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TrendNews Blogger Theme

Description

TrendNews is a modern Blogger news and magazine theme built for publishers, bloggers, and media brands that need a fast, clean, and professional website. It is designed for breaking news, entertainment, politics, sports, business, tech, metro news, and general magazine content.

The theme includes a newspaper-style homepage, responsive mobile layout, dark mode, SEO-ready structure, article pages, related posts, ad placements, category blocks, custom menus, footer sections, and easy Blogger Layout controls.

TrendNews is built to help you publish more content, organize stories clearly, and give readers a smooth experience on desktop and mobile.

It also includes SDKPage license activation support, editable branding areas, SEO metadata, social sharing previews, structured data, and flexible article ad slots for monetization.

✨ Key Features

  • Responsive Design: Works smoothly on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices.
  • News Homepage Layout: Includes headline, category, metro, sports, business, tech, and entertainment sections.
  • SEO Ready: Includes structured data, Open Graph tags, Twitter cards, breadcrumbs, and article schema.
  • Dark Mode: Built-in dark mode with editable colors from Blogger Layout.
  • Ad Placements: Supports homepage ads, article top ads, inline article ads, and bottom article ads.
  • Blogger Layout Control: Edit menus, footer links, homepage blocks, colors, ads, and license settings from Blogger Layout.
  • Article Reading Experience: Clean article pages with featured images, author area, related posts, comments, and sharing buttons.
  • Static Pages: Styled pages for About, Contact, Privacy Policy, Terms, Disclaimer, and other Blogger pages.
  • Mobile Navigation: Includes a slide-out mobile menu with editable logo and links.
  • License Activation: Supports SDKPage license checking and footer credit protection.
  • Custom Branding: Uses the Blogger blog title and editable logo areas instead of hardcoded public branding.
  • Performance Friendly: Uses system fonts, lazy-loaded images, and deferred feed loading for better speed.

Version History

Overview
TrendNews 1.00 is a responsive Blogger news template built for dense homepage sections, article reading pages, label archives, ads, SEO metadata, and SDKPage license activation.

Highlights
- Added a complete newspaper-style homepage with headline, category, sports, metro, business, entertainment, and archive layouts.
- Added responsive desktop and mobile navigation with editable Blogger Layout menu widgets.
- Added dark mode with editable color settings in Blogger Layout.
- Added article pages with featured image handling, author area, comments, related posts, post navigation, and share controls.
- Added static page styling for About, Contact, Privacy Policy, Terms, and other Blogger pages.
- Added editable ad slots for top banner, article top content, inline article placement, and article bottom content.

License And Product Protection
- Added SDKPage license activation settings in Blogger Layout.
- Added product slug support for trendnews-blogger-theme.
- Added soft license checking against the SDKPage license API.
- Added body status classes for active, inactive, and missing licenses.
- If a license is missing or inactive and the SDKPage footer credit is removed or hidden, the public template redirects to:
  https://sdkpage.com/trendnews-blogger-theme
- If a license is active, the SDKPage footer credit can be removed.
- The redirect check is disabled inside Blogger Layout editor so customers can configure the theme safely.

SEO Improvements
- Added robots preview controls for large images, snippets, and video previews.
- Added Open Graph and Twitter card metadata.
- Posts now use article Open Graph type, while other pages use website type.
- Added site-level Organization and WebSite JSON-LD.
- Added SearchAction structured data for site search.
- Added BreadcrumbList structured data for posts and pages.
- Added WebPage structured data for static pages.
- Added NewsArticle structured data for article pages.
- Connected article and page schema to the site publisher.
- Added Open Graph image width, height, and secure URL hints.

Customization Improvements
- Removed visitor-facing hardcoded TrendNews text where possible.
- Search placeholder now uses the Blogger blog title.
- Mobile fallback logo now uses the Blogger blog title.
- Page and archive labels now use the Blogger blog title.
- Cookie notice now uses the Blogger blog title.
- SDKPage footer credit now uses the Blogger blog title.
- Default related posts heading changed to \"More From This Site\".
- Footer copyright default no longer hardcodes TrendNews.

Article Readability Fixes
- Improved duplicate featured image cleanup on article pages.
- Improved spacing around article images and embedded media.
- Added cleanup for empty paragraphs, repeated breaks, and Blogger-generated spacing artifacts.
- Improved conversion of break-separated text into proper paragraphs.
- Preserved ad insertion after article cleanup.

Layout Editor Improvements
- Added editable sections for analytics/tracking code.
- Added editable sections for header extra code.
- Added editable sections for footer extra code.
- Added clearer Layout Studio section labels and descriptions.
- Added README guidance for license activation, SEO launch checks, and performance.

Validation
- Blogger XML validation passed after the latest changes.

Upgrade Notes
- Before replacing an existing customer theme, back up the current Blogger theme from Theme > Backup/Restore.
- After upload, open Blogger Layout and configure:
  License Key
  Header logo
  Main menu links
  Homepage blocks
  Footer links
  Footer copyright
  Article ads
  SEO/search descriptions
- Test one homepage URL, one article URL, one page URL, and one label archive URL after publishing.

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