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Wordpress News Themes

31 eXcellent WordPress News Themes

Open Source January 10, 2009 by Sravan Kumar Kandagatla

WordPress is a great tool for creative writers and an amazing blogging platform for people who want to publish their own thoughts, happenings, news, gossips, videos, etc. online. Being an Open Source tool, WordPress has got many plugins, themes to improve the blogging or CMS platform to use it for multiple purposes like for eCommerce, Blogging, Directory, News, Videos, etc.

Wordpress News Themes
WordPress News Themes

Here I have collected some cool, amazing, and professional-looking WordPress News Themes by which a blogging platform can be converted into complete news and magazine portal. In this list you can find some top sites super clone themes, randomly arranged.

On this page

  • 1. WordPress Newspaper Theme
  • 2. Live Wire
  • 3. The Gazette Edition
  • 4. WPSN – An ESPN Clone
  • 5. The New Yorker – The New York Times Clone
  • 6. Onyx Portal
  • 7. Playmaker
  • 8. Sport Choice
  • 9. Skyye News Theme
  • 10. News
  • 11. News CMS WordPress Theme
  • 12. News Plus
  • 13. Proximity
  • 14. Magazine News
  • 15. who’swho
  • 16. Gabfire NewPro
  • 17. Gotham News
  • 18. Fresh News
  • 19. TimeCafe News
  • 20. Flash News
  • 21. News Print
  • 22. Visionary
  • 23. Jello Wala Mello
  • 24. iNews
  • 25. NewsPress
  • 26. The Original Premium News
  • 27. Influx
  • 28. Old News
  • 29. InterPhase
  • 30. WP Remix
  • 31. OneNews

1. WordPress Newspaper Theme

1 WordPress Newspaper Theme
WordPress Newspaper is the latest premium theme of Gabfire Themes that is aimed to showcase your content in a unique package and take your website to next level. The theme is ad and search engine optimized and has a unique NewsPaper layout that comes with the following features.

2. Live Wire

2 Live Wire
Live Wire is a magazine-type WordPress theme that is packaged with an impressive variety of designs and color options that should make it appealing to just about any type of web publisher. Its theme option’s panel entitles even the most novice of users to customize itâ’s flexible layout.

3. The Gazette Edition

3 The Gazette Edition
Gazette Edition is arguably our most sophisticated-looking theme to date, whilst the trendy featured scroller makes it very unique. The clean, white layout with professionally designed content areas are perfect for users that’d like to run a community newspaper website or a product showcase.

4. WPSN – An ESPN Clone

4 WPSN An ESPN Clone
Start your own sports news publishing portal just like the professionals with this awesome ESPN clone for WordPress.

5. The New Yorker – The New York Times Clone

5 The New Yorker
An incredible theme that allows you to start your own broadsheet online newspaper with this awesome The New York Times clone for WordPress.

6. Onyx Portal

6 Onyx Portal
This theme enables you to start your own WordPress-powered news publishing portal that is optimized for generating online revenue.

7. Playmaker

7 Playmaker
Start your own sports news & media publishing portal using the awesome power of WordPress and the “Playmaker” theme.

8. Sport Choice

8 Sport Choice
News publishing is a big industry and you can start your own news portal using a standard WordPress installation and this stunning theme.

9. Skyye News Theme

9 Skyye News Theme
Skyye News Theme is a free WordPress theme designed for News or Magazine sites. It’s advanced template system gives you the ability to configure almost everything from the dashboard options menu. Nearly every aspect of the theme is dynamic, from the homepage, single posts, pages, archives, etc.

10. News

10 News
News is a new kind of WordPress theme for magazines!. Get WordPress, one of the best open-source CMSes out there if you haven’t already,
buy News and start your site about tech, cooking, or sports right away!

11. News CMS WordPress Theme

11 News CMS WordPress Themes
News CMS is – as the name implies – a news-slash-article-slash-cms WordPress Theme. The goal here was to provide a customizable theme that could be turned into any given news site with as little as a graphical facelift.

The emphasis with News CMS is on customization rather than aesthetics. It’s one of the very first themes I did with the intent of release (about a year ago), but it still holds up so I figured I’d take some time and package it up like a Thanksgiving freebie.

12. News Plus

12 News Plus
News Plus is a premium theme for WordPress 2. x. One of the most complete, and compatible themes available, News Plus sets a new standard for premium WordPress themes. Google Adsense, Widget, and plugin ready, this theme is beautiful straight out of the box. Custom category, search, and author pages, really help give this theme its complete and finished feel.

