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Star Magazine is a powerful magazine-style WordPress theme offering a beautiful homepage designed for content-heavy websites.
The theme allows the site owner to decide which categories they want displayed on the homepage and how many posts to display for each.
Star Magazine includes a comprehensive back-end options panel for customising and tweaking the theme, including the ability to integrate analytics programs, change colour schemes and manage ads.
Other features include:
- Comes with custom sidebar widgets to incorporate “popular posts” and “featured content”;
- Integrated social networking options;
- Auto-resizing thumbnails;
- Seven colour schemes;
- Optional author bio section on posts, making it ideal for multi-author blogs;
- Custom page templates for archives and full-width pages;
- Integrated options for banner ad management.
Cost
The Star Magazine theme from PremiumWP costs $US67.
Demo and download
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April 8th, 2010 | Themes | Comments Off
Press is a clean, wide, magazine-style theme with prominent use of images and clever customisation options.
The theme offers a homepage with a large featured posts slider towards the top, and more image pullouts for posts further down.
It offers a unique ‘gallery’ style for posts, allowing individual post items to be used as a gallery, portfolio or product listing page.
Press is highly customisable, with each row in the homepage layout run as a widget, allowing site owners to move the content around.
It comes with seven colour schemes: red; maroon; apple green; black and white; black and blue; dark purple; and cream and purple.
Features include:
- Widgetised home page;
- Ajax commencts;
- Comment subscription;
- Featured post slider;
- Full-width page template;
- Threaded comments;
and
- Automatic image resizing.
Cost
Press costs $US50 for a single-use licence and $US100 for a developer’s licence.
Demo and download
Visit Obox themes to view the theme demo and buy Press.
(Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you buy using this link, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.)
March 31st, 2010 | Themes | Comments Off
My WordPress is a two-column modern blogging style premium theme with a strong emphasis on community-building elements.
The theme comes packaged with six colour versions and allows the user to change the location of the sidebar from left to right within the admin interface.
Its host of additional features includes:
- User-submitted link widget
- Gravatar support
- Threaded comments
- Social linking (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc)
- Auto image resizing
- Built-in ad management
- Valid CSS/XHTML and SEO friendly
Cost:
My WordPress costs $US25 for a single-use licence from ThemeForest.
Demo and download:
Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and download the theme.
Note: The link is an affiliate link. If you purchase the theme using this link, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.
March 19th, 2010 | Themes | Comments Off
Zenko Magazine is a premium WordPress theme with a unique slant on the popular magazine style. It’s an easy to read, polished three-column design.
The theme has a simple white background with pops of color, like pink or green, to keep it interesting and also to distinguish the sections. Although there’s a lot of information crammed on the front page, it never appears crowded or overwhelming. This theme does a great job of keeping everything organized.
Zenko Magazine includes a number of robust features, such as dropdown menus and prominently featured posts. Its built-in support for features like Google Analytics and Feedburner make it an even sweeter deal.
Some important features include:
- Built in widgets;
- Ads management system;
- Flexible layout;
- Threaded comments;
- Drop down menu;
- Custom templates for archive page;
- Free future upgrades
Cost
Zenko Magazine costs $69 for a single licence and $149 for a developer license.
Demo and Download
Visit WP Zoom to view the Zenko Magazine demo and download the theme.
(Note: The download link above is an affiliate link. If you buy using that link, you’ll help support bestwpthemes.com.)
October 27th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Advanced Newspaper is a polished and professional news theme that presents lots of information in an organised and thoughtful way. It’s just like picking up an interactive newspaper.
The theme is quite busy, but at the same time is effective in presenting a lot of information on the homepage.
Some of the theme’s features include:
- Automatic image resizing for front page thumbnails;
- Search engine optimised, which is oh-so-important in these days of Google popularity;
- Dynamic Ajax tabs;
- 29 Widgetized sections, making it easy to monetize your blog professionally;
- Built-in photo and video galleries;
- Discreet admin login at the bottom of screen for easy access.
Cost:
The Advanced Newspaper theme costs $US59 for a standard pack, or $179 for a developer’s pack.
Demo and download:
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Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase the Advanced Newspaper Theme using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.
September 22nd, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Convergence is a sensational modern blogging theme designed for community-based sites; it integrates photo thumbnails into the homepage and allows for stylish advertising options.
The theme includes many of the popular features that are seen in today’s industry-leading community sites.
Anyone who has looked at sites like Net Tuts or Smashing Magazine with envy will appreciate the quality of design in this WP theme.
The theme has two levels of navigation, usefully pointing to site pages and also categories of content. Some of the Convergence theme’s other features include:
- Feedburner integration
- 2-column table-less CSS layout
- Widget-ready sidebar
- Gravatar-ready comments sections
- Valid CSS and XHTML
- Browser compatibility: All major browsers
- Related posts
- Popular posts
- Author highlighting in comment areas
- Flickr photo showcase built in
- Ad management system included
- Social linking (Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.)
Cost:
The Convergence theme costs $US25 for a single licence or $US75 for a developer licence.
Demo and download:
Visit ThemeForest to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a theme using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.
August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Vanity is a three-column magazine-style WordPress theme developed with celebrity- and gossip-oriented websites in mind.
The theme features a carousel article slider at the top for featured stories and has a distinctive narrow middle column, which includes category navigation and space for 125×125 or 120×600 advertisements.
Vanity also features:
- Two theme colors (Aqua and Pink);
- Widget-ready sidebar;
- Automatic image resizer;
- Comment Gravatar support;
- Flickr and Google Feedburner integration;
- Compatibility with IE6+, Firefox, and Safari.
Cost:
The Vanity theme costs $US79.95 for a single site license, or $US179.95 for a developer license. All future updates to the Vanity theme will be provided free of charge to licensed users.
Demo and download:
Visit Gorilla Themes to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a Vanity package using this link, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com
August 17th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Red Carpet is a modern, funky, magazine-style WordPress theme perfect for sites covering entertainment or celebrity gossip.
The theme’s features include:
- Complete management via control panel, including setup of advertisements, general options, languages, styles, and videos.
- Thumbnails are created on the fly – cropped and resized according to your own preferences.
- Built-in photo gallery maker, which automates the process of creating photo galleries. Simply upload a series of photos and pictures in your post and publish.
- Built-in video support, with a simple video publisher.
- Custom post and category templates.
- Custom post and category templates for news, photos and videos.
- Advertisement manager, with 14 ad positions and sponsored link position on the homepage.
- Two Widget-ready sidebars.
- Valid XHTML and tested in FireFox, Safari, and Internet Explorer without any known issues.
Cost:
The Red Carpet theme costs $US29 for a single licence or $149 for a developer licence.
Demo and download:
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May 20th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
Yamidoo Magazine is a clever magazine theme for WordPress, boasting a stylish ‘featured content’ section, lots of highlight images and a content-packed homepage.
The theme includes tabbed widgets, dropdown menus, a theme options panel and built-in management for advertising.
Each story page is highly legible and great attention to detail is shown in design elements such as blockquotes.
Cost:
The Yamidoo Magazine theme from WP Zoom costs $US69 for a single licence, $US119 for a five-site licence or $149 for a developer’s licence.
Demo and download:
Visit WP Zoom to view the theme demo and to download the theme.
Note: The link above is an affiliate link. If you purchase a StudioPress package using these links, you’ll be helping to support bestwpthemes.com.
May 9th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
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;
Demo and download:
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April 27th, 2009 | Themes | Comments Off
