Updated: July 12, 2009!

The internet is a dynamic place where things are always changing and adapting. And just like the internet, the blogosphere is also changing rapidly and seems to be particularly susceptible to trends. One prominent blogger will create a theme and the whole blogosphere will rush to follow.

One of the most recent trends in the blogosphere is the rise in popularity of many magazine-style WordPress themes. Many of them are paid themes, but there are also several free magazine style WordPress themes as well for people to download.  This post is our attempt to collect them in one place for your convenience and is being updated monthly (if not more often!):

The following is a collection of the best free and premium Magazine WordPress themes:

Free Magazine WordPress Themes

Scarlett Theme

scarlette-theme

Source | Download | Demo

Hamasaki Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Rebel Magazine Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Massive News Theme

Massive News Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Arthemia Free Theme (Premium Version Also Available)

Source | Download | Demo | Premium Version of Arthemia

Studio WordPress Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Jello Wala Mello Theme

Jello Wala Mello Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Mimbo Theme

mimbo3

Source | Download | Demo

WP Gold Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Morning After Theme

Morning After Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Zeke 1.0 Theme

Zeke Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Forte Theme

Forte

Source | Download | Demo

Small Magazine Theme

Source | Download | (Unable to Locate a Demo)

Premium News Theme

Source | Download | Demo

Premium Magazine WordPress Themes

Church Theme

revolution-church-theme

Church Theme ($59.95), All StudioPress Themes ($199.95)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Lifestyle Theme

revolution-lifestyle-theme

Lifestyle Theme ($59.95), All StudioPress Themes ($199.95)

Source/Demo | Purchase

WP Smooth Theme

wp-smooth-theme1

Single-Use ($99.00), Multiple-Use ($199.00), Developer’s Pack ($299.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

One Theme (Fun Version)

fun-one-theme

Single-Use ($60.00), Multiple-Use ($110.00, $160.00, or $210.00), Developer’s Pack ($260.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Open Air Theme

open-air-theme

Single-Use ($70.00), Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Note: WP Hacks readers can now click here to get 2 premium themes from Woo Themes for the price of 1!

Newsday Theme

newsday-theme

Single-Use ($45.00), Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

WP Vybe Theme

wp-vybe-theme

Single-Use ($99.00), Multiple-Use ($199.00), Developer’s Pack ($299.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Gemini Theme

gemini-theme

Single-Use ($60.00), Developer’s Pack ($120.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Moviemaker Theme

moviemaker

Unlimited Websites ($37.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Fresh News Theme

fresh-news-theme

Single-Use ($70.00), Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Note: WP Hacks readers can now click here to get 2 premium themes from Woo Themes for the price of 1!

BloggingStream Theme

blogging-stream

Single-Use ($70.00), Multiple-Use ($150.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Note: WP Hacks readers can now click here to get 2 premium themes from Woo Themes for the price of 1!

Shiva Pro Theme

shiva-pro-theme

Single-Use ($89.00), Multiple-Use ($149.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Carbonated Theme

carbonated-theme

Unlimited License ($70.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Fast Track Theme

fast-track-theme

Multiple-Use ($34.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

WPSN Sports Theme

wpsn-theme

Multiple-Use ($38.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Arthemia Premium Theme

arthemia-premium

Single-Use ($70.00), Multiple-Use ($140.00), Developer’s Pack ($240.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Yamidoo Magazine Theme

yamidoo-magazine-theme

Single-Use ($69.00), Multiple-Use ($119.00), Developer’s Pack ($149.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Kongo Theme

kongo-theme

Single-Use ($45.00), Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Mayones Theme

mayones-magazine-theme1

Single-Use ($45.00), Developer’s Pack ($150.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Traveler Theme

traveler-theme

Single-Use ($79.95), Multiple-Use ($179.95), Developer’s Pack ($279.95)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Technology Theme

technology-theme

Single-Use ($79.95), Multiple-Use ($149.95)

Source/Demo | Purchase

WP Crystal Magazine Theme

wp-crystal-theme

Single-Use ($79.00), Multiple-Use ($179.00), Developer’s Pack ($279.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Celebrity Press Theme

celebrity-press-theme2

Single-Use ($79.95), Multiple-Use ($149.95), Developer’s Pack ($249.95)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Vanity Celebrity Theme

vanity-theme

Single-Use ($79.95), Multiple-Use ($149.95), Developer’s Pack ($249.95)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Celebrity Gossip Theme

celebrity-gossip-theme

Single-Use ($35.00), Multiple-Use ($95.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

WP Jazz Theme

wp-jazz-theme

Single-Use ($99.00), Multiple-Use ($199.00), Developer’s Pack ($299.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Newspaper Theme

newspaper-theme

Single-Use ($59.00), Multiple-Use ($159.00), Developer’s Pack ($259.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