13. Proximity

13 Proximity
Proximity was developed primarily for ease of use, and I don’t use that phrase lightly. Just take a look at our instructional videos before you purchase. If you don’t agree that Proximity News is the easiest theme to install and set up, feel free to keep shopping around. But we’re pretty confident that you’ll agree, and be publishing content in no time!

14. Magazine News

14 Magazine News
Magazine-News is a news / magazine-styled WordPress theme created for sites with a lot of content, and looking to maximize their Google Adsense revenue. It is a three-column, WordPress 2. x, widget ready, Adsense ready theme that is sure to give your blog that unique look that will garner some extra attention.

15. who’swho

15 who'swho
This theme is great for those looking to transform their blog into a dynamic news portal. My goal here was to create a great basis for organizing information while still maintaining a stylish and elegant design.

16. Gabfire NewPro

16 Gabfire NewPro
Gabfire NewPro is a multipurpose newspaper/magazine style WordPress theme, suited for anyone running news and/or magazine-style website. The NewsPro theme has four column homepage layout with featured article positions, compatible with the latest version of WordPress, drop-down navigation menus, ajax tabs, built-in Flickr support, and an automatic image resizer feature.

17. Gotham News

17 Gotham News
Gotham News is a clean and elegant news theme with a focus on creating a blank canvas with a strong structure to display your own personalized news and broadcast it to the world. What more do you need from a news/magazine theme?

18. Fresh News

18 Fresh News
Fresh News is our most balanced theme to date and the ability to use a standard blogging layout has made it our most popular theme to date. It is ideal for everyday bloggers that would like to upgrade from a free WP theme and finally add some income potential to their blogs.

19. TimeCafe News

19 TimeCafe News
TimeCafe News is a magazine-style WordPress theme with a clean design made for those who are using a large number of pages. The theme is available in 3 different colors all included in the theme package for multiple usages on different pages for you or for your clients.

20. Flash News

20 Flash News
Flash News is a firm favorite amongst our users and it is easy to see why… Using a beautiful, clean rounded corner layout this theme incorporates all the best blogging features. And its unique color scheme picker allows you to mix & match the colors until you are perfectly happy!

21. News Print

21 News Print
The News Print theme has had major incarnations before. This maintains the same kind of layout, except adds functionality for a fifth column. Instead of having just one main sidebar as before, this theme has a wider sidebar that is split into two (so counts as two). There is the choice of having two main content columns, or three.

22. Visionary

22 Visionary
Visionary is an advanced theme suitable for news sites. The goal is to let you put your best content forward through the use of feature articles, so it doesn’t get lost in the rush of newer articles. Everything is configurable through the theme settings page and your widget panel.

23. Jello Wala Mello

23 Jello Wala Mello
Jello-Wala-Mello is a news / magazine-styled WordPress theme created for multi-media sites. It requires WordPress 2.3 to work properly.

24. iNews

24 iNews
iNews is a premium news WordPress theme that gives you maximum exposure for your articles and posts.

25. NewsPress

25 NewsPress
NewsPress can be classified as some kind of mashup between a personal blog and a more content-heavy magazine-style layout. The sophistication of the layout can thus offer immeasurable value to ambitious bloggers that would like to display their content in a professional way.

26. The Original Premium News

26 The Original Premium News
The Original Premium News Theme was the very first premium theme that we ever released. This theme may be a bit rough around the edges (in terms of its looks), but we’ve used the same solid base for all our subsequent themes. Enjoy these themes’ minimalistic beauty and make it your own today!

27. Influx

27 Influx
Influx is a single theme with 4 unique skins, all of which can be changed on the fly right from the wp-admin control panel. The 4 skins, Default, Grunge, Subtlety, and Oceanic, are each geared towards a different potential audience, which makes Influx a very diverse and capable design.

28. Old News

28 Old News
Download our new free WordPress theme, Old News. This hopes to be one of many free unique WordPress themes that we will be offering on our site.

29. InterPhase

29 InterPhase
InterPhase is a beautiful, clean design that maintains a “cutting edge” feel without loosing its sense of professionalism. This theme comes with a large array of custom options pages that let you customize everything from the font color to the 125×125 banner image in the sidebar.

30. WP Remix

30 WP Remix
WP Remix is the only theme on the net that offers a WYSIWYG Page editor, Over 50 Page Templates, Flexibility, Smart Drop Menu, Dynamic Codes, Add-on modules.

