Wordpress Jedi » Magazine Themes http://www.wpjedi.com Feed your WordPress Demons! Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:50:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Start a WordPress Magazine Portal with Hello Themehttp://www.wpjedi.com/start-a-wordpress-magazine-portal-with-hello-theme/ http://www.wpjedi.com/start-a-wordpress-magazine-portal-with-hello-theme/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:51:25 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=3057 WordPress is a great platform to start a blog with. But that’s not all you can do with it. There are plenty of online magazine portals that take advantage of this technology to manage their content and provide a dynamic experience to their visitors. Starting a magazine is much different than creating a blog with WordPress. Magazines often have lots of media files to deal with and need to be more dynamic than your everyday blog. You are going to ...]]> WordPress is a great platform to start a blog with. But that’s not all you can do with it. There are plenty of online magazine portals that take advantage of this technology to manage their content and provide a dynamic experience to their visitors. Starting a magazine is much different than creating a blog with WordPress. Magazines often have lots of media files to deal with and need to be more dynamic than your everyday blog. You are going to need a dynamic WordPress theme to start a magazine site that people want to use. That’s where Hello Theme comes into play. It’s a dynamic, professional-looking theme that lets WordPress users get their magazine sites up and running in a flash.

Hello Theme comes with 6 different color schemes. That means you can make minor changes to the look and feel of your website without having to write a single line of code. For major changes, you can always hire a developer (though that could be pricey). This theme is designed to handle images and videos well. It auto resizes your thumbnails and makes your life much easier. Adding videos to your website could not be any easier either.

The auto install feature that you get with this theme is helpful as well. It makes it easier to get a quick start with this theme. The theme is search engine optimized, so you’ll get the most traffic for your efforts. It also enables you to manage your ads easily.

Unlike other magazine themes for WordPress, you are not limited to the English language when starting your online magazine. You can translate your website easily by choosing the right option in the back-end. It also helps that the theme is social media friendly, so you can give your visitors to stay in touch with you and your content at all times.

Hello Theme for WordPress is not for everyone. If you are looking for a simple theme to start a blog with, you are better off with other solutions. But if you are hoping to start your online magazine with WordPress, Hello can save you time and money.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/start-a-wordpress-magazine-portal-with-hello-theme/feed/ 0 Start a Dynamic WordPress Portal with Iridiumhttp://www.wpjedi.com/start-a-dynamic-wordpress-portal-with-iridium/ http://www.wpjedi.com/start-a-dynamic-wordpress-portal-with-iridium/#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 15:09:13 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=3092 WordPress may be used by tons of bloggers around the globe, but it’s capable of handling much more than that. In fact, more businesses and online magazines are finally figure out how powerful WordPress is and are making the switch to this versatile platform. Thanks to theme such as Iridium, portal developers can have an easier time starting their portals and managing their content online. Iridium for WordPress is not your average theme. It’s very dynamic and flashy to address ...]]> WordPress may be used by tons of bloggers around the globe, but it’s capable of handling much more than that. In fact, more businesses and online magazines are finally figure out how powerful WordPress is and are making the switch to this versatile platform. Thanks to theme such as Iridium, portal developers can have an easier time starting their portals and managing their content online. Iridium for WordPress is not your average theme. It’s very dynamic and flashy to address the needs of an online magazine or any media heavy website. It’s designed to handle content. Lots of it.

Iridium comes with 6 attractive styles to give you some flexibility when starting your online magazine. All these styles are very dynamic. So whether you are looking for a lighter or darker style for your theme, Iridium has you covered. This theme also comes with 18 background combinations. It’s pretty flexible when it comes to widgets as well as you get 23 places to put your widgets in.

What I like about this theme is the fact that it makes it so easy to work with multimedia content. It’s very easy to customize and has a quite powerful back-end as well. The code is pretty clean as well. The Fusion menu, which is included with this theme, is quite attractive. Let’s not forget about the layout order. Unlike many other WordPress themes, Iridium loads your main column before your left or right sidebars. So crawlers will see your main content without you having to play with your code.

