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Monday, March 11, 2013

WordPress magazines, unlike WordPress blogs need to have a clear and simple design adapted to the amount of information that it will have. Usually, online magazines have a lot of articles and sections and a really creative site design may redirect attention to the design itself instead of the content.

Thus, WordPress magazines layouts must be created carefully in terms of user experience so that the visitor won’t lose important articles and they also must be designed in a rather minimalist mode, without many Photoshop effects on the elements of the site. The best solution is to have almost everything made in code and just a few items like icons to be made in PS.

Also, since I mentioned icons, I advise you to use icon fonts instead of regular icons due to their low size and use sprites for your other visual elements to reduce server load.

In this article you will see 27 web designs showcasing WordPress magazines layouts and practices made by various designers, with different views on how to create a WordPress magazine.