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It happened so, that I’ve got 2 WordPress related articles in the row. Again I worked very hard on this one post this time offering 60 really premium like WordPress magazine news themes. Such themes are very handy if you have to display a lot of information on your site. For example this site should implement much more magazine type features, which still are on process – as featured slideshow, better sidebar usage showing even more posts from archives. Magazine type themes help to display and catch visitors attention making him stay on the page longer – which rewards in page-views and visit length time.
Well, just go through this article, enjoy quality and huge images and pick your new theme! And to explain myself, I did images so big because I wanted to give the best overview comparing rapidly all the themes just scrolling through this article, not visiting every page one by one. Of course, checking out demo pages give a lot better overview, but usually take a long time too. One more thing – I am adding also release date,month or year to each theme, so you can know how fresh and compatible with new WordPress versions that theme might be. Enjoy!
By the way if you’re finding these free themes a bit unprofessional or not updated, consider buying some premium theme for such little as 30-40$. The good thing about premium themes is that they always offer updates and support in case there are some problems with customization..and believe me there always are such, here is an article with top 40 premium magazine themes!
Released: March 10, 2009
This is a 3 column based design with a third dimension for the second column. This theme supports wordpress 2.7.1 and works well with the zdcomments widget (which is used to display the top commenters).
Released: March 12, 2009
mag.Press is ‘Magazine’ theme from Obox, joining the likes of their two best sellers InkDrop and Press.
Released: February, 2009
Released: January, 2009
Released: March 17, 2009
Released: August 5, 2009
An elegant design with a clean and simplistic look. Comes with fully customizable theme options page, Adsense ready, twitter ready, widget ready sidebar and jquery tooltip.
Released: May 3, 2009
Magazine style WordPress theme with built-in featured slider, featured video, and lots of other features. It is a free theme.The left sidebar is very useful.
Released: March 27, 2009
Released: March 29, 2009
The Premium Pixels theme is perfect for the blogger who takes pride in their appearance. This theme has appeared in numerous design galleries while serving PremiumPixels.com and has gained countless ‘nods of approval’ from those in the know. Now it’s all yours.
Released: March 30, 2009
Potrika is a Magazine Style mixed column free wordpress theme featuring a great combination of usability and outlook. The theme is 100% widget, adsense, feedburner ready, features a editable .PSD logo and works with all major web browsers.
Released: March 27, 2009
Released: July 3, 2009
Released: Year 2008-2009
Arras Theme is a WordPress theme designed for news or review sites with lots of customisable features. It comes with 5 different news layouts to customise your front page, and an integrated theme options page for you to adjust the theme to your liking. Best of all, you do not need to pay a single cent to download it!
Released: January, 2009
Released: July 22, 2009
Released: Year 2009
Released: January 24, 2009
Magasin Uno is a premium quality WordPress theme with Featured Post Gallery, Feedburner Email Subscription, Twitter Account integration, Popular Posts, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks easily customize via an Option Page.
Released: August 17, 2009
Masunurin is a featured-packed and multi-colored free WordPress theme with TweetMeme retweet button. It has 2 columns, with an easy Options page for customization. Loaded with Social Bookmarks button, Twitter Account integration, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer without using a plugin or custom field, Adsense ready with lots of advertising blocks.
Released: July 26, 2009
Marikit is a featured-packed and multi-colored free WordPress theme with TweetMeme retweet button. It has 3 columns, with an easy Options page for customization. Loaded with Social Bookmarks button, Twitter Account integration, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer without using a plugin or custom field, Adsense ready with lots of advertising blocks.
Magazinum is a stylish theme with an innovative design which is perfect for magazine websites of any topics, like: fashion, celebrities, movies and entertainment.
Released: June 24, 2009
Marangal is a featured-packed, multi-colored and 3 columns free WordPress theme. It has an easy Options page to customize your theme. It is loaded with Feedburner Email Subscription, Twitter Account integration, YouTube Video integration, Flickr Thumbnails, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks.
Released: Year 2009
This theme is meant to be a theme purely for news site. It has extra widget sections, double navigation menus, drop-down menus, a featured slider, and pretty much anything you’d need to run a complete news site. It was developed for WordPress 2.8+.
Released: May 1, 2009
This is an elegant theme designed with attractive color combination for blogers who look to make money online via ads. This theme is suitable for any niche. The theme layout is stylish and dynamic contents modules like, image slider, tabbed content area are built into it.
