Magazine themes can be used for news websites, blogs, portals, review websites, and more. This flexibility is why they have become so popular with WordPress users.
Today I would like to share with you some of the best free magazine WordPress themes available online.
1. MH Magazine Lite
This is the free version of MH Magazine, a clean and modern magazine, news or blog WordPress theme for online magazines, news websites, blogs and other editorial related websites.
![MH Magazine lite Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mh-magazine-lite-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
2. x2
Create a professional WordPress, BuddyPress or WooCommerce site within minutes. Perfect for your next blog, shop, magazine, social network or portfolio site.
![x2 Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/x2-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
3. 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.
![Hueman Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hueman-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
4. Oxygen
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.
![Oxygen Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/oxygen-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
5. Food & Diet
Food&Diet is a simple, minimalist and responsive WordPress theme, with two columns in content, and three columns in footer. Suitable for a blog-based website, online magazine, or portfolio website.
![Food&Diet Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/food-diet-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
6. DualShock
DualShock is a 100% free, dual purpose blog and magazine UI theme. It features our best features including our options panel, custom widgets, translation-ready functionality and search engine optimization.
![DualShock Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dualshock-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
7. 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.
![Surfarama Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/surfarama-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
8. Groovy
Groovy is a beautiful, magazine style WordPress theme. Hand-crafted, hand-coded and lightning fast, Groovy is built for bloggers who want a clean, elegant magazine WordPress theme for their blog to maximize pageviews, ad revenues, and create the best user experience possible.
![Groovy Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/groovy-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
9. Semicolon
Semicolon is a simple and clean magazine theme for WordPress. It has a responsive layout, clean and easy to read typography, a unique grid layout with featured posts support, a few widget areas, a special menu for your social profiles and much more.
![Semicolon Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/semicolon-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
10. Preus
Preus Is a High Quality Magazine theme for your WordPress Blog. It comes with Parallax Header, Responsive Layout, Custom Widget, Theme Options, Full Width Pages, 2 Navigation Menus.
![Preus Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/preus-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
11. PlayBook
Playbook is a traditional WordPress theme with a dual column post layout, a fully responsive design, and is jampacked with all MyThemeShop’s best features.
![Playbook Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/playbook-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
12. Magazine Style
Magazine Style Theme is a great WordPress theme design for personal and business website.
![Magazine Style Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/magazine-style-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
13. Hiero
Hiero is an awesome magazine theme for your WordPress site with bold colors and a minimal design.
![Hiero Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hiero-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
14. Path
Path is designed for multiauthor blogs and magazine style websites. But who am I to tell you what to do with the theme.
![Path Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/path-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
15. Ribbon
Ribbon is a wide post display, traditional structure WordPress magazine theme. With a dual color scheme, plenty of whitespace to pad your content, and all the features you’d expect from MyThemeShop.
![Ribbon Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ribbon-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
16. Resolution
Resolution theme is designed for magazine, news with flexible layout. The theme is based on KOPATHEME layout manager technique that will let you flexibility choose layout options of every pages within your site. It is very helpful when you are experimenting with visual hierarchy.
![Resolution Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/resolution-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
17. Gadgetry
A Free WordPress theme with a clean and modern style, best suited for blogging or small magazine style websites.
![Gadgetry Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/gadgetry-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
18. Expound
An awesome magazine theme for your WordPress site. Responsive layout, post thumbnails support, featured posts, an easy-to-use social menu and much more.
![Expound Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/expound-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
19. Berlin
Berlin is a free WordPress theme that transforms your blog into a unique and minimal news magazine website.
![Berlin Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/berlin-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
20. Portal
Portal is a very simple, magazine plus blog style theme with light bright colors blending nicely.
![Portal Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/portal-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
21. Ridizain
Ridizain is a redesigned version of the default theme Twenty Fourteen – Create a responsive magazine website with a sleek, modern design – full width and fully centred.
![Ridizain Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ridizain-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
22. ComboMag
ComboMag is a magazine style free responsive WordPress Themes. This wptemplate had built-in color options for your website header, navigation, sidebar and footer.
![ComboMag Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/magpress-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
23. Fashionistas
Fashionistas is a bold and fun theme built on Bootstrap, suitable for magazine style blogs.
![Fashionistas Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/fashionista-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
24. Great
Great is a traditional, magazine-style WordPress theme. With a clean, minimalist design and all the usual MyThemeShop features, Great is optimized to help your blog stand out from the crowd and dominate the web.
![Great Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/great-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
25. Magazine Basic
Create a truly unique design with Magazine Basic, a lightweight and fully responsive HTML5 theme based on the Gridiculous boilerplate. Use the new Theme Options customizer to add your own background, page layout, site width and more.
![Magazine Basic Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/magazine-basic-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
26. Custom Community
Standout with a professional custom made WordPress theme designed by you. Responsive with just 1 click. Ready for your next blog, portfolio site, magazine, social network or shop. Use it out-of-the-box or customize it up to the smallest details.
![Custom Community Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/custom-community-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
27. GeneralPress
GeneralPress is a multipurpose WordPress magazine theme with classic colors so it can be used for any type of blog or website. It works great with general news websites & niche specific sites.
![GeneralPress Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/generalpress-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
28. Magazino
Magazino is a simple and flexible theme ideally suited to magazine style blogs. It is responsive to browser size so should look good on any screen.
![Magazino Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/magazino-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
29. Suburbia
Free WordPress magazine theme with flexible and modest layout. Suburbia enhancing your website presence and can lead to conversion rise.
![Suburbia Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/suburbia-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
30. iMag Mag
iMag Mag is a Premium WordPress News Magazine Theme for free.It is Fully Responsive WordPress Theme. It Includes much more options and highly customizable.
![iMag Mag Free Wordpress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/imagmag-free-wordpress-theme.jpg)
31. BresponZive
BresponZive is a Premium style WordPress theme that has a Magazine/blog style layout. It Includes many options, is highly customizable, and comes with a fully responsive layout and design.
![BresponZive Magazine WordPress Theme](https://www.kevinmuldoon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bresponzive-magazine-theme.jpg)
If you know of any other good free magazine WordPress themes, please share them in the comment area below :)
Kevin