See the top 10 best Wordpress Magazine-style Themes that can't be missed in summer 2012!
Before you re-design your site (or simply need inspiration), you've got to check these out - simply drop 'em in and you've got instant Web 2.0 goodness..
A simple look at the demo of Source Theme will justify that this theme simply kicks so much ass that you can't put it into words. An oversized in-your-face front page banner scrolls through featured content with overlayed captions, followed by four main color-coded featurettes. Recent articles and sub-articles neatly pack the area underneath it all, in what can be defined as the coolest wordpress theme most of us will ever come across.
Each individual Wordpress page within the theme is beautifully presented in all of its web 2.0 glory, with a structured right-hand double column showcasing recent and popular content, and all of the other great inter-linking elements we all know and love. Nested commenting makes your comments structured and easy to follow. Did I mention how cool this theme looks?!
Magazine Made takes the concept of the Wordpress magazine theme and ramps it up with a whole slew of bells and whistles that you've got to see for yourself.
It's rare to find a magazine theme packed with this much intricacy -- a "Don't Miss" section slowly marquees posts of your choosing, while a slider displays your featured articles, complete with 5-star review (almost forgot to mention, this is a full review site as well!)
One thing that really sets this theme apart is how you can truly customize the inner categories of your Wordpress site easily, due to this theme's simple backend. Finally, a way to get rid of the "uniformity" that most Wordpress themes have, and bring more personalization to each of your site's sections.
It looks kinda...sorta...like Pinterest, but not quite. Then again, it looks a lot like someone clipped out little square pieces from a magazine. That's the concept for "The Style," a truly different magazine-style Wordpress theme you'll hardly find anywhere else.
Big, bold, colorful text call attention to each clipping's category and date, while a simple mouse-over will lightbox that particular article. Click it, and you'll get taken to a decently sized article, complete with comments and sidebar.
"The Style" is an ideal Wordpress theme for any fashion, celeb or art-themed magazine site, or anything else that requires something that looks entirely different than the traditional website layout you've grown accustomed to.
Your quintessential Wordpress magazine, drawing heavy attention to thumbnail images on its home page. Each image comes with its own text overlay, displaying the title and information. Draw attention to a set number of featured posts for the slimmed down slider box. Non-featured images are displayed underneath (and via the 'search' feature) with 60x60 thumbs.
It's an advertising-friendly theme, as you'll notice: plenty of ample spots to insert AdSense or affiliate boxes/banners. Subsequent Wordpress posts are simple yet clean, with plenty of whitespace and an orderly comments area. Spectrum is a great theme for any run-of-the-mill magazine theme, simply because it's so easy to modify for web designers of all proficiencies. Make it look however you want.
Lifestyle is a super modern, clean Wordpress magazine theme that works well for any sites pertaining to travel & hotel news, local sites, and most notably -- it is ideally set up for affiliate stores, too. The possibilities for Amazon or eBay affiliate storefronts is endless, thanks to the simplistic layout and composition of the home page.
Extraordinarily easy to modify, the theme practically needs no modification beyond swapping out images and possibly colors to fit your brand. Drop in your email list script, AdSense ads or anything else you need, and this will create a beautiful site in very little time, compared to most other themes.
This theme wastes no space with expanded headers or scrolling boxes: the articles are front-and-center with no BS to spare! Your featured article rests on the prime spot: the upper left, with an random post scroller to the right, and RSS subscription calls to action underneath.
Recent posts are neatly followed thereafter with custom thumbnails, which can be easily inserted in the backend. This is one of the more advertisement-centric magazine themes out there, with plenty of places to include your box and banner ads.
Individual pages utilize valuable white space to draw attention to your articles, with integrated sharing features and a fully widget-ready sidebar. Nested comments make your readers' feedback easy to follow. A neat drop-down menu system takes you through the site, with search result pages that include thumbnails for each article. This magazine theme is all about ease of use, and is strictly intended for serious news editorialists.
Lots of modern functionality adorns this in-your-face magazine theme: Continuum showcases your featured articles with medium-size images, complete with an oversized 5-star rating system that's completely integrated.
So, use it as a magazine AND a ratings site, too. This opens the door to both movie or music reviews, and even product reviews for you affiliate marketers.
You'll undoubtedly like the layout of Wordpress posts in this theme. Just the right amount of space was spared for a social sharing widget on the left, and orderly stylized comments underneath. There are also tons of ad spots in the sidebar and below each article.
It's not just for game review websites - ignore that title. This Wordpress theme can turn your installation into a *very* robust magazine review for any topic you can think up.
A neat, compact home page gives visitors a full view of what you have to offer: you are first greeted by a thin slider box displaying your newest inclusions. From there, visitors will see any new videos to review lists, articles, and recent comments available.
