I have seen many people referring Premium WordPress Themes as those which have more quality in terms of design, flexibility, in-house SEO, multiple layouts, easy integration with analytics, adsense etc. which is not the case with majority of the Free themes available. And by default, they refer any Premium theme as a Paid theme. This is not true always. I do agree that most of the paid themes come up with innovative and additional features compared to the majority of Free WordPress themes but it is wrong to generalize it and making it a rule.
There are some Stunning, amazing, cool Premium themes out there which are nicely designed, innovative, SE optimized, flexible and yet being FREE! I am not the first one to write about these FREEMIUM WordPress themes and I won’t be the last as well. But I am restricting myself to those Free & Premium WordPress themes which can be used for Blogs with Magazine or News based content. I have not added them just to make up the numbers, I genuinely believe they are the Best options available currently.
Stunning Free but Premium WordPress News / Magazine Styled Themes
1. Comfy Magazine Style Theme
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Update: Comfy is no more a free theme. That’s really sad.
2. FREEmium wordpress theme
3. Mimbo 3.0
4. Magasin Uno
5. Magasin Dos
6. Magazine Basic 2.0
7. ZinePress WordPress Magazine theme
8. Remedy WordPress Magazine Theme
9. ForexPress Mag Theme
10. Arthemia Free Magazine Theme
11. Monochrome Gallery
12. Shiva WordPress theme
13. Branford Magazine
14. Zoxengen
15. Hybrid News
16. TimeCafe Premium Free v2.0
17. Epsilon
18. Androida
19. The Web News
20. Masagana
21. NewsTheme
22. Zinmag Primus
23. SportsPress
24. Skyye News
25. Zinmag Tribune
26. Grungezine
27. Miint
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Raju PP is the founder-editor of Technically Personal, which is one of the most widely read technology blogs on the web. He holds an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication, and has previously worked as a Technical Specialist in Banking Software domain.
great themes! don’t know what to choose.
you are awesome! great collection!
All these themes are good but the issue with them is the lack of space for putting adverts !
Hi ,
Thanks immensely for providing this theme. I’ve been looking
around for another theme, and I hope this can prove to be ideal.
Much appreciated,
Pope
This is a great collection to have in one’s bag. It seems to me that a number of these themes are not exactly free (ex. no.2, no. 13).
Nice list of themes, although it’s starting to show that it’s from 2009. That’s not long ago, but WordPress designs have come a long way in the last two years. How about an update?
Download link for Comfy Magazine Style Theme is broken.
Would you fixed it?
Thanks