Looking for the perfect wordpress theme to display your photographs?
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 images 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.
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. 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.
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
Flash Frame Theme
FlashFrame is a very clean photography theme from Shutterthemes.com. 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.
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 2.6 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 tabless design
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.
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
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.
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.
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