Building WordPress Products for Publishers, Businesses, and Creators

AF Themes is a WordPress product company founded in 2018, specializing in WordPress themes, plugins, starter sites, templates, and website-building tools.

We have a particular focus on news, newspaper, magazine, publishing, blog, and content-rich websites, helping publishers, bloggers, businesses, agencies, and creators build professional WordPress websites without extensive coding.

From our early focus on WordPress themes to today’s broader product ecosystem, our goal has remained the same: make WordPress website creation simpler, more flexible, and more accessible.

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AF Themes at a Glance


Founded	2018
Customers	100,000+ worldwide
Free WordPress Themes	80+
Premium WordPress Themes	15+
Free WordPress Plugins	10+
Premium WordPress Plugins	5+
Starter Sites & Templates	1,000+
Websites Powered by AF Themes Products	100,000+
Product Downloads	Millions
WordPress Product Experience	8+ years

Product counts and usage figures change over time as we release new products and updates.

Our Story

AF Themes was founded in 2018 with a focus on creating WordPress themes for publishers, bloggers, news websites, magazines, and content-rich websites.

Over the years, we expanded from a theme-focused company into a broader WordPress product ecosystem. Today, AF Themes develops themes, plugins, starter sites, templates, Gutenberg tools, Elementor tools, translation tools, and publishing-related products.

Our products have grown from individual WordPress themes into a connected ecosystem designed to help users move from a new WordPress installation to a complete, professional website.

Today, AF Themes products are used by customers and website owners around the world.

Our Focus

Our strongest specialization is WordPress websites for publishing and content.

AF Themes products are particularly suitable for:

News websites and online newspapers
Digital magazines and publications
Local and regional news websites
Technology and editorial websites
Multi-author blogs
Personal and professional blogs
Business publications
Content marketing websites
WooCommerce-powered websites
Publishers and content creators
Agencies and freelancers building client websites

Whether you’re launching a local newspaper, technology magazine, personal blog, business publication, or large content-focused website, our products are designed to provide the foundation you need.

WordPress Themes

WordPress themes remain one of the core areas of AF Themes.

We develop both free and premium WordPress themes, with a strong specialization in news, magazine, newspaper, publishing, blogging, and content-heavy websites.

CoverNews

CoverNews is a WordPress news and magazine theme designed for online newspapers, magazines, blogs, news portals, and content-focused websites.

CoverNews Pro extends the free theme with additional layouts, customization options, publishing tools, starter sites, and advanced functionality.

ChromeNews

ChromeNews is a WordPress news and magazine theme designed for content-rich websites, with customizable layouts, front-page sections, and starter-site support.

ChromeNews Pro provides additional features and customization options for more advanced publishing websites.

MoreNews

MoreNews is a multipurpose WordPress theme designed for news, magazines, blogs, business websites, and eCommerce websites.

MoreNews Pro adds additional layouts, controls, and functionality for professional websites.

Other WordPress Themes

Our theme ecosystem also includes:

Many AF Themes themes are available in both free and premium versions. The free versions provide the core functionality needed to build a website, while premium versions add additional layouts, controls, starter sites, publishing features, integrations, support, and other advanced capabilities.

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WordPress Plugins and Website-Building Tools

Beyond themes, AF Themes develops plugins that extend WordPress and provide additional tools for creating, designing, translating, and managing websites.

BlockSpare

BlockSpare is a WordPress block editor plugin providing Gutenberg blocks, patterns, sections, and starter templates.

It is particularly useful for building news, magazine, blog, business, and content-focused websites with the WordPress Block Editor.

EleSpare

EleSpare is an Elementor-focused WordPress plugin providing widgets, templates, template kits, and header/footer building tools.

It is designed for websites built with Elementor, including blogs, news, magazines, publishing websites, and business websites.

TemplateSpare

TemplateSpare provides WordPress starter templates and website migration tools, helping users create websites from pre-designed layouts and complete website structures.

