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Photoblogs and Galleries with WordPress

Nur — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 05:42:24 +0000

Photographers and Graphic designers can use WordPress to display their creative work in may different ways from simple to complex photo or portfolio galleries. WordPress gives the option to use Plugins and themes to built a PhotoBlogs and Design galleries. Today we will look at some of the different options for PhotoBlogs and Gallery scripts.

PhotoBlogs

WordPress is the best option for Photographers to create a PhotoBlog, All they need to select WordPress Theme which is specially design for PhotoBlog like Photocrati , an excellent WordPress themes for photographers. Creating your photoPhoto has never been so easy with this theme. I’m a big fan of Photocrati’s themes because theydesigned for photographers. They are easy to use and allows you to get your site set up in a couple hours, depending on how many photos you have.
Now they have launch their first WordPress theme with BUILT-IN ECOMMERCE galleries!

PhotoBlogging With WordPress Theme

There are plenty of useful resources around the web for PhotoBlogging WordPress themes , and here we’re gathering best of them together in this post. Do let us know in the comments if we’re missing out something here!

Photocrati BUILT-IN ECOMMERCE galleries!

WHAT’S IN PHOTOCRATI 4.0?

Built-in gallery management!
Built-in ecommerce galleries! Add ecommerce galleries with print sizes and prices. Comes with shopping cart functionality, integrated with Paypal. Accept Paypal or credit cards for purchases. You’ll be notified of purchases and sent an order summary. You’ll fulfill orders yourself at your preferred print lab.
iPhone / iPad compatibility.
Copyright protection for Photocrati Galleries – no right clicking, dragging images to desktop, or viewing source URLs.
Albums. Now add album pages – with thumbnails linking to each of your galleries.
Border controls. Customize borders on images and thumbnails in galleries.
Music. Add music to your home page, gallery pages, and blog page.
IPTC Data. Automatically imports IPTC headlines and captions.

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Adventure – A Unique Photography WordPress Theme

Adventure is a minimal premiumm 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

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Sideways Portfolio Website WordPress Theme

Sideways is a portfolio theme that offers both horizontal and grid layouts. It incorporates eye catching full screen background images that scale to fit all resolutions and window sizes as well as strong and elegant typography and design.

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JingJang – Premium Theme for Photography Portfolio

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

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DeepFocus WordPress Theme

Now you can turn your WordPress blog into a fully functional online photo gallery while still maintaining all of the features of a normal blog. Along with the gallery layout, DeepFocus comes with a robust blog and CMS-style homepage as well, making it an amazing solution for artists/photographers looking to build an online presence.

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StudioPress Landscape Child Theme

Perfect Theme by Studiopress for showcasing your Photographs & designs, very simple & easy to navigate. Amazing cool Features. Includes Genesis Framework.

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Galleria – Photography and Portfolio Theme

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.

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ePhoto WordPress Theme

ePhoto was created for those looking to turn their blog into a photo gallery. While the theme was created with photographers in mind, it can certainly be used to display any type of digital imagery. While the main content of the theme is image based, I have also added the ability to create a separate blog page where normal blog posts can be integrated alongside your photos.

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Hand Crafted – Professional WordPress Theme

This premium photography theme has multiple Portfolio Layouts, allowing you to publish your content in many different ways. The most interesting layout is the Single Column Portfolio, which allows you to create a Slideshow from all the images inside the posts, adding Video and much more!

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Graphix Theme

Graphix is a beautiful portfolio/personal WordPress theme with lots of eye-candy and 5 modern and fresh color styles to choose from.

Live preview | Detail Other Themes - Photoblog Theme | Photoland Theme | Photoria Theme

ReCapture

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.

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Viewfinder: Photography WordPress Theme

Viewfinder is perfect for photographers which need a simple yet elegant showcase for their artwork. 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.

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Chocolate WP

If you need clean, light and simple WordPress Theme, Chocolate WP is definately… not your choise! It is refined and elegant template with complex and precise combination of light gradients and shadows. It was created to serve you as unique showcase of your works with strong blogging component powered by Woo Tumblog (for Tumblr-like posts) and Express App (for simple posting from your iOS-device).

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There is an other easiest way to get started with photoblogging on WordPress is to either install WordPress Premium Plugins or by using Free Plugins.

