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Monthly Archives: November 2008

The New Yorker

November 17, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes by admin
Somewhat of a misnomer, as this theme clearly resembles the New York Times (the New Yorker is a separate magazine), but in any case, this theme gets a resounding thumbs up. Not for the fact that it’s so similar looking to the NYT, but because of it’s heavy widgetization. Check out their widget map (on [...]

News Plus 1.0

November 16, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes by admin
A unique looking magazine/news-style theme with many of the features that any robust WP theme hunter is looking for, including a well-thought out header (categories, pages, RSS and sign in box — would have liked to see newsletter on here) and category-based navigation. What I really like about this theme is that a lot of [...]

Papercut

November 11, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes by admin
A place for everything and everything in its place. This Wordpress theme does a nice job of bridging the gap between a blog and a full-blown magazine-style site. The look has a lot of personality, some might say on the crafty/feminine side, which could either be a great thing or a bad thing depending on [...]

Open Air Theme

November 11, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes by admin
An elegant and appropriately named magazine-style theme (that also comes with an alternate more bloggy template) from the folks over at WooThemes. Category-style navigation is nice, but the top menu (with image gallery etc) is implemented cleanly. Downsides: a little too much white-space for my liking. Upsides: image & video gallery. More image-oriented instead of [...]