LT Coinews is a crypto news and explainer theme for Elementor (free), the WordPress version of the LT Coinews Joomla template: three top stories over their photos, a newsletter strip, the Blockchain, Metaverse, NFT and Cryptocurrencies desks with a sidebar (follow links, latest posts, words to know), a 'Start here' reading order, how the newsroom reports and an 'Ask the newsroom' section. Every story shows its desk and its depth (brief, explainer or deep dive) on the cyan desk rule. Inner pages for the topics and each desk, three short explainers, editorial standards, a glossary, an about page and a question and story tip form. Education and news only: no prices, no tickers, no trading buttons. A Hello Elementor child theme with bundled fonts, one-page mode and a mobile menu.
Editions
| Edition | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Theme + one-page website import: the child theme with its design, fonts, header and footer, blog and 404 templates and mobile menu, and a one-click import of the home page sections as a one-page website with a scroll menu. The footer credit stays. Help from the AI assistant and the contact form. |
| Pro Standard | $29 a year | Full multi-page website like the demo: every page, sample posts and one-click demo import, with one-page mode too. Remove the footer credit or replace it with your own. 1 website; downloads, updates and ticket support for 1 year. |
| Pro Unlimited | $49 once | Everything in Pro Standard plus the AI kit. Unlimited websites, lifetime updates and ticket support. |
Free: theme + one-page website import (Appearance → One-page import): Home (one-page website), News. Pro: full multi-page website like the demo (Appearance → Demo import): Home, Topics, Cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin basics, Stablecoins, Wallets and keys, Blockchain, NFT, Metaverse, Start here, About us, Editorial standards, Glossary, Contact, News. Help: Free, the AI assistant and the contact form; Pro, ticket support.
Quick setup
- Install the free Elementor plugin and the Hello Elementor theme, then upload and activate LT Coinews (Install and update).
- Pro, optional: activate WPForms Lite for the question or story tip form.
- Pro: Appearance → Demo import → Import (Demo import). Free: Appearance → One-page import (the one-page website).
- Replace the demo content and pictures (below), set your logo and the header button.
Pages in the demo
| Page | Under | Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Home | – | Free (as the one-page website) and Pro |
| Topics | – | Pro |
| Cryptocurrencies | Topics | Pro |
| Bitcoin basics | Cryptocurrencies | Pro |
| Stablecoins | Cryptocurrencies | Pro |
| Wallets and keys | Cryptocurrencies | Pro |
| Blockchain | Topics | Pro |
| NFT | Topics | Pro |
| Metaverse | Topics | Pro |
| Start here | – | Pro |
| About us | – | Pro |
| Editorial standards | About us | Pro |
| Glossary | About us | Pro |
| Contact | – | Pro |
| News (blog) | – | Free and Pro |
Home page sections
The home page sections, in order, with the name they have in Elementor’s Navigator and their CSS ID (the anchor used by one-page mode and by links such as /#top).
| Section (Navigator name) | CSS ID |
|---|---|
| Top stories | #top |
| Newsletter | #newsletter |
| Blockchain | #blockchain |
| Metaverse | #metaverse |
| NFT | #nft |
| Cryptocurrencies | #cryptocurrencies |
| How we report | #standards |
| Ask the newsroom | #contact |
- The same design as the Joomla template: LT Coinews is also a Joomla template; this WordPress version keeps its white news layout, cyan desk labels, top stories over their photos, sidebar and dark footer, rebuilt for free Elementor.
- Four desks and a sidebar: Blockchain, Metaverse, NFT and Cryptocurrencies sections with story cards, a lead story, thumbnail lists and a sidebar with follow links, latest posts, words to know and a Start here box.
- A depth meter on every story: The cyan desk rule, split in three, tells readers whether a story is a brief, an explainer or a deep dive, with the reading time in words beside it.
- Education, not advice: No prices, tickers or trading buttons. Editorial standards, a glossary, short explainers and 'not financial advice' notes are part of the demo.
- Free Elementor and a ready contact form: Built with free Elementor widgets on Hello Elementor, with a 'Question or story tip' form made with the free WPForms Lite plugin. Fonts are bundled: no Google Fonts requests.
Menu
The demo import creates this main menu (Appearance → Menus):
- Home
- Topics → Cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin basics, Stablecoins, Wallets and keys), Blockchain, NFT, Metaverse
- Start here
- About us → Editorial standards, Glossary
- News
- Contact
Header button: Get the newsletter (link /contact/#write), changed in Appearance → Customize → LT Coinews options.
