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 make sure that is important to you. One minor complaint: the styling of the comment area is a big bold for my taste, but other than that, lovely.

Developer: Obox Design

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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 differ) and ad slots are given right and left-hand column treatment. Comes with advertising integrated.

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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 – all which serve to set up the article nicely. The contributor pages, category-level pages and the search results pages all show thumbnails.

Overall, a great, cheaper premium theme for a content-focused site.

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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 the live demo page), and you can see that pretty much the entire thing can be controlled via the theme admin, which is great for people who want some degree of customization but don’t actually want to touch any code.

Now, there probably aren’t that many people who want their site to look exactly like some version of the NYT, but I would imagine it’s easy enough to make a few changes but still use this for a very content heavy site.

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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 other content columns. The individual post pages are a bit on the plain side.

If you like this theme, you might also be interested in the Revolution series, which also contains page and category-based navigation, prominent RSS/email and search.

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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 commented functionality.

Would love to see a larger search, email, RSS box, as well as category-based drop down navigation.

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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 – brown, red or green.

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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 very top.

This one also comes with advertising integrated as well as image resizing.

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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 nice theme.

As far as I can tell, the Ashes Pro version has two top navs (page and category-based) instead of just one, as well as more advertising integrated (additional 468×60).

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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 very elegantly highlights the lead story, with three supporting stories. The bottom is similar to the robust footer concept where two rows of third-tier stories reside. All in all, a nice job, though I would have liked to see a bigger call out to RSS/subscribe/newsletters and a slightly bigger search box.

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