Critique - Newspaper & Review Magazine WordPress Theme Free Download

Contemporary Review Magazine & Blog WordPress Theme v1.17

Critique is a colorful, refined, attractive & trendy WordPress Blog theme. It is apt for crash-test dummy, guest post, rouge, niche blogs, giver, giveaways, guides, how-to blogs.

Also, the theme fits the tell-all, business, cryptocurrency, professional, reverse, writer, world news, inspirational stories, affiliate. Furthermore it is suitable for minimal, media, freelance, news jacking, instructional, cheat sheet, entertaining, gaming, tutorial, industry, current events, checklists, listicles, infographics, case studies, profiles, interviews, expert opinions, reviews, comparisons.

Above all, it works for parody, funny, quizzes, surveys and polls, local, FAQs, contests, screencasts, live-streaming, time-saving, pop music, beginner, gallery, auto-biographical, recipes, customer experience, memes, charity, sports, TV series and shows, ads, food, fitness, DIY, finance, political, parenting, movie, car, pet, video blogs.

The theme features 3 different homepages, a number of cool blog post layouts, portfolio, Instagram feed support, custom widgets & shortcodes etc.

Newspaper & Magazine plugins

Due to one-click installation, the integration of custom widgets and shortcodes, and compatibility with a variety of plug-ins (amongst which are Elementor, elegro Crypto Payment, MailChimp for WP, ThemeREX Addons, etc.), the theme is super easy to set up and customize, in case you wish to sell things through your website, Critique has full WooCommerce support with respective shop design..

Critique ’s Key Features

• Professional design
• One-Click demo installation
• Modern, Flexible, Customizable
• WordPress 4.5+ Tested and Approved
• Built with HTML5 and CSS3 code
• Cross-Browser Compatibility: FireFox, Safari, Chrome
• Slider Revolution & Swiper Slider included
• Retina Images Support
• User menu and Main menu support
• Interactive Ajax Search
• Flexible Colors & Typography
• Layout Features:
  • 100% Responsive & Mobile-friendly
  • Boxed and Fullwidth page layouts
  • Elementor Page Builder support – modify any page content easily
  • Customize Header and Footer Layouts in Elementor Page Builder
• Advanced Blog Settings:
  • Multiple Blog Styles
  • Flexible Layout Options
  • 20+ Post Animations
  • Customizable Blog Feed (choose from post types or categories)
  • Post views, likes and sharing buttons
  • Related Posts Section
• Powerful Theme Framework:
  • Setting Inheritance and Override System
  • 750+ Customizer Options
  • Custom Post Types
  • Custom Widget Sets
  • Custom Shortcodes
  • Custom Theme Options Panel
  • Optimized for best performance
  • ...and many more!
• Plugins Compatibility:
  • Accelerated Mobile Pages
  • Advanced Popups
  • Contact Form 7
  • Easy Forms for Mailchimp
  • elegro Crypto Payment
  • Elementor
  • GDPR Compliance for Mailchimp
  • Kadence Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for Page Builder Features
  • Limit Modified Date
  • Powerkit
  • ThemeREX Addons
  • ThemeREX Pop-Up
  • ThemeREX Updater
  • WooCommerce
  • WooCommerce Advanced Product Labels
  • WP GDPR Compliance
• Fontello & Image Icons
• Google Fonts
• Professional Support
• Detailed Documentation
• Regular Updates
• And many more

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Change log

07.05.2025 Version 1.17 – Update

 -  CSS\PHP fixes for WP 6.8 (shortcodes\widget layouts);

07.01.2025 Version 1.16 – Update

Removed: Disabling of rendering replacement in the Post Featured Image block for FSE themes (works only for video, audio, and gallery formats now)
Fixed: Sticky sidebar positioning script on fullwidth pages, when fixed_blocks_sticky == false selected in the options
Fixed: Syntax in the function of the URL replacement for Vimeo videos

