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2.) Arthemia

This theme has been around for a while, but the newest version boasts some welcomed improvements. Among other things, Arthemia 2.0 features

-Changes to the post list in the front page

-CSS problems were fixed

-An automatic thumbnail feature for post list, archive, and search page were added

-Support for new plugins were added as well.

This theme features a nice feature article position which is essential to any magazine-style website, but also offers several areas for advertisement placement, and nice thumbnail positioning on the frontpage.

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3.) Mimbo Magazine

This is a popular theme that makes use of WordPress’s tagging features to spice things up a bit, and give the look and feel of a classy magazine-type website.  Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers to install and style to their own liking: which means it’s easily extendable via the editor already embedded in WP-Admin.

So far, it looks like it’s still only available for WordPress 2.3

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4.) OpenBook

• Magazine-style homepage, including 2 columns and SmoothGallery
• 100% Gravatar compatible.
• Custom fields to insert images on the homepage gallery
• Magazine-style dropdown-menu for your categories.
• Compatible with Firefox 2, Firefox 3 beta, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 6.
• Widget-ready sidebar
• SEO-friendly titles
• Page templates for Links and Archives
• Compatible with Wordpress 2.3 to 2.5.1

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5.) Gridline Lite

This is a great white minimalist theme that still incorporates the magazine-aspect.  Gridline utilizes Blueprint, a CSS framework that streamlines development by utilizing an easy-to-use grid and sensible typography.  Here’s some other specs:

• All original PSD files, making all graphics easily customizable
• All theme files, including the Blueprint CSS framework
• Author archives template page for multi-author websites
• Two page templates for narrow and wide column pages.
• Web Standards Compliant
• Backwards compatibility with, hiccup, Internet Explorer

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6.) Massive News

This is another great magazine theme because of its use of thumbnails for feature posts, as well as a nice hovering text approach as an intro to your main featured post.  Massive News is a two column Widget enabled theme which is very clean, fully customizable and very simple to use.

The fully automated featured article carousel is one of the many premium features of the Massive News WordPress theme. Featured article images, Links and Descriptions can easily be edited through the Massive News control panel within your WordPress installation.

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7.) Branford Magazine

This theme was the creation of a developer that wanted to combine the aspects of both the Revolution Theme and the Mimbo Theme to create a clean magazine-style presentation.  In the words of the developer:

“I’d like to make very clear that I did not everything completely new. I looked for good existing stuff and adopted it for my purposes. That´s one of the good things about open source: you don´t have to invent the wheel over and over again. The result is an amazing magazine style theme combining the very best of two famous magazine themes in one single theme.”

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8.) Rebel Magazine Theme

This theme is content-intensive, Widget Ready, with 2 Columns and advanced Banner Ad Integration.  The theme presents top stories in a nice clean organized way on the frontpage, with each section evenly proportioned.

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9.) Wynton Magazine

This is the second creation from the developer who brought us Branford Magazine.  “…Wynton Magazine is somehow the “brother” of my first WordPress theme “BranfordMagazine”. It uses a lot of Branford’s code but also has its own face and style. The homepage has got a complete new face without a tabbed section. Besides the page templates you might know from BranfordMagazine I added another interesting one: The Section Page…”

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10.) Megadine 1.2

This is an interesting theme- made primarily for category intensive news and magazine sites.  It promotes the featured article in each category in a “panel” type view on the homepage.  There’s even an older version of the theme that incorporates four columns instead of three.

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