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
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 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 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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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.
Tim Allen says
Very timely, thanks!
Mike Panic says
Been using Gallerific for some time now and couldn’t be happier. For a “real world” website running it, check out my site.
Tim Allen says
Nice site Mike.
bibousiq says
I wish the same list…for Tumblr 😉
fotoeins says
Thank you for the article! I’m slowly investigating/studying WordPress, and your article is very timely for my research.
Michelle Riordan says
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.
Flixel says
It is actually quite easy to change themes. There are a few plugins that also help such as thumbnail resizer etc.
Igor Kventor says
Theme Multimedia Reloaded looks interesting others. There is a vote for each shot. This is vey useful
Gary Cohen says
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
Ruben says
I would also like to add Touchfolio to the list!
A great Theme! http://dimsemenov.com/themes/touchfolio/
Tom H. says
Lovely just what I was looking for. Thanks to the author for taking his clock
time on this one.