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.

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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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Thunderbolt is a savvy, grid-aligned, magazine-style Wordpress theme with plenty of white space, impressive typography and sensible use of images.

The theme has a beautiful custom archives page, showcasing the images attached to each post (to appear properly, the theme relies on the author to add images to each post).

The front page is reminiscent of a magazine cover.

The theme author recommends Thunderbolt for moderate to advanced WordPress users, who can use the supplied readme to help them customise and and use the theme.

The theme is free but for $US10 you can buy a version without any links back to the theme author.

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Press Box is a simple, striking theme for Wordpress that’s half blog, half magazine-style site. It’s a modern theme with a lot of options, and comes in both free and paid versions.

The free limited version is attractive and has plenty to offer. The premium version, which costs $US45, offers a few extras, such as a ‘portfolio’ view and extra page templates.

The premium version also removes the links back to the theme’s creators.

This is a unique theme. Here’s how the creators describe it:

“We consider this a ‘premium theme’, but it isn’t a magazine. It looks like a blog and (if it could) would walk and talk like one too. It does look a little different then a normal blog, and has a few more options, but it doesn’t forget about its past growing up in the blogosphere.”

Press Box has plenty of personality and plenty of extra options to play with.

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Massive News is a highly appealing magazine-style Wordpress theme with considerable additional functionality built in.

At first glance, Massive News might look like an appealing two-column Wordpress theme. That it is, but it’s also so much more.

It comes with an automated featured article carousel that rotates through your featured posts, with images.

The Massive News Theme control panel allows users to easily edit the sidebar items, the carousel component and much more, making customisation easy as pie.

The theme uses the Optional Excerpt field to add images to posts.

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As the name suggests, this is not your standard Wordpress theme. The Unstandard breaks the blog mould, presenting an image-heavy homepage with headline text set over the top of each image.

The theme could be used for a magazine-style site, or just as easily for a straight blog, as long as the author is taking some extra time to upload images for each post.

The theme is designed to catch readers’ attention and draw them deeper into your site.

The theme has grid-aligned images for forward-facing pages (the homepage etc.), and clean textual presentation on the inner pages.

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A widget-ready magazine theme with a professional, newspapery look and feel.

The typography is a mix of serif and sans serif, custom fields are used to pull images from many of the posts shown on the homepage, including a ‘lead story’, and there’s a tabbed interface that can be used to show recent comments and the like.

The theme also features a top navigation bar and dedicated space for your advertising.

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First thing’s first: Futurosity Aperio is not a theme for the Wordpress beginner. If you don’t know your way around Wordpress, CSS and HTML coding, at least a little, then this theme is probably not for you.

The theme author is still calling Futurosity Aperio a prototype. That means there are probably still some bugs to iron out and everything is not looking perfect.

Nonetheless, the homepage of this theme has an exceptional and unique web magazine-style appearance displaying an image for each post, and laying the text over the top of the image. The single post pages aren’t quite as impressive, and in my opinion would need a little CSS tweaking before use.

Nonetheless, for site owners looking for a unique, image-heavy magazine-style theme, this is a great starting point.

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Futurosity Eos is a sophisticated Wordpress theme with a minimal three-column design and the flexibility to create a magazine-style site.

It includes a large image for one featured story, and large, clear headlines for the latest stories running down the left-hand column.

The design is minimal and the colours are classic - black, red, grey. The two sidebars present navigation, comments, categories and anything else you desire.

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A fabulous magazine-style layout, Overstand is free from clutter and highlights content beautifully using a combination of white space, large slugs, neat headlines and thumbnail images.

Orange and grey are the predominant colours and the layout ranges across three columns.

The theme takes a little bit of extra work in set-up but the results can be worthwhile.

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The Block Magazine theme boasts an attractive magazine-style homepage layout in blue and white tones.

The two most recent posts are highlighted on the homepage, and then five more posts are shown in a tabbed sidebar box, which can show the most recent posts, the most popular posts or the posts with the most comments.

The theme has an integrated ad spot below the sidebar.

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The Block Magazine theme costs $US99.

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