NewsPro Theme

news-pro-theme

Single-Use ($59.00), Multiple-Use ($159.00), Developer’s Pack ($259.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Suvi Magazine Theme

suvi-magazine

Single-Use ($59.00), Multiple-Use ($159.00), Developer’s Pack ($259.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

iTeam Sports Theme

Single-Use ($59.95), Multiple-Use ($149.95)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Gamemaker Theme

gamemaker-theme

Unlimited Websites ($37.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

Church Life Theme

church-life-theme

Source/Demo | Purchase

Office Theme

Office Theme ($59.95), All StudioPress Themes ($199.95)

WP Clear Theme

wp-clear-theme

Single-Use ($99.00), Multiple-Use ($199.00), Developer’s Pack ($299.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

bSocial Theme

bsocial-theme

Single-Use ($79.95), Multiple-Use ($150.00)

Source/Demo | Purchase

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There Are 124 Responses So Far. »

  1. 1 Justin Tadlock
    Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 10:05 am

    Thanks for posting my theme (Visionary). I haven’t seen the Mimbo Magazine theme yet. Looks like I have a little more competition than I thought.

  2. 2 Robert Irizarry
    Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 10:32 am

    They’re beautiful themes and I’ve actually toyed with the Morning After theme on a test site. However, I’m still a bit torn about magazine style themes. Do you think they’re more appropriate for one type of blog over another?

  3. 3 Kyle Eslick
    Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at 2:49 pm

    Justin – Thanks for stopping by! Yes, the Mimbo theme is nice as well, plus there is always the Revolution (paid) magazine theme to compete with, but I don’t think you have anything to worry about. You have a great theme there!

    Robert – Excellent question, but not an easy one to answer!

    It really does depend on the type of blog in my opinion, because its basically replacing the standard blog homepage.

    I am using a magazine style look on my personal blog (which is not ready for public consumption yet, so I can’t link to it to show you). This blog will be a page that basically points to everything me, including various sites I admin or author, latest twitters, my personal profiles, etc. The blog portion (single pages) is useful for posting pictures and whatever else I feel like sharing I guess.

    If you are in need of a landing page of sorts, I do recommend the magazine style themes to those people. If it is truly a blog, then you might be better off sticking with a standard blog theme.

    Hope this helped a little bit!

  4. 4 Darren Hoyt
    Saturday, November 10th, 2007 at 11:30 am

    Thanks for the mention, Kyle. I hadn’t visited HackWP before – lots of good info here.

  5. 5 Cadu de Castro Alves
    Saturday, November 10th, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    Recently, I released a magazine style theme called WPortal. You can see a demo here.
    Enjoy!

  6. 6 Robert Irizarry
    Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    Kyle – Thanks for the response. I’ve toyed with the idea of a magazine style theme for my guitar related site. I cover a number of sub niches which I think would work well with a magazine style theme. My one big concern is making the layout overly busy and confusing the reader.

    I’d love to hear from bloggers who have switched over to magazine style themes to see if they’ve seen any impact in terms of visits, pageviews, depth of visits, etc. You haven’t by chance come across anything like that? It might make for an interesting article… :)

  7. 7 Hoodgrown_Magazine
    Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 7:44 am

    I think Mimbo is one of the best magazine wordpress themes. I use it on my site ( http://www.hoodgrownonline.com ). Originally, I was going to use “The Morning After” until I came across Mimbo in a similiar article. Apart from my Mimbo bias… I’ve found another great FREE magazine theme.. that I might use on another site I’m building….

    Structure…
    http://justintadlock.com/archives/2007/12/09/structure-wordpress-theme

  8. 8 Hoodgrown_Magazine
    Monday, December 31st, 2007 at 7:46 am

    Hey.. sorry.. didn’t notice Structure was there.. the first one. lol
    Hey.. i’m just waking up

  9. 9 Ravi
    Wednesday, January 9th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    I have to say, I’m really loving the trend towards “Magazine”-style themes. It really pushes the bar in terms of creativity, especially since most standard blog themes look far too similar.

    I’m using Kiwi 1.1 on my personal site (http://www.raviudeshi.com), which I think was one of the first themes to push the trend of non-standard presentation of posts. Shame I’ve spent so much time customizing it as some of these new themes definitely give it a run for its money!

  10. 10 Ederic
    Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Great themes you have here!

    Like Ravi, I also customized a WP theme for my e-zine, (www.tinig.com). How I wish I could make it look like the themes here. :p

  11. 11 Moses Francis
    Friday, January 25th, 2008 at 1:15 am

    Thanks for the feature Kyle :)

  12. 12 John O Gilmore Jr
    Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

    Here is an amazing rework of the Quadruple Blue Theme. http://collegian.csufresno.edu They made two columns out of the main column thereby creating a very nice 5 column newspaper style theme with lots of additional media content.

