If we look at the world of internet, we will notice that on a global scale, more than 25% of websites are powered by WordPress. And that’s not all; WordPress also powers a majority of renowned news sites.
We all wonder what makes WordPress so popular among website owners and designers. The answer is the fact that WordPress brings along a stupendously easy to use interface. And then is a plethora customization options using a huge variety themes, numerous plugins, and if you want, you can even write a code of your own!
The best part is that non coding website owners can also search for WordPress tutorials which can guide you build a complex looking WordPress based website, which will actually be quite simple to develop. Keeping the development portion aside, today we will talk about the world of WordPress themes, and explore the best themes we have come across, themes that will be a fad in 2017.
And today, we will talk about a theme dedicated to one of the most enjoyed and loved hobbies in the world: photography. Photography themes bring along pictures that are worth not just a thousand words, they will actually make you go speechless at the first glance. Although a lot of these, actually most of them come at a price, but trust us when we say it, they are worth every penny.
Although Instagram is also a good platform to share photographs, but there are some avid photographers who want something more, people who are looking for a bigger platform where their photographs don’t need to be compressed, and can be showed in their full resolution. This is right where a photography WordPress theme comes in handy.
So now, let’s talk about some of the Best WordPress Photography Themes developed by avid programmers across the world. One thing that we realized while looking at all these themes is that it there is a lot to choose from, so we’ve shortlisted them to help you find the best photography WordPress theme for you. Furthermore, there will always be more than a couple of themes that will suit your requirements the best.
You | Multipurpose Responsive WordPress Theme
“You” is an amazing, multipurpose WordPress photography theme that boasts of plentiful features. Being a responsive theme, “You” is both optimized for desktop as well as mobile based devices. Creating stunning designs on this theme is amazingly easy. Media, gallery, audio/video embedding, image styles, content of all sorts, the options are limitless, really. This is one of the few themes out there with a focus on load speed, the websites developed on “You” load in a jiffy on the device of your choice and thus offer a great user experience.
If you talk about design flexibility, “You” is definitely going to be your favorite photography based wordpress theme. Not only do you get limitless design options, you can also create the websites based on this theme very quickly and easily. Thanks to the Skin Customizer and plenty of theme options, you will be able to create a website exactly how you thought it to be in your mind. You can make your own designs and not settle for the standard over the shelf designs. Be it ecommerce based plugins or of other sorts, you will be surprised by the level of variety “You” has to offer to its customers.
And then there is the amazing option of Ajax sliders and posts, helping your page load faster with large images. This feature enables you to select which posts you want to load initially. This way, you can increase the page loading speeds of your website. Ajax sliders and posts also let you choose how many images load with each scroll or “click to load more” option.
Wait, there’s more! When you start using “You”, you will notice a great feature named Flexishapes. Flexishapes allows you to give your content a unique layout such as slanted, curved, and even bent!
Say goodbye to the regular mundane square or rectangular layout, and welcome a world of unique layouts and intrigue the interest of your website visitors at the first glance!
And that’s not all; with plenty of video tutorials and documentation, you can easily learn how to build websites using the “You” wordpress theme. And you will also get support from the help desk comprising of experienced and professional tech support experts.
You Theme firmly makes it to the top of our list of Best WordPress Photography themes.
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Oshine WordPress Theme
Oshine is an innovative, resourceful and attractive WordPress theme that boasts of a striking multi layout along with a multi-purpose portfolio. If you are an amateur photographer or freelancer photographer and looking for photography based website, The Oshine WordPress theme is going to be a good option for you. With a flexible design and plenty of inbuilt features, you can create an attractive website using Oshine theme. What’s more? You also get 50 drag & drop modules for page building, limitless color options, and many other features, you can create a website of your liking effortlessly.
The developers behind Oshine theme have also empowered it with 16 unique demos that depict how versatile Oshine can be. The demo is also very useful to guide you through the initial setup and to assist budding website designers to create a site without much trouble. It won’t be an overstatement if we say that Oshine is packed with all the necessary tools that can make your photography website mark its own territory among the rest, a worthy addition to this collection of photography wordpress themes.
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Two Fold Photography WordPress Theme
The first thing you’ll notice about the Two Fold Photography, or TWFLD as they like to call it, is that it is a fullscreen based photography WordPress theme.
