Pure Magazine Wordpress Theme

August 28th, 2009

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.

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Here are some unique features:

  • Fully flexible layout
    • Header → Featured Post → News Stream → Front Widgets
    • Featured Post → Header → News Stream → Front Widgets
    • Header → News Stream → Featured Post → Front Widgets
    • News Stream → Header → Featured Post → Front Widgets
    • Header → Featured Post → Front Widgets → News Stream
  • 13 lovely backgrounds to choose from
  • Developed with hooks – functions
  • Carousel jQuery slider panel
    • All Recent posts
    • Recent posts from particular gallery
    • Recent posts from selected categories
  • Featured Post panel
    • Featured post from selected category
    • Adjustable image size, excerpt length
    • Automatically generated related posts beneath featured post
    • Sticky posts on right – very flexible
  • Fully widgetized front page (3-column widgets)
    • 5 Custom Widgets
      • Flickr widget
      • Twitter widget
      • 300×250 AdBanner widget
      • Popular posts widget
      • Advanced recent posts widget

Theme Admin Panel (click to enlarge)

pure-magazine-admin

Front Page (click to enlarge)

pure-magazine-front

192 Responses to “Pure Magazine Wordpress Theme”

  1. Nell

    17 years ago

    Can you tell me why your themes use lot of MySql queries…It is ok that wp themes use up to 40 queries..but your use min 50 to 90..that is too mush if you have high traffic site. Can you fix that somehow?

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    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      MySql queries? … it does use lots o calls for different WP hooks but if you want to use it as advanced as it is I don’t see any other way … can you explain this problem further ? tnx

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  2. idntt

    17 years ago

    Awesome! Thanks a lot for the nice gesture of releasing this to the public. You Rock!

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  3. irfan

    17 years ago

    thanks Željan.. 😉 great themes..

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  4. Mijk

    17 years ago

    As obvioulsy (sorry for shortening it), you (Max Voltar) created something *awesome* and I cannot say other words than “WoW” (btw beloved Mac User, hating WinDose 4eveR).
    WOO!

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  5. Mijk

    17 years ago

    To make things clear: srry, missed out input-boxes and names, the message was going to both of you, Max and Željan, both your current works are awesome (only thing is that Rask ain’t working using hotkeys, cause someone had erased that “key-hover-state”, which is inside P2…!

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  6. Septian

    17 years ago

    Wow, I can’t believe this is free to download….awesome Theme..

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  7. Željan Topić

    17 years ago

    Tnx to all for kind remarks, community gave me a lot from supporting my commercial services so I need to give you back sth 😉

    Hopefully you’ll follow me with my upcoming Wordpress ventures.

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  8. Martin Rusteberg

    17 years ago

    love it!

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  9. csaba

    17 years ago

    My first impressions are wonderful..

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  10. joão

    17 years ago

    Thank for the theme…I love it…. I go change my arthemia theme for your theme…But first I want to ask something… The thumbnails and featured images needs a custom field…What the name of the custom field???

    Thank you…

    Regards..

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  11. Thai

    17 years ago

    Thanks for sharing,

    Are there any request from server? I install them but it is blank page when active it. I use wp 2.8.4.

    Please reply,

    Thanks for good theme again,

    Thai

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    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Deactivate all plugins and try activating it again 😉

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      • Thai

        17 years ago

        It worked after deactive all plugins!!! Problem with thump image.. but I will try by my own first. BTW, any advice for thump.
        Thanks

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  12. Tan The Man

    17 years ago

    Chuck Norris would like this very much…

    Reply to this comment
    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Actually, Chuck Norris had to approve it before I released it!

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  13. Bob Couttie

    17 years ago

    If only the carousel could feature pages it would be awesomely right for what we do.

    Reply to this comment
    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      It does work, you only need to set it up in theme options panel correctly.

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  14. makis

    17 years ago

    congratulations, really nice job,

    but when i activate this theme everything goes….blank!!!

    there is only a blank page, on home page or admin panel,

    do i miss something?

