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10 Stunning WordPress Templates for Photographers

January 19, 2011 By Scott 13 Comments

If you are at the point of taking your photography to a new level and want to create a personal brand one of the easiest ways is by creating a professional looking portfolio website.

Bespoke website design and management can be expensive and time consuming but the WordPress blogging platform offers a brilliant way to get your work online at very affordable prices. Better still running your own portfolio and photoblog means you can also write about your work and put yourself out there on the search engines. After reading through this review, check out our other blog post for more wordpress themes for photographers.

Photocrati

WordPress Photography Themes
Photocrati is currently among the most popular WordPress photography themes. It comes with dozens of built-in styles as well as fully featured gallery management and even ecommerce capabilities. It also offers iPad & iPhone compatibility, strong copyright protection, and good SEO. View the demo. 

Here are ten more great photography focused WordPress themes…

KIN

Kin WordPress Theme

Kin is a minimalist magazine style photography template With 2 style variations and support both image gallery and videos. The new slider feature offers an amazing visual portfolio. View the Demo.

Photoworks

Photoworks Blog and Portfolio

Photoworks is a modern web 2.0 wordpress theme for photography and portfolio website. The color of this theme is black/dark. View the Demo.

Sabuy

Custom Image uploader
Sabuy Blog, Portolio with Lightroom

Sabuy is the Premium Portfolio, Photography Template built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors and Image Uploader etc. View Demo .

PhotoMe

PhotoMe features Photo Albums

PHOTOME is a professional template for photographers or designer built in 2 custom skins, dark and a very stylish wood background design. View the Demo.

Gallerific

Gallerific Photography WordPress Theme

Clean & Valid Code. SEO friendly – Search engines see the content before the navigation (in the code). Dashboard panel to notify you of any future updates.Tested in all major browsers. “Widget-Ready” with built-in custom styling (Calendar, Archives, etc.) All major page templates included, including the 404 page. View the Demo.

Delicious Photography

Ajax Powered Gallery

This theme gives a nice flash-like experience while browsing the site. Theme will suits best for photographers or other artists who want to showcase their work in a very modern and unique way. View Demo.

Photon Wp

Photon WP WordPress Theme

PhotonWP features everything that Photon already offered bt now with the option to be managed with WordPress. Featuring the all new DDPanel. The objective of Photon from the beginning of its development was to ‘simulate’ a flash gallery. With that in mind, we were able to create a full screen HTML showcase template that works on any resolution. View the Demo.

Dobin Folio

 

Dobin Complete Portfolio Theme

 

Dobin Folio is a Powerful Professional WordPress theme. It’s perfect for Photographer, Personal Portfolios. As it includes 3 different Home page layouts which are perfect for Corporate, Business and clean looking websites. It includes powerful and minimal admin panel which give you full control over every major design element throughout your website. View the Demo.

Galleria

Galleria Portfolio and Blog

Show off your work with this easy-to-customize and fully featured WordPress theme. When purchasing this theme, you will receive video documentation and a written help file along with additional options like choosing between 12 color schemes. View the Demo.

10. Multimedia Reloaded

Video and Photography Theme

A comprehensive multimedia theme and enables the use of both still image and video. The theme has a range of different layout options and make embedding media very easy. View Demo.

Conclusion

The great thing about WordPress is refreshing your website is as easy as uploading a new theme to your server. Simply populate your blog with content and let wordpress so the rest. Running your own photoblog is a great challenge and you will soon find you have readers subscribed via RSS. Enjoy.

Filed Under: Apps Tagged With: blogs, photoblogs, Wordpress

About Scott

Scott Wyden Kivowitz is the Community & Blog Wrangler at Photocrati Media, photographer, blogger and educator.

Comments

  1. Tim Allen says

    January 19, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    Very timely, thanks!

    Reply
  2. Mike Panic says

    January 19, 2011 at 4:29 pm

    Been using Gallerific for some time now and couldn’t be happier. For a “real world” website running it, check out my site.

    Reply
  3. Tim Allen says

    January 19, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    Nice site Mike.

    Reply
  4. bibousiq says

    January 19, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    I wish the same list…for Tumblr 😉

    Reply
  5. fotoeins says

    March 3, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    Thank you for the article! I’m slowly investigating/studying WordPress, and your article is very timely for my research.

    Reply
  6. Michelle Riordan says

    March 10, 2011 at 2:29 am

    Have been looking for a beautiful layout for months so your post is perfect. I’m nervous about changing my format and messing it up. Thank you for taking the time and sharing the info.

    Reply
    • Flixel says

      March 10, 2011 at 4:06 pm

      It is actually quite easy to change themes. There are a few plugins that also help such as thumbnail resizer etc.

      Reply
  7. Igor Kventor says

    August 21, 2011 at 5:36 pm

    Theme Multimedia Reloaded looks interesting others. There is a vote for each shot. This is vey useful

    Reply
  8. Gary Cohen says

    January 3, 2012 at 11:58 am

    Funny, I just installed WP for my photo site and chose Photolux. This is not a paid endorsement, I just really like it!

    http://themeforest.net/item/photolux-photography-portfolio-wordpress-theme/894193

    Reply
  9. Ruben says

    October 28, 2012 at 6:19 pm

    I would also like to add Touchfolio to the list!
    A great Theme! http://dimsemenov.com/themes/touchfolio/

    Reply
  10. Tom H. says

    September 20, 2016 at 10:32 pm

    Lovely just what I was looking for. Thanks to the author for taking his clock
    time on this one.

    Reply

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