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Get the NewsletterDesign Your Site with WordPress Magazine Themes
As with any website, design can be key to your overall performance. Many already know that WordPress offers some great features for blogs and sites alike. But did you know that you can get great magazine style themes to ensure maximum design efficiency online?
That’s right. WordPress magazine themes are outstanding design frameworks that include a wonderful, easy to manage homepage instead of the traditional blog homepage. Now, you can set any html page as your homepage when using WordPress, but this method requires little know how and even less technical ability. And at least one of them is free.
WordPress is the most used open source CMS out there right now and it takes little work to build and SEO powerhouse. Google loves it and indexes all pages easily if you have everything working properly.
But when visitors come to your blog, they frequently see a standard blog home page, with snippets of posts in a list and some sidebars containing various items of interest.
Magazine themes eliminate that aspect of this. They give a well structured, easy to follow foundation for the rest of your site and aid in directing traffic from your home page to various key areas of your site.
Three Great WordPress Magazine Themes
Mimbo 2.2
The first magazine theme called Mimbo 2.2. Mimbo creates a wonderful area for featured articles, sub-categories and less important categories individually. This is done with ease and a little code manipulation. You can get assistance with the code from the creator Darren Hoyt. It uses category key numbers to determine what content to place where and then uses WordPress's custom fields to place the pictures.
The best thing about Mimbo is it’s free! Below is a screenshot of a Mimbo 2.2 theme in use right now.
Mimbo is the only free magazine theme found that merits any recognition; but there are also two for purchase that are just as outstanding, if not more so.
Revolution
Revolution is a top notch, for purchase magazine theme. It is a widget-ready, customizable theme that is an ideal solution for online magazines, online newspapers and other websites that wish to use WordPress as a content management system. It offers a little more flexibility and a different homepage layout than Mimbo.
Revolution also has other magazine style themes specific to news, business and more. A set can be purchased for around $80.00 for single use.
WP-Magazine
Also of note is WP-Magazine Theme. It has a great scrolling image on the home page with a larger area to work with and less white space. The basic option here sells for around $80.00.
Now you have the resources to build a powerhouse publication website with a great design, ease of use and fun right at your fingertips. Why are you still reading? Read more about WordPress and the great things you can do with it now…
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Thanks for mentioning Mimbo! But, it looks like the photos for Mimbo and Revolution are reversed.
Thanks Darren. Great theme by the way. Got the pics switched.
All of the above themes are truly great and take WP into a new generation. They all suffer from the need to do a lot of image manipulation and custom fileld tagging...until that is you install the Viva Thumbs plugin from Mediatricks which automates all the homepage and sidebar thumbnails on the fly.
Cut out the Image Work of Magazine style themes. Check out the live demo at http://www.mediatricks.biz/demo
Tim
A great collection of newspaper/magazine themes. There are quite a few free themes out there. I would definitely check out http://new-wordpress-themes.net for quite a number of good wordpress themes.
Thanks for revolution. I like this theme. Very good collection
How to Build Magazines Website by WordPress
I have spent about a week to build up my new magazine website, from nothing to nothing to abundance. I take it as my child and believe it will grow up in the future, become more and more popular. Here I spend some time to write what I’ve done and what I thought, to those people who want to build up his/her magazine websites. Hope these text and pictures may help them in the future.http://www.funny-magazines.com
1. Topic and Content
2. Domain name and website space.
3. Theme select & configure
4. Adv setting
5. Promotion
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