    Reply to this comment
    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Before you ugrade to new theme deactivate all plugins, … after that set it up as it won’t work properly before you click save for the forst time.

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  15. Vince Leibowitz

    17 years ago

    I love the theme and want to use it, but no matter what I do, the website just won’t load with this theme. It will sit acting like it is loading for up to 20 minutes, but nothing happens.

    I’ve redownloaded and reuploaded it four times to no avail. Anyone able to help?

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    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Before you ugrade to new theme deactivate all plugins, … after that set it up as it won’t work properly before you click save for the forst time.

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    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Deactivate all plugins and try again 😉

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  16. SuperMario290

    17 years ago

    Awesome theme once again! Can’t wait to download it and try it out. Keep up the amazing work! 😀

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  17. Sumardika

    17 years ago

    Great theme. Thanks a lot.

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  18. Julio

    17 years ago

    Can someone help me? I’m having problems with this theme, I can’t get the images to display on the news stream but everything is correct, the chmod of cache file is 777. Why doesn’t any image appear on news stream or in featured post??
    Please help me 🙂

    My email is julioventura666@gmail.com thanks

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  19. rop

    17 years ago

    Fantastic theme…Great Job!
    I installed it and the carousel worked for a minute, then I added more content and it stopped working. I deactivated all plugins… still nothing. Image do not show. As well as feature content. I added custom image location with full URL as indicated and instead of displaying thumbnails, it displayed the link of the post. looks like script is not processing image. How to reset script? Need help :p Best.

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  20. rop

    17 years ago

    Can someone help? The carousel does not work! using firebox, I get the error: Stepcarousel not defined. Has anyone encounter this problem? Thanks in advance for the help..

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    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Make sure you include page ID’s instead of post ID’s in theme option panel when setting up carousel slider.

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  21. Lida

    17 years ago

    Thanks for this. I will try..

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  22. Goodwin

    17 years ago

    hi, i have a problem: when i try to activate this one, i get a fatal error: Class bigbannerwidget: Cannot inherit from undefined class wp_widget

    can you tell me how i can correct this?

    thank you.

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  23. 言午一郎

    17 years ago

    Good theme!

    but, how to custom the colour of the Latest News Stream

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    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Open style.css and copy needed classes to custom.css where you may edit all theme areas.

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  24. Nikhil Pai

    17 years ago

    Amazing theme. I have never seen a free magazine theme with so many options. Just awesome !!

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    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Tnx, it’s build for most advanced users so that premium themes get a run for their money 😉

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  25. Nikhil Pai

    17 years ago

    I can’t seem to get the Twitter widget in the sidebar on my home page. It does come in the sidebar of my inner pages but not on the homepage. Same for the RSS widget. Any option to correct this?

    Reply to this comment
    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Front page is widgetized so you’ll need to set up front widgets as well.

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      • Nikhil Pai

        17 years ago

        Actually the problem is that the sidebar widget cannot be seen on the front page. Since I have added Twitter widget to the sidebar, it only displays it on the inner pages. There is no way to re-add the Twitter widget to the front widgets since it is already added to the sidebar widget.

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        • Željan Topić

          17 years ago

          Oh, I see your issue – Twidget isn’t wp 2.8 adapted so it may only be used once – I will try to update it asap.

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          • Nikhil Pai

            17 years ago

            Thanks! You may also want to consider giving an option to enable the sidebar on the front page as well. Cheers !!

  26. Julius

    17 years ago

    This is very nice. I’ll try it on my blog and see how it turns up.

    Thanks for sharing such a wonderful template. More power to you!

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  27. YPS

    17 years ago

    Hi, Željan

    Thank you very much for your ecellent theme
    It enjoy my web site 🙂

    (I’m french, my english is not good, sorry…)

    have a problem :

    When i clic “save changes” in theme administration there is a “long” time (few seconds) and i have this message on a blanck page :

    Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 28573696) (tried to allocate 4194449 bytes) in /homepages/23/d211483291/htdocs/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 450

    Afer that, i clic on “page return” on my browser, and change is good, but it’s a problem to , because it’s long.

    i hope you undersdand what i’m explain ? 🙂

    Thank’s for your answer
    Best regards
    Yann

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  28. justin

    17 years ago

    i’m having trouble with the thumbnails and pictures. i’ve done everything the suggested website said in terms of troubleshooting–the value was already preset to 755–and still nothing; all I get is a copy listing of the post i’m trying to get the images to show up for. i’m using bluehost. any help would be greatly appreciated!