Iridium for WordPress is not for everyone. It’s designed for those of you who have a lot of content (in all types) to showcase on your website. If you are just looking to start a simple blog, you are better off with other themes. But if you are looking to start a dynamic portal, an online magazine, or something in between, Iridium for WordPress is worth a look.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/start-a-dynamic-wordpress-portal-with-iridium/feed/ 0 Build a Social WordPress Magazine with bSocialhttp://www.wpjedi.com/build-a-social-wordpress-magazie-with-bsocial/ http://www.wpjedi.com/build-a-social-wordpress-magazie-with-bsocial/#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:32:00 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=2692 More magazine websites are taking advantage of WordPress to provide more value to their readers and reduce their costs in the process. There are plenty of WordPress themes for magazines that you can pick up to start your own magazine online. It really depends on what you want to do on your website. bSocial is another one of those cool magazine themes that enables you to build a social magazine portal fast, using WordPress.

bSocial comes with a very professional look, ...]]> More magazine websites are taking advantage of WordPress to provide more value to their readers and reduce their costs in the process. There are plenty of WordPress themes for magazines that you can pick up to start your own magazine online. It really depends on what you want to do on your website. bSocial is another one of those cool magazine themes that enables you to build a social magazine portal fast, using WordPress.

bSocial comes with a very professional look, so you get to put your best foot forward with your magazine site. It’s also designed to handle images and videos easily. Best of all, it enables you to promote all your social media accounts from one place. The theme is optimized for search engines, so you get more traffic to your website without having to spend more money.

The theme also comes with everything you need to add your social media profiles to your website. You can also customize your video code, your navigation, and “about” section on your website fast. The theme also allows you to add Google Analytics code to your theme from the back-end.

All in all, if you are looking for an attractive, versatile magazine theme for WordPress to start your own e-magazine website, bSocial is a good option to consider. It’s social media and SEO friendly and looks good too.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/build-a-social-wordpress-magazie-with-bsocial/feed/ 0 Start a Travel Portal with Traveler Theme for WordPresshttp://www.wpjedi.com/start-a-travel-portal-with-traveler-theme-for-wordpress/ http://www.wpjedi.com/start-a-travel-portal-with-traveler-theme-for-wordpress/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:01:11 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=2058 One of the most popular topics to talk about these days is travel and its sub-topics. There are a lot of people who refer to travel sites to find out where to go for their next vacation and how to find the best vacation deals, so as long as you position your site the right way, there is no reason you can’t build a killer travel related website. Whether you want to be more active and travel around the world ...]]> One of the most popular topics to talk about these days is travel and its sub-topics. There are a lot of people who refer to travel sites to find out where to go for their next vacation and how to find the best vacation deals, so as long as you position your site the right way, there is no reason you can’t build a killer travel related website. Whether you want to be more active and travel around the world and blog about it or just talk about travel deals from the comfort of your home, a well planned travel site can help you make a living online.

Thanks to WordPress travel themes, you won’t have to do too much work to get your feet wet in this niche. Building a sophisticated travel site from scratch could cost you thousands of dollars, but if you have WordPress and a good travel theme at hand, you can go for.

Traveler is a well designed WordPress theme that lets you take your travel site online fast. The theme is very colorful and great at handling your images, which you will need to use to build up your travel portal. The theme comes with a cool image slider that you can use to display images of those tropical vacation spots on your portal.

Traveler comes with 5 color scheme that help you customize the look and feel of your website and build a website that better targets your audience:

  • Caribbean Blue
  • Tropical Storm
  • Purple Sky
  • Red Sunset
  • Forest Green

The theme is ad ready as well, so you can partner up with sites such as Experida and Travelocity to monetize your portal easily. It really comes down to the type of content you want to display on your portal.

All in all, if you are looking for a fast way to start your travel portal fast, Traveler is a colorful, dynamic travel theme to get started with. You can always customize it to your liking and add your content easily. It’s affordable and gets the job done.

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Building a magazine website has never been easier. StudioPress has put together a very easy to use theme in Magazine Theme that lets you start your own magazine portal fast. Magazine is a sleek theme that is designed to bring you the maximum flexibility. The theme is search engine friendly and video ready. So you can not only add your videos to the theme easily, you are going to get free traffic from Google and other search engines (as long ...]]> magazine

Building a magazine website has never been easier. StudioPress has put together a very easy to use theme in Magazine Theme that lets you start your own magazine portal fast. Magazine is a sleek theme that is designed to bring you the maximum flexibility. The theme is search engine friendly and video ready. So you can not only add your videos to the theme easily, you are going to get free traffic from Google and other search engines (as long as you use the right keywords).

