WordPress magazine themes are great for websites with a lot of content and categories that need to be featured. A great way to do this is to adopt a newspaper or magazine style on the front page and on archive pages. As the name suggests, WordPress magazine themes are those whose layout adapt to some extent, key elements from printed magazines, e.g. columns to showcase content in various categories. Magazine themes have various different layout styles – some with few and some with many columns. However the best themes have the ability to adapt and present the content of your website in an organized, and easy to access fashion.

So here in this article, we are sharing with you some of the best premium WordPress magazine themes available right now. It includes some of the newest, greatest and some responsive themes available in the market. These themes, coming from different providers can take the most challenging blogging demands that you want to pursue.

Meanwhile, if you cannot find a theme fit for your needs and personal preferences, you should expand your search on more responsive WordPress themes  as responsive layouts are so highly in demand right now. This post is continuously  updated with more interesting Magazine themes for WordPress and all links are checked!

Aggregate

Aggregates comes packed with tons of content and widget-ready areas, and manages to display everything in a clear and readable manner. We have also added some handy new widgets, as well as many new advertisement areas. If you have been searching for a feature-rich Magazine-style theme for your blog, then look no further! Further the ElegantThemes club is one of the most affordable and it is packed with good themes you can use on as many sites as you like.

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TRIM Responsive Magazine Theme

Trim is simple, professional, versatile and fast. Trim might be simple, but with that simplicity comes a sense of balance and crispness that is quite refreshing. Coupled with a bunch of great features, Trim is a great theme that will prove useful for a variety of different websites. Trim is a fully responsive design that adapts to your user’s variable screen size.

 

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Lightly – Magazine WordPress Theme

Lightly is a WordPress theme for news or magazine website, neat designed, well coded and more importantly easy to use.

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Reaction WP : Responsive, Rugged, Bold

Reaction is the second of the “Super Skeleton” themes, which feature an incredibly powerful responsive framework, capable of doing layout gymnastics without the need for you to think hard about it. Add your content the way you normally would to a kick-ass WordPress theme, the theme will do the rest for you.

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SportPress

An elegant yet very powerful magazine theme, with amazing functionality and awesome custom widgets, for making your website really stand out from the crowd.

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Evolution Responsive WordPress Theme

Evolution is a clean, simple and fully responsive design. What makes the theme so special is its ability to adapt to various screen sizes. Evolution come with 4 distinct layouts, each meant to improve your user’s experience when browsing on mobile phones and tablets. No longer will they need to zoom and scroll to view your site, as the theme’s layout will adapt to the small screen and serve your content in an intuitive way automatically. Just try reducing your browser’s window size when preview the theme to see the magic in action!

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Modernize – Flexibility of WordPress

Modernize is a new era of wordpress theme. You can discover many new awesome features in this theme. For example ‘Page Builder’, it allow you to create page easily by drag-drop module. Also, to change color elements, it won’t be a big deal anymore, with our new admin panel, you can access to almost of all elements color. Admin panel in this theme is a real feature rich. You can also create unlimited sidebar, choosing over 350 fonts or if you want to use your own, we provide a cufon uploader. Modernize has 15 predefined background pattern but if you want to use your own background, again, we have a custom background uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language via this admin panel.

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GOOD SPACE – Responsive Minimal WP Theme

Good Space Good Space is a WordPress theme especially for creative agency. It’s very clean, minimal with modern theme design. This theme is also has a responsive ability. Moreover, it comes with tons of features. Including our page items that can be managed very easily via our awesome tool, ‘Page Builder’. Admin panel in this theme is a real feature rich. You can also create unlimited sidebar, choosing over 450 fonts or if you want to use your own, we provide a cufon uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language via this admin panel.

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mag.Press – WordPress Magazine Theme

mag.Press comes with some nifty new widgets which can be implemented on the home page. Also incorporated in the front end is a new sidebar video widget and share buttons in each post. The Post page is our most comprehensive yet and will continue to grow with some cool features.

