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[Updated: 19 June, 2013]

This is a collection of the best responsive magazine WordPress themes available. With the growing trend of viewing websites on mobile devices its important your website works properly and displays nicely for people viewing your site on iPhones, iPads, smart phones and all other types of mobile devices.

You could make your website mobile ready using a mobile plugin or even have a separate mobile theme, but the best solution is to use a theme with an adaptive / responsive design.

Responsive magazine themes are great because they give your website a professional design with a constant look and feel on all devices. It doesn’t matter if a user is viewing your website on a desktop, tablet, smart phone or any other mobile device. When using a responsive theme your website will automatically adjust to the screen size and resolution, delivering an optimized layout for that device with the same consistent core design.

Magazine style WordPress themes can make your WordPress blog stand out, but these premium responsive magazine WordPress theme will make your website look hot AND future proof your website with a mobile friendly design that is accessible to everyone viewing it on anything.

This is a collection of the best premium responsive magazine WordPress themes that I have found. I will be continually searching and updating this post with more high quality themes when I find them. So make sure to check back, share or bookmark this page.

For other responsive theme styles, such as business, portfolio, ecommerce, blog etc, check our complete list of responsive WordPress themes.

WP-Blossom WordPress Theme
WP-Blossom is a professional, multi-purpose premium WordPress theme packed with functionality for maximum flexibility. The premium theme from Solostream has a sleek, modern design and a responsive layout making it mobile ready and works perfectly on iPhones, iPads, and all other mobile devices. It has a default homepage layout is ideal for business websites and includes optional magazine styled homepage templates for online magazine and various blogs template for a traditional blog. It has a portfolio template, various layout options for individual posts and pages, shortcodes, theme options panel and many more options.

Price: $59
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WP Bold Theme
An elegant and modern, multipurpose WordPress theme from Solostream. The premium theme has multiple homepage layouts and featured content sliders so is versatile enough to be used for an online magazine or news site, business website, or a professional blog. It has a responsive design that adjusts to any browser size so your site will look great on mobile devices as well as laptops and desktops. Some of the other features include a video page template, multiple post and page layout options, multiple banner ad locations, portfolio and image gallery layouts, theme settings page for easy customisation and more.

Other Layout Options

Price: $59
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Lucid Magazine WordPress Theme
Lucid is a sleek, minimalist magazine WordPress theme from Elegant Themes. The modern premium theme has clean design elements and a strict grid structure which allows you to display lots of content, but still maintain hierarchy and readability while avoiding clutter. The magazine style theme also has a mobile responsive layout that will adapt for mobile phone and tablet users providing an optimized viewing experience. Other features include a large collection of shortcodes so you can create beautiful and complex layouts, custom page templates, 5 unique colour styles, and an extensive options panel that allows you to easily control your website without ever touching a line of code.

Price: ElegantThemes Membership: $39 (unlimited access to 75+ themes)
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Metro WordPress Theme
Metro is a modern magazine WordPress theme with a mobile optimised responsive layout from StudioPress. The premium theme is a very spacious 1152 pixels wide, and the “flat design” gives it a very modern look. The mobile responsive layout ensures your website will look great on large wide screen monitors right down to tablets and small mobile displays. Metro comes with 5 colour styles, 6 layout options, sleek social features, custom background, header and menu options, featured images, a landing page template and more. Metro is a child theme for the Genesis Framework so includes all the other features and benefits of that excellent theme framework.

Price: $79.95
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WP-Prosper 2.0
The WP Prosper premium theme has a clean and professional design which is suitable for use by a whole range of different website styles including business websites, blogs and online magazines. Some of the features include a mobile responsive layout, featured pages / photos / video slider, portfolio page templates, alternative business homepage layout, video page template, and multiple post and page layout options.

