News CMS WordPress Theme
News CMS is - as the name implies - a news-slash-article-slash-cms WordPress Theme. The goal here was to provide a customizable theme that could be turned into any given news site with as little as a graphical face lift. The emphasis with News CMS is on customization rather than aesthetics. It’s one of the very first themes I did with the intent of release (about a year ago), but it still holds up so I figured I’d take some time and package it up as a Thanksgiving freebie.
News CMS uses quite a few plugins, but I’ve included them in the download to make life a little easier for you. This theme still functions without any of them, but I strongly recommend you install them as the site functions much more like a news site with their aid.
Download: news cms latest (2.68 MB)
What’s Next?
I know I said I was done with WP CODA, but I’m thinking about making a Christmas themed version or perhaps just a Christmas themed derivitave of it. I’m working a premium theme called WP Slider that takes the best aspects of WP CODA and ads all the standard functionality we’ve discussed putting into CODA BLUE but didn’t get the chance to. If I can, I’ll release WP Slider and then release a Christmas theme for it. Whatever I decide to do, I hope to see another 2 themes released by 2009!
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@pingwin
This theme was built on my Ad Crazy Layout. The underlying structure was meant to accomidate any standard ad size, and because of that the layout is slightly wider than a 1024px wide monitor. Fortunately nothing important gets cut off, but I do share your lack of enthusiasm for the resulting width. Fortunately it is VERY easy to change the width of any one of the 7 resulting columns.
@Alex
I’m quite happy the font size and line-height, but that’s more a personal taste issue. Changing either of these things is quite easy though.
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Greg,
Great new theme! Any chance of that article with how to insert a blog in WP code coming out? Or are you going to just save that for the Slider theme now? Thanks!
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Hi Greg, congratulations for this superb theme! Can you please provide the ‘latest-in-tabs’ PSD?
THanks!
Well Live on my blog, masterofartz.com, I personally use it for my development records.
I need to put a proper link to greg’s site since he has not put a link under the footer.
Great theme mate….
already applied on my blog at http://www.tan-ubuntu.com
but having some problems configuring the theme…
if possible can u just give a brief tutorial to configure the theme….
hoping to hear from you ASAP..
Hi Greg,
Thanks for the great themes. Unfortunately the Popularity Contest plugin isnt working on wordpress 2.6.5 
any work around to get the most popular articles up and running?
Is this news cms your last release or anymore updates on it? wish to have some widget function in it.Thanks alot !
@filk
Apparently this is a very known issue and is listed as a conflict on the WordPress Plugin compatability sheet. Here is a solution/fix:
Thanks Greg,
I found this thread and fixed the problem right before you reply. Really thanks a lot for the quick respond !
Thanks 
hehe
Hi Greg,
I forgot to ask, if there’s any chance we could get a psd file for the Latest in tabs ?
Thanks 
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Hi Greg, where to place the code (and which code to use) in order to show “Previous Page - Next Page” links at the botom of “recent articles”? i’d like it at the botom of each category page as well. I tried to do it, but the links appears on the footer.
Thanks in advance
@tingtong
I’m not entirely sure. I’d have to take a look at the theme (I did develop it a year ago) again, and I’m not sure when I’ll have time. Although, it should be a fairly straight forward solution.
Hi Greg, nice theme there.
But a little confusion over the function.php file.
What should we put for these two ?
$BustATheme['recent'] = ???;
$BustATheme['popularArticles'] = ???;
Thanks
hi greg,
any clue how the recent articles work ? cant seem to get it working. are we suppose to create a category for recent articles too ?
@ET, @Flick
Please see the News CMS Documentation for the answer(s) to your questions.
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Now that was a really damn good theme! I will use it for my local language blog.
Good job and great work mate!