Content-rich Wordpress posts and pages are cut-and-dry with the article image and context being front and center, along with your review (if you choose to add that feature) and nested comments. It's a rugged, professionally designed theme that gives you an instant top-notch review portal.
The quintessential mag style theme for Wordpress: aptly named 'Magazine Theme,' it's a clean-cut web 2.0 style theme that lets you run a polished online news site.
Focusing on both content and context, this SEO-friendly theme makes everything easy to find for your visitors and gives plenty of options for Google AdSense or affiliate banner placement.
A great out-of-box theme for newbie designers, or an elite framework for those who need everything to have that custom look.
This flexible layout magazine theme has it all for any aspiring Wordpress magazine webmaster: a jQuery powered headline article, featured articles, post thumbnailing system, author highlighting and lots of other stuff that you can check out in the live demo.
Got Twitter? Integrate it into the header through Headlines' Admin panel - a great way to have 'late breaking news' features for your visitors. Single posts give authors their due credit with an author box, and multiple advertising spaces make AdSense shine. If you're looking for a super-smooth, web 2.0-fashioned magazine theme for Wordpress with all of the bells and whistles, it pretty much doesn't get more advanced than this one!
Before you re-design your site (or simply need inspiration), you've got to check these out - simply drop 'em in and you've got instant Web 2.0 goodness..
#1: The Source Theme
Where attractive design meets content
A simple look at the demo of Source Theme will justify that this theme simply kicks so much ass that you can't put it into words. An oversized in-your-face front page banner scrolls through featured content with overlayed captions, followed by four main color-coded featurettes. Recent articles and sub-articles neatly pack the area underneath it all, in what can be defined as the coolest wordpress theme most of us will ever come across.Each individual Wordpress page within the theme is beautifully presented in all of its web 2.0 glory, with a structured right-hand double column showcasing recent and popular content, and all of the other great inter-linking elements we all know and love. Nested commenting makes your comments structured and easy to follow. Did I mention how cool this theme looks?!
- Comes with 4 color schemes
- Automatic thumbnail sizing to your requirements!
- Ad management in the backend panel
- Also has an alternate "blog style" version that comes with purchase
#2: Magazine Made Theme
An enterprise-level (yet affordable) magazine masterpiece
Magazine Made takes the concept of the Wordpress magazine theme and ramps it up with a whole slew of bells and whistles that you've got to see for yourself.It's rare to find a magazine theme packed with this much intricacy -- a "Don't Miss" section slowly marquees posts of your choosing, while a slider displays your featured articles, complete with 5-star review (almost forgot to mention, this is a full review site as well!)
One thing that really sets this theme apart is how you can truly customize the inner categories of your Wordpress site easily, due to this theme's simple backend. Finally, a way to get rid of the "uniformity" that most Wordpress themes have, and bring more personalization to each of your site's sections.
- Stunning, un-matched magazine layout
- Intricate review system, compiles overall score
- Inner Wordpress post pages just as beautiful as the home page!
- Designed to increase avg. time spent on site
- Wonderfully organized, ideal for big websites
- Re-brand/set a different theme for each category! Build your own "portal site"
#3: The Style Theme
It's like magazine clippings for your screen
It looks kinda...sorta...like Pinterest, but not quite. Then again, it looks a lot like someone clipped out little square pieces from a magazine. That's the concept for "The Style," a truly different magazine-style Wordpress theme you'll hardly find anywhere else.Big, bold, colorful text call attention to each clipping's category and date, while a simple mouse-over will lightbox that particular article. Click it, and you'll get taken to a decently sized article, complete with comments and sidebar.
"The Style" is an ideal Wordpress theme for any fashion, celeb or art-themed magazine site, or anything else that requires something that looks entirely different than the traditional website layout you've grown accustomed to.
- Fluid jQuery construction
- Comes complete with 5 color pattern versions
- Beautiful nested comments with Gravatars
- Make money by utilizing the right-side column
#4: Spectrum Theme
Clean and blocky
Your quintessential Wordpress magazine, drawing heavy attention to thumbnail images on its home page. Each image comes with its own text overlay, displaying the title and information. Draw attention to a set number of featured posts for the slimmed down slider box. Non-featured images are displayed underneath (and via the 'search' feature) with 60x60 thumbs.It's an advertising-friendly theme, as you'll notice: plenty of ample spots to insert AdSense or affiliate boxes/banners. Subsequent Wordpress posts are simple yet clean, with plenty of whitespace and an orderly comments area. Spectrum is a great theme for any run-of-the-mill magazine theme, simply because it's so easy to modify for web designers of all proficiencies. Make it look however you want.
