18 Free Magazine WordPress Themes

When planning to launch an e-magazine, the first step is to look for a theme. WordPress launches new themes daily which allow designers a wide range of themes to explore. These themes come packed with user-friendly features for installation and customization.

Here are some free WordPress themes best suited for e-magazines.

1. Surfarama

This simple, bold and colorful theme is perfect for online magazines.  It is very easy to  customize and requires little coding. The theme allows users to upload logos, set primary, secondary link colors, background images, borders and headings and tabs for different categories.

2. Bresponzive

Bresponzive is theme for magazine style blogging with various options including customization. It is fully responsive and doesn’t require testing for each browser. Choose a theme from three options: Traditional Blog, Magazine or Magazine with Traditional Blog style.

3. Fashionistas

This is a simple and clean WordPress theme to showcase content in an elegant style. It is also fully responsive and creates websites that look good on all screen sizes. It offers five custom widgets with Flickr and a tabbed content widget option.

4. Boldr Lite

Boldr Lite is based on a powerful Icefit framework which is a very advanced framework for WordPress Theme. It has a layout builder that allows users to create websites effectively and quickly with no coding. It is also cross-browser responsive and can be used on as many websites as a developer wants after a single purchase.

5. Gadgetry

This is a theme that is best suited for small e-magazines and blogging. Easily change the background, color schemes and font. It comes with 1 slider option with HTML5 animation.

6. Newsmin

This theme is for those who want to blog in magazine style about news-related topics and information. It allows users to  translate posts or any page in any language with its translation option. It is very simple and crisp in design.

7. Twenty Fourteen

Twenty Fourteen is a magazine theme with responsive pages in sleek and modern design. Users can place their  favorite page in grid or slider format. It also offers drag and drop to play while customizing the webpage.

8. Hathor

This theme makes it easy to customize and create webpages. It includes 2 header style, 2 service block style, 2 latest post layouts, a full width and Box option and is translation ready. This theme is SEO friendly and has lot of flexibility.

9. DualShock

This is a dual purpose blog and magazine UI theme. It is coded with HTML and CSS3 mark-up techniques to ensure web compatibility. It is user friendly and SEO optimized with custom widgets.

10. Great

It is very traditional style WordPress theme which features clean layout. It features ad management so that users can place ads on the website and earn money with every click.

11. Portal

Portal is a simple magazine-style theme with light and bright colors. It is also SEO optimized and responsive with custom widget options. There are unlimited color schemes, backgrounds and grid layouts.

12. zeeFlow

Zeeflow is also a clean and neat WordPress theme which is fully responsive and SEO optimized. It comes with a great magazine front page template supporting a featured post slider and various category post boxes.

13. Columnist

Columnist is a great theme for publishing magazines in news style. The news can be presented in a simple manner with lot of content.

14. PR News

This theme is designed with Bootstrap CSS framework and uses Font Awesome for lightweight icons. It allows users to display articles, photos and portfolio in many ways. It is also flexible and responsive with 320 px and 1260 px with all Bootstrap features.

15. Food and Diet

This is a WordPress theme with two columns for content and three columns for the footer. It allows ad placement, header text animation, copyright text and more using HTML5 and CSS3 standards.

16. Preus

This is a high quality magazine theme with options like Parallax header, responsive layout, custom widget, full width pages, 2 navigation menus and built on Twitter Bootstrap.

17. Custom Community

Custom Community is an adaptable WordPress theme with Font Awesome and Bootstrap technology. There are 3 pre-defined color schemes, a user friendly slideshow and more than 100 settings to customize the site.

18. Unique

Unique is programmed with HTML5 and CSS3 techniques to build an elegant magazine or a news website. It supports Grid column plug-in for columnized content and the Whistles plug-in with custom styles for tabs, toggles and accordion.