If you’re looking to get into the world of magazine publishing, you’re going to want to have a look at this collection of the best WordPress magazine themes on the web. We’ve found some incredible themes as we’ve gone on a hard target search for the very best we could find. Every single one of these themes uses WordPress as the platform to help you create a really great user experience for your visitors. WordPress is the best content management system for blogging and that carries over to magazine type websites too, which makes a lot of sense, since the two are very closely related.
But where do you start? There are thousands of magazine themes for WordPress out there. Some are fantastic and others, not so much. Sometimes it can be difficult to pick the good from the bad, which is why we’ve created this collection of the absolute best magazine themes anywhere. Some of these themes are geared toward entertainment news, some for politics or sports stories. Some are fashion magazines and some are simply for gossip or viral content. What they have in common is this, all of these themes are completely responsive and completely customizable, even for a beginner. The vast majority offer hundreds of font choices, unlimited color schemes, widgets, plugins and addons to help make your experience a rewarding one.
Click Mag
This is ClickMag, WordPress magazine theme that is all about maximizing the number of clicks your content can generate. That’s a really important thing in the world, it’s not just for viral news and video content anymore. The more engagement that you can create with your readers, the better that’s going to make your website incredibly sticky and ensure that people find something to entertain them and keep them coming back for more down the road. ClickMag isn’t just a pretty face, it Sports a 4.58 rating on Dean Forest, making it quite popular indeed. This theme supports woocommerce, there’s almost $100 worth of value additions in terms of plugins and add-ons, the theme itself is SEO optimized and uses only the freshest code that is completely valid. In terms of support and documentation, you get a really fast and friendly customer service from the themes developer and the documentation appears to be quite extensive. Griefer gossip columns and online newspapers, magazines and reviews sites, ClickMag certainly well worth considering for your next project.
Daily Post
This theme is called Daily Post, it’s a clean and modern WordPress news magazine theme that should really get more attention, which is why I’m highlighting it today. Created by Tesla Themes, this theme reminds me a bit of the Extra theme by Elegant Themes, which you can see in our collection of premium WordPress themes. It’s pretty similar, though there are distinct differences.
Tesla always does a great job of coding their themes and Daily Post continues that trend. Here’s a look at the front page. It’s clean, it’s simple and it’s got a really wonderful layout that helps make your content incredibly readable. If you’d like to see some more WordPress themes for magazines, check out the rest of our collection below. We keep adding to it constantly, so you’ll certainly find something you like in that collection. We’ll be back soon with more amazing WordPress themes.
Extra
Extra, by Elegant Themes, is a WordPress magazine theme built with the Divi page builder plugin and it’s one of the most popular themes on the market. Extra is clean, classic, has an alluring flat style design that causes your articles to practically jump off the page. With Extra, you get the power of the Divi page builder too, allowing for infinite variety to your page layouts. Just drag and drop content blocks where you want them to find that perfect design. Finding the proper theme, that can be a challenge when you’re starting your new eMagazine website. I think that any high traffic website could benefit from Extra, since it loads so fast, looks great on all devices and is extremely flexible. With thousands and thousands of downloads so far, Extra has proven itself to be incredibly popular and that doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon.
Bingo
I’ve placed the Bingo WordPress theme in this position for a reason, I think it compares pretty favorably to the Extra WordPress theme, which is just above it. Bingo is a multi-purpose newspaper, magazine and blog WordPress theme that works great for sports, travel, a healthy lifestyle blogs and magazines, fashion magazines and Technology magazine websites. If you’re sharing the latest news and events, you’re going to want high-quality WordPress theme to help make it happen. I think that this template has all the features of any modern magazine website. There’s a dragon drop page builder, that gives you the option to create your very own custom layouts, there’s one click demo Imports, plenty of Ajax features and Bingo is WooCommerce ready as well.
In terms of being SEO friendly, this is one of the best optimized magazine themes around. If you don’t want to have to learn the Divi page builder setup that extra uses, Bingo offers a reasonably priced alternative. This team has a perfect rating on ThemeForest, it’s one of the absolute best themes out there.
Newspaper
If you want to have a look at the most popular magazine and newspaper WordPress theme available, this is it, Newspaper. With a staggering 60,000 sales and counting, this theme is the best selling magazine theme ever on ThemeForest. With a 4.84 rating, it’s really highly regarded as well. Newspaper helps make your blogging efforts easy and rewarding too. With a theme like Newspaper, you can get started generating traffic and revenue quickly and efficiently. I’m not going to say it’ll be easy, blogging can be hard work, if you want to succeed. But with a theme like Newspaper, you’ll at least have the theme part of the equation out of the way, since it’s one of the most efficient on the market. Newspaper strikes a fantastic balance between advertising and original content, which is critical. If you want to monetize your site, you need to make it seamless, which Newspaper does a great job of.