Price Theme Package: $59
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Magazine Explorer
Magazine Explorer, as the name suggests is a stylish magazine style WordPress theme from WPZOOM. The premium theme has a very clean, minimalist design with a mobile responsive layout that automatically adjusts for any screen size and resolution. Magazine Explorer has a widget based layout for greater flexibility and customisation possibilities. Other features include a featured slideshow on the homepage, carousel widget, advanced WPZOOM framework and options panel, several custom widgets, banner management options and more.

PriceStandard: $69, Developer: $149
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WP-Radiance WordPress Theme
WP-Radiance is an excellent responsive premium WordPress theme from Solostream. The flexible, multipurpose theme is packed with features and has a clean and professional design which can be used for any type of website including professional blogs, online magazines and business websites. It has a responsive layout which adjusts for any screen and device making it mobile ready and works perfectly on iPhones, iPads and all other mobile devices. WP-Radiance comes with multiple homepage layouts: a default blog / magazine structure as well as an optional business homepage template. It also has various layout options for posts and pages. For example you can 1, 2 or 3 columns, sidebar on the left or right, no sidebar etc. Briefly some of the other features include features posts and pages sliders, portfolio templates, lots of pages templates, in-built banner ad locations, theme settings page for easy customisation and more.

Price: $59
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WP-Davinci 2.0
WP-Davinci is a simple and elegant premium WordPress theme that is extremely flexible. The theme is loaded with features and options that help you build a personal blog, online magazine, business website or any other type of website quickly and easily. Some of the key features include: a mobile friendly responsive design, 5 built in styles, 2 sliders, multiple homepage layouts, multiple post / page layout options, portfolio template, and a theme settings page for easy customisation.

Alternative Homepage Layout

Price: $59
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Mocha 2.0
Mocha 2.0 is a premium WordPress child theme for the Genesis Theme Framework from StudioPress. Features include 5 colour styles, 2 layout options, custom menus, featured images, theme options and a mobile responsive design.

Price: $79.95
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Tech News
Tech News is a news / magazine WordPress theme from Templatic designed for pro bloggers looking to build a tech news site similar to TechCrunch, Mashable or CNET. The theme has a mobile responsive design meaning it will scale to fit on all browser widths / resolutions and on all mobile devices. Other features include a featured content slider and highlighted stories section, list or grid view layout options, custom widgets, custom control panel and more.

Price Standard: $65, Developer: $99
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Prologue WordPress Theme
A beautifully modern blog / magazine WordPress theme with a touch enabled responsive design. The premium theme from WPZOOM has a very clean, flat, minimalist design with a great use of white space and larger typography for a modern design ideal for 2013 and into the future.

Price: $69
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WP Critique WordPress Theme
WP-Critique is a product review WordPress theme from Solostream. The premium theme has a bold and stylish magazine design ideal for a professional product review website. It offers plenty of flexibility built in and is versatile enough to be also used for a personal website, online magazine or business blog. Features include built in product rating function, multiple homepage, post and page layout options, featured product and categories sliders, YouTube video page template, theme settings page for easy customisation and more. WP Critique also has a responsive design making it mobile ready.

Price: $59
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WP-Mysterious
WP-Mysterious is a dark coloured premium WordPress theme with a professional design from Solostream. The theme has a mobile ready responsive layout and is suitable for a variety of website types including a professional or personal blog, online magazine or a business website. WP Mysterious is packed with features including: 2 featured article sliders, multiple homepage layouts and multiple post / page layout options, portfolio and video templates, extensive settings page and more.

Alternative Homepage Layout

Price: $59
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Resizable
Resizable is a responsive magazine styled WordPress theme from Theme Junkie. The premium theme has a custom homepage layout with featured content sections, 4 colour schemes, advanced control panel, custom built in shortcodes, unlimited ad spaces and positions, and mobile responsive design meaning it works great on any resolution on desktop and mobile devices such as iPad, iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.

