Mimbo
Mimbo is a classy magazine-style WordPress theme with built-in ad space, thumbnail functionality and an easy to navigate design.
Mimbo was amongst the first free magazine themes released, paving the way for a whole new category of WordPress themes, both free and premium. Although there’s also a premium version of Mimbo, called Mimbo Pro, the free version has been updated considerably since it first launched and remains a worthy member of the magazine-style theme field.
The theme features two levels of navigation (Pages and Categories) and can highlight a great range of content on the homepage. Other features include:
- A script that pulls images automatically from the post body, then resizes them with TimThumb for the homepage;
- Support for sticky posts, comment pagination, threaded comments, wp_logout_url, and the rest of the new features of WP 2.7;
- Featured categories – a custom control panel sets featured categories with a configurable number of headlines, which appear on the homepage;
- 125×125 ad support via the WP125 plugin and its companion widget;
- Multi-level dropdown menus;
- Better custom archives – a custom template that displays posts by month, plus pagination;
- Better author archives;
- Gallery, inline image and caption styling – there are styles for all the various ways you’d insert an image in a post;
