Professional WordPress theme for news publishers
Banter6 is designed for online newsrooms, regional media, magazines, community publications, and editorial websites that need a familiar reading experience across desktop and mobile.
The theme combines a strong headline area, popular and latest stories, flexible category sections, responsive sidebars, and article templates built for long-form publishing.
Publishing, monetization, and updates
Premium licensing unlocks the complete advertising system, protected updates from SaeTheme, and multi-site activation according to your license plan. Normal theme updates preserve WordPress content, menus, Customizer settings, and widgets.
Changelog
v1.0.4 — September 17, 2026
- Removed bundled advertising creatives and replaced empty ad slots with lightweight HTML/CSS placeholders sized for each placement.
- Customer ad images continue to use the WordPress Media Library; legacy bundled ad asset URLs are treated as empty without rewriting the database.
- Header/footer branding uses Custom Logo or Media Library images; when no logo is uploaded, Banter6 falls back to the WordPress mark plus the site name.
- Favicon uses WordPress Site Icon first, with a WordPress Core fallback when no Site Icon is configured.
- Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X, and WhatsApp now use local Original Color assets exported from the Figma social icon source.
- Demo images remain available for demo/import purposes but are no longer used as active advertising, logo, or favicon fallbacks.
- Safe Update remains enabled so updates do not run the demo importer or reset Customizer settings, menus, widgets, licenses, or customer content.
v1.0.3 — September 10, 2026
- Replaced the generic WordPress sidebar with the native Banter6 news sidebar.
- Added Popular News, Editor's Picks, Popular Tags, and optional Popular Categories.
- Added a sticky responsive sidebar and Recent Articles below the article content.
- Refined article share buttons and added Customizer shortcuts for the native sidebar.
v1.0.2 — September 8, 2026
- Fixed Safe Update so customer settings are not changed to demo palette/configuration during updates.
- Starter/legal pages no longer run automatically during theme updates.
- Added pre-update snapshots for theme mods, menu locations, and widgets, with non-destructive restoration of missing values.
v1.0.1 — September 7, 2026
- Added a customizable logo to the left side of the desktop navigation.
- Added customizable Category and Information icons in the mobile menu.
- Added mobile icon sizing controls.
v1.0.0 — August 9, 2026
- Initial Banter6 release for WordPress news portals.
- Added Free and Premium editions with SaeTheme licensing integration.
