WordPress has become the most powerful CMS platform on the web and it’s not just the blogging application but also can be a publishing platform like online magazine and newspaper. WordPress theme designers are more willing to selling their high quality premium designed and magazine style theme nowadays. In this post we will present 23 quality designed magazine style WordPress theme for 2009. Whatever you are looking for a better theme for your site or just want to get inspiration for your upcoming design project, both cases benefit you to customize and design skill anyway. All the themes below is free to use in both personal and commercial projects. Don’t forget to bookmark the post for future reference.

Arras Theme
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A theme designed for news or review sites with lots of customisable features. It comes with 5 different news layouts to customise your front page, and an integrated theme options page for you to adjust the theme.


Magazeen
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This bold magazine 2-col-theme was designed with the main focus being on typography, grids and magazine-look.

MegaNews Theme
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Hamasaki Theme
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Arthemia
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Arthemia is combining a magazine and a weblog into one. The front page shows the headline and featured post of yours along with the pictorial representation, that’s the magazine style, while the rest of your post will be shows sequentially just like a usual weblog.

Mimbo
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Mimbo is a clean, customizable magazine-style theme for WordPress. It’s also a simple framework which can be modified with child themes, discussed further down in the documentation.

Meta-Morphosis
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Meta-Morphosis is a visually-rich personal blog, with a magazine layout approach. Incorporating some nifty javascript font replacement and javascript widget slider in the footer, that should meet all of your personal blogging needs.

Skyye News Theme
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Skyye News Theme’s advanced template system gives you the ability to configure almost everything from the dashboard options menu. Nearly every aspect of the theme is dynamic, from the homepage, single posts, pages, archives, etc.

Scarlett
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An elegant theme designed for bloggers who like light colored or bright colored themes. The theme layout is stylish and dynamic contents elements are built into and it’s suitable for any niche.

TheLatest Theme
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TurnOut Mag Theme
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Milano
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The elegant theme layout is stylish and dynamic contents modules like, image slider, tabbed content area are built into it.

Zinmag Tribune
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Zinmag tribune is designed with a newspaper layout. It is bundled with all the premium theme features and a custom admin panel to enable its different modules.

IsoTherm News
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It is magazine styled theme with everything you need to start publishing your own web journal with all the features you will need to attract new visitors, such as featured posts box, video widget, popular posts widget and footer widget spot.

CorporateMag Theme
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Aperio Prototype
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Futurosity Aperio Prototype is built on Sandbox for power and flexibility and has been tested in Safari, Firefox, and IE 7.

The Unstandard
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The Unstandard theme was originally a personal project designed and coded for 5thirtyone.com. The Unstandard is a split two or three column WordPress 2.7+ compatible theme.

Hellbiscuit
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Shiva Theme
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Gabfire Theme
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Aliva Press
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Alivapress is a magazine style mixed column free wordpress theme featuring a great combination of usability and outlook. The theme is 100% widget, adsense, feedburner ready and features the option to choose between an editable .PSD logo and the default hyperlink style title or tagline.

ArtFull Theme
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Magazine style ArtFull theme features a three column fluid layout, enabled with flickr support, pagenavi support, custom field options, flash clock, related posts and recent comments are built into the theme, as well as a nifty and new CSS/JS date display in the header section.

Grungezine
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Final Note

While i researched this topic magazine style WordPress themes, i just want to keep fresh content for our readers so some quality well-known but old themes has been excluded on the article. Again, have i missed any great themes out there already? Don’t hesitate to let me know on the comments.