Awesome 20+ Free News Magazine WordPress Themes 2013

It is never too late to start a blog or an online magazine especially if you have the right material to share. Your website will not become famous from the start and that is something everyone knows. Of course, a few key facts will help the website be spotted faster, such as a unique address that reflects the content. Appearance wise, it can be rather expensive to have a website designed to look exactly the way you want it. This is one of the reasons for which the free website templates were created, while their designers hope to find more clients.

WordPress is a popular platform for many bloggers, no matter their main purpose is to post magazine articles online. Many bloggers use free WordPress themes and you have no reason for not doing the same. These free WordPress magazine themes have many of the features a paid theme has and some of them allow extensive personalisation.

Many of the best free WordPress themes can be used instead of a magazine template, especially if you want a rather unique look. Keep in mind that almost any WordPress news theme can be used to showcase a blog, a magazine and sometimes even a portfolio. Having multiple use options for a single template is an added bonus to the free of charge one.

Imbalance 2 News and Portfolio Theme

Imbalance 2 can easily be used for a portfolio type of website. This theme looks very stylish, thus an online magazine will only become more popular while using it. There are 4 columns and the posts support several types of content.
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Clippy Responsive News Theme

Clippy looks a lot like those sites where content gets reblogged and pinned according to the preferences of their users. Twitter is integrated at the bottom of the page and there are 3 columns on which the content is displayed.
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Shaken Grid Lite Free Theme

The elements are posted based on a grid first vertically and then horizontally while avoiding gaps between the posts. The final will resemble to the work of a mason or of an innovative interior designer.
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Short Notes Free WordPress Theme

With this theme you can easily post any type of content, even embed videos from YouTube. This allows the theme to be fit for more types of websites, not only online news and magazines.
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Suburbia News Free Theme

Previews of the posts will appear in tall cells, up to 5 in a row, while 2 posts can be featured above the other 5. The previews will display both images and text, to better engage the visitors.
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AllTuts News Blog WordPress Theme

AllTuts stands for “all tutorials,” thus if you have tutorials of any kind this theme will help improve their popularity. The theme gets regular updates too, so you can be sure the latest features or fixes will reach you too.
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Unspoken WordPress Free Theme

With a light and a dark skin this theme calls to those who have sensitive eyes. The theme can be easily personalized further, has many widgets incorporated and many integrated social websites.
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WP Anniversary WP News Theme

This theme looks a lot like pages of an agenda, with the date and the title of each post showed above the post, similar to the header of an printed agenda. The number of comments can be seen right under the title.
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News Mojo Free WP Theme

News Mojo may well be designed for a news website, but any type of blog can use just as well. If you want to have a default image or article displayed when the site is accessed, this theme allows you to set it as fast as possible.
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Blogum Clean Free News Theme

This theme is perfect for those who prefer their website to look more like a blog than like a magazine. The style of the theme is simple, clean and has several useful widgets to the right side of the screen.
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Dubniumize Clean Magazine Theme

This theme is perfect for a blog and it has a Facebook like button for the readers to easily show their appreciation. Other features of this theme are the tabbed widgets, the sliding carousel and the .pot file allowing the theme to be translated with ease.
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Paragrams WordPress Free Theme

In case you use an older machine, you might appreciate a site that loads and feels light and fast. This theme is created with these 2 features in mind, while not ignoring the look and the layout.
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Pinboard Magazine Free Theme

Pinboards allow the users to be very creative and share their favorite type of content. This theme imitates the websites with pinned content and it will be easier for you work with if you are a regular user of these types of sites.
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Sight Free WP Theme

Blogs and online magazines alike can benefit from this free theme that lets you display the content either in a grid or in a standard blog style. While there might be a lot of content on the landing page of the site, the appearance is created as minimalistic as possible as not to overwhelm.
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Cover News WP Theme

This theme is compatible with WordPress 3.0 and has a color scheme that will not disturb the eyes when stared at for longer. You can translate this theme to German or Romanian, use your own image for the background, header and more.
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RPG Cod Clean Magazine Theme

If you like technology and you like to share your reviews with others this theme is specially tailored for you and your blog style. The theme is easy to use and allows you to highlight various types of content, depending on what you want to promote now.
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Active Free WordPress Theme

Active is a theme you should get if you want the latest features to be available as fast as possible. You can even sell your products with the help of WooCommerce feature newly added to it.
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zeeNews News Magazine Theme

The layout looks simple, minimal and it is a perfect match for any blog, news or magazine website. The current layout and overall look can easily be changed due to the powerful theme admin options.
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Storex Clean Magazine Theme

Storex is an easy to use WordPress theme, equipped with WooCommerce, custom widgets and short codes as well as a generator for more needed short codes. Its developers also make sure to update it often so you can enjoy the latest features.
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ImpreZZ Magazine Blog Theme

This theme is designed to have 3 columns with the one in the middle having a 3D effect. ImpreZZ can be used with WordPress 2.7 and with the zdcomments widget.
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zeeFlow Free WordPress Theme

Not all magazines are designed the same way and depending on their content, they might need a different color scheme. This theme wants to respond to this need with up to 8 predefined skins.
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Table WordPress Magazine Free Theme

Table looks very professional with the main page having the content showing neatly in same size cells. If you want to highlight some of the posts, make sure to use the stylish featured slider specially designed for this.
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