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The developers of Magazine Theme has paid extra attention to web usability. There are plenty of ways for your visitors to navigate their way through your content and find what they are looking for. You get a dynamic drop down menu so you can fit as many pages and categories as you want. Your RSS feed section is also put in a prominent place so your users can sign up for it easily.

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The featured theme is very flexible. You can easily add your content, and your users can navigate to their favorite topic by choosing the right tab. And you got to love the Adsense placement as well. You also get an advertising spot in your sidebar as well, so you can easily put your sponsors on your sidebar too. You got to love all the page templates that come with this theme as well. Here is an example of how your site archive would look like if you decide to use Magazine Theme:

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Ultimately, Magazine Theme is very easy to customize and very user friendly as well. If you are looking to start your own magazine portal and are looking for a flexible and cheap theme, Magazine Theme by StudioPress is a good theme to try. You don’t have to be a technical genius to customize this theme and since it’s already sleek, you are going to save a lot of time in the process.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/run-a-magazine-portal-with-magazine-theme/feed/ 0 25 Best Magazine WordPress Themeshttp://www.wpjedi.com/30-best-magazine-wordpress-themes/ http://www.wpjedi.com/30-best-magazine-wordpress-themes/#comments Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:56:39 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=1712 In good old days, if you wanted to create a killer magazine portal, you were going to have to spend a decent amount of money to get the job done. And let’s not forget that managing content was much harder before WordPress became what it is today. Starting and expanding a magazine portal is not a easy job, and it could cost you a bit of money on itself. So if you want to get it done fast, your best ...]]> In good old days, if you wanted to create a killer magazine portal, you were going to have to spend a decent amount of money to get the job done. And let’s not forget that managing content was much harder before WordPress became what it is today. Starting and expanding a magazine portal is not a easy job, and it could cost you a bit of money on itself. So if you want to get it done fast, your best hope is by adopting WordPress and picking up a good magazine WordPress theme. Not all magazine themes are created equal. Some are better in handling images while others are more SEO friendly. Either way, you want to get the theme that comes with the right balance and lets you get your job done fast. Here are 25 cool WordPress themes for magazines that let you get the job done fast:

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Imperial: is a highly flexible theme that can be used for any type of website. Comes in 2 colors (dark, light) and is very easy to customize.

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Yamidoo: a very flexible and easy to use theme that lets you set up your news portal or magazine in just a few minutes. Easy to manage content using this theme.

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Massive News: Massive News is a cool portal theme that lets you add your content and start your own magazine website fast. It’s SEO friendly, and the back-end is designed to help you customize your theme without writing code.

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Live Wire: comes with multiple layout and overall very flexible. You can easily change the look and feel and add your content.

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One Theme: one of the most flexible and well-designed themes on the market. It’s among top themes in a lot of categories, and you can use it for your portal too.

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GrungeMag: a very attractive photo-heavy magazine theme for WordPress. It’s easy to customize, and you can get a lot done in the back-end (see demo). 118

Metro Theme: a light magazine WordPress theme designed for anyone looking for a search engine friendly magazine theme. It’s ad ready as well, and you can easily add your images too.

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VideoFlick: made originally for video bloggers, but you can easily use it to create your own magazine portal fast.

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Zenko: a great way to create an image-heavy magazine or portal. You can easily add your content to it and monetize it.

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B Social: great for creating those social magazine sites. Whether you are targeting a specific age group or just building a social community, this is a good theme to try.

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Forward Thinking: a very simple, but attractive theme for those image-heavy magazine websites. It’s easy to customize as well.

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Newspress: a very flexible theme designed for news portals. Add your image, videos, and ads, and you are set to go.

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Javazine: a dark theme for magazines. It’s ad ready as well, so you can start monetizing fast.

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Onyx Portal: designed specifically for sports magazines. Has a dark layout and lets you manage your content effectively. It’s ad ready as well.

