Below are some of the best Magazine Style WordPress Themes, and they are all free. You can use them to build news sites or update the ones you’ve already built. So here are free magazine wordpress theme designed to work for personal bloggers, online magazines, newspapers or community blogs, etc.

Hueman

A fully featured, responsive high resolution magazine & blog theme without compromise. Hueman presents what you love to write about in a visual & user-friendly way on all devices.

Oxygen

Oxygen is a minimalistic, mobile-optimized magazine theme with responsive layout. The main features include a featured content slider, custom front page template, 5 widget areas, and 3 menus. A professional magazine theme with responsive layout for enhanced mobile browsing experience. Oxygen is a parent theme – a great base for creating child themes, built on the industry-recognized Hybrid Core framework.

WallPress

WallPress is a Free Responsive WordPress Theme which lets your content shine. Be it an online portfolio, newspaper or magazine, all your important social content comes together at one place. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Flickr and Vimeo are ready to be plugged in with DW Social Feed.

GoPress Free WordPress Theme

GoPress is a super minimal and lightweight free WordPress Theme by WPExplorer that is perfect for any magazine, news or blogging website. The theme has been created with a focus around the basic post format to keep things super simple and make it easier for you to transition from another theme to this one or vise-versa.

Respo Theme

Respo is amazing WordPress theme with clean, sleek and customizable design. The theme is suitable for presonal blogs and/or online magazines. This is a responsive theme, able to adapt its layout to the screen size of your visitors. (try resizing the screen and see for yourself) The sliders for this theme is responsive too, which means it works super sleek on mobile device like ipad or iphone.

Sight

Sight free professional WordPress theme will enhance your website conversion via built-in features. It is perfect solution for blogs and online-magazines in consideration of customization and configuration options.

Reporter

Reporter is a news magazine wordpress theme. The homepage of this theme is crafted with different modules which enables it to function as an intuitive news magazine interface. For example there is an auto scrolling news ticker below the menu bar. This will display latest posts from a particular category you select. It holds a featured slider on the homepage. Another interesting feature is the two highlight news boxes on the homepage. These 2 sections pull posts from 2 different categories to display on the homepage. This is also configurable from the theme option page. The sidebar of the theme holds a section for featured video, tabbed content area, twitter updates, banner ads etc.

silverOrchid

The silverOrchid WordPress theme by gazpo.com is perfect for online magazines and news websites. The theme offers a wide range of customization possibilities with the theme options, and is extremely simple to get up and running.

MH Magazine

This is the free version of MH Magazine, a clean and modern magazine / blog WordPress theme for bloggers, online magazines, seo experts and other news or editorial related websites.

Surfarama

Surfarama is a bold and fun theme which uses the popular mason style layout on the home page and category pages to highlight imagery and make for a very visual presentation. It’s perfect for travel and magazine style blogs heavy on the imagery. The theme is highly customizable with the ability to upload your own logo, set the background color (or image), the primary theme color and even color code the categories without any coding required.