AF Companion

AF Companion provides website-building and starter-site importing functionality for WordPress, with particular emphasis on AF Themes news and magazine themes.

AF Translate

AF Translate is an AI-assisted WordPress translation plugin that helps users translate WordPress themes and plugins.

WP Post Author

WP Post Author provides author profiles, author boxes, co-authors, guest authors, post ratings, and other publishing-related functionality for WordPress.

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Starter Sites, Templates, and Patterns

Starting a website doesn’t have to mean starting from an empty WordPress installation.

AF Themes provides 1,000+ starter sites and templates covering different website categories and design requirements.

Our starter-site ecosystem includes resources for:

News
Newspapers
Magazines
Blogs
Business
eCommerce
Publishing
Portfolio and creative websites
Other niche websites

Starter sites allow users to begin with a pre-designed website structure and customize it with their own content, branding, colors, typography, and layouts.

Our broader ecosystem also includes Gutenberg blocks and patterns, Elementor widgets and templates, and other tools for customizing imported websites.

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Built for the WordPress Ecosystem

WordPress is at the center of everything we build.

Our products support different WordPress website-building approaches and integrate with widely used WordPress technologies, including:

WordPress Block Editor
Gutenberg
Full Site Editing
Elementor
WordPress Customizer
WooCommerce
Gutenberg blocks and patterns
Elementor widgets and templates
Starter-site imports
Translation and multilingual workflows
RTL languages

Where applicable, our products are distributed through both the AF Themes website and the official WordPress.org ecosystem.

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Quality, Performance, and Accessibility

We believe a WordPress product should do more than look good.

Clean and Maintainable Code

We focus on maintainable WordPress code, compatibility, and long-term product development.

Performance

We continuously work on performance improvements, efficient asset loading, responsive design, and optimization for modern WordPress websites.

Accessibility

Accessibility is an important part of our WordPress development process. We work toward creating products that provide better experiences for users with different abilities and follow WordPress accessibility requirements and best practices.

Compatibility

We design our products to work with the broader WordPress ecosystem, including the Block Editor, Elementor, WooCommerce, translation tools, and other commonly used WordPress functionality.

Our Product Ecosystem

AF Themes has grown from a collection of WordPress themes into a broader ecosystem of connected products.

AF Themes│
├── WordPress Themes│
   ├── CoverNews│
   ├── ChromeNews│
   ├── MoreNews│
   ├── NewSpare│
   ├── Newsphere│
   ├── Newsium│
   ├── NewsReview│
   ├── Newsever│
   ├── DarkNews│
   ├── BroadNews│
   └── ReviewNews│
├── WordPress Plugins│
   ├── BlockSpare│
   ├── EleSpare│
   ├── TemplateSpare│
   ├── AF Companion│
   ├── AF Translate│
   └── WP Post Author│
├── Starter Sites & Templates│
└── Documentation & Learning Resources

Some AF Themes products have their own dedicated websites while remaining part of the broader AF Themes product ecosystem.

AF Themes and the WordPress Community

AF Themes is part of the wider WordPress ecosystem.

Our products are distributed through the official WordPress.org directory where applicable, and we participate in the WordPress community through product development, community activities, events, and contributions to the ecosystem.

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Documentation and Support

Good software requires more than the product itself.

We provide documentation, tutorials, setup guides, product information, and customer support to help users build and maintain their websites.

Documentation

docs.afthemes.com provides official documentation, setup guides, tutorials, and product instructions.

Blog

AF Themes Blog publishes WordPress guides, tutorials, product information, and resources related to website building and publishing.

Support

AF Themes Support provides customer and product support.

Our Mission

Our mission is to make WordPress website creation simpler, more flexible, and more accessible for publishers, businesses, creators, and website owners.

We want users to spend less time worrying about website infrastructure and more time creating content, growing their audience, and building their online presence.

From a simple blog to a large news portal or online magazine, AF Themes aims to provide the themes, plugins, templates, and tools needed to build and grow a WordPress website.