If you run a professional blog or a news/online magazine website, you need to be careful choosing a suitable theme for your blog. There are some things that should be taken into account;
Theme design
Theme design must be clean and clear and the post content must not be crowded by other elements. layout should look professional, simple but attractive.
Theme flexibility (easy option panel to change various things regarding layout, colors and typography)
All the latest themes come with advanced option panel and we can customize various things regarding out website like layout, colors, font size, font style etc. An ideal theme is that who features all these options and let us away from code editing. It saves our lot of time that consumes in layout customization via manual code editing.
Custom modules that could be utilized for several needs
Having current design trends into the mind, we should adopt a theme that offers advanced customizations and optionally, theme should have its own custom modules to add in website. For example;
- Related post with thumbnail widget
- Custom sidebars for different pages
- Different kind of sliders
- Essential shortcodes
- Social bookmarking widgets etc
Ability and talent of theme developer
Theme developer must be a reliable and dedicated guy that would work hard for his baby and would leverage it providing timely and regular updates and customer support as well.
Clean coding
Functionality alone is not enough and clean coding is also an essential feature for an idea WordPress theme. Search engines love websites with clean code that are not difficult to read by them. Additionally CSS and HTML should be compact to load page quickly.
Here are highest recommended themes for pro blogs and news websites.
Multinews
Multinews is a very special theme for bloggers and even for any kind of website – a multi purpose WordPress theme. But it is specially designed for online magazine website and blogs. Either on frontend or backend this theme is an absolute stunner in terms of elegance. We found no any other magazine theme is so advanced as it. It seems that its every element of is designed with 100% perfection. Having seen its frontend demo, you will realize its elegance and its height of customized and versatile layout. Even custom layout building possibilities are endless with this theme and we can create any type of custom magazine layout with this theme.
If you are running a magazine that covers different kind of topics, it may be the unique choice for you, considering its category page customization. Multinews offers custom category page layout displaying posts in beautiful style. You can customize different things regarding category page like colors, layout etc. In short, every category may represents a mini website under your main website.
Swift WordPress theme
Swift is supposed to be the fastest WordPress theme and author has proved this fact many times. We all know the importance of website speed in terms of SEO. According to Google Webmaster guideline, Google gives preference to the websites that loads faster.
Note– Swift is the only theme that scores over 99% in Google page speed test.
Swift can be used for magazine websites or blogging websites. Powered by a dedicated developer, Swift is one of the highest customizable WordPress theme that features a lot of customization options regarding layout, colors etc. Swift has many in-built modules those are essential for blogging and news websites – such as related posts, floating widget, advertising module, grid customizer, magazine style option, newspaper style option etc.
Nexus
Nexus is a beautiful magazine style theme that is the part of Elegant Themes club (cheap and best ever club membership for premium WordPress themes and plugins (our highest recommended theme club)). Nexus is a clean, sleek and stylish news cum blogging theme that made us to keep it in our recommendation list. Nexus has all features that are required for a magazine or blogging website. We recommend you to have a look on it.
Extra
Extra is an upcoming member of Elegant Themes club and it is totally a new and advanced approach considering magazine style WordPress themes. In fact it is a builder magazine style theme that will come with a drag and drop enabled page builder canvas where you will be able to add special modules created only for a magazine website. This theme will really make a difference and will be loved by WordPress community. You can read about this theme more here.
Themes for bloggers who love minimal design
A large segment of professional bloggers doesn’t like moderate styling of layout. They like themes that offer very simple but highly SEO optimized themes. We have taken care for them creating this post and made a different list for them.
Genesis Themes
Genesis is a theme framework that has been being used by professional bloggers for several years and we can say that it is the first choice of many top most bloggers around the world. Genesis framework was developed by Studiopress.com. Now there has been developed a lot of child themes for this framework by StudioPress that are used for several kind of websites. Genesis framework is supposed to be the favorite choice of professional bloggers.
Swift Theme
Swift is a versatile and super SEO theme that can be used either in minimalistic way or in a stylish and advanced way. It is all up to you how you would like to use it. If you prefer a minimal style layout, you can adopt Swift theme this way.
