Magazine themes for WordPress are increasing in popularity because they give a blog an unique “non-blog” look. Change some settings in the control panel, widgets and theme’s CSS files, add a custom logo in the header and you will have a brand new one-of-a-kind website powered by WordPress. Once you’ve decided to use a magazine theme for your own site you will soon realize there are a hundreds of free magazine themes. This post picks out the top 10 free magazine themes for WordPress.

10. Mataram Theme


Mataram theme had the right idea of how to make a magazine theme, but the design failed to impress. It has good features such as easy video display option and several level deep commenting capability – but the text-heavy will fail to impress today’s image-hungry viewer. If it’s any consolation the home page will load fast.

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9. Technical Speech Theme


Technical Speech theme is exactly how the name sounds. It has a polarising sparse-image design and you will either love it or hate it. The dynamic sidebars and menu design is impressive – but the 404 error received when I went to the author’s page and theme page does not bode well for theme’s support for future WordPress versions.

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