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The Daily Press: Super Simple WP Publication Theme

The Daily Press is a super simple publication theme for WordPress. This site was designed and built for businesses wanting a similar presence on the web as the New York Times and other prestigious news organizations.

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Multimedia – Music, Video, Picture, Blog WP

Multimedia is a cool music WordPress theme which is also great for other media types.

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CadabraPress

CadabraPress is a revolutionary WPZOOM theme, offering users a professional and elegant display of articles and full control over theme features.

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Karmag

Karmag is a clean and stylish WordPress magazine with lost of options and a variety of layouts to choose from.

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Webworks – Responsive WordPress Theme

Webworks is a powerful theme that allows to construct pages in different ways. Every page except regular style can have up to 15 additional views.

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RockWell – Portfolio & Blog WordPress Theme

RockWell is a powerful theme with unique features. It’s easy to use, easy to customize and most importantly – it allows you to unleash your creativity. Fun, loud and versatile = that’s RockWell. Doesn’t matter if you are a photographer, business, blogger or a designer – this theme will suit all types.

 

Sprout – Magazine & Blog WordPress Theme

Sprout is a feature packed theme for the web magazine or personal blog. Easily change the look and feel of your site w/ 10 unique styles, a custom header, and unlimited color options. In addition, it is powered by our proven and stable theme framework – Feather.

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Advance WordPress Magazine/Community Blog Theme

Advance is a clean, relatively simple magazine, community blog, newspaper, or editorial (whatever you see fit!) WordPress theme. It is equipped with 10 custom widgets in 5 different widgetized areas for you to customize quickly and efficiently.

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Strings Music and Art Magazine WordPress

Strings is a powerful wordpress magazine style, provided with many options. You can put a unique background in each page, blog post, portfolio item, albums, gallery you create. With more than 70 customization options you can improve your look and be unique on the web!

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Backstreet – Blog & Magazine Theme

Backstreet is a modern WordPress magazine, portfolio and blog theme. With the 3 post formats (videos, audio & galleries) Backstreet can be used for almost any niche. Backstreet also built-in review system (with up to 5 rating criteria). Furthermore you can customize the look of the site easily via the custom theme options panel.

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Bangkok Press – Responsive, News & Editorial Theme

Bangkok Press is the most awesome News and Editorial WordPress Theme. With this theme that comes with Responsive Action, your readers can easily read your article everywhere, on there mobile or tablet. There’re more than 10 of blog option for your alternative. Moreover, you can change almost every elements color easily via admin panel. Page items are managed very easily via our awesome tool, ‘Page Builder’. Admin panel in this theme is a real feature rich. You can also create unlimited sidebar, choosing over 450 fonts or if you want to use your own, we provide a cufon uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language via this admin panel.

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SwagMag – WordPress Magazine/Review Theme

Swagger is the first-of-it’s-kind magazine style premium WordPress theme that allows you to create unlimited custom review “mini-sites” within your main website (works for non-review sites just as well as review sites!). That means you can load up your site with tons of content and then present it to your users in an organized way using just one or multiple mini-sites. Swagger’s front page will grab content from your mini-sites and display it all together in an awesome, content-rich page to give your users the best user experience possible. Swagger is guaranteed to increase both the average length of time that your users spend on your site and the average number of pages that they view.

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Brewpper – A Premium & Dynamic News Theme

Brewpper is a complete News/Magazine/Review/Editorial Theme that is created for ease of use and dynamic functionality. You will now be able to Write News, Editorials, Reviews & get Customer Feedback/Visitor Opinions by the Exclusively Built-In Polling System which is custom made by us especially for Brewpper with Error & Duplicate Voting Protection.

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Insignia – a Magazine / Community / Blog theme

Insignia is a clean and flexible WordPress theme based on a powerfull framework intended for magazine or community style layouts. It may be used for other purposes as well.

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Broadway – A WordPress Magazine Theme

Broadway is ThemeSector’s third WordPress magazine theme. As the last two themes, Broadway features a built-in review system with up to 5 rating criteria. However this time we also added a user rating option so the user can give their opinion on a review. Broadway also comes with 3 post formats (video, music & gallery). So with the built-in review system and post formats you have the tools to create a site for almost any niche. Furthermore you can customize the look of the site easily via the custom theme options panel.

