WordPress is the best medium to build an online magazine for your readers. With each passing day, WordPress is getting more feature-rich and provides you the flexibility to be creative. In this post, we share useful WordPress magazine plugins that help you to successfully convert your WordPress-powered blog or website into online magazine. These plugins allows you to properly distribute content on internet to reach the right people who need information and want to follow such magazines.
Here are the best and free WordPress magazine plugins for your website:
1) IssueM
IssueM is an efficient WordPress plugin that allows you to create, organize and publish issues. This plugin turns your WordPress website to a powerful publishing platform. It is used by various popular alumni magazines, news sites, and other publishers of periodicals. IssueM allows you to create articles and assign articles to particular issues. You can publish an issue and all included articles at one time.
Some useful insights about IssueM:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.8 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 4.2.2
Last updated: 2015-4-21
Download IssueM
2) Manage Issue Based Magazine
This free WordPress plugin allows you to present your content in a more professional format. It helps you to convert your boring blog to a mesmerizing magazine. It offers a perfect and simple way to segment your content and deliver it to readers in the right way. It also provides you the option to use WordPress categorized article features like create appropriate categories to offer enhanced user experience.
Some useful insights about Manage Issue Based Magazine:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 3 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 4.2.2
Last Updated: 2015-5-19
Download Manage Issue Based Magazine
3) Storyform
Storyform WordPress plugin lets you create engaging magazine stories with just a click. It lets you craft your story in a manner that appeals exciting for the readers. It offers you several print-like features such as fullscreen fullbleed magazine layouts, responsive across all devices, touch and keyboard friendly pagination and more. It is one of the useful WordPress magazine plugins.
Some useful insights about Storyform:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 4.2.2
Last updated: 2015-5-14
Download Storyform
4) DivUp Content
This useful WordPress plugin offer a flexible and elegant way to split post content into divs. It is great for creating columns of content for magazine style websites while keeping shortcode markup to an absolute minimum. DivUp content never uses inline styles and automatically gives divs classes like first, last, div-1, div-2, div-3 and more. It also gives you the flexibility to create your own style rules for divs in style.css.
Some useful insights about DivUp Content:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 2015-3-18
Last updated: 2015-3-18
Download DivUp Content
Given the markup example above, this is how DivUp Content would wrap your content in divs with automatic and custom classes and ids
5) WP Easy Columns
WP Easy Columns is a must-have in our compilation of WordPress magazine plugins. It provides the shortcodes to create magazine style columns to lay out pages and posts. It is easy and quick to add column to your pages from the editor. The best part of this plugin is that it comes with a user-friendly interface that makes everything simple and convenient.
Some useful insights about WP Easy Columns:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.3 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 3.9.6
Last updated: 2014-4-27
Download WP Easy Columns
6) FD Footnotes Plugin
FD Footnotes Plugin adds elegant looking features to your posts. The syntax is simple to understand and footnotes are linked unobtrusively. With this plugin, adding footnotes to a post is easy. You just need to type them inline in your post in square brackets. It offers you flexible ways to show footnotes. You can choose to show footnotes on single post or can collapse footnotes until clicked.
Some useful insights about FD Footnotes Plugin:
Cost: Free
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Compatible up to: 4.2.2
Last updated: 2015-4-23
Download FD Footnotes
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