If you want to see the SELECTED best WordPress magazine themes, you will love this post.
I carefully handpicked the most amazing WordPress themes with magazine and newspaper style layout and minimalist modern features. You can instantly create professional looking online magazines and news websites using these themes in the list.
These days every piece of information/ news is instantly spread worldwide through the web. In fact, more people get news online than reading the print versions of the newspapers and magazines. So it’s high time to create an online version of your newspaper/ magazine (if you don’t have it yet). And, WordPress is surely one of the best platforms to start your news/ magazine website.
WordPress is the most popular CMS and also an ideal solution for news sites with plenty of built-in tools and plugins that make your task a lot easier. There are lots of popular websites built on WordPress including successful online magazines and news websites.
So if you also decided to create one in WordPress, these wonderful WordPress news magazine themes are perfect to pick and start your website.
Let’s explore them:
ColorMag Pro
ColorMag theme with it’s both free and premium version combined empowers more than 100,000 sites. This huge number speaks for it’s popularity, there are only handful of themes in WordPress world that are used in more than 100K sites and ColorMag is proudly one of them. More than 300 people have reviewed this theme with 5 out of 5 ratings, you can check them here on official WordPress repository.
ColorMag Pro is our home production i.e. created by ThemeGrill. Our theme development is constantly working on this theme to make it more powerful, more friendly along with the addition of new features on each update. It is a wonderful WordPress magazine theme which lets you create a complete online magazine in no time. If you have checked theme’s demo and wondering how to create your site just like our demo. Then the premium version comes with inbuilt one-click demo importer feature, meaning with just a click you can create demo just like our demo in few minutes. Afterwards, you can just replace the dummy content with your original content. It is a fully responsive theme that looks great on any device. ColorMag pro is suitable for any types of magazine and news sites.
Features:
- Modern magazine style design
- Fully widgetized – over 15 custom widgets
- Advanced typography & 600 plus Google fonts
- SEO friendly theme
- One-click demo import
- Dedicated customer support & documentation
Price: $69
Newspaper
Newspaper is powered by tagDiv Composer, the first frontend page builder ever created for blogs, news, magazines, and reviews sites. You can mix, match, and arrange over 100 draggable elements to create stunning pages. It’s also Google AdSense ready and comes with an advanced ad system that allows you to place ads in several site areas, on any device. Versatile, powerful and fast, Newspaper is a great tool for anyone who wants to build a website with ease, without coding skills.
Features:
- Responsive and Retina Ready
- Spectacular modern designs
- tagDiv Composer – frontend page builder plugin
- Intuitive and easy to use interface
- Premium free widgets
- Tested with popular WP plugins WooCommerce, bbPress & BuddyPress
- Outstanding support
Price: $59
Extra
Features:
- Amazing WordPress theme for magazines, news sites
- Powerful Divi Builder support
- Multiple header options
- Advanced Mega menus
- Gorgeous project portfolios
- WooCommerce compatible
Price: $69 (Personal membership)
ionMAG Premium
Have you been sticking to the conventional ways of creating a website? Well, it’s time to take steps ahead and explore the modern approaches. Introducing the next-generation technology, ionMAG Premium presents a startling solution for building spectacular magazine websites. It is an amazing drag and drop WordPress theme with live frontend page builder and bundles of unique features. The theme lets you build stylish pages in a matter of minutes by dragging and dropping the elements, mixing and arranging them as you like. Furthermore, the theme offers multiple pre-made templates and styles for almost every section which make almost anything, any design possible. Doubtlessly, you can create classy and cutting-edge news/ magazine sites using the theme. Want a proof? Check out 6 stylish demos available and more are on the way.
Features:
- Fully responsive and retina ready theme
- tagDiv Composer support – Frontend Live Composer
- Wonderful drag and drop widgets
- Nine stunning header styles
- Multiple category and post templates
- User-friendly interface with All-in-One Theme Panel
Price: $59
Novelty
Features:
- Fully responsive premium magazine theme
- Social media – Content sharing made easy
- Featured slider
- Built-in shortcodes
- AJAX contact form
- Awesome support and documentation
Price: $ 48
Sahifa
Features:
- Modern responsive design
- Mega menus + menu icons
- Content slideshow
- 6 Premium plugins support for FREE
- Unlimited colors
- One-click demo import
Price: $69
MH Magazine
Features:
- Responsive theme using cutting-edge WordPress technologies
- A bundle of custom widgets
- FlexSlider2 support
- Google web fonts
- Simple & super-awesome user-interface
- Excellent customer support
Price: $49
Editorial Pro
Features:
- Modern Magazine/ editorial theme for WordPress
- Multiple header layouts
- Post review system
- Single click demo import option
- WooCommerce compatible
- Awesome customer support
Price: $55
FlyMag Pro
Features:
- Clean responsive modern WP magazine theme
- Modern stunning design
- Custom theme widgets and footer
- Cross-browser compatible
- Unlimited choice of colors
- Excellent customer support
Price: $99
GreatMag Pro
Features:
- Modern responsive WordPress magazine template
- WordPress Live Customizer support
- Sticky widgets
- Extra stylish post templates
- Translation ready theme
- Fast customer support
Price: $49
Compass
Features:
- Responsive WordPress magazine style theme
- Live Customizer support
- Draggable slideshow with touch support
- 1-Click Demo Content Importer
- SEO Friendly code
- Translation ready theme
Price: $69
Wrapping Up
Created by the professional WordPress developers and loved by thousands of users, these are the best premium WordPress magazine themes. All of the themes come with support for major WordPress plugins and tools, regular updates and dedicated support from their makers.
Write any thought about this list or any individual theme below in the comment box.
You may also like to see our ultimate collection of the best FREE WordPress themes.
i am aslo using Newspaper and Sahifa.
Hi Sunita,
I appreciate your collection. They are beautiful & high-quality themes which will give professional look to your news website. ColorMag Pro is my favorite from the list. It is clean, simple and gorgeous.
Great to know!
Thanks for writing in Manoj. 🙂