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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 [...]

Gabfire NewsPro

August 5, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes by admin
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 – [...]

Revolution City

August 4, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes by admin
The latest flavor of the Revolution series from Brian Gardner, this theme is a good solution for an out-of-the-box city-style portal. Page-based-navigation as well as a secondary tier of category-based-navigation make this a solid CMS-style theme. Like the other Revolution themes, nice features include prominent site search and RSS/newsletter subscription call out. Also like all [...]

Revolution Pro Media

April 14, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes, News Website Themes, Wordpress CMS Themes by admin
The Revolution Series does what any theme claiming to be a magazine-style theme should do, and then some. Revolution Pro Media adds more multimedia to the mix than some of the other Revolution variations, such as Revolution Magazine or Revolution News. Flickr images and video is integrated prominently. A unique feature of this theme is [...]

Monochrome Pro

April 14, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes, News Website Themes by admin
By the same maker as minimalist Visualization and the Gridline series, Monochrome is a visually arresting theme that places a lot of emphasis on images. So if your photos are not as great as the ones featured on the site, then you may way to think again. Monochrome has a lot of solid magazine-style features, [...]

Revolution Magazine

April 7, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes, News Website Themes by admin
I’ll repeat a bit of what I wrote in the Revolution News page — standard mag-style features include two-tiered top-nav: page-based for the first tier and category-based for the 2nd tier (with subcategory drop downs). Touches which distinguish this theme from others include nice balance on the HP and focus on images. Another nice thing [...]

Visualization

April 7, 2008 in Magazine Style Themes, News Website Themes by admin
This minimalist theme takes a pyramid approach to content display — one feature story/large image, beneath that three smaller features (with smaller images), then as the base, five thumbnail features bolstered by a big footer. The main nav menu is a bit different than many themes in that it incorporates both pages and categories (sub [...]