Sufia 3.0 – News, Blog & Magazine WordPress Theme
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Sufia is a clean, bold news, blog and magazine theme in black, white and yellow. Its homepages are built from simple WordPress widgets – no page builder, no learning curve: choose one of the 10 homepage templates, drop KT widgets into its areas and pick a category. Version 3.0 keeps the approved look and rebuilds everything underneath for PHP 8 and WordPress 7.
Highlights
- 10 homepages built from widgets, all importable in one click
- 30 KT widgets: featured panels, grids, lists, slider, standard posts, ads, social, popular and latest posts
- 7 header styles with logo, 728×90 banner, date, social icons, breaking news ticker and full-screen search
- Mega menu with category posts and automatic column menus, plus an off-canvas menu
- 5 single post styles and audio, video and gallery post formats
- Author box with local profile photo, job title, social links and bio; Authors List page
- Header and sidebar ads: 728×90, 300×250, 125×125, image banners and AdSense code
- Sticky sidebar and a cache-friendly post views counter with a Popular Posts widget
- Redux Theme Options: logo, headers, Google Fonts, colors, menu, blog, footer, import / export
- WooCommerce and bbPress styled to match
- Translation ready, Theme Check clean, escaped and sanitized code
- Step-by-step documentation with screenshots
Requirements
- WordPress 6.0 or newer (tested up to 7.1)
- PHP 8.0 or newer (tested 8.2 – 8.5)
- Redux Framework (free, installed from the theme’s plugin screen)
Changelog
Version 3.0.0 – October 2026
- Compatibility: PHP 8.0 – 8.5 and WordPress 6.x / 7.x; all warnings and notices fixed
- Fixed: fatal error on fresh installs caused by the old bundled Sticky Sidebar plugin
- New: built-in sticky sidebar (Theme Options > Blog Settings), replaces the Theia Sticky Sidebar plugin
- New: built-in post views counter (cache-safe); Popular Posts now ranks by views; WP-PostViews no longer needed
- New: post format box (audio, video, gallery) built in; ACF is no longer needed – same fields, nothing to redo
- New: single post styles 2–5 are native WordPress post templates; Single Post Template plugin no longer needed
- New: author profile photo, View all posts link and author box on author pages
- New: demo import downloads and checks the demo data, sets menus, front page, shop pages and demo authors
- Improved: search window covers the whole page, focus and Esc support
- Fixed: even rows in related posts, archive and search grids; no horizontal scrolling on phones
- Security: escaping, sanitizing and nonces across widgets, templates and profile fields
- Updated: Bootstrap 3.4.1, Font Awesome 4.7.0, Flickity 2.3.0, Pace 1.2.4, TGM Plugin Activation 2.6.1; deprecated jQuery calls replaced
- Updated: WooCommerce 11 and bbPress 2.6 checked; Google+ (closed in 2019) hidden; User Submitted Posts no longer recommended
- New documentation
Version 2.0 – February 2018
- Pagination on archive pages
Updating from 2.x? Your Theme Options, widgets and posts are kept. Step-by-step update notes are in the documentation.
Credits & notes
Demo photos are from Unsplash and are not included in the download; they are shown on the live demo for preview only. Speed numbers were measured on the live demo on October 20, 2026 and depend on your hosting, caching, plugins and images.
Oswald and Open Sans fonts (SIL Open Font License), Bootstrap, Font Awesome, Flickity, PACE, SlickNav, Pushy and TGM Plugin Activation are used under their open source licenses.
Support
Read the documentation or open a ticket at fekbd.com/support with your purchase code and site URL. Sufia is made by FEKBD.