Magazine style WordPress themes are very popular as it shows good number of posts on homepage. Specially for tech and news blog, magazine style theme is a requisite. Apart from paid premium WordPress theme clubs there are some great WordPress themes those are premium but still free. Here are given 5 awesome free magazine style WordPress themes.
Though I always recommend to prefer Premium themes over Free themes, as they are well-coded, and you will get premium support. That is one thing, which free themes always lacks.
Free Magazine Style WordPress Themes:
Thrilling Theme
Thrilling is a popular free magazine style premium WordPress theme and is being used by many successful bloggers.
Top Features of Thrilling Theme
- Magazine style WordPress theme
- SEO optimized WordPress theme
- Easily customizable with theme control panel
- Custom widget areas
Arras WordPress Theme
Arras is a wonderful free magazine style and blogging theme. The main thing anyone can observe that its control panel is as powerful as the control panel of paid WordPress themes.
Top Features of Arras
- Amazing control panel and you can change the whole layout using panel
- More than 5 color scheme
- Tabbed widget in sidebar
- Homepage custom widgets
- You can change layout grid
- You can change number of columns in footer
- Auto thumbnail resizing
Swift WordPress Theme
Swift is another magazine style free WordPress theme and it is known for its super SEO. Swift theme control panel is more powerful than Arras. But the current version of this theme has some bugs which may be fixed possibly in next release. Read out complete review of Swift theme.
Top Features of Swift
- SEO optimized WordPress theme
- Change layout type according to your requirement from Magazine style to blogging style
- Complete customization using theme panel
- Three custom menu areas
- Special author bio and social bookmarking widget
- Tabbed widget in sidebar
The Original Premium News
This theme is fully decorated with advanced Woo themes features. I think it is a great free magazine style WordPress theme.
Top Features of The Original Premium News
- Attractive magazine style homepage
- Changeable color schemes
- In-built SEO options
- Tabbed widget in sidebar
- Dropdown menus
- Advertisement ready
The Morning After
It is another magazine style free WordPress theme which is published by Woo Themes. It is an attractive WordPress theme with all premium features of Woo themes.
Top Features of The Morning After
- Custom navigation and sidebar manager
- Magazine style homepage
- Ready-made SEO options and no plugin required
- Customizable homepage layout
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Do let us know which one is your favorite premium magazine style WordPress theme and which WordPress theme you would recommend to others?
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I have tested the Swift WordPress Theme and The Original Premium News theme and among these two i like Swift Theme the features are great.
Yeah.
If we consider SEO then Swift is really better than Premium News theme.
Thanks for sharing I have only used woothemes in these 5 themes.
I was also using Swift theme, It’s a very flexible theme with awesome features.
Arthemia is one of the best magazine style theme, anyway nice shares
Great List.
Some of my favorite magazine style free themes are
Epione, Apparatus, Traction etc.
Anyways, Thanks for sharing.
You are right according to look it is really awesome but due to absence of control panel I have not included it in this list.
hey thanks shariq nice share i liked Arras WordPress Theme
i used Swift theme its really great theme, lots of options and customizations available
Great!
Thanks for sharing these. I will check these out…
These themes are quite elegant, simple and user-friendly.
But this ‘Thrilling Theme’ just looks like other 2 or 3 column theme. I mean it is not giving a Magazine type feel; I may be wrong as I am new in all this. Still a good collection!
I used 4 of 5 template. That is the theme is good SEO optimized and highly customizable. Thank you for sharing.
nice themes ..arras theme is looking gud… is it seo friendly??
Arthemia is also great, this list ai also cool.
Nice collection of themes . thanks for sharing that………
i love Swift WordPress Theme very very much. thanks for the article, please introduce more and more free themes.
Satish is excellent designer and his Swift theme is awesome. The control panel is too good. It was a great suprise when I found such a good wordpress theme for free.
Don’t forget Justin Tadlock’s free magazine theme from DevPress. It’s just called “news” and is available from the WordPress theme repository or from devpress dot com.
Great List. Thank you very much for sharing these free premium themes!
Wonderful themes.. thanks for the share
Me also using Swift Theme It Provide lot’s of feature’s which i am looking for
I’m looking to buy Who’s Who Elegant Theme. Is it worthy to buy???
swift is better free theme but it needs a lots of customization and it also does not support IE 6 plus it does not pass CSS validation checks, When Installed on shared server it prepare a custom css file which is un-writable thus leads us a lots of problem. So before installing on a live site if any body wants to make changes then it does not support. specially color changes.
great post, SWIFT theme is one of the best