Magpress Review

Magpress Overview

Magpress offers a wide variety of WordPress themes that can suit your personality, your values and the products that you have to offer to the world. Working with Magpress gives you have high quality magazine WordPress themes made with attractive designs to call out to your prospective customers.

Theme Functionality

Magpress provides you with a great number of WordPress themes to work with. You can select from 2 of their premium themes or go for 70+ free themes. Either way, you get the functionality at your fingertips.

Let us dig into two of their premium themes, Fruger and Ecopal. The Frugal theme provides you with three columns of fixed width to work with. It has extra features like the ability to customize a featured category post of your choice and auto thumbnail. You have the ability to embed video from Youtube and put in an advertisement banner with the 125×125 dimensions.

For EcoPal, you get to work with a magazine WordPress theme that has easy to use options like Adsense, the ability to put in threaded comments, work with featured content slider that uses Smoothgallery, and many more. Colored in the calming colors of green, white and blue, it’s easier on your viewer’s eyes encouraging them to stay longer and read on your business more.

One of the free WordPress themes, Maglue is one that’s made with two columns of fixed width. It has a homepage magazine style on the other column and two other columns for other pages are equipped with a footer sidebar, featured content slider and it supports custom menus as well.

Working the two columns fixed width, the EduNote is a WordPress theme you can use for education orientation. It’s a good choice for teachers and students. The options page are user-friendly and it comes with a Twitter feed function.

Theme Graphics

If you’re wondering about the graphics that the WordPress themes from Magpress have, they’re average. However, you have a wide array of themes to choose from that come in a variety of color schemes. All your favorite colors can make up the whole page of your business and these colors blend in such a way that’s easy on the eyes. Even with these colors being eye candy, they don’t distract your viewers from reading the contents of your site. On the contrary, with a site that has a background promoting relaxation, viewers are encouraged to stay on your site longer and browse for more things to read and look at.

Theme Pricing- base on August 2010 data

For the wide selection of WordPress themes (70+ of them) that Magpress offers, you can work with most of them without any cost. Just 2 of their themes are paid ones and they cost $30/theme for a single license or $70 for a developer package. We think their free themes can be as good as their premium themes so why spend money when you can get them free?

Theme Support

You can leave your theme issues in the comment section of the theme. There is no forum support from Magpress and the response is not as timely as those of the reputable premium theme providers like Studiopress. But what can you expect from a provider that you get the themes for free?

You can also click on the Contact Us button and leave your questions there. By putting in your web address and other information, one of the professionals at Magpress will get back to you with an answer to your query but the response is not guaranteed.

If you are expecting good theme support, go for Elegantthemes, Studiopress or Graphpaperpress.