News like Wordpress themes that can be setup this way?

[SantiSantana]

Hi everyone. It's great to be back after a fairly long period away due to health and family reasons. I'm now back and ready to continue with my efforts.

I have a question I hope you can answer. I'm looking for a news type Wordpress theme that will allow me to do a few things:

1.- A three column, Huffpost like layout would probably be the best.

2.- I need the ability to get widgets to grab feeds from specific sources. In my case since it's going to be a chess site I might want a widget to grab the feeds from an ongoing tournament thats being streamed live on a widget, a chess problem from a problems/puzzles site on another widget and so on. I would be redirecting the feeds as needed myself obviously.

3.- I need it to be fairly easy to configure. To get an idea how easy I need it to be, on my first blog which is an autoblog on heatmap theme it took me forever to figure out how to get amazon because I couldn't figure out that the ad slots were actually widgets that got activated once you modified them and put them into place. I was trying to just copy paste the code into a standard post and trying to place it correctly :P

Thanks very much in advance for your help!

PS: For the record. I did try using the search function. Maybe I wasn't using the right keywords. In any case I couldn't find the specifics I'm looking for.

[Yoyok179]

my suggestoin is use thesis themes, looks work well for me,
easy to setup and customoze like you want
it easy to create and add any widget

[SantiSantana]

Does anyone have any alternatives to Thesis? not that I'm against it, just would like to have a few alternatives to compare.