WordPress Magazine Theme - WP Magazine Theme 1.0

Wordpress Magazine Theme - WP Magazine Theme 1.0

Okay, so the name is not that original, but WP-Magazine Theme 1.0 is by far one of the the best Wordpress Themes I’ve ever created. WP-Magazine Theme is a fixed-width, professional WordPress theme with multiple layout options and multiple features.

Widget-Ready, User-Friendly, and Optimized for Wordpress Versions 2.2 and Above (including WP 2.6)
Five Different Home Page Layouts
Four Different Category/Archive Page Layouts
Home Page Featured Article Glider Box
Built-In Banner Ad Blocks
Built-In Site Guide in Right Sidebar
Customized Recent Comments in Sidebar With Gravatar Support
Author Bio Information and Gravatar Included on Single Post Pages
Alternating Color Comments With Gravatar Support
XHTML Valid

For a demonstration of the theme’s features visit the WP-Magazine Theme demo site.

Note: Use of this theme requires WordPress Sidebar Widgets. Sidebar Widgets are now built into WP versions 2.2 and above. If you are not using WP 2.2 or above, you will need to use the Sidebar Widgets plugin found here.

Purchase Options

All templates are distributed via download. You will receive download instructions when your payment clears PayPal.

WP-Magazine Theme Basic (Single Use License $79.00)
This option is for you if you want to use WP-Magazine Theme on your own WordPress site. Purchase of this option entitles you to use WP-Magazine Theme on NO MORE THAN 1 site. You MAY NOT resell, transfer or otherwise redistribute WP-Magazine Theme in any form, including derivative works. You MAY NOT modify or remove the credits in the site footer.

WP-Magazine Theme Premium (Multiple Use License $179.00)
This option is for you if you want to use WP-Magazine Theme on multiple WordPress sites owned by you. Purchase of this option entitles you to use WP-Magazine Theme on any number of sites that you own. You MAY NOT resell, transfer or otherwise redistribute WP-Magazine Theme in any form, including derivative works. You MAY modify or remove the credits in the site footer.

WP-Magazine Theme Developer ($279.00)
This option is for you if you want to use WP-Magazine Theme on your own sites, as well sites that you sell to the general public. Purchase of this option entitles you to use WP-Magazine Theme on any number of sites that you own. It also entitles you to resell sites built using WP-Magazine Theme as a starting template. You MAY NOT resell, transfer or otherwise redistribute WP-Magazine Theme in its original form. You MAY resell, transfer or otherwise redistribute derivative works based upon WP-Magazine Theme. You MAY modify or remove the credits in the site footer.

67 Comment(s)

On Nov 29, 2007, Nathan Rice said:

Home run, dude. There’s nothing else to say really.

Although, I’m kinda pissed … I had the rotating feature posts thing in the hopper for a future theme release myself! Obviously, I hadn’t gotten to it yet. Oh well, early bird gets the worm :-)

Excellent job!
On Nov 29, 2007, Steffan Antonas said:

Michael,

This is one of the most beautiful, well laid out blog themes I’ve ever seen. Hat tip to you. You can definitely look forward to thousands of downloads. It’s fantastic.

Steffan
On Nov 30, 2007, Greg Ipp said:

Great work as usual. This one looks to fit the bill for another new site I’m developing… expect a download here. :)
On Nov 30, 2007, Phil said:

Very Nice. I think it’s one of your better themes.

Too bad it’s not free.
On Dec 1, 2007, winter Charlton said:

Michael - Dude - i was gonna email you and tell you about some of the things i wanted to add to the WP-Glory Theme, and you were reading my mind! THIS IS AWESOME… im gonna have to get this theme for one of my other blogs. Thanks brother. They keep getting better and better. I loooooove the tabbed elements on the home page…allowing for more information to be displayed on one page without the user having to click and leave the page….thats the future… keep it up …
On Dec 2, 2007, Greg said:

Wow, great Theme. I wish I had the extra cash to buy it.

Keep up the great work.
On Dec 3, 2007, Blaine Moore said:

I like it.

I also notice that your licenses for this theme are a little different than for the others.
On Dec 5, 2007, Quest said:

Hey Michael,

Awesome work! I really like WP-Glory, but now I have I definitely have to purchase this theme for my site. Man, excellent, excellent job! Keep up the great work!
On Dec 6, 2007, Craig said:

Hello Michael,

This is one excellent looking theme. It really does have some nice features. Great work! I do have a few questions. Is there a new and dedicated text box or console for the Author Bio Info? Once signed up for a Gravatar account where and how is this configured in a Wordpress post?
On Dec 18, 2007, Mads said:

Yeah, I’d like to know how to access the Gravatar feature as well…
On Dec 27, 2007, RealEstateFacts said:

Great looking theme, easy to use with some nice features. Just purchased the theme and currently adding my content. Keep up the great work Michael.
On Dec 28, 2007, Daniel said:

Do you have do something special to add Categories? For some reason every time I try to add a new category Wordpress doesn’t do anything. Help please?
On Dec 31, 2007, Free WordPress Themes said:

Great theme! I’ll have to add it to our premium theme section on our site. Hopefully it’ll send you some referrals! Do you have a affiliate program setup? :-)
On Jan 12, 2008, winter Charlton said:

alright … i said i’d buy it and i did. Now i own two of your wordpress themes … wp-glory, and wp-magazine…. dude… keep coming out with these amazing themes …. i love the automatic rotating featured post script… when i saw that, i knew i had to get this…. thanks again…winter
On Jan 16, 2008, andreic said:

have purchased the theme couple of weeks ago but haven’t got time to play with it yet.
just for your info, im planning to set it up as a local newpaper; so i’ll let you know when is almost done.

thanks for this great theme yo
On Jan 19, 2008, Blog Karachi said:

The theme is awesome !
On Jan 21, 2008, Tahir Dinç said:

Very Nice. I think it’s one of your better themes
On Feb 6, 2008, Chris said:

Great Theme, I like it so much that it is the first theme I have ever bought!
Beats every free theme I have seen so far!
On Feb 7, 2008, Jason said:

I really like this theme. Quick question - I’m currently using the Zeke 1.0 theme on my blog, and I think the background and color scheme really fits my subject manner. Is it possible to alter this theme to use the colors and background of the Zeke theme?
On Feb 7, 2008, Shawn said:

Great theme! I look forward to seeing some more like this!
On Feb 28, 2008, buyers web make money online blog said:

well done…awesome theme…easy to look at colours and layout..
On Mar 10, 2008, credit cards UK said:

Excellent theme - I am certainly going to use this on one of my sites.
On Mar 17, 2008, Paul said:

Hi,
Great theme wp-magazine, downloaded it yesterday and had my site runnning mid afternoon. very easy to use and good tutorials on the site.

thanks
On Mar 18, 2008, NickD said:

Great work.
On Mar 23, 2008, Derek said:

Great theme. However with the impending Wordpress 2.5 launching out soon, will there be a new version for this? I wouldn’t mind paying a bit more for a newer version with my juicy extras.
On Mar 25, 2008, Michael Pollock said:

Derek:

I’ve tested the theme with WP 2.5 and it works fine.

Best - Michael Pollock
On Apr 4, 2008, Steve Nash said:

Michael,
your magazine theme is a fantastic design. Downloaded and installed all the main features using WP 2.5 no problems at all so far. Having great fun customising the rest.
Two questions:
1 - how do I split the large advertising banner into 4 squares and assign adverts to them
2 RSS feed - how do I set this up? All i get is a screen of code. I’ve set RSS up on other sites but not able to get this one going.
Anysuggestions?
Cheers
Steve
On Apr 16, 2008, Hybrid Car Guy said:

Michael,
Just wanted to thank you for answering all of my questions about this theme. You’ve made this an easy buying decision and I’ll let you know when it’s been applied to some of our hybrid vehicle websites.
On Apr 23, 2008, Karl said:

Is it 2.5 compatible?

Are the ‘Featured’ posts on the top of the theme based on category or something eles?
On May 5, 2008, Brooks Van Norman said:

How can I get my images to automatically show the same nice little border that shows on the post thumbnails and the feature photos?
On May 5, 2008, Michael Pollock said:

>>>>> How can I get my images to automatically show the same nice little border that shows on the post thumbnails and the feature photos?

Brooks … try adding this to the bottom of your Stylesheet:

.singlepost .entry img { border:1px solid #ddd !important; background:#fff !important; padding:1px !important; }
On May 6, 2008, Brooks Van Norman said:

Hi Michael: How can I get a photo in the glider for the “About” page (or any other Page that I choose to include in a ‘featured’ category?…I tried the “home_feature_photo” key and it didn’t work…

…thoughts?
On May 7, 2008, Nate said:

Got your template today — very cool. But, i’m trying to add some other plugins and they aren’t showing up. One in particular is Stephan Spencer’s SEO title tag plugin….
On May 9, 2008, radu said:

Hello… I have a problem with your theme. On my website I need to have post in multiple categories. The problem is that on the front page the post are shown in multiple copies. If the post is in 3 categories (or subcategories) it gets displayed 3 times, if its in 2 then it get displayed twice. Can you helo me with this?
On May 27, 2008, sylvan said:

definitely a great theme. I will be constructing a few blogs soon for my homebusinesses, I will definitely use this theme on at least one of them
On Jun 10, 2008, ege said:

great theme, thanks.
On Jun 13, 2008, jan [ipears] said:

Michael, I am using this theme with great pleasure and can assure that it works great, even with WordPress 2.6 bleeding.

One question though: How can I integrate the new WP built-in gravatar option with the theme’s gravatars? As I understand from the Wordpress Codex, it could be 1 line of code, yet I am anxious to change the theme’s code in that area.

