2012-07-17



WordPress gallery themes allow photographers, designers and other creative people to showcase their creations online in an easy and yet very professional fashion. WordPress is used for more or less any kind of online content publishing and we see really cool and useful themes for regular websites (WordPress CMS Themes), web shops (WordPress e-commerce themes), online magazines and movie sites (WordPress video themes) to name a few. However using WordPress gallery themes also has become really popular and there are many many good themes to choose from. In this article I have collected a large amount of cool and some of the best WordPress Gallery themes. Hope you find the themes you are looking for. This post have just been updated with new themes and all links have been checked.





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PHOTOCRATI – WordPress Gallery Themes Pack

Photocrati is one of the most popular WordPress photo gallery themes created with a large user base. Besides having a lot of build in templates allowing for many different layouts without coding Photocrati is also one of the only WordPress themes with built-in ecommerce image galleries.

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Envisioned WordPress Theme

Envisioned is a beautiful and powerful portfolio theme that enables you to easily create professional, multi-media galleries. Envisioned has the most powerful gallery features of any of our themes, allowing you to produce versatile layouts of various sizes and aspect ratios.

MORE INFO / DEMO by ElegantThemes (premium theme)

Gleam WordPress Theme

Gleam was built to dazzle. With its flashy effects and smooth ajax loading techniques, this theme creates a truly unique experience that is sure to grab your visitor’s attention. Allowing for custom full BG photos for each page, Gleam makes it easy to create a custom stunning appearance for each section of your website. The theme also comes with a full-screen portfolio section, giving you a new way to display your work.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Elegant Themes (Premium Theme)

Trim Business and Portfolio Template

Trim is simple, professional, versatile and fast. Trim might be simple, but with that simplicity comes a sense of balance and crispness that is quite refreshing. Coupled with a bunch of great features, Trim is a great theme that will prove useful for a variety of different websites. Trim is a fully responsive design that adapts to your user’s variable screen size.

MORE INFO / DEMO - by Elegant themes (premium theme)

Boxed – Responsive Full Background Portfolio Theme

Boxed is an elegant responsive portfolio/photo WordPress theme that was created so you can show off your work beautifully on the web. The theme has a unique left-sided navigation while keeping the site centered in the browser, an optional (you can have a normal static image instead) full-screen background image slider which can be set to show different images on the homepage, portfolio pages, blog pages, regular pages and even on a per post/page basis and overall a very clean and modern design that looks great no matter your browser size.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium Theme)

Daisho – Flexible WordPress Portfolio Theme

Daisho is a portfolio solution for creative professionals and companies looking for a minimal and professional look. Flexible and responsive presentation, smooth navigational flow and clutter-free approach. Put your works in focus.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Galeria

Galeria is a single page theme, suitable for anyone that wants to showcase his work. Photographers, Graphic and Web Designers will find it very useful. Again a cool pick among the many WordPress Gallery Themes.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Evolution Gallery Theme

Evolution is our first fully responsive design and certainly one the more elegant and ’Simple. What makes the theme so special is its ability to adapt to various screen sizes. Evolution come with 4 distinct layouts, each meant to improve your user’s experience when browsing on mobile phones and tablets. No longer will they need to zoom and scroll to view your site, as the theme’s layout will adapt to the small screen and serve your content in an intuitive way automatically. Just try reducing your browser’s window size when preview the theme to see the magic in action!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

Angular – Responsive Portfolio

Angular is a responsive WordPress Theme (try resizing your browser), suited for users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. The Theme is built on top of the fabulous Avia Framework and comes with support for the bbPress Forum plugin, just in case you need it!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (premium theme)

Helm Responsive Portfolio for WordPress

Helm is a responsive portfolio theme for creative professionals. Theme is capable of displaying blog list and posts in fullwidth and 2 column layouts.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Responsive Fullscreen Studio for WordPress

RSW ( Responsive Fullscreen Studio for WordPress ) is a powerful theme for photographers and creative artists and comes with Light and Dark with theme options supporting multicolor customization of theme elements using color pickers. Creative artists can easily display their products using unlimited portfolio and post formats supporting Aside, Quote, Audio, Video, Link, Image and Gallery. The fonts can be changed using 400+ Google Web fonts choices in theme options.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium Theme)

BigFormat – Responsive Fullscreen WordPress Theme

BigFormat is a fullscreen responsive portfolio theme for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike, built to showcase your work at a large scale.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Collection

Cool gallery and portfolio style theme from Theme Junkie.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Theme Junkie (Premium theme)

King Size – fullscreen background

King Size WP is a WordPress version of the top-selling HTML template on Themeforest and it is a really different and interesting pick among the many WordPress Gallery Themes. It is perfect for a variety of purposes, although focused towards Photographers and those using Portfolios to display their past and present work collections. It’s another great example of photography website templates.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Chameleon WordPress Portfolio Theme

Chameleons are known for their ability to change the color of their skin. The patterns and color combinations you find in chameleons are almost endless, and our new theme is no different! Chameleon was created to be a simple and professional theme with loads of customization options that do not require web development experience to utilize.

