Read and Digest - Newspaper Theme

Want to take your online publishing to another level? Get Read and Digest and do it like a pro! This modern newspaper theme has everything you may need to easily create a magazine website that stands out. Besides 14 beautiful homepages, 4 slider types, 12 layouts and blocks, Read and Digest comes with a wide array of custom shortcodes. This theme is fully responsive and retina ready, and you can easily customize it to your needs. Some of the layouts are designed in vintage manner, so you can delight the readers with the vintage vibe, if you fancy.

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Theme Features

• Easy to use – no coding knowledge required
• Powerful Admin Panel
• Import demo site with One-Click
• Responsive and Retina Ready
• Extensive typography options
• Instagram Feed Widget
• Twitter Feed Widget
• Breaking News widget
• Date Widget
• Social Icons widget
• Post Layout widgets
• Recent Comments widget
• Sticky Sidebar
• 3 pagination types
• Standard pagination type
• Infinite Scroll pagination type
• Load More pagination type
• Separate layout options for category pages
• Extremely customizable single posts
• Extensive post layout options
• 8 post layout shortcodes
• Multiple Post Block shortcodes
• Classic Post Slider
• Post Slider with Thumbnails
• Post Carousel
• Post Swipe Carousel
• One Page site – anchor functionality
• Blog Standard Layout
• Blog Masonry shortcode
• Custom Post Formats: Audio , Video, Standard, Gallery, Link, Quote,
• Social Share functionality
• WPBakery Page Builder Plugin for Wordpress included ($46 value)
• Slider Revolution Responsive WordPress Plugin ($26 value)
• Integrated search
• “Back to Top” button
• Multiple Header behavior types
• Sticky header behavior
• Sticky on scroll up header behavior
• Separate mobile header styling options
• Set size of logo on mobile devices
• Multiple logo versions (for mobile header, sticky header, and transparent header)
• Dark and Light Logo variants
• Multiple Widget Areas in Header
• Multiple footer widget areas
• Customizable Footer with optional 1-4 Columns
• Footer top and footer bottom
• Customizable Google Map shortcode
• Social Share shortcode
• Choose your grid size
• Boxed layout option
• Parallax background images in content
• Fixed image background functionality
• Video backgrounds
• Translation Ready
• WPML Multilingual plugin integration
• Customizable Mega Menu
• Smooth Scroll
• Font Awesome Icon Font Pack
• Font Elegant Icon Font Pack
• Linea Icon Font Pack
• Ion Icons Icon Font Pack
• 600+ Google Fonts
• Custom Widget Areas
• Contact Form 7 plugin Integration
• WooCommerce Integration
• Set multiple contact form styles
• Child Theme included

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 2.4 – April 24th, 2026

- Added WPML config file
- Added WooCommerce 10.x compatibility
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.7.54
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 8.7.2
- Updated Elated CPT to 1.4
- Updated TGMPA class file
- Updated Google Fonts list
- Updated jquery.prettyPhoto.js library
- Improved theme security
- Improved framework UI/dashboard scripts calls
- Improved readanddigest_get_attachment_id_from_url helper function
- Improved PHP 8.3 compatibility
- Removed Eltdf Twitter Feed plugin due Twitter API changes
- Removed Eltdf Instagram Feed plugin due Instagram API changes
- Removed twitter-connect script and enqueue
- Fixed core plugin translations
- Minor fixes

Version 2.3 – April 11th, 2023

- Added search widget compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 7.5.0 compatibility
- Updated Elated Core to 1.3
- Updated Elated Instagram Feed plugin to version 2.0.1
- Updated Elated Twitter Feed plugin to version 1.0.2
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.10.0
- Updated Revolution Slider plugin to 6.6.12
- Updated language files
- Improved demo import with import of rev sliders
- Improved PHP 8 compatibility
- Improved Google Maps API with callback function
- Fixed revolution slider preview functionality
- Fixed deletion of the Custom Sidebars in new Widgets layout
- Minor theme fixes

Version 2.2 – October 16th, 2020

- Added WordPress 5.5 compatibility
- Added WooCommerce 4.x compatibility
- Updated Elated Instagram Feed plugin to version 2.0
- Updated Elated Twitter Feed plugin to version 1.0.1
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.4.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.2.23
- Improved comment form - cookies consent position
- Removed unused file instagram-redirect.php from Elated Instagram Feed plugin
- Removed unused file twitter-redirect.php from Elated Twitter Feed plugin

Version 2.1 – July 31th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.5 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 6.0.5
- Updated Revolution Slider to 6.0.8

Version 2.0.1 – April 20th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.6.1 compatibility
- Updated Elated Core to 1.2.1
- Improved import functionality
- Improved theme security

Version 2.0 – March 25th, 2019

- Added WooCommerce 3.5.7 compatibility
- Updated WPBakery Page Builder to 5.7
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.8.3
- Updated Core Plugin to 1.1
- Updated pot file
- Improved framework files
- Improved sidebar loading for WooCommerce category pages

Version 1.9 – October 4th, 2018

- Added WooCommerce 3.3.5 compatibility
- Added compatibility with PHP 7.2
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.4.7
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.7.3
- Updated Envato market to 2.0.0

Version 1.8 – May 9th, 2018

- Added WooCommerce 3.3.5 compatibility
- Added compatibility with PHP 7.2
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.4.7
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.7.3
- Updated Envato market to 2.0.0

Version 1.7 – December 27th, 2017

- Added WooCommerce 3.2.6 compatibility
- Added Envato Market plugin as required
- Added recommended plugins (WooCommerce and Contact Form 7)
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.4.5
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.4.5.6
- Updated Elated Core to 1.1.2
- Fixed potential security issue when saving theme options
- Improved menu import functionality

Version 1.6 – July 12th, 2017

- Added WooCommerce 3.1.1 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer 5.2
- Updated Revolution Slider 5.4.5.1

Version 1.5 – December 29th, 2016

- Added Woocommerce 2.6.11 compatibility
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.3.1.5
- Updated Font Awesome icons to 4.7.0
- Updated Elated CPT plugin to 1.1.1

Version 1.4 – November 29th, 2016

- Added Woocommerce 2.6.8 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to 5.0.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.3.0.2
- Fixed dynamic style script loading

Version 1.3 – October 19th, 2016

- Added Woocommerce 2.6.4 compatibility
- Added field for entering Google Maps API key
- Updated Font Awesome icons to 4.6.3
- Updated Visual Composer to 4.12.1
- Updated Revolution Slider to 5.2.6

Version 1.2 – June 22nd, 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
- Fixed duplicating posts on 'load more' pagination
- Fixed issue with Choose author option for Post Layouts

Version 1.1.1 – April 22th, 2016

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

Version 1.1 – April 13th, 2016

- Added WordPress 4.5 compatibility
- Updated Visual Composer to version 4.11.1
- Fixed main menu responsiveness
- Fixed anchor functionality on mobile devices