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Magazine Style Wordpress Themes Are Here!

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

Magazine Style Wordpress Themes Are Here!

Magazine-style Wordpress themes have been all the rage lately. What is a magazine-style Wordpress theme? Well, unlike a traditional 2 or 3 column Wordpress theme, a magazine style theme attempts to resemble more of a web-based magazine, instead of a traditional blog layout. Superbloggers such as ProBlogger and Emoms have embraced the magazine style layout for the home pages of their blogs.

Magazine Style Themes From a Wordpress Rockstar

Unique Blog Designs has been fortunate to be working with one very talented Wordpress designer, Adriaan Pienaar of Adii.co.za. Adii is a self-proclaimed “Wordpress rockstar” and it is clear why – his Wordpress designs are some of the best on the Net! Adii has been working with us @ UBD to develop nearly all of our Exclusive Themes.

What are Exclusive Themes?

Well, unlike free themes, which are often used by hundreds, if not thousands of bloggers, Exclusive Themes are only distributed to a handful of people. When it comes to branding, an Exclusive Theme is the next best alternative to a completely unique design.

As I mentioned earlier, Adii has been working on some gorgeous magazine-style Wordpress themes lately, including two new themes, Block Magazine and Your Revolution, both of which you can see below:

 

Easily Customize Your Exclusive Theme

One particular reason why Exclusive Themes have become increasingly popular is that they serve as a great starting point for bloggers who want to customize their blog on a budget. All of the Exclusive Themes currently being sold at UBD are easily configurable. For more information about these themes, check out Adii’s blog’s or visit the Unique Blog Designs Exclusive Theme Gallery.

For those of you who don’t know Adii, you should definitely check out his blog or subscribe to his feed. Over the past few months, Adii has become one of my better friends and I am sure that you will see more great designs from him in the future!

Discussion: 56 Comments

56 Responses to “Magazine Style Wordpress Themes Are Here!”

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  1. Thomas Sinfield

    - 10th Oct, 07 09:10pm

    Wow some great designs! I think styles like this are the future of blogging.

  2. Steve Welton

    - 10th Oct, 07 09:10pm

    Very well put together themes. Expecting some great things from your team!
    You can bet when I’m suggesting a blog to my clients that I’m knocking down your door. I know when I move mine to something new it will be hooked up with some Uniqueness.

  3. Michael Kwan

    - 10th Oct, 07 10:10pm

    For anyone looking for a impartial review of Adii’s blog (and his Wordpress themes), I’ve included the link to my review above. Or you can click here.

  4. Vern at AimforAwesome

    - 10th Oct, 07 10:10pm

    Just when I was liking my current WP theme! I must admit that the new mag styles are gui and tangy. I like them a lot, but will be a while before I change themes. Too much worrying about aethetics and then not enough time to write the content. Content is the cream… Vern

  5. Steven Finch

    - 11th Oct, 07 01:10am

    I really like these themes, very unique. I think you have to start an affiliate program for unique blog designs asap.

  6. Rob Schultz

    - 11th Oct, 07 05:10am

    Very very nice…+1 to my delicious. I can think of several sites that I have that could benefit from the look and feel of these sites. Great work.

  7. Bubs

    - 11th Oct, 07 05:10am

    there are better and better themes out everyday, good stuff

  8. Deron Sizemore

    - 11th Oct, 07 05:10am

    Very nice Nate! I noticed them the other day when visiting UBD.

  9. Wendy Piersall

    - 11th Oct, 07 06:10am

    Thanks for the mention Nate – I agree that those themes are beoooutiful! They are also a steal – I paid more than $500 for my current home page, and technically it wasn’t even custom.

  10. John Lampard

    - 11th Oct, 07 07:10am

    Nice work – it’s good see some variation on the traditional two and three column layouts… if I say so myself ;)

  11. ScottUA

    - 11th Oct, 07 09:10am

    These are a hell of a lot more interesting then the themes that had only a few years ago. It’s amazing what they’re creating for the Word Press platform!

  12. Free Premium WP Themes

    - 11th Oct, 07 10:10am

    Nice themes, but I think they are a little bit too expensive. On most website that are selling paid themes they are around $50.

  13. Adnan

    - 11th Oct, 07 10:10am

    Looking good Nate and I’m loving those low prices. Great job and Adii is an awesome designer. Hope your Unique Custom Design packages are selling well too!

  14. Anthony

    - 11th Oct, 07 01:10pm

    Wow, these are sexy designs, I’m excited to see what you are going to whip up for CarZi.com ;)

  15. RyanE

    - 11th Oct, 07 01:10pm

    I found a fantastic magazine style theme for Wordpress that really takes it to another level with custom imaging and things like that. It is called mimbo and can be found on Darren Hoyt’s blog. There is also a great accompanying article that really hacks deep into Wordpress’ core. I am using it on my upcoming music blog.

  16. Neil Duckett

    - 11th Oct, 07 10:10pm

    Some nice looking themes there Nate.

  17. David Wilkinson

    - 12th Oct, 07 12:10am

    Damn… Adii’s got it going there! ;)

  18. Neil Duckett

    - 13th Oct, 07 07:10am

    Agreed … it`s evolving at an exciting pace too.