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    • justin

      17 years ago

      i mean i altered the cache file to 777 as per what the instructions say underneath the Custom Image Location section. but yeah, everything i try only leads to another listing within the listing i’m trying to insert the image to.

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  29. mayvelous

    17 years ago

    Hi, thanks so much for your great theme.
    I’m planning to switch to it very soon and testing it now locally.

    I’m abit confused with the widgets areas.
    You’ve got:
    1. Invisible Widget Area
    2. Sidebar
    3. Front 1
    4. Front 2
    5. Front 3

    What I understood was, the “Front 1, 2, 3” widgets will show up at the “Front Widgets” area at the bottom of home page and “Sidebar” widget will display on individual post page sidebar. I’m not quite sure what’s “Invisible Widget Area” use for.

    When I actually tried those out, the “Front Widgets” area displays the contents of “Sidebar” “Front 1” and “Front 2” widgets.

    The “Invisible Widget Area” displays on the post pages sidebar.

    But where is “Front 3” widget content display at? I can’t seem to find it display anywhere on the site at all.

    So, could you explain abit more on each widget area and their display places please.

    Thanks again for all your great work.

    May

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  30. Jeff

    17 years ago

    Hey Željan Topić, fantastic job on the theme. I’m really hoping I can make a few adjustments and use it for my news website, CivSource. I was wondering, however, if there were a few changes I could offer.

    I’ve been looking to make the “most popular post” box display the entire headline without the […] and more generally, do away with the […] all together – is this possible?

    Also, and more pressingly, is it possible to show publish dates next to other headlines (not just the featured post?)

    Thanks for any help and keep up the great work!

    Jeff

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    • Željan Topić

      17 years ago

      Theme wasn’t designed to feature full post content on front as it wouldn’t fit the screen. However you may edit length of charcaters included in post excerpt … Dates can be published alogside other posts on front – edit the widget accordigly.

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  31. Pedro Magalhães

    17 years ago

    Hello Sir, I was wondering in which file can i increase the number of posts of “Bloghead Headlines”. I want more like 6 or 8 than 4. Thanks for everything. Your theme rocks!

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  32. Septian

    16 years ago

    Sir…is it possible to make this theme automatically grab the first uploaded image and make it as thumbnail?
    I’m a bit lazy to Copy – paste the image URL…..thx

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    • Željan Topić

      16 years ago

      No, I believe WooThemes have this finctionality so I’d suggest looking at their offer =)

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  33. J

    16 years ago

    I always have a problem when I use one of our themes…. I can’t add tags to posts. It’s like it somehow disables them and it ONLY happens with your themes. Any ideas?

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    • Željan Topić

      16 years ago

      If you’re using puremagazine theme than you need to add tags in functions that are located in library/includes folder.

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  34. pasqualino

    16 years ago

    Hi i have a problem.
    I wanto to insert a custom field in theme befor and after the title of post…

    How i doing?

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  35. Els Tan

    16 years ago

    First of all I like this theme, it is really a GREAT theme!!
    I like to know if it is possible to choose to open a new window when you click on the link put in the widget ,Bizz recent post from category (you can add 3 of them)
    I tried things like target=_blank but that doesn’t work. I like to add a link to my linkedin profile but want it to open in a new window.
    thnxs for any help

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    • Željan Topić

      16 years ago

      You’ll need to edit widget in library/functions/widget_functions.php and add target=_blank to line 411 or 412 or 413.

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      • Els Tan

        16 years ago

        Thnx it is working perfect. Can i do something simular to the links in the sticky posts (can’t find the lines in the widget_funtions.php)?