- Integrated thumbnails that re-size for their proper spot on the site
- Ad-friendly with plenty of monetization possibilities
- Custom home page comes with 7 widgetized areas
- Includes a total of 10 color schemes
#5: Lifestyle Theme
Classy, clean, professional magazine-fashioned theme
Lifestyle is a super modern, clean Wordpress magazine theme that works well for any sites pertaining to travel & hotel news, local sites, and most notably -- it is ideally set up for affiliate stores, too. The possibilities for Amazon or eBay affiliate storefronts is endless, thanks to the simplistic layout and composition of the home page.Extraordinarily easy to modify, the theme practically needs no modification beyond swapping out images and possibly colors to fit your brand. Drop in your email list script, AdSense ads or anything else you need, and this will create a beautiful site in very little time, compared to most other themes.
- Has a design that's simple yet loveable; great typography
- Ideal layout for an affiliate store
- Integrate email list, ads and social network applets
- Features nested comments with Gravatars
- Includes 10 color schemes & 6 layout options
- Utilizes the elite Wordpress Genesis framework
#6: Who's Who Theme
The Wordpress theme for serious magaziners
This theme wastes no space with expanded headers or scrolling boxes: the articles are front-and-center with no BS to spare! Your featured article rests on the prime spot: the upper left, with an random post scroller to the right, and RSS subscription calls to action underneath.Recent posts are neatly followed thereafter with custom thumbnails, which can be easily inserted in the backend. This is one of the more advertisement-centric magazine themes out there, with plenty of places to include your box and banner ads.
Individual pages utilize valuable white space to draw attention to your articles, with integrated sharing features and a fully widget-ready sidebar. Nested comments make your readers' feedback easy to follow. A neat drop-down menu system takes you through the site, with search result pages that include thumbnails for each article. This magazine theme is all about ease of use, and is strictly intended for serious news editorialists.
#7: Continuum Theme
Trendy theme with full 5-star review options
Lots of modern functionality adorns this in-your-face magazine theme: Continuum showcases your featured articles with medium-size images, complete with an oversized 5-star rating system that's completely integrated.So, use it as a magazine AND a ratings site, too. This opens the door to both movie or music reviews, and even product reviews for you affiliate marketers.
You'll undoubtedly like the layout of Wordpress posts in this theme. Just the right amount of space was spared for a social sharing widget on the left, and orderly stylized comments underneath. There are also tons of ad spots in the sidebar and below each article.
- Doubles as a fully functional "reviews & ratings" theme
- Includes a built-in floating "reactions" bar
- Built smart enough to organize HUGE websites
- Includes 5 review types, 19 sidebar widgets, 5 jQuery sliders
#8: eGamer Theme
For serious magazine/review webmasters only
It's not just for game review websites - ignore that title. This Wordpress theme can turn your installation into a *very* robust magazine review for any topic you can think up.A neat, compact home page gives visitors a full view of what you have to offer: you are first greeted by a thin slider box displaying your newest inclusions. From there, visitors will see any new videos to review lists, articles, and recent comments available.
Content-rich Wordpress posts and pages are cut-and-dry with the article image and context being front and center, along with your review (if you choose to add that feature) and nested comments. It's a rugged, professionally designed theme that gives you an instant top-notch review portal.
- Create a magazine site with ratings features
- Comes with 4 unique color schemes
- Easy video integration
- Widgetized sidebar with exclusive widgets just for this theme
#9: Magazine Theme
The definitive Wordpress magazine theme
The quintessential mag style theme for Wordpress: aptly named 'Magazine Theme,' it's a clean-cut web 2.0 style theme that lets you run a polished online news site.Focusing on both content and context, this SEO-friendly theme makes everything easy to find for your visitors and gives plenty of options for Google AdSense or affiliate banner placement.
A great out-of-box theme for newbie designers, or an elite framework for those who need everything to have that custom look.
- Requires WP 2.8+
- 2 or 3-column layout
- Fixed-width design
- Multiple theme-options available by default
- Threaded commenting structure for Wordpress posts
#10: Headlines Theme
Sleek as hell...with a touch of flashiness!
This flexible layout magazine theme has it all for any aspiring Wordpress magazine webmaster: a jQuery powered headline article, featured articles, post thumbnailing system, author highlighting and lots of other stuff that you can check out in the live demo.Got Twitter? Integrate it into the header through Headlines' Admin panel - a great way to have 'late breaking news' features for your visitors. Single posts give authors their due credit with an author box, and multiple advertising spaces make AdSense shine. If you're looking for a super-smooth, web 2.0-fashioned magazine theme for Wordpress with all of the bells and whistles, it pretty much doesn't get more advanced than this one!
- jQuery carousel shows your headline articles (easy to edit!)
- Header-integrated Twitter functionality
- Custom social bookmarking & networking integration
- Flexible layout makes for easy sidebar & image formatting
- Comes with 15 color schemes
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