Qalam – Newspaper and Magazine WordPress Theme GPL Overview:

Qalam encompasses clean and modern design, backed with a host of customization options using Elementor Page Builder and Kirki Customizer. Built with semantic markup and organized code, the theme is optimized for SEO and Schema Microdata. Qalam supports advertisement spots in important locations of a web page to improve revenue from ads on your site.

The theme includes the WP Post Modules plugin worth $29 for free. This multi-tool posts plugin makes it easy to present posts in the desired style and at any location of a page, including widget areas. Browse the features of this theme below and don’t forget to check out the demos.

Qalam WordPress Theme GPL Features:

Design

• 100% Responsive, optimized for Retina display
• WordPress 5.3.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)
• Unlimited Google Fonts for body text, headings, navigation, etc.
• Customizable colors for the header area, navigation, widget area headings, secondary area background, footer area, etc.

Pages

• Drag and drop page builder support via Elementor Page Builder plugin
• 12 prebuilt Home page layouts included as Elementor JSON files and WordPress XML files
• 2 custom templates for full width and blank canvas page

Header

• 4 header layout styles
• Sticky navigation bar
• The 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 the header
• WooCommerce cart count with products list dropdown

Archives

• 5 global archive styles (gird, list, classic, full post, and Material card)
• Image resize on-the-fly using BFI Thumb via customizer
• Create any style archive page using WP Post Modules Plugin (Included for Free)
• AJAX supported on archive posts created using Post Modules

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

Post Module Features

• Multiple Display styles
  – 4 sub-styles
  – Unlimited multiple columns
  – Custom Gutters
  – Custom split ratio for thumbnail + content
  – Create any sized list from small to large thumbnails
  – Circular images for list thumbnails
  – Content can be separated as full border, half border or no border
  – Multi-Column lists
  – Multiple columns
  – Custom gutters
  – Overlay Content with custom background color and gradients
  – Custom overlay content margin/padding
  – Show overlay as always, on-hover or never
  – Image zoom and rotate effect on hover
  – Custom ticker title length
  – Custom ticker animation duration
  – Custom sticker label text
  – Custom sticker label background and foreground with color picker
  Bullet List
  – Plain list with bullets
  – Bullet size and color options
  – List spacing options
• Responsive controls for typography, columns, grid sizes, gutters, etc.
• 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.
• Custom WP Query builder
  – Show posts from categories, tags, custom post types, taxonomies, post IDs, author IDs, etc.
  – Supports offset and post exclusion to prevent redundancy of posts
  – Order and Orderby parameters supported
• jQuery Owl Slider
  – Supported for Grid, List and Tile display styles and their sub styles
  – Change number of slides per view
  – Toggle animation loop
  – Toggle autoplay
  – 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

• Image resize on-the-fly using BFI Thumb
  – Custom width, height and hard crop feature
  – Set image quality from 1 to 100
  – Auto convert images to grayscale
  – Auto colorize image from the color picker

Native Thumbnails

•  with source set attributes supported

• Text content options
  – Choose heading tag from h1 to h6 and p (SEO factor)
  – Choose the main title font size and font-weight
  – Set paragraph tag and font size
  – Auto trimming of post excerpt at desired word length
  – Toggle read more link with custom Readmore text
  – Show/hide post meta items like category, author, date, excerpt, and comments
  – Auto conversion of category links into expandable dropdown if category links are more than a specified number
  – Show author avatar in post meta
  – Built-in style and function support for WP Review and Post Views Counter plugin
• Social sharing per post module. (Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, GooglePlus, Pinterest, VK, Reddit, Email)
• Valid Schema microdata on generated post content
  – Schema properties can be changed from widget settings
• AJAX next/previous navigation and load more features for the grid, list, and tile display styles

Widget Areas

• 1 top widget area
• 1 header widget area (for logo + banner style layout)
• 2 global widget areas before and after the 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 SEO and schema microdata
• Semantic and hierarchical markup
• Internal links on single posts via related posts
• Supports Yoast SEO plugin