Two fold photography packs a powerful punch of 7 different home page layouts, with each layout strikingly beautiful and loads customization options. You can include color changing logos, animations of your choice, and a lot more! From the Kenburns, to slider with thumbnails and cube effect, you can choose any layout of your choice. Each layout is versatile enough to suit your particular photography based website. Creating an enticing homepage is now just a click away!
And there are 6 different album and gallery layouts which are further customizable in as many ways as you want. Each album layout brings along a unlimited customization options. So even of two given website owners are building a webpage on same layout, their personal taste will lead to a different result, which will look completely different from the other one.
Like with many of the WordPress Themes in this collection, the gallery and album layout options provided get multiple Grid styles and Masonry Styles.
If you want to, you can group two or more albums together and show them on your webpage in the form of a collection. Two fold photography theme offers you the collection pages with custom filters. The three collection layouts are Horizontal Photo List, Masonry and Horizontal Albums. Filters are extremely useful to ensure easy and quick navigation.
Apart from that, you also get 3 different hover effects for each webpage. The way an image responds when the mouse hovers over it can make or break user experience. And Two Fold Photography wordpress theme has made sure that the user always gets a memorable experience.
Furthermore, you also get 3 blog layouts where each layout offers different pagination options, button customization options and literally unlimited scroll options.
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Clean Photo – Photography Portfolio WordPress Theme
Designed by Elite Author, Clean Photo is a Photography WordPress Theme that has garnered more than 1800 satisfied customers till date, and the number is still growing. What’s more, from Slider Revolution to Visual composer to ACF Pro Plug-in, you’ll get a plethora of plugins that can make your website as versatile as you want it to be.
The best thing about the Clean Photo is that the developers of this WordPress theme have focused on the most important part of a website – the content. Just think about it, what good a website’s layout would be if it doesn’t display the content with main focus on it. Content is everything, and Clean Photo has made sure the theme gives proper justice to it. And then again, the designs are handcrafted by expert developers who also happen to have deep love for art. Things just can’t get better now, can they?
Plus, with two menu styles, different headers and many sliders, you can design your webpages using all the possible permutations and combinations.
And when it comes to the way the portfolio list is displayed, you get three options to do so: Full width, two columns and three columns. You can also choose to show the portfolio images as thumbnails, slider, 2 columns or full width, an essential for themes showcasing photography.
And just in case you are looking for a responsive design, clean photo saves the day once again. And if you are wondering whether Google approves it or not, it does.
So, in a nutshell, Clean Photo brings out a modern design with its main focus on the content. To make it possible, the developers have created various layout designs, multiple theme options & different styles for sections.
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John Black Photography WordPress Theme
If you are looking for magnificent fullscreen photography theme powered by WordPress, John Black Photography is going to be a good find for you. With premium quality design and a wide array of functional and practical features, you are surely going to love the moment you start creating your website on this theme. The readymade design of this theme will definitely help you post your favorite photographs in an impressive way. When you’ve got pictures to share with your site visitors, you’ve got to get everything right. A picture is worth a thousand words; and one wrongly step can ruin the whole experience. John Black makes sure it doesn’t happen.
Let’s take a look at what makes John Black such an amazing and powerful theme and a great addition to our collection of photography WordPress themes.
The first thing is the custom slider. You may have come across many versions of sliders; some are full screen, while some are fixed. Although John Black offers the first kind, they have amped up the game to a whole new level. Through the thumbnails, you can see all the images. But that ain’t all over there, just hide the element options, and you’ll get to see the entire photo.
The next comes the way you can design your gallery. With three layout options: Grid, flow and ribbon, you can converge the attention of your audience right where it matters the most: the content. The layout looks amazing on all screen resolutions.
Plus there are options to choose from light of dark skins. So whether you want your website to go with the photographs, or complement them or be in contrast with the overall layout, the choice is all yours. The options are galore, and the decision is yours to make.
And then there are features such as the GT3 page builder plug-in, password protected gallery (for professional portfolios), keyboard support, responsive design, and amazing technical support through help desk and detailed documentation.
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Verve: The High Style WordPress Theme
If you look at websites designed on the Verve theme, there is only word that will come across you mind, and the word is Awesome! Verve offers an entirely different sort of web experience to the website owners and the site visitors. The video tutorials offered by Verve are always at your disposal if you get stuck at any point in the journey of creating your website. Verve is here to make your content shine, where are you?
