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.

Cost

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.

Cost

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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The Winter Styled Wordpress theme is a back-to-basics theme with a neat top navigation featuring links built into an introductory paragraph.

The two-column, widget-ready theme doesn’t use any graphics whatsoever, leaving a bare-bones theme that is nonetheless stylish and polished.

This theme is designed to be easily customised to suit any needs.

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The KISS Styled (keep it simple, stupid) theme for Wordpress is very, very clean and very, very simple.

The theme has a nicely styled image-free header and two columns and is widget friendly.

KISS Styled would also be a perfect design to start with if you’re looking to mould a theme into a unique design.

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WP Bats is a two-column theme largely inspired by the design of the New York Times’ blogs.

As you can imagine that gives it quite a newspapery look and feel. The main column is on the left, with a widget-compatible sidebar on the right.

Nice touches include a print style sheet, tags, horizontal navigation across the very top of the page and an archives template. The theme is also valid in terms of its XHTML and CSS coding.

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Oh My Grid is a grid-based, two-column Wordpress theme with a large header and a simple but contemporary and stylish layout.

It incorporates Wordpress’ tagging system and offers easy header image replacement through the theme options page.

The theme options also provide additional fields for quick and easy customisation, and it’s widget ready.

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Revolution Blog is a stylish, free theme with the option to choose between three different traditional blog-style layouts.

Whether you choose the two-column version with a right sidebar, the three-column version with left and right sidebars, or the three column version with two right sidebars, you’ll get a clean and elegant, widget-ready blog with a blue and white colour scheme.

All feature crystal-clear typography, a stylish header and a lovely, functional horizontal navigation bar.

Revolution Blog is a free theme from the creator of the premium Revolution series of themes.

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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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Corporate Sandbox is a clean, minimalist theme, which as the name suggests is ideal for corporate blogs. Then again, it’s perfectly suited to a personal blog so long as you’re happy with a white, light look.

It’s a white, two-column theme with simple horizontal navigation at the top, a large header area and a right-hand sidebar. It’s widget ready and very easy to customise; you can change CSS colours in just a couple of seconds.

This theme is also a great starting point for developing future Wordpress themes. It makes an easy canvas to work with for making a unique theme.

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The Tao of You Wordpress theme is an attractive single-column theme with large headlines and a big, fat two-column footer.

The theme also features a large, centre-aligned text header and navigation bar, support for inline asides and a clean look with stylish typography.

The right-hand section of the footer is ready and able for some sweet widget action.

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