The Block Magazine is a magazine-styled Wordpress theme created for news-type sites with a lot of content. The homepage displays the first two posts in the loop and then the next 5 posts in the sidebar. This theme uses two custom fields: Thumb and LargeThumb (the fields are case sensitive!). The values of Thumb and ThumbLarge needs to be the http location of the images attached to each post. Thumb is for the small image (64×64 pixels) and ThumbLarge is for the featured, larger image (440 pixels in width).

Features:

• Magazine-style homepage layout, with various sub-page layouts for the single post, archives and static pages
• Domtab integrated into the sidebar to display either Recent Articles, Popular Articles or Most Commented Articles
• Seperate RSS 2.0 feeds for All Articles, Featured Articles and Comments
• Easy-to-edit “About” section at the top of the sidebar (edit about.php)
• 300 x 250 Advertisement Spot below the sidebar (edit ad300×250.php)

Pricing: $79
Requirements: Most Commented Plugin, Popularity Contest Plugin
Source: http://www.adii.co.za/2007/10/08/the-block-magazine-is-here/

We have a great three column theme for you called Illacrimo. Created by Design Disease, and released on LifeSpy. It is the third free theme that Bloggy Network has released. Illacrimo has a strong color set, that should appeal to many, and works well with the plugins we have included in the download file, or without.

Supporting plugins like:

• Gravatar
• FlickrRSS
• Pagenavi

Make sure you put them in the right place and activate them if you want the full Illacrimo experience.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.lifespy.com/2007/illacrimo-theme-release/

Magazine- / News-style websites are so hot and popular right now and they’re popping up all over the web. The aim of this theme is to offer the mainstream public the opportunity to implement such a website at a very low cost.

WordPress is a very powerful platform and it is evolved as a total CMS solution. The Premium News Theme enables many of WordPress’ CMS abilities in an easy and efficient way. Not everyone can code a magazine- / news- style theme for WordPress, but this theme makes those types of sites accessible to more people at a very affordable price.

This theme is not for the average Joe blogger however - it is a high-end theme and CMS solution that has just been made affordable and accessible to everyone. This theme is perfectly suited for ambitious bloggers looking to earn an income from their blogs / websites.

Pricing: Single-use License ($99.95), Multiple License ($249.95)
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+
Source: http://www.premiumnewstheme.com

The Revolution News theme can literally save you thousands of dollars, and is a very inexpensive way to have your newspaper website look like a newspaper, and not a blog.

One of the most common requests Brian Gardner received while discussing custom WordPress themes with clients was the suggestion to design their site so that it looked like a newspaper, and didn’t look like a blog. More and more people are leaning towards WordPress for online newspapers and magazines, so he decided to develop a theme that would serve as that.

Pricing: Single-Use Package ($99.95), Multiple-Use Package - ($249.95)
Requirements: Wordpress 2.3+
Source: http://news.revolutiontheme.com/

Mimbo is a magazine-style Wordpress theme which makes extensive use of WP’s template tag system to create a non-traditional layout. It contains no images and only minimal CSS styling. Mainly it exists as a clean, grid-based starter layout for designers to install and style to their own liking.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.3+
Source: http://www.darrenhoyt.com/2007/08/05/wordpress-magazine-theme-released/

iTheme is a WordPress theme that is designed for the Mac lovers with a truly customizable sidebar. As an administrator, you can customize your sidebar’s contents without modifying the source code using WordPress widgets (no programming required). As an audience, you can rearrange the sidebar by drag & drop or you can collapse the box to hide it.

License

By downloading and using this theme, you agree to the following terms:

• You may NOT resell this theme
• A link back to N.Design Studio must be retained in the footer (either modified or unmodified)
• You may use this theme for personal or commercial projects
• You may modify, translate or distribute

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+, Javascript Enabled
Source: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/wp-themes/itheme/

Lemon Lime v1.0 for WordPress. The only thing the author ask is that the credit remain with the CSS files and a brief mention in the disclaimer box with a link back to farfromfearless. If you make modifications to the theme he would really love to see it, so he can learn a lot from those more experienced.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.farfromfearless.com/2007/01/25/fff…

BloggingPro Wordpress Theme is a three column theme which is WordPress 2.1 ready and should work just fine in WordPress 2.0.x. It has been tested on a variety of browsers. It comes in two versions, one with the big footer like Blogging Pro, that gives information on recent posts, recent comments and most commented stories, and one without the big footer, and thus no need for any plugins at all.

For the plugin required version, you can download the separated zip file that contains the three plugins needed. All three are from the talented Nick Momrik of MtDewVirus.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.0+
Source: http://www.bloggingpro.com/archives/2007/03/21/blogging-pros…

It’s called “Numberlay” and besides downloading the actual theme you can also download the source file. Some things you should know about this theme:

License

• You may not resell this theme
• A link back to stelianfirez.com must be kept in the footer
• You can use the theme in any kind of project, personal or commercial
• You can modify it as you like

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.2 Supported
Source: http://postedby.stelianfirez.com/2007/07/06/wordpress…

Gossip City is a theme for WordPress created by Design Disease. The theme was created based on what people would want to see from a gossip blog.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://wp-themes.designdisease.com/2007/10/11/celebrific-gossip-city…