You must have seen navigations of all sorts, and Verve can be defined in one word: carousal. And just in case you want to make things a little bit twisty and unusual, you also get hidden navigation in Verve.
And then there is stylish blogging. Say goodbye to the regular, mundane blog formats you see spread all across the internet. Verve is here to make normal take a break and make everything as stylish and striking as possible.
Looking for awesome portfolio designs that make your photographs stand a class apart from the crowd? Verve has got just the right thing for you.
Let’s see what makes verve so great to use as a theme, and why it offers such an amazing user experience.
The first thing you’ll notice is its One Click design. With Verve, you won’t have to spend endless hours to create pages the way you see in the previews. You can create all these pages with one click. That’s right, one click is all you need to do, and you don’t need any additional plug-in to do so.
Video tutorials that talk to you! While Verve offer extensive documentation to assist you with your first website building experience, they take things a step ahead and also offer you video tutorials on their YouTube channel. We recommend you to go through these video tutorials before you actually try your hands at your first Verve Photography WordPress Theme.
If you happen to be an avid photographer and like to maintain a blog to share your stories, Verve is at your service to help you find the best suited layout for your blogs. Just choose the one that suits your taste from a huge variety of layouts, and start blogging!
Portfolio items, team members, slides, and testimonials, you name it, and Verve has got it. Content creation and management has never been this easy before, a great addition to this collection of WordPress themes.
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Etudes WordPress Theme
This photography WordPress theme was particularly designed to display your work so website viewers don’t get distracted from the content of the website. This attractive design is perfect for both kinds of photographers, those who do it as a career and those who do it as a hobby. Boasting of copious amounts of photo galleries, Etudes enables you to show your work in the most eloquent way possible. And then there is the journal section, where you can upload as much content as you want. And then there is a wide array of layout options to choose from.
Now, it’s time to see what makes the Etudes WordPress theme so special.
The first thing that you’ll notice is the multiple components. Using these components you can create the best design for your website using same style.
Play with blocks! No we are not talking about Lego blocks here. The fact that your content can be displayed in various blocks, which can be further arranged in as many permutations and combinations as you like is a win-win situation for both you and your website visitors.
Plentiful of pre built page layouts can ease up your task of choosing a layout that suits your work and your requirements perfectly. With 5 “About” pages and 4 “Contact” pages, you can select the one you like the most and beautify it with your content. See, in the end, content is everything.
Speaking of content, your galleries, albums, and blogs are your power tools to make your website a great place for your website visitors and give them a great user experience.
And just in case you were worried about SEO perspective, don’t worry, Etudes theme is developed keeping SEO in mind.
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Grand Photography Theme
Say hi to a fresh breeze in the world of the repetitive themes with same old layouts. With more than 100,000 happy customers to its credit, Grand Photography has become a trusted name for a majority of freelancers and photographers who are looking for building a website that displays their work expressively.
When it comes to gallery designs to choose from, Grand Photography theme really packs a punch with more than 144 predesigned galleries. So you don’t have to build a gallery design from scratch. With so many designs at your disposal, you will surely find the best design matching your needs. And just in case you don’t find the right design, which is highly unlikely, you can also build your own without much hassle.
Say goodbye to the tacky and jittery scrolls with the smooth parallax scroll, which also renders each page at a speed of 60 fps.
Grand Photography also features YouTube and Vimeo support. Apart from that, you can also group your albums together and make a collection to put on display for your visitors.
And thanks to the WooCommerce plug-in, you can convert your website into an ecommerce website where you can also sell your photographs and artwork.
And when we discussed collections where you can bring a number of galleries together, you will galleries to do so, right? Grand Photography also supports a direct purchase link to the galleries so that visitors can buy your artwork directly from the slideshow.
With live content builder, you can create beautiful pages quickly and easily. The keynote like interface makes everything easy where you get content inspector and preview changes on the go.
Nowadays, people like to visit websites on the first device they can get their hands on. And in current times, that device is the smartphone, the amazing gadget in our pocket. So, it was inevitable for the tech savvy people working behind Grand Photography to make it responsive and useable on all sorts of screens. If you come to think about, you’ve got to make responsive websites, or you won’t get as much visitors as you expect. Grand photography saves the day, and thus, has turned out to be one of the most preferred themes for a majority of photographers.
And just in case you have any ideas of your own, you can also customize the Grand Photography theme as per you liking and give it a completely unique and personal touch. The result would be a beautiful website that oozes with individuality and a personal touch. We all love individuality, don’t we?
