This is a great example of a clean, minimalist Wordpress news-theme with a nice emphasis on images. Could see this being used for a recipe or food site.

Homepage uses  a slick featured content well, and stays uncluttered by employing two top menus – the supernav for the less-accessed things like “About Us”, etc, and primary navigation is reserved for categories (and subcategories) of content. The homepage has a prominent place for the once very common popular box, which showcases the most popular etc. posts: “Popular”, “Latest”, “Comments”, “Tags”.

Category landing pages have a nice presentation – similar to the homepage, they’re not just a bunch of text links slapped together. The subcategory landing pages are a bit more typical.

Overall, a nice theme, but a little bit too much white space for my taste.

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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 the little things have been thought of, too.

For instance, the pre-included Google Adsense — but it’s not just thrown up there in annoying places, but in probably quite effective ones (see the HP, and the supernav). Also, on the post pages, the creator added a related/popular/featured posts box — how very nice.

Not a huge fan of the secondary category or tag pages because the featured post seems a bit too large, but they definitely have a personality.

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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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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 the tagged/tags section of the main well, which for those of you who hate auto-scrollers/sliders, is a neat way to present a lot of information.

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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 with the Revolution series is that there are phpBB3 forum templates included. One nitpick: I would like to see some “most popular” type features.

See also Revolution News and the rest of the Revolution series, Revolution Tech and the original Revolution theme.

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Free Wordpress theme with page-based navigation (dropdown menus) with a category-list in the right-hand sidebar. The HP is 3-column while article pages are 2-column. With built-in advertising.

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The Revolution Wordpress Theme series (comes in different flavors, Revolution Magazine, Revolution Tech, Revolutions Sports, etc) is a nice jumping off point for anyone interested in content-rich sites.

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 in the Revolution series and other mag-style themes in general is a large call-out to subscribe (hugely important to get return visitors), as well as a tabbed treatment for the main HP feature. Another nice thing with the Revolution series is that there are phpBB3 forum templates included.

One nitpick: I would like to see some “most popular” type features and more advertising out of the box.

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