Themes WordPress: Choose Which Newspaper/magazine Templates Is Perfect For You

UPDATE – 2 June 2011 - In these years, for all bloggers, and affiliate marketers, was never a better time to do things independently through the WordPress versatility. We all have different taste on choosing a WordPress theme. When I started The3dtechnologies I certainly didn’t know what to think, if it was better a for me a common theme or a magazine WP Theme.

Far and away, the best choice I’ve found was a magazine WP Theme, for three main reasons:

• Save your time because will work as a guide, you can built-In banner ad blocks, upload Main Logo, and so on.
• Make your site more professional.
• Most important for any affiliate, you increase your conversion rate.

This sounds good, right?

Now the question is: Where do you go to search a newspaper or magazine styles template with thousand of WordPress themes around the net?

Best WordPress Newspaper Templates

If your site does not run a Newspaper templates and you are looking one to make your website more professional and unique, today I’m going to examine and share the top WordPress themes and templates.

For each one I added the main features, so you can see because these are of the most used on the net and could really help you to change your site-look in better.

Note: I’ve highlight the main theme features with a different colors to help you make a quick comparison and choose the ideal template to your needs.

• Layout Customizable: Let you change and pick the best layout for your needs.
• SEO built in: Let you create and optimize your page to be SEO friendly. So, you no need to use SEO plugins because the theme is ready to take on your Search Engine Optimization needs.
• Built-In Banner Ad Blocks and AdSense Ready: Useful to display Ads on your site without change the code.
• Custom avatar: Lets you to add avatar image into the left of the name of the commenter of your blog or blog post.

DIYthemes – Thesis WordPress Theme

You’ve probably heard the buzz about the Thesis Theme.  Over 24,437 blogger and webmasters included me with my cabinrentalsideas.com rely on this Premium WordPress Theme.

It getting a lot of great reviews around the blogosphere and it is no wonder – because it isn’t really just a WordPress theme. It’s actually an SEO-optimized code framework with incredible design flexibility and lightning-fast loading times. Here’s a quick rundown of the features:

• Change the layout to have 1, 2, or 3 columns.
• Thesis boasts the strongest SEO of any theme. With Thesis, the days of worrying about your in-site SEO are over.
• If you display Ads on your site, the multimedia box can also be formatted to display your best performing Ads.
• Custom avatar: Let you create a custom avatar for comments or blog content.
• Upload main logo
• And much, much others…..

If you want to get thesis theme as wordpress newspaper templates, I reccomend to install one skin for Thesis. Here a list of best skin for Thesis.

Thesis theme is compatible with all kinds of browsers, and mobile browsing. What do you get when you buy a theme like Thesis is the ability to change the entire layout and design as you desire as get a great support, as well. Also, Thesis help you to rank well on Google every web page. Download Thesis Theme

Catalyst Premium WordPress Theme

Catalyst is a WordPress magazine theme designed by my friend Eric Hamm that actually running on my site the3dtechnologies.com and natural-supplements-tips.com is available with a huge amount of new features. Compatible with WordPress 3.0 is a fully customizable theme for the non-coder. The newly added functions looks awesome:

• Seo features includes NoIndex, NoFollow options, full meta control, In-Page/In-Post options, full control over your page titles, etc
• Custom avatar: Lets you to add an avatar image into the left of the name of the commenter of your blog.
• Upload main logo
• It provides 22 skin for your all your needs
• And much, much more…..

There is a premium version that goes up to $97 that let you use on an unlimited number of sites,
including client sites, while the developer license goes up to $199.  Download Catalyst

PS: If you want to see how I built my site design with Catalyst I just shared some cool tutorial that explain exactly how did it.

Ithemes WordPress Themes

I can’t tell you how many websites use the Ithemes WordPress theme series, but I can attest that are a lot.

iThemes offers a wide variety of high quality themes for all kinds of people and you are able to find your theme on based your Industry. For instance, if you are an Real Estate Agents you can choose between latest iReal Estate, Essence, or Colonial Real Estate WordPress theme.

• Advanced Seo features tune up your site for Google
• Style manager: Tweak CSS fast
• And much, much others…..

Each WordPress Ithemes allows you to upload, resize, and crop your own custom header image. They are able to widgetized the custom sidebars from your dashboard, as make your webpage SEO friendly as well. All these themes cost just $29.95 which is much cheaper than the most of Premium themes out there. Download Ithemes

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Arthemia Premium Theme

As you can see through my blog nickdeiana.com(I’m using Arthemia theme from one year, right now), Arthemia Premium isn’t as common theme out there, with an ordinary blog’s layout, but it’s similar a magazine style theme. This theme will take care of everything for you. For instance, once wrote your better post the auto thumbnail features allows you to assign a specific image for every post on a separate field without ask you to add it.

This features you can not find on other themes. Download Arthemia Premium

Wp-Magazine Theme

Another freelance designer is Michael Pollock. He recently developed a nice balanced magazine style layout called Wp-Magazine Theme 1.0. By far one of the the best WordPress Themes he have ever created.

Overall, this theme is a nice newspaper theme, well organized that features multiple interactive layout options. The main features includes:

• Widget-Ready, User-Friendly, and Optimized for SEO
• Five Different Home Page Layouts
• Four Different Category/Archive Page Layouts
• Built-In Banner Ad Blocks
• Gravatar Support
• Upload main logo
• And much, much others…..

Download Wp-Magazine Theme 1.0

Wp-Glory WordPress Theme

Michael also created another newspaper theme layout called “WP-Glory“. The layout is a liquid-width that resize itself with the window size, which to me is not very professional. Is a 3-column, built to work with WordPress versions 2.2. This theme has a lot of nice features:

• thisWidget-Ready
• Drop-down navigation for sub-pages.
• Tabbed top content box.
• Featured article functionality.
• Built-in archives page.
• Drop-down boxes for categories and monthly archives.
• And much, much other…..

Once Theme

One Theme is the popular choice for professional web masters. It will save you time because it requires absolutely no web design experience and installing and implementing are very easy and fast. One Theme includes two widget ready sidebars that allows you to organize the widgets you want to use. The main features includes:

• AdSense Ready
• SEO Optimized Code
• Thumbnail Ready
• Upload Main Logo
• And much, much other…..

The One Theme Ad feature presents support for popular pay per click advertising that make it easy for you to insert AdSense blocks and make money online from them. All you need to do is to entering your id into the control panel. Download One Theme

Brian Gardner WordPress Themes

Brian Gardner themes come with unique  homepages, section,  post pages, and archives. They are very well organized with an interactive layout, clean, and the colors are particularly nice and vivid.

What particularly like about this newspaper themes is that they allows you to display recent posts in any order you like, based the categories you choose, which is more better then the endless 10-post homepage scroll on most blogs. The result is a nicely professional template. Download Brian’s Theme

Why I Think These Guys Are A Good Choice For Your Theme Needs

There are a lot of WordPress templates on internet for you for free. But like these is very hard to find. I think, a lot of people will pay literally something if they think their website will be more professional and unique than others out there. I like the design of all these newspaper themed layout, and because they offer a series of features that you may not find on another free website templates.