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Duplex – Magazine

Duplex is suitable for content producers at all levels whether that’s the personal blogger, online magazines, of full-blown communities. If you’re looking for a beautiful looking magazine or blog theme then you’ve just found it.

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Delicious Magazine

Delicious Magazine is versatile enough to be used for a variety of purposes, like a food website as we’ve demonstrated on our preview. It includes a big featured area that captivates the user with large images, and also a sub featured spotlight area that makes your homepage look like more than a blog.

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Felici – WordPress Magazine Theme

Felici is a new breed of magazine theme, it has been build for all of those who are tired of messing around with there homepage posts. This theme can make any homepage structure you need without having duplicate categories inside. With 3 types of columns, default, small accordion and full width accordion, all managed through a nifty and user friendly drag and drop system.

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Evertis

The perfect theme for your magazine or blog with tons of features like featured articles, social bookmarks and a very flexible layout which is easy to customize.

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KERNEL

KERNEL , has 3 news blocks on homepage (7 post, 5 post and 9 posts news blocks), gallery page with two different styles (Default gallery and Fancybox Gallery), Blog page with 2 styles (“News and posts with big images” and “News and posts with small images”) and 3 sliders (Blog, Homepage and Breaking News slider). Redesigning KERNEL is extremely easy (no more hardcoded design). KERNEL with newest Orange Themes Control Panel makes editing/adding/changing all settings extremely easy, that’s why KERNEL is your best choice for Magazine or News Portals.

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Zenko Magazine

Zenko Magazine is a stylish & colorful theme intended for those who want to launch a magazine or blog! The flexible layout allows you to easily adapt your content to the theme.

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Tribune

This is another great WPZoom creation and among my favorite picks in this large collection of wordpress magazine theme gallery.

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Splendid

Splendid is an elegant magazine-style WordPress theme packed with additional color styles and lots of great built-in features, such as video support, custom page templates and custom widgets.

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Goodnews – Premium WordPress News/Magazine

Goodnews is Premium WordPress News / Magazine Theme Fully Customizable , has an extensive Theme Options with Import/export System , WPML Ready, RTL Full Support .

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Exciter – Magazine WordPress Theme

Exciter is a clean and elegant WordPress Theme that I created for Magazine/Blog sites. It offers a traditional news style layout to get the most out of your content, advertising areas, etc.

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Volt – Magazine / Editorial WordPress Theme

Volt theme for WordPress is designed for magazine, news and editorial ventures. With content and readability being the primary goal, the theme is designed with flexible layout pattern and decent space for advertisements. The theme introduces a layout swapping option that will let you move the content in desirable location, and is helpful when you are experimenting with visual hierarchy and user eye pattern. Backed with custom widgets, visual short codes, exclusive widget areas and custom page templates, the theme is envisioned to provide you more flexibility and ease-of-customization for your next editorial project.

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Impulse – Clean Magazine Theme

Impulse is a clean magazine theme, It provides everything you’ll need to create a professional looking website. With the Impulse theme, your website is sure to take off! Its clean, sleek and streamlined design is sure to appeal to your visitors. This theme is ideal for professional and sophisticated websites and blogs.

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London Live 3 In 1

London Live Is the perfect theme for any News, Magazine Or Blog site. It has multiple options to choose from and unlimited possibilities to create a great website.

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Averin – Premium Magazine Theme

Averin is a WordPress magazine theme with lots of useful features is its arsenal. It has a clean minimal design that organizes that content in a very professional and attractive layout

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Magzine – Clean Magazine Theme

Clean and elegant WordPress theme for magazine websites.

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Broadcast – News/Magazine WordPress Theme

Broadcast is perfect for anyone looking for a clean magazine style for their website. Giving you lots of options to create your website the way you want it to look.

