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May 24th, 2010Web Design, wordpressK.Singh 4 Comments

There are many free WordPress themes available on the Internet. However not all the themes offer the level of quality and originality you may be after. Whether you are blogger or a business, including a WordPress blog on your website offers many advantages. In order to ensure the blog is in line with the branding of the company, one may need to commission a custom design from a Web Design Company or professional designer. In practice however it may not always be feasible to justify the higher costs involved in designing a bespoke skin. A professionally designed free theme may be the answer.

This is a list of 5 free clean-cut, magazine style WordPress themes that you can use on your blog. The themes listed here can be downloaded free of charge.

1) Arthemia

Arthemia WordPress Theme

Source |   Demo

Features:

  • A Drop-down Menu
  • Automatic Image Resizer
  • 1 Sticky Headline displayed at the top
  • Featured post category with automatic thumbnail resizing
  • Custom field for post thumbnail
  • Gravatar support included in comments
  • No additional plug-ins required

2) Mimbo WordPress Theme

Mimbo WordPress Theme

Demo |  Source

Features:

  • Support for multiple languages included
  • Automatic image resizing without the need for custom fields
  • Sticky post from ‘Lead story’ category
  • Featured Categories
  • 125×125 Ad Support.
  • Multi-Level Dropdown Menus
  • Better Author Archives.
  • Custom image styles for Gallery, Inline Image & Captions.

3) Premium News Theme

Premium News WordPress Theme

Source |   Demo

Features:

  • jQuery based featured Posts on homepage with animation
  • Support for all major Ad sizes e.g. 125×125, 468×60 and 300×250.
  • Drop-down menu for categories
  • 7 colour styles to choose from
  • Fully documented

4) Freebiestock WordPress Theme

Freebie WordPress Theme

Source |    Demo

Features:

  • Animated jQuery based menu
  • Includes support for quick submission to web2.0 websites
  • Includes support for flickrRSS plugin
  • Threaded comments support
  • Subscribe by email support using FeedBurner
  • Support for multiple Ad Formats (125×125, 120×600, 300×250)
  • 2 widget ready sidebars

5) Beauty Style WordPress Theme

Beauty Style - WordPress Theme

Source |   Demo

Features:

  • Fixed width two column lay-out
  • Featured Content feature for homepage
  • Ad support – 125×125 banners that can assigned from admin
  • Support for Header Banner
  • Gravatar included with Comments
  • Includes Logo source file (.PSD)
  • Tested for browser compatibility
  • Twitter integration with admin

The author K.Singh is a London based Internet Consultant with over 10 years of experience working with established multi national businesses as well as SME’s.  He is an expert in  Web Design, Internet Marketing, E-Commerce, Joomla Development and Search engine Optimisation.

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'4 Responses to “5 Free WordPress Themes – Magazine Layout”'
  1. Jaman says:

    An outstanding share! I have just forwarded this onto a coworker who has been looking to create an informational website for me using WordPress. A magazine theme is perfect for our needs.
    We may end up using one of these themes. Thought I should let you know. Thank YOU for pointing is in the right direction.
    Jaman´s last [type] ..WordPress Theme Review

  2. RS Displays says:

    Well, all these themes are cool .. my personal fav vote is on Arthemia but and its free too .. but the problem I am facing right now is I have a website RSdisplays.co.uk made from a custom CMS and I am planning to have a blog it and I want to use WP for that but the problem is they both are going to look different in design .. so wont it be a ‘lil awkward if I use two different CMS .. I should have gotton the coder to add a blog too in my CMS but then it wouldn’t have been that much SEO friendly either and would have cost me extra bucks :(

  3. Susan says:

    Arthemia is a big favorite of wordpress themes. Another great theme is Delirium. Link to download is included in my comment signature.

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