How to create video news magazine. A collection of top WordPress themes we recommend!

As all of us know video content becomes more valuable since it is able to keep visitors attention, which drops bounce rate and encourages search engines to crawl your site deeper and more often. Thus, running a video news magazine built with WordPress CMS may be a really good point, especially considering tons of materials helping to create high quality and really interesting news portals.

So, the question is “Are there any good ready made solutions out there that may match our needs?” What’s the most affordable yet functional one? This article aims to answer these questions and give some recommendations based on our experience. It’s a well known fact that there are few places providing reliable and affordable solutions for websites also known as themes ant templates, but in this post we’ll be dealing with 2 major sources of WordPress themes which are TemplateMonster and Themeforest.

At Templatemonster we were able to find only 2 decent WordPress themes matching video news site needs. The 1st one is Social Video video magazine obviously optimized for content taken from Youtube and Vimeo video hosting but also supporting self hosted video files. The theme is built with open source and GPL licensed Unyson framework, all content is built with widgets. This does not allow you to create super flexible layouts, since the number of widgets is limited. But on the other side guarantees great performance and does not require any 3rd party paid plugins, which is a big advantage over themes heavily using Visual Composer or paid addons of Elementor plugin.

The second one theme at TM is pretty much the same in sense of functionality, with one exception that it’s aimed rather at video news aggregators than classic(is we may say so) media news portals. It’s made by the same author so you can find it easily if you are interested, we would prefer to tell a bit more about other themes.

Ok, so the next one is video news online magazine WordPress theme made by PHPface back in 2014.  This is extremely functional and reliable product mostly due to it’s age and number of updated and hot fixes made. The theme is trusted by over 4K of customers. It’s based on Visual Composer plugin and is built totally with custom shortcodes made for this theme. We could spend a day telling about this great theme or write a separate article… but we wont 🙂 The things you should know are: It totally costs the money spent, there are few things you can’t do with it, it comes with VC plugin so even your grandma will be able to master it. Nevertheless, theme drawbacks are a bit oldish design and overall typography, also dont get surprised if you find a copy of your site somewhere on the net – 4K of sales plus unlimited number of non licensed downloads were made so half of video portals are running this theme.

If you are looking to build mini copy of YouTube video service we’ve got some great theme to recommend you. Check out SnapTube – a special and highly functional theme aiming to be as close to youtube as it is possible using WordPress features. As you can see by yourself it look and feel, overal navigation and design was inspired by… guess who? Yep, correct – this is YouTube. So this is a great chance for anyone to run your own video hosting for $49. Sounds like a good deal? Agree, more good news is that the theme comes with build in likes counter, it is absolutely WPML ready(can be translated to any language), optimized for Ads rotations and has built in functionality for that. And sure enough it comes with built in Visual Page composer.

Another theme is a really special one and works like a Swiss army knife. It was not designed just for video magazines, it was designed for everything, really. The theme I would like to tell about is Publisher by Better-Studio. It’s a very well thought through product for real needs of real big media website. I met this theme when I was creating a project for a friend of mine who works in NGO sphere and was actually looking for a large news portal for local communities with impact on video news. After a week project analysis we decided to look for theme that would meet our requirements at least 60%. Imagine our astonishment when we found publisher. For just $49 you get a real one stop solution for all possible need of huge news portal. We were especially amazed by built in ads management system and variety of layouts and options. This is one of top 5 products that we can recommend and be absolutely sure you will love it as well. It’s a bit overhead for just video news website, but you never know what you will need tomorrow, this theme has so much more than you can even expect

And the last but not the least theme in this article is Videomag – powerful and totally video content optimized theme for high loaded video portals. It’s packed with tons of various widgets that help to build versatile page layout and keep the performance of the website on top level. Various widgets and theme options give you full control over your site look and feel and guarantee smooth running at any device and screen resolution. This theme is recommended for professional video bloggers and large media resources.

We truly hope you enjoyed this article and information provided above helps to build your next video website with less headache and expenses. Feel free to leave your opinion or thoughts below in comments!