Responsive Design

Price: $29.95
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LitePress
LitePress is a premium responsive magazine WordPress theme from WPZOOM. The theme has a clean, minimalist design but is packed with features to quickly setup up a professional news or magazine website. Features include and advanced framework options panel to easily customise various elements, featured homepage slideshow, featured category sections, video custom posts types, a mobile responsive design and more.

Mobile Ready Responsive Design

Price Standard: $69, Developer: $149
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WP Clear Video
WP Clear Video is a responsive WordPress theme from Solostream ideal for a magazine website, video blogger or small business. The premium theme has a clean and professional design with a responsive layout meaning it responds and adapts delivering an optimized design on whatever device it’s being viewed on: desktops, tablets or smartphone etc. Featured include an alternative business homepage layout option, featured posts slider, YouTube videos page template, portfolio page template, multiple post and page layout options, theme setting panel and more.

Alternative Business Layout Option

Price: $59
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Femme
Femme is a responsive magazine AND ecommerce WordPress theme from cssigniter with a clean minimalist design. The theme has a multiuse, flexible structure and can be a magazine website, an ecommerce store or a combination of both. Ecommerce functionality (if required) is powered by the powerful WooCommerce ecommerce plugin. The theme has alternative layout options, mobile responsive design, shortcodes, theme options and more.

Ecommerce Option Frontpage

Price: $39
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Patterns WordPress Theme
The Patterns theme is a beautiful, modern looking and responsive WordPress theme perfect for newspaper and magazine style websites. Features include featured collage section, news ticker, 5 different category layout options, 4 post layout options, smart navigation menu, responsive design, numerous shortcodes, media module, automatic thumbnail images, advanced control panel and more more.

Price: $79
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MH Magazine WordPress Theme
MH Magazine is an attractive responsive magazine WordPress theme from new premium WordPress theme shop MH Themes. The theme is built with valid HTML5 and CSS3 and features include: 2 homepage template options, FlexSlider with touch swipe functionality, support for RTL languages, shortcodes, built in author box and related posts box, custom widgets, advanced unbranded theme options and colour pickers with unlimited colour options, a mobile responsive design and more.

Price: $39
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Balance
Balance is a responsive premium WordPress theme for the Genesis Theme Framework from StudioPress. The theme features a mobile responsive design meaning it will automatically adapt and look great on all devices and screen sizes. Other features include 5 colour schemes, 3 layout options, landing page template, portfolio page templates, custom background, featured images and more.

Price: $79.95
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Neu
Neu is a clean, minimalist magazine WordPress theme from ColorLabs. The premium theme has a responsive layout meaning the design with automatically adjust to look good any device on which it is being viewed be it a computer, tablet or smartphone. Other features include custom layout options for each post and page, a featured posts section with 2 style options, easy framework updater, automatic thumbnails, SEO management options and more.

PriceStandard: $49, Developer: $99
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Structure 3.0
Structure 3.0 is a responsive magazine style premium WordPress theme from Organic Themes. The theme has a modern, minimalist design intended to adapt to the style of the content added, making it versatile and ideal for a variety of website genres including art and design, music, magazine, personal blogs and more. Features include an options framework panel, custom menu, header and background options, custom portfolio and page templates, featured content slider on the homepage and more.

Price: $69
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WP Attract
WP Attract is a professional WordPress theme with a clean design and optional built-in video email capture form right on the home page to help you build your email database. The premium theme from Solostream is ideal for professional blogging and features a mobile ready responsive design, features sliders, portfolio template, multiple post / page layout options, alternative business homepage template, video page template, theme settings page for easy customisation and more.

Alternative Business Layout

Price: $59
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WP-Clear
WP-Clear is a clean, professional and versatile premium WordPress theme from Solostream. The minimalist, multi-purpose theme has several layout options allowing it to be used as a business blog, online magazine or business website. Other features include a mobile ready responsive design, multiple homepage post layouts, multiple page layouts and templates, 2 featured slider options, theme settings page and more.

