Looking for the perfect wordpress theme to display your photographs? Are you looking for a more professional photography website? Or maybe just a photo blogger?
If you’re a photographer or artist and you want to use wordpress to run your site there are some themes available that focus on photography you can use. WordPress is free to use and it makes running a website a lot easier then it used to be. Below is a list of wordpress themes specifically geared towards photographers.
WordPress Photography Themes
In a hurry? Jump to any theme now: Photocrati, Deep Focus, Chocolate WP, Photorific, Core Theme, Brick+Mason, Family Tree, Photo PurePress, Showcase Theme, Pixelhappy, Gallerific Theme, Kin, Modern Business, Photo + Blog, Dandelion Theme, Nexus, Atlantica,
Photocrati offers a wordpress theme geared towards photographers which includes 15+ different styles. It is a simple straight-forward theme for the amateur or professional photographer.
NEW: Photocrati 4.0 has just been released with new gallery management and ecommerce capabilities. That’s right, the new 4.0 theme has built-in eCommerce galleries. Be sure to check it out.
It is now also iphone/ipad/ipod compatible! View the demo
Deep Focus is a premium photography theme geared towards photographers from ElegantThemes and it is quite impressive and you can grab it for only $39.95. You also get access to all their themes with great support.
Chocolate WP is a brand new WordPress theme that has a lot of great new features. It showcases your photos in full width so that they encompass the entire browser window which looks great on wide screen monitors. It also works with the woothemes Tumblr app allowing you to create posts like you do on tumblr, which is very convenient. A full review is coming soon. View the Demo here.
The Photorific Theme is a new photography WordPress theme that features full-width images. You can set as many background images as you want for every page, post, & portfolio item. The image will be automatically stretched to fit the users browser. This theme also comes with a color picker, 30+ shortcodes, 3 widgets, an AJAX contact form, unlimited sidebars and much more. You can also choose your own fonts for regular text, and choose from 7 preinstalled cufon fonts that look great. View the Demo Here.
The Core theme is a more minimalistic theme that offers 3 Homepage styles with a full screen slideshow to showcase your photography in style. It includes a built-in font manager so you can upload your own font. View the Demo here.
The Brick + Mason is named after the fact that it is based on a grid and includes cool new jquery features you have to see for yourself to understand. It utilizes infinite scrolling so users don’t have to leave the page to experience all your photos. This theme also uses the jQuery masonry plugin so the content will fit any browser size. If you’re looking for a cool minimal style theme with unique features this one is pretty good. View the demo.
Family Tree is a child theme for the Genesis framework from StudioPress. It is pretty unique in this list of themes as it has a more cutesy design to it making it perfect for mom bloggers, photographers or crafts blogs.
PurePhotoPress is a professional WordPress theme for photographers. Creating your photo gallery website has never been so easy!
The Rich ShowCase theme is a well-designed solution for your portfolio and photo gallery demands. The theme lets you publish photos in hierarchical galleries, and albums. Besides that, the Rich ShowCase theme takes care of all your blogging needs as well.
Pixelhappy theme from Studiopress is a clean and versatile theme which you can use for your photography business. It has many options including 1, 2 or 3 columns, multy-threaded comments and drop down navigation.
Gallerific is a premium theme with a grid based layout and powered by features such as a homepage slider and animated jquery menus.
KIN is a minimalist magazine style photography template (WordPress version). With 2 style variations and support both image gallery and videos.
Modern Business 3 DARK WordPress is a custom written premium theme. Designed for photographers to easily create gallery pages of their work and display perfectly against a dark background – with a splash of color if required in the header areas all from within a custom written admin panel.
Photo + Blog Premium is a 2 column WordPress theme ideal for the Photographer who wants an online gallery along with a blog.
Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress Theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style.
Photo Nexus wordpress gallery is a 2 column , 2 color variation ( Bright and Dark) theme.
This theme is great for those who need a convenient way to publish and showcase a self managed Gallery of Photos, Arworks or Designs.
The theme features modern yet minimalistic style so that your work will be guaranteed to be on focus. The theme comes added with Admin theme options so you won’t need to manually edit the files to get it running.
Photo Nexus wordpress gallery – View Demo & Buy – Only $25
The Atlatica theme is a complete WordPress Theme, designed from the ground up to function first and foremost as a portfolio, then as a comprehensive WordPress theme that can be used for just about any site that needs a beautiful layout.
Photography HTML Templates
Are you good with HTML or editing web templates? You might want to consider using an HTML template for your photography site instead of using wordpress. WordPress has a lot of advantages but some people might not need all the features. In that case you can build your site using simple HTML.
I have a post on Photographer HTML Templates that I’ve recently written you can check out.