One-page mode
In every edition the menu can scroll to these sections: Top stories, Newsletter, Blockchain, Metaverse, NFT, Cryptocurrencies, How we report, Ask the newsroom. Free: Appearance → One-page import creates the one-page website with them. Pro: tick One-page mode on the home page in Appearance → Customize → LT Coinews options. To change the labels or leave sections out, see One-page mode.
Used the old LT Coinews onepage WordPress theme? It is not sold any more: version 2.0 is one theme for both. The Free edition imports the one-page website; Pro adds the full multi-page website.
Colours and fonts
Change them in Elementor Site Settings → Global Colors and Global Fonts; the whole site follows.
| Name in Global Colors | Value |
|---|---|
| Deep cyan (buttons and links on light) | #007A85 |
| Grey (meta, dates, excerpts) | #666666 |
| Ink (headlines and text) | #222222 |
| Cyan (desk rule, depth meter, icons; links and buttons on dark) | #26C6DA |
| White (page) | #FFFFFF |
| Newsprint grey (top bar, newsletter strip, sidebar boxes) | #F5F5F5 |
| Hairlines | #E3E3E3 |
| Footer black (footer, Start here banner) | #0F0F11 |
| Text on dark | #FFFFFF |
| Soft text on dark | #B4B4B8 |
| Button hover | #005B63 |
| Name in Global Fonts | Font |
|---|---|
| Headlines (Amiko bold) | Amiko |
| Menus, desk names and meta (Amiko) | Amiko |
| Body text (Amiko) | Amiko |
| Buttons (Amiko) | Amiko |
Form
Pro: with WPForms Lite active, the demo import creates the form Question or story tip on the Contact page. Fields: Your name (required), Email (required), What is this about? (required), Which desk?, Link to the story (optional), Your message (required), Newsletter. Email subject: “Question or story tip from the website”. After sending, visitors see: “Thank you. An editor reads every message; we reply by email within two working days when you ask a question.”
See Contact form for where messages go and how to change the fields.
Demo content to replace
Everything marked with one of these in the demo is sample content: names, numbers, prices and addresses that you replace with your own (or delete):
(sample)example.com(555)Coinews DeskLedger LaneSpringfield
- Never add prices, tickers, charts of prices, buy or sell buttons, or predictions: this is an education and news theme; keep the 'not financial advice' notes.
- Keep the desk rule honest: the cyan bar marks the desk, and the depth meter (lt-depth-1/2/3) must match the words beside it (brief, explainer, deep dive).
- Stories, people and dates in the demo are samples marked (sample); replace them with real ones or remove them, never present them as real reporting.
Only publish facts that are true for your business: real prices, opening hours, reviews and qualifications. Pro Unlimited’s launch checker lists every sample marker left on the site.
Photo guide
The demo uses placeholder pictures. Replace each one in Elementor (click it → Choose image) with a photo of about this size; save photos as JPEG or WebP under about 300 KB.
| Picture | Upload size |
|---|---|
| A single gold-coloured Bitcoin coin standing on a dark surface, lit from above | 1600 × 1067 px |
| Old brass keys scattered on a dark marble surface | 1600 × 1067 px |
| Rows of cyan fibre optic cables plugged into a patch panel in a data centre | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A server room lit in cyan, with cables hanging behind a single monitor | 1600 × 1068 px |
| Close-up of a laptop keyboard with blue backlit keys | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A hand writing with a pen in an open notebook on a wooden desk | 1600 × 1067 px |
| Two gold-coloured Bitcoin coins resting on a black surface | 1600 × 1067 px |
| Three Bitcoin coins in gold, silver and bronze tones against a dark background | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A silver-coloured coin reflecting light on a black background | 1600 × 900 px |
| A person typing on a laptop beside a coffee cup and a stack of books | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A person reading at a tidy desk with an open laptop, a book and a coffee mug | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A person seen from behind wearing a VR headset in a corridor of white light strips | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A woman wearing a VR headset in a dim teal-lit room | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A man in a VR headset reaching out with both hands in a dark room | 1600 × 1067 px |
| Visitors as silhouettes in front of large glowing screens at a digital art exhibition | 1600 × 898 px |
| A silhouette walking through a dim gallery lined with illuminated screens | 1600 × 1067 px |
| A digital artist drawing with a stylus on a graphics tablet in front of a monitor | 1600 × 1067 px |
Demo photos
