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!
- 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
StudioPress Landscape Child Theme
Perfect Theme by Studiopress for showcasing your Photographs & designs, very simple & easy to navigate. Amazing cool Features. Includes Genesis Framework.
Live preview | Detail Other Themes - Pixel Happy
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.
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!
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.
Live preview | Detail Other Themes – Photo Graphic | Outline
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.
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).
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.
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
Polaroid on the Fly WordPress Plugin
PhotoQ WordPress Photoblog 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.
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.
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!
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.
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
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