60 Free, Yet Premium Quality WordPress Magazine News Themes
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!
1.ImpreZZ – Free WordPress theme
Released: March 10, 2009This 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).
2. MagZine – Magazine Style Free WordPress Theme
Released: March 12, 2009
2.1. Mag.Press
mag.Press is ‘Magazine’ theme from Obox, joining the likes of their two best sellers InkDrop and Press.
3.“Magazeen”: Free Magazine-Look WordPress Theme
Released: February, 2009
4.FREEmium WordPress Theme
Released: January, 2009
5. Fonta – Free Mind Blowing Vintage-Magazine WordPress Theme
Released: March 17, 2009
6. Elegant Designs Simplistic 4 WordPress Theme
Released: August 5, 2009An 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.
7. YageZine Magazine style WordPress theme
Released: May 3, 2009Magazine 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.
8. ZinRex WordPress Magazine Theme
Released: March 27, 2009
9. IsoTherm News Magazine Theme
Released: March 29, 2009
9.1. Premium Pixels
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.
10. Potrika Magazine WordPress Theme
Released: March 30, 2009Potrika 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.
11. Turn Out Mag WordPress Theme
Released: March 27, 2009
12. BlogStarter Free WordPress Theme
Released: July 3, 2009
13. Arras Theme – Free Magazine-Styled WordPress Theme
Released: Year 2008-2009Arras 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!
14. ART-MAGAZINE 1.0.5 Theme
Released: January, 2009
15. GenM 1 Magazine Theme
Released: July 22, 2009
15.1. Miniml Press
16. Aliva Press WordPress Theme
Released: Year 2009
17.WordPress Theme: Magasin Uno
Released: January 24, 2009Magasin 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.
18. WordPress Theme: Masunurin
Released: August 17, 2009Masunurin 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.
19. Marikit WordPress Theme
Released: July 26, 2009Marikit 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.
19.1. Magazinum ($69)
Magazinum is a stylish theme with an innovative design which is perfect for magazine websites of any topics, like: fashion, celebrities, movies and entertainment.
20. Marangal WordPress Theme
Released: June 24, 2009Marangal 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.
21.Hybrid News Theme
Released: Year 2009This 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+.
22. Milano – Free Premium WordPress Theme
Released: May 1, 2009This 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.
22.1. Widezine
23. Epsilon – Free Magazine WordPress Theme
Released: January 30, 2009This 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.
24. ZinMag Primus
Released: January 3, 2009Primus is a magazine style wordpress theme. This is designed with a light color layout.
25. Masigasig WordPress Theme
Released: June 18, 2009Masigasig 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.
26.WordPress Grid Focus Theme
Released: January, 2009Grid 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.
26.1. MiniMagazine ($65)
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
27. Magazine Basic 2.4 Theme
Released: May 26, 2009
28.WordPress Magazine Theme : Mimbo
Released: January 30, 2009MIMBO 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.
29.Arthemia Free: WordPress Magazine Theme Released
Released: May, 2008Arthemia 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
30.Purple Fever – Premium Free WordPress Blog Theme
Released: Year 2008Purple 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.
31.WPFreemium – Premium in Quality, Freemium in Price
Released: May 7, 2008WPFreemium 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.
32.WP Revolution-X Wodpress Theme
Released: May 19, 2008A 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.
33.Ultimate Baseball Theme for WordPress
Released: April 8, 2008Ultimate 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.
34.Free Magazine WordPress Theme: OpenBook
Released: May 19, 2008Inspired 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.
35.Branford Magazine
Released: January 28, 2008
35.1. Periodic
36.The Morning After
Released: February 14, 2009The 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.
37.Wynton Magazine Theme
Released: March 20, 2008
38. Magadine WordPress Theme
Released: May 12, 2008
39.Langit WordPress Theme
Released: March 31, 2008
40.BlueGrey WordPress Theme
Released: May 6, 2008
41.Free WordPress Theme – Box Tube
Released: March 7, 2008Box-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.
42.WordPress Theme: Magaling
Released: December, 2008Magaling 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.
43. ZinePress WordPress Magazine Theme
Released: September 5, 2008ZinePress isn’t really an overcomplicated magazine theme, but she’s not exactly a run-of-the-mill blog design either.
44. Zinmag Tribune WordPress Magazine Theme
Released: December 10, 2008Zinmag 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.
45. Forexpress Free WordPress theme
Released: November 20, 2008Forexpress is a new magazine theme designed with financial world and politics niche. The theme is powered with theme options page for easy setup.
46. Zinmag Futura Magazine WordPress Theme
Released: November 18, 2008Zinmag-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.
46.1. Advanced Newspaper
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.
47. Monochrome Gallery
Released: March 5, 2008Monochrome 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.
48. Shiva Free WordPress Theme
Released: Year 2009
49. Zoxengen WordPress Theme
Released: April 28, 2008Zoxengen 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.
50. Androida Business/Blog Theme
Released: January 29, 2009Androida 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.
51. The Web News WordPress Theme
Released: January 14, 2009
Duplex - $35
52. Brightnews WordPress Theme
Released: June 18, 2008Brightnews comes up with 3 big features: 1. It’s magazine style, 2. It’s Free and 3. It’s noob ready.
53. Free Theme: WP NewsMag
Released: June 2, 2008
54. Conceditor WP Gold WordPress Theme
Released: May 7, 2008
55. Equilibrium WordPress Magazine Theme
Released: November 23, 2008
56. Remedy Free WordPress Theme
Released: November 20, 2008
57. Versatility Lite WordPress Theme
Released: November 30, 2008Versatility 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
58. Small Magazine WordPress Theme
Released: Jun 17, 2008
59.Linoluna: Magazine-style Theme for WordPress
Released: December, 2007Bored 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.
60.The Original Premium News Theme
Released: November, 2007
