WordPress can be customized into a full fledged CMS, and many people are already doing just that.

Ever since the very early releases of WordPress, users have been eager to customize the software to suit their own needs. Indeed one of the more prevalent needs in today’s context is the need for content management, or more specifically, a Content Management System (CMS).

What is a CMS?

In computing, a content management system (CMS) is a document centric collaborative application for managing documents and other content. A CMS is often a web application and often it is used as a method of managing web sites and web content.

Back in July 2008 we made a post listing 20 Free Wordpress Magazine Style Themes that were available for wordpress at that particular time. The WordPress community moves pretty fast however when it comes to theme development and releases with many new themes being released each week. After looking around the web for a few days at magazine themes we decided it would be be a nice idea to list some of these new themes “40 in total” that have been released since our original post on the topic last year. The themes are listed in no particular order and will hopefully offer you like us a great resource when looking for a particular style magazine theme.

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