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WordPress Themes for News and Magazine Websites

Introducing our collection of dynamic WordPress themes tailored for news and magazine websites—your one-stop solution to elevate your online publishing venture! Whether you’re an experienced news journalist aiming to revamp your platform or a budding magazine editor stepping into the digital world, our handpicked selection of themes has everything you need.

These meticulously designed multipurpose blog themes embody the essence of your unique brand, enabling you to showcase and monetize your expertise, passions, and journalistic style to a vast audience. With captivating visuals and seamless navigation, our themes strike the perfect balance between functionality and aesthetics, transforming your website into a hub of inspiration, information, and engagement.

Our versatile and customizable WordPress themes will be your ultimate partner in creating an online home that reflects your vision and captivates your readers whether you’re creating a news portal for politics or sports, an online magazine for fashion or travel, or a personal blog for trending lifestyle topics.

Unleash your creativity and take your website to new heights with our exceptional collection of news and magazine WordPress themes!

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The Best WordPress Themes For News & Magazine Sites

All of our WordPress magazine and newspaper themes are modern, clean, responsive, SEO optimized, highly customizable, and ecommerce-ready, which means you can create and launch a professional website fast. It also means managing and editing your content, adding new team members, publishing blog posts, building sales and landing pages, and creating sales funnels is quick and easy.

Our news and magazine website designs include:

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Flexible content blocks you can display in any order to create unique, eye-catching page designs that blow your competition out of the water.

Customization options down to the minute details and an easy to use customizer that allows you to visualize a live preview of your changes.

Big, beautiful images that can be displayed in nearly any orientation, shape, or size to show off everything from your products and services to your team.

A quick setup wizard and read-to-do sample content so you can get your site up and running just like the demo in minutes.

Pre-built testimonial, call to action, and email subscription blocks.

Tons of typography choices (including Google fonts) and virtually unlimited color options that ensure your type and color palette reflect your brand.

Social media integration to encourage visitors to connect with you or share your content.

Support from an experienced, highly-qualified team that wants you to succeed.

Skip the Page Builders, Welcome to Blocks

Popular page builders and website builders like Squarespace and Wix were all the rage when it came to building affordable news sites, but now, with the rollout of the Gutenberg block editor, WordPress has a full-blown page builder built-in.

All of our premium news WordPress themes are block-based to give you total control over the layout options of every page on your website.

Take a peek at our demos for news and magazine websites. Click any design to view a full working demo site:

Create Your News or Magazine Website Today!

Mai Theme Essentials

$99

Auto-renews yearly

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Mai Theme Pro Bundle

$198

$148

Auto-renews yearly

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Save $50 when you bundle with Mai Theme Essentials

Mai Theme Lifetime Bundle

$699

One-time fee

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  • Get everything in the Mai Theme Pro Bundle for life

  • Lifetime updates and support

How to Create a News or Magazine Website

To succeed online, you need a website that attracts new visitors, delivers a premium user experience, and keeps people coming back.

To build a successful website for your news or magazine website, you need:

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Credible and Accurate Reporting

Establish a reputation for credible and accurate reporting. Fact-checking, verifying sources, and maintaining journalistic integrity are paramount to gaining and retaining readers’ trust.

Timely Updates

Provide real-time or timely updates on front-page, breaking news and important events. News consumers expect the latest information, so keeping content up-to-date is vital.

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Subscription and Membership Options

Offer subscription plans or membership tiers to provide exclusive content and perks to loyal readers. This can help generate revenue and build a dedicated community.

Personalization and Customization

Implement features that offer personalized content recommendations and related posts based on users’ interests and behavior. Personalization enhances user engagement and encourages return visits.

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Interactivity and Engagement

Incorporate interactive elements like polls, quizzes, discussion forums, and comments to encourage reader participation. Engaging readers in various ways enhances their connection with your brand, creates a loyal readership, and drives user-generated content.

Social Media Integration

Integrate social sharing buttons in your post headers, sidebar, and other key places to and encourage readers to share articles with their networks. Social media exposure can significantly expand your magazine’s and news brand’s reach and increase website traffic.

