WordPress Themes For Photographers

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: Showcase Theme, Gallery Theme, Pixelhappy, Photoblog, Flash Frame, RichWP Photo Theme, Photo Nexus(NEW), Revolution2 Album, Fresh Folio, eGallery, Digital Gallery, Viz Biz, Photo Gallery, Snapshot

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Photocrati offers simple and clean themes for photographers. View all their themes by clicking the image above.

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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.

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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.

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Photoblog Theme

Photoblog is a nice looking theme from WPZoom that includes many cool features like drop-down menus, featured slideshow on the homepage to display featured posts, widgetized sidebars, dynamic image resizing, integrated social media icons and comes with different page templates such as full width pages.

What’s really unique about this theme is that it has a built-in image resizer so you can upload very large photos and they’ll be resized with links pointing to each of the various sizes… great if you want people to download your images.. maybe say.. if you’re giving away free wallpapers. This theme is perfect for photobloggers. Compatible up to wp 2.8+

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Gallery Theme

Gallery theme by WPZoom is another great looking theme to display photos or any type of imagery you can think of from landscapes, design, architecture, screenshots, photos of your family… you name it. It comes with really nice drop-down menus, a themes option page, widgetized sidebar, 5 color styles and gives you the ability to link to all your social media profiles (which is very important these days!). And also threaded comments which allow your commentators to reply to each other.

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Flash Frame Theme

FlashFrame is a very clean photography theme from Shutterthemes.com and seems to be very popular. On your homepage it displays one image at a time and fades into the next to produce a nice slideshow. Then it gives you the ability to also blog in a seperate section of your site. So your homepage is very subtle and clean and then you can display all of your other blog posts and pages on subpages of your site. This is by far one of the most clean and elegant wordpress themes for photographers.

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Rich WordPress Photo Theme

This is a new theme that offers a bit of a change of pace from the usual layouts scene on photography blogs.

Fast and Easy Installation
The RichWP Photo Theme is easy to install. You don’t need to hack the source code. So o PHP or HTML knowledge is required. All configurations can be made from within the WordPress admin panel.

Easy Content Management
Upload your photos in any size you like. Add additional information like title, description and meta information. Choose a category and publish. It really is that easy. WordPress and the RichPhoto theme ensure that your photos will be resized to require minimal download time with the highest photo quality possible.

Features

• Automatic Image Size Generation. All photo sizes needed across the theme will be assigned and generated automatically.
• Easy installation and setup with included documentation.
• Gravatar support for comments
• Free updates
• Compatible up to latest version WP 2.7.1
• Works in all the latest major browsers Firefox V2.5 and up; IE7 and up, Google Chrome V1 and up

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New Photo Nexus Theme (NEW)

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.

Features

• Two themes. White or Black
• WordPress 2.7 Compatible
• 2 Column Tabless (CSS Layout)
• Valid CSS and XHTML 1 .0
• Gallery page with dynamic thumbnail creation.
• Browser compatibility: IE6 , IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome

Website Effects Features

• JQUERY Slide for Featured photos
• Fade in Fade out for Category photos
• Glow thumbnails

Easy Customization

• Easy to customize logo
• Full CSS
• 1 PSD file for logo
• Uses FREE District Thin font for logo

Compatibility and Guide

• Works across all Major Browsers
• Valid XHTML and CSS
• Commented Code
• Getting Started step-by-step guide INCLUDED

Photo Nexus wordpress gallery – View Demo & Buy – Only $20

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Revolution2 Album Theme

Revolution2 Album theme is very clean looking. It comes in many very attractive styles to choose from including two columns, fixed width, blue, brown, gray, purple, red, rust and sepia tone.

The below Reveolution2 Album is completely free, but the catch is that it is unsupported (It’s no longer free… seems this has been changed). If you want support which most people need you’ll have to sign up for it.. The price however is the same as you’d pay for any premium wordpress theme. And I believe you get updates with it as well.

Brian Gardner the originator of the first Revolution wordpress theme has joined up with Jason Schuller to make all their wordpress themes open source which I think is fantastic.

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Fresh Folio Theme

Fresh Folio from Woo Themes is a very nice looking theme with clean lines. It’s not focused solely on images but it does give you the ability to display one large image on the top. And it has a gallery section where you can really show off your photographs. It comes in many styles so you can pick and choose. Below are just two of the available styles. It includes 7 diverse styles to choose from.

Some other features include :

• Portfolio oriented
• The template will automatically (visually) separate your blog & portfolio content, making this an amazing theme for aspiring designers, developers, artists, photographers etc.;
• Unique page templates for the portfolio, blog, blog archives, tags & search results.
• 7 diverse theme styles to choose from.
• Built in Flickr and Twitter widgets to show your thoughts and photos

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eGallery Theme

eGallery is a theme from ElegantThemes.com made to transform your blog into a fully functional online gallery. This theme has been created with simplicity in mind, and is designed to emphasize the artwork you choose to showcase. The design has been greatly enhanced using javascript, and is easy to implement.

• Netscape compatible
• WordPress 2.7.1+ compatible
• Featured Articles
• Gravatar ready
• Firefox compatible
• IE7 + IE6 compatible
• Safari compatible
• Opera compatible
• Widget ready sidebars
• Theme Option Pages
• Custom thumbnail images
• PSD files
• Valid XHTML + CSS
• Smooth tableless design

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Digital Gallery Theme

Digital Gallery is another photo based theme released by Shutterthemes.com. They don’t say too much about it so you’ll have to give it a test drive yourself.

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Viz Biz Theme

Viz | Biz is a premium portfolio theme for creative professionals to showcase their work online from ShutterThemes.com.

Theme Features

• NEW! Automatic Image Resizing – A built-in script automatically resizes your images for the thumbnail and feature images
• Integrated blog – You can also have blog and put your thoughts and ideas online
• 4 Feature Boxes – Put your services and contact info in the areas of the footer
• Graphical header – Use the built-in option to upload your own graphic from within WordPress

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Photo Gallery Theme

PhotoGallery is a premium WordPress photo gallery theme series for photographers. It actually has 5 different styles to choose from each with a different way to display photographs on your site. It’s also from Shutterthemes.com and you can see a demo of it here.

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Snapshot Theme

Snapshot is a free wordpress theme to showcase imagery and is available from Woo Themes. It looks like it gives users the ability to rate images so this might be good if you want to start a photo/website/people rating site. It comes with 3 different styles. Those below and also a red version.

Of course you don’t have to choose a wordpress theme that is geared towards photographers to get a great looking site, although I do have to say some of them are pretty nice looking. You can turn any wordpress theme into a portfolio site, even using the Thesis theme. Check out Thesis with Slideshow pro. I’ve added a slideshowpro slideshow to the right sidebar to display images.

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.

If you liked this post you might also like 3 ways photographers can boost business in a bad economy.

Also be sure to check out the new Showcase Photo theme from Felix over at Richwp.

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 wanted to list this template because its one of the nicer looker templates I’ve seen and its super cheap. But cheap does come at a price, because after all you still have to personalize it for your business.

If you need help customizing your photography theme or template, or are looking for a designer to help set up your wordpress site please contact me.

HTML Email Template 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. In that case here’s an HTML email template you can use. Simply copy and paste in your content.

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