Alternative Layout

Price: $59
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Responz
Responz is a highly flexible and customisable responsive WordPress theme from Themify designed for magazine, news and editorial websites. The premium theme has a minimal and elegant design with beautiful typography. It has many layout options, and you can choose from choose from 2 sidebars, 1 sidebar, left or right sidebars, or fullwidth along with various list view and grid view post layouts. Other features include customisable dual navigation menus, 8 colour scheme options, header and footer sliders, theme options panel and more.

Responsive Layout

Price Standard: $39, Developer: $59
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Modernizm
Modernizm is a modern premium WordPress theme from ColorLabs for online magazine, news portal or personal web sites. The theme has a responsive design meaning it automatically adjusts to suit the device or screen size on which it’s being viewed.

PriceStandard: $49, Developer: $99
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Arts and Culture
A really cool magazine WordPress theme from Gabfire. The premium theme is built for creative and image heavy websites and is ideal for art, music, fashion, technology, gear, niche news or any other type of online magazine website. It has a sleek, mobile responsive design and is packed with lots of useful features and options. Some of the features include a fully widgetized homepage, multiple header styles, 6 category template layouts, 4 post templates, category based ad module, media gallery templates, shortcodes and more.

Price: $59
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Magazine Theme 4.0
A sleek and modern premium WordPress theme from Organic Themes for online magazines and professional blogs. It has a clean, versatile design suitable for any type of website and will look great with large or small amounts of content. This new version has been completely rebuilt and features a fully responsive layout, WooCommerce ecommerce integration, AJAX post loading, flex featured content slider, colour change options, several widgetized sections, options framework and more.

Price: $69
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Connect WordPress and BuddyPress Theme
Connect is a combo WordPress and BuddyPress theme to build an online news or magazine website and a social network all on the one site. The premium theme from Gabfire Themes allows you to create a stylish and professional news or magazine website and have a built in social network that allows your members to socialize thanks to BuddyPress integration. It has a fully responsive design so will work on any screen size and device (table, mobile phone, etc). Other unique features include 5 category layout options, mega drop down menus with category specific advertisement option, 3 post templates, shortcodes, advanced control panel and more.

Price: $79
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OriginMag
A good looking minimal magazine WordPress theme with a responsive design from WPZOOM. The premium theme has a nicely structured design that places the focus on your content. The custom homepage has multiple layout options with either a wide full width or narrower slider. Posts can be displayed either in a grid layout or a traditional list view (see images below). Other features include a mobile responsive design, video widget, multiple layouts for posts, featured categories widget, advanced options panel and more.

Alternative Homepage Layout – with smaller slider and list posts layout

Responsive Design
The theme layout automatically adjusts for any screen size and resolution

Price Standard Package: $69, Developer Package: $149
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WP-Ellie 2.0
A stylish and professional responsive WordPress theme suitable for use by a whole range of different website styles including business websites, blogs and online magazines. Some of the other features include: a mobile friendly responsive design, theme options page, 2 featured article sliders, portfolio page templates, alternative business homepage layout, video page template, multiple post and page layout options and more.

Alternative Homepage Layout

Price: $59
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Nocturn
A premium magazine / news WordPress theme from ColorLabs. The theme is designed to have an easy to read structure that places primary focus on the content. Features include a sliding sticky posts section in the header, custom homepage layout with breaking news section and categories, integrated hello bar, video content slider, category icons, a like feature for post comments, options panel and more.

Price: from $30
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Papuros
Papuros is a magazine style WordPress child theme for the Backbone Framework from ColorLabs. The attractive premium theme has a custom homepage with two layout options: a blog style layout or category group layout, as well as a headline slider. Other features include custom video and gallery page templates, admin options panel, SEO options and a mobile responsive design.

Homepage Layout Options

Responsive Design

Price: $79
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Le Journal
Le Journal is a versatile premium WordPress theme from ColorLabs for magazines, newspapers, blogs or any other style of content publishing website. The theme has a sleek, modern, minimalist design with a responsive layout to automatically adjust for mobile and tablet devices. Other features include a sliding sticky posts section, top authors slider, custom posts archive template, theme control panel and more.

