Description
Legatus is a WordPress theme designed for news portals, digital magazines, and editorial blogs, featuring a responsive layout focused on high content density and multiple header options, headline grids, and category blocks. Tailored for independent newsrooms, digital journalists, and those who publish editorial content frequently, it organizes posts into highlights, category listings and configurable widget areas in the WordPress panel.
Key Features of Legatus
- Responsive magazine layout
Adaptable structure for mobile, tablet and desktop, with an editorial grid designed for news portals. - Multiple headline styles
Variations of feature blocks, carousels and post listings to compose the homepage. - Configurable headers
Header options with logo, menu and search area to highlight the publication’s identity. - Post-integrated galleries
Display images in gallery format within articles and coverage pages. - Widget areas for sidebar
Side and footer spaces ready for ads, most-read and related posts.
Benefits of Legatus
- Ready editorial identity
A visual associated with digital journalism portals without requiring design development from scratch. - Smooth reading on any screen
Responsive behavior keeps content legible on smartphones and long tail readers. - Visual curation of stories
Headline blocks allow reordering story hierarchy according to day importance. - Easy monetization
Widget areas open space for banners, partners and sponsored blocks.
Who is Legatus Recommended For?
- Those who maintain a regional, niche or independent news portal and need a ready editorial showcase.
- You who produce digital magazine content, with cultural, sports or entertainment stories published weekly.
- Journalists and writers wanting to migrate their personal blog into a professional publication format.
How to Download Legatus
Legatus is available for download here on Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it in Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the file and activate. The theme will appear in customization options, ready to receive your categories, headlines and widgets.
With a focus on those who treat the site as an information vehicle, Legatus brings together the classic visual elements of an online publication: headline grid, feature for cover images and category blocks. The combination works well for both news portals and niche digital magazines, helping position the editorial brand right from the first impression.
Frequently asked questions
Is Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine Theme GPL-licensed?
Yes. Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine 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 Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine Theme on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine 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 Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine Theme cost at Ultrapack?
Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine 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 Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine Theme include updates?
Yes. The current version of Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine Theme is 2.0.8, published at Ultrapack on Apr 28, 2016. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine Theme scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Legatus – Responsive News/Magazine 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 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-5089116-legatus-responsive-newsmagazine-theme.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 folderthemeforest-5089116-legatus-responsive-newsmagazine-theme/legatus-theme). 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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