Qalam – NewsPaper and Magazine WordPress Theme

The design of Qalam is crisp and contemporary, and it comes with a wealth of personalization options that can be accessed through the Elementor Page Builder and the Kirki Customizer plugins. The optimisation of the theme for search engine optimisation (SEO) and schema microdata was accomplished by building it with semantic syntax and organising the code. Qalam enables advertisements to be placed in key areas of a web website, which increases the amount of money that can be made from the advertisements that are displayed on the site.

The WP Post Modules Plugin is incorporated into the theme. With the help of this multi-tool posts plugin, displaying posts in the desired format and at any location on a page—including widget areas—is quick and simple.

Full feature list

Design

100% Responsive, optimized for Retina display
WordPress 6.1.x ready
Boxed / Stretched layout
Dynamic layout width
Theme options via WordPress Customizer using Kirki Customizer
Multiple Sidebars layout (1 sidebar, 2 sidebars or full width)
Unlimted Google Fonts for body text, headings, navigation, etc.
Color options that can be changed for the footer area, auxiliary area background, header area, navigation, and widget area headings, among other areas.

Header

4 header layout styles
Sticky navigation bar
Site title and logo image via Customizer
Off canvas Mobile Menu
Multi-level WordPress menu
2 search panel styles – Full Screen Overlay and Inline
Social sharing links in header
WooCommerce cart count with products list dropdown

Post Module Features

Multiple Display styles
1. Grid

4 sub styles
Unlimited multiple columns
Custom Gutters

2. List

Custom split ratio for thumbnail + content
Create any sized list from small to large thumbnails
Circular images for list thumbnails
Full borders, partial borders, or no borders at all can be used to divide the content.
Multi Column lists

3. Tile

Multiple columns
Custom gutters
Place content on top of a background with a colour and gradation of your choosing.
Custom overlay content margin/padding
Show overlay as always, on-hover or never
Image zoom and rotate effect on hover

4. Ticker

Custom ticker title length
Custom ticker animation duration
Custom ticker label text
Background and foreground colours of the ticker title can be customised using a colour picker.

5. Bullet List

Plain list with bullets
Bullet size and color options
List spacing options

6. Responsive controls for typography, columns, grid sizes, gutters, etc.

7. Advanced Typography options with complete Google Fonts library

Set font size, line height, font weight, letter spacing, etc.
Responsive controls for typography
Custom colors for titles, excerpt, category links, post meta, etc.

8. Custom WP Query builder

Display articles based on post categories, tags, custom post types, taxonomies, author IDs, post IDs, and other identifiers.
Provides support for offset and post elimination in order to reduce the occurrence of redundant posts.
Order and Orderby parameters supported

9. jQuery Owl Slider

Display patterns such as Grid, List, and Tile, as well as their substyles, are supported.
Change number of slides per view
Toggle animation loop
Toggle auto play
Set autoplay timeout
Set animation speed and animation types (slide, zoom and fade)
Toggle auto height
Toggle previous/next navigation
Toggle dots navigation
Stagepadding support

10. Image resize on-the-fly using BFI Thumb

Custom width, height and hard crop feature
Set image quality from 1 to 100 (Optimization Option)
Auto convert images to grayscale
Auto colorize image from color picker
Native Thumbnails with sourceset attributes supported

11. Text content options

Choose heading tag from h1 to h6 and p (SEO factor)
Choose main title font size and font weight
Set paragraph tag and font size
Auto trimming of post excerpt at desired word length
Toggle readmore link with custom readmore text
You can choose to display or hide article meta items such as the category, author, date, excerpt, and comments.
If there are more than a certain number of category links, then those category links will automatically be converted into extensible dropdowns.
Show author avatar in post meta
Integrated support for the WP Review and Post Views Counter extension, both aesthetically and functionally.

12. Social sharing per post module. (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, GooglePlus, Pinterest, VK, Reddit, Email)

13. Valid Schema microdata on generated post content

Schema properties can be changed from widget settings

14. AJAX-based navigation using the next/previous and loadmore features; compatible with grid, list, and tile presentation styles

Translation ready with RTL Support

Sample POT file included for translation
Supports languages with rtl orientation
Compatible with translation plugins like Loco Translate and qTranslate X

Single Posts

Multi Sidebar layouts for posts
3 Single post styles – Full width, Full Header and Inline Header
Automated featured images per post (can be disabled from customizer)
Video post format
Social sharing buttons (15+) with floating share button on single post
Inline advertisement areas per post (before and after main content)
Related posts based on category or tags
Author bio with avatar and description
Social follow buttons in author bio
Floating Next/Previous posts navigation with thumbnail and title
Multi level nested comments with gravatar support

Widget Areas

1 top widget area
1 header widget area (for logo + banner style layout)
2 global widget areas before and after main content
2 inline widget areas before and after single post content
2 sidebar widget areas
1 secondary widget area with 8 columns support (columns can be set via customizer)
1 footer widget area with 8 columns support (columns can be set via customizer)

SEO support

Optimized for SEOand schema microdata
Semantic and heirarchical markup
Internal links on single posts via related posts
Supports Yoast SEO plugin

Miscellaneous features

WooCommerce 3.6.x is now available, complete with built-in support for styles and connectivity.
Fontawesome 5.9.0 icon library included
Google fonts via Customizer
WordPress Custom background supported
WordPress site icon (favicon) supported
Valid HTML5 markup on theme generated data
Supported on all modern browsers, IE 9 and above
Pre configured Child theme included in main download
Help manual and documentation reference with step-by-step instructions for theme installation and configuration.
Hooks for filters and actions are implemented wherever it is feasible and necessary.
Included in XML format is a sample of the website’s statistics. Data in JSON format is included for posts.xml, pages.xml, and house layouts in Elementor.
Tests show that it has above-average pagespeed performance. (Further depends upon how many modules are used on a page and with what size images.)
The theme has been developed and verified up to WordPress version 5.3.x, PHP versions 5.5.12 to 7.3.5, and MySQL version 5.7.26.