20+ Best WordPress Magazine Themes For Attractive Websites In 2017

In this article we showcase the best WordPress Magazine Themes created or updated in 2017.

One of the most popular ways to build an online magazine right now is to use a magazine theme for WordPress.

With WordPress it is fast and affordable to build a professional online magazine with an effective multi author environment. Free plugins like WordPress Flow does a good job for supporting a solid editorial process often required to run a magazine.

A WordPress magazine theme design typically have many similarities with WordPress blog templates, but they often have special page templates designed for setting up classic or modern magazine layouts. Magazine WordPress themes come in many different styles and layouts, but the thing that they typically have in common is the ability to display the content of your website in an organized, easy to consume fashion.

We are in the middle of the mobile era and the number of mobile surfers only goes up. I recommend that you look for a responsive layout if you plan to start an online magazine or simply want to give your website existing a facelift. Responsive web design is a trend that started back in 2010 when designers started to use CSS media queries to adapt layouts to the actual screen size. This effectively means that typography, number of columns etc. is aligned to the screen capabilities of the user’s device.

Time To Take a Good Look at the Best WordPress Magazine Themes

The In this article, I am sharing with you a fresh 2016 collection of great looking mobile ready magazine themes for the WordPress platform. I hope the collection will help get you started building an online magazine right away. Please note that all the themes in this article have been selected because they have good magazine designs and offer great responsive capabilities.

Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.

Extra

Extra is a very powerful magazine style WordPress theme  powered by the very flexible and powerful Divi builder. The theme extends Divi with features and layouts that are useful for bloggers and online publications. The theme makes it possible and easy to customize the sidebar, the homepage and each individual post and page.

Extra is prepared for mobile devices and even though it is a content heavy theme it scales perfectly to fit mobile phones and tablets. If you are starting a magazine style website or blot this is a must have theme in your tool box!

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MagXP

This theme is best described as the ultimate magazine theme for WordPress. It is integrated with 4 homepage layouts and options panel where you can control the layout of your site. The theme combines form, function and flexibility extremely well.

MagXP is among the best known themes from MyThemShop, which can be used for a variety of purposes. It is integrated with 11 unique layouts that can be used for various niches. You may use it for magazine, eCommerce, blogging, health, news, technology, social, video and food niches just to name a few. You may also customize the theme to conform to different types of websites. The theme comes with unlimited sidebars, unlimited BG options, more than 630 advanced typography selections, unlimited colors and other options. It is also integrated with an advanced theme options panel and a dedicated set of performance options to make your website load quickly even with a lot of content.

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Nexus

Nexus is a fresh magasine theme just released from ElegantThemes with a very cool magazine style layout. It comes with a set of custom widgets, modules and a page builder for the homepage to give you flexibility to set up your own unique pages. The layout of Nexus is responsive and fits perfectly into mobile devices. Inside nexus you find a cool rating system to help you add visual ratings to your reviews. The colors in Nexus can easily be changed in the powerful options manager provided by ElegantThemes. You also get a set of page templates for contact page, login, search, sitemap etc. A very cool theme for setting up an online magazine!

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Noozbeat

This is a fully responsive and stunning WordPress theme that is made for news and magazine websites. It is very user friendly yet integrated with unique layout options. There are many unique features that set Noozebeat apart from the rest. It has limitless color variations for instance, which are vital in fine tuning everything in your website.

Noozebeat has multiple category layouts that will help you build a really unique site. It even has a space for advertising, which is incorporated with the theme to help you get more rewards for your hard work. There are custom widgets too, which means more functionality for you. You will have social networking, content widgets, Flickr, Twitter and a lot more. Noozebeat has been optimized for SEO to help you get better ranking in Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

Other features that you will find uniquely useful with this theme are flexible widgets, robust options and multiple area layouts for featured posts.

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Jarida

Jarida is a 2 or 3 column responsive magazine template  with support for WooCommerce. It includes a powerful drag drop Home Page Builder and a rating system. You will find 30+ shortcodes, 7 page templates, color selector. The theme further includes search meta data for ratings. For websites with RTL requirements this theme delivers the required functionality. It is not a common WordPress theme capability.

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Doberman

This is a WordPress viral magazine theme that is designed to make your content reach new heights. It is especially design to enhance user engagement through virality algorithms, social media, reactions and others. It also has limitless style variations that will let you design your website exactly the way you want it through the various typography and color settings built into the theme.

Doberman has a drag and drop feature for the homepage. You can build your website just the way you want it without any previous knowledge on codes. Just use the custom content widgets and you are done. You can do live editing afterwards. There are over 80 customizer settings included with the theme to help you make your website really unique.

The theme comes with custom widgets to give you more functionality. It has been optimized for SEO to help get better ranking in Bing, Yahoo! and Google.

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NewsTube Flexible Magazine Theme

With NewsTube you get a really modern and flexible theme for for video and magazine style websites. The theme is fully responsive and it is retina ready as well. This video magazine theme provides 16 different demos you can check out for inspiration and to see the many features and possibilities. The theme includes tons of blog layouts, navigations styles, various layouts for headers, sliders, posts and video content.
NewsTube supports is specifically optimized for video contant and it supports videos from many popular video services including Youtube, Vimeo and Daily Motion. When using Newsube you can submit video from the front-end, create great video channels and playlists, or import YouTube Videos and Channels to your website.

