Description
Sahifa is a WordPress theme designed for news portals, digital magazines, and online newspapers, with a responsive layout, star rating system, and a structure prepared for high-volume publishing blogs. It transforms WordPress into a complete news portal, organizing headlines, thematic categories, breaking news, and featured content areas in an interface designed for quick reading and discovery of new articles by the visitor.
Main Features of Sahifa
- Multipurpose magazine layout
Organizes headlines, highlights, categories, and latest news blocks into a flexible editorial structure. - Responsive design
Automatically adapts the reading of articles, listings, and widgets to mobile phones, tablets, and desktops. - Star rating system
Allows readers to rate articles, reviews, and analyses directly at the bottom of the post. - Integrated page builder
Builds the homepage, sections, and internal pages by dragging blocks without needing to edit code. - Extensive options panel
Controls colors, typography, header layout, footer, sidebars, and navigation bars from the admin panel.
Benefits of Sahifa
- Accelerated editorial publishing
Reduces the time between writing and publishing with ready-made layouts for different article formats. - Reader engagement
Ratings, comments, and related content blocks increase the time visitors spend on the site. - Customized visual identity
Colors, typography, and headline styles reflect each outlet’s brand without rewriting CSS. - Comfortable reading on any screen
Content rearranges itself to keep titles, images, and text legible on mobile phones.
Who Is Sahifa For?
- Editorial teams that maintain daily news portals with multiple sections and columnists.
- Those who produce niche digital magazines (technology, sports, culture, gaming) and need a magazine layout.
- Independent outlets and regional newspapers migrating from print to online with a high volume of articles.
- Review and analysis sites that depend on star ratings for reviews of products, movies, or services.
How to Download Sahifa
Sahifa is available for download here at Ultrapack. After downloading the .zip file, install it under Appearance > Themes > Add New > Upload Theme, select the file, and activate it. After activation, the theme’s customization options become accessible in the WordPress admin panel, ready to configure headlines, colors, and widgets.
Aimed at news portals, digital magazines, and review sites that need a solid magazine structure, Sahifa combines a responsive layout, rating system, and visual builder in a single theme. The flexibility of widget areas and granular control over typography make the theme suitable both for regional newspapers and for outlets specialized in varied editorial niches.
Frequently asked questions
Is Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper Theme GPL-licensed?
Yes. Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper 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 Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper Theme on multiple sites?
Yes. You can install Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper 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 Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper Theme cost at Ultrapack?
Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper 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 Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper Theme include updates?
Yes. The current version of Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper Theme is 5.8.6, published at Ultrapack on Nov 6, 2025. Subscribers update straight from the WordPress dashboard with UAU (Ultrapack Auto Updater).
Is Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper Theme scanned before publication?
Yes. Every version of Sahifa – Responsive WordPress News / Magazine / Newspaper Theme 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 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-2819356-sahifa-responsive-wordpress-news-magazine-newspaper-theme.zipand extract it on your computer. - Look inside the extracted files for the file
Sahifa-Theme/sahifa.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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