Soledad
You’re looking at Soledad, one of the highest rated magazine themes for WordPress on any marketplace. Clean and creative, Soledad supplies you with a very clean canvas to apply your posts and pages. It’s rangy, can be used for a wide variety of content from travel and fashion magazines to sports and entertainment. No matter what kind of content you create, Soledad has the design and the features to make it more popular than ever. Soledad has hundreds of customization options, so your blog or magazine will remain unique. That can help deliver the kind of user experience that readers crave and keep them coming back for more. With over 200 different demo sites, you’re bound to find a style you love with the Soledad theme.
Ultra
Ultra is the most powerful and flexible theme offered by Themify, which is saying something. Themify is known for making high quality themes, supporting them well and giving webmasters enough options to do just about anything under the sun in terms of creating a tailor made look for your website. The Ultra WordPress theme gives you full control over the header to the footer and everything in between too. Ultra has several attractive demo styles you can peruse before you buy the them, which is nice. There are demos for an agency, restaurant, fitness club, wedding planners, gaming sites, eCommerce and lots more. While people often think that Ultra is more aimed at designers, the possibilities for a great looking magazine website are endless. You won’t need to learn to code, since all adjustments to the website happen in the admin panel. It’s really a solid setup.
Collecto
Since Collecto was inspired by modern, stylish design magazines, I thought it might be worth including this theme in our magazine themes collection. Collecto is part blog, part portfolio and it’s oozing modern, clean style. Collecto is a grid based newspaper theme with an elegant, minimalist design ethic that looks incredibly contemporary. Collecto has a very legible style, the white space reminds me of design magazines like Luxe Interiors. I think a lot of people really value that clean, stylish look and that’s why this theme has proven to be so popular. Collecto’s dynamic grid system perfectly arranges your content in easy to access sections. The multi-column style really does remind me of a magazine. Since this theme is responsive, it works perfectly on all devices, even tablets and smart phones. Let’s see a print magazine do that!
VLog
I figured I had to put a great looking video magazine theme in this collection and here it is, Vlog. This video blog or video magazine is stunning. It’s simple and fresh, exciting and inviting too. With Vlog, the focus is on videography, but that helps complement the needs of a complex magazine website. If your content is heavily into video, whether it’s travel or sports, fashion or something else entirely, Vlog is a great fit. WIth Vlog, video blogs and video tutorials are equally well supported. You’ve got full compatibility with Daily Motion, YouTube or Vimeo. On top of that, you can self host your videos to control how your content is delivered, if you should choose to go that route. There are tons of options available and Vlog is optimized for SEO too. All things considered, I think this is the best video magazine theme on the market. Vlog is also in our collection of WordPress video themes.
Bimber
Well coded, well designed, packed with features, it’s no wonder this is the all time best selling viral magazine template on ThemeForest. Bimber is an incredible Adsense optimized theme, and it’s one of the best WordPress viral magazine themes around. Bimber is the undisputed champion of viral marketing themes for WordPress, and it presents the ultimate customization options in a striking package that is absolutely certain to help attract readers and keep them engaged with your content. When you’re seeking a sweet new AdSense optimized buzz-worthy template to showcase your content, images, or design work, the large array of outstanding designs makes WordPress an effective option and Bimber is ready for anything that you decide to throw at it. Although there have been lots of first-rate buzz-building magazine themes available for WordPress for many years, recently there has been a substantial rise in the number of responsive viral themes and it’s easy to see why, it’s an increasing market and people love viral images, memes, videos and other fun content.
Zox
Zox news could be the key to starting your media empire online. That’s a bold statement indeed, but I think it might be true. I really like the look of Zox News and in fact, I’ve used this theme in the past. I found it to be very easy to set up and customize and it’s so visually enticing, it makes for a really eye-catching website. Zox News is constantly being updated, as recently as July of 2018 and that means it keeps staying fresh. One really positive thing about Zox, it’s support for AMP or accelerated mobile pages. Zox News’ AMP pages load up lightning fast but the look and feel keep with the site’s branding, which is really nice. WooCommerce is supported as are tons of great plugins like Theia Post Slider, Theia Sticky Sidebar and more. A total of $78 worth of plugins. One thing I really like is that it doesn’t rely on Visual Composer for the layout, each design is created with widgets, which tend to load faster. This is a real high performance theme.
