This is a collection of the best magazine themes for WordPress.
If you need to display lots of content on your homepage, have a content heavy site, or just want your website to look cool and really stand out then a magazine style theme might be the answer. A good magazine theme combined with the power of WordPress can give your site a really professional look to compete with the biggest name websites on internet.
Below we’ve compiled a list of 100+ premium magazine WordPress themes that will make your website look like a professional online magazine.
This post is getting a bit dated and some of the older themes have been removed, so make sure you also check our regularly updated gallery post that lists ALL the best magazine WordPress themes and the best Mobile Responsive Magazine WordPress Themes.
Extra WordPress Theme
Extra is a powerful, stylish and completely customizable magazine WordPress theme from Elegant Themes. Powered by the Divi Builder framework, Extra has been designed specifically for the needs of bloggers and online magazine publications. With Extra you can build countless custom homepage and category layouts as well as create stunning story-driven posts all using the easy drag and drop Divi Builder interface. Some of the other key features and benefits of the Extra theme include: a fully mobile responsive design, post and page builder, built in ratings and review system, WooCommerce compatibility and styling, social media integration, advanced drag and drop layout control and advanced design settings for total customization and control, products and projects custom post types and templates, lots of header options, advanced mega menus, custom widgets, custom page templates and post formats, advertising options and much more. Extra really is one of the most impressive magazine WordPress themes available. Check out all the features here.
Monte WordPress Theme
Monte is a stylish multipurpose magazine style WordPress theme from WPZOOM. The premium theme has a clean, spacious and minimalist design with nice use of featured images to ensure your content stands out. It would be ideal for fashion bloggers and related niches or anything else. Some of the key features include: a widgetized homepage, carousel widget, visual customizer, Instagram scroller, WooCommerce support, sticky navigation menu, sliding sidebar panel, theme options panel and more.
Domino Magazine WordPress Theme
Domino is a magazine styled WordPress theme from WPZOOM ideal for online magazines or news websites. The premium theme has a complex and sophisticated design that allows you to display a heap of articles and other content on the homepage. The homepage itself is widgetized and highly customizable so you can arrange the layout to suit your needs.
Some of the other key features of the theme include: mobile responsive and retina ready, visual customizer, dynamic homepage builder, carousel widget for featured content, great typography, breaking news ticker, ad ready with integrated ad spaces, weather widget, posts formats, JetPack support, complex featured category widget, ZOOM framework, and more.
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Insight WordPress Theme
Insight is a great looking magazine WordPress theme with a modern, clean and minimal design. The premium theme from WPZOOM would be ideal for any type of professional blog or online magazine website – design, travel, architecture, food, photography, fashion and lifestyle or anything else.
Some of the key features of the Insight Magazine theme include: a widgetized homepage, featured categories, a touch enabled slider, 3 color schemes and options to create your own, 2 post layout options (grid or list), visual customizer, JetPack feature support (for Tiled Galleries, Related Posts, Extra Sidebar Widgets, etc), advanced WPZOOM framework for easy control and customization, custom logo and backgrounds, menu management, SEO friendly code, and a mobile friendly responsive design so it works perfectly on all devices.
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Wellness Pro
Wellness Pro is a multipurpose blog / magazine WordPress theme for the Genesis Framework from StudioPress. The premium theme has a modern and attractive design with beautiful layouts and large background images combined with scrolling photo and text displays. The theme would be ideal for websites about food and recopies, healthy living, travel, health and natural product reviews or anything else you can imagine. Some of the key features include: a mobile responsive design, custom page templates and landing page template, 12 different widget areas, customizable header, theme options and customizer support, accessibility ready and all the other great features and benefits of the Genesis Framework.
Relive
Relive is a beautiful storytelling WordPress theme created for an immersive reading experience. The premium theme from Tesla Themes is ideal for showcasing long form content and stories that include multimedia content. It has a clean and minimalist design with nice typography and large images to ensure people read your content and keep coming back. It’s also packed with cool features and created using the latest HTML5 and CSS3 techniques.
SocialNow
SocialNow is a flexible WordPress magazine theme with a beautiful and modern design ideal for sites that rely heavily on social media marketing. The premium theme from MyThemeShop has a intuitive navigation that makes it easy for users to find content and built-in community tools and social sharing to help your website grow. It has a heap of other great features including: 2 layout options for single posts, mega menu, unlimited color options, 3 slider options, author box, related posts, advanced typography settings, Schema integration, font awesome icons, and more.
Money Flow WordPress Theme
Money Flow is a professional and modern blog / magazine WordPress theme built for people who are serious about making money online. The premium theme from MyThemeShop has an appealing and engaging design with lots of great features and monetization options built in so you can increase your earnings.