PhotoBlogging WordPress Plugins

jGallery

This WordPress Gallery Plugin gives you a simple and extremely customizable way to create a gallery on any post or page. You have the option to use widgets or shortcodes to insert your custom gallery into your web site. As well, the look of your gallery is fully customizable through the WordPress admin interface.

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Yet Another Photoblog

Convert your WordPress 2.x installation into a full featured photoblog in virtually no time. Use the full range of WordPress functions and plugins: Benefit from the big community WordPress has to offer.

NextGen

Features:Sortable Albums and create your own sets of images; Upload pictures in a zip-file (Not in Safe-mode); You can add a watermark image or text; JavaScript Effects (Thickbox, Greybox or Lightbox); Use a nice shadow effect for your thumbnails with your own CSS file; Full integrated flash slideshow; Sidebar Widget (show a random picture at your sidebar).

Duh Gallery

As the tag line says (‘The Simple WordPress Photo Gallery Plugin’), it really is simple. For anyone that likes no complications.

PhotoQ Photoblog plugin

PhotoQ is a WordPress plugin that turns your blog into a photoblog. If you are a photo enthusiast or simply have a lot of pictures to post, PhotoQ is your ideal companion. With PhotoQ you can mass upload several photos at the same time thanks to its batch image upload functionality. PhotoQ places uploaded photos in a queue which gives you a convenient way to manage photos to be posted. The plugin then gives you the possibility to have the top of the queue automatically posted at a given interval.

PhotoBlog Other Resources

WP Photo Album – WPPA

Lightbox 2 WordPress Plugin

AWSOM

Polaroid on the Fly WordPress Plugin

WP-Gallery-Remote

Mini-Slides

PhotoQ WordPress Photoblog Plugin

mBox Gallery Plugin

Cozimo Gallery Plugin

KB Easy PicasaWeb Plugin

Gallery Scripts and WordPress Plugins

To create a photoblog for your client, or even just to display your family and personal images on your blog you will find solutions here. There are many PHP and Javascripts available that will allow you to create and manage online galleries on your WordPress site. Here are just a few that have been successfully integrated with WordPress.

Premium Gallery Manager

Create galleries with just a few clicks, as many as you need, in any size you need and this together with it’s custom option panel and gallery submission panel you don’t need anything else anymore.

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Wall/Grid Gallery (WordPress Plugin)

This Plugin will help you to easily add a grid gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.

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WordPress Media Gallery – Ken Burns Effect

WordPress Media Gallery is the ultimate gallery for your WordPress site. It supports any kind of content from simple images to advanced inline content to videos. Because of this, it can be used not only as a gallery, but also as a slider, banner rotator, video gallery and more! This is the only gallery you will ever need!

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Thumbnail Gallery (WordPress Plugin)

This Plugin will help you to easily add a thumbnail gallery to your WordPress website or blog. The gallery is completely customizable, resizable and is compatible with all browsers and devices (iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones). You will be able to insert it in any page or post you want with inbuilt short code generator.

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Gallery Scripts other Resource

ANIga gallery
AWSOM Pixgallery Art/Webcomic plugin

Build Your Own CSS-based Gallery

Coppermine

Duh Gallery

fMoblog – Upload and display images from your cell phone.

Gallery 2 embedded in WordPress using the WPG2 Plugin

GRAND Flash Album Gallery – multi category flash skin based photo gallery with powerful admin. CodEasily.com

Lazyest Gallery Automatically includes galleries uploaded by ftp

NextGEN Gallery

PhotoJAR -

PhotoSmash Galleries – More info at plugin homepage

Page Flip Image Gallery – 90 day trialware–other versions require payment. GPL Version

Piwigo with PiwigoMedia to insert photos in your posts and PiwigoPress to display thumbnails in your sidebar

Plogger

Qdig
eSPG: enhanced Simple PHP Gallery

WordPress Include Page Plugin

w3images gallery – add an useful and costumizable Images Gallery to your WordPress

Zenphoto – +WP plugin

References:

Photoblogging with WordPress
Photoblogs and Galleries
Photography Websites Powered by WordPress
Photoblogging with WordPress Round-Up
CGAxis Camera Electronics 34

WordPress Theme for photographers with BUILT-IN ECOMMERCE galleries!

