Description
Built on WordPress, Engine lets you create news portals and digital magazines with drag-and-drop organization, editorial pages, and minisites to separate sections, topics, or projects within the same installation. It’s for anyone who publishes recurring content about technology, analysis, comparisons, reviews, and news, keeping the site structure easier to adjust without relying on manual code editing.
Key Features of Engine
- Drag-and-drop layout
Organize editorial blocks and visual sections by dragging and dropping. - Magazine structure
Lay out news, posts, and featured items in a digital magazine format. - Minisite support
Separate themed areas within the same WordPress project. - Review-focused
Makes it easy to build pages for reviews, scores, and editorial comparisons. - Blog architecture
Organize recurring posts with category-driven navigation.
Benefits of Engine
- Faster publishing
Cuts the time it takes to rearrange featured items, sections, and highlights. - Better-segmented content
Helps separate sections, reviews, and topics without confusing navigation. - More editorial control
Makes it easy to adjust the layout for campaigns, news, or special series. - A more organized read
Improves how posts are distributed for readers who follow many subjects.
Who Is Engine For?
- Anyone publishing frequent news, analysis, and articles in a digital magazine format.
- You, if you run technology blogs, reviews, comparisons, or recurring editorial content.
- Anyone who needs to separate sections, special features, or minisites within the same WordPress install.
How to Download Engine
Engine is available for download here at Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it under Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the theme package, and activate it from the WordPress dashboard.
Engine makes sense for editorial projects that need to grow in sections, categories, and content formats without losing organization. Its approach combines a magazine structure, drag-and-drop visual composition, and minisite support, creating a practical foundation for portals that frequently publish news, reviews, rankings, and comparisons.
Frequently asked questions
Is Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites GPL-licensed?
Yes. Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites 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 Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites 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 Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites cost at Ultrapack?
Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites 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 Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites include updates?
Yes. The current version of Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites is 1.8, published at Ultrapack on Feb 7, 2018. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Engine – Drag and Drop News Magazine w/ Minisites 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 full package the author publishes on the marketplace: the theme, the documentation and sometimes the plugins it uses. Do not upload that file through the dashboard, because WordPress cannot find the theme inside it. What gets installed is the theme folder, which is in there.
- Download the file
themeforest-9684894-engine-drag-and-drop-news-magazine-w-minisites.zipand extract it on your computer. - If the extracted package contains another ZIP file named after the theme, extract that ZIP as well before looking for the theme folder.
- Look for the folder that has the
style.cssfile and thescreenshot.pngimage (in this item, the folderEngine-Theme/engine). That is the theme folder. - Zip that folder only. Do not use RAR.
- In the WordPress dashboard, go to Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme and upload the ZIP file you just created.
- Click Activate.
- 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.
- If after extracting you already find
style.cssandscreenshot.pngin the main folder, that folder is the theme folder. - 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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