Some of the key features of the theme include: custom homepage with featured slider and featured sections, built-in ad management options (Adsense integration in your posts), WooCommerce integration, AJAX category filters, parallax scrolling, off-canvas mobile menu, awesome fonts and icons, powerful options panel, unlimited colors, Google fonts, mobile friendly responsive design, speed and search engine optimization, translation ready and more.
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WordX WordPress Theme
WordX is a responsive WordPress theme designed for blogs and online magazine websites. The premium theme from MyThemeShop has a clean and professional design with nice use of featured images to ensure people stick around to read your content. The theme is ideal for any type of content rich website.
Some of the key features of the WordX theme include: 3 different layout styles that can be switch on the fly by users, strategic advertisement slots throughout, featured carousel option, Adsense integration, off-canvas mobile menu, 500+ icons, social media integration, powerful options panel, author box support, WP Mega Menu and WP Review Pro compatible, unlimited colors and backgrounds, advanced typography with Google fonts, one click updates, SEO and speed optimized, clean commented code, and much more.
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New York Theme
The New York WordPress theme is a multipurpose magazine WordPress theme from RichWP. The premium theme has a versatile minimalist design that lends itself to a wide range of topics – travel, fashion and lifestyle, health and fitness, arts and crafts, tech and gadgets or anything else. The homepage lets you display lots of content with featured articles up the top and your latest posts below followed up with articles ordered by tag or category so you content gets maximum exposure. Some of the key features include: widgetized ad spaces, fully responsive design, easy color customization, logo integration, WooCommerce ready, JetPack gallery and form support, multiple widget areas, icon menu, single featured post and featured posts section, translation ready and more. The theme is available in a light or dark color scheme version.
Yamidoo Magazine
A beautiful responsive magazine style WordPress theme from WPZOOM. The premium theme has a clean design with a nicely structured layout ideal for a personal blog, magazine website or news portal site. It has a responsive layout so it automatically adapts to any screen resolution on desktop and mobile devices (iPhone, iPad etc). Some of the other features include a featured slider with video integration, advanced WPZOOM framework and options panel, custom widgets, custom fonts, custom page templates and more.
Responsive Design
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OriginMag Theme
A good looking minimal magazine WordPress theme with a responsive design from WPZOOM. The premium theme has a nicely structured design that places the focus on your content. The custom homepage has multiple layout options with either a wide full width or narrower slider. Posts can be displayed either in a grid layout or a traditional list view (see images below). Other features include a mobile responsive design, video widget, multiple layouts for posts, featured categories widget, advanced options panel and more.
Alternative Homepage Layout – with smaller slider and list posts layout
Responsive Design
The theme layout automatically adjusts for any screen size and resolution
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News Theme
A premium WordPress magazine / news theme for content heavy websites. It has a mobile responsive design and supports all of the great articles, audio and video of your content-heavy site, with eye-popping design and simple navigation. The theme features 7 colour styles, 6 layout options, custom header, background and menus, comprehensive theme options and more.
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Innov8ive Theme
A stylish magazine WordPress child theme that runs on the Genesis theme framework from StudioPress. The premium theme highlights your content and has a beautiful, clean and fresh design ideal for a food blog or food magazine website. It has a mobile responsive layout meaning it will automatically adapt its design to any screen size and device to look great on iPads, iPhones and all other mobiles devices. Innov8ive has 3 colour schemes, 6 post / page layout options, custom header, menus and background options, featured slider, theme options panel and more.
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LitePress Theme
A premium responsive magazine WordPress theme from WPZOOM. The theme has a clean, minimalist design but is packed with features to quickly setup up a professional news or magazine website. Features include and advanced framework options panel to easily customise various elements, featured homepage slideshow, featured category sections, video custom posts types, a mobile responsive design and more.
Mobile Ready Responsive Design
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Femme Theme
A responsive magazine and ecommerce WordPress theme from cssigniter with a clean minimalist design. The theme has a multiuse, flexible structure and can be a magazine website, an ecommerce store or a combination of both. Ecommerce functionality (if required) is powered by the powerful WooCommerce ecommerce plugin. The theme has alternative layout options, mobile responsive design, shortcodes, theme options and more.
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Textured Theme
A professional blog magazine WordPress theme from MyThemeShop. The premium theme and a crisp clean design and uses a variety of subtle textures to add accents to enhance and highlight your content. It has a fluid mobile responsive layout so it adapts to work on all screen sizes and devices. Other features include unlimited colour schemes via a colour picker, custom typography, custom shortcodes and widgets and options panel, you can control everything from the colours and textures to the typography and structure.