StarMag

Starmag is one of the magazine templates I would recommend you check out. It is great if you like to have custom designs on every category and post. The options for controlling every aspect individually is really cool and powerful. There are many cool features to highlight in Starmag, including the review system, WooCommerce integration, 26 custom widgets, drag and drop home page builder, sidebar manager, responsive slider and much more. With regards to SEO it is cool that the theme makes it easy to add Google Authorship and schema micro data.

Lucid

Lucid is a minimalistic and modern WordPress magazine theme with a great content slider at the top of the front page. This is a cool way to feature important posts and draw visitors into the content you want them to see. In addition, Lucid comes with some really useful widgets for showing posts from various categories. One of the most interesting features, however, is ElegantThemes page builder that allows you to build page layouts with drag and drop. Lucid is also fully responsive, meaning that the design will adapt to mobile phones and tablets for a more intuitive browsing experience.

Volcano

Before going into all the details about the features of Volcano I would like to highligh a few things. First of all it is ultra minimal and use a flat design approach. This design type is popular and works really well on mobile devices. Further I simply love the From Blog Widget. It is different from what you normally see as it shows the time since the posts where published. This is great for active news related online magazine websites. The ability to activate double sidebars where you need it is cool for setting up a busy front page, while keeping as much space as possible for content on the posts with one sidebar active.

Volcano is simply a cool responsive magazine WordPress theme with a minimalistic design and it will fit most blog, online magazines and news websites well. Volcano can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both. Theme is powered by the SMOF Options Panel, which provides tons of options to manage and modify any aspect of the theme – it is well suited for both beginners with no coding knowledge and developers. Volcano comes with 17 custom widgets, 18+ widgetized areas, 5 post formats (image, audio, video, gallery, standard), 7 Home page layouts, 7 Blog layouts and tons of theme options.

Aggregate

Aggregates is a popular magazine style theme from Elegant Themes. It is clean and minimalistic and provides a good set of options for featuring your important articles on the front page. The theme have several custom content widgets, widget areas and some useful advertisement spots for quicly setting up an income stream. Aggregate have a really cool content slider at the top with thumbnail preview.

Metro Magazine

With the Metro Magazine theme for WordPress you get a a cool metro style website with a responsive layout for mobile readyness. The theme works very well for news websites, online magazines and blog. There are support for a dual sidebar layout and tons of options for showing off news using widgets and shortcodes.

Bzine

Bzine is a great option if you are planning to start a creative online magazine. The website will be responive and look great on mobile devices. It is a good solution also for review, news and blog sites and you can easily add video and slideshows to promote your content.  Besides a lot of useful magazine style features you also get a theme that is compatible with WooCommerce and bbPress. Futher it is translation-ready and very flexible when it comes to adapting to the look and fell you want.

Neuton

Neuton is a responsive magazine template from CSSIgniter. The design of the theme is different and makes your magazine website stand out from the crowd. With the post wall section on the front page you can feature your posts the super cool way. The theme also includes a feature that promote trending topics. Topics are selected using a trending analysis algorithm. You will also find color variations in the theme to make the design fit your needs better.

Hot Topix

Hot Topix is a WordPress magazine website template with focus on music or fashion style! The theme comes with a  modern design that includes a unique slider layout in the front page. The design is retina-ready and responsive for optimal experience on mobile devices. Hot Topix comes with a drag-and-drop homepage builder, option to add featured posts on each category page, post/page slideshows, sticky menu and more.

Legatus

With Legatus you get a 3 or 4 column responsive magazine WordPress theme with a responsive layout. The theme includes a powerful page builder making it simple to create unique custom pages as needed. Every category can have unique design and layout. The theme includes many useful shortcodes and a sidebar manager to help you create unlimited sidebars.

GoodInc

GoodInc is a modern WordPress theme with a flat simplistic design that makes the content stand out. It is great for building a trendy or creative online  magazine. The theme is loaded with custom post types, page templates, layout options, shortcodes and more.

Novelti

Novelti takes building a mangazine style website to the next level. It offers plenty of post presentation options such as post views, post carousel slider, category views and more. In this theme you will get a cool rating solution, There is also an advanced ads management system included with good reporting functions. For setting up cusotm page layouts you have a shortcode generator and some custom page templates.

GLAMOUR

Glamour from MyThemeshop is a great option if you need to deliver tons of content but the theme still takes minimalistic design approach. The theme have a powerful options system and plenty of shortcodes to give you creative power. Glamour is a multi column theme with 6 different home page layouts and 3 single post designs. The theme is responsive and well optimized for effective SEO.

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Sensational

Sensational is a true manimal magazine design for a clean and simple magazine style. The theme is from MyThemeshop and it comes with their powerful options framework. The theme gives you full flexibility with regards to choosing colors and typography. You will find 10 widgets in the theme and 40+ shortcodes.

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MagMan

MagMan is another WordPress magazine theme with a great layout and a built in rating system, The design of MagMan is clean, minimal and responsive. The theme includes multiple page styles, lightbox styles, 6 custom widgets and more.

Fearless

With Fearless you can certainly build your online magazine without fear and concerns… It is a magazine theme for WordPress with a colorful design. the home page is quickly adjusted to your needs using the home page builder with drag and drop. There are 5 style for listing your articles , 7 theme layouts, 18 custom widgets and more. The theme is mobile ready and comes with a responsive layout.

Staggerly

Staggerly is a clean WordPress theme for building responsive magazine websites. There are several design options available in the available home page and blog layouts. Also you get 14 custom widget and a set of shortcodes to set up your own page layouts. There are 3 slider styles available for featuring your content.

Sonny M. Day

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