Revolution Themes are the most professional magazine style wordpress themes….big companies like cnn and other news papers use this style.

WordPress has been much more than a “blog” management software for awhile now. Resourceful internet marketers and webmasters realized that WordPress could easily be used as an easy way to manage a “regular” content style website. Using the “Page” feature of WordPress many people began using WordPress to build Adsense-based “content” sites and other “mini- sites”. Other resourceful marketers even used WordPress for their one-page salesletter sites.

Even more recently creative minds have started to wonder WHY WordPress - a content management system with an extremely LOYAL following ­ can’t be used to do MUCH more than simple blog or journal style sites.

WordPress has come a long way….the amount of wordpress templates is amazing. Better yet the amount of free wordpress templates is even more amazing.

Another option is to consider having a custom made wordpress template. As more and more marketers begin to use wordpress as a website building and management system they are paying for custom designed wordpress sites. Even I, find myself surprised at times when visiting a website only to discover that it’s a wordpress blog. Website developers use customized wordpress blogs for content mangement systems and it becomes difficult to visually determine that the website is a blog!

Many larger news and magazine type websites use a “magazine type format” for their website. Take a look at Yahoo or CNN …. these websites are the epitome of a magazine style site….. notice how clean it looks and how easy and intuitive the navagation appears.

Did you know that you can find free magazine style wordpress templates? Of course there are some Magazine Style Templates you can purcase also. The benefit of buying a template is that it will usually be more unique and have more features….not to mention that a customized magazine style wordpress template would cost a lot more money!

Here’s some samples:

Newspaper & Magazine Style themes for WordPress
WP-Glory 1.0

A very attractive Wordpress Newspaper/Magazine style theme. Relatively fairly priced at $59
for personal use and $159 for a developer license.

Simplicity 1.0

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Also, a bit less sticker-shock here for those not looking to spend too much cash. Personal use
$19, developer license $119.

Solostream 4.0
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The Morning After Theme

A very professional look and is run by wordpress….still FREE at time of this post!

This is an excellent resource for those looking to build their own news or magazine site.
Simple customization can be done pretty easily by WordPress newbies and those with some
background or experience can really do some cool things with just a little creativity with this
theme.
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Here is one really cool template by Cory Miller called News Pixel it actually comes in 2 colors, however, it isn’t free. One compaint I have is that I don’t like either color, but perhaps Cory could be coherced into developing a few other color options….something more on the business side, light great and black…maybe some maroon.

Great site to visit, he is on the cutting edge of the news/magazine style template of wordpress templates and offers single user licenses along with developers. Honestly, my mind is realing when I consider the opportunity for developing sites for clients…..well worth checking out.
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I’ve got some more examples I can share a little latter…however, I put together a fantasic deal on a customized template package that comes with Master Resell Rights and is in the magazine format. Not only can you use these for yourself….you can use them to build a list or develop you own Wordpress development business for clients.
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So…..I’ve offered you some free versions, customized paid solutions and my own package.

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