JNews vs Ohio

jnews vs ohio

JNews and Ohio are both available through Themeforest and are therefore direct competitors. That is certainly the case since both themes can be used for the construction of very nicely looking blogs and shops. JNews vs Ohio, which is the better theme? We start with JNews which does not mean it would be better.

The JNews Theme

The JNews Theme was launched in 2017 and has been doing very well ever since on Themeforest. This theme has recently had a major upgrade and is now completely full of the so-called builders and I can already say that the theme must be one of the best for creating blogs and news websites.

JNews' Rating

JNews has since been sold 17k times and is therefore doing good business. I think this theme will rise in the rankings on Themeforest. It has a very strong rating there of 4.86 out of 5. Few themes exceed that.

jnews theme review rating

Its Loading Speed

Below you can see that the values for speed in Google Page Speed are 99 for mobile and 100 for desktop. I have not tested myself, the builders of the theme indicate this themselves. I assume that at least an elite cache plugin was used for this.

jnews theme review speed loading

JNews' Page Builders

elementor and wp bakery pagebuilder

The JNews theme serves you with 2 different page builders, Elementor and the WP-Bakery page builder. I would definitely use the first of the 2 if I were you. In all the “Builders” below you work with Elementor, a very good page builder.

JNews Theme Review: Header Builder

You can see in the image below how easy it is to place everything in the header in the places you want. All good themes have a header builder and so does JNews. In addition, you can also choose from a large number of standard headers that you can set.

jnews theme review header builder

JNews Category Builder

You see, the category builder uses Elementor. Customize your category pages with the greatest of ease. Styling requires no technical knowledge.

jnews theme review category builder

Mega Menu Builder

Again with Elementor as the basis, the Mega Menu Builder. You can literally fill in all the boxes with the content you want there. It just doesn’t come easy. A cool tool.

jnews theme review megamenu builder

JNews' Style Editor

Right click on any item on the page and you will get many options that you can adjust, for example: margin, background, padding, position, animation and much more.

jnews theme review style editor

Demo Websites 67+ and Homepage 150+

The number of 67 for full website demos is more than enough. In the case of JNews, practically all of these demos are for blogs, news websites, podcast websites or video websites. The theme has beautiful layouts available that you can install with a few clicks. There are also 150+ different homepage layouts, so only homepage. You have more than enough choice with JNews.

jnews theme demo websites

A Video-Based Site

jnews theme video websites

JNews makes it easy to create a video-based website. This theme includes a lot of features that will allow you to create a video-focused site inspired by Youtube, Dailymotion and Vimeo.

  • Thumbnail Preview Video
  • Frontend Uploader
  • One Video Template
  • Video Modules New
  • Profil of the User
  • Subscribe to User
  • Video Playlist
  • You can find many more here

Paywriter System in JNews

Let others write for your site. WordPress makes it easy to manage author payments. JNews+ Pay writer system makes it easy to track author’s payments. I would say, this is perfect for the type of website one is going to build with JNews.

jnews theme paywriter system

Paywall now with Woo-subscriptions

JNews has added a paywall to WooCommerce Subscriptions. This was requested by everyone. JNews Paywall now accepts WooCommerce Subscriptions payments. JNews clearly pays attention to their customers.

jnews theme review paywall woo subscriptions

JNews Theme Review Conclusion

The Jnews theme is packed with special features for blogs and news sites, which makes this theme simply one of the best of its kind. I can’t show all these features here, you can see the rest on their own website. It should be clear that JNews is an absolute must for people who want to build and run a blog or news website.

Let’s continue this Ohio vs JNews comparison with the Ohio Theme.

The Ohio Theme

The Ohio theme is still very new compared to other themes in the top sales on the Themeforest marketplace. Where most top themes came out between 2013 and 2015 is Ohio from the beginning of 2020. So the theme made advances very quickly, which is due to a number of points, we will come back to that in a moment.

Ohio Theme's Rating

ohio theme review rating

A rating of 4.85 out of 5 can measure itself with the rating of the best themes on Themeforest. Ohio not only has a good rating but also good sales figures for a fairly new theme. The theme will certainly rise even further, they do a lot of good.

Ohio's Page Builders

elementor and wp bakery pagebuilder

Look, here we immediately have something that the builders of the theme do very well. They don’t come with a sloppy own page builder but use 2 very reputable page builders in Elementor and WP-Bakery. As a professional web designer I prefer to work with the best page builders out there and not always with someone else I don’t know by heart. I assume others think the same.

Fast loading Times

In addition to very cleanly written code, incredibly fast loading times are a must for themes these days. The fastest theme I know is Astra, but nowadays all top-selling themes are very fast. The Ohio theme scores very well in this area and can compete with the best.

ohio theme review loading speed

In order to quickly display content in browsers also on mobile layouts, image sets must be prepared so as not to have to show oversized images. Ohio does all this perfectly.

ohio theme review adaptive images

Webshops with Ohio Theme

ohio theme review webshops woocommerce 2

Also a must nowadays if you offer a theme, is that it works perfectly with the Woocommerce plugin to be able to build shops with it. In addition, buyers of Woo-Themes like to see beautiful extra features for shops such as Ajax Cart, Swatches, a nicely working Currency Switcher, Sticky Products and more. With Ohio you are in the right place in this regard, the theme gives very good thought to the shopping functions and has it all.

ohio theme review webshops woocommerce

Ohio Theme and Blogging

The Ohio Theme also allows one to build great blogs. We are slowly finding out that Ohio is a fast riser because the theme is very all-round and has all the important things in it in a cool way.

ohio theme review blogging layouts

Ohio theme review: Demos

By its own admission, Ohio Theme has 50+ full site demos as well as many pre-built sections that you can use anywhere on your site.

ohio theme review demos

325+ Elements

The combined number of widgets or elements for Elementor and WP-Bakery are over 325. This includes standard elements and custom/new ones by Ohio/Figma.

ohio theme review elements

Menu-Styles for Ohio

Ohio has ready-made menus that you can set up in your website with 1 click. Further adjustments can then be made, but this is usually not necessary. So the Ohio theme has its own header builder shines. The strange thing is that it is in Elementor, the page builder that uses the theme. At least they don’t advertise it.

ohio theme review menu styles

Portfolios

ohio theme review portfolios

Ohio is not very extensive for portfolios, but it has not been forgotten either. I would definitely use a different theme for a portfolio site but Ohio can be used if you are not too demanding.

Font Styles in Ohio Theme

Something that is really well arranged in this theme are the font styles. You can use virtually all Google, Adobe and other fonts in your websites without having to upload anything.

ohio theme review fonts

Ohio Theme Review Conclusion

The Ohio Theme is a complete theme, exactly what we thought from the start in this review based on the beautiful rating. The 2 page builders in it are very good, and the theme also offers everything to create any type of website. The theme will certainly be improved in upgrades for years to come. Ohio is definitely recommended, although there are much better themes of course.

JNews vs Ohio Conclusion

I like JNews better, it is just a bit better overall specially for blogs. But there is a small problem, these themes want to see a separate expensive license for every website you want to build with it. This will quickly cost you a lot of money. You are better off with Astra or Divi that can be used on an unlimited sites and are also even better and more stable themes.