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The Morning After

The Morning After is a brilliant free Wordpress theme designed for magazine-style websites. It’s one of the best, if not the single best, free magazine templates available. It should meet the desires of many site owners, given it was created based on a survey of what people wanted in a unique magazine-style theme.

The template is grid-based, has a three-column homepage, highlighted featured posts and a customisable header image.

It also allows editors to associate images and thumbnails with posts, to appear on the homepage.

The coding allows for easy CSS classes to add captions and wrap text around images in posts.

Asides are built-in, as is Widget compatibility. Readers can also email stories to friends or choose a print-friendly version of stories.

The theme creator has written extensive commentary about installing, customising and using the theme on the download page.

Demo and download:

Demo
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5 Responses to “The Morning After”

  1. [...] are now using a theme called “The Morning After” by Arun Kale. Tags: blog, css, magazine, styles, themes, update, [...]

    21. July 2008 at 17:13

  2. Jip

    Does not work. Tried to extract, came up with a ton of errors just trying to unzip. Appears to be OSX only.

    24. November 2008 at 06:08

  3. Bart

    I’m also having trouble with this installation. Wordpress comes back claiming the theme is broken. I have tried moving over the files by FTP and the Hostmonster File Manager. It appears to have something to do with missing style sheets. I will keep trying. Help!

    3. January 2009 at 00:22

  4. Bart

    Never mind, I tried another FTP method and it worked. This may have been related to Hostmonster, or simply user error. Thanks and sorry!

    3. January 2009 at 00:32

  5. This now has a Creative Commons license and cannot be used for commercial purposes.

    It’s a great theme anyway!

    22. February 2009 at 19:31