Continuous evolution is occurring in the field of wordpress themes. Most popular theme stylee these days is Magazine/News style.
Here are some classic Premium Magazine-News themes for Wordpress.
1.Newsport
Newsport is a stylish magazine theme aimed at those who want a more professional feel to their site. It includes a well laid out front page that showcases all your news with images, and also a cool category news feed on the side so that all content of your site gets to shine.
Unique Features:
- Integration of breadcrumb navigation to increase the usability of your website;
- 4 widgetized areas (left sidebar, footer 1st-3rd column)
- 5 custom Woo widgets (Flickr, Quote, Search, 125×125 ad, Feeds)
- 11 great colour schemes to suit your site identity.
2. Foreword Thinking
Foreword Thinking is a neat 3 column design with a “table of content” magazine-styled home page. This theme comes bundled with a moveable sidebar, a customizable featured posts section, 10 theme styles and the ability to set alternating colours for specific areas of the design.
Unique Features
- A custom home page with a “table of content” designed blog section, featured posts and two available page modules that can be set in the theme options;
- Randomizing colour styling for featured posts and date blocks with colours editable in the theme options.
- A completely widgetized sidebar with 7 custom widgets that you can use;
- Ability to interchange between a left and right sidebar;
- 10 different styles to choose from
3. Busy Bee
Busy Bee sports a stylish design that will support large amounts of multimedia content. You can definitely use it for a magazine / news site or just for your personal blog, since the out-of-box features allows you to truly make this theme your own and adapt it to your content.
Unique Features
- Sexy drop down menu’s for both the page & category navigation;
- The most ad spaces (9 in total) ever included in a WooTheme;
- Can easily be used as a personal blog with Twitter feed (screenshot);
- Easy-to-integrate options for your Adsense code, which will replace the standard image banners;
- A completely widgetized sidebar & footer with custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required; and
- 13 amazing colour schemes to choose from!
4.Open Air
Open Air can serve as both a magazine-style design or a stylish personal blog. The subtle use of gradients, borders and separating lines gives the theme a very polished and stylish feel, whilst the built-in video player is sure to be a hit for most users.
Unique Features
- An unique homepage layout, with a beautiful grid structure that keeps your content looking fresh and appealing;
- The ability to switch the look / layout of the homepage between a content-heavy magazine view (see demo) or a more individually-focused personal blog design (view screenshot);
- A super-sexy and non-obtrusive video player, which will aggregate all of your videos into one, easy-to-use-space;
- A completely widgetized sidebar with custom widgets included in the theme packaging. No third party widgets required.
5. Live Wire
Live Wire is a magazine-type Wordpress theme that is packaged with an impressive variety of designs and colour options that should make it appealing to just about any type of web publisher. It’s theme option’s panel entitles even the most novice of users to customize it’s flexible layout.
Unique Features
- Three different Live Wire designs, each with different colour options to choose from.
- Unique styling for the main featured articles & secondary articles on the homepage;
- The middle column on the homepage displays the latest content from all your categories, thus emphasising all the most important content and increasing the time users will spend on your site; and
- Multiple homepage layouts.
6. The Gazette Edition
Gazette Edition is arguably our most sophisticated-looking theme to date, whilst the trendy featured scroller makes it very unique. The clean, white layout with professionally designed content areas are perfect for users that’d like to run a community newspaper website or a product showcase.
Unique Features
- A beautiful MooTools featured slider on the homepage to add a touch of class to your website;
- Lavalamp jQuery animation for top navigation; and
- Multiple homepage layouts which allows you to give your site a more of a magazine or blog feel.
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