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SolarWind Photography WordPress Theme
With thousands of live websites and more than 37 thousand satisfied customers to their credit, SolarWind is known as a stunning photography theme that brings along unlimited possibilities. To give your website a clean and minimalistic look, it is very important to have plenty of white space.
For photography themed websites, it is very important to keep the focus on the main content. And that is why websites with minimalistic approach have always been popular among photographers. Minimalistic websites also have various advantages. First of all, minimalistic website designs load faster than the conventional designs. Secondly, they keep the visitors’ focus on the content of the website, and not anywhere else. SolarWind has been developed keeping these factors in mind, and we recommend you to give it a try. You can thank us later.
Let’s what are the strong points of the SolarWind photography WordPress theme…
The custom SolarWind full screen slider supports not just images, but videos too! Now you can present your artwork to the website visitors in the most dazzling and captivating way.
Have you heard of the ribbon slider? If yes, then you know how versatile and efficient it can be for your website. If not, then we must tell you it is a great way to drag and drop your images onto the slider and just let the magic begin.
The album feature lets you post your favorite moments and photographs and put it on display for the site visitors. You can create as many albums as you like.
When it comes to the album layout, SolarWind gives you a lot of options with masonry and grid layout being the top contenders. Out of these two options, masonry layout is highly recommended as it lets you display plenty of content without making the page look stuffed and crowded.
And then there is an amazing layout called the striped page. Give a different background to different stripes and add a back link to any page you want.
In case you don’t want the standard page layout, you can also go for the fullscreen layout that makes your blog stand out from the ordinary.
And SolarWind doesn’t stop at just full screen blogs. Even your portfolios can be displayed in full screen mode.
And that’s not all; let’s take a look at other features offered by SolarWind:
· Latest WordPress updates on regular basis
· Page template customization
· Plenty of inbuilt plugins
· HTML5 along with CSS code
· Responsive design
· Retina Display
· SEO Friendly design
· Contact Form 7 support
· WooCommerce support
· Mailchimp support
· No charges for post sales assistance
And a lot more!!
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Napoli: Modern Photography Portfolio Theme
Napoli was among those WordPress themes that welcomed the Christmas season and then the New Year with a Bang! The release version 1.5 came packed with 7 new amazing homepages. That’s 7 more pages to infinite gallery homepages already available on Napoli. Napoli also features layouts in filmstrip layout, which gives the gallery homepage a unique look and easy navigation.
If you are looking for gallery previews on the homepage, you get to choose big thumbnails. And by big, we mean really big, and not just your usual size thumbnails. And then you have the split slider homepage. All in all, you will get the most stylishly designed homepages, designs that are no less than those made in a creative studio.
And then there is the strikingly beautiful “coming soon” page for all your upcoming photographs or offers. Price, package deals, whatever you want to include in your 2 column layout, or the 3 column one, Napoli lets you do it all with minimum effort.
If you find it hard to design a website on your own, Napoli also offers 12 amazing handcrafted demos for your aid. The preview gallery, photo gallery with an option to share the images, different album styles, WooCommerce integration to add E-commerce feature to your website, you get it all in Napoli. What’s not there to love this amazing theme!
Apart from that, you also get 10 interesting hover styles: Gray Scale, Rotate, Sepia, Opacity, Slide, Blur, Blur + Gray Scale, Zoom + Gray Scale, Zoom Out and Shine. Apart from that you also get Dark Style.
And just in case you were wondering about SEO perspective of Napoli, we must tell you that this is one of the most SEO friendly themes you will ever come across.
And then are features such as booking calendar, page builder, one click installation, video support, extensive online documentation, amazing UI/UX, limitless customization options, Google maps, call to action, social media integration, and a lot more.
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Borano Photography / Portfolio WordPress Theme
Borano brings HTML version 5 to showcase your work in the most stylish way you can possibly imagine. The video updates included in the 1.2 version of Borano allow you to include video portfolio page, video horizontal slider, and an updated portfolio single style 6. This update also brought along updated thumbnail gallery layouts and fullscreen view for images.
You can choose from light or dark theme depending on the mood of the photography, while also keeping in view the fact that light theme loads faster than the dark theme and also keeps the visitors’ on the content and doesn’t create much distraction. But in case you like to use dark theme, you will not be disappointed by the performance of this version either.