Look
This theme, look, is still the highest rated fashion magazine theme available on ThemeForest. This template has now been downloaded well over 1,000 times and it still has a perfect five star rating. For personal blogs or magazine sites, no matter what the subject matter, this theme can give your website the clean and professional, stylish and feminine look. I really enjoy the multiple different theme demos that are included, the faster page load times and the responsive Style. You get a drag and drop a page builder, hundreds of powerful theme options to customize your website and a built-in reviews system to keep your engagement level with your readers very high. WooCommerce is also included and that is the top free Ecommerce solution for WordPress for a good reason. I think this template can help any magazine, newspaper or blog website to achieve a professional look in just a few seconds.
VideoMag
VideoMag is pretty much exactly what you’d think it might be, a classic video blog or magazine theme. More and more sites are sharing more and more video, because it’s so easy to create a solid looking video with high quality camera phones and simple, cheap editing software. Video Mag supports all the standard embedded video sources, Vine, Vimeo, Daily Motion, Twitch and YouTube, as well as giving you the option to self host your own videos. But saving your server may be a good idea, so if I were you, I’d consider embedding videos. Then again, if your server isn’t an issue, self hosting allows you to control whether advertising is shown and if you do show ads, that’s a great way to monetize a site. Anyway, I could see the argument either way.
VideoMag is powered by Orange Themes page builder, which is a visual drag and drop page builder, similar to Visual Composer. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s largely similar to Visual Composer, so folks with experience with that plugin should do just fine. If you don’t know either, it’s still relatively simple to use just about any drag and drop page builder to create a good looking website. Orange Themes also adds a custom HTML video player with logo overlay, Orange Themes mega menu, custom post layouts, a unique homepage design, a highly customizable GUI with a very nice control panel, visual shortcodes and a lot more.
CoupShop
CoupShop is among the cleanest WordPress themes for a magazine. The design leaves plenty of room for white space, a true sign of modern design. With bold, elegant typography and a real eye for an open, inviting look, ThemesKingdom has created theme that reminds me of a modern design magazine. This theme is stylish, it’s got a decidedly mid-century modern style. As for features, CoupShop packs plenty in it’s sleek package. For one, CoopShop is WooCommerce compatible, so setting up a shop with your magazine, it’s easy as can be. There are multiple layouts available with CoopShop and swapping between them is very, very easy to accomplish. CoupShop has a built in blog and portfolio too, all with the same great style This theme is very typography centered, with over 800 Google fonts at your fingertips.
Authentic
While this Authentic theme is billed as a lifestyle blog theme, it works just as well for an online magazine. With a trendy, slim style and tons of white space, it’s modern and elegant at the same time. That’s a nice combination. Authentic is well documented, the designer offers friendly and thorough support and the theme is responsive too. As a fashion magazine or travel mag, Authentic practically performs miracles, making your images and posts look attractive and fresh. There are multiple header and footer options, tons of widgetized areas to help add even more functionality, smart adaptive images for better performance in load times. The best thing, Authentic is built to scale up quickly in terms of traffic. The most popular blog using Authentic drives over 200,000 visits per day and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. This is a very high quality magazine theme for any purpose.
Lucid
Lucid is a great-looking material design style magazine theme from Elegant Themes. Elegant Themes is among the leading developers of WordPress themes and they’ve developed a rabbit falling. Each one of their themes is superb, never sloppy and each one brings a strong set of tools to help present your content in a professional and succinct way. With gorgeous responsive design, your content will look amazing on all devices. The theme options panel is helpful and packed with tons of features, there are multiple shortcodes to help organize and create complex layouts with just a few clicks. There are several different page templates included to make your life easier and I encourage you to take a deeper look at the lucid dream because it is one of the better magazine themes around.
Aesthetic
Aesthetic is a WordPress blog and magazine theme the can take you or content and really make it shine. If your goal is to create a really successful online magazine, a great theme is often times the first step. Created by a talented group of developers, aesthetic has a clean and fresh layout, it makes your content all the more appealing thanks to it’s clean and straightforward design. Selecting the right theme is an underrated part of having a great online magazine. The experience your readers will get as they come to your website is second to none and I think you’ll be astonished by how successful you are website can be with a theme like this one.
Divi
With the Divi WordPress theme, you can build anything that you can’t imagine visually. That includes a high-quality magazine website. With real-time design, each and every change that you make to your website will be shown instantly. You can simply click and type into any area of the page, there’s no need to open up your settings panel and add text content. Just click anywhere you want and start typing away. This is a really unique and Innovative way to build an online magazine website. Each and every element on the page is completely customizable and you can organize your content anyway you see fit. This response is editing even allows you to apply custom changes to see specific breakpoints for mobile devices. There are dozens of different content elements, you can Import and Export your layouts and even get started with some of the pre-made layouts that are included with the Divi theme. I think this template is ideal for all sorts of online magazines and thousands of others agree. This is one of the most popular templates available for good reason.