Price Standard: $79, Developer: $129
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FoodMagz
A food magazine WordPress theme from ColorLabs designed for food bloggers, food lovers, restaurant reviewers, and others wishing to build a magazine website about food. The premium theme includes a mega navigation menu which allows you to include images, descriptions etc, a featured slider for your recipes, custom search box, 5 single post layout options, featured video box, theme options panel with colour picker to create your own custom colour schemes and more.

Price from $30
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Channel 66
A unique and responsive magazine WordPress theme from Themes Kingdom. The premium theme has an image grid featured content section on the homepage, a fully responsive design, numerous shortcodes, custom page templates, a few different colour skins, theme options panel and more.

Price $29
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Invisi Responsive Magazine WordPress Theme
Invisi is a responsive magazine WordPress theme suitable for personal bloggers, newspapers, online magazines. The Invisi theme design was created with the goal to promote your content in an organized and visually enjoyable manner to leave a lasting impression upon your visitors. The premium theme is from Themes Kingdom and features a fully responsive design so it works on iPhones, iPads and all other mobile devices and screen sizes, a custom theme admin panel, a few different colour schemes, shortcodes, page template and more.

Price $29 (access to all ThemesKingdom themes)
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Fit & Healthy WordPress Theme
Fit & Healthy is a blog magazine WordPress theme for health, lifestyle, fitness or other magazine websites. This commercial theme from Magazine3 has a fully responsive layout so it works on all mobile and tablet devices. It has a custom thumbnail type so you can display thumbnails on the left, right, center, a video or the classic blog post format display on the homepage. Other features include a unique magazine style layout, a global colour picker for unlimited colour schemes, featured slider, inbuilt advertisement options, theme control panel and more.

Responsive Design

Price: from $49
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Innov8ive
A stylish magazine WordPress child theme that runs on the Genesis theme framework from StudioPress. The premium theme highlights your content and has a beautiful, clean and fresh design ideal for a food blog or food magazine website. It has a mobile responsive layout meaning it will automatically adapt its design to any screen size and device to look great on iPads, iPhones and all other mobiles devices. Innov8ive has 3 colour schemes, 6 post / page layout options, custom header, menus and background options, featured slider, theme options panel and more.

Price: $79.95
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Newswire 2.0 WordPress Theme
A responsive news / magazine WordPress theme from Theme Junkie. Features include 3 colour scheme options, various shortcodes, social share buttons and related posts on single posts, custom page templates, ad management, theme options panel and more.

Price: $49
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Options WordPress Theme
Options is a clean magazine WordPress theme with integrated BuddyPress functionality so you can build a social community around your magazine. The premium theme from Gabfire has a fully responsive design so will work on any screen size and device (table, mobile phone, etc). Other unique features include 6 category layout options (blog, magazine, grid, 2,3, or 4 columns), multiple post layouts, mega drop down menus with category specific advertisement option, shortcodes, advanced control panel, BuddyPress compatibility for a social community section and more.

Price: $79
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Horizon Magazine WordPress Theme
Horizon is a modern magazine WordPress theme with a responsive design from WPZOOM. The premium theme has a bold, clean design ideal for car, sports, technology, and video game websites, or really any other type of website. It has 8 built in colour schemes to choose from, a custom homepage design with featured posts slider, built-in social sharing buttons, as well as detailed author profiles. It has 3 custom layout options or posts and pages. The theme is built on the WPZOOM Framework with and extensive options panel that lets you easily setup and customise your theme to your needs. The responsive design means its mobile ready and will automatically adapt to fit on any screen resolution on desktop and mobile devices.