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onPlay Theme
An advanced premium WordPress magazine theme from WPZOOM. The theme has a flexible, easily customisable layout including a homepage with multiple widgetized areas that allows you to add as many featured categories as you like. Other features include 3 colour schemes, custom post options, featured slider for posts or video, a fluid footer carousel, the WPZOOM options panel and more.
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Magazine Theme
A premium WordPress magazine theme from StudioPress that runs on the Genesis Framework. The theme features 7 colour styles, 6 layout options, custom header, background and menus, comprehensive theme options and more.
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Tribune Theme
A professional and stylish premium WordPress theme from WPZoom ideal for news or magazine style websites. The theme includes custom navigation menus, news slider for featured content, multiple layout options (magazine or traditional blog), custom page templates, theme options panel and more.
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Morning Theme
A bold and stylish premium WordPress magazine theme from WPZOOM. The multipurpose premium theme includes 3 colour style options, custom post / page layouts, homepage video widget, custom menus and widgets, advanced framework options panel and more.
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SportEdge Theme
A feature packed magazine WordPress theme from ThemeFuse ideal for sport sites or any other type of online magazine website. The premium theme has a sharp and modern design that looks and feels like a real website, not a basic WordPress blog. Features include a large dynamic homepage slider, bold typography, custom headers for each category, integrated live scores from ScoresPro, auto image resizing, powerful admin options and more.
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Magazine Explorer Theme
A stylish magazine style WordPress theme from WPZOOM. The premium theme has a very clean, minimalist design with a mobile responsive layout that automatically adjusts for any screen size and resolution. Magazine Explorer has a widget based layout for greater flexibility and customisation possibilities. Other features include a featured slideshow on the homepage, carousel widget, advanced WPZOOM framework and options panel, several custom widgets, banner management options and more.
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Total Grid Theme
A premium WordPress theme for the RichWP Framework from RichWP. The theme lets you build unique magazines, blogs or portfolios and has a strong grid structure that allows you to display content in a visually appealing manner that is more creative and artsy.
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The Style Theme
A multi-purpose premium WordPress theme from Elegant Themes with a crisp, modern design with a big visual impact. The theme has a fluid width design layout, 5 unique colour schemes, optional traditional blog style structure, advanced theme options panel, large shortcodes collection and more.
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Telegraph Theme
A slick news / magazine WordPress premium theme from WPZOOM. The theme is ideal for content rich websites and includes featured content sliders and content blocks on the customisable homepage layout, custom widgets, custom templates for posts and pages, comprehensive theme options panel and more.
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Splendid Theme
A modern and elegant magazine styled WordPress theme from WPZOOM. The premium theme features a custom homepage layout, 3 layout options for posts / pages, 5 custom page templates including 2 directory style templates, a shortcodes manager, video integration with automatic thumbnails, advanced options panel, 5 colour styles and more.
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CadabraPress Theme
A stylish premium WordPress magazine theme from WPZoom. The includes magazine or traditional blog layout options, featured carousel slider on the homepage, 7 custom widgets, video slider, theme options panel and more.
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Magnificent Theme
A beautiful magazine style premium WordPress theme from Elegant Themes. The 4 column theme has an optional blog style layout structure and comes with 7 unique colour schemes, automated thumbnails, shortcodes collection, drop down menus, theme options panel and more.
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Eventina Magazine 3.0 Theme
A unique magazine WordPress theme from WPZoom. The flexible magazine style themes could be used for news, music, travel, movie or a range of other websites. Its features include a vertical menu, 10 alternative colour schemes, featured posts and categories on the homepage, theme options panel and more.
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Metro Magazine Theme
Metro is an attractive, modern magazine WordPress theme from MyThemeShop. The design is inspired by the Windows Metro visual editor and has some vibrant colours, crisp layout and clean typography. It also has a responsive design so will work on any device and screen size. Some of the other notable features include a colour picker for unlimited colour scheme options, 11 custom widgets, right or left sidebar options, options panel and more.
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Responz Theme
A highly flexible and customisable responsive WordPress theme from Themify designed for magazine, news and editorial websites. The premium theme has a minimal and elegant design with beautiful typography. It has many layout options, and you can choose from choose from 2 sidebars, 1 sidebar, left or right sidebars, or fullwidth along with various list view and grid view post layouts. Other features include customisable dual navigation menus, 8 colour scheme options, header and footer sliders, theme options panel and more.
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Manifesto Theme
A slick magazine premium WordPress theme from WPZoom. This flexible theme includes 10 colour styles, jQuery featured content slider and tabs, custom post and page layout options, SEO options, theme options page and more.
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Magazinum Theme
A slick magazine style WordPress premium theme from WPZOOM ideal for movie, entertainment, fashion, tech or any other type of website. Features include a homepage featured slider, numerous custom widgets, drop down menus, post thumbnails support, theme options panel and more.
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