Buzznote
With a layout that’s 100% responsive and mobile friendly, WooCommerce compatibility, a powerful, dynamic, painless to use and highly capable theme customizer, Buzznote may be among the best magazine themes to be released in 2018. I love the simple and thoughtful design that makes blogging fun and reading your blog even easier. I think Buzznote could be ideal for travel magazines, enjoyable travel for travel mags and other informative sites. Buzznote is modern and flexible, it’s compatible with all the major browsers, has multiple different layout styles built in and the overall effect is to create a simple but elegant website for almost any occasion. This clean, creative theme was built with Layers WP, it’s modern and multi-purpose, so it’s great for photography portfolios too.
Milan Pro
Milan Pro is a highly unique Genesis magazine theme of that make sure content stand out from the crowd. This thing that has multiple custom page templates, clean and valid HTML5 code and the theme customizer is incredibly simple to use. There are three different footer widget areas that you can use to customize your website and add functionality. This theme is mobile responsive and stylish looking to boot. I think it’s got very unique grid layout that can really be captivating and make your content really shine. It’s a fashion forward magazine thing in to help you tell a digital story of your choosing. As with all Genesis themes, the code is perfectly valid and that results in a fast loading website.
Cool
Cool it is a very impressive magazine theme with a stunning design, fluid layout and four different basic styles to choose from. No matter which one you select, you’ll get attractive way to present your contact. No matter what type of magazine you are attempting to create, Cool has an impressive style that people really seem to love. This template offers one click installation, a year of premium technical support that’s available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. There are narrated video tutorials to help you get started and the theme options panel is very simple to use and Powerful. It gives you tons of different options to customize your theme to get a really stunning result.
Ad-Sense
Packed with tons of incredible features, Ad Sense is one of the better looking, easiest to use and user friendly news and magazine themes on the market. With Ad-Sense, you get a them that strikes the perfect balance between generating revenue and supplying a great user experience with your content. Ad-Sense lets you build listicles or list articles, which is among the most popular ways to create content. After all, that’s what Templified is doing right now! Ad-Sense offers tons of tools to make that job a little bit easier, helping you generate lists fast. Every advertising location in the Ad-Sense WordPress theme was carefully tested to make them convert at a high rate. The entire theme is just a pleasure to use, both front and back end users will rejoice.
Moment
With a dazzling, unique layout, a variety of magazine article layouts, SEO optimization and lots more powerful features, the Moment WordPress theme is ready for it’s moment in the sun. This theme by CSSIgniter is one of the boldest, most unique magazine templates around. Moment is inspired, it’s different and catchy, I think people will really react positively to this theme. It’s probably not going to be right for everyone, but if you’re looking for a theme to help you stand out from the crowd, I think Moment gets the job done.
Mallow
For fashion magazines, Mallow could be the right fit. Minimalist but polished, Mallow is great for magazines, lifestyle and personal bloggers and more. Your readers will go wild for the style and since Mallow is so clean in it’s design, it’s very easy to find anything you’re looking for within just a few moments. It’s highly visual, I think that’s what does it as much as anything. Mallow is responsive, it’s SEO optimized for fast loading times, there’s a child theme included to help establish your website and keep it safe from WordPress updates. Social media plays a prominent role, as it should, with placement in either header, footer or sidebar widget. hey, why not all three, right?
The Rex
This beautiful magazine theme comes with its own proprietary page builder, that’s a really cool thing to find one that’s integrated in the theme and not just one of the popular theme builders tacked on as an afterthought. The fact that this template was built from the ground up around its own page builder, I think that that adds a lot to the table. This theme is full of helpful widgets and other features to make your website a smashing success. Of course, the reason I’ve included it in this collection is that it also has a built-in reviews system, a powerful feature to help really engage with your audience. People love to read reviews about products before they purchase them, and with this template, you’ll be able to rate and review products using stars or numerical ratings on a multitude of different criteria.
Novelty
Novelty is ideal for news blogs and content sharing websites. The greatest advantage of its design is that it allows you to display your posts in an organized and appealing manner. For instance, you can catalogue your articles neatly according to Travel, Lifestyle, Politics, Technology, and more. Blog users can also take advantage of the handy search bar. This systematized arrangement is more likely to draw in more blog subscribers. With this theme, you get a featured image slider, featured posts and custom posts, and tabbed widgets. The Tesla Framework is extremely competitive and stable, allowing stress-free management and customization of your site’s settings from your WordPress Admin. With the built-in short codes, you can create and add new components like a team members’ page, pricing tables, offers, and buttons. You can do all these without prior knowledge of web development. Novelty is also cross-browser compatible so anyone can view it using Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome, and others.