Any pointers?
On Jun 18, 2008, ruud said:

great theme, i will use this one for my one of the news website.
On Jun 21, 2008, biyografi said:

Very Nice. I think it’s one of your better themes
On Jul 1, 2008, mjc said:

Neat theme. I think I’ll buy it for my Tech Blog when I get another job. :)
On Jul 2, 2008, thomas said:

just found your site and I wanted to say I really like your themes. Very professional. keep up the good work.
On Jul 6, 2008, Matt Strange said:

Great Theme, This is well worth more than the price, Brilliant!
On Jul 9, 2008, Vincent said:

incredible theme. u can slap this theme on and get running - or manipulate if you have intermediate/expert experience. pure clay, i love working with it/!
On Jul 28, 2008, Jamie Le Souef said:

Very nice theme. It seems to be the style at the moment. I’ve had a number of clients asking for ‘Magazine’ style themes.

Great work
On Aug 1, 2008, onefix said:

Hi Michael
I purchased your theme several months ago and upgraded to the premium theme - Very much worth every penny.

What I would like to know is do you have a solution (free or paid) to convert the 300×250 banner into x4 squares as mentioned by steve nash on the 4th April?

Many thanks Gavin
On Aug 1, 2008, Michael Pollock said:

>>> What I would like to know is do you have a solution (free or paid) to convert the 300×250 banner into x4 squares as mentioned by steve nash on the 4th April?

Hey Gavin: see here.
On Sep 9, 2008, Business Bob said:

The demo is even more impressive - love the use of tabs and feature articles. Clean and sharp but full of technology!
On Sep 16, 2008, article submission service said:

these are so handy themes
On Sep 22, 2008, Diego said:

Very nice!
I have a question: When you post and upload a photo, the thumbnail makes automatically or you have to maked manually? Thanks
On Sep 24, 2008, Claude said:

Dear all,

I can tell you I am very happy with this great template

You can find what we can do with this template on my blog HoteliTour
http://hotelitour.com/

Cheers

Claude
On Sep 24, 2008, Alistair Barnett said:

Hi Diego,

Thanks for the kudos.

Please see the below article, “How to Insert Post Thumbnails for Your Posts”, which pertains to your question:

http://www.wp-magazine.com/2007/12/how-to-insert-post-thumbnails-for-your-posts/
On Sep 27, 2008, Misafir said:

Very cool theme! thank you.
On Sep 28, 2008, Serge said:

Excellent work. A suitable and very convenient theme. Thanks.
On Sep 29, 2008, rajeev verma said:

Best theme i have ever seen. sad i can not have it.
On Oct 15, 2008, tsquez said:

There are a lot of magazine themes out there and I have to say this is probably one of the the top 3!!! Good job. keep up the nice work!
On Nov 26, 2008, Steven said:

I just started using wordpress at http://www.theincometeam.com/blog and will definitely take a closer look at these
On Dec 9, 2008, Fred said:

Cool
;)
On Dec 14, 2008, richard said:

Good design,I am considering to use it in my website.
On Dec 14, 2008, balivisual.net said:

So nice themes
On Dec 18, 2008, xaer8 said:

I’m looking forward to make better themes. Anyway, thanks for the inspiration and idea. You’re the master of magazine themes. You rocks!
On Jan 18, 2009, R. Venkata Subramani said:

Great theme. I am greatly impressed by this theme as it makes use of the real estate very intelligently.
On Jan 30, 2009, web design said:

Great Design, very impressive,
On Feb 19, 2009, jamy said:

Hi,
Jamy here.
I have considered buying this theme but I am not tech savey so I am not sure how difficult it is to install, maintain all the rest of the stuffs.
I write about coupons and how to save money through couponing, rebates and etc.
Seems like it is a good investment.
Jamy
On Feb 19, 2009, Mike Durkin said:

Jamy,

As far as WordPress themes go, WP-Magazine is relatively straight forward to use. However, it does require some skills to set up the initial site design that you may have in mind. On going maintenance and updates are very easy. If you have any concern about being able to set up a site, we encourage you to consider WP-Vybe because it has a point and click interface to manage many of the controls for the theme. Check out the video at this link to see what we mean - View the Theme Demo Video in a New Window
On Feb 27, 2009, Weber said:

I love this theme, i want use it for my blog. Thanks
On Mar 13, 2009, Bill said:

I stumbled across a web site that uses this WP template. However, I see this is version 1.0, created a year or two ago. WordPress is now up to WordPress 2.7.1. Is the Magazine WP Theme fully compatible with the latest version of WordPress? Also, will there be updates to the Magazine theme in the near future to help keep it up to speed with WordPress upgrades? I don’t want to buy and install a WP theme that’s out of date the second I install it.
On Mar 14, 2009, Mike Durkin said:

Bill,

WP-Magazine will work with 2.7.1. Please keep in mind that the real issue to be concerned with is no whether a theme will be out of date with WordPress releases. the issue is whether a theme uses or takes advantage of the new features in a WordPress update. As an example, a new feature with WordPress 2.7 was threaded comments. While most themes continued to work without a problem on WordPress 2.7 but the theme creators had to release an update so the theme could take advantage of the new feature.

I can confirm that WP-Magazine works with all the main features within the 2.7 release.