Welcome to the Newspack theme repository on GitHub. Here you can browse the source, look at open issues and keep track of development. We also recommend everyone follow the Newspack blog to stay up to date about everything happening in the project.
The Newspack theme is a forward-looking news theme designed and developed to be highly customizable with the WordPress block editor.
Newspack is an open-source publishing platform built on WordPress for small to medium sized news organizations. It is an “opinionated” platform that stakes out clear, best-practice positions on technology, design, and business practice for news publishers.
If you'd like to install Newspack on your self-hosted site or want to try Newspack out, the easiest way to do so is to download the latest plugin release and the latest theme release. Upload them using the plugin or theme installer in your WordPress admin interface. To take full advantage of Newspack, the plugin and theme should be run together, but each should also work fine individually.
To disclose a security issue to our team, please submit a report via HackerOne here.
If you have a patch or have stumbled upon an issue with the Newspack plugin/theme, you can contribute this back to the code. Please read our contributor guidelines for more information on how you can do this.
The Newspack theme repository contains the Newspack parent theme in a subdirectory. This means you cannot git clone the theme directly to the wp-content/themes directory and have it work. The recommended approach is to git clone the repository to another location, and symlink the newspack-theme/newspack-theme directory -- the folder containing the actual theme -- to the wp-content/themes directory of your development website.
- Run
npm install && composer installto install the dependencies. - Run
npm startto compile the SCSS and JS files, and start file watcher. - Run
npm run buildto perform a single compilation run.
This repository is not suitable for support or general questions about Newspack. Please only use our issue trackers for bug reports and feature requests, following the contribution guidelines.
Support requests in issues on this repository will be closed on sight.
Newspack is licensed under GNU General Public License v2 (or later).