Why limit your followers to English readers when you can choose to go international? Being WPML-compatible, this theme enables you to run a multilingual site without difficulty. News and informational content are meant to reach distant places. That’s why Novelty is social media optimized. Let your followers help you to pull in more readers for your site as they share your content to their social connections. Plus, user interaction is essential to increasing the popularity of a site. In fact, in news blogs, the readers’ raw reactions are almost as important as the news itself. Novelty allows easy commenting and with the use of the AJAX technology, followers can send in their messages quickly without the need to reload the page. All in all, Novelty is all about getting the word out there in an efficient and interesting way, in a manner that people would want to read and share across the Internet.
Saab
Saab is a WordPress theme designed for content sharing, making it ideal for magazine sites, creative sites and blogs, although it also works well as a business site. As with other Tesla themes, it is powered by Tesla Framework, an administrative tool that lets you easily customize your site’s look and functionality even if you have no previous experience in website design or knowledge of coding. To make it easier to add features to your site such as special offers, tabs and buttons, the theme comes with an assortment of short codes. It also features Responsive Design, meaning that the site you create will display well on mobile devices as well as desktops.
The theme also comes with Revolution Slider, which lets you make your own sliders so that you can easily display highlighted content on the header of your site. You are also provided with video post functionality, which lets you easily embed videos on blog posts and even create a slider that displays multiple videos, while custom posts functionality lets you easily edit each post. The theme easily integrates with the most popular social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook, and you are provided with Social Media widgets that let you add elements such as Facebook Like buttons and Tweetme on the site. The theme also comes with a custom homepage with demo content that you can change with your own personal content. You can easily customize the elements of the demo homepage such as the color style and layout to make it your own using framework options. It also comes with useful widgets such as newsletter, author and category that you can use to add these sections to the sidebar and footer. To ensure that you will never have a difficult time using the theme, it comes with extensive documentation.
Storia
This stunning blogging theme may be used for virtually every style of blog site you require. With a sophisticated design and a wide array of amenities, it could look perfect as a stylish fashion blog, a magazine blog or even your personal blog page. With an amazing, functional arrangement and lots of functions to help to make running a blog painless. In the event you are not a WordPress coding expert, it’s possible to revise this template to put in the options you are looking for your web blog to possess. Your subscribers will cherish the stylish way your blog looks, the simple navigation, the fashionable and specialized design, the clean CSS and HTML, the general configuration and a lot more.
WordPress is regarded as the common blog platform around, as it’s hassle-free to make use of, it’s very adaptable and it has numerous beneficial functions. You can find much you can modify with every single blog theme, therefore it is crucial for you to buy a professional looking design that offers the functionality that you require. A well designed blog theme lets you captivate readers and with a great theme, the code is good so your page loads up extremely fast which will let you rank higher on Google. This excellent weblog theme includes everything you need to create a beautiful, authority blog on virtually any issue like travel destinations, cuisine, web apps, business, personal, style and much more.
Pine Cone
This is Pine Cone, a sweet looking WordPress theme that features the perfect personalization options, a wonderfully minimalist style, simple navigation and a lot of great ways to showcase your content, whether it’s written material or images. You’ll be able to easily adjust the different configurations on any number of special, appealing looking portfolios, and Pine Cone also offers the freedom to develop a web-site as brilliant as the creative work to be showcased on its striking pages. Your content will look fantastic. It is really effortless to offer you a personalized look and feel with total integration with all Google font styles as well as the complete assortment of on-screen colors to supply your blog a custom design and style.
With Pine Cone, you can manage web page headings, manage each and every imaginable display and layout option, all designed to grant your site the perfect platform for your free-lance or business requirements. Pine Cone features 100% responsive design, which means it will look wonderful and maintain its intuitive design regardless what size screen would be used to look at the web-site. That’s a must have these days. Striking CSS3 animations for various parts of written content can load immediately with the unlimited scrolling option while guests scroll through the website.
For the imaginative professional who needs to display numerous photos and other visual content, the Isotope and also Masonry portfolio designs offer superior display characteristics, incredibly popular these days. Included plugins are the strong and safe Contact Form 7 to allow communication with potential customers and the Options press plugin. Look at the live preview to get an experience for all the Pine Cone WP theme features or look at the intensive PDF user manual.
Okay, that’s all we have for now, but we’ll be back very soon with more amazing themes for magazines. If we’ve missed a great looking template, be sure to let us know and we’ll add it to the collection just as soon as we can.
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