WPUnlimited is an advanced WordPress theme offering complete customisation of the site layout, fonts and colours without any need for coding.

The theme’s promotional material boasts: “With a few simple clicks you’ll have a completely unique site designed exactly to your specifications. You specify the colors, typography, site layout (choose between 1, 2, and 3 column layouts), and even the content width!”

The default layout is clean and simple, with good navigationand tight typography; with a little customisation, you can make it your own.

The theme also offers easy SEO optimisation and built-in support for Adsense ads.

Cost:

The WPUnlimited theme costs $US59 for a single licence or $150 for a developer licence.

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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;

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Metro is a stylish newspaper-themed WordPress theme with a rotating featured content front and centre, and both recent articles and videos showcased on the homepage.

The three-column theme is fully Widget-ready, features advertising positions and a clear, easy to navigate design.

It also includes a space for featured videos on the homepage, allowing site owners to

Cost:

The Metro WordPress theme from StudioPress costs $US59.95 on its own or $199.95 as part of the StudioPress theme pack.

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The Stars is a sexy magazine-style WordPress theme ideal for fashion, lifestyle, entertainment, gossip or lifestyle websites.

The theme includes a wide range of features, including: dropdown navigation menus, a featured content section, automatic thumbnail generation and integrated social bookmarking buttons.

It has widget-ready sidebars, an asides section and an author bio section within posts; it also features integrated banner ad positions.

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The Web News is a neat and tidy three-column, magazine-style WordPress theme featuring thumbnails on the homepage.

The theme includes a popular posts panel, 125×125-pixel banner ads, and a featured video section.

It includes threaded comments, gravatar integration and SEO optimisation.

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Renaissance is a beautifully designed three-column theme with a robust ad management system, asides and 14 widget areas.

The theme lets you easily add content from your Tumblr or Flickr account, features excellent typography and allows authors to easily change the header layout for their blog.

It includes a theme options panel within WordPress that allows considerable flexibility and provides three colour schemes: default, light and dark.

Cost:

Renaissance costs $US55.

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Oulipo is a clean, minimal, widget-ready WordPress theme with great typography and a grid-based layout.

The theme supports threaded comments and sticky posts in WordPress 2.7, and has beautiful styling for images, captions and comments, amongst other elements.

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Streamline is an excellent magazine-style WordPress theme with a rotating featured content box front and centre on the homepage.

The theme features a stylish horizontal navigation bar, including dropdowns, thumbnail images for each post on the front page, and plenty of customisation options.

It also offers integrated advertising areas perfect for banner ads.

Cost:

The Streamline WordPress theme from StudioPress costs $US59.95 on its own or $149.95 as part of the StudioPress theme pack.

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Carrington is a complex, multi-layered WordPress theme that looks good out of the box and offers a multitude of advanced customisations for anyone who wants to dig a little deeper.

The theme is focused on creating a quality structure for your website and offers easy custom development.

Carrington won’t be for everyone, because it has something of a learning curve to figure out how to make customisations. However, once you make the leap you can use this theme to create very flexible, powerful websites.

Features include:

• Flexible and powerful Carrington template system
• Rich, semantic markup (with Sandbox CSS classname support)
• Tasty styling and typography
• Page and category navigation menus
• AJAX loading of posts in archive lists (optional)
• AJAX loading of comments (optional)
• Theme abstraction and organization like none other

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Equilibrium is a gorgeous, minimalist magazine-style WordPress theme making excellent use of images to highlight recent posts on the front page.

This is an ultra-clean and simple theme but has all the bases covered in terms of navigation, style, widgets and WordPress 2.7 support.

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