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User-Friendly, Intuitive Design

Create a user-friendly website with intuitive navigation and clear categories and sections to help readers find content easily. A well-organized website improves user experience, encourages exploration, and reduces bounce rates.

Compelling and Engaging Multimedia

Incorporate multimedia elements videos and interactive graphics to make stories more engaging and captivating. Utilize high-quality images, appealing graphics, and visually engaging layouts. News sites and magazines especially are known for their aesthetics, so captivating visuals are vital to attract and retain readers.

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News and Magazine Website Examples

We have created the best news and magazine website templates and business owners of all types agree. Check out the beautiful websites built by our customers—freelancers, entrepreneurs, and business owners just like you—using the website templates included in every Mai Theme purchase.

Examples of websites built by real business owners:

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Why Use Mai Theme For Your News Website

With Mai Theme, you get all of our website templates, which means you never have to limit your creativity to one option, and instead, can combine your favorite elements of each template to create your own unique news or magazine site.

Mai Theme website templates are built with your success in mind:

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Powered by WordPress

With WordPress now powering 40% of all sites across the web, it is our platform of choice because its content management system and flexibility puts bloggers and website owners in control of their content.

All of our stunning designs and website templates are powered by WordPress, our Mai Engine Plugin, and a collection of premium plugins that deliver the features successful business owners need.

Easy and Fast to Customize

Our WordPress theme options are block-based and designed to provide ultimate flexibility. Mai Theme makes it easy to change up everything from the logo, color scheme, and typography, to images, page layouts, and content.

Plus, we know you’re unique and don’t want to limit your creativity to one template. With access to all Mai Theme website templates, you can pick and choose your favorite features in our designs and combine them to create a site you truly love.

Meticulous Control Over Details

Our Mai Engine Plugin, included with every purchase, brings extensive controls to WordPress that empower you to customize everything on your site down to the tiniest of details.

Want icons instead of images, four columns instead of three columns, image backgrounds, centered text, or content blocks that reach beyond the margins? Not a problem—and in most cases, you can get it done in just a few clicks. No CSS, custom code, or expensive developers needed.

Powerful Built-In Integrations

We empower you to create a site that not only fits your immediate needs, but grows with you as your brand evolves and your reach expands.

Whether you want to sell products, build affiliate revenue, launch an online course, build a membership, or earn ad revenue, you’ll appreciate our seamless integrations with popular solutions like the WooCommerce plugin, Learn Dash, Google AdSense, and many more.

Retina-Ready, Responsive WordPress Themes

Building a successful news website, growing an audience, and reaching your goals, means your site needs to look amazing and be easy to use in every browser and on every device regardless of size or type.

All Mai Theme website templates are mobile responsive so your content looks beautiful and is easy to engage with on any device. They also come retina-ready so they render crisply and beautifully on high-resolution screens.

Search Engine Optimization

From the code that powers our WordPress plugins and website templates to the designs that provide a gorgeous foundation for your big vision, everything we create adheres to current code standards and web development best practices.

All Mai Theme website templates and individual block components are not only SEO friendly and optimized for performance and speed, but they also deliver premium user experiences that will have visitors coming back to your site again and again.

Everything You Need to Start Your News Website

When you choose Mai Theme, you get everything you need to build a successful business with staying power online.

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Mai Engine Plugin

Powering robust customization options

Mai Theme runs on the powerful Mai Engine plugin, which provides the core power of the theme. Mai Engine runs as a plugin enabling you to receive the latest updates without breaking your website.

Mai Plugins

Adding new features and functionality

Get the control you need to manage every aspect of your site, without the need for custom code. Our Mai plugins elevate the customization and functionality of your Mai Theme website to the pro-level.

Mai Setup Wizard

Installing demo content in minutes

To save you time and frustration, we include the Mai Setup Wizard with your purchase. Load the demo content, template parts, and customizer settings without overwriting any of your existing pages.