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Mag Press: Mag Press is a WordPress.com looking theme designed for magazine portals. Very lightweight and SEO friendly too.

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Elegant: a truly elegant magazine theme for WordPress. It also comes with enough ad space to help take on multiple sponsors.

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Magazine News Theme: a very stylish magazine theme for WordPress that can be used by bloggers and portal builders.

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Vanity: Vanity for WordPress is an excellent choice if you are into starting your own celebrity-related magazine. Whether you want to start a gossip portal or a celebrity blog, this is a good choice.

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Our Magazine: an affordable, dark WordPress theme for magazine portals. You can easily customize it, add your logo, upload your ads, and put your content online.

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Anatomy: doesn’t come with too much eye-candy, but it is stylish and flexible enough to let you get started with your own magazine site fast.

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Eventina: a very attractive magazine theme for WordPress that comes with a clean CSS and HTML code. It’s easy to customize and flexible.

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Newsline: another flexible WordPress theme designed specifically for news magazines. You can easily change things around to make this theme fit your needs. 129

Vanilla Sky: perhaps the easiest theme to pick up and use for a magazine website. You can easily add your logo at the top, customize the content, and get going. It’s SEO friendly too.

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Fastblogger: easy to use, comes with a clean code, and very easy on the eye. What I like about this theme is the fact that it’s been specifically optimized for best search engine results (demo).

There you have it. 25 cool WordPress themes for magazines that save you time and money.

Your take: which is your favorite theme? Did I miss anything? Add your favorite magazine themes below?

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/30-best-magazine-wordpress-themes/feed/ 5 Build Your Magazine Website with Yamidoohttp://www.wpjedi.com/build-your-magazine-website-with-yamidoo/ http://www.wpjedi.com/build-your-magazine-website-with-yamidoo/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:36:56 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=1309

One of the things I love about WordPress is the fact that it has made creating complex portals and websites easier. Just a few years ago, you’d have to spend thousands of dollars to put up an attractive magazine website. But these days, you won’t have to spend more than a couple of hundred dollars to get the job done. Themes such as Yamidoo Magazine make it possible to set up a magazine site in a more affordable way, and ...]]> picture-1

One of the things I love about WordPress is the fact that it has made creating complex portals and websites easier. Just a few years ago, you’d have to spend thousands of dollars to put up an attractive magazine website. But these days, you won’t have to spend more than a couple of hundred dollars to get the job done. Themes such as Yamidoo Magazine make it possible to set up a magazine site in a more affordable way, and if you decide to customize your theme, it wouldn’t cost you as much as it would if you paid someone to come up with theme for you from scratch.

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Yamidoo is a highly flexible WordPress theme that makes putting up a magazine site like a piece of cake. Yamidoo is one of the most dynamic themes that I have ever seen in the magazine theme category. For starters, you get tabbed widgets that help you promote your content better. You can use these widgets to promote your most popular posts, most commented posts, and even your recent comments.

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The featured content section on your home page gives you another way to promote your top content on your magazine site. Adding images and customizing your featured section is easy and painless. Flickr is also integrated into this theme to help you display your Flickr photos on yuor site. Even better, Yamidoo is Google Analytics and Feedburner ready. So you don’t have to touch too much code to keep track of things on your site.

Yamidoo theme did remind of Thesis. It’s very clean and easily customizable. It’s not that expensive either. If you are looking for a dynamic magazine theme for your website, Yamidoo is worth a consideration.

Verdict: A-

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Massive News 2.0 is the most recent WordPress theme released by Press75 that is designed for those who are interested in running their news/magazine style WordPress website. Massive News 2.0 is designed for folks who are interested in starting a blog, media site, or even a news site. It is very flexible, so you can change things around as you wish. It comes with feature and popular content tabs to help you promote your best content easier.

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Massive News 2.0 is the most recent WordPress theme released by Press75 that is designed for those who are interested in running their news/magazine style WordPress website. Massive News 2.0 is designed for folks who are interested in starting a blog, media site, or even a news site. It is very flexible, so you can change things around as you wish. It comes with feature and popular content tabs to help you promote your best content easier.

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The theme supports thumbnails and makes it easy to build a news website from ground up. You get 3 columns to display your content and also display your sponsored ads on it. What I like about the featured section is that it’s not category based. You get to define where you want to link for and what image you want to show for it. That makes it easy to put your pages on your featured section as well.

