If you are looking to pay for a wordpress theme, Elegant Themes is the first places I would look:
Update: June 2009
I originally published this post over a year ago, and it is now a little dated, as many new great themes have been created. I will continue to update this post from time to time with new themes. The following new magazine wordpress themes are from Elegant Themes, the premium wordpress theme site mentioned above. The value on this site is outstanding, you can get access to all these themes and many more for an insane annual fee of $19.95.
I think there are some fantastic magazine type Wordpress themes available, here are the best of what I could find. Clicking on the preview image will load a demo of the theme for those themes where a demo was available.
If you are looking to pay for a wordpress theme, Elegant Themes is the first places I would look:
Jim Spence
Saturday In searching for sites with content on Squeeze Pages or Affiliate sites and specifically for how to make money online for free, I found your site to be useful and full of content.
Rinaldo Hasibuan
Thank you, it’s help me much
Steven Snell
Mimbo and Branford are two of the top choices in my opinion. Several of these are new to me, but they look good.
Mobile fan
My choice was Branford and The morning after. It is great. thank you.
Zafar Ahmed
I found your site on faves.com too….I totally love the Mimbo theme…Keep up the good work
FHER
nice job!
akira
I fell in love with the f8 lite theme but its NOT FREE!!!!
(( what a kick in the kintama.
But thanks for the post. Very nice indeed.
Simon
Hi Akira – Yes f8 lite is free – there are premium versions of the f8 theme that cost, but the lite version is free – follow the text link above rather than using the preview and trying to find the download link…the text link goes right to the download page.
Stair lift
Polaroid is supposed to be the best theme in all themes and I have downloaded that for my oracle blog. Thanks for sharing all the themes though.
John
Excellent List! It’s been tough for me, finding a good magazine theme that actually functions properly, this list is going to be very useful!
Pittsburgh Junk Removal
A few months ago I really wanted a “Magazine” Style Theme…but after winning a free license of one from a blog contest (and the theme I won was beautiful!) I’ve decided I like the traditional blog format better. The ones you have listed here are all very beautiful – but I’m sticking to the more traditional themes these days
I may check out that deadwood one – it is similar enough to regular blog style 
Eduardo
Otimo thema Massivepress… Thanks
Krang
looks very nice designs !!
I introduce this post at my blog
and I subscribed to this blog.
tony from Uk Web Hosting.
I like the branford free wordpress theme best. All of the wordpress themes are good for being free.
Jack from Baby Names
I love Mag On Wood by Chiq Montes, it’s perfectly done!
rhea from taux hypothecaire
This article is very helpful and informative. Continue posting this type of blogs! Thanks
John from Bella Band
All these themes have great design and appear to be very functional to the user. These are important things to include in the design of your wordpress blog.
Rio
Thanks for your information.I will check now
Mathew from Hsbc online banking.
Thanks i book marked this post. I never seen so many free magizine themes in one post. I liked chared best not sure why i just like the look of it.
Fondos de Pantalla
excelents themes!!! thanks for sharing!
ivan
great list, thanks.
we have just release wp theme with magazine style for free, loved to hear your comments on our design.
jeff from T1 internet
I like the structure theme. Simple and clean so people can find what they wnat fast. Page should load faster also.
Pinoy Balita
I’m really looking for a good looking magazine theme, much prefer the free ones. I’m a bit confuse because of these… omg
Amaral
I like very much Mimbo theme. I’ll use it in a music portal.
Thank you very much
Greetings from Spain
caitlin from uk web hosting
Great collection of themes. I use a theme from Elegant Themes for one of my blogs, and I’ve recommended to them to everyone. Their themes are really clean and simple, and they can make your blog look a lot more professional. Highly recommend them!
jack from realestate reits
You listed some of the best magazine themes for wordpress i have seen. Everyone is good and has alot of features. Some are great for products others for ads thanks i saved this post.
andy from instant life insurance quotes
Most are nice themes, except deadwood…that one just looks dead boring. =P I wonder how it made it to the list.
marry from datingservices
The f8 lite is a great theme. I like most of the themes everyone is well done and looks great.
Stacey from assurance hypothecaire
These wordpress themes looks very attractive. I’d definitely use them in my page. Thanks for posting.
AskTheCoders from Coding Help
Wow, some of these are very impressive. I was just starting a new blog about a month ago and I was looking around for a theme.
Really wish I had seen some of these beforehand.
carrol from photoshop tutorials
Those are some great themes. like some of the simplier designs with less on each page. they are eaiser to navigate and look good. massive press is one i like alot.
Nicole Foster from Website Design Services
Some very nice magazine themes! I like a little more graphic appeal, but they are simplistic. Simplistic is the new thing now xD
roger from router bits
Thanks i will have to look over some more of the themes. The site has so many it is tough to pick one i like best. I did see some are free and some you pay for but the cost is pretty good for how good they are.
Pat from Dental insurance
Those themes are beautiful. Are you allowed to customize theme and do you have to give credit back to the designer in order to use them?
Jim from SEO in South Africa
I’m looking for a professional slick looking theme that has Suckerfish type drop down menus enabled. Most of the ones I have looked at are pretty lousy – Do you have any?
Girish from Car Rental Auckland
Dude, my search for quality and professional wordpress themes ends here. I am so fortunate and glad that I got your blog post through google search when I was desperately searching for innovative wordpress themes. They are impressive and obviously elegant
Thanks a ton. I am gonna use their services.
Katzenstreu and katzenklo
Polaroid is supposed to be the best theme in all themes and I have downloaded that for my oracle blog. Thanks for sharing all the themes though.
Michael from Christchurch Motels
Wow! Their business templates are highly professional and slick. I have been searching on and on for a long time to identify the best resources which offers nice wordpress themes. I am glad that I found your blog post which put an end to my search.
Jane from Ticks On Dogs
I love Elegant Themes. I have been using them on many of my blogs for about six months now and have had the best luck with them.
clicknepal
Super Cool Themes. Thank you so much.
Paul from Sony MDR 7506
I’ve been looking for some good magazine themes.
I find it interesting that wordpress is getting used more and more for normal “non-blog” type sites too lately. Wordpress is gaining traction as more of a content management system instead of just a pure blogging platform.
The more great themes people make, the merrier!