As we have covered in several articles lately, WordPress is really rocking the web design and development boat right now. It is to some extent a disruptive technology not only dominating the blogging space, but also taking ground in nearly any other niche, changing how most web sites are built. WordPress is also very popular for many other usages and in particular many photographers use a WordPress Photo Theme to showcase their shots. Also WordPress is getting popular for building News websites and for a reason. Setting up a new site using a WordPress News Theme from the roundup below makes it less risky, fast and cheap process with your site looking just as professional as the big sites. So, we’ve been surfing around, looking for some WordPress News Themes worth showcasing for you to use or to be inspired. We’ve already published huge lists of WordPress Magazine Themes and WordPress CMS Themes and you may find both useful in your search for the perfect theme. In this article we are going to do a quick but extensive rundown of the Best WordPress News Themes for building Professional News Websites. Just a word of note, these templates are not only good for online News and Magazine sites, but also for any other website with a lot to say. That is, any website with lots of content, which are updated regularly for fresh reports and latest news. Further not all themes listed are free and as such are promoted here. They have however been selected only because they are good. Let’s take a look at the extensive WordPress News Theme Roundup I have prepared for you below.
Disclosure: Please note that some of the links below are affiliate links and I will earn a commission if you purchase through those links (at no extra cost to you). I recommend that you do your own independent research before purchasing any product or service. This article is not a guideline, a recommendation or endorsement of specific products.
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WordPress News Theme collection for Professional News Websites
Arras Theme
Great looking free WordPRess News Themes with 7 color styles.
MORE INFO / DEMO by arrastheme (Free Theme)
Voyage
Voyage is a versatile WordPress theme that can be used for a wide variety of websites, like a travel agency, portfolio, small business, etc. Packed with many built-in amazing features, this theme is a real keeper.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by WP Zoom (premium theme)
CadabraPress
CadabraPress is a revolutionary WPZOOM theme, offering users a professional and elegant display of articles and full control over theme features.
MORE INFO / DEMO by WPZoom (Premium Theme)
YEN
YEN is The Magazine, News and Blog Template built with latest WordPress features. 13 Custom Widgets, WordPress featured image support and many more.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Continuum
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Woothemes (premium theme)
Felici – WordPress News Theme
Felici is a new breed of magazine theme, it has been build for all of those who are tired of messing around with there homepage posts. This theme can make any homepage structure you need without having duplicate categories inside. With 3 types of columns, default, small accordion and full width accordion, all managed through a nifty and user friendly drag and drop system.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Basement
Basement is content rich magazine WordPress theme with clean, sleek and customizable design. It is not a traditional WordPress news theme but a the way it is structured with images in a magazine style makes it qute interesting. Theme includes lots of advanced features and functions and is based on solid backend framework.
MORE INFO / DEMO - by Mojo Themes (Premium Theme)
Zenko Magazine
Zenko Magazine is a stylish & colorful theme intended for those who want to launch a magazine or blog! The flexible layout allows you to easily adapt your content to the theme.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by WPZoom (premium theme)
Tribune
This is another great WPZoom creation and among my favorite picks in this large collection of simple WordPress themes.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by WP Zoom (premium theme)
Aggregate
Aggregates comes packed with tons of content and widget-ready areas, and manages to display everything in a clear and readable manner. We have also added some handy new widgets, as well as many new advertisement areas. If you have been searching for a feature-rich Magazine-style theme for your blog, then look no further! Further the ElegantThemes club is one of the most affortable and it is packed with good themes you can use on as many sites as you like.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)
SWAGGER (Responsive theme)
Swagger is built on top of the all-new version 2 of the Theme Blvd framework. Use the layout builder to accomplish just about anything you could ever think of. Use the slider manager to create as many sliders as you want. Use the widget area manager to create as many widget areas and sidebars as you want. With just the right amount of theme options and flexibility, the power is all in your hands. And with a sleek, responsive HTML5 design, you’ll be sure no one will miss out on your new website built with Swagger.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Delicious Magazine
Delicious Magazine is versatile enough to be used for a variety of purposes, like a food website as we’ve demonstrated on our preview. It includes a big featured area that captivates the user with large images, and also a sub featured spotlight area that makes your homepage look like more than a blog.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Woothemes (premium theme)
SIMPLEPRESS – Corporate Simple WordPress Theme
SimplePress is a simple and clean page-based corporate WordPress theme. It is great for anyone looking to give their website professional look and feel. The theme features a business style homepage with a beautiful well integrated JavaScript slider and clear hierarchy, as well as fully functional Blog and Gallery sections.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)
Le News – WordPress News Theme
Le News magazine is a modern, clean premium WordPress News Theme available in 4 different colors. Easy to use theme panel option with more than 30 settings available to make your theme unique.
