In this post we look at three free themes that use the featured article layout style; taking break-out content from your site and featuring it in an attractive and compelling manner. These styles tend to require a little more foresight in choosing headline articles and images to go with them, but the pay-off is an attractive site which can really distinguish itself from the all-too-common list of blog articles.

Theron Lite is an all in one wordpress theme with 3 awesome fonts, slider, background image and easy to use theme option panel. The Theme also includes 3 built-in widgets and 5 useful shortcodes. The theme is SEO Friendly and has plenty of user-friendly options.
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Curiosity is a simple, clean and elegant theme for WordPress 3.5. It is packed with an easy-to-use options panel which makes it very easy to customize the layout. It also holds a beautiful jQuery slider and carousel posts on homepage. There are two widgetized sections in siderbar and footer of the theme where you can use default or custom widgets included in the theme.
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Skylark is a bright, clean, and responsive theme that’s a great starting point for individuals and businesses who want to establish a professional online presence. Not only is it well-suited for general blogging, but its showcase and portfolio page templates make it easy to highlight latest news and projects in style.
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