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
More Info | Live Demo | Download
Update: Comfy is no more a free theme. That’s really sad.
2. FREEmium wordpress theme
Live Demo | Download
3. Mimbo 3.0
4. Magasin Uno
5. Magasin Dos
6. Magazine Basic 2.0
Live Demo | Download
7. ZinePress WordPress Magazine theme
8. Remedy WordPress Magazine Theme
9. ForexPress Mag Theme
10. Arthemia Free Magazine Theme
Live Demo | Download
11. Monochrome Gallery
Live Demo | Download
12. Shiva WordPress theme
13. Branford Magazine
Live Demo | Download
14. Zoxengen
Live Demo | Download
15. Hybrid News
16. TimeCafe Premium Free v2.0
Live Demo | Download
17. Epsilon
18. Androida
19. The Web News
Live Demo | Download
20. Masagana
21. NewsTheme
Live Demo | Download
22. Zinmag Primus
23. SportsPress
Live Demo | Download
24. Skyye News
Live Demo | Download
25. Zinmag Tribune
Live Demo | Download
26. Grungezine
Live Demo | Download
27. Miint
Live Demo | Download
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