10 Best Free Wordpress Magazine Themes
Magazine themes with grid layouts are perfect for your news based blogs, as they give more room to showcase your content. I collected and present here ten of the most flexible and innovative FREE Wordpress Magazine themes and templates.
Zinemag Tribune is the ultimate free Wordpress theme with newspaper layout. It is bundled with many extra features, and a custom administration panel to enable its different modules.
This white professional looking magazine style theme was designed by Jinsona creations, and released under the popular Zinmag series.
The Scarlett theme is another stylish creation by web2feel.com. It features some nice custom dynamic content elements that are built into it.
Multi-level dropdown navigation menu, Tabbed content area, Custom sliding elements with images, and so much more!
The Morning After is an original and professional looking magazine theme, created by Arun Kale. After a brief survey about what features bloggers would want to see in a unique magazine theme on the Wordpress forums, Arun created The Morning After theme, considering the user feedback on this question. The Morning After theme is now released under a Creative Commons license.
Magasin Cuatro is a Wordpress Magazine theme with Featured Post, Twitter Account integration, Flickr Thumbnails, Feedburner Email Subscription. This theme is adsense ready and optimized, compatible with the latest version of wordpress, and it has an integrated automatic thumbnail resize feature. It requires a number of free wp plugins to be installed for extra functionality.
Grungezine is a nice fixed width, 3 column layout, Magazine-style Wordpress theme, created by wpspark. It has some important widgets and features build into it. License: Free to use, must keep the footer intact as is.
WP Magazine is a flexible newspaper/magazine styled Wordpress theme released by gabfire.com. It has 3 columns and a fixed width. Featured content is enabled, and advertising space is available. The theme has been tested with 6 different browsers. Users have contributed to make the theme available in different languages.
Athemia is an innovative creation by Michael Jubel Hutagalung. The theme features paged plugin support, automated navigation page listing, headlines and a pictorial presentation.
Branford Magazine is a popular theme with some neat features, created by Michael Oeser. It’s an amazing theme combining the very best of two other great magazine layouts; inspiration came from “Revolution theme” by Brian Gardner and the “Mimbo theme” created by Darren Hoyt. This theme is ready for localization, and a language pack is available.
Fakeblog, aka Overstand Theme, is a fresh black/white/orange 3 column Magazine style template for wordpress powered weblogs. It is available in both the English and German language. See the theme live in action on fakeblog.de
The free wordpress Magazeen theme, created by the talented WeFunction Design Agency, is an advanced magazine look design which includes all the popular features. With the main focus being on typography, grids and magazine style, this theme suits all the needs for your news based blog.
Wordpress Youtube video blog theme
Turn your Wordpress powered site into a Youtube Video Blog.
Most bloggers already know that it’s possible to easily embed flash video’s in blog posts. What’s not as well known is that YouTube creates a thumbnail for each video that we can also embed. This makes it possible to create a video blog with an index of clickable thumbnails.
The free Videographer theme works best with the two different plugins: WP Youtube and WP Postratings.
Once everything is installed you can post video’s, simply by including the unique Youtube video ID’s in a custom field in your wordpress posts. With this brilliant theme you an easily turn your wordpress blog into a video blog.
Wordpress Web2.0 Themes
When I first created this blog, it was my intention to work on my own wordpress themes and release them on this site. However, with so many other opportunities and activities I have online, I couldn’t find the time to start working on a wordpress design. Now we are nine months later, a new year has arrived, and one of my resolutions was to bring new life into some of my neglected websites.
At the moment I find myself almost finished with my very first wordpress theme. This one is not going to be released, as I intend to use it on my own weblog when it’s done, and keep it unique. My 2nd wordpress theme will be released though, and it’s going to be a clean, lite Web2.0 theme.
In the meantime I wanted to share with you some of the themes from other designers that I found when searching for Web2.0 themes. I noticed that many people frequently use the term web2.0 to describe their designs, however, most of them don’t actually have much 2.0 style to be named as such.
Some of the themes that I found to be Web 2.0 Worthy are listed below. These five pretty wordpress themes all feature their own unique characteristics with detail for web 2.0 graphic design elements.
This first theme is called Sodelicious and was created by Rui Castro of web2themes.com. It has a web 2.0 style design with 3 nice features; a Slideshow screen on the left where you can place an animation or featured content, a big sidebar on the right that includes 3 widget sidebars, and 4 social bookmarks buttons that are automatically placed in your posts.
The 2nd theme, made by Aditi Tuteja, was named Curved because of the nice rounded blue corners. This theme supports widgets, and has a nice striped header along with tabbed navigation.
Gossip City is a web2.0 wordpress theme, created by DesignDisease, and is the perfect theme for your gossip and celebrity weblogs. It has a stylish 3-column, widget ready with sweet color palette theme, and was released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.
The next theme comes from Ndesign Studio and has a High-tech, glossy Mac style with web 2.0 mini icons. Validated XHTML and CSS, Web 2.0 colors.… the perfect WordPress theme for your technology-related blog.
And finally the last theme is the rather simple looking Webby Blue Design from Justskins.com. This is a 2-column, widgets ready Web2.0 style wordpress theme, with light blue colors. Theme was tested with Wordpress 2.2.x.
I hope that this post was useful to you. Make sure to visit this site again anytime next month, hopefully I have released my own 2.0 theme by then.
Wordpress adsense theme – WP Colors
Wordpress adsense themes are the easiest way to place your adsense or other contextual ad codes on your blog. All you have to do is to replace the publisher code in the appropriate template files of the adsense theme.
This SEO Friendly Wordpress Adsense Theme was made by Coleen Chard and it’s called WP Colors. The theme is available in both fluid and fixed width, and four different color combinations. click here for a demo
WP Colors is adsense ready, with three locations for optimal exposure of your ads (728×90, 300×250 and 120×600). Instructions on where to replace your publisher ID are included in the download. The theme is also compatible with widgets
This adsense theme is SEO friendly, it’s making use of negative margins and the sidebar content comes after the main content in the source code, so your main content is spidered first, which is generally important to search engines.
The strategic placement of the ads in this template has proven to increase the clicktrough rate on your contextual ads, as as they are integrated around your content, complying with Google’s quality guidelines.