MORE INFO / DEMO by ElegantThemes (premium theme)

ELIST

eList is a verstile clean and simple Directory WordPress Theme. Using eList, you can create an online directory of any type, and allow your visitors to submit new listings from the front end. The theme also comes with eCommerce integration, allowing you to charge your visitors for new or featured listings.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

Locus One Page – WordPress Gallery theme

This is as the name indicates an one page theme and it really stands out visually. It is a single page theme that scrolls when a menu item is clicked. A really unique and interesting WordPress Gallery Theme.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Specere

Specere is a feature packed WordPress Photo Theme aimed at creatives, photographers and people looking to showcase their images fullscreen with maximum impact. Specere comes packed with an easy-to-use white label Options Panel, documentation and a full screencast video tutorial link which can be found at the top of the documentation file.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

NOVA

Nova is a sharp, simplistic design that makes for an intuitive user experience. Nova’s biggest strength is its homepage, which allows you to organize your content into two areas. The Featured Slider is perhaps the most versatile slider we have built, and comes with multiple slider variations that breath new life into the design.

MORE INFO / DEMO – by ElegantThemes (Premium theme)

PicTree WordPress Gallery Theme

PicTree is a WordPress photo theme with a clean and simple look and feel with focus on your work and talent. It allows you to present your images in a unique and custom Photo Scroller as in the other photography website templates show here. Pictree brings you two different Color Schemes (Black & White), nice shortcodes, easy to use theme options, a custom post type for your Photos and more.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

PhotoMe

PHOTOME is indeed one of the really cool WordPress photo themes for photographers or designers. It has built in 2 custom skins and the vertical image slider is different and interesting and it makes this theme stand out among the many WordPress Gallery Themes.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

ANAN – For Photography Creative Portfolio

ANAN is a premium portfolio, personal, photography website Templates built with latest WordPress features. Custom Post Type, Unlimited Colors and Image Uploader etc.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Expose

Expose is a CSS and Showcase Gallery WordPress Template best suited for Gallery Sites and personal Portfolios. It comes with 3 Skins, uses custom widgets and shortcodes as well as plugins.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Flex for WordPress – A WordPress photo theme

Flex is a premium WordPress portfolio theme that’s designed specifically for photographers, designers, motion artists, and all creatives to display their work in a slick, grid-based interface. The VGrid plugin used flexes as the browser-size changes, and all projects can be launched via a lightbox (images, galleries, videos, etc.) or a full post-template! With 12 professionally designed styles, and the ability to create your own in mere minutes, the Flex theme is perfect for anyone seeking an image gallery website implemented as a WordPress Gallery Theme.This is one of the best WordPress premium themes available for building an online portfolio.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Sabuy WordPress Gallery Theme

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

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Village

If you love photography or general creativeness and want new interesting ways to display your work then this could be the theme for you. They have WordPress video tutorials that can guide you through how to create everything you need. The theme also has helpful hints throughout to let you know what everything does. If you want to create a unique look you will like that they have included many different modules that are unique to Themeforest, like the interactive query wall, and the floating slideshow navigation with automatic scroll.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Duotive Three – Complete WordPress photo theme

This is the ultimate portfolio theme with a very easy and powerful administration tool and one of the more modern look and feels among the WordPress Gallery Themes.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Photorific WordPress Gallery Theme

This premium WordPress photo theme is one of many great photography website templates. It has good features for your photography and portfolio website, and it can also be used for other projects. It has 30+ shortcodes and you visitors will like that images automatically will be stretched to fit the browser. Another nice feature is that there is no limitation on how many background images as you can use in a page, post, & portfolio item. This is of the WordPress Photography Themes you need to see a live demo of.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Photoshot

Photoshot is an unique theme! Designed for photographers to showcase your photos with style and simplicity.

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Light Box WordPress Gallery Theme

LightBox Photos, Movie and Image Showcase by foliothemes.com is a Portfolio Blog with an elastic grid for ALL portfolio categories. Stretch your window and the image items fall into place. Easy to maintain and has numerouse php and jquery enhancements. Theme Switcher, Option Page, 5 Widget Areas, Jquery Enhanced. Image and Video Handling.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Auzora

Auzora is One Page Portfolio WordPress Theme. Comes with massive admin features. Are you tired to see a lot of one page wordpress theme use scrollable effect when change the page? Then check the auzora live preview.. Auzora has extremely different effect when change the page.

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Work

Work has a clean and professional style that is perfect for displaying anything from illustrations to photography. With it you can easily build your portfolio with the numerous built-in page templates that give you the ability to create one, two, three, and four column gallery layouts.