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The Times – Clean Modern and Flexible Theme

The Times is a flexible WordPress blog/magazine theme built with latest WordPress features. This theme comes with a review system (up to 7 custom criterias) , powerful options panel, clean and modern design and etc. The homepage layout is very flexible, you can built your own layout using the homepage widgets or use a classic view style for fast blogging. You can also easily change the overall style of your site so it fits your needs (you can pick up custom color for a lot of the site elements).

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The Network – Magazine WordPress Theme

The Network is the complete news network & magazine template that allows you to create your own IGN .com or BBC .co.uk. The Network is designed to generate page views and encourage discussion and contribution while also incorporating social network sharing. The Network features self hosted MP4 video support and a customized Nivo Slider. Perhaps the crowning jewel is the easy to use clickable background advertising that allows you to blend eye catching advertising into your websites design.

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Shoutbox Magazine

Shoutbox is a minimal Magazine and Blog Theme, that uses a very elegant Featured Slider for news presentation. It is built on one of the most flexible WordPress Themes on Themeforest. With the help of a dynamic Template Builder you can create stunning page layouts without any coding knowledge. Yet if you are a developer eager to create your own PHP files the theme supports you as well with a very structured folder and file system. It has a unique built in slideshow manager (no plugins needed), supports both self hosted videos as well as vimeo, youtube, etc and comes with a content importer for faster setup.

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Bodega – WordPress Blog/Magazine Theme

Bodega is a modern WordPress magazine style theme. Perfect for blogs/magazines writing about urban culture, action sports, movies, video games, music, fashion and many more.

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Avenue – A WordPress Magazine Theme

Avenue is a feature-rich WordPress magazine theme and is suitable for almost any niche. The theme comes with an inbuilt review system and 3 post formats (videos, audio & galleries). The homepage layout is very flexible, you can built your own layout using the 3 homepage widgets. You can also easily change the skin so it fits your needs!

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Boulevard – A WordPress Magazine Theme

Boulevard is a straightforward and feature-rich WordPress magazine theme. With the built-in review system (with up to 5 rating criteria) and the 3 post formats (videos, music & galleries) Boulevard can be used for almost any niche. Furthermore you can customize the look of the site easily via the custom theme options panel.

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Diabolik Premium WordPress Theme

Diabolik is a clean, modern magazine and portfolio WordPress theme with boat loads of powerful features utilising the latest WordPress 3.2 features with custom post types, unlimited colors, and lot of shortcodes and options.

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Challenge – Powerful Premium WordPress Theme

Challenge is an advanced, unique and powerful premium WordPress theme suited for both beginners or advanced web developers. It’s flexible, clean, Search Engine Optimized and comes with an advanced framework in order to make your life easier and build your site very quickly.

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The Great And Wonder Photo Magazine for WordPress

The Great And Wonder is a clean, modern photo magazine and portfolio WordPress theme with boat loads of powerful features utilising the latest WordPress 3.2.1 features with 4 custom post types, unlimited colors, and lot of shortcodes and options. More than 60 options of customization are provided too.

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Morning

Morning is a bold magazine-style WordPress theme that creates a strong visual presence for your content. Packed with 3 color styles and lots of great built-in features, this theme will go well with any topic.

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Cake Blog

CakeBlog is a clean WordPress blog/magazine theme that can be used really well on food related magazines etc. You can choose one. two or three columns for your layout of this minimal WordPress theme.

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Fresh News Theme

Fresh News is one of Woothemes oldest and best selling themes, but has now been completely overhauled in version 3.0 to compete with the best themes of today. In the updated version you’ll find updated options to control the look, layout and fonts, and also some new features like a featured post slider.

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Newscast 4 in 1

Newscast is a probably one of the best WordPress premium themes, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. It comes with 3 fantastic Image and News slideshows has multiple Page templates and of course gives you the option to choose from 4 Fantastic skins

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Yamidoo Pro

Based on our most popular theme – Yamidoo Magazine, PRO version is a more sophisticated theme, with a powerful layout, which you can easy transform from a magazine layout, to a business theme.

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Manifesto

Manifesto is an excellent WordPress magazine theme with a very flexible layout and many great features, mostly intended for content-rich websites.

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