Description
Ares is a WordPress theme designed for news portals, digital magazines, and editorial content blogs, with a modular magazine layout and multiple post listing options. It brings together varied grids, headline highlight areas, and support for themed categories, serving news outlets, independent editors, and anyone who maintains publications with a high volume of content organized by sections.
Ares Key Features
- Modular magazine layout
Combines headline blocks, post lists, and grids to build the editorial homepage. - News highlight areas
Reserves fixed spaces at the top for main stories, trending posts, and latest publications. - Categories with custom styles
Allows you to assign distinct colors and layouts to each site section. - Native responsive design
Automatically adapts columns, menus, and galleries to mobile phones, tablets, and desktops. - Reading-focused typography
Applies a clear hierarchy between headings, subheadings, and body text for long articles.
Ares Benefits
- Fast article publishing
Reduces layout time by organizing posts into ready-made magazine structures. - Professional look from the start
Delivers the appearance of an established news portal without relying on an external designer. - Comfortable reading on any screen
Maintains the readability of long articles on mobile phones, tablets, and large monitors. - Clear content organization
Makes navigation through sections easier, helping readers find their topic of interest.
Who Is Ares For?
- Those who maintain regional, national, or niche news portals focused on politics, sports, or culture.
- Editors of digital magazines and themed publications focused on recurring editorial content.
- You, if you maintain a high-volume blog and want the visual organization of a news portal.
How to Download Ares
Ares is available for download here on Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it under Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the package, and activate the theme. After activation, the magazine layout options and highlight areas appear in the WordPress customization panel.
Recommended for news outlets, online magazines, and editorial blogs, Ares covers the typical news publishing workflow: a homepage with headlines, category listings, and immersive article reading. The combination of highlight areas, varied grids, and readable typography serves both teams that need to update content several times a day and individual authors who produce at a steady editorial pace.
Frequently asked questions
Is Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template GPL-licensed?
Yes. Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template is distributed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). You may legally use, modify and redistribute it on as many sites as you want.
Can I use Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template on as many sites as you want. Only automatic updates through Ultrapack Auto Updater have a limit: from 3 to 80 sites, depending on the plan.
How much does Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template cost at Ultrapack?
Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template costs US$2.99 as a single purchase, and it is also included in the subscription plans starting at US$12/mo (VIP I).
Does Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template include updates?
Yes. The current version of Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template is 2.5, published at Ultrapack on Apr 12, 2017. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Ares – Blog Magazine Newspaper Template goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
How to install
Automatic updates: this item is updated by the Ultrapack Auto Updater. With it installed, the new version shows up in your dashboard like any other WordPress update (how to set it up).
The file on this page is already the theme, ready to upload to WordPress.
- Download the file
themeforest-918661-ares-blog-magazine-newspaper-template--wordpress-theme.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
- Select the file
themeforest-918661-ares-blog-magazine-newspaper-template--wordpress-theme.zipand click Install Now. - Click Activate.
- If WordPress answers that no valid theme was found, the file is the developer’s full package and the theme is in a folder inside it. Extract the file on your computer, look for the folder that has
style.cssandscreenshot.png(in this item, the folderares), zip that folder only and upload it again.
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