Friendly Support

Getting you unstuck and on your way

Our support team is fast, friendly and reliable, which is why we have so many 5 star reviews. Plus, we have the expertise of a hosting company, graphic design team, marketing agency, and web design company all rolled into one, so you can rest assured that we can help.

Website Planning Cheat Sheet

Uncover the 5 steps to getting started

Learn what you need to know before designing, building, and writing copy for your business website. Discover how to define your website strategy, write for your audience, and what pages you need.

Website Planning Workbook

Plan your website content

Clarify your ideas and plan your website with this 15-page Website Planning Workbook. Brainstorm and map out your goals, audience insights, pages and content, testimonials, and calls-to-action.

Create Your News or Magazine Website Today!

Mai Theme Essentials

$99

Auto-renews yearly

get tHE essentials

Mai Theme Pro Bundle

$198

$148

Auto-renews yearly

get pro bundle

Save $50 when you bundle with Mai Theme Essentials

Mai Theme Lifetime Bundle

$699

One-time fee

get lifetime bundle

  • Get everything in the Mai Theme Pro Bundle for life

  • Lifetime updates and support

News and Magazine Website Questions Answered

Whether you’re designing a website for a brand new news or magazine site or redesigning a website for an existing one, we know you’ve got questions. Luckily, we’ve got answers.

Here are some of the frequently ask questions our support team is asked by news and magazine website owners considering one of our website templates:

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How much does it cost to build a news or magazine website?

When you choose Mai Theme, you are investing in your business’s long-term success. Get every single one of our website design templates and starter sites for $99/year—plus 1 year of updates and support, our powerful Mai Engine plugin, and more with Mai Theme Essentials. Or, choose the Mai Theme Pro Bundle and get everything from Mai Theme Essentials, plus all of our pro plugins and pre-built block patterns and other bonuses for only $148/year. Plus, use the templates for unlimited sites on any WordPress hosting platform. Or, get everything in the Mai Theme Pro Bundle for life for a one-time fee of $699. See pricing for more details.

What is the best way to create a news or magazine website?

The combination of WordPress, Mai Theme, and Mai Engine provides you with unmatched power and flexibility—the optimal foundation for creating your news or magazine website. We choose WordPress to build on because we love how it puts business owners in control of all of their content, from the words on the page, to images, video, and audio content. With Mai Theme and WordPress, it’s so user-friendly that you can make changes on the fly without needing to engage an expensive web designer or worry about custom code.

What is the best page builder or website builder for a news or magazine website?

You don’t need to buy another thing, like a third-party website builder, to create an amazing website you’re proud of and excited to market. With the WordPress block editor, you get all the functionality and ease of a website builder, without the limitations of typical drag and drop page builders. Customize to your heart’s content—with the easy to use visual composer and theme customizer—and create something that is truly unique to your brand. (However, if you really want to use a page builder plugin like Beaver Builder or Elementor, you still can with Mai Theme.)

Can I use free WordPress themes for my news or magazine website?

While it is possible to use free WordPress themes for your news or magazine website, it is generally a better idea to consider premium WordPress themes. Premium themes, like Mai Theme, offer more advanced features, customization options, and dedicated support, which can greatly benefit your website and provide a more professional appearance. Investing in a premium theme can enhance your branding, user experience, and overall online presence.

Do you have examples of news or magazine websites I can look at?

Yes! We love to show off what other business owners, entrepreneurs, and beginner bloggers have created using Mai Theme. The beauty of Mai Theme is that it is flexible enough to be applied to any niche, while still offering extensive features and customization options that put you in control. Take a look at our customer showcase to see what’s possible and get inspiration for your own project.

Do you have user guides and documentation? What about CTA and page templates?

Yes, we have everything you need to get started. As soon as you check out you will have access to a full onboarding sequence with tutorials, videos, documentation, and even a couple of ebooks to help you every step of the way. And if you purchase the Mai Them Pro Bundle or Lifetime Bundle, you get access to our entire Pattern Library. That’s 42+ prebuilt block patterns, including landing pages, contact forms, CTAs, homepages, and more!

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