Aside from the usual printed materials, one of the greatest innovations made possible by the Internet is putting magazines online. Yes! You can definitely turn sites into online magazines whether they are about fashion, food, business or almost any kind of topic. WordPress makes it easy for you to establish your very own online magazine through the use of specially designed themes. Here are some of the best magazine themes that you can use for your site.
Also check out Part 1 for more magazine website designs you can install yourself.
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1) Our Magazine
A powerful WordPress theme special for online magazine, community, network or any site with rich content. It is modern, clean, and sexy.
2) Made – Responsive Review/Magazine Theme
This theme features two separate theme admin pages (Theme Options and Review Options), each tabbed, toggled, and organized into easy to use sets of options.
3) Retro Portfolio – One Page Vintage WordPress Theme
“Retro Portfolio” is a WordPress Retro-style theme. It consists on a one-page portfolio with a blog and a contact section featuring a ajax contact form.
4) Ares Blog Magazine Newspaper Template
Ares is The Clean Magazine, News and Blog Template built with latest WordPress features.
5) Volt – Magazine / Editorial WordPress Theme
Volt theme for WordPress is designed for magazine, news and editorial ventures. With content and readability being the primary goal, the theme is designed with flexible layout pattern and decent space for advertisements. The theme introduces a layout swapping option that will let you move the content in desirable location, and is helpful when you are experimenting with visual hierarchy and user eye pattern.
6) Convergence – Community WordPress Theme
Convergence is a nicely put together WordPress theme with the intent and focus on creating a community site. This theme includes many popular features seen in today’s industry leading community sites.
7) Periodic – A Premium WordPress Magazine Theme
Periodic is a custom built, premium WordPress theme suited for online magazines, news portals and large blogs.
8) BluePrint Magazine
BluePrint is a simple magazine theme powered by WordPress. With numerous places to insert widget, you have the power to show the content you want, where you want.
9) PixelPower – Responsive HTML5/CSS3 WordPress Theme
This is a clean, modern, powerful WordPress tumblog-style theme designed for a wide variety of uses from bloggers to design portfolios. The responsive web design adapts from large to mobile screens, just resize the browser window to test it out, no additional setup required!
10) Triangle Magazine – WordPress Magazine Theme
Triangle Magazine is responsive modern clean magazine/blog WordPress theme with built in review system, page builder, Breaking News section, sidebars manager, custom style manager, 9 custom widgets and much more.
11) Impulse – Clean Magazine Theme
Impulse is a clean magazine theme, It provides everything you’ll need to create a professional looking website. With the Impulse theme, your website is sure to take off! Its clean, sleek and streamlined design is sure to appeal to your visitors. This theme is ideal for professional and sophisticated websites and blogs.
12) Max Mag – Responsive WordPress Magazine Theme
A feature-rich, professional media and magazine theme. Max Mag is fully-responsive and includes unlimited color schemes, a “sticky” menu bar, a slider on each category page, 5 different ad units, including a wallpaper ad, a drag-and-drop homepage, 14 custom widgets, secondary feature headlines, SEO friendly and so much more!
13) Bangkok Press – Responsive, News & Editorial Theme
Bangkok Press is the most awesome News and Editorial WordPress Theme. With this theme that comes with Responsive Action, your readers can easily read your article everywhere, on there mobile or tablet. There’re more than 10 of blog option for your alternative
14) Averin – Premium Magazine Theme
This theme features as many sidebars as you like together with custom forms.
15) cooolZine magazine – WordPress edition
Cooolzine is a magazine/blog theme created for the typical usage of an e-zine. It contains an awesome user experience and a layout with five different backgrounds. This is not only a theme – it is a whole website concept.
16) Repro – Premium WordPress News / Magazine Theme
Repro is the Premium WordPress News / Magazine theme. Jam packed with custom options, custom widgets and a dollop of good looks.
17) Mosaico – Unique Magazine Theme
Mosaico is unique and responsive magazine WordPress theme with clean, sleek and customizable design. Theme includes lots of advanced features and functions and is based on solid backend framework.
18) Duplex – Magazine / Community / Blog Theme
Duplex is a Premium WordPress Magazine / Community / Blog theme full of custom options, custom widgets and a generous helping of good looks.
19) Viewport: Responsive Magazine WordPress Theme
Clean, crisp, and well structured, the Viewport theme is perfect the online publisher who values the use of different media. With support for images, galleries, audio and video, along with a fully responsive design, there is no doubt you will leave a lasting impression on your audience.
20) theDawn Premium All-in-one WordPress Theme
“theDawn” is a powerful all-in-one premium WordPress theme that brings to the table many front-end and back-end features. While working on it, I’ve been paying attention to the design and structure of the theme as well as the options variety and customizability and ease of use.
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