    Any chance of getting your esteemed analysis of how all this was accomplished?

  13. 13 hso
    Sunday, February 24th, 2008 at 11:11 pm

    Thanks for the mention!

  14. 14 FIFers
    Saturday, March 8th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

    WOW..there are alot of amazing themes here..
    polaroids is my choice..
    thanks for the sharing

  15. 15 Jason
    Saturday, March 15th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    Excellent list of themes! One of the best resources I’ve found for free downloads! Thanks.

  16. 16 Robert Irizarry
    Saturday, March 15th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    An advantage of Justin Tadlock’s Options and Structure themes is that they can be configured as a magazine theme or as a traditional blog.

    After some consideration, I decided to switch my site to Structure as a traditional blog. However, I now have the ability to leverage all my current mods and testing and easily move to its magazine layout at some later point in time.

  17. 17 dheeraj
    Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 1:32 am

    Hi I am using TMA theme on my website http://www.iitdreams.com have a look..

  18. 18 Mario
    Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    Great Collection! Nice Post. Thanks a lot.

  19. 19 dizi
    Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

    thanks man

  20. 20 digitalscrap.net
    Friday, April 18th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

    A true pleasure to explore your site. Thank you for sharing such great work!

  21. 21 games
    Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 at 8:29 am

    good job. i like this themes.

  22. 22 AdSense VS Chitika
    Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 am

    These themes look great! The Massive, Zeke, and Studio themes would work especially well for “traditional” type blogs.

  23. 23 megan
    Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 11:08 am

    wow thanks so much for providing these great themes for free. thank you thank you thank you!!!!

  24. 24 suicidalsam
    Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    lots of great magazine style themes in your list. the one i like from your list is option theme. I will be trying it out on my blog.

    You might also want to include a new theme i found.

    http://www.gabfire.com/wordpress-magazine-theme-released/

    It is great. I use it in one of my blogs and I love it. lot easier that mimbo for customizing.

  25. 25 SARAH
    Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 4:10 pm

    This is an amazing list. Its really help me to find the best free magazine style theme. Thanks for sharing.

  26. 26 Mizake
    Friday, May 16th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    Hi, I am converting “Structure Theme” of Justin Tadlock. It’s not yet finishing but some plugins is work. Maybe 1 to 2 day is needed to complete conversion.

  27. 27 kitap özetleri
    Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 at 3:09 pm

    Rebel Magazine Theme is free?
    good good thanks very very thanks

  28. 28 Fun Free Games
    Monday, May 26th, 2008 at 2:49 am

    I like the themes, the colors, everything… and especially the featured widget

  29. 29 P7
    Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 4:38 am

    Thanks,

    options and Massive news are very good themes.

  30. 30 Roy Sudomo
    Thursday, June 5th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    Thank you for sharing. Those themes are really awesome. I am kind of new in this wordpress thing and I’m really grateful to stumble upon your site.

    Cheers!

  31. 31 Jauhari
    Saturday, July 12th, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    Thanks for ad my Hamasaki on this list..

  32. 32 Rich
    Monday, August 11th, 2008 at 10:34 pm

    i love the themes here! i’ve downloaded most of them for my websites.. a very informational post indeed.

  33. 33 Digitalmail
    Thursday, August 14th, 2008 at 7:43 am

    I was searching for some good Wp themes and saw your post . You have collected nice themes.

  34. 34 Nometet
    Friday, August 29th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    Thanks Kyle. This list has been really helpful – loads of inspiration!

  35. 35 suicidalsam
    Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 11:22 am

    thanx for the list. you really helped me out. was looking for quite some time for a good magazine style wordpress theme and I found one at last from your collection.

  36. 36 Best Blog
    Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    Really amazing, you solved my problem of choosing a magazine theme…

  37. 37 vps4
    Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 at 12:32 am

    nice themes, thank you

  38. 38 Ahmad
    Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 10:41 am

    Thanks Kyle for showcasing the guzel magazine. The source site is not correct though. The source is http://customthemedesign.com (Feel free to remove my link from comment..I know this can be against rules)

    Many thanks Kyle!

  39. 39 Tech
    Friday, September 19th, 2008 at 8:19 am

    Thanks!amazing!!!

  40. 40 New Zealand
    Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 10:04 pm

    Thanks for the list, a real help for me and my blog.

  41. 41 JohnChow's Cow
    Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 am

    thanks for the list, i picked one for my blog

  42. 42 Crystal Woods
    Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 at 1:51 am

    Not sure if it qualifies as a ‘magazine style’ but definitely has the graphical elements: I’ve been playing around with The Unstandard theme by Derek at http://5thirtyone.com and tweaking it a bit for a spinoff blog of mine at http://www.30dayloa.com (I’ve put posts up there of the tweaks I’ve done and it’s got me some great traffic results, so I was very happy to discover this one for future tweak reference…)

    I love how you’ve previewed all these on this post, though, and you’ve definitely given me a few more themes to test run before I make the final choice on my main blog!