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  36. Erwin

    16 years ago

    Good post. Thank you…

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  37. Natali

    16 years ago

    Hello! I wanna swich to this skin, but can you pls tel me how can I make a hook/mod to automaticly make a thumbnail from an inserted image like I have now? Cool would be like that “If I don’t complete custom thumbnail field the skin takes the first image inserted in article and adds it as a thumbnail” … can that be done?

    Pretty pls! Thank you! Apreciate any help in this matter!

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    • Željan Topić

      16 years ago

      This isn’t possible at the moment but good idea for future upgrade.

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  38. Tamas

    16 years ago

    Hello, thanks for this great theme!

    I use this theme with php4, but i’ like to switch php5, is it possible?

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  39. Thanks bizzartic

    16 years ago

    Thnx it is working perfect.Thanks bizzartic,….Pure themes super…;))

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  40. TIPTIL

    16 years ago

    after I’ve updated to wordpress 2.8.6 I can’t exclude pages from header, do you have any ideea why?

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  41. Nataly

    16 years ago

    I have a problem!
    All images in posts automatically aligned to the right.
    I can do nothing with it.
    Even at the center of the tag did not react.
    ‘ll show the problem.
    Now my site is using your theme.

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    • Željan Topić

      16 years ago

      Nataly, I explored your site and image alignment isn’t related to theme configuration. You need to align images to left when uploading them – use alignment options in ‘Add an image’ settings.

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  42. Nataly

    16 years ago

    Please Help me!!!
    that the theme is not so, why they are right justified??
    Željan Topić please’ll tell what to do!

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  43. Nataly

    16 years ago

    Dear Željan Topić. When adding pictures, I put the alignment right, left, center, but when you add them flush right.
    In the admin menu, they look normal, correct, but the photo on the site right justified.
    Check can see the source code for example this page: http://www.womanparadise.ru/?p=1830
    There aligned photos are in the center is seen in the code. Whats wrong?

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    • Željan Topić

      16 years ago

      You’re right – my bad. Open style.css and change line 263 from .archive-spot .single img { float:right; margin:0 0 0 25px } to .archive-spot .single img { float:none; margin:0 0 0 25px }.

      Also add this line : img.aligncenter, img.center { display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; clear: both; }.

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  44. Jason

    16 years ago

    I recently installed and activated this theme (Which looks AWESOME!) But when activating it everything came out blank? I lost all template functionality and am only able to access a white, blank page.

    Any suggestions?

    Again. The theme rocks.

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  45. Nataly

    16 years ago

    I solved the problem easier. Removed the line 263 in style.css
    There is another question.
    How do I add link [Read more] at the end of reduction in posts, instead of […]
    I found how to do this only in featured post and only English letters.
    Using Russian fonts displays unreadable characters.

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  46. Gonçalo

    16 years ago

    I nice theme, but iam in very difficult to upload the images? can you give me a tutorial to upload de images?

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  47. Brian

    16 years ago

    When I install and activate the theme, None of my posts or sidebar widgets show up on home page. Neither does any of the thumbnails but Ive read your post on how to possibly fix that. This is probably on of the best theme Ive seen and would love to use it. Thank you!

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    • Željan Topić

      16 years ago

      This happens because they’re all widgets you need to set up in widgets settings.

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  48. Dj

    16 years ago

    I LOVE THIS THEME. Thanks for all your hard work!

    It seems, though, that the Featured Post and Sticky Post box does not display properly in Firefox. No apparent problem in IE.

    Any thoughts on solving that?

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    • Željan Topić

      16 years ago

      It should work as it was browser tested before release.

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  49. Irene King

    16 years ago

    Is there a general tutorial? I’m working on my sandbox site doing a badly-needed update and am using this theme. I’ve done enough to change colors and a few other items and think it’s absolutely gorgeous, and much better than the one I purchased! However, I’m one of those people who needs small words and detailed information on how to do some of these things, especially in generating the carousels. I want to do it right and would like to have something to reference. Yes, I’m even willing to print it out, lol. Thanks for any help!