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/