Do you want to start an editorial website and publish high-quality content? Or do you have an exciting hobby you are passionate about and want to share with your community?

MH Magazine lite is a free and fully responsive magazine WordPress theme. It’s a great choice for online magazines or news websites, as it offers a clean yet beautiful design which is suitable for various topics and content genres. With more than 30,000 websites running on MH Magazine lite, this is a very popular and well rated WordPress theme which is perfectly suitable for editorial related websites of any kind.

MH Magazine lite – WordPress theme for news websites and online magazines

MH Magazine lite is a free magazine WordPress theme that offers several custom widgets and useful features and options which are ideal to create professional editorial websites.

MH Magazine lite is not only suitable for online magazines and news portals, but can also be used to create appealing niche websites with topics like traveling, sports, fashion, cooking and lifestyle or it could be perfectly suitable as well for universities and colleges to cover latest news from daily life, (sports) events and more.

Several custom widgets and widget areas for flexible layouts

This free magazine WordPress theme offers some nice custom widgets which can be used on the built-in widgetized front page and within other widget areas to create appealing websites with a nice magazine-like, dynamic and well-organized layout.

The widgets on the front page can be arranged based on your personal requirements. You can for example make use of a slider widget to prominently display your latest content and place other widgets as well to showcase content from the particular categories on your website.

Various widget areas to present content and place advertisements

MH Magazine lite offers various widget areas on the widgetized front page, within the sidebar and within the footer of your website. You can for example take advantage of the 4 widget areas in the footer to inform your audience about latest articles, recent comments, available categories and tags or anything else.

On posts, pages and archives you can place additional widgets in the (left / right) sidebar to present more valuable content. To display ads and banners on your WordPress website, you can easily copy & paste your ads into WordPress text widgets and place the widgets in any of the several available widget areas.

Managing theme options within the Theme Customizer

The built-in theme options of the MH Magazine lite theme are fully integrated into the WordPress Theme Customizer so that you can easily manage the settings from one options panel and you can preview your changes before saving them to the database.

The free version of this theme for example includes some basic options to change the sidebar position from right to left, enable / disable the author box on posts and more. You may further customize your site by uploading a custom background image, your own logo or a header image to span across the header on your WordPress website.

MH Magazine (Premium) for more features, options and custom widgets

MH Magazine lite is especially suitable for websites with lots of content and you can already create fairly professional editorial WordPress websites like online magazines or news websites.

In case you’re running successful websites and want to prominently display and arrange your content on a dynamic magazine-like front page, you can also take advantage of the additional widget areas and custom widgets which are included in the premium version of MH Magazine.

The premium version of MH Magazine offers advanced custom widgets and more flexibility to manage and customize your editorial WordPress website. For example you can take advantage of the additional layout options to display your content in a more flexible way.

You can also choose to activate a second sidebar to present even more of your valuable content to your audience, which will also lead to an increase of the overall width of your website. MH Magazine is customizable in various different ways and thus perfect for websites with large amount of high-quality content.

You can learn more about this fully responsive, SEO optimized magazine WordPress theme with lots of useful features, options and custom widgets on the theme page at MH Themes where you can also find various theme demos that show the flexibility of this theme as well. In addition there is the MH Themes showcase with several impressive examples of user sites that are running the MH Magazine theme.

Thanks for reading all the way 😉 If you like, you can download MH Magazine lite and test it for your website. And in case you have any questions about the theme, feel free to reach out.