  19. Mika

    - 13th Oct, 07 07:10am

    I needn’t magazine template for now, but I thank you for site you gave. Bookmarked it. ;)

  20. Collin

    - 13th Oct, 07 10:10am

    Getting the right theme is not an easy choice. I have noticed that as time goes on my needs for what my theme can do vary. It gets frustrating!

  21. Bill Snow

    - 14th Oct, 07 04:10am

    The demo of Revolution seems to be down – I am getting a WordPress error.

  22. Israel

    - 14th Oct, 07 10:10am

    agreed. especially with all the new blogs that have multiple bloggers on one site.

  23. Urbanist

    - 14th Oct, 07 01:10pm

    I had problems with loading too … but I do think that alternative and more magazine-style themes are definitely too few and far between. I also suspect they may be a more common choice in the future.

  24. ses5909

    - 16th Oct, 07 03:10am

    Very nice designs. I’ve been buying unique themes to offer to my membership at TBE for free and one of the most recent ones is a magazine style layout. Your themes are definitely ones I am keeping my eyes on.

  25. Origami Frog

    - 16th Oct, 07 03:10pm

    Lookin good, nice job Adii!

  26. Origami Frog

    - 16th Oct, 07 03:10pm

    An affiliate program would be a wise move ;)

  27. Discount Web Design

    - 17th Oct, 07 02:10am

    This is good to have a unique blog. But uniqueness have a price.

  28. alemon

    - 19th Oct, 07 11:10am

    I think it’s pretty good ad for designer company. Just make blog design for top bloggers for free.

  29. Megan

    - 24th Oct, 07 01:10am

    There are some really great themes in here. Reading this came at the right time as I have been doing some mentoring on blogs and presence. This is a great place to refer people

    http://www.PassportMentors.com

  30. Mike C

    - 25th Oct, 07 04:10pm

    Very cool blog design templates. How many orders do you receive a day with your blog design business?

  31. Collin

    - 31st Oct, 07 03:10pm

    i liked templates. very nice

  32. Natasha

    - 10th Nov, 07 05:11pm

    for sure, it also makes your blog look a lot more professional.. whihc is what a lot of blog lack these days

  33. Vik Dulat

    - 30th Nov, 07 01:11pm

    Loving the designs. Keep up the great work once again.

  34. Tips For Bloggers

    - 27th Dec, 07 10:12pm

    Really great magazine wordpress themes. No doubt, the magazine style is the future of blog themes.

    I’m also running a giveaway of magazine wordpress themes from Brian Gardner (Revolution) and R.Bhavesh (WP Remix). You can check out this post for more information.

    http://bloggingmix.com/2007/12/25/win-your-blog-a-new-wordpress-theme/

  35. tarawat

    - 3rd Feb, 08 08:02pm

    Wow! great designs!

  36. PHP

    - 17th Feb, 08 08:02pm

    I am been using these designs since 5 years ago. But maybe that is because I know PHP and HTML and CSS. Good to see people are finally catching up.

  37. Chris

    - 22nd Feb, 08 05:02pm

    Nate,

    This is really good news. I like these magazine style themes because they immediately help brand a site and make it look more legitimate and less like a blog–not that blogs aren’t legit. I like your blog–it’s helpful, entertaining and well-written. I plan to come back here often.

  38. Prosperity Writer

    - 30th Mar, 08 06:03pm

    i like magazine style themes better. they maximize the spaces in your blogs, that means more places to ads.

  39. How to make money online

    - 3rd Apr, 08 01:04am

    Those’re some very nice themes. :]

  40. TS

    - 11th Apr, 08 01:04pm

    Hello, I started to collect some magazine style themes

    http://www.wpmagthemes.com/

  41. Fay Webber

    - 15th Apr, 08 08:04am

    nice templates….! nice work..

  42. KG Lew

    - 20th Apr, 08 09:04pm

    These wordpress themes lookin good good. Thank you for sharing these. I think that a lot of blogs would be more successful if they had beautiful professional designs like these :)

  43. Make Money Online

    - 23rd Apr, 08 07:04am

    I agree magazine style templates for blogging look great and are the future of blogging templates, but they are hard to implement for the average blogger. It would be nice to have a video showing the exact implementation and set-up of these new magazine style themes. I also agree with you about Adii, his site is one of the best around for information about Word Press themes and how to set-up your Word Press blog.

  44. Stefanie

    - 2nd May, 08 09:05pm

    Wow. Very good job

  45. Maggie Chicoine

    - 23rd Jun, 08 11:06am

    Thanks for the chic info…I’m updating and this is very useful!

  46. Fernando Souza

    - 29th Jul, 08 10:07am

    Great Theme! going to try on my blog!

    Thanks

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  48. Dr. House

    - 8th Sep, 08 02:09pm

    Really cool themes. Thanks for this list.

  49. William

    - 29th Apr, 09 11:04am

    thanks for sharing…great stuff

  50. William

    - 29th Apr, 09 11:04am

    thanks mate

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