Nur — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:30:38 +0000

Photocrati Theme is the professional WordPress themes for photographers. Creating your photo gallery website has never been so easy with these themes. I’m a big fan of Photocrati’s themes because they designed for photographers. They are easy to use and allows you to get your site set up in a couple hours, depending on how many photos you have.
Now they have launch their first WordPress theme with BUILT-IN ECOMMERCE galleries!

WHAT’S IN PHOTOCRATI 4.0?

Built-in gallery management!
Built-in ecommerce galleries! Add ecommerce galleries with print sizes and prices. Comes with shopping cart functionality, integrated with Paypal. Accept Paypal or credit cards for purchases. You’ll be notified of purchases and sent an order summary. You’ll fulfill orders yourself at your preferred print lab.
iPhone / iPad compatibility.
Copyright protection for Photocrati Galleries – no right clicking, dragging images to desktop, or viewing source URLs.
Albums. Now add album pages – with thumbnails linking to each of your galleries.
Border controls. Customize borders on images and thumbnails in galleries.
Music. Add music to your home page, gallery pages, and blog page.
IPTC Data. Automatically imports IPTC headlines and captions.
Dozens of other updates!

Detail and Demos

Photoblogging with WordPress
Creative Digital Photography Inspiration
Photography Websites Powered by WordPress
Video Installing Photocrati Theme and Setting up a gallery

Ned Leary Photography

Nur — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:44:50 +0000

Theme Name: Ned LearyPhotography
Author URI and Theme URI: http://airtypestudio.com
Description: Ned Leary High Impact Photography Theme.
Author: Ledbetter & James Greene

Richard P Walton

Nur — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:06:51 +0000

Richard P Walton

Theme Name: Widescreen
Description: A photo and multimedia theme framework for WordPress by Graph Paper Press
Tags: photography, one-column, theme options, minimal, widgets, white, portfolio, video, framework
Author: Thad Allender
Theme URI and Author URI: http://graphpaperpress.com

Photography Joni Niemelä

Nur — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:55:35 +0000

Theme Name: Photography Joni Niemelä

Juliana Lery

Nur — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:06:20 +0000

Theme Name: Juliana Lery
Theme URI: http://www.julianaleryeserapiao.com.br/
Description: Site da fotografa Juliana Lery e Serapiao
Author: Bressane.com

Amy Herndon Photography – Life Captured

Nur — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:39:26 +0000

Amy Herndon Photography – Life Captured
Theme Name: Amy Herndon Photography
Theme URI: http://www.ribbonsofred.com
Description: Custom designed WordPress blog hand-crafted pixel by pixel especially for Amy Herndon Photography.
Author: Ribbons of Red
Author URI: http://www.ribbonsofred.com

I Love Lucy Love – Pet Photography

Nur — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:39:50 +0000

Lucy Loo Pet Photography
Theme Name: OrganicPortfolioWhite
Theme URL: http://www.organicthemes.com/
Description: The Organic Portfolio Theme is designed and developed by Organic Themes.
Author: Organic Themes
Author URI: http://www.organicthemes.com

theoribeiro

Nur — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:10:59 +0000

Theme Name: Twilight Theme
Theme URI:http://themeshaper.com
Description: Theo Ribeiro’s Child Theme built on top of Thematic
Author: Theo Ribeiro
Author URI: http://theoribeiro.com
Template: thematic

Eric Heikkinen – Photographer, Cinematographer, and Web Designer

Nur — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:14:07 +0000

Eric Heikkinen – Photographer, Cinematographer, and Web Designer
Theme Name: Eric Gallery
Theme URI: http://ericheikkinen.com
Description: This is a photoblog theme.
Version: 1.0

WordPress Theme for photographers with BUILT-IN ECOMMERCE galleries!

WHAT’S IN PHOTOCRATI 4.0?

Ten18 Photography

tdomf_0ae63 — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 12:13:58 +0000

Theme Name: Ten18
Theme URI: http://www.ten18photography.com
Description: The Ten18 Photography site is a fashion-inspired photography portfolio and blog. It is entirely custom built and meant to blur the line between site and blog. Its layout and design is unlike any other photography site currently online.
Author: Maquina Studio
Author URI: http://www.maquinastudio.com