Magazine & News Style Themes For WordPress
If you’re Looking for Magazine & News Style Themes For WordPress.? We have a fantastic selection of 12 top quality Magazine Themes all free to download. The superb quality of the themes on offer will leave you spoilt for choice because at the end of the day, you only get to use one of them. 
Whilst many of the more seasoned bloggers amongst you may be quite happy to trudge through page after page of themes in your search for a top quality theme for your blog; the newcomers to blogging would find such a practice mind numbing to say the least, therefore I decided to put together this list of what I consider to be the top 12 free magazine style themes currently on offer with WordPress. This should help make selection a lot easier for the newcomers. Using magazine style themes – pros & cons
WordPress Magazine Style Themes
This list of top free magazine style themes is a personal selection, compiled from a list of about 22 magazine themes featured on the WordPress website. A few of the themes listed below have been available for quite a while & have therefore stood the test of time, the rest however are fairly new releases & I must say that over the last few months the quality has definitely improved. There are some exceptionally nice themes in this list and I’m sure that if it is a magazine theme or news theme you are searching for, then you just may find something suitable in this list.
You may also be interested in another recent article which offers many suggestions for helping you to focus on what is important when choosing new WP Themes for your blogs.
Top 12 Magazine Style Themes For Wordpress
Note: All themes listed below are the latest versions & fully compatible with WordPress 2.9.2 & WordPress 3.0 . All downloads are guaranteed free of any virus /spyware or malware.
Arras ThemeMagazine-styled theme with tons of features. Ready for alternate styles. Includes featured posts slideshow, different post layouts, multi-tabbed sidebar, custom single meta fields for reviews and many other customisable features.
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AntisnewsShowcase content from multiple categories in a clean attractive magazine style layout. Create your own color scheme without editing any css file. Various widgetized areas on magazine home page so you can intermix widgets with your featured post content. For information on how to use go to Appearance->Antisnews Options and click the Manage Options button next to Standard Configuration Options. Switch “Operation Mode” to “Tutorial” then go to your homepage.
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CalotropisWP theme with selectable layout, right or left or holy grail or no sidebar, magazine style or traditional style, and many more options as if it’s premium theme. Custom header and body background. Tabbed column widget included.
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Cover WPA user-ready magazine style theme. Includes support for several plugins, drop-down menus, featured & popular posts, automatic thumbnail resizing, widget-ready sidebar and footer, custom header, author highlighting, social bookmarking, localized for english, romanian and german. Background image Victorian Pattern by Emily Coletta.
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Magazine BasicBuilt for WordPress 3.0. A magazine style theme with a fully customizable layout. Theme options include site width, 1 or 2 widgetized sidebars, header logo, multiple front page grid layouts, new WP 3.0 menu system, Google Analytics, pagination, drop-down menus and tons more. Also includes dynamic SEO keywords and site descriptions. Tested in Firefox 3.6, IE 7 & 8 and Safari 4.
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myMag is a WordPress Magazine Theme with 2-3 Columns, lovely Javascript effects such as Slideshow, Article Sliders, Newsticker, Image Mouseover Effects, Dropdown Menu and many more. myMag is offers 3 widget-ready sidebars, a big option set with custom logo uploader, 3 colour schemes, display options, advertising options and much more! Uses post-thumbnails to let you upload pictures very easy.
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German NewspaperA variable width (800px, 1024 px), three columns theme for WordPress in a magazin style – ready for a newspaper or news magazin webpage – with a news headline and a Hot Topics column.
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News Magazine 640Build a newspaper or magazine style blog with News Magazine Theme 640. Showcase 5 featured categories on your index page. Single posts and pages use 3 column display with one of two sidebars being movable. Add google analytics from theme options. Add title graphic in place of text graphic.
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ProducerProducer is a highly flexible theme that can be used to build a standard blog with 4 layout options (includes a photo slideshow layout) or a magazine style blog with 3 static layout options and the ability to build your own widgets based layout. 6 possible configurations for left and right sidebars.
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SuffusionAn elegant, versatile and browser-safe theme with a power-packed set of options. It has 8 widget areas, one-column, two-column and three-column fixed-width formats, 10 pre-defined templates, 16 pre-defined color schemes, each on light and dark backgrounds), two customizable multi-level drop-down menus for pages, categories and links, featured posts, widgets for Twitter, Social Networks, WP 3.0 Menus.
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SwiftSWIFT, as the name says, is the fastest loading, SEO optimized, Adsense ready, server friendly wordpress theme. It features Magazine layout,two different header styles, tabbed interface, two featured post sliders, 6 custom widgets. Bundled with lot of options to build your own unique, professional and browser-safe WordPress Theme, SWIFT is the perfect choice for those who need a powerful and customizable theme.
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Technical SpeechA magazine like layout, developers and writers friendly theme. Compatible with WordPress 2.7 and greater. Theme options, 3 dynamic sidebars, dropdown menus with jQuery. Updated : Multiple headers, a third widget added, ‘About Me’ box fully customizable, totally revised look…
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Note: You may also like to checkout the Arjuna X Theme that we recently reviewed, although it is not a magazine style theme, I think anyone with a little bit of knowledge on php coding, could use Arjuna as a basis for a fantastic magazine theme.
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Posted by Steve Nickson
on Jul 2 2010. Filed under Wordpress Themes.
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