Smoke Signal is a stylish, modern, two-column blog theme for WordPress reminiscent of some of the more popular graphic design blogs around today.

This theme offers many of the advanced benefits of magazine-style themes while retaining a more traditional blog-like layout.

It offers ad integration, Gravatars, Flickr integration, automatic image resizing and built-in tooltips.

Price:

The Smoke Signal 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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Thematic is an open-source theme designed as a starting point for simple customisation, which also happens to look pretty darn good out of the box.

It features classy search engine optimization, multiple widget-ready areas (not just in sidebars and footer but between posts, above posts etc.), and a grid-based design.

Site owners can choose from three different layouts - two columns with the sidebar on the left or the right, or three columns with the main content in the centre.

The included stylesheets are aligned to a strict 18px vertical grid featuring refreshing and sophisticated typography.

To see what can be achieved by styling this theme, check out the designer’s site: ThemeShaper.

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30April is a flexible weblog theme for WordPress that showcases some static about text front and centre, with a useful widgetized right sidebar and beautiful typography in the weblog below.

It offers an extra footer, a theme options page for easy customization, and gravatar support.

The wide sidebar is great for Flickr images and could easily be adapted for advertising.

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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.

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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.

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MassivePress is a three-column, widget-enabled WordPress theme featuring thumbnails for each post, giving the site a mixed look - half magazine site, half weblog.

The theme has a very cool-looking, fully automated “Featured Article” section within the second sidebar and integrated recent comments.

This theme is based on Grid Focus but with some additional styling and polish. It’s a very attractive theme out of the box and could easily be adapted and customised to make it look unique.

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Charade is a professional-looking, Web 2.0 style weblog theme with a blue-and-white colour scheme, clear typography and a wide right-hand sidebar.

The theme also has built-in spaces for ads and features eye-catching icons for publicising your site and posts on social networking sites.

The sidebar is fully widget enabled, and features a quick configure Subscribe by Email option for Feedburner users.

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TrueBlogger won’t appeal to everybody but for those attempting to become probloggers and earn an income from advertising, this might be an appealing commercial theme.

The theme has a blue and white colour theme, includes a news ticker, is widget-ready, XHTML compliant and has well-commented, easily edited CSS code.

It features four ad spaces in a very prominent location in the central column of the theme, above the main body content.

Cost

The TrueBlogger theme costs $US79.99 for a single licence or $US280 for a developer’s multiple site licence.

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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.

Cost

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.

Cost

The Magazine News theme costs $US49 for a single licence or $US199 for a developer’s multiple site licence.

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