Magazine themes typically are excellent for displaying a lot of information on a website in a structured and easy to digest way. Such themes help to catch visitors’ attention making them stay on the page longer and also view more pages.

There are a lot of free WordPress magazine themes; however many of them are old and no longer attractive. Therefore, we present you a great list of the best free WordPress magazine themes that are both stylish and compatible with WordPress 3.0 or higher versions.

Colossus is an amazing free WordPress magazine theme with a premium look. It has a modern stylish design featuring many thumbnails and a great typography.

Colossus theme is widget-ready, advertisement-ready, Search Engine Optimized and comes with already built-in social sharing options. It is a perfect theme to display a lot of information with attractive images.

Meta-Morphosis is a visually-rich WordPress magazine theme incorporating some nifty Cufon font replacement and JavaScript widget slider in the footer. It has two-column home page with featured and regular posts and 8 beautiful color schemes.

Meta-Morphosis also features custom shortcodes, sidebar manager, custom navigation, auto-sizing thumbnails, custom page templates and language translation options.

Monochrome Pro is a free WordPress magazine theme with a home page slideshow feature and a clean and minimalist grid layout. This theme comes with post thumbnails, menu customization, and page templates. It is also fully widgetized allowing you to select from a variety of existing widgets or to upload new widgets to add functionality to your site.

Shaken Grid (Lite) is an original WordPress magazine theme, which uses a jQuery Masonry to arrange elements vertically and horizontally according to the grid. As a result, this theme allows you to have a gap-less layout event if you are using varying post heights.

Shaken Grid (Lite) theme features two color schemes (light and dark), unique gallery layout and a widgetized sidebar. This theme also allows you to easily add a gallery post in less than one minute.

NewsMojo is a widget-ready WordPress magazine theme with a three column layout and a featured content option. It comes with logo and font PSD files, so you can change and adjust this theme according to your style.

NewsMojo theme allows you to display the most important information using a slider on the home page and it supports post thumbnails, easy editable from admin options ready-made banner areas, and gravatars on comments.

Paragrams free WordPress magazine theme has a grid-based lightweight design and an artistic look. It has a custom homepage, so you can add some originality to your site. It comes with an artistic modern design, which will let you stand out of the crowd. Paragrams theme also features drop-down multi-level menu and is Search Engine Optimized.

Journal Crunch is an elegant and stylish free WordPress magazine theme with widgetized footer and sidebar. It is easy to setup and has custom home page with 2 different views allowing you to display featured posts or a featured slider.

Journal Crunch comes with built-in pagination, built-in latest tweets widget, 9 useful shortcodes, jQuery PrettyPhoto lightbox, Ajax based contact form, and grid or standard posts listing.

Sight is a powerful free WordPress magazine theme with a modern and minimalistic style. It has two layout designs – a standard view and a grid view. This theme features a stylish image slider, two pagination types and two custom menu locations.

Also, Sight theme supports social media and it has links to share each post to twitter, facebook, delicious and dig (no plugins needed). Morover, this theme is already Search Engine Optimized, so you don’t need to care about this.

Dimenzion is an eye catching free WordPress magazine theme, with a dimensional design and retro look. It features a stylish color scheme combined of yellow tangerine, brown and light teal. Dimenzion theme comes with a featured posts area on top to display up to 5 posts from the selected category.

It also has an automatic thumbnail resizing function and a built-in related posts feature, so your readers can easily navigate to other relevant post on your site. This theme is also social bookmark ready and your readers can share the post via Twitter, Facebook, Stumble Upon, Digg and so on.

RPG.cod is a content-rich free WordPress magazine theme, also enabling you to highlight videos and photos along with the news. It features social network integration (a list of your Facebook fans, a widget of your Flickr photos, etc.), latest posts navigation, and smart-looking tabbed categories. This theme also comes with automatic thumbnail resize, theme administration panel, and threaded comments option.

Imbalance 2 is an interesting free WordPress theme, which was designed in strict modern style with a minimalistic touch. It comes with two layout types (fixed and fluid), two types of content presence regarding images and text, two pagination types (standard “load more” or a trendy “infinite loading”), five custom menu locations, a custom homepage and a built-in social bookmarking buttons.

Newspress is a wonderful WordPress magazine theme with a great looking and functional design. It has a dedicated area on top to display your featured content and several widgetized areas to suit your special needs.

This theme will definitely contribute to the time your readers spend on the site and to the number of pages they view. However, downloading the free version of this theme you won’t get the latest updates or receive any technical support.

The Scoop is a four-column minimal WordPress magazine-styled theme with elegant typography. It is created for content-heavy websites and supports jQuery dropdown custom menus.

The Scoop theme comes with auto-thumbnail resizing and two different widget-ready areas in the sidebar and in the footer. Also, theme options allow you to choose which categories to display in the main content area on the home page.

Arras is a free WordPress magazine theme with 7 different color schemes and a sleek style. It features top and main navigation with full menus, custom post types and multiple selections of categories. Home page comes with a featured slideshow and 3 featured post areas with 4 different customizable layouts.

Arras theme supports one, two and three column layouts and 7 different alternate styles. It is child theme ready, widgets ready and compatible with many plugins.

The Morning After is a famous free WordPress magazine theme with 2 different featured posts areas on the home page and lots of great custom widgets for placement. It comes with a custom post type update function, a bunch of useful custom shortcodes, sidebar manager, custom navigation, auto-sizing thumbnails, and custom page templates. Furthermore, this theme is fully localized for translations.

NewsFocus is a free WordPress magazine theme with a featured content option and three-column layout. It supports post thumbnails, gravatars on comments and has two ready banner areas (supports 125×125 and 468×60 ad sizes). NewsFocus theme is also widget ready and comes with a logo and font PSD files for an easy customization.

Amphion Lite is a great looking free WordPress magazine theme with a unique home page featuring slider, two stylish fonts and two gorgeous skins available to choose between.

It has many easy to use shortcodes, multi-level dropdown menus, already built-in social buttons (Faceook, Twitter, Stumble Upn, Digg, etc.), gravatars support and separated comments and trackbacks. Amphion Lite theme comes with a well-written documentation and no hidden, paid or sponsored links in the theme.

Premium News is a premium quality, yet free WordPress magazine theme with a minimalist look. It has jQuery powered featured post panel on the home page to display the most important posts.

Premium News theme also features animated horizontal drop-down menus for category navigation and has 7 different color variations to choose from. Also, the layout supports the most popular web ad sizes.