Changing things around on Massive News is almost too easy. Once you install the theme, you are going to get a new tab on your admin screen that lets you change any aspect of your theme fast. You can change your logo fast. Changing your advertisement or disabling sections on this theme is easy as well. Finally, you can add your Google Analytics code right in the backend.

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Overall, Massive News 2.0 is a cool theme for those who want a flexible theme for a news, magazine, or regular blog site. It is compatible with top browsers and is very easy in the eye. It does help that it’s highly customizable. Another great blogging theme from Press75.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/massive-news-20-review/feed/ 0 Vanity Theme For WordPresshttp://www.wpjedi.com/vanity-theme-for-wordpress/ http://www.wpjedi.com/vanity-theme-for-wordpress/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:30:12 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=826

Magazine WordPress sites have been on the rise. There is no question that WordPress makes it easier for people to manage highly complex magazine-style sites, and thanks to the WordPress community there are lots of magazine themes available to the public. Vanity is another cool magazine WordPress theme that allows you to create your very own magazine-style website fast.

Vanity is not only very attractive, but it is also very flexible, which means you can make changes fast and create your ...]]> 118

Magazine WordPress sites have been on the rise. There is no question that WordPress makes it easier for people to manage highly complex magazine-style sites, and thanks to the WordPress community there are lots of magazine themes available to the public. Vanity is another cool magazine WordPress theme that allows you to create your very own magazine-style website fast.

Vanity is not only very attractive, but it is also very flexible, which means you can make changes fast and create your own unique version in no time. The theme comes in two colors (Pink & Aqua). What I like about this theme is the placement of the newsletter (RSS) box. As long as you can drive traffic to your website, you are going to get a lot of leads as it will be hard for folks to ignore your newsletter feature. Vanity comes ad ready. You can easily ad your Adsense or third-party ads to the top of your page and start making money from your website.

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The Carousel article slider is very useful too. You can load up your top stories there and let your users slide through them. The stories include a passage from your original articles plus the thumbnail version of your images.

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The meat of the theme brings you a lot of opportunities to provide value to your users. Not only you get to display your posts on the left side of the theme, you can integrate your videos and pictures on your sidebar. The middle-bar is designed to allow you to promote your sponsors and monetize your website.

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Vanity is a fully-fledged magazine theme, which means you get everything you need to create a sophisticated site fast. Here is a summary of features that you get with Vanity:

  • 2 Colors (Pink & Aqua)
  • Carousel Article Slider
  • Customize your logo fast
  • Gravatar Support
  • Middle Category Section
  • Widget Ready
  • Customized Archives and Search Pages
  • Stylesheet switcher
  • Feedburner Integration
  • IE6, IE7, Firefox and Safari compatible
  • Extensive help and tutorial included
  • Turn all-or-individual banners on/off
  • Image Auto Resizer
  • Random Video Rotator (copy/paste code)
  • Flickr Integration

If you are looking for a good looking theme to start your own magazine , you should strongly consider Vanity.

]]> http://www.wpjedi.com/vanity-theme-for-wordpress/feed/ 0 Mayones Theme by NattyWPhttp://www.wpjedi.com/mayones-theme-by-nattywp/ http://www.wpjedi.com/mayones-theme-by-nattywp/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:54:39 +0000 Wordpress Jedi http://www.wpjedi.com/?p=856 The good folks behind NattyWP have released another attractive magazine theme for the WordPress platform. Mayones is a good looking theme that is designed for folks who want to own their own magazine site. You also get 6 styles with this theme and can customize it easily.

You can buy a single license for $45 or the developer license for $150. You can also sign up for a membership to access all the themes by NattyWP. Watch this space for a ...]]> The good folks behind NattyWP have released another attractive magazine theme for the WordPress platform. Mayones is a good looking theme that is designed for folks who want to own their own magazine site. You also get 6 styles with this theme and can customize it easily.

Mayones WordPress Theme Review

You can buy a single license for $45 or the developer license for $150. You can also sign up for a membership to access all the themes by NattyWP. Watch this space for a more complete Mayones review.

Demo this theme here.

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