With the recent explosion of WordPress News Themes around the blogosphere, I’ve decided to wrap up the ones that are actually worth looking at and even buying/downloading.
First of all, what the heck are Premium WordPress themes? Summed up, they’re pretty much regular WordPress themes with “extra bonus features” and a price tag. Although some premium themes aren’t worth ditching out the cash for, some definitely are.
Revolution News Theme
Description: Revolution is a customizable theme ideal for websites that wish to use WordPress as a CMS and also for online newspapers and magazines.
Cost: $59.95 – $249.95 (December Sale: $44.95 – $184.95)
Revolution Tech Theme
Description: Revolution Tech is a customizable theme ideal for tech/gadget online magazines and has a new enhanced featured video location on the theme.
Cost: $99.95 – $249.95 (December Sale: $74.95 – $184.95)
Revolution Magazine Theme
Description: Revolution Magazine is a customizable theme ideal for online magazines and has a new enhanced featured video location on the theme.
Cost: $99.95 – $249.95 (December Sale: $74.95 – $184.95)
Revolution Sports Theme
Description: Revolution Sports is a customizable theme ideal for online sports newspapers, online sports magazines and other sports website portals.
Cost: $99.95 – $249.95 (December Sale: $74.95 – $184.95)
Jello Wala Mello Theme
Description: Jello-Wala-Mello is a news / magazine-styled WordPress theme created for multi-media sites. Requires WordPress 2.3.1.
Cost: FREE
Showcase: CSS Gallery Theme
Description: Showcase is a premium WordPress theme created to power a CSS or web design gallery, which is also ideal for managing online portfolios and photo blogs.
Cost: $70 – $700
The Morning After Theme
Description: The Morning After is a grid-based magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale.
Cost: FREE
Premium News Theme
Description: Premium News is a user-friendly, feature and function-packed theme, which will turn your WordPress site into a great looking magazine / news style site.
Cost: $99.95 – $249.95
Cornerstone Premium Theme
Description: The Cornerstone premium theme for WordPress is a flexible, feature-rich alternative to contracting custom design work for your blog.
Cost: $99.95 – $249.95
NewsPixel Theme
Description: NewsPixel is an easy-to-use premium WordPress theme, including sweet bonus features.
Cost: $97 – $199
Dark News Theme
Description: Dark News Theme is a dark easy-to-use premium WordPress theme, including sweet bonus features.
Cost: $97 – $199
Post Revisions:
- 6 August, 2010 @ 4:00 [Current Revision] by michael castilla
- 5 August, 2010 @ 5:52 by Ryan Imel
- 3 December, 2007 @ 17:26 by Ryan Imel
Posted December 3, 2007
skarld said:
Good call. Very timely post. The next big thing will be affiliate marketing plans for premium themes. Let me add a couple more themes to your list if I may:
Gridline Magazine and Visualization by Thad Allender.
PressLance from thewebguy.
on December 3, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Michael Castilla said:
Thanks for the comment Dale. Indeed, that is most likely to be the next big thing! Let’s see what happens in the new year.
And thanks for the heads up on those two themes, I’ll make sure to review them and if I like them, I’ll add them up!
on December 4, 2007 at 12:04 am
Macca said:
You should also mention Michael Pollock of solo stream. It seems he is now converting some of his previously free themes to Premium but I have to say they are good looking and work like a hot dang.
on December 4, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Macca said:
Sorry for the double comment but thought Darren Hoyt’s Mimbo v2 theme should be in here as well. Definitely premium but also free for the time being. It’s a little more complex for the avg user to edit but it’s sweet.
on December 4, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Nick said:
I’m sick of paying for these layouts. I like the thad allender theme a lot, and 20 bucks is reasonable, but not when you just dropped 100 bucks on a theme by adii that looks half finished when you opt to not use the video section.
on December 6, 2007 at 11:59 pm
will said:
You forgot Mimbo. Tthe best WP magazine theme out there and still being improved upon – and free
on December 11, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Hoodgrown_Magazine said:
“You forgot Mimbo. Tthe best WP magazine theme out there and still being improved upon – and free”
will,
I was about to say the same thing.
on December 14, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Steven said:
I was disappointed with the Revolution Theme in one regard, no auto thumbnails. What a pain in the butt to create thumbnails for each posting for the main page. I had a customized WP theme made a year ago and its hard to go back. WordPress automatically creates a thumbnail version, so it just has to be called. e.g. image.jpg will always have a image.thumbnail.jpg version that can be called. You can also use CSS, this according to my custom WP theme designer. Anyhow, apparently Premium News Theme also doesn’t do auto thumbnail, but at least he took my feedback and is working on it as we speak for the next version. Come on guys, its not that hard to do and would all save us some time.
on December 27, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Marisa said:
There’s a good one here by Justin Tadlock:
http://justintadlock.com/archives/2007/12/09/structure-wordpress-theme
Free, with premium qualities.
on January 1, 2008 at 2:20 pm
zinni said:
I cant help but wonder what the longterm outlook of these themes will be? I cant see why anyone would pay for these, as you are assured that someone else will have the same thing. I know that it makes sense if a theme is free, but I don’t see the logic if you are paying for one. I guess you are getting a deal in terms of depth of development at that price, however its definitely not unique. In my opinion these themes will most likely be a passing fad.
on April 3, 2008 at 10:57 pm
TS said:
Hello, been collecting magazine-style themes as well
http://www.wpmagthemes.com
on April 11, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Jewels said:
Paid themes is a very good place to go. Corporate bloggers are growing and they don’t even understand the concept of FREE themes. In fact those that advise corporate blogs on entire set-up and configuration have a lot of places to go.
on May 2, 2008 at 5:13 pm
ege said:
great themes, thanks.
on May 20, 2008 at 3:31 pm
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on June 23, 2008 at 6:45 pm
nocturna said:
Be advised! The guy who created the Jello Wala Mello theme sold his website to someone else and there is no more support for it! There is a support forum, but it is unmanaged and filled with spam! I didn’t find this out until I had already spent many hours customizing the theme. I love the theme but have some issues that I have no hope of getting resolved because the creator has left the planet.
on June 24, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Digitalmail said:
hi buddy , I was searching wordpress magazine themes for my collection and visited your page . you have a nice collection . I have also collected few of them , i hope you will like them too .Free wordpress magazine theme
on August 15, 2008 at 11:44 pm
alitoeliamb said:
i want to share my free wordpress theme here.
Preview:
http://www.elegantthemes.com/preview/eVid/
Download:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/6uv0n2
on November 17, 2008 at 11:17 pm
mediawiki extensions said:
thanks for the heads up on those two themes, I’ll make sure to review them and if I like them, I’ll add them up!
on December 18, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Greg Johnson said:
You’ll definitely want to check out the News CMS WordPress Theme from Bust A Theme.
on February 6, 2009 at 8:44 pm
karthik said:
hey dude this is awesome thanks alooootttt!!!!!!!!!!
sexy collection
keep going!
on July 5, 2010 at 5:02 pm