31. OneNews

31 OneNews
Popurls is, as described by its founder, the ultimate source for the latest web buzz and news and a daily must-read for me. I thought maybe I can do something based on that model to keep track of the buzz in Singapore and thus OneNews was born. This also showcases the power of WordPress is more than blog software.

I hope I have covered all the available WordPress News Themes, kindly share the same if I have missed any good WordPress News Themes – will be helpful for WordPress users.

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Comments

  1. Profile picture for RubabRubab says

    January 10, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    very nice themes.. i am using one of fresh new themes..

  2. Profile picture for Alif RachmawadiAlif Rachmawadi says

    January 11, 2009 at 5:54 am

    Wonderful collections. It should be better if you provide direct link to download, not only live demo. Thanks for sharing.

  3. Profile picture for JhayJhay says

    January 11, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Cool list! I like Fresh News Theme more often!

  4. Profile picture for hellveenhellveen says

    January 11, 2009 at 2:35 pm

    Nice collection :)
    With such this themes WordPress give us much more opportunities in sites building.

  5. Profile picture for TomTom says

    January 11, 2009 at 8:49 pm

    I don’t get it, why would you want to encourage people to use copies of existing sites? (themes 4 and 5)

  6. Profile picture for footballfootball says

    January 13, 2009 at 11:20 pm

    i am looking for a free news type of theme wp 2.7 can any 1 refer me to there?

  7. Profile picture for sanjay Tiwarisanjay Tiwari says

    January 22, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    very helpfull for us.

  8. Profile picture for BangladeshBangladesh says

    March 12, 2009 at 1:18 am

    I am using Gotham News for my local news site. Its Great.

  9. Profile picture for OnlineWonderzOnlineWonderz says

    March 24, 2009 at 4:48 pm

    Great Collection of Themes, Really Tempted to take more than a dozen for my websites
    i am book marking your site

  10. Profile picture for Mad!Mad! says

    March 30, 2009 at 7:49 pm

    GABFIRE themes DO NOT work with WordPress MU…do not be an idiot like me and buy this theme based on blowing paid reviews! You can get better mileage from many free themes out there, instead of getting weak support and no ability to use an expensive theme with a very popular WordPress version.

  11. Profile picture for J.DJ.D says

    April 7, 2009 at 4:00 am

    Very good list; use some of them for my websites.

  12. Profile picture for A.Niraj KumarA.Niraj Kumar says

    May 1, 2009 at 4:11 am

    Hii, Better it would have been if posted free themes with download links. Although these are good ones but still… :) Hope you can understand.

    Thanks
    A.Niraj Kumar, India
    (A WordPress Expert Developer and Designer)

  13. Profile picture for DavidDavid says

    June 3, 2009 at 9:04 pm

    Where are the download links? Why did you put a pack of pictures up here? Waste of time, dude.

    Dave

  14. Profile picture for Strange_RStrange_R says

    July 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm

    People,it’s so eazy to search over the internet…he just gave you the information needed to know what to search…

    Thx alot for this wonderful list…keep up the good job

  15. Profile picture for neelneel says

    August 7, 2009 at 9:00 am

    Nice list of news wordpress themes.

  16. Profile picture for DiogoDiogo says

    August 23, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    Cool List.

  17. Profile picture for Ravindra SinghRavindra Singh says

    September 9, 2009 at 2:24 am

    Too much nice news themes for wp.Thanks

  18. Profile picture for David OsajieDavid Osajie says

    October 14, 2009 at 5:57 am

    Great collections, I’m definitely trying out one of those on my site. Thanks man!

    David Osajie

  19. Profile picture for My Best SiteMy Best Site says

    October 16, 2009 at 1:34 am

    supper coooool themes

  20. Profile picture for thomasthomas says

    November 3, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    it was this blog post is where i found my new theme..

  21. Profile picture for Blogger DenBlogger Den says

    December 8, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    Awesome stuff! This is a sick collection of WordPress themes, I’ll definitely submit this to Blogger Den

  22. Profile picture for sebastiansebastian says

    December 10, 2009 at 4:24 am

    Very good list; use some of them for my websites.

  23. Profile picture for Voyage MontrealVoyage Montreal says

    January 14, 2010 at 10:23 pm

    The Gazette version looks awesome!

  24. Profile picture for forumforum says

    January 24, 2010 at 3:57 am

    Super themes thanks…

  25. Profile picture for Daddy DesignDaddy Design says

    February 3, 2010 at 11:44 am

    very nice list of themes!