HTML Email Templates for Photographers:
As a photographer you might also may want to send out a newsletter to remind your clients of upcoming events or specials you may be offering. Which is a great way to stay in touch with your clients and fans. In that case here’s a post on HTML email template you can use. Simply copy and paste in your content.
So this is my list of photographer WordPress themes. I’ve spent a lot of time putting this list together and have just upated it further. All of these themes work with the current release of WordPress 3.0.1
I’m intending to add some more info on how to further help your photography blog or website. If you’re interested then please leave a comment and let me know what you want to know, or learn. I’m happy to help photographers in any way I can so let me know what you need help with and I will try and answer your question in a new post. Hope this post has been helpfull.
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If you know of any themes that should be on this list but are not let me know.
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Hi, can you tell me the name of the plugin that is used to do the on the fly image resizing and also whether you sell it as a standalone product.
The reason being that I’m building an fsbo real estate network based on wordpress and one of the constant problems has been the difficulty in allowing clients to easily upload their images when they are very large.
Many thanks – Andrew – Australia
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I am very interesting in Your templates. But I have a question, may I sell again the templates I have purchased from You. Thanks for the answer..
Hi, no you cannot resell these templates. They are protected by each of their protected owners. This is just a list of wordpress templates you can get if you’re a photographer.
I’m not sure. It’s usually built into the theme and wordpress has a built in image resizer itself so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
Hi I try to look for a very simple layout; a filmstrip at the bottom under the main photo displayed. When you click on an image in the filmstrip the image is displayed as the main picture. I dont need any blogging or anything like tha, just some simple links to contact, about me etc and then a catagories page, with catagories laid out as a film strip. Can anyone help I have look everywhere and can’t find anything like this. Infact i can’t find anything with a film strip, can any one please hellllllllllpppppp
thanks
What are themes for photographers without the EXIF data for the photos… Fresh Foto theme comes packaged with script to pull the information and display them in style….
http://www.freshlimesoda.us/wp-themes/freshfoto-premium-wordpress-theme/
Hi Vishal, Interesting theme. Kinda confusing though. Flickr already displays Exif data and I’m sure most professional photographers don’t want to include Exif data on their portfolio sites because the images are usually manipulated, scanned from film and are the focus, not the data. Exif data is usually only used by photographers to make adjustments or by investigators
Click here to learn more about Exif data
@Jeff
That’s funny… Investigators… I agree
The reason I thought about EXIF is because now a days there are editors available which allows you to manipulate the EXIF information. Also if you are good photographer wanting to display your photos, I would think you want to show the aperture, focus, ISO and yada-yada… The way I have implemented is that I don’t display all the information but only the useful ones…. something like below
Focal Length: 70/1
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/125
Manufacturer: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 5D
Software: Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
Focal Number: 16/1
Aperture: f/16.0
Flash: shot
Date: 26-04-2008
Time: 23:39:52
Thank you very much for this listing! This is what I was looking for…
Kind regards from Germany
Stefan
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Hey Jeff,
Just wanted to say thanks again for listing the Photocrati themes here. You’ve got a great site, and this is a nice collection of themes here. We’re happy to be included. Keep up the great work.
Erick
No problem Erick,, I’m happy to list your themes for photographers here. People really seem to like them.
cool, so many themes for photographers~
thx!
I am looking for a theme (and I believe this is what “real estate” meant by his post), that displays your photos and allows sitegoers to purchase them as prints. A photo blog with eCommerce built in?
I know I can get it as a widget, but I am looking for something more embedded. Any ideas?
Andy – Not sure about wordpress, but I do know there are other website scripts out there that will allow you to sell your digital prints. I’ll have to do a post on using wordpress for ecommerce soon.
Nice list here. I’m particularly fond of the Revolution2 Album Theme. I’m looking to start a new personal blog and that theme might be enough for me to choose WordPress over Tumblr. Thanks.
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Jeff, these are great thank you! I’m in the middle of creating a website for a local photographer, I think this resource will help immensely.
I just bought from prophotoblogs.com and I havent used it yet. I installed it but not yet used. I’m new to wordpress thingy, might take a while for me to grasp…. and i found your site, and it’s cool, so many options. Do you know what’s the difference between prophotoblogs.com with these wordpress themes?
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This is a awsome list of WordPress themes. I switched over from Joomla some time back and find myself much happier with the flexibility of the WordPress content management system.
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Very interesting… Right now I’m using prophoto, but I’m not completely satisfied with the extent of customization available so I’m shopping around.
Wow, great list. This has helped out so much. Are any of these themes particularly good for SEO? Do any of them stand out from the crowd? Im looking for a elegant style theme that has a built in blog section but that is also good for seo… any help would be appreciated!
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