Arun Kale is the editor at the Split-magazine. Well, he probably knows best what are the features in a magazine that can be incorporated to a wordpress theme. And he did just that by coding an ultra cool wordpress theme – The Morning After.

The Morning after, is a magazine like wordpress theme that is sleek, very web 2.0 and customizable.
It resembles Darren’s (Problogger.net) theme here and there. Not fully though. Well, Darren’s is a customized theme so you can’t find an exact match. The one that was a closer match was Adii’s premium theme. But that one will cost you around US $100, while Arun’s magazine theme is free.
Here is a screenshot of the theme.

A detailed review of the Morning After theme can be found here.

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Before starting off, let me remind you something. This theme requires some work or rather creativity from your part too, to utilize it’s full potential. You need to create your own header image, latest post images etc…But let me tell you, for the amount of effort you are going to take, it is totally worth it. The theme also requires some plugins (not mandatory) to enable the extended functions. All the necessary plugins (Customizable Comment Listings, WP-Email, and WP-Print) are provided with the theme and therefore all you got to do is copy them to your plugins folder, activate them and done.

A word of caution – Arun has not included the tag feature on this theme, since the new release of WP is anticipated to have advanced features on tagging. He says, he’ll probably update on the tagging feature once the new version is released.  But considering that the new craze is to manipulate wordpress as a CMS, and provide contents as in like a featured post (just like on Problogger) on a magazine, this wordpress theme stands out really high!