20 Of The Best Free Magazine WordPress Themes

Why have I put premium themes into a post titled: “20 Of The Best Free Magazine WordPress Themes” – I am no longer a huge fan of free themes. Often the authors create free themes to build backlinks to their sites, and then take the theme offline, or turn it into a premium theme. With free themes you often have no support. With free themes you almost always have to leave a footer link on your site, which is bad for SEO. Of the 20 free themes that were in this original article that I wrote in 2007, only 2 of the theme links were still live, and freely available when I went to edit this article in April 2011…For me the $20-$40 you spend on a premium theme is the easiest decision you should have to make when creating a new site or upgrading your theme. Still, as the original article was about free themes, I have included 20 new free, and great themes in this article. All premium themes have been labelled as such, so don’t fill the comments form with complaints.

Hope you find this a useful resource.

The Source (Premium WordPress Theme) | Demo or Buy


 

 

The Morning After (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

Video Zone (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

Arras (Free) | Get it | Demo

 

 

Global Press (Premium WordPress Theme) | Get It | Demo


 

 

Arthemia (Free and Premium Options) | Get it | Demo

 

 

Mimbo (Free) | Demo and Download


 

 

Afterburner (Free) | Get it | Demo

 

 

The Original Premium News (Free) | Demo and Download


 

 

Meta-Morphosis (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

Caulk (Premium WordPress Theme) | Get It | Demo


 

 

MixxMag (Premium WordPress Theme) | Get it | Demo

 

 

Snips (Free) | Demo and Download


 

 

Quantitive (Premium WordPress Theme) | Get it | Demo

 

 

Kinetic (Premium WordPress Theme) | Get it | Demo


 

 

Deems (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

Terran Tribune (Premium WordPress Theme) | Get it | Demo


 

 

The Clam Shell (Free) | Demo | Download

 

 

Dimes (Free) | Demo and Download


 

 

Magazeen (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

Zephyr (Premium WordPress Theme) | Get it | Demo


 

 

The Professional (Premium WordPress Theme) | Demo or Buy

 

 

Pallas (Free) | Demo and Download


 

 

Minimal (Premium WordPress Theme) | Demo or Buy

 

 

eNews (Premium WordPress Theme) | Demo or Buy


 

 

eTech (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

News Daily (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

NewsSlide (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

News Focus (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

Press Week (Free) | Demo and Download

 

 

 

Sparks (Free) | Demo and Download