MORE INFO / DEMO by Mojo Themes (Premium Theme)
EVOLUTION (Responsive theme)
Evolution is our first fully responsive design. What makes the theme so special is its ability to adapt to various screen sizes. Evolution come with 4 distinct layouts, each meant to improve your user’s experience when browsing on mobile phones and tablets. No longer will they need to zoom and scroll to view your site, as the theme’s layout will adapt to the small screen and serve your content in an intuitive way automatically. Just try reducing your browser’s window size when preview the theme to see the magic in action!
MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)
WP Smooth Theme
WP-Smooth is a dark but stylish premium WordPress magazine theme with multiple color options and layouts. It has a built-in control panel that makes it flexible and easy to use. 
MORE INFO / DEMO by Solostream (Premium Theme)
PIM WordPress News Themes
PIM is the newspaper, magazine or blog WordPress template. It comes with flexible customization ex. homepage widgets, skins, fonts. Let you control look & feel via control panel 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
AWARE (Responsive theme)
Aware is a clean and simple interactive, responsive portfolio theme perfect for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike. Its user interactive interface delightfully enhances your most loved portfolio pieces. Now, you can take your portfolio with you, in your pocket.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Supreme
Neatly coded WordPress news theme designed for use as a news, magazine, personal journal, or community theme. We put all our experience in this theme and create excellent functionality. Supreme is here to meet your needs whether you are looking to start a tutorial site, magazine, or industry news type site. 
MORE INFO – by Natty WP (premium theme)
Link
Link is The Clean Magazine, News and Blog Template built with latest WordPress features. 13 Custom Widgets, image upload and many more shortcakes… 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Glow Theme
With its bright colors, bold text and flashy design, Glow is a great theme for anyone looking to make an impact. This theme comes with four color variations, and is equipped with the latest ePanel Theme Options page which gives you complete control over your blog. 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (premium theme)
WP-Prosper
WP-Prosper is a clean, professional WordPress theme suitable for a business website, blog or online magazine.
MORE INFO / DEMO by Solostream (Premium Theme)
VOLT – Magazine / Editorial WordPress News Theme
Volt theme for WordPress is designed for magazine, news and editorial ventures. With content and readability being the primary goal, the theme is designed with flexible layout pattern and decent space for advertisements. The theme introduces a layout swapping option that will let you move the content in desirable location, and is helpful when you are experimenting with visual hierarchy and user eye pattern. Backed with custom widgets, visual short codes, exclusive widget areas and custom page templates, the theme is envisioned to provide you more flexibility and ease-of-customization for your next editorial project.
MORE INFO / DEMO by theme forest (premium theme)
DelicateNews WordPress Theme
DelicateNews is a content-heavy wordpress news theme wrapped in an elegant and “delicate” shell. Featuring a 3-column grid and many homepage content outlets, this theme gives you the opportunity to feature tons of content without making your website feel cramped or messy. 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (premium theme)
WP- Sublime
WP-Sublime is a bright, professional-looking WordPress theme suitable for a business website, a blog or a full-fledged magazine-style site. Its extensive built-in control panel makes it easy to use and modify.