    Crystal

  43. 43 Ali Baba
    Thursday, October 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

    Really good and thanks good collection.

  44. 44 Guy Fawkes
    Thursday, November 6th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

    Great list, probably the best on the net.
    Thanks a lot.

  45. 45 Samson Delila
    Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 11:50 pm

    All the great themes for WP! Btw, I like Mimbo as its easy to manage and use …

  46. 46 football
    Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 at 8:30 am

    i love these themes, in mag designs.

  47. 47 minanube
    Friday, November 28th, 2008 at 10:55 am

    Nice Shoot :)

    many thanks my friend :D

  48. 48 adim sey
    Saturday, November 29th, 2008 at 8:24 am

    thaks for sharing

  49. 49 busby SEO test
    Sunday, November 30th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    bravo, it’s very nice theme list.

  50. 50 Belmos
    Friday, December 19th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    Thanks for these wonderful themes. I used one of them in my blog.

  51. 51 Crochet
    Sunday, December 21st, 2008 at 10:25 am

    Very nice themes. Thanks..

  52. 52 izumou
    Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 10:44 am

    Very Nice themes .It is unfortunate,I am using Blogger,any of the theme in Blogger??

  53. 53 emre
    Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 2:49 pm

    thank you very much.

  54. 54 Money Academy
    Thursday, January 29th, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    i like Revolution Lifestyle Theme it is wonderful also option them nice really
    thanks

  55. 55 knitting
    Sunday, February 1st, 2009 at 10:45 am

    nice themes, thanks to share with us…

  56. 56 ivan
    Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 at 11:46 am

    great list of wordpress newspaper style. we have just released another one with these kind of layout, and we give it away free too for the community.

  57. 57 Greg Johnson
    Friday, February 6th, 2009 at 8:46 pm

    You’ll definitely want to check out the News CMS WordPress Theme from Bust A Theme.

  58. 58 Blogger Tips
    Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Man, such a lovely list of lots of amazing wordpress templates, l loved many of them and l am using many of them in my blogs too. l mean, l love guzell theme and l love http://deluxethemes.com/ themes, l am using all of theirs free templates. You can also check this amazing camfy template l use here http://www.artdir.co.cc thats amazing. You can download it from here : http://deluxethemes.com/counter/click.php?id=8
    thanks for this amazing list. l bookmarked.

  59. 59 Ray
    Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 6:59 am

    I’m using a magazine style wordpress template however I’m not sure if it give the site the right look and feel. what you you think?

    http://www.square-mag.co.uk/

  60. 60 Madmouse Blog
    Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 10:16 am

    Great collection of quality WordPress themes. I started designing WordPress themes and releasing them free to the public this year.

  61. 61 MMF
    Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    Thanks a lot .

  62. 62 Indian Moms
    Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 at 10:42 am

    Came looking for a blog for our site, shall try one of these. Thanks.

  63. 63 Navjot Singh
    Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 6:08 am

    Options, Structure and Visionary Themes are no longer available. Please remove them.

  64. 64 Kyle Eslick
    Saturday, May 2nd, 2009 at 8:19 am

    @ Navjot – THanks for the info. I have updated our post!

  65. 65 thepplway??
    Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 at 7:31 pm

    i need a magazine theme in 3 column,may be who can suggest me change to 2 column .thanks

  66. 66 amjad
    Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

    thanks for the theme,this is what i was looking for

  67. 67 rjjrdq
    Sunday, May 17th, 2009 at 1:55 am

    It doesn’t appear that any of these are free.

  68. 68 Kyle Eslick
    Sunday, May 17th, 2009 at 8:29 am

    @ rjjrdq – All of the themes under the free section should all be free! The ones in the premium section will have a price associated with them, but in most cases, they are significantly better. :)

  69. 69 william
    Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 at 11:59 am

    This is by far the best collection of wordpress theme that i have seen all over the internet.

    I would like to learn how to combine various themes to get the max out of them all..

    Thanks for sharing mate !:D

  70. 70 Fokus
    Sunday, May 24th, 2009 at 6:33 am

    best list ever thanx!

  71. 71 Dantel
    Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 9:45 am

    i want to use wordpress in my web page. Joomla is very hard. And your themes ar so good. Thanks fo share

  72. 72 Crochet
    Saturday, July 4th, 2009 at 3:43 am

    i love these themes, in mag designs.

  73. 73 Watch Free Movies
    Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 1:24 am

    This has to be one of the biggest collection of free magazine style wordpress theme in one place. Even though I was little bit disappointed to see many of these themes at end were paid theme. But many thanks for sharing this.
    Cheers
    Winson

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