion WordPress Theme

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 – October 21st, 2025

- Added WPML config file
- Added WooCommerce 10.x compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 8.7.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.38
- Updated Mikado Core plugin to 1.4
- Improved PHP 8.3 compatibility
- Improved Google Map API compatibility
- Improved themes security
- Fixed removed leading dots on blog post excerpts with fewer words than the excerpt length option
- Prevent loading WooCommerce DropDown cart widget on cart page
- Removed Mikado Instagram Feed plugin due Instagram API changes
- Removed Mikado Twitter Feed plugin due Twitter API changes
- Minor fixes

Version 2.1 – November 24th, 2021

- Added WordPress 5.8.2 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 5.9.0 compatibility
- Added PHP 8 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.7.0
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.5.11
- Updated Mikado Core plugin to 1.3.1
- Updated Mikado Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0.1
- Updated Mikado Twitter Feed plugin to 1.1.2
- Updated Discussion Child theme to 1.0.2
- Fixed Twitter social share option
- Fixed potential security issue
- Fixed cart widgets on WP 5.8
- Fixed creation of the Custom Sidebars in new Widgets layout
- Fixed 'Bulk Select' functionality with Menus
- Improved discussion_get_attachment_id_from_url function
- Removed Google Plus social share options

Version 2.0 – December 4th, 2020

- Added WordPress 5.5 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 4.7.1 compatibility
- Added missing waitforimages script and fixed post layout navigation
- Updated Mikado Instagram Feed plugin to 2.0
- Updated Mikado Twitter Feed plugin to 1.1.1
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.4.2
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.3.2
- Fixed mobile menu anchor links issue
- Minor fixes
- Removed unused file instagram-redirect.php from Mikado Instagram Feed plugin
- Removed unused file twitter-redirect.php from Mikado Twitter Feed plugin

Version 1.9 – June 28th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.4 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.0.3
- Fixed displaying post slider shortcodes

Version 1.8 – April 25th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.1 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 5.7
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8.3
- Updated Mikado Core plugin to 1.3
- Updated Child theme to 1.0.1
- Improved import functionality
- Improved framework files

Version 1.7 – May 8th, 2018

- Added WooCommerce 3.3.5 compatibility
- Added Envato Market plugin as required
- Added recommended plugins (WooCommerce and Contact Form 7)
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.4.7
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.7.3
- Updated Mikado Core to 1.2
- Fixed showing category in post info bar
- Fixed deprecated create_function
- Improved menu import functionality

Version 1.6 – August 11th, 2017

- Added WooCommerce 3.1.1 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.2.1
- Fixed potential security issue when saving theme options

Version 1.5 – June 23rd, 2017

- Added WooCommerce 3+ compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.1.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.5.1
- Fixed loading of default date format from WordPress General Options

Version 1.4 – 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 Mikado Core plugin to 1.1
- Updated Font Awesome icons to version 4.7.0
- Fixed loading of dynamic style scripts

Version 1.3 – October 17th, 2016

- Added WordPress 4.6.1 compatibility
- Added option for Google maps api key
- Updated Visual Composer to 4.12.1
- Updated Font Awesome icons to version 4.6.3
- Updated TGM Plugin Activation to 2.6.1
- Fixed bug with fantom question mark on post layout shortcodes (specific characters)

Version 1.2.1 – August 29th, 2016

- Updated Revolutions Slider plugin to 5.2.6
- Updated Mikado Instagram Feed plugin to 1.0.1
- Fixed Author archive page
- Fixed author filtering in block and layout shortcodes

Version 1.2 – June 20th, 2016

- Added Woocommerce 2.6.1 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to 4.12
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.2.5.4
- Updated pot language file
- Fixed Social Share functionality

Version 1.1.1 – April 25th, 2016

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

Version 1.1 – April 13th, 2016

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