Cool, beautiful Wordpress themes
Hamasaki is a beautiful magazine-style WordPress theme that perfectly showcases recent articles, provides ad space and simple navigation.
It includes full Widget support, built-in spots for 125 x 125 pixel ads and a top banner ad, a theme options page for easy customisation, and Gravatar support.
The typography is impressive and the double navigation bar (using Pages and Categories) is effective. Hamasaki could make a great base for a magazine-style or personal site.
The Brightness WordPress theme is nothing short of stunning; it’s half magazine, half blog and is reminiscent of some of the best professional, modern blog designs around.
For a free theme, Brightness comes with a great deal of features, including a well-designed featured post area, post thumbnails, built-in advertising and news sections.
The theme also offers a complete settings page, allowing the user to simply manage all of these premium-grade features without having to worry about editing code.
Ashes is a lightweight magazine-style WordPress theme with an extra-large, tabbed main story box, dedicated ad space and a weblog style highlighting images for each post.
The grey-and-blue theme also includes Flickr integration, Gravatars and auto image resizing.
It’s worth a look for bloggers who want a little more zing than the average free WordPress theme.
The Ashes theme costs $US49 for a single licence, or for $US500 you can join the Wordpress Developers club and get a developer’s licence for all their current themes, as well 1 per month for the next 12 months.
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Magadine is a three-column magazine-style Wordpress theme with vibrant colours, excellent for highlighting a large number of featured posts containing images.
The homepage has a spacious feel despite showcasing a wide range of stories using text and images.
It also has a large footer, horizontal navigation, a simple header and stylish design on the content pages. Well worth a look.
Wynton Magazine is an image-heavy, magazine-style Wordpress theme with a simple but effective layout.
It features one main lead story, which takes up much of the front and centre of the home page, then three more featured posts with images in the right sidebar.
It also offers integrated advertising space and section pages. This theme takes a little bit of setting up, rather than simply working out of the box.
Monochrome Pro is a feature complete magazine-style theme for Wordpress packaged with an AJAX post slideshow and a custom theme admin page to easily customise the design.
The theme also features archive pages for individual authors, two different page templates, multi-tier dropdown menus and two widget-ready sidebars.
It uses custom fields to display images on the homepage, among other things, and employs a CSS framework to make customisation easier. The theme also has valid HTML and CSS code, and is optimised for search engines.
The Monochrome Pro theme costs $US75 for a single licence or $US199 for a developer’s multiple site licence. Alternatively, you can buy all the themes by Graph Paper Press for just $US99.99
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Content Press is a stylish magazine-style design Wordpress theme offering treats such as customised author pages,featured articles, customized category and search results, and even a bbpress forum theme.
If you want to integrate a forum into your Wordpress website, this is a good choice of theme to make it happen.
The theme has one large featured post front and centre, then two columns of recent posts, all with a sidebar to the right. At the bottom is a four-column footer.
You’ve also got integrated ad spaces, a tabbed content box in the sidebar and a video highlight box.
The Magazine News theme costs $US75 for a single licence or $US249 for a developer’s multiple site licence.
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Magazine News is an awesome, Web 2.0-ish magazine-styled theme highlighting lots of content and providing built-in ad spaces.
It’s a three-column, widget-ready, adsense-ready theme with valid code and a large footer.
Magazine News allows publishers to easily highlight one article at any time, simply by creating a category called ‘featured’ and putting the posts they want featured in there.
The Magazine News theme costs $US49 for a single licence or $US199 for a developer’s multiple site licence.
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Newspress is a stylish and modern premium Wordpress theme which includes beautifully displayed feature content sections, a built-in video player and integrated ads.
The theme also offers an options screen for changing the default white, grey and orange colour scheme, and for switching the homepage layout.
The video player allows the publisher to publish their videos easily and seamlessly on the homepage.
Other features include dropdown navigation menus, a tabbed display box, automatic image resizer, custom page templates for archives, sitemap and an image gallery, as well as support for gravatars.
The Newspress theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.
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The Premium News Gazette Edition theme for Wordpress is a slick, image-heavy magazine-style design with a large, rotating featured content box displayed front and centre.
Gazette Edition by default is white and red but has an options panel allowing the site author to easily change the colour scheme and even the homepage layout.
The theme uses thumbnail images for each post on the homepage. This is made simple thanks to an automatic image resizer.
Gazette Edition includes custom page templates for archives, sitemap and an image gallery. It supports Gravatars, widgets, ads and videos out of the box.
The Gazette Edition theme costs $US70 for a single licence or $US150 for a developer’s licence. Alternatively, join the WooThemes club for $150 per quarter.
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TV Elements: Sharp and dark, this is a perfect video showcase.