Price: $69
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NewsSetter Magazine WordPress Theme
NewsSetter is a slick and modern magazine WordPress theme perfect for technology or gadget review websites. The premium theme from Theme Fuse could of course be used for any type of website wanting a modern and eye catching design. The theme has a couple of different header styles, 4 colour variations, the ability to set any shade you’d like for the texts and titles, from a easy-to-use colour picker. It has special review page templates with all the features your need to present your product reviews. There are also other custom page templates and lots of shortcodes to style and present information in a beautiful way. The theme also sports a mobile responsive design so will it doesn’t matter if your visitors are viewing on a desktop, tablet or smartphone they will get an optimized experience.

Price: $59
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Celebrity Gossip WordPress Theme
Celebrity Gossip is a WordPress theme from Magazine3 designed for gossip blogs, entertainment websites, fashion or celebrity news sites. The theme has a professional, modern design with great typography that will allow you to compete with the big boys and keep your readers coming back. It has a blog magazine style layout with featured content on the homepage and custom posts thumbnails that can be aligned left, right, centre or classic blog style. Other features include built in advertisement options, trending news section, theme control panel, shortcodes, floating social share box, custom page templates and more. Celebrity Gossip has a fully responsive design so will work on all screen sizes and devices from desktops, tablets to mobiles.

Price: from $49
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Dolce WordPress Theme
Dolce is a simple but stylish responsive blog / magazine WordPress theme from cssigniter. The premium has a minimal but sophisticated design ideal for any type of blog or magazine website. It has 6 homepage layout options from a traditional blog layout to various magazine style designs with slider and featured articles sections. Dolce has Post Formats so you can select between normal articles, galleries and videos for your posts. Other features include numerous custom widgets, shortcodes, settings options panel and of course the responsive design so it will look perfect on tablets, mobile phones and all other devices.

Price: $39
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Reportage
Reportage is a clean and professional looking news or magazine style WordPress theme from ColorLabs. The theme has a grid based layout with custom typography and a mobile responsive design. Other features include a sticky posts headline section in the header, carousel sliders for featured news, photos and videos, custom page templates and layouts, theme admin options panel and more.

Responsive Design

PriceStandard: $49, Developer: $99
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Momentum WordPress Theme
Momentum is a responsive WordPress theme with a clean and modern design for news and magazine websites. The premium theme from WPZOOM has a dynamic homepage builder that lets you build your own custom homepage layout with custom widgets. The homepage also has sections for featured posts to highlight your top / new content in an intuitive way. It has 3 built in styles: the default layout (shown below) and two other minimalist newspaper layouts. Some of the other features include 3 custom layouts for posts and pages, built in social sharing and related posts, SEO options, and support for custom banners, menus and backgrounds. The theme has a responsive design that means it will automatically adapt to look great on iPhones and all other mobile devices. Momentum will make a great starter theme for any magazine or news website.

Price: $69
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The Chronicle WordPress Theme
The Chronicle is a responsive magazine WordPress theme from WPZOOM. The premium theme has a clean and simple design with great readability so you content really is the focus. It also has a responsive layout making it mobile ready and accessible on any device from desktops to mobile phones. The theme has a modern blog / magazine styled homepage layout which is uncluttered and easy to read. Other features include: the advanced ZOOM framework and options panel, custom shortcodes, styled sticky posts, custom background, menu and logo options, a selction of custom template layouts for posts and pages, and more.

Price: $69
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WP-Brilliance WordPress Theme
WP-Brilliance is a multi-purpose, mobile ready WordPress theme with a clean and professional, yet minimalist design. The premium theme from Solostream is loaded with great features and extremely versatile with numerous layout options for use as a business website, online magazine or professional blog. It has multiple homepage layout options including a widgetized business homepage template, a magazine style homepage layout, as well as more traditional blog style layouts. It has multiple post / page layout options, 2 featured post slider options (wide and narrow), authors page template, easy logo integration, shortcodes for columns, buttons and other design elements, multiple built-in banner ad locations, video support and page template, comprehensive theme settings page and more.

Price: $59
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