14.12.2024 Version 1.15 – Update

 Added: Option "Redirect 404" 
 Added: Option "Disable word hyphenation for the headings on tablets and mobile devices" 
 Added:Parameter "Show Description" in Layouts - Title shortcode
 Added: Layouts: filter 'trx_addons_filter_sc_layout_content_need_inline_css' for custom layouts
 Added: Elementor: default settings for compatibility with Elementor "Optimize Control Loading" 
 Added: Options for customization of shortcodes Switcher and HotSpot
 Added: Slider Widget: responsiveness for "Slides per view" and "Slides space" parameters
 Added: AI Helper: API support for ModelsLab music generation
 Added:AI Helper: Text To Speech/Speech To Text/Voice Covering API from OpenAI and ModelsLab and a new widget Audio Generator (AGenerator)
 Added: AI Helper IGenerator: script for repeated opening of images
 Added: AI Helper: authorization parameters for Open AI and Google AI APIs to use proxy servers
 Added: API Text To Speech / Speech To Text /
 Added: Elementor Page Settings: a filter to disable a default section background for layouts
 Fixed: Mouse Animation styles
 Fixed: Revolution Slider: demo url to support a new version of slider tables
 Fixed:FontAwesome 4 compatibility
 Fixed: "NavMenu" script for layout submenus
 Fixed: PHP8 Compatibility for CPT Services
 Fixed: Iframe resize of fullscreen video
 Fixed: Elementor 3.25.0+ compatibility
 Fixed: AI Helper Chat: title and button styles
 Fixed: API Stable Diffusion renamed to ModelLab
 Fixed: xxx_get_file_dir() for file compilation in /uploads on multisite installations
 Fixed: Rendering of Instagram video posts
 Fixed: Woocommerce: styles of product discounts
 Updated: QW Extension addon (to version 1.6.0)

08.05.2024 Version 1.14 – Update

 - Updated Demo data;
   - Improved Theme styles;
   - Skin 'default' is updated to the version 1.8

23.04.2024 Version 1.13 – Update

- Fix: CSS\JS\PHP fixes (shortcodes\widget layouts)

18.04.2024 Version 1.12 – Update

- Fix: CSS\JS\PHP fixes (shortcodes\widget layouts)

05.02.2024 Version 1.11 – Update

- Added: Compatibility with The GDPR Framework plugin;
- Added: MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress plugin;
- Removed: Easy Forms for Mailchimp plugin;
- Removed: GDPR Compliance for Mailchimp plugin;
- Removed: Cookie Information plugin;
- Fix: CSS fixes for better plugin compatibility;
- Updated: Demo data.

26.12.2023 Version 1.10.0 – Update

 - Updated: Themes styles and scripts;
- Demo data;
- Improved: Plugin Compatibility

26.12.2023 Version 1.9 – Update

- Skin 'default' is updated to the version 1.5.0

26.12.2023 Version 1.8 – Update

- Skin 'default' is updated to the version 1.4.0

26.12.2023 Version 1.7 – Update

- Skin 'default' is updated to the version 1.3.0

26.12.2023 Version 1.6 – Update

 - Added: Instagram Feed plugin;
- YouTube Shorts video support;
- TikTok Icons;
- Updated: Demo data;
- Improved: Theme styles;
- Plugins Compatibility

27.10.2022 Version 1.5 – Update

- Added: WPC Smart Quick View for WooCommerce compatibility;
- Added: 3 new product styles for the product feed;
- Fix: CSS fixes 

20.09.2022 Version 1.4 – Update

 -  CSS\PHP fixes for WP 6.0+ (shortcodes\widget layouts);

21.04.2022 Version 1.3 – Update

 - Added: Featured image caption on the post page 

07.04.2022 Version 1.2 – Update

 -  CSS\PHP fixes for WP 5.9+ (shortcodes\widget layouts);

16.12.2021 Version 1.1 – Update

  - Theme option that allows to invert the colors of the logo in a dark scheme has been added;
  - Category page view has been updated;
  - Post formats styles in Blogger widget has been updated;
  - Variable product page view after WooCommerce update has been fixed;

29.11.2021 Version 1.0 – Release