Released: January 30, 2009
This is an elegant theme designed for bloggers who like light colored or bright colored themes. This theme is suitable for any niche.The theme layout is stylish and dynamic contents elements are built into it.
Released: January 3, 2009
Primus is a magazine style wordpress theme. This is designed with a light color layout.
Released: June 18, 2009
Masigasig is a featured-packed, multi-colored and 3 columns free WordPress theme. It has an easy Options page to customize your theme. It is loaded with Featured Content Gallery Slider, Feedburner Email Subscription, Twitter Account integration, YouTube Video integration, Flickr Thumbnails, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks.
Released: January, 2009
Grid Focus is a three column widget enabled WordPress 2.6 or 2.7+ compatible WordPress theme. Prominent navigation bar with room to share important pages. The latest update is completely optimized and stripped of any unnecessary code allowing for complete customizability.
Create a magazine website for News, entertainment or any other purpose in WordPress. This theme with a minimalist design and great typography focuses on content, and will give your site that unique look
Released: May 26, 2009
Released: January 30, 2009
MIMBO is a clean, customizable magazine-style theme for WordPress. It’s also a simple framework which can be modified with child themes, discussed further down in the documentation. Read more about the latest features.
Released: May, 2008
Arthemia is combining a magazine and a weblog into one; it is not too magazine-ish nor too blog-ish.
The front page of Arthemia shows the headline and featured post of yours along with the pictorial representation, that’s the magazine style, while the rest of your post will be shows sequentially just like a usual weblog. In the middle of the front page, Arthemia has a nice blue-and-black category bar which will help your readers exploring you site. At the bottom, Arthemia is outfitted with a blog must-have section, a three-list of favorite posts
Released: Year 2008
Purple Fever is a fresh 2-column styled premium WordPress theme by WTM, created for sites that wish to establish a lasting impact with visitors. Users looking to maximize their Google adsense or affiliate revenue will also find this theme of great promise. Whether you plan to customize this theme or not, it’s sure to leave your readers impressed.
Released: May 7, 2008
WPFreemium is a two column WordPress Theme heavily designed for multi-authored blogs.
WPFreemium features a deep integration of Gravatar images for all post authors, author profiles, and comments. Some of the primary goals for creating this theme was for it to be light weight, fast, and really highlight on the contributing authors.
Released: May 19, 2008
A 4-column/grid WordPress theme, fully widgetized. There are effectively 4 widget ready sidebar areas in this theme. Posts are displayed in a newspaper or magazine style grid format, with the first post shown full width. Probably works best with 3 or 5 posts per page.
Released: April 8, 2008
Ultimate Baseball comes pre-skinned for the Boston Red Sox, but built-in control panel options let you change imagery and scorecard info and blog for any team!
Could be also good magazine theme for everything with a little bit customization.
Released: May 19, 2008
Inspired by the well-known Mimbo theme by Darren Hoyt, OpenBook is a free Magazine style WordPress theme, which doesn’t require you to manually edit a file.
Released: January 28, 2008
Released: February 14, 2009
The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme.
Released: March 20, 2008
Released: May 12, 2008
Released: March 31, 2008
Released: May 6, 2008
Released: March 7, 2008
Box-tube are a 2 column theme with widgetize sidebar and widgetize 3 column footer. Box Space should enough to accomodate 250px wide ads such as banner or inputing 4-6 125×125px banner are also a breeze.
Released: December, 2008
Magaling is a premium quality WordPress theme with Twitter status integration. Additional features include Featured Post Gallery, Feedburner Email Subscription, Popular Posts, Ajax Tabbed Sidebar, Automatic Thumbnail Resizer, Adsense ready with advertising blocks easily customizable via an Option Page.
Released: September 5, 2008
ZinePress isn’t really an overcomplicated magazine theme, but she’s not exactly a run-of-the-mill blog design either.
Released: December 10, 2008
Zinmag tribune is the latest magazine theme from the zinmag series. This theme is designed with a newspaper layout. It is bundled with all the premium theme features and a custom admin panel to enable its different modules. Free support is available via the support forums.
Released: November 20, 2008
Forexpress is a new magazine theme designed with financial world and politics niche. The theme is powered with theme options page for easy setup.
