Theme Features
Trending News is StepFox’s longest-running news theme, rebuilt from the ground up as a modern block theme. The magazine layout that made it a favourite in 2014 is intact – the rotating hero, the ticker, the category tabs, the carousel – only now every part of it is editable in the WordPress Site Editor.
There is no stylesheet to fight with. Every colour, size, spacing value and breakpoint lives on the block itself as an editable control, so changing the look is a matter of selecting a block and adjusting it – not hunting through CSS files.
Trending News suits news desks, entertainment sites, music and gaming publications – anywhere a dense, busy front page needs to stay readable.
Built for a Busy Front Page
A rotating hero, a headline ticker, a featured-category block with switchable tabs, a carousel strip and a blog roll – five distinct section types that let you give twenty stories a place on one screen without it turning into a wall of text.
Article Pages That Keep Readers
Full-width headline and standfirst above the fold, a wide feature image, share row, previous and next links, and a sidebar of related stories pulled by tag – the post template is designed to hand the reader somewhere to go next.
A Dedicated Video Page
Posts in the video format get their own template: a large embedded player with the current title and subtitle above it, and a browsable strip of every other video underneath. Point it at YouTube or Vimeo and it handles the rest.
Trending News gives you a magazine front page that has been refined over more than a decade, in a theme you can edit entirely from the Site Editor. Try the live demo and click through the post, category and video pages to see it working.
