With all the different Magazine Style WordPress Themes out there it’s sometimes hard to find the right one for your particular blog, magazine or news website. Every theme is designed and built with its own styles and features. So how do you decide on which magazine style WordPress theme is right for your project? I’ll help you narrow down your search by showing you some of the best magazine style WordPress themes I have come across.
When looking for a WordPress theme, you really want to avoid the free ones if possible as they are highly overused and most of them are of a low quality. You’ll find that you can get a great premium WordPress theme for around $35 and they are usually of a much higher quality. It’s a pretty good investment if you ask me and it also means that your website will have a unique design as many of these premium magazine style themes are highly customizable. You can change the colours, layout, images and background without writing any code. You can get more details about any of the themes below or buy them by simply clicking on the theme images. Hope that helps and best of luck on your magazine style theme search!
Deadline – Premium News WordPress Theme: $35
Deadline is a clean and simple WordPress news or blog theme packed with different options, features and widgets that allow you to control the look and feel of your website. The minimal design allows it to be used on a large variety of blogs. The custom widgets allow you to add your Twitter feed, videos, photos and even advertisements. A simple but powerful theme.
Big Feature – Stylish Magazine WordPress Theme: $30
This theme is a bit on the fancy side with a huge article image on the homepage to really make an impact on readers. It uses a minimalist design and includes custom style fonts. There are a bunch of page templates and lots of widgets to help customise your site and add functionality. It’s optimised for search engines and you can even change the colour scheme if you like.
Magnifizine – Business Magazine WordPress Theme: $30
A very modern and high-tech looking theme designed for technology and business magazines and blogs. It has quite a few different features including a large custom image slider on the homepage that comes in multiple sizes. It can even play video from YouTube, Vimeo, FLV and various other formats making it a great theme for video heavy blogs and magazines. It comes with a light and a dark skin and allows you to choose from a range of custom fonts too which is great.
Newscast – WordPress Magazine & Blog: $35
Great for modern blogs and magazines this theme comes with three fantastic image and news slide shows. There are multiple page templates to use and you can choose from four different skins to customise the look and feel of your website.
Periodic – News Portal Theme: $35
A sharp professional theme custom-built for online magazines, news portals and large blogs. This clean elegant design is feature rich with a multitude of options and widgets including recent posts, jQuery sliders, YouTube and Vimeo support, breadcrumbs and 18 different skins.
Habitat- Blog and Portfolio Theme: $35
This theme has a lot of new features and is best suited for personal Blogs, small Magazines and Portfolio Websites.The layout and style is highly customizable as you can edit colours, layouts and fonts in the admin panel with the click of your mouse, no coding required. You can pull in your Twitter feed along with news and advertisements too via custom widgets which is a cool bonus.
Convergence- Community Blog WordPress Theme: $25
This sharp and sleek WordPress theme is perfectly suited for community blogs and news sites. It has a great layout but isn’t as customizable as some of the other magazine themes out there. It does have all the basic features though including Flickr and Twitter integration, related and popular posts as well as social sharing buttons. A solid theme to build your community around.
Magzimus- Magazine Theme: $30
A flexible and powerful theme that concentrates on functionality, perfect for blogs and news portals. Via a simple interface you can change your website’s layout, colours and images making it easy for you to help your site stand out from the rest. It has automatic image resizing which takes the hassle out of uploading and resizing images which is a neat feature.
Fastblog- Mobile Magazine Theme: $30
A slick modern WordPress theme geared towards professional blogs and magazines. This theme is particularly good for bloggers that require mobile support as it has its own iPhone App. Another unique feature of this theme is that it allows you to very quickly post an article, image, link, audio, video or quote even from your mobile phone. The 12 colour schemes give you enough flexibility to customize your website accordingly.
Adham Dannaway
Web Designer and Front End Developer with a passion for web design, coding, blogging, WordPress and chewing gum. Check out my web design portfolio and follow me on Twitter and Facebook!
Wow.. Amazing Collection of Magazine style Themes. i love to see all of them. They are all very good especially the Mobile Magazine theme. love it. Thank you very much for sharing.
No worries, these are some solid Magazine style WordPress themes