Today, any website that isn’t responsive can’t expect to live a long life on the internet. And thus it becomes inevitable for website owners to make sure that their websites are responsive and can be viewed from screens of all platforms and sizes an essential for all WordPress themes showcasing their portfolio.
And just in case you are not an avid designer and find it hard to take the first step towards building your website, Borano brings video tutorials for you to refer to.
Let’s see other features available on Borano:
· Multiple Slideshows
· Light/Dark Theme
· Keyboard and Mousewheel Navigation
· Horizontal Gallery
· Justified Gallery
· Landing Pages
· Gallery and Portfolio Homepage
· YouTube Homepage With Controls
· Albums
· Lightbox (YouTube, Vimeo, HTML5 support)
· Personal Pages
· Smart Grid For Galleries And Portfolios
· 5 Project Pages
· Filterable Portfolio
· Handcrafted Design
· Clean Code With Comments
· Easy to customize
· Fully responsive
· Retina Ready
· Working Contact Form
· Google Map
· Google Fonts
· Responsive video
· Powered with Bootstrap
· Well Documented
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Photonic: Fullscreen Photography Theme
If you are a professional or amateur photographer, a visual artist, or an architect, you will definitely love the Photonic Photography WordPress theme. If you are looking for a theme that can help you build a photo centric website, this is where you search ends.
Many budding photographers, freelancers, professional photographers and creative companies have their websites designed on Photonic.
The first thing you’ll notice while using Photonic is its full screen layout. And not just one, you get 10 full screen layout types to suit your taste and genre. You can choose your favorite header from 4 different headers, which can be used either all across the website, or a different header for each page.
Packed with beautiful portfolios, speed optimization, photo proofing, client management, page color control, responsive design, WooCommerce integration, SEO compatible, intuitive controls on themes, password protected galleries, shortcode generator, page builder, online and offline documentation, one click demo import, quality support, help guide, and many other features, Photonic is your best buddy when it comes to making websites based on photography themes.
Photonic theme is purely meant for photography based content. Be it the Display Filterable, Ajax portfolio, Lightbox or any other feature, Photonic does it all. Multiple columns support ranges from 1 column to 4 columns, and then there are event galleries, ecommerce integration and video integration for YouTube and Vimeo (HD also supported for both platforms), static images and what not!
Widget Support: Address, Images, Social media icons, Flickr, Gallery, Event Lister, Popular Posts, Video, and Recent Posts.
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Fliper: Photo Fullscreen WordPress Theme
Fliper is a wonderful photography WordPress theme you can use to express your extraordinary creativity. It won’t be an overstatement to say that this theme is the best solution for building a tempting portfolio. So it is best suited for models and fashion photographers. The Fliper template also comes with a fullscreen slider and a lot of other wonderful types of galleries that allow you to make a fashionable presentation of your projects.
The Fliper Slider: the updated version of the Fliper slider lets you add images and videos of your choice. Fliper understands your artwork must be presented in an eye-catching way, and that’s exactly what it does.
The Flow Gallery: The flow gallery makes each and every image fit any screen resolution. The overall outlook of the gallery enables you to keep your website visitors focused on the images, and not anywhere else.
Gallery Albums: There is no better way other than a gallery to share your work and memories captured in pictures. Fliper lets you create as many albums as you want, and that too without any hassle.
Masonry Portfolio and Gallery: While Fliper offers a wide range of options to display your artwork, the theme developers recommend you to choose the masonry style layout where you will be able to show all your content and still save a lot of space. Webpage should look tidy and spacious, and masonry does a remarkable job!
Real Proportion: if you want to display your photos in their real proportions, whether it’s they are in landscape or portrait orientation, the real proportion features saves the day for you.
Advantages of Fliper:
· Latest WordPress
· Custom Page Templates
· Built-in Drag & Drop GT3 Page Builder Plug-in (built-in)
o Built into the Theme
o Installed Automatically
o Simple and Intuitive
o Easy to Use & Modify
o Tons of Modules/Shortcodes
o Build Custom Page Layouts
o Drag & Drop Page Modules System
o Custom Settings in Modules
o Time Saving System
· Responsive
· Retina Ready
· HTML5 & CSS Code
· High Speed & Extra Optimized
· Coded with SEO in Mind
· One Click Demo Import
· Translation Ready (.po .mo files)
· Color Management
· Google Font Support 600+
· Advanced Theme Settings Panel
· Cool Animations
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