Branford Magazine is an excellent free wordpress magazine theme. Tabbed interface, featured posts, article grouping, integrated advertising styling and widget ready sidebar. This 3 column magazine theme has ample room for any content rich site, the customizability and the simplicity of the style makes it perfect for any magazine style site or design project. There are lot of people selling premium magazine themes but I think you don’t need to buy any theme because you can download this free wordpress magazine theme and still run a premium magazine website.

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