Description
Barcelona is a WordPress theme designed for news portals, digital magazines, and editorial blogs, with a clean layout, a featured categories system, and multiple post listing styles. It structures editorial content in configurable grids, lists, and cards, with reading-focused typography, widget areas for advertising banners, and featured post blocks on the homepage, publishes digital magazines and news portals without code.
Key Features of Barcelona
- Digital magazine layout
Homepage structure with headline blocks, featured posts, and category-based listings. - Multiple post styles
Single post variations with galleries, video embeds, audio, and the standard article format. - Reading-focused typography
Title hierarchy, spacing, and fonts tailored for long-form content and news articles. - Responsive layout
Adapts editorial content for desktop, tablet, and smartphone without manual reorganization. - Widget areas and banners
Sidebar and between-post spaces for advertising, newsletters, and related content blocks.
Benefits of Barcelona
- Professional editorial identity
Clean design that brings the site closer to established news portals. - Comfortable reading on any screen
Responsive layout maintains article flow across desktop and mobile. - Streamlined monetization
Dedicated banner areas allow advertising to be included without compromising the design. - Fast content publishing
Homepage structure automatically reorganizes new featured posts and categories.
Who Is Barcelona For?
- Anyone who runs a regional, national, or niche news portal.
- Anyone who publishes a digital magazine about culture, sports, technology, or lifestyle.
- Anyone who produces an editorial blog with a high volume of articles and needs to organize them by category.
- Independent newsrooms seeking a look similar to major portals without hiring a developer.
How to Download Barcelona
Barcelona is available for download here on Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it under Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the file, and activate the theme. After activation, import the initial settings and adjust the homepage layout, categories, and typography through the theme panel.
Designed for anyone who produces editorial content continuously, Barcelona organizes large volumes of articles into a cohesive visual structure without requiring complex technical customization. The combination of reading typography, responsive layout, and monetization areas brings the site closer to the experience of established portals, while keeping daily publishing agile and content at the center of the reader’s attention.
Frequently asked questions
Is Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme GPL-licensed?
Yes. Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme 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 Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme 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 Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme cost at Ultrapack?
Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme 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 Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme include updates?
Yes. The current version of Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme is 2.0, published at Ultrapack on Mar 25, 2019. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Barcelona – Clean News & Magazine WordPress Theme goes through a malware scan (ClamAV and YARA rules, at UltraHub) before it is published.
How to install
Updates: manual. When a new version comes out, download it on this same page and upload it over the old one; WordPress asks whether you want to replace the current version.
The file on this page is the developer’s full package, with documentation, demos and plugins. Do not upload that file to WordPress. The theme comes ready inside it, as a ZIP of its own, and that is the one you upload.
- Download the file
themeforest-13308848-barcelona-clean-news-magazine-wordpress-theme.zipand extract it on your computer. - Look inside the extracted files for the file
barcelona.zip. - In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme.
- Select that file and click Install Now.
- Click Activate.
- There is nothing to zip. The ZIP inside the package is already in the format WordPress accepts.
- Uploading the whole package is the most common mistake when installing a theme: WordPress answers that no valid theme was found, and nothing is installed.
- The rest of the package belongs to the author: documentation, demo files and, in some themes, the plugins it asks for during setup.
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