MORE INFO by themetrust (premium theme)

Structure WordPress Gallery Theme

Months in development WP Structure is a highly flexible and heavily optioned premium theme, to be used for almost anything business, portfolio, blog, magazine & more!

MORE INFO / DEMO – by Themeforest (Premium theme)

Mobility

iPad ready Mobility is a customizable WordPress theme that serves up a touch and slide friendly user interface for iPad viewers. Get a head start publishing to iPad users.

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Carousel

Carousel is a WordPress photo theme aimed directly at photographers. The idea behind this design was to give you an opportunity to showcase large versions of your photos without the fussy front end functionality. Just scroll and then keep scrolling, it has worked for before so why not make a theme which utilizes it correctly?

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Photo Nexus WordPress Gallery 2 in 1

This theme is great for those who need a convenient way to publish and showcase a self managed Gallery of Photos, Artworks or Designs. The theme features modern yet minimalistic style so that your work will be guaranteed to be on focus.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Manhattan

Get a portfolio-style content and stylish frame with Manhattan. It includes Genesis framework, unlimited updates, support & sites and you can access detailed tutorials.

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Complete Package

Complete Package includes extensive documentation to help you with theme setup, and with some of the more advanced theme features. Documentation is included with theme.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Briefed

This is a simple WordPress photo theme from WooThemes. It has been specifically designed for freelancers, designers, agencies and creative types to showcase portfolios but it also will be used for traditional website and blogging. Briefed features a very customizable homepage and comes with various useful page templates. Other features include a custom post type powered portfolio section, 9 alternative colour schemes, custom widgets, unique and powerful options panel.

MORE INFO / DEMO by woothemes (premium theme)

Photoworks

Photoworks is a modern web 2.0 WordPress Gallery theme for photography and portfolio website. The color of this theme is black/dark.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Photopassion

Photopassion is a premium WordPress photo theme. It is designed for photographers with a clean design style with 4 colour schemes. It is powered by a great back-end, with many options, like image uploader, color picker, photo manager etc.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Photo Pure Press WordPress Gallery Theme

PurePhotoPress is proffesional WordPress theme for photographers. Creating your photo gallery website has never been so easy!

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Dandelion – Powerful Elegant WordPress photo theme

Dandelion is a Powerful Premium WordPress photo theme. This theme provides all the main functionality you will need to present your products, work and yourself in an elegant and professional style. The Dandelion theme is highly flexible, so changing the color scheme is super simple and for the most parts you won’t need an image editor. The theme is best suited for any business, portfolio, photography and personal sites. This theme allows you to build your own custom skin just by selecting your favorite colors from the admin panel with a color picker. Additionally, there are 32 custom patterns that you can choose between for the body.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Auzora – One Page WordPress photo theme

Auzora is One Page Portfolio WordPress Theme. Comes with massive admin features. Are you tired to see a lot of one page wordpress theme use scrollable effect when change the page?

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Studio Box Premium WordPress 9 in 1

Studio Box Premium WordPress Theme is about simplifying building of your online portfolio. It is packed with useful showcases to have your creative work displayed for customers and clients.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Core Minimalist Photography Portfolio

Core is the Minimalist Gallery Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WordPress features. A top pick among the many WordPress Gallery Themes. It has lot’s of features like Custom Post Type and Image Uploader, tons of shortcodes etc.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Atlas for photography creative portfolio

Atlas is just like “Core Minimalist” a great Premium Photography, Portfolio, Personal website Template built with latest WordPress features and it has lot’s of feature like Custom Post Type and Image Uploader, shortcodes etc.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Viewfinder wordpress gallery theme

Viewfinder is a photography theme which provides the perfect showcase for your art. There are no gimmicks, nothing that will fall out out fashion, just a timeless design that focuses user’s attention on you and your talent – this is how it should be. Coming in two different flavours, light or dark, and with the ability to add an unlimited number of galleries, there’s plenty of scope to set this up just the way you want it.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Gallerific WordPress gallery theme

Gallerific Two can be configured to focus on your work, your blogging, or both. Support for post formats means you can shake up your blog with your own video, images, quotes and standard posts.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Adventure Unique Photography WordPress Theme

Adventure is a minimal photography WordPress theme with a unique look and functionality that completely ditches the standard layout. It concentrates on content and your imagery with a great range of shortcodes, theme options framework and more.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

l’Image Theme

L’Image theme will make it easy for you to setup your professional photography website. Category based galleries also make it easy to create a gallery and post photos. Posting an image is just creating a new post and add a featured image to it.

MORE INFO by viva themes (premium theme)

Chameleon

WordPress Chameleon is ideal for corporate sites or creative portfolios. The slider is great for drawing attention to your products or showcasing your design work. Lots of jQuery goodness.

MORE INFO / DEMO by themeforest (premium theme)

Author : Lars Vraa

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development, SEO, social media and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for tripwire magazine readers.

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