Showcase: Magazine-Style Layout in WordPress and Resources

19th Aug 2010 | Posted by Yahya | 8 Comments

The magazine look/ news design layout have become trend for blog design layout. Content management systems like WordPress have a wide selection of themes for this type of site, either free or premium wordpress themes. So this makes it easy for website owner or blogger to achieve a look that is similar to a news site.

In this post we will feature 11 sites that provide inspiration for magazine-style layouts, then tutorials for designing a Magazine Theme, and the end of the post includes free and premium magazine style themes for wordpress.

Showcase of Magazine-Style in WordPress

Here is a look at 11 well-designed wordpress site with a magazine-style.

offBeat

Unblogged

Sketchy Premise

Loodo

WSJ

National Geographic

MACLEANS.CA

Outreach

Monday By Noon

UGSMAG

TRUE/SLANT

Tutorials for Designing a Magazine Theme

Here several tutorials to learn about creating your own magazine theme.

Build a Newspaper Theme with WP_Query and the 960 CSS Framework

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use WP_Query to make a 3 columned newspaper theme that has all your main blog posts in the main column, and off to the side a set of posts with a certain category

How to Design a Layout in Magazine? tutorial and psd

In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a magazine-style web layout

Build a Basic Newspaper Style Layout with WordPress and jQuery

This tutorial uses jQuery to create size-degrading headers that will keep your grid looking professional.

WordPress: “Magazine Style” Horizontal Dropdown Menu.

The tutorial for creating an effective navigation menu for your own magazine theme. You can learn how to create an advanced dropdown menu quickly.

Free and Premium Magazine-Style Themes for WordPress

Below several magazine style wordpress themes, either free and premium.

Free Simple Magazine Red

Free A Simple Magazine

EXPO – Showcase and Resource Site Theme ($32)

Noctis Theme ($27)

Zenith ($32)

Flowhub ($32)

Newscast 4 in 1 – WordPress Magazine and Blog ($37)

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