Community News WordPress Block Theme: Urbanfeed
Local headlines, civic reporting, politics, and community stories.
Introducing Community News
Urbanfeed is a community news WordPress block theme for local publishers, city news websites, and regional editorial teams. It brings local headlines, politics, business, culture, and lifestyle into a familiar newsroom layout, with a dark blue masthead and clear navigation between coverage areas.
The homepage leads with a breaking news ticker and a prominent story grid, then moves into headline, trending, politics, and popular story sections. Sample coverage of public services, transport, infrastructure, and community affairs shows how the design can support reporting that matters to a local audience. Built with JNews Block and Gutenverse, Urbanfeed gives editors a block-based starting point for shaping their own publication.
Who this template is for
Urbanfeed suits community newspapers, city news publishers, regional newsrooms, and independent editorial teams covering local affairs. Its mix of civic reporting, politics, business, culture, and lifestyle works well for a publication serving one city or region. Use the topic navigation to reflect the areas your newsroom actually covers.
Homepage and article layouts
A dark blue masthead and topic navigation frame a breaking news ticker and a lead story grid with supporting headlines. Further down, Headline, Trending, Politics, and Popular sections create several routes into the news feed, with a load more control for additional stories. The footer includes category links and a newsletter area. The demo also lists View Counter, Ads, and Bookmark among its features.
Things to Know
Things to KnowA quick overview of the demo content, requirements, customization options, and other details to help you get the most from your setup.
Demo Import Content and Options
Use the Urbanfeed demo as a starting layout, then review the content and settings included in the import options before running it. Replace sample headlines, articles, images, navigation links, and footer information with your own material. Set up newsletter forms and advertising placements for your publication, and check that imported links point to the correct pages.
Installation Requirements
Prepare a WordPress installation with the appropriate licensed JNews version and the Gutenverse plugins required by the JNews Block demo. Follow the current JNews setup and demo import instructions, including any plugin or server requirements shown by the installer. Back up an existing website and try the import on a staging copy before applying it to a working publication.
Customisation Options
Use Gutenverse blocks to adapt the homepage sections to your editorial priorities. Replace the logo, adjust colors and typography, and reorganize the headline grid and topic sections around your coverage. Review headline wrapping, image crops, navigation, newsletter content, and advertising spaces on desktop and mobile so the finished site suits both readers and editors.
Choosing This Demo or an Alternative
Choose Urbanfeed for a community-focused news website with prominent local headlines and separate civic, business, and culture coverage. Meridian Daily offers another starting point for a broader daily newspaper. If you prefer Elementor editing, compare the Locapitol local news demo and choose the builder workflow that fits your team.
Performance Built For Speed
These saved demo performance scores are reference results, not a guarantee for your website. Hosting, plugins, images and content can change performance.
Desktop
Optimized desktop performance
Mobile
Optimized mobile performance
Key Features
- View Counter
- Ads
- Bookmark
Global Features
- Built-in SEOStructured data and social metadata give your publication a search-friendly foundation.
- Responsive LayoutsPresent your content clearly across desktop, tablet and mobile.
- Flexible CustomisationAdjust typography, colours and layouts to match your publication’s identity.
- Demo ImportStart with a prebuilt design, then replace the sample content with your own.
- Advertising OptionsManage ad placements for banners, AdSense and sponsored campaigns.
- Reader EngagementHelp readers discover more stories through related articles, popular posts and sharing tools.
- Rich Content FormatsPublish articles, videos and galleries to suit your editorial content.
- Translation & RTL SupportAdapt your publication for different languages and reading directions.
How To Use This Template
This template is available with JNews Block. Activate your JNews license to import Community News and customise it for your website.
- Get a JNews license that includes access to this demo.
- Download JNews Block, install it through Appearance → Themes → Add New → Upload Theme and activate the theme.
- Activate your license in the JNews dashboard, then open Import Demo & Style.
- Browse the demo library or use the search to find Community News, then select it.
- Install the required plugins for the selected demo.
- Choose the demo content and settings you want to include, then start the import.
- Wait for the import to finish before closing the window. Replace the sample content and customise your logo, colours and layout.
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