WordPress Themes for Photographers – Press75
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Press75.com was founded in June of 2008 by Jason Schuller (@Press75) who has been delivering quality WordPress solutions ever since. Expect to pay around $50 per theme or there are some package options as well.
Press75 do have some themes that are aimed at photographers and they are certainly versatile. Here’s a few we picked out that could work nicely for a photography website.
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Roundabout
A highly customizable 3 column business-centric theme Roundabout includes several theme options and widgetized content sections allowing you to customize the theme in a matter of minutes. The home page (for instance) includes a unique featured content carousel, three widgetized columns and up to five custom footer menus. This theme includes an updated Press75.com featured content widget and Twitter feed integration as well.
ReCapture
This is a photography-centric theme featuring a gallery style layout with all sorts great features. No matter the size or shape of your photos, the ReCapture theme can handle whatever throw at it.
As soon as you upload your photo, WordPress will automatically resize each photo to be displayed perfectly within gallery pages. No worries… your photos will not be cropped, and you can always view the full size version of each photo on single post pages. Categorize your photos to create dedicated galleries for each photo set. You can even mix in blog posts, pages and other content within your gallery pages.
Photo Graphic
Photo Graphic is a simplistic photography-centric theme featuring a clean gallery style layout. Click any photo in the gallery and the original sized source image will be displayed within a “Instant View” window. Adding photos to posts using Photo Graphic couldn’t be much easier… just upload your image and click submit. Your photos will automatically be scaled to fit the content area. Photo Graphic also comes with several custom widgets for featured content, advertisements, etc.
Outline
Outline blends simple/efficient design with key media features, beautiful typography and much more. This theme could be used for blog, magazine, news and media sites or pretty much anything else. Outline includes a 100% customizable home page with a featured content carousel followed by featured content categories, posts and two widgetized sidebars. If you are interested in publishing video… Outline includes the Press75.com Simple Video Embedder which allows you to use any embeddable video format within your posts.
Free themes
We love this one as it’s certainly handy if you’re making a few changes ….
Launch For WordPress
Launch is a simplistic solution for anyone working on a new website. Before you launch your site, you probably want to give your potential users something to look at. You probably also want to provide a way for your potential users to subscribe so that you can notify them when your site is ready. Launch does both these things and much more. The launch theme includes options that allow you customize your logo, background, font and link colors in seconds.
The launch theme provides seamless MailChimp.com integration allowing you to add an email subscription form just by entering your MailChimp account details within the theme options page. Simply paste your MailChimp API key, select which list you want your subscribers to be added, save and go.
