The most requested type of themes for WordPress platform are magazine templates because they can be used and customized for almost any kind of news website. Practically, the WordPress magazine themes have an universal destination, suitable for publishing various content types, like articles, videos or pictures. The next free premium WordPress magazine templates can be downloaded and used for free. Their functionality is easy to modify according to your website needs, as well as ads places alongside the content.
Zinmag Remedy
Publisher Description: “Zinmag Remedy is a 3 column, dark layout free premium magazine wordpress theme. The theme is bundled with lot of cool features you would like to have on your site.
It has a sliding carousel of featured post images, featured post section, highlight reel section,feed burner email subscription featured video section, mini posts with thumbnails, Flash tag clouds, custom 125 x 125 banner ads, Google adsense, theme option page in the admin panel.
The theme also comes with a setup guide to help you customize it to suite your site. The required plugins have been included with the theme files.”
Magazeen
Magazeen is a free theme released by Smashing Magazine under the GPL License. It is a WordPress theme with two columns, focused on typography, grids and website appearance. “The Magazeen theme is packed full of cool features to really encourage your readers to explore new posts and similar items. The first thing you might notice is the jQuery image showcase at the top, which is fully automated and will display the image from the latest post, and the title above it without you having to do anything other than define the image URL in the custom field we have created which will appear on in your admin post area.”
Arthemia Free
Publisher Description: “Arthemia is combining a magazine and a weblog into one; it is not too magazine-ish nor too blog-ish. The front page of Arthemia shows the headline and featured post of yours along with the pictorial representation, that’s the magazine style, while the rest of your post will be shows sequentially just like a usual weblog. In the middle of the front page, Arthemia has a nice blue-and-black category bar which will help your readers exploring you site. At the bottom, Arthemia is outfitted with a blog must-have section, a three-list of favorite posts.”
Linoluna
This is a magazine-style theme which uses WordPress template tags extensively. It is very easy to customize and is recommended for multi-authored blogs. “The CSS is lean and the design is very simple. Basically it is a grid-styled layout with green accents. The theme uses a tabbed navigation to show the most popular posts. There are four tabs avaiable and by default it is “Viewed”, “Commented”, “Top Rated”, and “Emailed”. There is a slideshow animation for the featured articles in the front page.”
WordPress Premium
Publisher Description: “WordPress Premium” is an elegantly designed, 2/3 column, feature packed, widget ready theme that comes with three color-scheme options.
Features:
-Comes bundled with 3 color-scheme options
-Separate css for layout and color. So, If you only wish to change colors, you don’t have to mess with the other css styling.
-Multiple Search option with Tabber Functionality
-RSS e-mail subscription form
-2 and 3 Column sidebar
-Three 100X100 pixel ad blocks in sidebar.
-Easy Editable, Light weight, Strategic Code
-SEO Optimized
-W3C Valid
-Table Less Coded
-Optimized XHTML code
-Short Hand CSS
-It’s Premium and It’s free!
WordPress Grid Focus
Publisher Description: Grid Focus is a three column widget enabled WordPress 2.6 or 2.7+ compatible WordPress theme. Prominent navigation bar with room to share important pages. The latest update is completely optimized and stripped of any unnecessary code allowing for complete customizability.
Grid Focus supports three independent widgetized sidebars + more:
-Primary - Index: Middle column rendered for index, archive, and page templates.
-Primary - Post: Middle column rendered for single post template.
-Secondary - Shared: Third column persistent on all templates.
-Threaded comment replies (WordPress 2.7 only)
WPFreemium
Publisher Description: ”WPFreemium is a two column WordPress Theme heavily designed for multi-authored blogs. WPFreemium features a deep integration of Gravatar images for all post authors, author profiles, and comments. Some of the primary goals for creating this theme was for it to be light weight, fast, and really highlight on the contributing authors.”
Features:
-Valid xHTML Strict 1.0 / CSS
-Code is well commented for the non technical savvy
-Sidebar Widgets enabled
-Custom Front Page with 3 featuring articles
-By default - 6 advertisement spots on all pages
-Gravatars highly Supported for Comments, Author Profiles and Author Posts.
-Author Byline + Promotion on single pages
-Author Profiles feature prominent image of the author with bio, contact details and more
-Image Gallery Support
-Jeffr0, a Print Stylesheet is included.
-Favicon + iPhone Webclip icon Ready
-SEO Optimized title tags and headers
-404 Error Page notifies admin each time someone stumbles across a broken link so they can fix it.
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Mimbo
Publisher Description: “Mimbo is a clean, customizable magazine-style theme for WordPress. It’s also a simple framework which can be modified with child themes.”
Worpress Magazine
Publisher Description: Theme has been tested with 6 different browsers (Internet Explorer 6 and 7, Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, Safari 3.0 and Opera 9.26) and latest WordPress (2.5) version.
Features:
-Tableless and Unique design
-Improved Widget support (3 sidebars)
-Dropdown navigation
-Valid CSS
-Valid XHTML
Magadine
Magadine is a magazine style WordPress theme, very lightweight and easy to customize. It has three columns and vibrant colors.
Gamezine
Publisher Description: Gamezine is the latest free magazine Wordpress theme for gamers, from jinsona designs. The theme has a dark grunge design with a fixed with 3 column layout. The theme is perfectly suitable for gamers and with some modification it will fit into any niche. The list of features include:
-Magazine theme layout, with dark and grunge style.
-Multi-level drop-down javascript navigation menu.
-Featured post section with javascript gallery
-Featured video section
-Site wide customizable 125×125 banner ads.
-Adsense enabled
-Javascript thumbnail slider which links to posts of specified category.
-About me section, which is customizable, including image and text.
-Random news display with mini thumbnails.
-Mini posts with thumbnails.
-customizable top games section on the sidebar.
-Widgetized, dual sidebar.
-Theme support
-Custom theme option page in the admin panel.