MORE INFO / DEMO by Solostream (Premium Theme)
Parachute – minimalistic wordpress news theme
Parachute is clean, colorful and minimalistic theme ideal for businesses and portfolio work. It comes with administration options that allow you to fully control the layout of the site and create unique page designs with excellent shortcodes. 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
WordPress Newspaper
MORE INFO / DEMO by Gabfire Themes (Premium Theme)
Transcript WordPress News Theme
MORE INFO / DEMO by Gabfire Themes (Premium Theme)
WP-CLEAR
Solostream recently released version 2.0 of their popular simple WordPress theme, WP-Clear. This updated version includes numerous new features and layout options with magazine, business and blog layout styles. Other features include 2 content sliders, multiple post and page layout options, integrated banner ad spots, options panel for easy customization and more. This simple WordPress theme is a “must see”.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Solostream (premium theme)
CelebrityPress WordPress Theme
CelebrityPress is the ultimate WordPress Magazine Celebrity Theme. A flexible and easy to setup sexy WordPress theme ideal for those wanting to run a magazine website related to celebrity/gossip, music, movies and lifestyle in general. The theme is packed full of features and compatible with the latest version of WordPress. The theme feature 2 dynamic menus and multiple sidebars customizable within the admin with dropdowns categories and custom links, 6 color styles and a layout selector to use the theme in traditional Blog style or the popular Magazine style. 
MORE INFO by Gorilla Themes (Premium Theme)
WP-Aire
Bright, light and flexible is what you get with WP-Aire. Whether you want a business website, a simple blog layout or a full-fledged magazine-style site, WP-Aire will have you and your WordPress site flyin high in no time at all. 
MORE INFO / DEMO by Solostream (Premium Theme)
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. 
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (Premium Theme)
Magazine Child
When you’ve got lots of content and you need a magazine-style format to show it off, Magazine is the theme for you. Magazine is sleek, up-to-date, and always cutting-edge… just like your content. 
MORE INFO by StudioPress (Premium Theme)
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 this themes’ minimalistic beauty and make it your own today! 
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (Premium Theme)
Headlines
Headlines continues where our old magazine themes left off. It has tons of requested features like featured area, social bookmarks, author highlighting, flexible layout to name a few. It’s the perfect platform to launch your magazine or blog and reach out to the world! 
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (Premium Theme)
Mortar WordPress News Theme
A hugely flexible theme built on a neat JQuery layout plugin that arranges your posts vertically than horizontally with complete control over the number of columns on the home and archive page. Ideal for magazine, portfolio and gallery based websites. 
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (Premium Theme)
Newsport
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (Premium Theme)
The Journal
A neat online WordPress newspaper theme perfect for web publishers. The Journal places special emphasis on its neat typography and clean grid structure, and not template imagery, making customizing this theme a breeze and showcasing post content and its imagery top priority. With a neat tag based “Highlights” section and a recent posts carousel the home page is completely adaptable to your content.
MORE INFO / DEMO by Woothemes (Premium Theme)
WP-MediaMag
WP-MediaMag is modern WordPress news theme designed for publishers who like to upload media, such as videos and photos. Its expansive control panel makes it easy to use and tweak the many available options and layouts. 
MORE INFO / DEMO by Solostream (Premium Theme)
Magnific
An innovative and flexible theme with multiple page layouts: Magazine Style or Traditional Blog and enhanced with WPZOOM Options Panel. This is one of the really cool WordPress News Themes. 
MORE INFO / DEMO by WPZoom (Premium Theme)
Lifestyle Child Theme
Lifestyle’s a great choice for sites that have a lot to say. Choose from ten content-friendly soft color schemes, and widgets that support everything from video to in-depth articles to great photography. 
MORE INFO by StudioPress (Premium Theme)
Newscope
NewsScope is a free news WordPress theme with featured content option and options page. Supports post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche, especially for news or magazine sites. 
