Are you looking for an eye-catching new WordPress theme? One of the hotter trends is recent memory is to go with the magazine style layout and Headlines by WooThemes continues with this trend by adding a series of requested features.
The magazine style layout is a great option for all sorts of different WordPress sites, whether they are professional blogs focused on a specific niche, a company blog focusing on its own products, or any number of other applications. Headlines has been designed to be the “perfect platform to launch your magazine or blog and reach out to the world.”
A Clean and Robust Design
To give you a better sense of the Headlines theme, you can go to the live demo page.
As you can see from that page, there is a strong header area that is accompanied by a slot for a 468 x 60 pixel banner. Below that is a narrow navigation bar and below that are spaces for your different categories. The latter can have drop-down menus for sub-categories, as well as a small space for brief descriptions.
Headlines is a two-column layout where the main content is shown with an excerpt and a thumbnail image. The main “feature” area can automatically cycle through a series of posts too, scrolling from left to right to the next item every few seconds.
In the sidebar, there are pre-designed slots for popular posts (including thumbnails), latest videos, 300 x 250 pixel banner ads, four 125 x 125 ad boxes, and other widgets. The footer is also widget-friendly for a Flickr photostream, archives, and so forth.
Other Notable Features
Designer Magnus Jepson paid close attention to the feedback he has received from the community in his development of Headlines, implementing many of the requested features.
These include the aforementioned jQuery tabber/slider area above normal posts that can slide automatically (or remain static, if you prefer). Among the other featured highlights are Twitter support, author box widgets, Cufon font replacement, four ad spaces, a flexible layout, custom Woo Widgets, auto-sized thumbnails, and fifteen alternate color schemes.
Simple changes to the theme can be done from the WordPress dashboard, thanks to a Theme Options area. This way, you don’t to manually edit the raw code itself. From that area, you can change colors, include your Analytics code and more.
See Headlines in Action
To see some real live implementations of Headlines, you can take a look at some of the websites below.
As you can see, while they all use the same Headlines template, the sites can look quite different. You are also free to change the header image and other settings to suit your specific needs.
Pricing Options
As with other WordPress templates that are available through WooThemes, Headlines comes with four different pricing options.
The WP-Standard license is $70 and it includes two more themes for free, but does not include the PSD files. The WP-Developer license, which does include the PSD files, is $150 and comes with three more themes for free.
The Club-Standard subscription is $125 plus $15 a month, granting you access to all themes but not the PSD files. The Club-Developer subscription is $200 plus $20 a month, providing all themes and PSD files.
I follow Robb Sutton dot com and noticed he was using the Headlines theme (as you mentioned in the post). I like the customizations he added to his theme and right now I'm considering joining the woo themes Club-developer subscription.
Thanks for the review of Headlines!
Hi guys
this theme is really cool thanks for sharing it with us
kind regards
sam
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That was a good design indeed. It was very cool. The headlines has been designed to be the “perfect platform to launch your magazine or blog and reach out to the world.” Amazing.
cool, another great magazine style template. I have to try this
Why am I being denied access when I click on the "Live demo" page?
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