A professional news site with its own identity — free, from day one.
Nashiri is an Arabic theme for newspapers, magazines and blogs: a home page you build from widgets, a drag-and-drop header and footer, ready visual identities, a dark mode, ad placements, and built-in SEO and AMP. No sign-up, no licence.
Everything an Arabic news site needs — in the theme itself
No extra plugins to get started: install, pick your identity, publish.
An identity in one click
Eight ready identities set the colours and Arabic fonts at once, then adjust anything by hand — with a dark mode the visitor can switch on.
A drag-and-drop header and footer
Rows and cells for the logo, menus, search, the dark-mode switch and social links — with a separate layout for phones.
A home page made of widgets
A hero area and seven home zones, with 15 widgets: a slider, a news grid in ten layouts, tabs, most-read, prayer times, a poll and a newsletter form.
Simple, clear ads
11 placements: paste your network’s code or upload a banner with its link, choose the device — and pause any slot without losing what is in it.
Built-in SEO and AMP
Description and sharing tags, structured data and AMP pages for your posts — and the theme steps aside by itself if you install an SEO or AMP plugin.
Fast by nature
Split stylesheets loaded only when needed, lazy images, minified files, AVIF images and smart link prefetching.
From install to a published site — in three steps
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Install the theme
Upload the ZIP from «Appearance → Themes → Add», then activate it.
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Run the setup wizard
Choose the identity, logo and menus, and start from a demo pack: news, sports, tech or magazine.
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Arrange your home page and publish
Drag widgets into the home zones from the Customizer, and watch the result live.
As your visitors see it
One control panel for everything
Widgets and the Customizer
And more than you expect from a free theme
Live coverage
A live blog inside the post for breaking events, and a countdown for occasions.
Comfortable reading
An automatic table of contents, related posts, a view counter, and Arabic fonts chosen for headlines and body text.
Your visitors’ privacy
A consent banner with Google Consent Mode v2, or hand-off to an outside consent platform.
Clean Arabic links
Smart Arabic permalinks, and a web app (PWA) that puts your site on the phone’s home screen.
Free and full
| Feature | Nashiri free | Nashiri full (coming soon) |
|---|---|---|
| Design, identities and dark mode | Complete | Complete |
| Header and footer builder | Built in | Built in |
| Widgets, home page and demo packs | Complete | Complete |
| SEO, AMP and PWA | Built in | Built in |
| Ads | 11 placements: code or image | El Mimar Ads: targeting rules, rotation and revenue sharing |
| Drag-and-drop page builder | — | El Mimar Builder, built in |
| Updates | Manual download from this page | Automatic, from the dashboard |
| Support | Through the contact page | Ticketed support in Arabic |
Common questions
Is it really free?
Yes: no sign-up, no licence, no limit on the number of sites, and no hidden links in your site.
Is it only for Arabic sites?
It was designed right-to-left first, and every text in its control panel is translatable.
Can I use AdSense?
Yes: paste the ad code into any slot on the «Ads» screen, and choose whether it shows on desktop, phone or both.
Can I move to the full version later without losing my settings?
Yes: it is the same theme with the same settings; the full version adds to it rather than replacing it.
What does it need to run?
WordPress 6.4 or newer, and PHP 8.1 or newer.
Send me the updates
We will tell you when a new version of Nashiri is out, and when the full version launches. Nothing else.
Start your news site today — for free.
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