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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Great Collections of premium themes which are very useful in sites. Great collection of nice magazine style themes.
Thanks Raju ! I love monochrome !
hi there, does anybody knows a theme that is fit to be used for my press release site? It would be perfect if its free
Great place to get all theme at one place. I like the post and will tweet it on twitter
Wow, thanks. Nowadays seems harder and harder for one to find really good and -free- WordPress themes. Thank you again!
great collection here, really nice sharing….
Thank you very much for yet another first-rate article. I am always searching for original WordPress Theme to suggest to my readers. Thanks for creating this article. It’s exactly what I was searching for. Truly great post.
Wow, thank you for the wonderful resources. I feel overwhelmed by this wealth of WP themes.
Thank you very much for this post, very usefull an great collection!! Regards, Jasper
I’ve also noticed the same result by using generic headlines.. thanks for contributing!