Magazine Style WordPress Themes are “In”
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Lately, there is a growing trend in the WordPress theme design community to produce high-end, premium, magazine (or webzine) style work. This was to happen sooner or later, it was only a matter of time before users discovered the full potential of WordPress to power sites outside of their blogs and when that happened, the quest for better themes followed. The obvious progression for designers was towards themes that looked and worked like anything but Kubrick, the result is this new trend. So in recognizing some of the fine work out there, I wish to list in chronological order a few of my personal favorite magazine styled WordPress themes. Note that I personally never got my hands into either creating or using any of these themes (at least as of now), I’ll let my friends at wpSnap dissect it for you in terms of usage and codes.
What is currently out there?
If my memory serves me right, Eston (Bond) of Hyalineskies was one of the earliest to venture into uncharted waters. His “Gridlock” theme did not receive as much attention from the rest of the design community, but users no doubt caught on to it and fondly continue using it to this day.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
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October 11th, 2007 at 9:12 am
Thank you for the JWM plug :). Although the color scheme was unintentional, it definitely helped to separate JWM from the rest of the magazine-styled themes.
October 11th, 2007 at 9:25 am
@ SP
Worked to your advantage! Do you have a demo for this theme, I would love to see it.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:46 am
No, I don’t. I have to update my demo install first. I’m lazy to update my demo to 2.3 right now because I have a lot of other stuff to do.
October 12th, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Hi, this is a great review of the magazine style themes, I’ll be linking to them on a different blog.
I have a workign version of Small Potato’s new theme, linked from my Name on this comment.
I love it and you are right, SP is painstakingly perfect in his coding. Thanks all!