The 40 Best Free WordPress Magazine Themes

WordPress has come a long way since its inception. One of the biggest improvements the system as a whole has seen is an improvement in the sophistication of its themes.
A number of years ago the appearance of magazine-style themes was perhaps one of the greatest leaps forward in the WordPress theme world. Most all of those new and nice-looking themes, however, were premium themes. Only later did a few free magazine-style themes make their way onto the market.
Jump forward to today, and we have a plethora of free magazine themes out there for use. Below we’ve collected forty of the best ones we could find.
Happy downloading.
(Let us know in the comments which ones you like best.)

1. silverOrchid – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

2. Dzonia Lite – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

Featured Plugin - Send beautiful html email newsletters, from WordPress!

Now there's no need to pay for a third party service to sign up, manage and send beautiful email newsletters to your subscriber base - this plugin has got the lot.

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3. Squirrel – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

4. Pinboard – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

5. Simple Catch – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

Featured Plugin - Start Your Own Powerful Membership Site

If you're thinking about starting a paid, or just private, membership site then this is truly the plugin you've been looking for. Easy to use, massively configurable and ready to go out of the box!

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6. Theron Lite– DOWNLOAD | DEMO

7. The Morning After – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

8. Premium News – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

9. Meta-Morphosis – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

10. Video Zone – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

Featured Plugin - Easily integrate your WordPress site with Facebook

Would you like to add Facebook comments, registration, 'Like' buttons and autoposting to your WP site? Well, The Ultimate Facebook plugin has got that all covered!

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11. Arras – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

 12. Blogstarter – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

13. Aliva Press – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

14. MagZine – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

15. Kazza – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

Featured Plugin - Every great SEO tweak you need, in one snazzy bundle

Fully integrated with the SEOMoz API, complete with automatic links, sitemaps and SEO optimization of your WordPress setup - this is the only plugin you need to help you rank your site number 1 on Google - nothing else compares.

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16. Magazine Basic – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

17. Oxygen – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

18. zeeMagazine – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

19. zeeStyle – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

20. Priimo – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

Featured Plugin - Add bottom corner (or anywhere else) chat to your site

No javascript required, no third part chat engine, just fully featured chat right in your own database on your own WP sites - couldn't be easier.

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21. Fresh Ink Magazine – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

22. Custom Community – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

23. MagUp – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

24. Path – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

25. News – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

Featured Plugin - Turn any WordPress page into a fully featured wiki!

To get a wiki up and running you used to need to install Mediawiki and toil away for days configuring it... not any more! This plugin gives you *all* the functionality you want from a wiki, in WordPress!!!

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26. iFeature – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

27. Esplanade – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

28. Tiga– DOWNLOAD | DEMO

29. Trending – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

30. Sampression Lite – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

Featured Plugin - WordPress + Google Maps = Perfect

Simply insert google maps into posts, sidebars and pages - show directions, streetview, provide image overlays and do it all from a simple button and comprehensive widget.

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31. Themolio – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

 32. Ascetica – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

33. Brightpage – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

34. Triton Lite – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

35. Scylla Lite – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

Featured Plugin - Open an Online Store with MarketPress

Out of all the WordPress ecommerce plugins available, this has got to be the winner - easy to configure, powerful functionality, multiple gateways and more. A simply brilliant plugin!

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36. Amphion Lite – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

37. WP-Creativix – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

38. Genjit – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

39. Monochrome – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

40. Branford Magazine – DOWNLOAD | DEMO

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