WordPress Magazine Themes Revisted
Back in December I wrote a post about some of the finest free magazine-style themes available for your WordPress powered site. (see WordPress Magazine Style Themes) Since a few of those themes have since either been updated or discontinued I thought it would be a good time to revisit this topic. I have also added a few more that I discovered along the way.
Arthemia | Release page
Black Dragon | Release Page
BranfordMagazine | Release page
Hamasaki | Release page
Hybrid News | Release Page | *requires the Hybrid Theme Framework
Igloo News | Release Page
Indomagz | Release page
Inuit Types | Release Page
Linoluna | Release page
Magadine | Release page
MagZine | Release Page
Mimbo | Release page
OpenBook | Release page
RebelMagazine | Release page
Saturn | Release page
Small Magazine | Release page
TimeCafe | Release Page
TMA | Release page
WordPress Magazine | Release page
WP Gold | Release page
WyntonMagazine | Release page
As I said back in December these are but a few as I'm sure there are many more fine free magazine style themes out there. If you come across any drop me a comment.
Update: 28 March 09 - I no sooner asked you to leave a comment if you came across another cool free magazine style theme when I stumbled upon two. Here they are.
Feed Me, Seymour | Release Page
Magazine Basic | Release Page
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Cool, thanks for the themes. I'm constantly building new sites with WordPress, and a lot of these themes look great.
I'm using Indomagz for RockGearReviews.com and love it. Took a while to get it working, but I'm kind of a noob with that stuff.
Thanks again!
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Hi Reuben. Glad you found the post useful.
I like the way you're using Indomagz over at RockGearReviews.com - especially the Highest Rated Products part. It goes to show you WordPress can be used for anything.
I am looking for a clean and ite magazine style theme for wordpress without too many function calls, any suggestions?. thanks in advance
Hi Dennis. All of the above themes featured in this post are excellent. Magazine style themes, because of their very nature, will make many more calls to the database then ordinary blog style themes will. I've never actually tested any of these themes against each other to see which is the leanest.
If you want to see how many database queries your theme makes place the following code in your theme's footer.php file ...
<!-- <?php echo get_num_queries(); ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. -->Save the file, visit your site and view the source code.