MORE INFO / DEMO by fthemes (Free Theme)
The Local
A hyperlocal news site for WordPress. This add-on for Elemental includes custom widgets for Google Adsense, Maps, YouTube, local Twitter updates, weather and more. 
MORE INFO by prothemedesign (Premium Theme)
Monograph WordPress News Theme
Monograph is a Premium WordPress magazine theme with many great features, among which are: a beautiful JS slider, 3 easily-controlled featured categories on the homepage, unique widgets, and more!
MORE INFO / DEMO by WPZoom (Premium Theme)
Our Magazine WordPress News Theme
A powerful WordPress theme special for online magazine, community, network or any site with rich content. It is modern, clean, and sexy 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Buffalo
Professional looking, clean designed WordPress Theme with powerful features and custimizable layout.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Community Innovation
Community Innovation is a clean, customizable CSS -based community blog theme designed to focus on content. With 2 custom widgets, an extensive theme options page with dozens of options, several screencasts on how to set up the theme quickly, thorough documentation, clean code, dozens of custom functions, plus so much more, this theme is bound to end up in your collection! 
MORE INFO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Mediapress
Mediapress is a News/Magazine theme. The 3 collumn on the homepage are completely widgetized and we created 8 custom widget for you to display your content. There is 90+ shortcodes wich are in the visual editor of WordPress and 35 options to change the CSS in the theme options (Font size, color, background colors etc etc) Mediapress is also fully localized so you can translate the theme really easily. Give it a try! 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Periodic
Periodic is a custom built, premium WordPress theme suited for online magazines, news portals and large blogs.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Castiel
A Magazine and News style WordPress Theme
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Widezine
Widezine is an wide (liquid / fluid layout), clean, minimalistic, modern, premium WordPress news theme, which also doubles as a community blog, news, editorial or whatever you’d like to use it for. 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
Soccer 2010 Theme
This soccer blog is a clean and elegant solution to blog about the sports events. This theme contains thirty three different color schemes/countries. 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)
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. 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by Woothemes (premium theme)
Today’s News
Todays News is a free premium WordPress theme with featured content option and options page. Supports post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche, especially for news or magazine sites. 
MORE INFO / DEMO – by ftthemes (Free theme)
NewsReport
NewsReport is a free news WordPress theme with featured content option and options page. Supports post thumbnails. Suitable for any niche, especially for news or magazine sites. 
If we missed a few great WordPress News Themes you think should be added to this post, or if you have any comments or suggestions, as to how to improve this list, please feel free to write them below. We will have that covered in a future post or an update.
MORE INFO / DEMO – by ftthemes (Free theme)
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I need to change my wordpress theme, and i found one from the list, i use now vbulletin but i will move to wordpress cms because is more flexibile and because of themes !
thank you for that informative post
Great post, allot of interesting themes.
Thanks Anthony, appreciate your feedback!
Beautiful Themes, I Will recommend this post to my co-bloggers
it really beautiful theme,
but it not free
thank you for Free theme
Love the transcript theme ! Best among them !
thank you very much
Hi
Can you please explain what are the steps needed to take to use on of those themes with a domain like mysite.com instead of a domain like mysite.wordpress.com?
I read on WordPress that if you use Domain mapping you can´t use advertising, any kind of prohibited code, or upload additional themes or plugins.
I am rather confused…
Vale, check out blogincomeformula.com. I created a full tutorial for this some time ago.
humm, you had to mention “Pure Magazine” by bizzthemes
.. in addition to various places of banners and very clean design, you can even have it free of charge
what else do we need?
Helmuts
Thanks very much, it helped a lot.
Orhan
love these themes.
Great! We’re using Zenko Theme on our website. Have a look!
all themes good. very cheap templates.
Thanks Sonny, great list of news themes.
Its wonderfull template. Thanks a lot friends…
thanks for ceap templaits.
very helpful article
great, nice themes, thanks ur sharing