DuaNews

The brief

A news brand that needed to publish fast, look credible from the first visit and be easy for editors to run every day — without a heavy page builder slowing it down.

What I built

A custom WordPress theme with a breaking-news ticker, clear section navigation, featured stories, a newsletter sign-up and dedicated ad placements. Editors publish from the standard WordPress editor; the layout takes care of the rest.

Seven sections, one clear structure

The portal covers breaking news, the U.S. and Florida, weather, world affairs, opinion, real estate and sports. Each has its own section in the navigation — Last Minute, USA, Weather, Worldwide, Opinion, Real Estate and Sports — so readers can go straight to the topics they follow and editors always know where a story belongs.

Built for the daily news cycle

The breaking-news ticker rotates headlines across the top of every page, so the latest stories are visible wherever a reader lands. Featured stories give the most important pieces a prominent place, and the ad placements are part of the layout from the start rather than squeezed in later.

The Morning Brief

Sign-up for The Morning Brief newsletter is built into the site, giving readers a way to follow DuaNews beyond their visits to the website.

Speed and search

Lean templates, optimised images, structured data for articles and a clean URL structure, so stories load quickly on phones and are easy for search engines to understand.

Stack

WordPress and PHP with a custom theme, SEO built into the templates and a newsletter integration. There is no page builder, which keeps the pages light and the editing experience simple for a team that publishes every day.

Where it stands

Live at duanews.net and publishing daily.