The live demo of LT Coinews shows real photos; the download uses placeholder pictures. The photos are from Pexels, free to use under the Pexels licence (credit is not required, but we thank the photographers):
art-crowd.jpg: photo by Han Zibar on Pexelsart-gallery.jpg: photo by Kyle Miller on Pexelsart-tablet.jpg: photo by Jakub Zerdzicki on Pexelscoin-gold.jpg: photo by Rafael Minguet Delgado on Pexelscoin-pair.jpg: photo by Qing Luo on Pexelscoin-silver.jpg: photo by Bastian Riccardi on Pexelscoin-trio.jpg: photo by Rafael Minguet Delgado on Pexelskeyboard.jpg: photo by Castorly Stock on Pexelskeys.jpg: photo by Magda Ehlers on Pexelsnotes.jpg: photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexelsread-desk.jpg: photo by Enzo Muñoz on Pexelsread-laptop.jpg: photo by cottonbro studio on Pexelsserver-fiber.jpg: photo by Brett Sayles on Pexelsserver-room.jpg: photo by panumas nikhomkhai on Pexelsvr-hands.jpg: photo by SHVETS production on Pexelsvr-lights.jpg: photo by SHVETS production on Pexelsvr-teal.jpg: photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels
AI kit (Pro Unlimited)
The AI kit’s AGENTS.md tells an assistant how LT Coinews is built. The CSS classes it relies on (keep them when you edit):
| CSS class | What it is |
|---|---|
lt-desk | desk name heading: grey hairline with the short cyan bar (links to the desk page) |
lt-desk--side | smaller desk rule for sidebar box titles |
lt-meta | story meta line with the depth meter; add lt-depth-1 (brief), lt-depth-2 (explainer) or lt-depth-3 (deep dive) |
lt-overlay | overlay card: photo (lt-overlay__img) with a dark scrim, desk name (lt-overlay__desk) and a white headline |
lt-story | story card: photo, headline (lt-story__title), meta line |
lt-story--row | story as a row: thumbnail left, headline and meta right |
lt-story--lead | lead story: photo left, big headline, meta and excerpt right |
lt-story--list | story in a desk page list: photo left, headline, meta, excerpt |
lt-main | main column of a desk section (stories) |
lt-side | sidebar column; its boxes are lt-side__box |
lt-follow | follow links as cyan squares with icons (RSS, newsletter, email, glossary) |
lt-side-posts | the [ltel_posts] shortcode shown as a thumbnail list in the sidebar |
lt-banner | the dark Start here banner in the main column |
lt-newsletter | grey newsletter strip (the Joomla newsletter box), closes inner pages |
lt-rule-note | the 'not financial advice' note box (cyan left rule) |
lt-term | glossary row: term and meaning |
lt-order | Start here reading order (a real sequence); each row lt-order__row with its number lt-order__n |
lt-card | contact card (email, phone, address); its title takes lt-ico lt-ico–mail|phone|pin |
lt-person | desk editor (name, desk, one line) under the desk rule |
lt-frontline | the slim line above the top stories: the page heading and the promise |
lt-pagehead | inner page heading band (grey, desk rule under the title) |
See AI kit for the prompts, the safe edit tool and the launch checker.
Questions about LT Coinews
Do I need Elementor Pro?
No. LT Coinews uses only the free Elementor plugin and the free Hello Elementor theme. The header and footer are part of the theme, so you do not need Theme Builder.
Does it work as a one-page site?
Yes, in every edition. Free imports the one-page website: the Home page sections on one scrolling page, with a menu that scrolls to them and highlights the current section. Pro imports the full multi-page website, and one-page mode is a switch in the Customizer (or the "One-page (scroll menu)" page template).
Is there a Joomla version of LT Coinews?
Yes. LT Coinews is also a Joomla template on ltheme.com with the same design. The WordPress version is a separate product, built for free Elementor.
Can it show live crypto prices?
It is designed for news and education, so the demo has no prices, tickers or trading buttons. The sidebar and sections are ordinary Elementor containers if you choose to add your own widgets.
How do the story cards link to my posts?
The home page stories are Elementor cards you edit by hand (photo, headline, depth line, link), and the 'Latest posts' boxes list your newest posts automatically.
What is the difference between Free and Pro?
Free: theme + one-page website import (the Home page sections on one scrolling page with a scroll menu, imported in one click); the footer credit stays, and help comes from the AI assistant and the contact form. Pro: full multi-page website like the demo: all 15 pages, sample posts and one-click demo import, one-page mode too, credit removal (put your own copyright there), updates and ticket support. Pro Unlimited adds the AI kit.
Also for Joomla
LT Coinews also exists as a Joomla template: see the LT Coinews Joomla docs.
Ask AI about LT Coinews
Ask in your own words. The assistant answers from these docs and links the sections it used.
AI answers can be wrong; check the linked section. Never share passwords or licence keys. Open a ticket