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Press

Say you’re looking for a theme for your obscure literary publication. Or perhaps it’s a poetry site. Or something else very artsy. Voila: Press! This Wordpress theme is the one for you. The homepage showcases a lot of content while still remaining very clean and visually appealing. Category-level pages put the focus on photos, so [...]

Tauren

Categories are given left-hand menu treatment in this theme from ThemeSpinner. The HP does a nice job of featuring stories in three separate ways – through the flash slideshow, through three more featured articles and five more articles in list form below. Recent articles, comments and most recent (unclear how recent articles and most recent [...]

Shade Pro

This category-as-super-nav based theme from ThemeSpinner has a three-column HP layout and a two-column article layout.  Design features of note include a robust footer (most recent, most popular, recent comments), as well as some nice touches put to pages that are normally afterthoughts. Article level pages feature the author (with gravatar), comments and page views [...]

The New Yorker

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 [...]

Gabfire Suvi Magazine

This theme has a nice approach to video, incorporating it in an ajax tab on the HP as well as, at least in the way the demo is set up, as a category. Comes equipped with a lot of visual variety on the HP, showcasing a ton of content through the main well, and two [...]

Proximity News Theme

This straightforward theme is probably a good choice for someone who doesn’t know how to do tons of customization. One of the most common questions when implementing a theme is inevitably “How do I change the logo/header”? This developer has thought of that. Advertising in also integrated, as is the popular most commented and most [...]

Gabfire NewsPro

Really nice sense of balance with this magazine/news-style theme. It manages to get a lot of content onto the homepage, but without seemed too cluttered. Categories get drop down top nav treatment. Other nice features include a tabbed main feature on the HP and video integration. The latest release comes with three color schemes – [...]

Smoke Signal

Good for someone looking for a basic, but clean looking theme that I would classify as more “robust blog” than magazine-style. This one is out from the same creators of the Ashes Theme, Wordpress Designers. Unlike Ashes, however, the featured posts don’t get “slider” treatment, rather a more static piece of real estate at the [...]

Ashes Theme Pro

Solid, if somewhat basic premium themes out from the Wordpress Designers group. Clean design with some nice features like the multiple featured story, color blocking on mouseover and auto image resizing. Hard to get a feel for what the category pages are like since there aren’t too many posts in the demo, but overall a [...]

Wynton Magazine

Michael Oeser aka DER PRiNZ, whose theme Branford Magazine was, as far as I could tell, one of the earliest and most popular free magazine-style Wordpress themes, is back with another free theme, this time called Wynton Magazine. I’m digging the addition of the category-navigation sub bar, as well as the built-in advertising. The homepage [...]