Released: November 18, 2008
Zinmag-futura is a magazine theme from jinsona designs. This is a 3 column magazine wordpress theme designed to power up your site as a powerfull CMS. Theme is bundled with lot of cool features you would like to have on your site. It has a featured post carousal, featured post section, A headlines corousal,Twitter badge, flash tag clouds, featured video section, miniposts with thumbnails, mini admin panel, etc. The theme comes with a setup guide to help you customise it to suite your site best.
Online Newspaper is just a step ahead now. With Advance Newspaper you can set up and run your very own e-newspaper site just in matter of minutes only.
Released: March 5, 2008
Monochrome Gallery is a free widgetized theme for WordPress packaged with an author archives page, AJAX slideshow, categorized posts with thumbnails on the homepage and a CSS framework to aid in customization.
Released: Year 2009
Released: April 28, 2008
Zoxengen wordpress theme is a 3 column widgetize theme with theme options. Theme post styling are also optimize with theme option backend global font config. you can change the font and headline style anyway you like.
Released: January 29, 2009
Androida is a business template based on wordpress. It is based on Android phone niche. The theme also comes with an optional blog layout. Users are given the option to choose between business template layout and regular blog template layout. Theme is powered with featured content glider, featured posts, featured video, banner ads, widgetized sidebars, feedburner subscription form etc.
Released: January 14, 2009
Released: June 18, 2008
Brightnews comes up with 3 big features: 1. It’s magazine style, 2. It’s Free and 3. It’s noob ready.
Released: June 2, 2008
Released: May 7, 2008
Released: November 23, 2008
Released: November 20, 2008
Released: November 30, 2008
Versatility Lite is a two column, ad-ready, widgetized theme. The theme includes a ‘Featured Post’ section, drop down CSS menus, integrated related posts, social bookmarking buttons, and much more
Released: Jun 17, 2008
Released: December, 2007
Bored of usual WordPress template? Well, magazine-style themes is now becoming a trend. With Linoluna, you will be brought to a new level of blogging. It is a simple and neat theme for a magazine-styled blog. The theme use the WordPress’ template tags quite extensively but still, it is very easy to use. Linoluna best suits a multi-author WordPress blog.
Released: November, 2007
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Dainis Graveris is 23 years old blogger and designer, founder of 1stWebDesigner, now more silently managing everything behind the scenes. He usually hangs out in Twitter tweeting design related links and chatting with people. If you have any questions or feedback that's the best place to start! Cheers!
Sunday, July 31st, 2011 19:29
I’m totally new to the blog world. I am not yet sure what blog type suits my needs best? Friends advised me to try Expression Engine. Do you personally think the current version of Blogengine is better?
Monday, July 18th, 2011 09:26
Those are some outstanding templates. Site has been bookmarked!
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 12:45
This is an amazing list, just what I was looking for. Thank you, Dainis!
Friday, July 8th, 2011 21:32
I like the structure theme. Simple and clean so people can find what they wnat fast. Page should load faster also.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2011 11:04
Share extremely beneficial for all people who like the look of a very great blog.
Thank you very I am saying
Friday, June 24th, 2011 01:27
VERY nice collection – thanks for scouring the web for all of these magazine templates so I didn’t have to!
Saturday, June 4th, 2011 04:46
Those are some outstanding templates. Site has been bookmarked!
Friday, June 3rd, 2011 23:02
What a great collection of Themes. I’ve bookmarked your page. I’m moving more and more away from static sites and am always looking for new WP themes. This list is gold. Thanks very much.
Monday, May 30th, 2011 03:20
Wow great templates and best of all they are free!
Have you thought of selling them or start a subscription service?
Monday, May 23rd, 2011 19:03
Thanks for this amazing list. That safe much time for me ;)
Monday, May 23rd, 2011 01:21
I like MagZine theme very much – such minimalistic themes works great!
Saturday, May 21st, 2011 03:41
Excellent list, tnx!!!! Just like my website, multicolor, modern
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 16:52
This is exactly what I was looking for. It was difficult to find some good magazine-like free wordpress themes on Google, until I found your post, thanks again.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 16:41
These are all really great templates for wordpress. . I’ve gain ideas here in your post. I really want to use one of them. Thank you.
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 13:10
The Morning After is nice theme.It shares new ideas.I will definately follow this.
