Here’s a short intro from the theme author:

Pure Magazine WordPress theme is, as its name suggests, theme with pure, minimalistic and usable layout, structured to focus readers attention on content and ads, rather than designer graphics. It is built for large news sites that want to highlight important content and retain readers after their first visit. Web designers may also use it for their online projects and offer their clients web sites with all premium features they will need.

Features:

• Fully flexible layout
• 13 lovely backgrounds to choose from
• Developed with hooks – functions
• Carousel jQuery slider panel
• Featured Post panel
• Fully widgetized front page (3-column widgets)
• Custom translations of all blog areas
• Header / Footer Scripts Management
• Integrated Image Caption
• Relative Dates in Comments
• Choose Blog Title over Image logotype
• Total Feedburner Management
• Custom Control Panel
• Exclude Pages from header
• Exclude Categories from header
• Embeded AdSense Support
• Child Pages Ready (up to 4 level drop-downs)
• Child Categories Ready (up to 4 level drop-downs)
• WP 2.8 full compatibility
• Auto Image Re-size
• Custom Logo
• Author Information
• Advanced Excerpted Content – adjustable length
• Google Analytics Ready
• Gravatar Ready
• Feedburner Ready
• SEO Optimized Code

Screenshots:

Pure Magazine Homepage

Pure Magazine Post page

Pure Magazine Admin Panel

My Take:
Another awesome freemium WordPress theme from Željan Topić of Bizzartic. Like the IsoTherm News theme, the Pure Magazine could’ve easily been sold as a premium theme and people would’ve bought them. It has so many features and its very customizable that you can practically do whatever with it.

For me, the feature that stands out from this theme is the full flexible layout, which lets you mix and match the different front page sections into different combinations and match it according to your taste/preference. From the screenshots you can see that the header looks a bit awkwardly placed between the news stream and the featured post, well thats only one of the combinations that you can do with the layout flexibility of Pure Magazine. If you don’t like that, you can easily change that in the theme options page.

I love the News Stream section where you can display recent posts from different categories and showcase it on your homepage. If you don’t have the time or skills to customize the theme, you can choose from 13 different background images to style your blog. For those of you who love widgets, this theme is widget-ready and has a fully widgetized front page and includes 5 custom widgets for Flickr, Twitter, a 300×250 ad banner, Popular posts and Recent posts.

Like the IsoTherm News theme, this theme has a ton of features that I can’t go through them one-by-one. If you wanna see how the Pure Magazine works, you can check out the demo but better yet, you can just download it, install and upload to your server and play with it. Although this theme is primarily designed for large news sites, I don’t see why it can’t be used on a personal blog or niche blog. I’m sure with its full flexible layout, tons of features and customizability, you can make it work for you.

Once again, hats off to Željan Topić for another awesome freemium WordPress theme. Can’t wait to see your next WordPress theme release.

Preview or Download the Pure Magazine WordPress theme.

Screenshot

In my years of experience being a WordPress user and doing WordPress theme reviews, I’ve never seen a theme with so much features especially among free WordPress themes. If you don’t believe me, try it out yourself or check out the list of features and a screenshot of the theme’s settings page below.

Features:

• Sexy image panel filled with recent posts
• image panel when browsing within particular category
• Popular posts in current browsing category
• Custom translations of all blog areas
• Pagination
• Header / Footer Scripts Management
• Integrated Image Caption
• Relative Dates in Comments
• Choose Blog Title over Image logotype
• Total Feedburner Management
• Custom Control Panel
• Exclude Pages from header
• Exclude Categories from header
• Embeded AdSense Support
• Child Pages Ready (up to 4 level drop-downs)
• Child Categories Ready (up to 4 level drop-downs)
• WP 2.7 full compatibility (Paginated/threaded comments)
• Template – XHTML Site-map
• Template – Archive
• Fully Widgetized
• AdSense Ready (3 placements)
• Auto Image Re-size
• Custom Logo
• Relative Dates in Posts
• Author Information
• Excerpted Content
• 125×125 Banners (6)
• 250×250 Banner (1)
• 468×60 Banner (1)
• Google Analytics Ready
• Gravatar Ready
• Feedburner Ready
• Feedburner Email Subscribe
• SEO Optimized Code
• Sidebar Image Stream via Flickr (widget)
• Sidebar videos (widget)
• Popular Posts (widget)

Settings page:

My Take:
The IsoTherm News Magazine WordPress theme is an extraordinary theme, especially for a free theme. If you want a flexible theme that will let give you control practically over every area of the theme, then you’ll definitely like the IsoTherm News Magazine WordPress theme. With the design quality and tons of features, Željan could easily make money selling it as a premium theme but he chose not to and instead just share it with us and to the WordPress community. With that, I guess we can consider this theme as a free premium WordPress theme.

I like this theme so much that I’ll be using it on my of my upcoming projects. The IsoTherm News Magazine is just the right type of theme that I was looking for and I’m sure I’ll be having lots of fun tinkering and tweaking this theme. If you’re into minimalistic and magazine styled themes, you’ll love this theme especially with all its features. I know it might be a bit intimidating for some to have so much stuff to configure in the theme settings page but this were created to make it easier for the user to customize the theme. Some WordPress themes can only dream of the features that the IsoTherm News Magazine has, including some “premium” themes out there.

As I said earlier, I reallly like this theme a lot and all of its features and as much as I would like to go through all of it, I couldn’t because I’m gonna run out of time and I’ll end up with a very looong post. What I can tell you is that, you need to give this theme a try so you can see and experience it for yourselves. I’m pretty sure most of you guys are gonna like it.

Kudos to Željan for doing an excellent job with this theme and I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s looking forward to the WordPress themes he’ll be releasing in the near future.

Preview or Download the IsoTherm News Magazine WordPress theme.