  26. Profile picture for AnnaAnna says

    February 3, 2010 at 4:34 pm

    very nice themes, thank you for this list

  27. Profile picture for fredfred says

    February 18, 2010 at 7:18 pm

    Good job, bro. Thanks!!!

  28. Profile picture for fredfred says

    February 18, 2010 at 7:21 pm

    @ramon… if you scroll to the bottom of your link, it says that the theme was designed by Deluxe Themes. You can get it for $49… http://deluxethemes.com/

  29. Profile picture for didimdidim says

    February 23, 2010 at 2:17 am

    whos who theme is nice and nice for small blogs

  30. Profile picture for Blogger HiveBlogger Hive says

    February 24, 2010 at 1:09 pm

    Nice! I hope I can made 1 like those :)

  31. Profile picture for Hugh O'CarrollHugh O'Carroll says

    March 11, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Great looking themes. Thanks for the article

  32. Profile picture for SebastianSebastian says

    March 12, 2010 at 11:11 pm

    thanks for the nice theme-list!

  33. Profile picture for BestPicoProjectorsBestPicoProjectors says

    June 12, 2010 at 10:09 pm

    Oh man this is an awesome. I have been trying to track down some really good news themes for a project that I was working on and so far this is the most complete list I’ve seen. Great job!

  34. Profile picture for Nepali music videosNepali music videos says

    June 25, 2010 at 1:37 am

    wow great themes. i was just begainer and looking for free themes and i got some of them downloaded and trying to edit them and install in my new site. thank you for your listings.

  35. Profile picture for adult smsadult sms says

    July 3, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    Really Nice themes. and these themes are 100% SEO friendly. thanks for this nice sharing

  36. Profile picture for NewsNews says

    July 22, 2010 at 4:52 pm

    used one on my news blog

  37. Profile picture for funguro.comfunguro.com says

    August 15, 2010 at 11:46 am

    Such a Nice Themes .. awasome… Thanks Dear Admin

  38. Profile picture for seslisohbettrseslisohbettr says

    September 23, 2010 at 3:38 pm

    thanks for the nice theme-list

  39. Profile picture for faze tarifaze tari says

    October 1, 2010 at 9:53 am

    Thanks for share those themes

  40. Profile picture for KunalKunal says

    October 1, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    Wonderful themes, but basically for news blogs.

  41. Profile picture for pRista AyupRista Ayu says

    October 3, 2010 at 9:52 pm

    Cool list! I like Fresh News Theme more often!

  42. Profile picture for Kozan CityKozan City says

    November 24, 2010 at 10:17 pm

    Thanks for the nice theme-list

  43. Profile picture for Kozan CityKozan City says

    November 24, 2010 at 10:17 pm

    Thanks for the nice theme-list

  44. Profile picture for Wacth Online MovieWacth Online Movie says

    December 4, 2010 at 9:18 pm

    Great List Thanks for sharing

  45. Profile picture for film indirfilm indir says

    December 7, 2010 at 6:50 am

    I thought that comment would be disrespectful not to share great quality themes whitening brushhead

  46. Profile picture for Web Design Company USAWeb Design Company USA says

    December 23, 2010 at 12:14 pm

    Excellent collection of WordPress news themes.

  47. Profile picture for PraveeshPraveesh says

    December 25, 2010 at 1:50 am

    Thanks a lot for sharing..this was what i was looking for…thanks a lot

  48. Profile picture for Stevemills8830Stevemills8830 says

    January 26, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    Is it possible to auto feed the content from other news sites??

  49. Profile picture for Foto GaleriFoto Galeri says

    February 2, 2011 at 11:22 pm

    nice post

  50. Profile picture for Cloud TouchCloud Touch says

    February 12, 2011 at 2:22 pm

    The most I like is the second one the live wire which would best go with news website and rest of them are also very good indeed.

  51. Profile picture for BruceLeeBruceLee says

    March 31, 2011 at 2:16 am

    Great List Thanks for sharing ,where can i download these themes?

  52. Profile picture for web hostingweb hosting says

    January 6, 2012 at 10:44 am

    I get it huge list of wordpress themes.Above all the themes are excellent creativity.

  53. Profile picture for mintikmintik says

    November 21, 2012 at 10:56 am

    Very useful collection. Thanks for all theme.

  54. Profile picture for Chris BrownChris Brown says

    August 21, 2013 at 9:40 pm

    great news WordPress themes

  55. Profile picture for kirti rai raikirti rai rai says

    November 28, 2017 at 5:35 pm

    You shared huge list of word-press themes. All are awesome!!

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