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 11:13
These are all really great templates for wordpress I really want to use one of them. Any body know what can I download it from hotfile ?
Friday, May 13th, 2011 17:32
Amazing themes. Good job! I’d like to make one soon. I’ve gain ideas here in your post. Thank you!
Thursday, May 12th, 2011 19:34
Iam searching for long time for these kinds of layouts…Thank uuu very much really :-)
Thursday, May 12th, 2011 12:26
Finally some good stuff, There is not alot of websites, that provide free premium templates, gonna try some of them, design is really awsome. Cheers from Slovenia
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 05:56
Excellent templates. I enjoyed looking at them. Great stuff.
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 05:54
Great templates. Thanks for the posts. Good stuff.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 21:10
Great templates, tnx for sharing with us. I find some very interasting and useful themes here.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 23:11
Nice list of themes. I love seeing the themes like these used for sites other than news. I took a “News” theme and used it for our taxi company. there are some really creative modifications of these online.
Saturday, April 16th, 2011 19:53
i think aras theme is the best premium theme so far. it is free and suitable for video blog
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KatyPundit
Sunday, December 26th, 2010 13:15
These are great! I am jumping on several of those web2feel themes. Thanks for sharing these!
Sean
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 11:38
Great site. Lots of choice, still havent picked a new one for mine though :-S
Christy
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 09:43
Awesome themes. The arthemia was just what I was looking for.
Thanks a million for saving me time and of course money! ;)
rita
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 18:32
Great themes and valuable info. Thanks
Farooq
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 05:34
i have bookmarked the page whenever i need website for my client i will use of the theme in your collection..
marta
Monday, September 27th, 2010 11:24
this great! i love it
wawan
Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 16:13
Nice Themes, thanks for share
Ari Widianto
Saturday, May 1st, 2010 03:11
WOW! I loved your wp magazine. Nice themes and FREE :P
yeliz
Monday, April 19th, 2010 21:36
beautiful really hard to decide themes
EdZee
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009 16:09
I am using Mimbo 3.0 theme in my blog for almost 9 months now and it’s really a nice one. I never knew there are other nice themes until I came across this article. Your blogs are very good references for people involved in web designing.
Kristi Hines
Saturday, September 5th, 2009 07:33
There are many themes on this list I haven’t seen before… it’s the perfect reference for my WordPress customizations. Thanks for compiling yet another awesome resource for people looking for great themes!
arramuse
Friday, September 25th, 2009 14:32
Ogh…. Great !!!
thanks for compiled !!!
Steph
Friday, September 25th, 2009 23:05
Great selection, Turn out mag et Arras Theme are beautiful.
Sebastian
Monday, September 28th, 2009 18:05
thank you for sharing… super!!!!!!!
duone
Sunday, September 27th, 2009 17:28
Thanks! very fancy and nice to have for my theme collection :-)
Shovan
Monday, August 31st, 2009 14:12
Thanks for the awesome post
Brian Freire
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 10:13
Nice themes. Thanks for sharing!
Holli C. Buck
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 17:29
Absolutely stellar picks in this post! This is my first time coming to your blog, but I’m definitely going to read through your posts. Lots of useful information!
Joe
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 13:06
I’ve cleaned up the Imprezz theme. It’s hosted here http://code.google.com/p/imprezz/ Feel free to file bugs/suggestions.
Thanks
James
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 20:58
I love these themes. They seem to be well planned and profesionally made. I will certainly consider using several of them. Especially the Marikit theme! I love it!
Luis Lopez
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 18:34
Another excellent list you share with us here, awesome that some of the themes are really totally free….
Gerhard
Friday, August 28th, 2009 22:20
This is a wonderful collection of magazine themes.
My favorite magazine theme one stop for wordpress.
Chinmoy
Thursday, August 27th, 2009 11:28
Amazing list. Just used one for my college blog. Looks a thousand times better than before. Nice work.
Polorise
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 19:55
great set of themes, have been looking for something for a specific project & just found it. Moreover, your now in my RSS.
keep up the good work
Jose
Sunday, May 8th, 2011 17:09
great set of themes, have been looking for something for a specific project & just found it. Moreover, your now in my RSS.
Albert
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 05:06
Thank a lot! I profited greatly from your articles!
Asesoria Sevilla
Friday, April 1st, 2011 17:56
Thank a lot too
Jose