While free WordPress themes are a dime-a-dozen, finding high quality themes that aren’t a standard blog layout can be tough.

One of my recent projects required me to find a magazine-style theme, which I found surprisingly difficult. Most themes were either low-quality, outdated, or not free. Hence I decided to create a post listing some of the better themes I found. These themes are characterized by homepages that utilize post images and present content in a way that shows more than just the most recent post at the top of the page, such as carousels or category displays.

Visoko
Uses a carousel to present featured articles. Featured Image ready.

GazpoMag
Great magazine-style theme with a custom rotator, homepage category displays, and post image support.

Pure Magazine
A highly flexible theme with options to display a news feed, carousel, featured posts, and/or widgets on the homepage.

Snips
Supports a featured content carousel and post thumbnails.

DotNews
Has a featured content carousel and supports post thumbnails.

IsoTherm

Elegant News
Homepage carousel. Feature Image ready.

Which are your favorite magazine/news style wordpress themes?